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Despite the cost of living, have you noticed how it remains so popular?

Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.

It is said that if you line up all the cars in the world end to end, someone would be stupid enough to try and pass them.

Latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the world's population.

Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.

Everyone has a photographic memory. Some just don't have film.

Everyone makes mistakes. The trick is to make mistakes when nobody is looking.

Hard work pays off in the future. Laziness pays off now.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Support bacteria--they're the only culture some people have.

It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a bad example.

If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.

Growing old is mandatory, growing up is optional.

Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate.

Quotes are for people who can't express themselves in a coherent manner.

I used to be indecisive; now I'm not so sure.

Unix for stability. Macs for productivity. Windows for solitaire.

Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot.

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side and a dark side, and it holds the universe together.

All the time you're saying to yourself, "I could do that, but I won't"--which is just another way of saying that you can't. -- Richard Feynman

Ordinary fools are all right; you can talk to them and try to help them out. But pompous fools--guys who are fools and are covering it all over and impressing people as to how wonderful they are with all this hocus pocus--THAT I CANNOT STAND! -- Richard Feynman

You see, I get such fun out of thinking that I don't want to destroy this most pleasant machine that makes life such a big kick. -- Richard Feynman

What do you care what other people think? -- Richard Feynman

No foul deed goes unrewarded. -- Dan Garcia

Hardware is just software that's hard to edit.

Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence. -- Charles Kettering

Committees can criticize, but they cannot create. -- Ogilvy

There are some things so serious you have to laugh at them. -- Niels Bohr

Well done is better than well said. -- Benjamin Franklin

The best way to cheer yourself up: cheer everybody else up. -- Mark Twain

Success is a journey, not a destination. -- Ben Sweetland

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. -- George Bernard Shaw

Any damn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple. -- Pete Seeger

Change is not merely necessary to life; it is life. -- Alvin Toffler

Your reputation is made by others. Your character is made by you.

Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep. -- Scott Adams

I may disagree with everything you say, but will defend unto death your right to say it. -- Voltaire (orig. Beatrice Hall)

No rain, no rainbows.

Experience is something you don't usually get until just after you need it.

Tell the truth, there's less to remember.

The people that are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones that do.

Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once.

If Columbus had an advisory committee, he'd probably still be at the dock. -- Arther Goldberg

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction. -- Blaise Pascal

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it. -- Thomas Jefferson

If you thought before that science was certain--well, that is just an error on your part. -- Richard Feynman

Moral principles require moral reasoning; one cannot passively accept moral principles handed down by decree. -- Michael Shermer

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin

When you find yourself in a hole, quit digging.

Don't accept your dog's admiration as conclusive evidence that you are wonderful.

Borrow money from pessimists--they don't expect it back.

It's difficult to make predictions, especially when you're talking about the future.

The man who can smile when things go wrong has thought of someone else he can blame it on. -- Robert Bloch

When I read about the evils of drinking, I gave up reading. -- Henny Youngman

A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.

Never lend people money. It gives them amnesia.

Atheism: A non prophet organization.

By the time you can make ends meet, they move the ends.

The other line always moves faster... until you get in it.

If you think you know what's going on around here, you're probably full of crap.

Beauty is in the eye of the beerholder. -- Sean Fox

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. -- Cicero

The only thing I know about capitalism is that after a period the next letter should be big.

If the right to privacy means anything at all in our society, it means that people are entitled to have thoughts, hopes, desires, and dreams beyond the grasping reach of a bureaucrat, an employer, or an electronic technician. -- Sam Ervin

I mistook her estrogen for sweetness and arrogance for perspicacity. -- Dan Garcia

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. -- Mark Twain

Success is just like being pregnant. Everybody congratulates you, but nobody knows how many times you were screwed.

Everybody has to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink. -- W. C. Fields

A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take everything you have. -- Thomas Jefferson

No arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is as formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. -- Ronald Reagan

Don't blame the booze. If you're an asshole when you're drunk, it's because you're an asshole. -- Auggie Smith

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires. -- William Ward

Political correctness is a doctrine fostered by a delusional, illogical minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. -- Texas A&M student

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer. -- Frank Zappa

Time spent enjoying beer is not deducted from one's lifespan.

Beer is the answer, but I can't remember the question.

I don't suffer from insanity...I enjoy every minute of it!

I'm not insensitive; I just don't care.

Don't cry over spilled milk. It could have been beer.

Stop Global Whining.

Malt is the soul of beer and yeast gives it life, but the kiss of the hop is the vitality of that life!

Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion - in the long run, these are the only people who count. -- Robert Heinlein

Life is like a jar of jalapenos. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow.

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not. -- Thomas Jefferson

A successful life is one that is lived through understanding and pursuing one's own path, not chasing after the dreams of others. -- Chin Ning Chu

It does not require a majority to prevail but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds. -- Samuel Adams

The last good thing written in C was Schubert's Symphony #9.

Lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part.

If man cannot be trusted to govern himself, how can he be trusted to govern others? -- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity. -- Martin Luther King

Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing. -- Denis Waitley

Experts say caffeine is bad for you, fat is bad for you, sugar is bad for you. But don't worry because that's bad for you too.

Diapers and politicians should be changed often. Both for the same reason.

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. -- George Orwell

Stupidity is carefully cultivated ignorance. -- Dan Garcia

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude. -- Alexis de Tocqueville

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. -- John Gilmore

The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin

A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves. -- Edward R. Murrow

Our very unity has been strengthened by our pluralism. We establish no religion in this country, we command no worship, we mandate no belief, nor will we ever. Church and state are, and must remain, separate. -- Ronald Reagan

[Put a condom on your tongue to] contain the orgasm of your ignorance. -- Andrea Brambilla

Ineptocracy: A system of government where the least capable to lead are elected by the least capable of producing, and where the members of society least likely to sustain themselves or succeed are rewarded with goods and services paid for by the confiscated wealth of a diminishing number of producers.

To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. -- Voltaire

The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. -- Albert Einstein

Religion. It's given people hope in a world torn apart by religion. -- Jon Stewart

We're with the government. We don't have a sense of humor.

We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions. -- Ronald Reagan

It's time to kick ass and chew bubble gum, and I'm all out of gum. -- Duke Nukem

I have approximate answers and possible beliefs and different degrees of certainty about different things, but I'm not absolutely sure about anything. -- Richard Feynman

The world doesn't need more people with good grades. The world needs people who see the really tough problems as puzzles and have the tenacity and creative capacity to solve them. -- Gever Tulley

I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned. -- Richard Feynman (attributed)

Confidence is silent. Insecurities are loud.

Failure is no fun. It can be awful. But living so cautiously that you never fail is worse. -- J.K. Rowling

Thank God you guys are using percentages! I'm one of the 3/2 of Americans who don't understand fractions.

50% of people are below average.

There are 10 types of people: those who know binary, those who don't, and those who weren't expecting it in base 3.

Ignorance is a state. Willful ignorance is a choice. It's the definition of stupidity. -- Dan Garcia and Jean Gourd

You can believe what you want to believe, but no one has to respect that. We have to acknowledge you have that belief, but we dont have to respect that belief. -- Patton Oswalt

Statistically, six out of seven dwarfs are not Happy. Yet only one of out seven dwarfs is Grumpy.

I before E, except when you run a feisty heist on a weird beige foreign neighbor...and caffeine-string atheists reinventing protein at their leisure...plebeians may deign to forfeit either that or seize the language and reinvent it...

If it is important to you, you'll find a way. If not, you'll find an excuse.

I never lose. Either I win or I learn.

Skills can be taught. Character you either have or you don't have. -- Anthony Bourdain

Your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. -- Anthony Bourdain

Luck is not a business model. -- Anthony Bourdain

Without new ideas success can become stale. -- Anthony Bourdain

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. -- Noam Chomsky

True ignorance is not the absence of knowledge, but the refusal to acquire it. -- Karl Popper

It is possible to commit no mistakes and still lose. That is not a weakness; that is life. -- Captain Jean-Luc Picard

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement, for even the very wise cannot see all ends. -- Gandalf

Give a man a fish and feed him for a day. Don't teach a man to fish and feed yourself. He's a grown man, and fishing is not that hard -- Ron Swanson

There's only one thing I hate more than lying, and that's skimmed milk -- which is water that's lying about being milk. -- Ron Swanson

If serving is below you, leadership is beyond you.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. -- Robert H. Schuller

You want to know the difference between a master and a beginner? The master has failed more times than the beginner has ever tried.

You are not entitled to your opinion. You are entitled to your informed opinion. No one is entitled to be ignorant. -- Harlan Ellison

Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. -- Jim Rohn

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. -- Jim Rohn

Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going. -- Jim Rohn

You must take personal responsibility. You cannot change the circumstances, the seasons, or the wind, but you can change yourself. That is something you have charge of. -- Jim Rohn

Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want. -- Jim Rohn

Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune. -- Jim Rohn

No one else 'makes us angry.' We make ourselves angry when we surrender control of our attitude. -- Jim Rohn

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. -- Jim Rohn

Any machine can be a smoke machine if you use it wrong enough.

The problem is not people being uneducated. The problem is that they are educated just enough to believe what they've been taught and not educated enough to question what they've been taught.

People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day.

Never trust an atom. They make up everything.

Always remember that you're unique, just like everyone else.

There are two rules to success in life: 1) Dont tell everything that you know.

Doubt kills more dreams than failure ever will.

Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to tell people how you really feel because you could be too weak to raise your middle finger.

The problem with divorcing "what" and "how" in education is that knowing about things is not the same as understanding them. -- Robert and Michele Root-Bernstein

Social media gives legions of idiots the right to speak when they once only spoke at a bar after a glass of wine, without harming the community...but now they have the same right to speak as a Nobel Prize winner. It's the invasion of the idiots. -- Umberto Eco

The world is full of things that upset people. But most of us deal with it and move on and don't try and burn the planet down. There is no right in the world not to be offended. That right simply doesn't exist -- Salman Rushdie

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity (Hanlon's razor).

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. -- Bertrand Russell

Stupidity is using a rule where adding more data doesn't improve your chances of getting [a problem] right. In fact, it makes it more likely you'll get it wrong. -- David Krakauer

The word queue is like a group project where one letter does all the work.

Zero is just a portal between positive and negative numbers.

Last updated: 2023-05-10 19:28