“Idealism increases in direct proportion to one’s distance from the problem.”
- John Galsworthy
“The most common misconception about communication is that it’s happening.”
- Unknown
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex… It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
- Albert Einstein
“If you want to make God laugh, tell him your future plans.”
- Woody Allen
“In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.”
- Yogi Berra
“The Internet is so big, so powerful and pointless that for some people it is a complete substitute for life.”
- Andrew Brown
“Don’t anthropomorphize computers they hate it.”
- Anonymous
“Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.”
- Niels Bohr
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”
- Bertrand Russell
“When you become senile, you won’t know it.”
- Bill Cosby
“The world responds to action, and not much else.”
- Scott Adams
“Does anal retentive have a hyphen?”
- Seen on a t-shirt
“We are drowning in information, but starved for knowledge.”
- John Naisbilt
“Look alive. Here comes a buzzard.”
- Pogo, comic strip by Walt Kelly
“The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.”
- Hubert H Humphrey
“Beware of the man who won’t be bothered with details.”
- William Feather
“The greatest enemy of the truth is very often not the lie–deliberate, contrived, and dishonest, but the myth persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic. Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
- John F. Kennedy
“Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.”
- Terry Pratchett
“Don’t open a shop unless you like to smile.”
- Chinese Proverb
“There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little more cheaply. The person who buys on price alone is this man’s lawful prey.”
- John Ruskin, (attributed)
“There is no news, there’s only media. ”
- Susan Halas
“Some days you’re the dog, some days you’re the hydrant.”
- Anonymous
“A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members.”
- David Coblitz
“Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.”
- Henry David Thoreau
“People says Microsoft paid 14 million dollars for using the Rolling Stones song ‘Start me up’ in their commercials. This is wrong. Microsoft paid 14 million dollars only for a part of the song. For instance, they didn’t use the line ‘You’ll make a grown man cry’.”
- Anonymous
“Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes.”
- Oscar Wilde
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple. ”
- Oscar Wilde