| All truths are easy to understand once they are
discovered; the point is to discover them. |
Galileo Galilei |
1564 - 1642 |
| Do not condemn the judgment of another because it
differs from your own. You may both be wrong. |
Dandemis. (American Writer Lawyer) |
1815-1882 |
| When we got into office, the thing that surprised me
the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were. |
John F. Kennedy |
1917 - 1963 |
| In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as
to be understood
by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry,
it's the exact opposite. [You can modify this by changing "poetry" to
something else, like "PR".] |
Paul Dirac |
1902 - 1984 |
| Nothing succeeds like the appearance of success. |
Christopher Lasch |
|
| Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite
a man. [speaking of Albert Einstein] |
J. Robert Oppenheimer |
1904 - 1967 |
| There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology
- the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
[Zen
and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance] |
Robert Pirsig |
|
| I've always felt that a person's intelligence is
directly reflected by
the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain
simultaneously on the same topic. |
Abigail Adams (first lady, wife of John Adams,
2nd president of USA) |
1744-1818 |
| Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and
proving there is
no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
1908-2006 |
| If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by
spectacular error. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
|
| In any great organization it is far, far safer to be
wrong with the majority than to be right alone. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
|
| Meetings are a great trap. Soon you find yourself
trying to get
agreement and then the people who disagree come to think they have a
right to be persuaded. However, they are indispensable when you don't
want to do anything. |
John Kenneth Galbraith |
|
| I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased
them, I did not
learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding. |
Epicurus |
|
| Everything should be made as simple as possible, but
not simpler. |
Albert Einstein |
|
| The whole point of getting things done is knowing what
to leave undone. |
Oswald Chambers (Scottish Theologian) |
1874-1917 |
| If you don't have a plan B, you don't have a plan. |
I think this was a 2nd world war general, eg
Eisenhower. But I can't actually find it anywhere. |
|
| The public wants what the public gets. |
The Jam |
|
| Just because you win doesn't mean you're right. [These
are what I thought the lyrics were (but aren't), so I'm giving some
credit to the group.] |
Me, with help from Skunk Anansie. |
|
| Adding resource to a late software project will make it
later. [And as an ad-lib extra, add "Removing resource will also make
it later, and probably so will leaving the resource alone. Late
software projects always get later."] |
|
|
| We have both types of music here. Country and Western. |
The Blues Brothers |
|
| To lose one is unfortunate, to lose two looks like
carelessness. |
Oscar Wilde |
|
| I
think we agree, the past is over. |
George W Bush |
1946- |
| We are continually faced by great opportunities
brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. |
Lee Iacocca |
|
| Only the mediocre are always at their best. |
Jean Giraudoux |
1882-1944 |
