Showing posts with label Saint Augustine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Saint Augustine. Show all posts

Friday, April 03, 2009

Quotes

"I read part of it
all the way through."
- Samuel Goldwyn

"Words are but wind; and learning is nothing
but words; ergo, learning is nothing but wind."
- Jonathan Swift


"Miracles are not contrary to nature, but
only contrary to what we know about nature."
- Saint Augustine

"The earth is the mother of all people, and
all people should have equal rights upon it."
- Chief Joseph


"I shot an arrow into
the air, and it stuck."
- Graffito

"The two most common elements in the
universe are Hydrogen and stupidity."
- Harlan Ellison

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Quotaria - Oneliners

"All life is an experiment."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When one teaches, two learn."
- Robert Half


"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
- Saint Augustine

"Never put a sock in a toaster."
- Eddie Izzard


"The big thieves hang the little ones."
- Czech Proverb

"First thoughts are not always the best."
- Vittorio Alfieri

Monday, March 02, 2009

Quotaria

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most
experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in;
we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
- Nathaniel Borenstein

"People want economy and they
will pay any price to get it."
- Lee Iacocca

"[Nature is] not only queerer than we suppose,
it is queerer than we can suppose.
- J.B.S. Haldane

"Never ask a man what computer he uses.
If it's a Mac, he'll tell you. If not,
there's no point in embarrasing him."
- Ian Orchard

"Saying Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh
is like finding a potato that looks like
Jesus and believing you've witnessed the
second coming."
- Guy Kawasaki

"Hope has two beautiful daughters:
their names are anger and courage.
Anger that things are the way they
are. Courage to make them the way
they ought to be."
- St. Augustine