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- Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 19,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps only weigh 1.5 tons.
- Popular Mechanics, March 1949.
- I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.
- The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn, like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awww!"
- Jack Kerouac
- I see you're drinking 1%. Is that 'cause you think you're fat? 'Cause you're not. You could be drinking whole if you wanted to.
-Napoleon Dynamite
- One dog can.t really change the world. Two dogs have got huge limitations as well. But if you imagine three ambitious dogs working as a team, clearly anything is possible.
- michael crowe
- The worst day of my life, what do you think?
-Napoleon Dynamite
- I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have.
- Thomas Jefferson
- Russian women are not very good for figure skating. They are good for building rail tracks in Siberia, for example. They are just too strong and big.
- Russian Olympic figure-skating coach Alexei Mishin, on the future of Russian female skaters.
- The only difference between me and a madman is that I'm not mad.
- Salvador Dali
- The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good.
- Samuel Johnson
- The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
- Alan Kay
- Never mistake motion for action.
- Ernest Hemingway
- Well done is better than well said.
- Benjamin Franklin
- Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
- The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
- It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain
- Well, ain't this place a geographical oddity. Two weeks from everywhere. Forget it. Just a dozen hair nets.
- Ulysses Everett McGill in O Brother Where Art Thou
- No thank you, Delmar. A third of a gopher would only arouse my appetite without beddin' her back down
- Ulysses Everett McGill in O Brother Where Art Thou
- You two are just dumber than a bag of hammers.
- Ulysses Everett McGill in O Brother Where Art Thou
- A brilliant chess move while the room is filling with smoke because the house is burning down does not show intelligence.
- Anatol Holt
- A man is but a product of his thoughts; what he thinks, that he becomes.
- Mohandas K. Gandhi
- An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not an idea whose time has come.
-Victor Hugo
- Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you would not have in your home.
-David Frost
- If it weren't for electricty, we'd all be watching television by candlelight.
-George Gobel
- I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
-Margaret Thatcher
- It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us into trouble. It's the things we do know that just ain't so.
-Artemus Ward
- The great aim of education is not knowledge, but action.
-Herbert Spencer
- The other day I got out my can opener and was opening a can of worms when I thought, "What am I doing?!"
-Jack Handy
- The most glowing successes are but reflections of an inner fire.
- Kenneth Hilderbrand.
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light of meaning in the darkness of mere being.
- Carl Jung
- Guns don't kill people. People with mustaches kill people
-Anon
- Heaven: French chefs, German Engineers and British police. Hell: French engineers, British chefs and German police.
-Anon
- If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball.
- Dodgeball (the movie)
- Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
- You only need two tools: WD40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.
-Anon
- Man who can catch fly with chopsticks can do anything
-Mister Miyagi
- Beware the lollipop of mediocrity. Once you lick it you suck forever.
- Unknown
- Most accidents happen within a mile of home, so to avoid accidents, move.
- Anon
- If I had to name my greatest strength I guess it would be my humility, greatest weakness it is possible I'm a little too awesome.
-Barack Obama
- Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.
- P. J. O'Rourke
- Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
- Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable.
- William Shakespeare The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
- Elbert Hubbard
- Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
- Mahatma Ghandi
- Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity, nothing exceeds the criticisms made of the habits of the poor by the well–housed, well–warmed, and well–fed.
- Herman Melville
- Fairy tales do not tell children that dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children that dragons can be killed.
- G.K. Chesterton
- Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none.
- William Shakespeare
- ...within the core of each of us is the child we once were. This child constitutes the foundation of what we have become, who we are, and what we will be.
- Dr. R. Joseph
- The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to endure, to transform, to love and to be greater than our suffering.
- Ben Okri
- A sad soul can kill you quicker, far quicker, than a germ.
- John Steinbeck
- For those who believe, no proof is necessary. For those who don't believe, no proof is possible.
- Stuart Chase
- He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- What.s better than seeing a hot girl on a beach? Nothing. Nothing is better. Maybe nachos. A hot girl lying on nachos. But that.s impossible.
- Old Spice advertisement