Wednesday, June 20, 2012

My old quotes file.

A long time ago, I used gmail drafts to save data, like links and such. (I now use ubuntu one, dropbox or my own server).

Below is a old quotes file I found, thought it would be interesting to share it. It's at least 4 years old.

I have marked in bold the quotes that I particularly liked, upon reading it again. 


The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned. (Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, in comp.os.linux.misc, on X interfaces.)
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Walking isn't a lost art: one must, by some means, get to the garage.
- Evan Esar
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It could be worse I guess. It could be 10,000 rhinoceroses instead of monkeys.
- Rick
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It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
- Gore Vidal
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Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
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Sometimes what's right isn't as important as what's profitable.
- Trey Parker and Matt Stone
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The difference between a monk and a philosopher is that a monk spends years trying to clear
his mind by meditation , a philosopher spends years trying to fill it by deep thinking.
- James Mcclain
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In hell you think of how great it would be to relive the worst days of your life.
- James Mcclain
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The opposite of the religious fanatic is not the fanatical atheist but the gentle cynic who cares not whether there is a god or not.
- Eric Hoffer
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Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.
- Ronald Reagan
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The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet. (Favorite of this list)
- William Gibson
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I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
- Emo Phillips



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Tell me what you think of them, and if you have your own quotes file, share it.

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