Quotes From the Wise

The following were accumulated from the IDG Connect Newsletter. Send them an email to subscribe to their news letter at tech_newsletters@online.idgconnect.com . I hope that you find these quotes as amusing as I did.

1.) "Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."
- Malcolm Forbes

2.) "Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what

your task may be."
- Og Mandino

3.) "The American Indians found out what happens when you don't control immigration."

4.) "Ahhh. A man with a sharp wit. Someone ought to take it away from him before he cuts himself."
- Peter da Silva

5.) "Your theory is crazy, but it's not crazy enough to be true."
- Niels Bohr, to a young physicist

6.) "Don't aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you are
going to miss it. For success, like happiness, cannot be pursued; it must ensue...as the
unintended side-effect of one's personal dedication to a course greater than oneself."
- Viktor Frankl

7.) "All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure."
- Mark Twain

8.) "The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by
accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause
accidents."
- Nathaniel Borenstein

9.) "Drive thy business or it will drive thee."
- Benjamin Franklin

10.) "Imagination is more important than knowledge..."
- Albert Einstein

11.) "I'm not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break
loose...it'll be much harder to detect."
- George Carlin

12.) "The reason lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place is that the same place
isn't there the second time."
- Willie Tyler

13.) "Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to
draw different conclusions."
- Evan Esar

14.) "No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one."
- Elbert Hubbard

15.) "You kids today have it easy. When I was a kid everything was HUGE. My dad
was nearly four times bigger than me. You couldn't even see the tops of counters...
Then gradually everything became smaller until it was the manageable size it is today."
- Bizarro (comic strip)

16.) "The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the
morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
- Robert Frost

17.) "I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free."
- Michelangelo

18.) "Inanimate objects are classified scientifically into three major categories - those
that don't work, those that break down and those that get lost."
- Russell Baker

19.) "Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons."
- R. Buckminster Fuller

20.) "I'm sick of following my dreams. I'm just going to ask them where they're going
and hook up with them later."
- Mitch Hedberg

21.) "You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty."
- Sacha Guitry

22.) "Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad
judgment."
- Unknown, quoted by Jim Horning

23.) "Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory."
- Albert Schweitzer

24.) "If there are no stupid questions, then what kind of questions do stupid people
ask? Do they get smart just in time to ask questions?"
- Scott Adams

25.) "Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
- John Benfield

26.) "There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense
than we have."
- Don Herold

27.) "When you encounter seemingly good advice that contradicts other seemingly good
advice, ignore them both."
- Al Franken

28.) "He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive
incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which."
- Douglas Adams

29.) "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
- Benjamin Disraeli

30.) "Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure."
- Benjamin Franklin

31.) "Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."
- Euripides

32.) "A witty saying proves nothing."
- Voltaire

Cheers,
-Robert-