Signatures

This pages started as email signatures that I used. With Outlook Express 4.5 for the iMac that I was able to setup random signatures. The random factor of my signatures seemed to have gone over well with my friends. I've since migrated back to a pc... Oh well. =(

Also, check out my longer quotes.

[ Drinking ][ Literature ][ Misc ][ Philosophy ][ Politics ][ Science/Computers ]

(Drinking)

"Not all chemicals are bad. Without chemicals such as hydrogen and oxygen, for example, there would be no way to make water, a vital ingredient in beer."
--Dave Barry

"When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer."
--Dave Barry

"Without question, the greatest invention in the history of mankind is beer. Oh, I grant you that the wheel was also a fine invention, but the wheel does not go nearly as well with pizza."
- Dave Barry

"The problem with the world is that everyone is a few drinks behind."
--Humphrey Bogart

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline--it helps if you have some kind of football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer."
-- Frank Zappa

"American Beer is a lot like making love in a row boat- It's fucking close to water!"
--Monty Python's Eric Idle

"Okay, brain, I don't like you and you don't like me. Let's just take this exam so I can get back to killing you with beer."
--Homer Simpson

"If I saved all the money I've spent on beer, I'd spend it on beer."
--Anon

"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day."
--Frank Sinatra

"You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on."
--Dean Martin

"An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
"For Whom the Bell Tolls," Ernest Hemingway

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."
--Ernest Hemingway

"If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damned fool about it."
- W. C. Fields

"I never drink anything stronger than gin before breakfast."
--W.C. Fields

(Literature)

"A nod is as good as a wink to a blind horse."
--Chapuys (from A Man For All Seasons)

"Only the impossible has any real charm; the possible has been vulgarized by happening too often."
- Clark Ashton Smith

"He who can check a moment's rage
Shall calm and care free end his days."
'The Dream of the Red Chamber' by Cao Xueqin

".. the boy wide eyed with wonder had long cerased to exist; a hazy ghost of him sometimes appeared in Corso's memory, between the pages of a book, in a smell or a sound, or through a dark window with the rain from another country beating against it, outside in the night."
'The Club Dumas', by Arturo Perez-Reverte

"Ch8C6H2(NO2)8 + Hg(CNO)2 = well, what? An enormous hole in the ground, a pile of masonry, some bits of flesh and mucus, a foot, with the boot still on it, flying through the air and landing, flop, in the middle of the geraniums - the scarlet ones; such a splendid show that summer!"
--Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. "
- Sherlock Holmes (Sir A. Conan Doyle)

"Call it the fault of civilization. God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness."
--Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"

"...there is nothing either good or bad, but only thinking makes it so."
--Prince Hamlet

"What kind of a sick bitch takes the ice cube trays out of the freezer?"
Gib, True Lies

"If my answers frighten you then you should cease asking scary questions."
-- Jules, "Pulp Fiction"

"As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods; they kill us for their sport."
-Aldous Huxley, "Brave New World"

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
-- Emerson

"The time between meeting and finally leaving is
sometimes called falling in love."
- Lisa Loeb, "Falling In Love"

"The remarkable thing about television is that it permits several million people to laugh at the same joke and still feel lonely. "
- T.S. Eliot

"We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time."
-- T.S. Eliot

"...a man of true science uses few hard words, and those only when none
other will answer his purpose; Where as the smatterer in science...thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things."
- Herman Melville

"David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, Richard Speck... Serial killers only have two names. You ever notice that? But lone gunmen assassins, they always have three names. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman..."
-- Jerry, "Conspiracy Theory"

"To be normal, to drink Coca-Cola and eat Kentucky Fried Chicken is to be in a conspiracy against yourself."
-- Jerry "Conspiracy Theory"

"Mine honour is my life; both grow in one; Take honour from me, and my life is done."
-- William Shakespeare, "Richard II"

"'Tis pride that pulls the country down."
-- William Shakespeare, "Othello"

"Man is the animal that laughs at himself."
-Robert Heinlein, "Stranger in a Strange Land"

"When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life."
--Christopher Morley

"Books are the quietest and most constant of friends and the most patient of teachers."
- Charles W. Elliot

"Hey, sewer rat may taste like pumpkin pie but I'd never know 'cause I wouldn't eat the filthy motherfuckers. Pig sleep and root in shit. That's a filthy animal. I ain't eat nothin' that ain't got enough sense to disregard its own feces."
--Jules, "Pulp Fiction"

"Study your math, kids. Key to the Universe."
Gabriel, The Prophecy

"Nothing can bring you peace but yourself."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"`If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.'"
Zaphod Beeblebrox, "The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy"

"`If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.'"
--Dirk, Douglas Adam's "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"

"...don't let anybody kid you. It's all personal, every bit of business. Every piece of shit every man has to eat every day of his life is personal. They call it business. OK. But it's personal as hell."
-Michael Corleone (Mario Puzo, The Godfather)

"A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Adams

"Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, thus saving you the bother of looking at it yourself."
--Douglas Adams, "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency"

"The reason why so many sects hang around airports looking for converts: they know that people there are at their most vulnerable and perplexed, and ready to accept any kind of guidance."
--Douglas Adams, "The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul"

"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
- Douglas Adams,  "The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe"

"It's impossible to get a readership that will follow you, because all they know is what they knew yesterday. And they've been so bastardized as an audience that there are actually average citizens out there who think William Shatner writes those idiot novels with his byline on them."
Harlan Ellison, interview with theonion.com

"The things you own end up owning you."
Tyler Durden, Flight Club

"...history is just a collection of accepted lies."
"UFOs, JFK, and Elvis"
Richard Belzer

"Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in."
-- Henry David Thoreau

"Listen, not a year goes by, not a year, that I don't hear about some escalator accident involving some bastard kid which could have easily been avoided had some parent--I don't care which one--but some parent conditioned him to fear and respect that escalator!"  
Brodie, Mall Rats

"The secret, I don't know... I guess you've just gotta find something you love to do and then... do it for the rest of your life. For me, it's going to Rushmore."
Max Fischer, Rushmore

"I never walk into a place I don't know how to walk out of."
Sam, Ronin

"It's the Second Law of Thermodynamics: sooner or later everything turns to shit. That's my phrasing, not the Encyclopedia Britannica."  
Sally, Woody Allen's Husband & Wives

"Cats know exactly how you feel. They don't give a damn, but they know!"

"Man has been here 32,000 years. That it took a hundred million years to prepare the world for him is proof that that is what it was done for. I suppose it is. I dunno. If the Eiffel tower were now representing the world's age, the skin of paint on the pinnacle-knob at its summit would represent man's share of that age; & anybody would perceive that that skin was what the tower was built for. I reckon they would. I dunno."  --M. Twain

"I look for revelation not to that overrated nerd, Michel Foucault, but to Star Trek , our prophetic, multicultural saga of a universe where men and machines live in beautiful, elegant intimacy."
--Camille Paglia, "The Internet Sexual Personae"

(Philosophy)

"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence."
-- Publilius Syrus

Believe nothing, O monks, merely because you have been told it...or because it is traditional, or because you yourselves have imagined it. Do not believe what your teacher tells you merely out of respect for the teacher. But whatsoever, after due examination and analysis, you find to be conducive to the good, the benefit, the welfare of all beings--that doctrine believe and cling to, and take it as your guide.
--Gautama Buddha, Indian philosopher (536?-483? B.C.)

"An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it."
-Dan Marquis

"No article of faith is proof against the disintegrating effects of increasing information; one might almost describe the acquirement of knowledge as a process of disillusion."
--H.L. Mencken

People will forget what you said.
People will forget what you did,
but people will never forget how you made them feel.

"I value the friend who for me finds time on his calendar, but I cherish the friend who for me does not consult his calendar."
- Robert Brault

"We (God) are nearer to him (man) than his neck vein."
Koran (l, 15)

Going alone is better,
there's no companionship with a fool.
    Go alone,
doing no evil, at peace,
like the elephant in the Matanga wilds.
--"Elephants" v.330 [Dhammapada]

By telling the truth;
by not growing angry;
by giving, when asked,
no matter how little you have:
by these three things
you enter the presence of devas.
--"Anger" v.224 [Dhammapada]

"Do not speak harshly to any one; those who are spoken to will answer thee in the same way. Angry speech is painful: blows for blows will touch thee."
- Buddha, The Dharmapada

"Full of love for all things in the world, practising virtue, in order to benefit others, this man alone is happy."
- Buddha, The Dharmapada

"To live a single day and hear a good teaching is better than to live a hundred years without knowing such teaching."
- Buddha

"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
- Buddha

"An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind."
Gandhi

"Reality is ceaselessly changing. There is no reality, save the reality of change: permanence is an illusion."
-- Heraclitus

"Live as if you were to die tomorrow, Learn as if you were to live forever."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"He was a wise man who created god." --Plato

"Wherever ye turn, there is the face of Allah."
Koran (ii, 109)

"... truth is not always rational, what is rational is not always right, and what is right not always the truth. "
Carl S.

"If you want special illumination, look upon the human face:
See clearly within laughter the Essence of Ultimate Truth."
(Jalaluddin Rumi)

"The sect of lovers is distinct from all others;
Lovers have a religion and a faith all of their own."
--Rumi

"When love comes, reason disappears. Reason cannot live with the folly of love, love has nothing to do with human reason."
-- 'Attâr

"The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently."
-Friedrich Nietzsch

"The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato."
--Alfred North Whitehed

"Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure."

- Helen Keller

"The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt with the heart."--Helen Keller

A tree that can fill the span of a man's arms, grows from a downy tip;
A terrace nine stories high, rises from hodfuls of earth;
A journey of a thousand miles, starts from beneath one's feet.
--Lao-Tzu (6th Century B.C. Chinese philosopher)

"Of all their many falsehoods, the one which astonished me most was their saying that I was a clever speaker, and that you must be careful not to let me deceive you."
-- Socrates (Platos's "The Apology")

2. Make the best possible move.
--Arthur Bisquier, international chess grand master, from "Ten Tips to Winning Chess"

"Most remarkable of all, it is widely supposed that the only person forgiven by the gods for failing to keep an oath is a lover. A lover's oath, they say, is no oath at all."
--Pausanias (Plato, "The Symposium")

"There is a time when panic is the appropriate response."
Kleiner Perkins' Fourth Law

"Astrology represents the summation of all the psychological knowledge of antiquity."
Carl Jung

"If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things."
Rene Descartes

"The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary, men alone are quite capable of every wickedness."
- Joseph Conrad


"Not everything that is more difficult is more meritorious."

--Saint Thomas Aquinas

"It is requisite for the relaxation of the mind that we make use, from time to time, of playful deeds and jokes."

--Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Art is right reason in the doing of work."

--Saint Thomas Aquinas

"A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational."
--Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious."
--Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while those who are more adapted to the contemplative life can take upon
themselves the works of the active life so as to become yet more apt for contemplation."
--Saint Thomas Aquinas

"The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces."

--Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Count not the authorities, but weigh their truth."

- Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstance confronting him."
--Saint Thomas Aquinas

"Since Mathematics is intermediate between natural and divine science, it is more certain than either of them..."
--Saint Thomas Aquinas

"We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us; and God has provided for this, by appointing His angels to be our teachers and guides."

--Saint Thomas Aquinas

"If I were to speak your kind of language, I would say that man's only moral commandment is: Thou shalt think. But a 'moral commandment' is a contradiction in terms. The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments."

-- Ayn Rand

Tell me and I forget.
Show me and I remember.
Let me do and I understand.
- Kung Fu-Tse

"Warriors, as we have seen, have a mission beyond themselves. The true warrior is dedicated to something greater than personal survival and comfort."
-- Rick Fields, The Code of the Warrior

"An aristocratic warrior's code, then, was generated by the warrior's paradox. Just as it was necessary to find a way to contain the powers of the berserkir's frenzy, so it was necessary for aristocratic warriors to develop and demonstrate their powers in a way which did not destroy society or decimate their own ranks."
-- Rick Fields, The Code of the Warrior

"But the bow, which took a great deal of practice to master, was more than a weapon. It was also considered an instrument of aristocratic self cultivation, since it did not depend on brute strength, but on elegance of movement, sureness of hand, accuracy, timing, balance, and composure."
-- Rick Fields, The Code of the Warrior

"The force by which the warrior protects society is the same force which threatens that society."
-- Rick Fields, The Code of the Warrior

"The Way of the warrior does not include other ways, such as Confucianism, Buddhism, certain traditions, artistic accomplishments, and dancing. But even though these are not part of the Way, if you know the Way broadly, you will see it in everything."
-- Miyamoto Mushashi, A Book of Five Rings

"...it is necessary to build an indomitable spirit and an iron will; to believe that you cannot fail in doing anything....[The way of the warrior means] having no illusions in your heart, honing your wisdom and will power, sharpening your intuitive sense and your powers of observation day by night; when the clouds of illusion have cleared away, this is understood as the true path."
-- Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings (p. 12)

"To seek perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our manhood."
-- Carlos Castenada, Journey to Ixtlan (p. 109)

"The essence of life is struggle and its goal is domination. There are higher goals and deeper meanings, but they exist only within the mind of man. The reality of life is war."
-- Lovret, The Way and the Power (p. 1)

"Fast as the wind, quiet as the forest, aggressive as fire, and immovable as a mountain."
-- Samurai battle banner

"First see that you, yourself, are all right, then think of defeating an opponent."
-- From The Way of the Spear

"I am what I am, and what I am is centered and confident regardless of what is happening; I am that higher self within who is granted honour and nobility, everything else is irrelevant."

-- By the Warriror/Phylospher in The Quickening by Stuart Wilde, 1986

"He who devotes himself to learning seeks from day to day to increase his knowledge. He who devotes himself to knowing his true nature seeks from day to day to diminish his doing."
-- Lao Tzu

"If this sphere that is the universe is condensed, it becomes the one point in the lower abdomen."
-- Aikido Master Koichi Tohei

"If you know the art of breathing you have the strength, wisdom, and courage of ten tigers."
-- Anonymous Chinese Adage

"The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names." -- Chinese proverb

"To see what is right and not to do it is to want of courage."
-- Confucius

"The superior man has a dignified ease without pride. The common man has pride without dignified ease."
-- Confucius

"He who stands on tiptoes does not stand firm. He who stretches his legs does not walk easily. Thus he who displays himself does not shine. He who vaunts himself does not find his merit acknowledged. He who is self conceited has no superiority allowed him."
-- Lao Tzu (p. 88)

"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming I am a man."
-- Chuang-tzu

"For Bushido, the three qualities of Loyalty, Right Conduct, and Bravery are essential. We speak of the loyal warrior, the righteous warrior, and the valiant warrior, and it is he who is endowed with all three of these virtues who is a warrior of the highest class."
-- Daidoji Yuzan, Budo Shoshinshu (p. 33)

"I hope martial artists are more interested in the root of martial arts and not the different decorative branches, flowers, or leaves. It is futile to argue as to which leaf, which design of branches, or which attractive flower you like; when you understand the root, you understand all its blossoming."
-- Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do (p. 23)

"I hurt, I will heal, I will learn, I will grow stronger. Always."

-- Carl Fransen, 1994

"If someone asked me what a human being ought to devote the maximum of his time to, I would answer, 'Training.' Train more than you sleep."
-- Karate Master Masutatsu Oyama

"See first with your mind, then with your eyes, and finally with your body."
-- Master swordsman Yagyu Munenori

"The goal of a school is to teach a person new things; the goal of a dojo is to transform the person into something new. A school teaches how to kill; a dojo teaches how to die. The member of a dojo does not think about fighting. Neither does he think about not fighting. He tries to go beyond this level and comprehend the very essence of conflict."
-- Frederick Lovrett, Bugei master (pp. 14-15)

"You shall be as God, knowing good and evil"

-The serpent (Genesis 3:5)

"Men say of women what pleases them; women do with men what pleases them. "
--DeSegur

"If a life can have a 'theme song' - and I believe that every worthwhile one has - mine is [best] expressed in one word: Individualism."

Ayn Rand

"Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -- broad, deep knowledge -- is to know true ends from false, and lofty things from low. To know the thoughts and deeds that have marked man's progress is to feel the great heartthrobs of humanity through the centuries."

Helen Keller

"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
-- Brandan Behan

"To see a need and wait to be asked, is to already refuse."
--unkown

'Allow what is done for you to be done for you. Do for yourself that which you have to do for yourself.'
--Ibrahim Khawwaas (The Palm Weaver)

'There is a limit beyond which it is unhealthy for mankind to conceal truth in order not to offend those whose minds are closed.'
--master Haidar Gul

'There is very little future in being right when your boss is wrong.'

-anon

"Strong men rust,

from the gold and lust..."
--Edward E. Paramore, Jr

"The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words."

--Hippocrates

-"Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self righteousness."
- Robert Hutchinson (1871 - 1960)

(Politics)

"Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names." -John F. Kennedy

"Article 1
Congress shall make no law respecting the establishment of religion, or prohibiting free excercise thereof; or abriding the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people to peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."

"Freedom of the press is limited to those who own one."
- A.J. Liebling

"Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong."
John Diefenbaker

"A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
Robert Frost

"Patriotism is the veneration of real estate above principles." -- George Jean Nathan

(Science/Computers)

Change isn't necessarily progress - Wesley J. Smith, Forced Exit

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."
- Aldous Huxley

"A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth."
- Charles Darwin

"The ancient Babylonians use 60 as the base for their number system and the ancient Mayans used 20. Our method of expressing integers, the decimal system using 10 as he base, was first deeloped in India approximately six centuries ago."
"Elementary Number Theory & its Applications " Kenneth H. Rosen

"Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers."
-- David Parnas

"Computers may out think us one day, but as long as people got feelings we'll be better than they are."
-- Elvis Presley

"DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millions of others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use wordwide. Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerous than humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form."
(New York Times, November 26, 1991)

Herman Hollerith used a computer like device named "The Hollerith
Tabulator" to take the U.S. Census in 1890, long before UNIVAC.

"Computers are incredibly fast, accurate and stupid. Humans beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination."
--Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955)


"Imagination is more powerful than knowledge."
-- Albert Einstein

"God made machine language; all the rest is the work of man"
unknown

"You think it's a conspiracy by the networks to put bad shows on TV. But the shows are bad because that's what people want. It's not like Windows users don't have any power; I think they are happy with Windows, and that's an incredibly depressing thought..."
-Steve Jobs [NeXT]

"Every succeeding scientific discovery makes greater nonsense of old-time conceptions of sovereignty."
- Sir Anthony Eden

"If evolution is outlawed only outlaws will evolve"

"The great book of the universe is written in the language of mathematics."
--Galileo

"Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding."
- Albert Einstein

"All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field."
- Albert Einstein

"I think the Principa Discordia Introduction sums it up best. Any attempt to increase apparent order will in the end increase disorder. "
-Unkown

"The company got big, and big companies just aren't creative. There exist counterexamples to this, but in general, great things are accomplished by small groups of people who are driven, who have unity of purpose. The more people involved, the slower and stupider their union is. "
Jamie Zawinski (on his resignation from AOL)

"The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place."
Douglas Adams

"Imagine a school with children that can read or write, but with teachers who cannot, and you have a metaphor of the Information Age in which we live."
- Peter Cochrane

"The flush toilet is the basis of western civilization."
-- Alan Coult

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
- Ken Olson, president and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"When you say `I wrote a program that crashed Windows', people just stare at you blankly and say `Hey, I got those with the system, *for free*'"
- Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux

"Mathematicians are a species of Frenchmen: if you say something to them, they translate it into their own language and presto! it is something different."
--Goethe

"What is now proved was once only imagined."
William Blake

|"My determination is not to remain stubbornly with my ideas but I'll leave them and go over to others as soon as I am shown plausible reason which I can grasp."
- Antony Leeuwenhoek

Technology's most important obligation is to get out of the way. machinery should make life easier. Useless features and bad design make technology a self-important nuisance instead of a help.
--Yale professor David Gelernter's thesis

"Nothing will benefit human health and increase the chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution toa vegetarian diet"
-Albert Einstein

There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved. --C. Darwin

"Some day we will build up a world telephone system...making necessary to all peoples the use of a common language which will join all the people of the earth into one brotherhood."
-- General J.J. Carty, chief engineer AT&T, on the inauguration of the of th first transcontinental phone line in 1915.

"The fastest way to succeed is to double your failure rate."
-- Thomas J. Watso Sr., founder of IBM


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