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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
- Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr
- You only need two tools: WD-40 and duct tape. If it doesn't move and should, use the WD-40. If it shouldn't move and does, use the duct tape.