Favourite Quotes - Page 4

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  Oscar Wilde

  Book, Reading, Writing

  The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

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• If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

  Jimmy Buffett

  Laughter, Phones, Rings

  Twitter post from Mar 11, 2015

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• Silence is so accurate.

  Mark Rothko

  Silence, Serenity, Accurate

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• No wise man ever wished to be younger.

  Jonathan Swift

  Birthday, Wise, Time

  Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting

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• When two men in business always agree, one of them is unnecessary.

  Ezra Pound

  Business, Men, Two

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• The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

  B. F. Skinner

  Real, Science, Technology

  'Contingencies of Reinforcement' (1969) ch. 9

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• A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Wise

  Walden ch. 2 (1854)

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• Any company large enough to have a research lab is too large to listen to it.

  Alan Kay

  Research, Labs, Enough

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• Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Fashion, Teenage, Laughing

  1854 Walden, or Life in the Woods,'Economy'.

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• I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize I should have been more specific.

  Lily Tomlin

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Law, Research, Programming

  Godel, Escher, Bach ch. 5 (1979)

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• The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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• A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

  George Wald

  Wisdom, Science, Knowing

  Foreword to L. J. Henderson, The Fitness of the Environment (1958)

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• Why does the Air Force need expensive new bombers? Have the people we've been bombing over the years been complaining?

  George C. Wallace

  Funny, Military, Air

  "Absurdities, Scandals & Stupidities in Politics". Book by Hakeem Shittu and Callie Query, p. 106, 2006.

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• Procastination is not about not doing is about not doing and feeling crappy.

  David Allen

  Feelings

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• A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Wise, Spiritual

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• Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Character, Imperfection, Hocus Pocus

  Kurt Vonnegut (1997). “Hocus Pocus”, p.167, Penguin

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  If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Inspirational, Motivational, Leadership

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 8 Jan. 2001. One of "Rumsfeld's Rules."

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• Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I can: all of them make me laugh.

  W. H. Auden

  Love, Inspirational, Life

  Dyer's Hand (1963) "Notes on the Comic"

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• I haven't spoken to my wife in years. I didn't want to interrupt her.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Marriage, Hilarious

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• What happens to the hole when the cheese is gone?

  Bertolt Brecht

  Funny Good Morning, Cheesy, Gone

  Bertolt Brecht (1966). “Mother Courage and Her Children: A Chronicle of the Thirty Years' War”, p.76, Grove Press

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  Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

  Robert Frost

  Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

  "The Road Not Taken" l. 16 (1916)

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• It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

  David Brin

  Power, Corruption, Said

  David Brin (1997). “The Postman”, GuildAmerica Books

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• It is in self-limitation that a master first shows himself.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Self, Firsts, Masters

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• The world can only be grasped by action, not by contemplation.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Understanding, World, Ascent

  Ascent of Man (1973) ch. 3

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