Quote of the Day

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

A man is known by the company he organizes.
        -- Ambrose Bierce
 

[Bdub01 201]

Ahhh!

Cleave my brain with a flash from the sky.

What good is left for me in living?

Alas! Alas! Come, Death, unloose

My life from a life I loathe.

Medea

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

^ Yep, she really was a bad girl.  But she was a product of her times.

 

---

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
        -- Ogden Nash
 

[Bdub01 201]

Trust in God, but tie your camel.

Popular saying in the East!

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

The surest protection against temptation is cowardice.
        -- Mark Twain
 

[Easy Bakes 253]

humility is the best defense against Humiliation 

unknown

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober,
responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and
immature.
        -- Tom Robbins
 

[Evandad 109]

Architecture is the art of how to waste space.

-Philip Johnson

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Before borrowing money from a friend, decide which you need more.
        -- Addison H. Hallock
 

[Duke87 1,070]

Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction, check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.

     - Ayn Rand

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

    A novice asked the Master: "Here is a programmer that never designs,
documents, or tests his programs.  Yet all who know him consider him one of
the best programmers in the world.  Why is this?"
    The Master replies: "That programmer has mastered the Tao.  He has
gone beyond the need for design; he does not become angry when the system
crashes, but accepts the universe without concern.  He has gone beyond the
need for documentation; he no longer cares if anyone else sees his code.  He
has gone beyond the need for testing; each of his programs are perfect within
themselves, serene and elegant, their purpose self-evident.  Truly, he has
entered the mystery of the Tao."
        -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

In something like 50 years in computers, I've never met this programmer.
 

[Cefien 361]

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing

---George Bernard Shaw

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

I am an idealist.  I don't know
where I'm going, but I am on my way.
            -- Carl Sandburg.

[Cefien 361]

Don't wait for a perfect moment, take the moment and make it perfect

---Anonymous

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

"Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse."
        -- William Gilbert
 

[Bdub01 201]

Troy is gone

All joy is gone from me...

Hecuba

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

"Barry!  Barry!  BARRY!  I can't get no love?  I can't get no love, Barry?"

-John Randle

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

    In the beginning there was only one kind of Mathematician, created by
the Great Mathematical Spirit from the Book: the Topologist.  And they grew to
large numbers and prospered.
    One day they looked up in the heavens and desired to reach up as far
as the eye could see.  So they set out in building a Mathematical edifice that
was to reach up as far as "up" went.  Further and further up they went ...
until one night the edifice collapsed under the weight of paradox.
    The following morning saw only rubble where there once was a huge
structure reaching to the heavens.  One by one, the Mathematicians climbed
out from under the rubble.  It was a miracle that nobody was killed; but when
they began to speak to one another, SURPRISE of all surprises! they could not
understand each other.  They all spoke different languages.  They all fought
amongst themselves and each went about their own way.  To this day the
Topologists remain the original Mathematicians.
        -- The Story of Babel
 

[Bdub01 201]

"Today is a good day to die".

Any number of Klingons in the Star Trek genre!

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

K'plah.

---

You first parents of the human race... who ruined yourself for an apple,
what might you have done for a truffled turkey?
        -- Brillat-savarin, "Physiologie du Gout"
 

[Bdub01 201]

Those who flaunt themselves are not clear

Those who presume themselves are not distinguished

Those who praise themselves have no merit

Those who boast about themselves do not last

Chapter 24 Tao Te Ching

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

"Most people would like to be delivered from
 temptation but would like it to keep in touch."
        -- Robert Orben
 

[blaqsk8 45]

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.
~Andrew Jackson

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

I cannot believe that God plays dice with the cosmos.
        -- Albert Einstein, on the randomness of quantum mechanics
 

[Erle 3]

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

- H.G. Wells

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

We all agree on the necessity of compromise.  We just can't agree on
when it's necessary to compromise.
        -- Larry Wall
 

[AIX 270]

I've been reading Hamlet (again) lately and this will always stick as one of my favourite quotes.

 

"This above all: to thine own self be true" - Hamlet, Act I Scene III

 

Edited: typo

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

... and continuing "And it shall follow as the night the day/Thou canst then not be false to any man."

 

Hamlet is one of my favourite Shakespeare plays.

 

And from my absolute favourite Shakespeare, in the Scottish Play:

 

"Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow"
"Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

"To the last second of recorded time.

"And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death."

 

(From memory, so I hope I didn't goof).

[Easy Bakes 253]

Doing what you like is freedom

liking what you do is  Happiness

my fortune cookie today

[Benedict 3,119]

"Never eat more than you can lift"

 

Miss Piggy