I admit that when I was in school I wrote COBOL. But I didn't compile.
We The Willing, Lead By The Unknowing,
Are Doing The Impossible For The Ungrateful.
We Have Done So Much For So Long, With So Little,
We Are Now Qualified To Do Anything With NOTHING.
"The whole of science is nothing more than the refinement of everyday thinking."
-- Einstein
"AAAAAGGGGHHHH"
-- Any "Classic" Star Trek Security officer sometime during the show
Jake liked his women the way he liked his kiwi fruit: sweet yet tart, firm- fleshed yet yielding to the touch, and covered with short brown fuzzy hair.
What engineers say: Extensive effort is being applied on a fresh approach to the problem.
What they *really* mean: We just hired three new guys; we'll let them kick it around for a while.
Did you hear about the abortion clinic in poland?
It's got a year long waiting list.
"I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather. Not screaming in terror like his passengers."
"Let me give you a tip on a clue to men's characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.
Run for your life from any man who tells you money is evil. That sentence is the leper's bell of an approaching looter."
-- Francisco d'Anconia in Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
What happens if a big asteroid hits Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.
-- Dave Barry
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
-- (attributed to) Abraham Lincoln
"Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler."
-- Einstein
"The Ninth Rule of Acquisition clearly states: Opportunity + Instinct = Profit!"
-- Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
"The budget should be balanced, the treasury refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and assistance to foreign lands should be reduced lest the state be bankrupt. The people should be forced to work and not depend on the goverment for assistance."
-- Marcus Tullins Ciero (Roman senator around the time of christ)
"The care of every man's soul belongs to himself. But what if he neglect the care of it? Well what if he neglect the care of his health or his estate, which would more nearly relate to the state. Will the magistrate make a law that he not be poor or sick? Laws provide against injury from others; but not from ourselves. God himself will not save men against their wills."
-- Thomas Jefferson- October 1776