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You can’t reason someone out of a position they didn’t reason themselves into.
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:06 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you chase two rabbits, you will not catch either one.
Speaker: Russian ProverbPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:04 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.
Speaker: Navajo ProverbPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 10:03 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
Speaker: Edward R. MurrowPosted: 29 Oct 2008 at 9:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I know you believe you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant!
Speaker: G. RomneyPosted: 28 Oct 2008 at 1:17 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Experience varies directly with equipment ruined.
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I really didn’t foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course – the computer industry didn’t even foresee that the century was going to end.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 28 Oct 2008 at 11:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are called software.
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
Speaker: Andy FinkelPosted: 28 Oct 2008 at 10:30 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Can you see the potential for madness and fun? We can. People are using Garry’s mod to make movies, cartoons, or even to answer the age old question of what happens to 350 chairs if you stack them on top of each other and throw a grenade into the middle.
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For me, as soon as money enters the picture, the fun is (mostly) gone; with money comes responsibility, whoever is providing the money buys the right to demand answers and project deadlines. It’s no longer “because I enjoy doing it”, but “because he tells me to”.
Speaker: JustKiddingPosted: 22 Oct 2008 at 4:17 PMComments: 1 -
Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for – in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live in it.
Speaker: Ellen GoodmanPosted: 16 Oct 2008 at 9:11 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When one door closes, another opens. But often we look so long, so regretfully, upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.
Speaker: Helen KellerPosted: 16 Oct 2008 at 8:07 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Think only on those things that are in line with your principles and can bear the light of day. The content of your character is your choice. Day by day, what you do is who you become. Your integrity is your destiny — it is the light that guides your way.
Speaker: HeraclitusPosted: 15 Oct 2008 at 10:08 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Linux isn’t hard.
Speaker: Allison BoothSource: I heard them spoken to me.Posted: 23 Sep 2008 at 9:47 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Speaker: Edgar Allen PoeSource: http://www.quotationspage.comPosted: 18 Sep 2008 at 2:04 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Can you create a detailed summary report?
Speaker: UnknownPosted: 11 Sep 2008 at 11:12 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you finally go back to your old hometown, you find it wasn’t the old home you missed but your childhood.
Speaker: Sam EwingSource: http://quotes4all.net/Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 11:59 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Speaker: Johann Wolfgang von GoetheSource: http://quotes4all.net/Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 11:57 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that fate allows you.
Speaker: HoraceSource: http://quotes4all.net/Posted: 10 Sep 2008 at 11:56 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment!