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Amusing Quotes

  1. "The invention of the computer allows mistakes to be made more quickly and more devastating than perhaps any other invention, with the possible exception of mixing handguns and tequila"
  2. "I belive recent studies in internet/universe behaviour shows that there is an infinite amount of porn, you just have to tweak net.inet.somaxporn correctly."
  3. "A three-piece suit... I look on as liar's clothes.... Show up in that and you can lie until the cows come home." -- Billy Connolly.
  4. "The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion" - Sir Arthur C. Clarke
  5. "Blame is more dense than praise which is why blame sinks down from the management and praise bubbles up!" - Dan G 2010
  6. "One accurate measurement is worth a thousand expert opinions" - Grace Murray Hopper
  7. "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs
  8. "Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first." - Ronald Reagan
  9. "if you know what it is you want to achieve, then it helps if you know how to do it." - Maurice Wilkes
  10. "When in doubt, go flat out." - Michael Lee
  11. "LeBlanc?’s law: Later equals never."
  12. "I believe in life that you should ask nicely and politely, then if the answer's no, then do what you wanted to do in the first place anyway" - Paloma Faith
  13. “It’s better to have a hole in your team than an asshole in your team!” - Dan Jacobs
  14. "Almost everything I know is about the past." - Dave Lindbergh
  15. "If we have data, let’s look at data. If all we have are opinions, let’s go with mine" - Jim Barksdale
  16. “You can’t reason someone out of something they haven’t been reasoned into.” - Jonathan Swift
  17. "The Internet offers everything - except quality control" - K. Anders Ericsson.
  18. "Empty cans rattle the loudest" - Randy Weir

just plain awesome quotes

  1. "How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again!" - Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens)
  2. "...it is easier to bamboozle than to debamboozle." - Norman Angell
  3. "The night is always falling, my friends, and the sea is always roaring. The question is always whether we are holding each other as tight as we should." - Umair Haque
  4. "The view from my apartment was the World Trade Center. And now it's gone. And they attacked it, this symbol of American ingenuity and strength and, and labor and imagination and commerce, and it is gone. But you know what the view is now? The Statue of Liberty. The view from the south of Manhattan is now the Statue of Liberty. You can't beat that." -- Jon Stewart
  5. "Let’s work the problem, people. Let’s not make things worse by guessing." - Gene Kranz, Mission Control Director, Apollo 13
  6. ... intolerance of intolerance isn't intolerance - Ali A. Rizvi
  7. "One of the world's greatest problems is the impossibility of any person searching for the truth on any subject when they believe they already have it." - Dave Wilbur
  8. The fight against religious ideology isn't a struggle against human rights but a struggle for them. Human beings have rights and are entitled to respect. Books and beliefs don't and aren't. - Ali A. Rizvi
  9. "Never argue with an idiot.They will only bring you down to their level and beat you with experience." - George Carlin
  10. "There are two hard things in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-one errors" - Phil Karlton
  11. 'Arguments are rarely about truth, and more about understanding perspectives' - Kumar Thangudu
  12. "Sometimes, the only choices you have are bad ones, but you still have to choose." - The Twelfth Doctor
  13. "Aware adults with autism and their parents are often angry about autism. They may ask why nature or God created such horrible conditions as autism, manic depression, and schizophrenia. However, if the genes that caused these conditions were eliminated there might be a terrible price to pay. It is possible that persons with bits of these traits are more creative, or possibly even geniuses. If science eliminated these genes, maybe the whole world would be taken over by accountants." - Temple Grandin
  14. “Stay strong, stay human. There is far more good in the world than evil.” - Ray, 38 Degrees member
  15. "I don't care that they stole my idea, I care that they don't have any of their own." - Nikola Tesla
  16. "We can learn from everyone, regardless of circumstance." - Jeremy Corbyn
  17. "Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there." - Will Rogers
  18. "Guns don't kill people, people do. Yeh? Well prayers don't help people, people do. So stop praying and start helping." - Russell Howard.
  19. "You don't have my cold mummy, I've still got it. You must have somebody else's or have got your own" - Annabelle McKinley? aged 7
  20. "We have calcium in our bones, iron in our veins, carbon in our souls and nitrogen in our brains. 93% stardust with souls made of flames, we are just all stars that have people names." - Nikita Gill
  21. "True greatness is measured by how much freedom you give to others, not by how much you can coerce others to do what you want." --Larry Wall, Creator of Perl
  22. "Maybe the best programmers aren't those who spectacularly solve crazy problems, but those who don't create them, which is much more silent." - Lena Herrmann