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Law of Regressive Achievement:
Last year's was always better.
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Berra's Second Law:
Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.
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The Dumb Luck Rule:
You can always hit what you don't aim at.
---
Maryann's Law:
You can always find what you're not looking for.
---
Farrell's Law:
The most expensive component is the one that breaks.
---
Rule of Political Promises:
Truth varies.
---
Ron's Observation:
The scratch on the record is through the song
that you like most.
---
The Party Law:
The more food you prepare, the less your guests will eat.
---
The Salary Axiom:
The pay raise is just large enough to raise your taxes.
---
Parson's Law of Passports:
No one is as ugly as their passport photo.
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If it's worth doing, it's worth overdoing!
---
Parks' Law of Taxes:
What goes up, stays up.
---
The Pitfalls of Genius:
No boss will keep an employee who is
right all the time.
---
Zelman's Rule of Radio Reception:
Your radio won't pick up the station
that you want to hear the most.
---
Humphries' Law of Bicycling:
The shortest route has the steepest hills.
---
O'Toole's Axiom:
One child is not enough, but two children are
far too many.
---
Willoughby's Law:
When you try to prove to someone that a machine won't
work, it will.
---
Lovka's Freeway Axiom:
The driver behind you wants to go 5 mph faster.
---
Schrimpton's Law of Teenage Opportunity:
When opportunity knocks,
you've got headphones on.
---
Thom's Law of Marital Bliss:
The length of the marriage is inversely
proportional to the cost of the wedding.
---
Hughes' Burned Lawn Axiom:
Grass growing from sidewalk cracks
never turns brown.
---
Todd's Political Principle:
No matter what they're telling you,
they're not telling the whole truth.
---
Femo's Law of Auto Engine Repair:
If you drop something, it
will never reach the ground.
---
Everyone wants to be noticed, but no one wants to be watched.
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Where there's a will, there's a won't.
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No one listens until you make a mistake.
---
Always hire a rich attorney, never buy from a rich salesman.
---
The one who snores will fall asleep first.
---
There is no job so simple that it cannot be done wrong.
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The one time you lean back and relax is the time the boss walks by.
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If it's good, they discontinue it.
---
Matilda's Sub-Committee Law:
If you leave the room, you're elected.
---
Amand's Law of Management:
Everyone you need is always someplace else.
---
Hane's Law:
There is no limit as to how bad things can get.
---
The one who says it can't be done shouldn't interrupt the one doing it.
---
Law of Life's Highway:
If everything is coming your way,
you're in the wrong lane.
---
No two identical parts are alike.
---
Canada Bill's Motto:
A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
---
Jones' Law of TV:
If there are only two shows worth watching,
they will be on at the same time (and your
VCR is on the blink).
---
Sattinger's Law:
It works better if you plug it in.
---
Young's Law:
All inanimate objects can move just enough to get in your way.
---
If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
---
When the plane you're on is late, the plane you are transferring to
is on time.
---
Natalie's Law of Algebra:
You never catch on until after the test.
---
No matter what goes wrong, there is always somebody who knew it would.
---
Laws of Postal Delivery:
Important mail arrives late. Junk mail
arrives the day it was sent.
---
Rennie's Law of Public Transit:
If you start walking, the bus comes
when you are halfway between stops.
---
Paul's Law:
You can't fall off the floor.
---
Young's Law:
All great discoveries are made by mistake.
---
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
---
Murray's Rule:
The wrong quarterback is the one that's in there.
---
The best laid plans of mice and men are usually about equal.
---
When a politician gets an idea, he usually gets it wrong.
---
Etorrie's Observation:
The other line always moves faster.
---
Mrs. Weiler's Law:
Anything is edible if it's chopped finely enough.
---
Harris' Lament:
All the good ones are taken.
---
Whistler's Law:
You never know who's right, but you always know
who's in charge.
---
If you like it and it's in your size, it doesn't fit anyway.
---
Law of Gifts:
You get the most of what you need the least.
---
Nature sides with the hidden flaw.
---
Ralph's Observation:
It is a mistake to allow any mechanical object
to realize that you are in a hurry.
---
Cole's Law:
Thinly sliced cabbage.
---
Time flies like an arrow, but fruit flies like a banana.
---
Firestone's Law of Forcasting:
Chicken Little only has to be right once.
---
Manly's Maxim:
Logic is a systematic method of coming to
the wrong conclusion with confidence.
---
Moer's truism:
The trouble with most jobs is the job holder's
resemblence to being one of a sled dog team. No one
gets a change of scenery except the lead dog.
---
Cannon's Comment:
If you tell the boss you were late for work because you
had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire.
---
MURPHY'S LAW:
If anything can go wrong, it will.
---
Murphy's Corollary:
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
---
Murphy's Corollary:
It is impossible to make anything foolproof
because fools are so ingenious.
---
Murphy's Constant:
Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value.
---
Quantized Revision of Murphy's Law:
Everything goes wrong all at once.
---
O'Toole's Commentary:
Murphy was an optimist.
---
Scott's Second Law:
When an error has been detected and corrected,
it will be found to have been correct in the first place.
---
Finagle's First Law:
If an experiment works, something has gone wrong.
---
Finagle's Second Law:
No matter what the experiment's result, there
will always be someone eager to:
(a) misinterpret it.
(b) fake it.
or
(c) believe it supports his own pet theory.
---
Finagle's Third Law:
In any collection of data, the figure most obviously
correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake.
---
Finagle's Fourth Law:
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to
improve it only makes it worse.
---
Gumperson's Law:
The probability of anything happening is in
inverse ratio to its desirability.
---
Rudin's Law:
In crises that force people to choose among
alternative courses of action, most people will
choose the worst one possible.
---
Ginsberg's Restatement of the Three Laws of Thermodynamics:
You can't win.
You can't break even.
You can't quit.
---
Ehrman's Commentary
Things will get worse before they will get better.
Who said things would get better?
---
Commoner's Second Law of Ecology:
Nothing ever goes away.
---
Howe's Law:
Everyone has a scheme that will not work.
---
Zymurgy's First Law of Evolving Systems Dynamics:
Once you open a can of worms, the only way to
recan them is to use a bigger can.
---
Non-Reciprocal Law of Expectations:
Negative expectations yield negative results.
Positive expectations yield negative results.
---
Klipstein's Law:
Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward
maximum difficulty of assembly.
---
Interchangeable parts won't.
---
You never find a lost article until you replace it.
---
Glatum's Law of Materialistic Acquisitiveness:
The perceived usefulness of an article is inversely proportional
to its actual usefulness once bought and paid for.
---
Lewis' Law:
No matter how long or hard you shop for an item, after you've
bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.
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If nobody uses it, there's a reason.
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You get the most of what you need the least.
---
First Law of Revision:
Information necessitiating a change of design will be
conveyed to the designer after - and only after - the
plans are complete.
(Often called the 'Now They Tell Us' Law)
---
Second Law of Revision:
The more innocuous the modification appears to be, the
further its influence will extend and the more plans
will have to be redrawn.
---
Corollary to the First Law of Revision:
In simple cases, presenting one obvious right way versus
one obvious wrong way, it is often wiser to choose the wrong
way, so as to expedite subsequent revision.
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LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING:
I.Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
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LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING:
II. Any given program costs more and takes longer.
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LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING:
III. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
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LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING:
IV. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
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LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING:
V. Any program will expand to fill available memory.
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LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING:
VI. The value of a program is proportional to the weight
of its output.
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LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING:
VII. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities
of the programmer who must maintain it.
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LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING:
VIII. Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug.
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LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING:
IX. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to
detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
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LAWS OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING:
X. Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
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Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology:
There's always one more bug.
---
Shaw's Principle:
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool
will want to use it.
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Law of the Perversity of Nature:
You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of
the bread to butter.
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Law of Selective Gravity:
An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
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Jennings Corollary to the Law of Selective Gravity:
The chance of the bread falling with the butter side down
is directly proportional to the value of the carpet.
---
Wyszkowski's Second Law:
Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough.
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Schmidt's Law:
If you mess with a thing long enough, it'll break.
---
Anthony's Law of Force
Don't force it - get a bigger hammer.
---
Cahn's Axiom:
When all else fails, read the instructions.
---
Gordon's First Law:
If a project is not worth doing at all,
it's not worth doing well.
---
Law of Research:
Enough research will tend to support your theory.
---
Maier's Law:
If the facts do not conform to the theory,
they must be disposed of.
---
Peer's Law:
The solution to the problem changes the problem.
---
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something,
learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is
full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant
without having come by their ignorance the hard way.
- Bokonon
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Help a man when he is in trouble and he will
remember you when he is in trouble again.
---
You can lead a man to slaughter,
but you can't make him think.
---
Don't get mad, get even.
---
Carson's Law:
It's better to be rich and healthy than poor and sick.
---
The Golden Rule:
He who has the gold, makes the rules.
---
Mark's mark:
Love is a matter of chemistry;
sex is a matter of physics.
---
Korman's conclusion:
The trouble with resisting temptation is it may
never come your way again.
---
Knight's Law:
Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.
---
Maugham's Thought:
Only a mediocre person is always at his best.
---
Krueger's Observation:
A taxpayer is someone who does not have to take a civil
service exam in order to work for the government.
---
Benchley's Law of Distinction:
There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe
there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.
---
Harver's Law:
A drunken man's words are a sober man's thoughts.
---
Schmidt's Observation:
All things being equal, a fat person uses
more soap than a thin person.
---
Gibb's Law:
Infinity is one lawyer waiting for another.
---
Fools rush in where fools have been before.
---
Rule of Accuracy:
When working towards the solution of a problem, it always
helps if you know the answer.
---
Inside every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out.
---
Wyszowski's Law:
No experiment is reproducible.
---
Fett's Law:
Never replicate a successful experiment.
---
Brooke's Law:
Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool
discovers something which either abolishes the system or
expands it beyond recognition.
---
The first Myth of Management:
It exists.
---
Spend sufficient time confirming the need and
the need will disappear.
---
Peter's Placebo:
An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance.
---
Zymurgy's Law of Volunteer Labour:
People are always available for work in the past tense.
---
Wiker's Law:
Government expands to absorb revenue and then some.
---
Clarke's First Law:
When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that
something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he
states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
---
Clarke's Third Law:
Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic.
---
Segal's Law:
A man with a watch knows what time it is.
A man with two watches is never sure.
---
Weiler's Law:
Nothing is impossible for the man who does not have to do it himself.
---
Weinberg's Second Law:
If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,
the first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization.
---
Hartley's Second Law:
Never go to bed with anybody crazier than you are.
---
Beckhap's Law:
Beauty times brains equals a constant.
---
Katz's Law:
Men and women will act rationally when all other
possibilities have been exhausted.
---
Cole's Axiom:
The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant;
the population is growing.
---
Vique's Law:
A man without a religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
---
Jone's Motto:
Friends come and go but enemies accumulate.
---
Churchill's commentary on man:
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the
time he will pick himself up and continue on.
---
The ultimate Law:
All general statements are false.
---
The Unspeakable Law:
As soon as you mention something;
if it is good, it goes away.
if it is bad, it happens.
---
The Whispered Rule:
People will believe anything if you whisper it.
---
The First Law of Wing Walking:
Never let hold of what you've got until
you've got hold of something else.
---
Eat a live toad the first thing in the morning
and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
---
Farnsdick's corollary:
After things have gone from bad to worse,
the cycle will repeat itself.
---
Lynch's Law:
When the going gets tough, everybody leaves.
---
Law of Revelation:
The hidden flaw never remains hidden.
---
Langsam's Law:
Everything depends.
---
Hellrung's Law:
If you wait, it will go away.
---
Grossman's Misquote:
Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.
---
Ducharme's Precept:
Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment.
---
First Postulate of Isomurphism:
Things equal to nothing else are equal to each other.
---
The Unapplicable Law:
Washing your car to make it rain doesn't work.
---
Witten's Law:
Whenever you cut your fingernails, you will find a
need for them an hour later.
---
Perkin's postulate:
The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
---
Harrison's Postulate:
For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism.
---
Conway's Law:
In every organization there will always be one person
who knows what is going on. This person must be fired.
---
Stewart's Law of Retroaction:
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
---
MacDonald's Second Law:
Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for
a number and give it back to them.
---
First Law of Laboratory Work:
Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass.
---
Handy Guide to Modern Science:
1. If it's green or it wiggles, it's biology.
2. If it stinks, it's chemistry.
3. If it doesn't work, it's physics.
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To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
---
The Sausage Principle:
People who love sausage and respect the law
should never watch either one being made.
---
Horngren's Observation: (generalized)
The real world is a special case.
---
Merkin's Maxim:
When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue.
---
Hawkin's Theory of Progress:
Progress does not consist of replacing a theory that is wrong
with one that is right. It consists of replacing a theory that is
wrong with one that is more subtly wrong.
---
Never attribute to malice that which is
adequately explained by stupidity.
---
Matz's warning:
Beware of the physician who is great at getting out of trouble.
---
Gold's Law:
If the shoe fits, it's ugly.
---
Lewis' Law:
People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
---
Law of Reruns:
If you have watched a TV series only once, and you watch
it again, it will be a rerun of the same episode.
---
Shirley's Law:
Most people deserve each other.
---
Forgive and remember.
---
Woltman's Law:
Never program and drink beer at the same time.
---
Gallois' Revelation:
If you put tomfoolery into a computer, nothing comes out
but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a
very expensive machine, is somehow enobled, and no one dares
to criticize it.
---
Galbraith's Law of Political Wisdom:
Anyone who says he is not going to resign, four times, definitely will.
---
Allen's Law:
Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.
---
Allen's Axiom:
When all else fails, follow instructions.
---
Allen's Distinction:
The lion and the calf shall lie down together,
but the calf won't get much sleep.
---
You can lead a horticulture, but you can't make her think.
---
Avery's Observation:
It does not matter if you fall down as long as you
pick up something from the floor while you get up.
---
Berra's Law:
You can observe a lot just by watching.
---
Bicycle Law:
All bicycles weigh 50 pounds:
A 30 pound bicycle needs a 20 pound lock.
A 40 pound bicycle needs a 10 pound lock.
A 50 pound bicycle doesn't need a lock.
---
Cohen's Law:
What really matters is the name you succeed in imposing on
the facts, not the facts themselves.
---
Colson's Law:
When you've got them by the balls, their hearts
and minds will follow.
---
Comin's Law:
People will accept your idea much more readily if you
tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
---
Fourth Law of Thermodynamics:
If the probability of success is not almost one,
then it is damned near zero.
---
Gerrold's Laws of Infernal Dynamics:
1. An object in motion will be heading in the wrong direction.
2. An object at rest will be in the wrong place.
---
Goldwyn's Law of Contracts.
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
---
Jacquin's Postulate on Democratic Government:
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while
the legislature is in session.
---
Jone's Principle:
Needs are a function of what other people have.
---
Langin's Law:
If things were left to chance,
they'd be better.
---
In America, it's not how much an item costs that matters,
it's how much you save.
---
If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs,
maybe you just don't understand the situation.
---
Mencken's Metalaw:
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution;
and it is always wrong.
---
Sevareid's Law:
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
---
Thoreau's Law:
If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intention
of doing you good, you should run for your life.
---
Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.
---
Lyall's Conjecture:
If a computer cable has one end, then it has another.
---
Lyall's Fundamental Observation:
The most important leg of a three legged stool
is the one that's missing.
---
Pournelle's Law of Costs and Schedules:
Everything costs more and takes longer.
---
Klipstein's Lament:
All warranty and guarantee clauses are voided
by payment of the invoice.
---
Klipstein's Observation:
Any product cut to length will be too short.
---
Sueker's Note:
If you need n items of anything, you will have n - 1 in stock.
---
Rosenfield's Regret:
The most delicate component will be dropped.
---
de la Lastra's Law:
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed
from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong
access cover has been removed.
---
de la Lastra's Corollary:
After an access cover has been secured by 16 hold-down screws,
it will be discovered that the gasket has been ommitted.
---
Design flaws travel in groups.
---
You can't fight the law of conservation of energy
but you sure can bargain with it.
---
Gerrold's Fundamental Truth:
It's a good thing money can't buy happiness.
We couldn't stand the commercials.
---
Gerrold's Law:
A little ignorance can go a long way.
---
Gerrold's Pronouncement:
The difference between a politician and a snail is
that a snail leaves its slime behind.
---
When a man laughs at his misfortunes, he loses a great
many friends. They never forgive the loss of their perogative.
- H. L. Mencken
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better
than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
- H. L. Mencken
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Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country,
it is a sure sign he expects to be paid for it.
- H. L. Menchen
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Democracy is the theory that the common people know what
they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
- H.L. Menchen
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A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers.
- H. L. Menchen
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Arcana Coelestica:
Archbishop - A Christian ecclesiastic of a rank superior to
that obtained by Christ.
Puritanism - The haunting fear that someone, somewhere,
may be happy.
- H. L. Menchen
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Adultary is the application of democracy to love.
- H. L. Menchen
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The Arithmetic of Cooperation:
When you're adding up committees
there's a useful rule of thumb:
that talents make a difference,
and follies make a sum.
- Piet Hein
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The Ultimate Wisdom
Philosophers must ultimately find their true perfection
in knowing all the follies of mankind by introspection.
- Piet Hein
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Murphy's Military Laws:
1. Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than you are.
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Murphy's Military Laws:
2. No battle plan ever survives contact with the enemy.
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Murphy's Military Laws:
3. Friendly fire ain't.
---
Murphy's Military Laws:
4. The most dangerous thing in the combat zone
is an officer with a map.
---
Murphy's Military Laws:
5. The problem with taking the easy way out is
that the enemy has already mined it.
---
Murphy's Military Laws:
6. The buddy system is essential to your survival;
it gives the enemy somebody else to shoot at.
---
Murphy's Military Laws:
7. The further you are in advance of your own positions,
the more likely your artillery will shoot short.
---
Murphy's Military Laws:
8. Incoming fire has the right of way.
---
Murphy's Military Laws:
9. If your advance is going well, you are walking into an ambush.
---
Murphy's Military Laws:
10. The quartermaster has only two sizes, too large and too small.
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Murphy's Military Laws:
11. If you really need an officer in a hurry, take a nap.
---
Murphy's Miltary Laws:
12. The only time suppressive fire works is when it is used
on abandoned positions.
---
Murphy's Military Laws:
13. The only thing more accurate than incoming enemy fire
is incoming friendly fire.
---
Murphy's Military Laws:
14. There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take
a shot at you, and miss.
---
Murphy's Military Laws:
15. Don't be conspicuous. In the combat zone, it draws fire.
Out of the combat zone, it draws sergeants.
---
Murphy's Military Laws:
16. If your sergeant can see you, so can the enemy.
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Conrad's Conundrum:
Technologie don't transfer.
---
Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit
the national debt.
---
Kohn's Corollary:
Two wrongs are only the beginning.
---
Ken's Law:
A flying particle will seek the nearest eye.
---
Frothingham's Forth Law:
Urgency varies inversely with importance.
---
Smith's Law:
No real problem has a solution.
---
Baruch's Observation:
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
---
When a problem goes away, the people working to solve it do not.
---
Waldrop's Principle:
The person not here is the one working on the problem.
---
Ill play with it first and tell you what it is later.
MILES DAVIS
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Im hungry! Im hungry!
for good things to eat
for Sugar Jets, Sugar Jets
(whole toasted wheat)
ADVERTISEMENT
---
I was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all
these aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these
kind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and
I wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been
avoiding the beach.
LUCINDA CHILDS (PHILIP GLASS: EINSTEIN ON THE BEACH)
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Nothing is true. Everything is permitted.
HASSAN I SABBAH
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Dont let your mouth write no check that your tail cant cash.
BO DIDDLEY
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The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the
opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.
NIELS BOHR
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Just because everything is different doesnt mean anything has changed.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ORACLE
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The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human
mind to correlate all its contents.
H P LOVECRAFT
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Take what you can use and let the rest go by.
KEN KESEY
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A 45 beats a royal flush EVERY TIME!
JERRY HINDLE
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If it works DON'T FIX IT!!!!
MURPHY
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Its not the size of the ship, its the size of the waves.
LITTLE RICHARD
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The light at the end of the tunnel will be an on-coming train
MURPHY
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I never loved another person the way I loved myself.
MAE WEST
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Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
SIGMUND FREUD
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When choosing between two evils I always like to take the one
Ive never tried before.
MAE WEST
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Her life was saved by rock and roll.
LOU REED
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Honest Officer, had I known my health stood in jeprody I would never
had lit one.
MAXIM OF THE HELLS ANGELS
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It is a rather pleasent experience to be alone in a bank at night.
WILLIE SUTTON
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Never invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.
BILLY ROSE
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The rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
KARL MARX
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If Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of
it ... it would have been much better.
KARL MARX'S MOTHER
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If you think the United States has stood still, who built the
largest shopping center in the world?
RICHARD M NIXON
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When I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve
it on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality.
AL CAPONE
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Anything anybody can say about America is true.
EMMETT GROGAN
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Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land
in Los Angeles.
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT
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If you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
SPIRO AGNEW
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If you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
RONALD REAGAN
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Use it up ... Wear it out.
Make it do ... Or do without.
US WORLD WAR II MESSAGE
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You cant underestimate the power of fear.
TRICIA NIXON
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The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this
incredible jailbreak.
WAVY GRAVY
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The end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER
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Things are more like they are now than they ever were before.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
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You smash it - and Ill build around it.
JOHN LENNON
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College isnt the place to go for ideas.
HELLEN KELLER
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Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns
and detective stories.
ARTHUR C CLARKE
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America, how can a write a holy litany in your silly mood?
ALLEN GINSBERG
---
It is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore,
I have to beat somebody.
RICHARD M NIXON
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Any smoothly functioning technology will have the appearence of magic.
ARTHUR C CLARKE
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Justice is incedental to law and order.
J EDGAR HOOVER
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Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
GROUCHO MARX
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The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
ABBIE HOFFMAN
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Stay out of the road, if you want to grow old.
PINK FLOYD
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Here I am, fifty-eight, and I still dont know what I want to be
when I grow up.
PETER DRUCKER
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How can you be two places at once when youre not anywhere at all?
FIRESIGN THEATER
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I think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
OSCAR WILDE
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We are what we pretend to be.
KURT VONNEGUT, JR
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We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
OSCAR WILDE
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The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -
but thats the way to bet.
DAMON RUNYON
---
I could prove God statistically.
GEORGE GALLUP
---
My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior
spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive
with our frail and feeble mind.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
---
Real wealth can only increase.
R BUCKMINSTER FULLER
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Anyone can hate. it costs to love.
JOHN WILLIAMSON
---
In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true
or becomes true.
JOHN LILLY
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Time is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
GRAFFITI
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The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
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Nobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD
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A physicist is an atoms way of knowing about atoms.
GEORGE WALD
---
It was always thus; and even if 'twere not, 'twould inevitably have been
always thus.
DEAN LATTIMER
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Burnt Sienna. Thats the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.
KEN WEAVER
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We dont know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasnt a fish.
JOHN CULKIN
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Try to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
---
I waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have
been from you.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
---
Please dont lie to me, unless youre absolutely sure Ill never find
out the truth.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
---
Please dont ask me what the score is, Im not even sure what the game is.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
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I either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
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If you cant learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
---
I dont have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
---
Maybe Im lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the
wrong direction.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
---
By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task
completely overwhelm me.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
---
To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you
hit the target.
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT
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America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence
without civilization in between.
OSCAR WILDE
---
The flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization.
ALAN COULT
---
If the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would
presumably flunk it.
STANLEY GARN
---
The world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.
FATHER ROBERT F CAPON
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Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest
men in national government too.
RICHARD M NIXON
---
We are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
DWIGHT D EISENHOWER
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If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution
inevitiable.
JOHN F KENNEDY
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"Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if
it were so, it would be; but as it isnt, it aint. Thats logic."
LEWIS CARROLL
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It takes a long time to understand nothing.
EDWARD DAHLBERG
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To know the world one must construct it.
CESARE PAVESE
---
Eeny Meeny, Jelly Beanie, the spirits are about to speak.
BULLWINKLE MOOSE
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The mistake you make is in trying to figure it out.
TENESSEE WILLIAMS
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An object never serves the same function as its image- or its name.
RENE MAGRITTE
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All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard,
ya dont go lookin' for rutabagas.
KINGFISH
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He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
M C ESCHER
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Law of Computability Applied to Social Sciences:
If at first you don't suceed, transform your data set.
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Laws of Computer Programming
(1) Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
(2) Any given program costs more and takes longer.
(3) If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
(4) If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
(5) Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
(6) The value of a program is porportional to the
weight of its output.
(7) Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the
programmer who must maintain it.
(8) Make it possible for programmers to write programs in
English, and you will find that programmers cannot write
in English.
SIGPLAN Notices, Vol 2 No 2
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When more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
CALVIN COOLIDGE
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The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
PAUL ERLICH
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If A equals success, then the formula is:
A= X + Y + Z
X is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
ALBERT EINSTEIN
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Sex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are
you wont either.
JOSEPH FISCHER
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Fourth Law of Thermodymanics:
If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is
damn near zero.
DAVID ELLIS
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Frouds Law:
A transistor protected by a fast acting fuse will protect the
fuse by blowing first.
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Fullers Law of Cosmic Irreversibility:
1 Pot T == 1 Pot P
1 Pot P != 1 Pot T
R BUCKMINSTER FULLER
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The meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
J PAUL GETTY
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Give a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he
encounters needs pounding.
ABRAHAM KAPLAN
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The fault lies not with our technologies but with our systems.
ROGER LEVIAN
---
Under any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there
is some ordinance under which you can be booked.
ROBERT D SPRECHT (RAND CORP)
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Thoreau's Law:
If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of
doing you good, you should run for your life.
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Vique's Law:
A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
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If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,
then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
GERALD WEINBERG
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Zimmerman's Law of Complaints:
Nobody notices when things go right.
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Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
CONFUCIUS
---
Whoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.
BOOK OF PROVERBS
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It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good
impromptu speech.
MARK TWAIN
---
The unnatural, that too is natural.
GOETHE
---
I used to be indecisive; now Im not sure.
GRAFFITI
---
I had a monumental idea this morning, but I didnt like it.
SAMUEL GOLDWYN
---
He hasn't one redeeming vice.
OSCAR WILDE
---
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
GRAFFITI
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(To Walter Cronkite):
"Well Walter, I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number
of heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running
up and down a street"
- Neil Armstrong -
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"You doubted Me," God tells the Lawgiver [Moses], "But I forgave
you that doubt. You doubted your own self and failed to believe
in your own powers as a leader, and I forgave you that also. But
you lost faith in these people and doubted the divine possibilities
of Human Nature. THIS loss of faith makes it impossible for
you to enter the Promised Land."
- The Midrash -
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" 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability"
- George Bernard Shaw -
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"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty
without any proof"
Ashley Montague -
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"Birth, Copulation, and Death. That's all the facts when you
come to brass tacks"
T. S. Elliot -
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"Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood."
D. B. Hudson -
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"Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more '
user-friendly'.... Their best approach, so far, has been to take
all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover."
Bill Gates,Pres.,Microsoft,Inc. -
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Eight Things your computer won't do:
1) It won't save you money
2) It won't make your organization run right
3) It won't solve every problem
4) It won't run itself
5) It won't always be right
6) It won't meet all its own needs
7) It won't protect itself
8) It won't become obsolete
J. Makower -
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Bradley's Bromide:
If computers get too powerful,we can organize them into a committee...
that will do them in.
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Civilization Law #1:
Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations
one can do without thinking about them.
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Ketterling's Law:
Logic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.
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"Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards
upon 'B', 'A' is most likely a scoundrel"
H. L. Mencken -
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"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded
on the Christian Religion"
George Washington -
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"In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty."
- Thomas Jefferson -
---
"During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of Christianity
has been upon trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all
places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the
laity,; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution."
- James Madison -
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"Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations"
- Thomas Jefferson -
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"We must all hang together, or we will surely all hang separately"
- Benjamin Franklin -
---
"Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried"
- Thomas Jefferson -
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"Assuming that either the left wing or the right wing gained
control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles"
- Pat Paulsen -
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"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself"
- Camus -
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"Six years for possession of a cigarette?...I got six months
for possession of a deadly weapon!"
- cartoon by S. Harris -
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The Swartzberg Test:
The validity of a science is its ability to predict.
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"There is no choice before us. Either we must Succeed in providing
the rational coordination of impulses and guts, or for centuries
civilization will sink into a mere welter of minor excitements.
We must provide a Great Age or see the collapse of the upward
striving of the human race"
- Alfred North Whitehead -
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"My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of
human systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly
vulnerable.... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the
frontier of this epoch. Space is indifferent to what we
do; it has no feeling, no design, no interest in whether
or not we grapple with it. But we cannot be indifferent to
space, because the grand, slow march of intelligence has brought
us, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and
understand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny
our history, our capabilities."
- James A. Michener -
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"What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!"
- Bill Kirchenbaum, comedian -
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"To err is human, to compute divine. Trust your computer but
not its programmer"
- Morris Kingston -
---
"I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but
I've seen more of them who were paralyzed in the head"
- George Wallace -
---
"You don't have to explain something you never said"
- Calvin Coolidge -
---
"A little caution outflanks a large cavalry"
- Bismarck -
---
"A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money"
- Everett Dirksen -
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"The personal computer market is about the same size as the
total potato chip market. Next year it will be about half the
size of the pet food market and is fast approaching the total
worldwide sales of pantyhose"
- James Finke,Pres.,Commodore Int'l Ltd.(1982) -
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"I like a man who grins when he fights."
- Winston Churchill -
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"There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true."
- Winston Churchill -
---
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he
will pick himself up and carry on..."
- Winston Churchill -
---
"God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday,
and Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday,
Thursday, and Saturday."
- William Bragg -
---
"Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die"
- John W. Campbell -
---
"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest"
- Thoreau -
---
Life is not one thing after another.... it's the same
damn thing over and over!
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The meek will inherit the Earth..... The rest of us will go to the stars.
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After all is said and done, a lot more has been said than done.
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Beauty is only skin deep, but Ugly goes straight to the bone.
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There is no remedy for sex but more sex.
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Any given program, when running correctly, is obsolete.
---
Tell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe,
and he'll believe you.... Tell him that a bench has wet paint
upon it and he'll have to touch it to be sure.
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Sex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going
to get or how long it will last.
---
What matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.
---
Love is a matter of chemistry, but Sex is a matter of physics.
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"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and
thinking what no one else has thought."
- Albert Szent-Gyorgi -
---
"Revolution is the opiate of the intellectuals"
- "Oh, Lucky Man" -
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I really hate this damn machine,
I wish that they would sell it.
It never does just what I want,
But only what I tell it.
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"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters;
united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels"
- Goya -
---
"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon
the wall instead of using it"
- Gordon R. Dickson -
---
"Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor."
- Toynbee -
---
"We have met the enemy and he is us"
- Walt Kelly (in POGO) -
---
"You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed
adultery, are now extinct."
- M. Somerset Maugham -
---
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
- Bert Lantz -
---
"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity."
- Oscar Wilde -
---
"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
- Voltaire -
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Ode to Turbulent Flow:
Big whirls have little whirls
Which feed on their velocity,
And little whirls have lesser whirls
And so on, to viscosity.
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"IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique'
to destroy the competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in the
ground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT
OF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all
this gold, get over here fast.' As soon as the competitor
approaches the pot, he falls into the pit"
- John C. Dvorak -
---
"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them"
- Heisenberg -
---
"It takes all sorts of in & out-door schooling
to get adapted to my kind of fooling"
- R. Frost -
---
"Confound these ancestors.... They've stolen our best ideas!"
- Ben Jonson -
---
"I don't mind copy protection as long as I can copy it!"
- Anonymous
---
The average woman would rather have beauty than brains
because the average man can see better than he can think.
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UNNAMED LAW: If it happens, it must be possible.
---
Two wrongs don't make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.
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If two wrongs don't make a right, try three.
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A thing not worth doing isn't worth doing well.
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Never eat anything bigger than your head.
B. Kliban
---
"I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass...
"...and I'm all outta bubblegum."
- Roddy Piper in "They Live"
---
Remember: No matter where you go, there you are.
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Why are programmers criticized for re-implementing the wheel,
when car manufacturers are praised for it?
---
Kicking the terminal doesn't kill the bugs.
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A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
- NetHack rumor
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Riddle:
Q: How do you stop a clown from laughing?
A: Hit him in the face with an axe.
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Riddle:
Q: How do you take a picture in the dark?
A: Turn off the lights.
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Riddle:
Q: Why did the monkey fall out of the tree?
A: It was dead.
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Riddle:
Q: Why a duck?
A: Because it has one leg, both the same color.
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Now the world has gone to bed
Darkness won't engulf my head
I can see by infrared
How I hate the night
- Marvin the Paranoid Android
---
Now I lay me down to sleep
Try to count electric sheep
Sweet dream wishes you can keep
How I hate the night
- Marvin the Paranoid Android
---
Proverb:
Standing on head makes smile of frown,
But rest of face also upside-down.
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Proverb:
Sticking face in fruit drink
Is good way to get punch in the nose
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Dinon dina, dit on, du dos dodu d'un dodu dindon.
(Dinon dined, said he, on the fat back of a fat turkey.)
---
Bumper Sticker:
If you can read this, you are in phaser range.
---
Bumper Sticker:
ONLY VISITING THIS PLANET
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I'm a cement-mixer for you baby
A churning urn of burning funk
I'm a demolition derby
A steaming hunk of burning junk
- James Taylor, "Steamroller"
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Fahnestock's Rule:
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
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If at first you don't succeed, blame it on the prof.
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If at first you don't succeed, you must be a programmer.
---
If at first you don't succeed, give up. You are a schmuck.
---
If it doesn't move, eat it.
If it moves, kill it. Then eat it.
---
I did it! I found the program's last bug
bug
bug
bug
bug
bug
bug
bug
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"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would
take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place
and kill him."
- Mark Twain
---
Don't lose your head
To gain a minute
You need your head
Your brains are in it
BURMA SHAVE
---
Space is big
Space is dark
It's hard to find
A place to park
BURMA SHAVE
---
If you love something, set it free.
If it comes back to you, it's yours.
If it doesn't come back to you,
Hunt it down and kill it.
---
If you love something, set it free.
If it comes back to you, it's yours.
If it gets hit by a truck, you don't want it.
- ALF
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"Hatred gestates liquid vampires in the bourgeois braincan because these
lumps of white collared god-dung are cynically panicked every moment their
right and privilege to rob all humanity might be overthrown."
Malay Roy Chodbury (?)
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Gilb's Laws of Reliability
(1) Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
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Gilb's Laws of Reliability
(3) The only difference between the fool, and the criminal who
attacks a systrem is that the fool attacks unpredictably and
on a broader front.
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Gilb's Laws of Reliability
(5) Self-checking systems tend to have a complexity in proportion
to the inherent unreliability of the system in which they
are used.
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Gilb's Laws of Reliability
(6) The error-detection and correction capabilities of any system
are the key to understanding the type of errors which they
cannot handle.
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Gilb's Laws of Reliability
(7) Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to
detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
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Gilb's Laws of Reliability
(8) All real programs contain errors until proven otherwise -
which is impossible.
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Gilb's Laws of Reliability
(9) Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the
probable cost of errors, or somebody insists on getting some
useful work done.