Monday, July 31, 2017

Fortune Quote #1825

We learn from history that we learn nothing from history. --
George Bernard Shaw

Sunday, July 30, 2017

Fortune Quote #1824

When people are least sure, they are often most dogmatic. -- John
Kenneth Galbraith

Saturday, July 29, 2017

Fortune Quote #1823

The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or
give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

Friday, July 28, 2017

Fortune Quote #1822

One lawyer can steal more than a hundred men with guns. -- The
Godfather

Thursday, July 27, 2017

Fortune Quote #1821

Lead us in a few words of silent prayer. -- Bill Peterson, former
Houston Oiler football coach

Wednesday, July 26, 2017

Fortune Quote #1820

With molasses you catch flies, with vinegar you catch nobody. --
Baltimore City Councilman Dominic DiPietro

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

Fortune Quote #1819

Falling in love is not the silliest thing that people do, but gravity
cannot be held responsible for it. -- Albert Einstein

Monday, July 24, 2017

Fortune Quote #1818

An organization dries up if you don't challenge it with growth. --
Mark Shepherd, former President and CEO of Texas Instruments

Sunday, July 23, 2017

Fortune Quote #1817

Bureaucracy is the enemy of innovation. -- Mark Shepherd, former
President and CEO of Texas Instruments

Saturday, July 22, 2017

Fortune Quote #1816

Language shapes the way we think, and determines what we can think
about. -- B. L. Whorf

Friday, July 21, 2017

Fortune Quote #1815

To take a significant step forward, you must make a series of finite
improvements. -- Donald J. Atwood, General Motors

Thursday, July 20, 2017

Fortune Quote #1814

...all the good computer designs are bootlegged; the formally planned
products, if they are built at all, are dogs! -- David E.
Lundstrom, "A Few Good Men From Univac"

Wednesday, July 19, 2017

Fortune Quote #1813

There is such a fine line between genius and stupidity. -- David
St. Hubbins, "Spinal Tap"

Tuesday, July 18, 2017

Fortune Quote #1812

Plan to throw one away. You will anyway. -- Fred Brooks, "The
Mythical Man Month"

Monday, July 17, 2017

Fortune Quote #1811

There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we
don't know yet. -- Ambrose Bierce

Sunday, July 16, 2017

Fortune Quote #1810

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because
he is not of the same opinion, is a monster. -- Voltaire

Saturday, July 15, 2017

Fortune Quote #1809

What is tolerance? -- it is the consequence of humanity. We are all
formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly
-- that is the first law of nature. -- Voltaire

Friday, July 14, 2017

Fortune Quote #1808

Truth has always been found to promote the best interests of
mankind... -- Percy Bysshe Shelley

Thursday, July 13, 2017

Fortune Quote #1807

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain
it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through
the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through
striving after rational knowledge. -- Albert Einstein

Wednesday, July 12, 2017

Fortune Quote #1806

It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters. -- Lucius
Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C. - A.D. 65)

Tuesday, July 11, 2017

Fortune Quote #1805

There is no statute of limitations on stupidity. -- Randomly
produced by a computer program called Markov3.

Monday, July 10, 2017

Fortune Quote #1804

Remember, there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending
over. -- Frank Zappa

Sunday, July 9, 2017

Fortune Quote #1803

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
society. -- Mark Twain

Saturday, July 8, 2017

Fortune Quote #1802

On our campus the UNIX system has proved to be not only an effective
software tool, but an agent of technical and social change within the
University. -- John Lions (University of New South Wales)

Friday, July 7, 2017

Fortune Quote #1801

I know engineers. They love to change things. -- Dr. McCoy

Thursday, July 6, 2017

Fortune Quote #1800

...there can be no public or private virtue unless the foundation of
action is the practice of truth. -- George Jacob Holyoake

Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Fortune Quote #1799

As to Jesus of Nazareth...I think the system of Morals and his Religion,
as he left them to us, the best the World ever saw or is likely to see; but
I apprehend it has received various corrupting Changes, and I have, with
most of the present Dissenters in England, some doubts as to his
divinity. -- Benjamin Franklin

Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Fortune Quote #1798

God requireth not a uniformity of religion. -- Roger Williams

Monday, July 3, 2017

Fortune Quote #1797

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no
God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. -- Thomas
Jefferson

Sunday, July 2, 2017

Fortune Quote #1796

I judge a religion as being good or bad based on whether its adherents
become better people as a result of practicing it. -- Joe Mullally,
computer salesman

Saturday, July 1, 2017

Fortune Quote #1795

So we follow our wandering paths, and the very darkness acts as our guide
and our doubts serve to reassure us. -- Jean-Pierre de Caussade,
eighteenth-century Jesuit priest