Author Topic: Quotes of Note (Read 118966 times)

ZWarrior · « **Reply #250 on:** June 03, 2005, 03:13:52 PM »

"Sure there have been injuries and deaths in boxing - but none of them serious."
- Alan Minter, Boxer

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #251 on:** June 03, 2005, 03:25:51 PM »

"War is delightful for those wh have not experienced it."
-- Erasmus

ZWarrior · « **Reply #252 on:** June 03, 2005, 03:29:22 PM »

"Permitted vehicles not allowed."
- Road sign on US 27

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #253 on:** June 03, 2005, 03:32:14 PM »

"There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending."
-- Abraham Lincoln

ZWarrior · « **Reply #254 on:** June 03, 2005, 03:35:35 PM »

"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
-- Dean Martin

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #255 on:** June 03, 2005, 03:49:30 PM »

"Get er done!"
-- Larry the Cable Guy

ZWarrior · « **Reply #256 on:** June 03, 2005, 04:49:51 PM »

"Airplanes are interesting toys but of no military value."
-- Marechal Ferdinand Foch, Professor of Strategy, Ecole Superieure de Guerre.

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #257 on:** June 06, 2005, 04:39:51 PM »

"With great power lies great responsibility."
-- Peter Parker's Uncle from Spiderman

ZWarrior · « **Reply #258 on:** June 07, 2005, 08:50:06 AM »

"One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day."
-- Slashdot

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #259 on:** June 07, 2005, 09:47:38 PM »

"Those who have long enoyed such privileges as we enjoy forget in time that men have died to win them."
-- Franklin D. Roosevelt

ZWarrior · « **Reply #260 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:16:18 AM »

"Don't worry about the Rover. That's no cliff."
-- NASA techie

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #261 on:** June 08, 2005, 09:20:28 AM »

"Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts."
-- Winston Churchill

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #262 on:** June 18, 2005, 06:06:02 PM »

"Parents are the last people on earth who ought to have children."
-- Samuel Butler

ZWarrior · « **Reply #263 on:** June 18, 2005, 11:33:58 PM »

"I can handle this!"
-- first man to face down a rampaging bull

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #264 on:** June 19, 2005, 01:38:12 AM »

"I'm sorry ZWarrior. Please don't kick me!"
-- Snauzberries

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #265 on:** July 01, 2005, 12:11:44 AM »

"I'm guarding our flag."
-- Darth Gator while guarding the opposite teams flag

ZWarrior · « **Reply #266 on:** July 08, 2005, 02:47:56 PM »

Anything free is worth what you pay for it.
-- Slashdot

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #267 on:** July 08, 2005, 08:06:42 PM »

"They've finally come up with the perfect office computer. If it makes a mistake, it blames another computer."
-- Milton Berle

ZWarrior · « **Reply #268 on:** July 25, 2005, 01:50:34 PM »

"Chef, n.: Any cook who swears in French."
-- slashdot

ZWarrior · « **Reply #269 on:** August 04, 2005, 09:31:49 AM »

"How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it."
-- Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #270 on:** August 04, 2005, 01:21:59 PM »

"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little."
-- Joe Martin

ZWarrior · « **Reply #271 on:** August 15, 2005, 09:44:45 AM »

"Are we going to make an emacs out of apt? APT - Debian in a program. It even does your laundry"

-- Seen on #Debian

Mr_Anderson · « **Reply #272 on:** August 15, 2005, 03:38:15 PM »

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."

-- Douglas Noel Adams

[Edited on 8-15-2005 by Mr_Anderson]

ZWarrior · « **Reply #273 on:** August 16, 2005, 01:33:07 PM »

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

-- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)

Papa_Smurf · « **Reply #274 on:** August 23, 2005, 12:26:29 PM »

I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him.

Mark Twain

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