Well, looks like things are adjusting. But I still need inspiration.
another day
7 years ago by markhinnebusch (26)
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If I could walk that way, I wouldn't need the aftershave.
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Thoughts on Programming, Number 57: I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -Confucius
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool.
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It seems like once people grow up, they have no idea what's cool...........
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Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father - hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.
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Lawyers are ... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must cross. --Jane Bryant Quinn--
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Laws of Programming: #16 - Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find out that programmers cannot write in English
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We have your favorite animal cookies. Here's a gorilla... Here's a collared peccary...
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Bucy's Law: Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
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Bucy's Law: Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.........
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Watson's Injunction: THINK!
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Corollary: On the way to the corner, any dropped tool will first strike your toes.
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In the business world, the rearview mirror is always clearer than the windshield.
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The Third Corollary to Murphy's Law: If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
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We Americans live in a nation where the medical-care system is second to none in the world, unless you count maybe 25 or 30 little scuzzball countries like Scotland that we could vaporize in seconds if we felt like it.
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The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. - Senator Hubert Humphrey
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Mahr's Law of Restrained Involvement: Don't get any on you.
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The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. --Voltaire--
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The trouble with born-again Christians is that they are an even bigger pain the second time around. --Herb Caen--
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As long as war is looked upon as wicked, it will always have its fascination. When it is looked upon as vulgar, it will cease to be popular. --Oscar Wilde--
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Bombeck's Rule of Medicine: Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. --George Bernard Shaw--
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No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. --Groucho Marx--
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Captain Risser's Law: If it's in stock, we have it!
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A Law for the Future: If it's not in a computer, it doesn't exist.
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. --George Bernard Shaw--
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Do you think there's a God?
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Grace's Words: What ever happened to 'manage machine, lead people'
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Critics are a dissembling, dishonest, contemptible race. Asking a working writer wht he thinks about critics is likd asking a fire plug what it feels about dogs. --John Osborne--
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Murphy's Law, Version No. 19: As the economy gets better, everything else gets worse.
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Laws of Programming: #9 - Murphy designed all system software Note: For those who may be in doubt, Murphy's Law states that if anything can go wrong, it will, and always at the most inconvenient time.
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Who's we, sucker?
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Bunuel's Law: Overdoing things is harmful in all cases, even when it comes to efficiency.
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'Gay' used to be one of the most agreeable words in the language. Its appropriation by a notably morose group is an act of piracy. --Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.--
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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? --Evelyn Waugh--
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Corporation......An ingenious device for obtaining individual profit without individual responsibility. --Ambrose Bierce--
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Thoughts on Programming, Number 45: I don't know any reason why we couldn't do it, but maybe we can think of one. -Mark C. Davison
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Fire's 'appen, Colonel. Fings's burn...
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Laws of Programming: #5 - A hardware failure will cause system software to crash, and the customer engineer will blame the programmer
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Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. -- Winston Spencer Churchill
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There is only one right way for a machine to run. The number of ways it can go wrong is so infinite that every operating engineer lives in constant terror.
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Next to a circus there ain't nothing that packs up and tears out any quicker than the Christmas spirit. --Kin Hubbard--
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Those, who have the command of the arms in a country are masters of the state, and have it in their power to make what revolutions they please. [Thus,] there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people. -- Aristotle. Quoted by John Trenchard and Walter Moyle 'An Argument Shewing, That a Standing Army Is Inconsistent with a Free Government, and Absolutely Destructive to the Constitution of the English Monarchy' [London, 1697]
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Boren's Laws of the Bureaucracy: 1) When in doubt, mumble. 2) When in trouble, delegate. 3) When in charge, ponder.
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Law of Annoyance: When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you're certain you're finished with, you will need it instantly.
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Thoughts on Programming, Number 10: If the poor workman hates his tools, the good workman hates poor tools. The work of the workingman is, in a sense, defined by his tools. -The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg
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The Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire. --Voltaire--
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Snafu Equation No. 6: Badness comes in waves.
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Take my Worf, please.
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What number is this, Chip?
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He that violates his oath profanes the Divinity of faith itself. - Cicero (found on LA City Hall)
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Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it. --Stephen Leacock--
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It was a mutual parting of the ways. We gave him the freedom to do what he wanted to do.
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Sir, I think I wanted to express the duality of man - a kind of Jungian thing, sir.
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America is the greatest of opportunities and the worst of influences. --George Santayana--
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They're not booing. They're just chanting `Dave! Dave!'
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You again? All right... There shall be TWO commandments, and this shall be the first of them: 'Keep the noise down.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out. --Dennis Diderot--
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Oh, right away, sport, right away, you know! I 'aven't 'ad it for weeks!
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Beware of people who tell you that a little knowledge is a dangerous thing - unless they quickly add that no knowledge is a fatal thing. They are trying to make you more vulnerable, not more wise.
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Get that finger out of your ear! You don't know where that finger's been!
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Thoughts on Programming, Number 18: The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten per cent of its capacity - the rest is overhead for the operating system. -Anonymous
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Okay, so there's these two guys, right? Okay, so this one guy says to the other... oh, right, they're in a bar. Okay, so these two guys, anyway, so... So he says to the guy, who's black, he says to him, no, wait, he's Chinese. He says,
Hey have you seen my mother-in-law?' No, wife... It's his wife, right. So he says,Hey, have you seen my wife?' And so the bartender says... no, the Jew, Chinese, the Chinese guy, he HAW HAW! HAW... snort. Sorry, I just remembered something funny.Downvoting a post can decrease pending rewards and make it less visible. Common reasons:
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France is th only couontry where the money falls apart and you can't tear the toilet paper. --Billy Wilder--
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History would be a wonderful thing -- if only it were true. --H. L. Mencken--
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Ladies and Gentlemen, seldom can it have been a greater pleasure and privilege than it is for me now to announce that the next award gave me the great pleasure and privilege of asking a man without whose ceaseless energy and tireless skill the British Film Industry would be today.
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It is almost impossible systematically to constitue a natural moral law. Nature has no principles. She furnishes us with no reason to believe that human life is to be respected. Nature, in her indifference, makes no disctinction between good and evil. --Anatole France--
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The Turing Test: A sort of LOVE BOAT for machines. If you survive a week of it, you pass.
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Mahr's Law of Restrained Involvement: Don't get any on you.
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Laws of Programming: #15 - Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer to maintain it
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Advertising is a valuable economic factor because it is the cheapest way of selling goods, particularly if the goods are worthless. --Sinclair Lewis--
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Thoughts on Programming, Number 29: Cost does indeed vary as the product of the number of men and the number of months. Progress does not. Hence the man-month as a unit for measuring the size of a job is a dangerous and deceptive myth. -The Mythical Man-Month Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
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Too often foreign aid is when the poor people of a rich nation send their money to the rich people of a poor nation.
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Boob's Law: You always find something the last place you look.
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There should be a psychology of feet. For do we not make decisions with our legs, and walk about on our brains? What do you mean, `No, not really,?' -from 'The Notebooks of Mauve Bib--Outtakes, Bloopers, and Unconvincing Maxims,' Edited by the Princess Serutan.
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Army Law: If it moves, salute it; if it doesn't move, pick it up; if you can't pick it up, paint it.
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I have only a small flickering light to guide me in the darkness of a thick forest. Up comes a theologian and blows it out. --Dennis Diderot--
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Men rarely, if ever, manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the morals and manners of a spoiled child.
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The Sixth Corollary to Murphy's Law: Whenever you start out to do something, something else must be done first.
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Thoughts on Programming, Number 45: I don't know any reason why we couldn't do it, but maybe we can think of one. -Mark C. Davison
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Laws of Programming: #1 - Every non-trivial program has at least one bug Corollary 1: A sufficient condition for program triviality is that it have no bugs. Corollary 2: At least one bug will be observed after the author leaves the organization
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Thoughts on Programming, Number 44: It's redundant! It's redundant! -R. E. Dundant
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There's nothing an agnostic can't do if he really doesn't know whether he believes in anything or not.
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I don't like principles. I prefer prejudices. They are more honest. --Oscar Wilde--
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An ounce of hypocrisy is worth a pound of ambition. --Michael Korda--
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Ah -- can do. But won't.
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Canada Bill Jones's Motto: It's morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money.
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Patriotism is the virtue of the vicious. --Oscar Wilde--
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Don't like it? I'm CRAZY for it.
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Lawyers are ... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must cross. --Jane Bryant Quinn--
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Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will.
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Liberal......A power worshipper without power. --George Orwell--
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I hate snakes! I hate 'em!!
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I've grown to hate them.
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Boling's Postulate: If you're feeling good, don't worry. You'll get over it.
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Relations are simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinct about when to die. --Oscar Wilde--
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No one is completely unhappy at the failure of his best friend. --Groucho Marx--
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I HATE revolutionary jargon.
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In our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either. --Mark Twain--
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Bally Jerry, pranged his kite right in the how's-your-father - hairy blighter, dicky-birded, feathered back on his sammy, took a waspy, flipped over on his Betty Harper's and caught his can in the Bertie.
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Lawyer.....One skilled in the circumvention of the law. --Ambrose Bierce--
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Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. --Beverly Jones--
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We, the People are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts - not to overthrow the Constitution, but to overthrow men who pervert the Constitution. - A. Lincoln
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