Pseudo Random

Here is a non-exhaustive list of quotes I’ve come to admire over time. I will try to mention the sources where possible, for most they are unavailable. If you know who made them, please contact me.

• “Sometimes a feeling is all we humans have to go on.”
  - Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.9
• “He is too busy living life to think about it. My mistake was in opening the books”
• “Men are basically smart or dumb and lazy or ambitious. The dumb and ambitious ones are dangerous and I get rid of them. The dumb and lazy ones I give mundane duties. The smart ambitious ones I put on my staff. The smart and lazy ones I make my commanders.”
  - Romell, German Field Marshal
• “Quality Control, n.: The process of testing one out of every 1,000 units coming off a production line to make sure that at least one out of 100 works.”
  - Fortune cookie
• “At least stop lying about the independence if you want people to believe in your open source story.”
  - A reader blasting IBM on eclipse on an Orielly article
• “Hell is having a product you have to explain to the customer.”
  - An insightful comment on /.
• “Entreprenuer, n.: A high-rolling risk taker who would rather be a spectacular failure than a dismal success.”
  - Fortune cookie
• “A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.”
  - Einstein
• “Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”
  - Einstein
• “The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.”
  - Sagan
•  ”Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.”
  - Hanlon’s Razor
• “It doesn’t matter if your product will do a thousand things more cheaply than the other product, if most people can’t easily get it to do the one thing they really buy it for.“
• “The tekkies have hijacked literature (with the best intentions, of course!) - but now the humanists have to get it back.”
  - T. Nelson, Xanadu.
• “You can’t put ten pounds of shit into a five pound bag
   –Anyone who has tried”
  - Found on Martin Fowler’s bliki in an article on functional specifications
• “A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.”
  - Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
• “Well, the thing is that I can trust many people I know with my life, but not with my computer.”
  - Insightful comment on /. in a discussion on trust relationship in social networks
• “Noise proves nothing. Often a hen who has merely laid an egg cackles as if she laid an asteroid.”
  - Mark Twain
• “America is the country where you buy a lifetime supply of aspirin for one dollar, and use it up in two weeks.”
  - Random enlightened soul
• “You’re always in the desert looking for the oasis and all that’s out there with you is the piano—this big black beast with 88 teeth … 50,000 packs of cigarettes later, you start getting it.”
  - Billy Joel
• “You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.”
  - Jeannette Rankin
• “No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.”
  - Winston Churchill
• “if something's worth doing, its worth doing extraordinarily well !”
  - Age old adage
• “From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life.”
  - Another age old adage
• “It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.”
  - Franklin D. Roosevelt