quotes about life and friends

The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of whether submarines can swim. ~Edsger W. Dijkstra



Never lose sight of the fact that old age needs so little but needs that little so much. ~Margaret Willour



The dog is a yes-animal, very popular with people who can't afford to keep a yes-man. ~Robertson Davies



In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? - the cuckoo clock. ~Graham Greene & Orson Wells, The Third Man, movie



Oh God, if there be cricket in heaven, let there also be rain. ~Alec Douglas Home



The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~Dorothy Parker (Thanks, Kaitlin) The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity. ~Dorothy Parker (Thanks, Kaitlin)



The Internet is based on a layered, end-to-end model that allows people at each level of the network to innovate free of any central control. By placing intelligence at the edges rather than control in the middle of the network, the Internet has created a platform for innovation. ~Vinton Cerf



Pictures must not be too picturesque. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson



A mind devoid of prepossessions is likely to be devoid of all mental furniture. And the historian who thinks that he can clean his mind as he would a slate with a wet sponge, is ignorant of the simplest facts of mental life. ~Allen Johnson, The Historian and Historical Evidence



If I had to sum up Friendship in one word, it would be Comfort. ~Terri Guillemets



To be "on edge," you are literally not centered - not being in your spiritual center. ~Carrie Latet



Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do. ~John Wooden, They Call Me Coach



There are two theories on hitting the knuckleball. Unfortunately, neither of them work. ~Charlie Lau, 1982



They call it golf because all of the other four-letter words were taken. ~Raymond Floyd



I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks, May 1849



If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine. ~Rob Stampfli



Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com



...when deep-space exploitation ramps up, it will probably be the megatonic corporations that discover all the new planets and map them. The IBM Stellar Sphere. The Philip Morris Galaxy. Planet Denny's. Every planet will take on the corporate identity of whoever rapes it first. Budweiser World. ~Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club, Chapter 23



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I'm not an environmentalist. I'm an Earth warrior. ~Darryl Cherney, quoted in Smithsonian, April 1990