Get the facts first. You can distort them later.
There is one way to find out if a man is honest: ask him; if he says yes, you know he is crooked
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living, the world owes you nothing; it was here first
- Mark Twain (1835-1910)
I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826)
Copy from one, its plagiarism; copy from two, its research
- Wilson Mizner (1876-1933)
Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing
- Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977)
The secret of success is to know something nobody else knows
- Aristotle Onassis (1906-1975)
Imagination is more important than knowledge
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
The mistakes are all waiting to be made
- Chessmaster Savielly Grigorievitch Tartakower (1887-1956) on the games opening position
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation
- H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there
- Yogi Berra
It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and THEN do your best
- W. Edwards Deming
All my life I've wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific.
- Jane Wagner / Lily Tomlin (1939-)
Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right
- Henry Ford (1863-1947)
Do, or do not. There is no try
- Yoda (The Empire Strikes Back)
Bigamy is having one wife too many. Monogamy is the same
A cynic is a man who knows the price of everything, and the value of nothing
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it
Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes
The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about
- Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Everyday I get up and look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not there, I go to work
- Robert Orben
Opportunities multiply as they are seized
- Sun Tzu
The best way to predict the future is to invent it
- Alan Kay
Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
There is no free lunch
- Milton Friedman
This world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those that feel
- Horace Walpole
When all think alike, no one is thinking very much
- Walter Lippmann (1889-1974)
Men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something
- Plato (429-347BC)
When people are free to do as they please, they usually imitate each other
- Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him
- Stanislaw Jerzy Lec ( 1909-)
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience?
- George Bernard Shaw
If two men on a job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, then both are useless
- Darryl F. Zanuck
If a man does his best, what else is there?
- General George S. Patton (1885-1945)
The nicest thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people
- Lucille S. Harper
Criticism is prejudice made plausible
The cynics are right nine times out of ten
- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956)
A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity, an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Love is what happens to a man and a woman who don't know each other
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve the continuation of the species
- W. Somerset Maugham
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate
- Thomas Jones
A husband is what is left of the lover after the nerve has been extracted
- Helen Rowland (1876-1950)
Ask her to wait a moment... I am almost done
- Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855) when informed that his wife is dying
Wit is educated insolence
You must believe in free will; there is no choice.
We know what a person thinks not when he tells us what he thinks, but by his actions
- Isacc Bashevis Singer (1904-1991)
When you argue with a fool, two fools are arguing
- From a personal friend
People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid
- Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855)
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted
- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names
- John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech
- Martin Fraquhar Tupper
Happiness is good health and a bad memory
- Ingrid Bergman (1917-1982)
Silence is argument carried out by other means
- Ernest Che Guevara (1928-1967)
Well done is better than well said
- Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)
If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?
- Will Rogers (1879-1935)
640K ought to be enough for anybody
- Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981
