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Old 02-05-2004, 02:42 PM   #13
dar512
dar512 is now Pete Zicato
 
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Chicago suburb
Posts: 4,968
My all time favorite
Quote:
`Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?'
`That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,' said the Cat.
`I don't much care where--' said Alice.
`Then it doesn't matter which way you go,' said the Cat.
`--so long as I get SOMEWHERE,' Alice added as an explanation.
`Oh, you're sure to do that,' said the Cat, `if you only walk long enough.'
- Lewis Carroll "Alice in Wonderland"
This I'm proud of because I made it up.
Quote:
My office is a high entropy area. It moves toward chaos much faster than the rest of the universe.
A few others that I like:

"The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -- but that's the way to bet."
-- Damon Runyon

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity"
-- Hanlon's Razor

"Later in this talk, I intend to define the universe and give three examples."
-- Larry Wall (author of the Perl programming language)

"He has told you, O man, what is good; and what does the Lord ask of you, but to do justice, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with your God?"
-- Micah 6:8

"This calls for a subtle combination of mathematics and explosives."
-- Unknown

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend.
Inside a dog it's too dark to read.
-- Groucho Marx

"Ah! You have made a common mistake here...what you have there is a beet and you have confused it with food. Food is something like a ham sandwich or a bowl of chile."
-- Paul Hinrichs

"By diligent effort I seemed to be prolonging my adolescence into total absurdity."
-- John D. MacDonald - The Empty Copper Sea

"I'm not sure."
-- Werner Heisenberg

"The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne."
-- Chaucer

The early bird gets the worm. But the early worm gets eaten.
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