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Post by tarus on Oct 11, 2011 15:43:48 GMT -5
If it ain't broke, break it then fix it.
--me
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Post by Spirit of a Phoenix on Oct 12, 2011 2:54:00 GMT -5
"Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist."
"Nothing is hopeless; we must hope for everything."
"It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, felt that the words Darkness and Light had no meaning, and only this melody was real."
“The last step of any journey may be the first step of an even greater adventure.”
All quotes from A Wrinkle in Time by Madeleine L'Engle.
This is a great book.
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Post by darinder on Oct 13, 2011 23:02:17 GMT -5
As part of a memorial statement to a true computing hero who also passed away this week, the following was said (but the sentiment can be applied more generally to all the unsung folks out there):
RIP Dennis Ritchie
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Post by Micteu on Oct 14, 2011 14:04:37 GMT -5
As part of a memorial statement to a true computing hero who also passed away this week, the following was said (but the sentiment can be applied more generally to all the unsung folks out there): RIP Dennis Ritchie
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Post by ritefoot on Oct 17, 2011 16:40:48 GMT -5
“A wise man can play the part of a clown, but a clown can't play the part of a wise man.” Malcolm X
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. Winston Churchill
Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy. William Butler Yeats
Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. Aristotle
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter. Oscar Wilde
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate. John F. Kennedy
Through a chink too wide there comes in no wonder Patrick Kavanagh
A 'No' uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. Mohandas Gandhi
A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Mohandas Gandhi
It is a man's own mind, not his enemy or foe, that lures him to evil ways. Buddha
It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha
Go not to the elves for counsel, for they will say both yes and no. J. R. R. Tolkien
Rite.
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Post by arisnorman1 on Oct 17, 2011 19:09:14 GMT -5
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside of me," he said to the boy.
"It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego." He continued, "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too."
The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?"
The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed."
[this is like the best tale and quote of all times makes me happy to be part Cherokee]
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Post by highknight on Oct 18, 2011 9:10:27 GMT -5
An old Cherokee is teaching his grandson about life. "A fight is going on inside of me," he said to the boy. "It is a terrible fight and it is between two wolves. One is evil - he is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment, inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority, and ego." He continued, "The other is good - he is joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion, and faith. The same fight is going on inside you - and inside every other person, too." The grandson thought about it for a minute and then asked his grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply replied, "The one you feed." [this is like the best tale and quote of all times makes me happy to be part Cherokee] Love this quote. I wish more people would feed the "good" wolf.
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Post by qewaye on Oct 18, 2011 11:48:25 GMT -5
I don't do drugs. I am drugs.- Salvador Dali
If the dream is a translation of waking life, waking life is also a translation of the dream. - Rene Magritte
I never think that people die. They just go to department stores. - Andy Warhol
The mind loves the unknown. It loves images whose meaning is unknown, since the meaning of the mind itself is unknown. - Rene Magritte
Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling? - M. C. Escher
All good ideas arrive by chance. - Max Ernst
We must not fear daylight just because it almost always illuminates a miserable world. - Rene Magritte
I cannot now change my style, which I acquired, as you can imagine, by dint of labour. - Henri Rousseau
He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. - M. C. Escher
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream. - Vincent Van Gogh
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Post by DM Smass (Retired) on Oct 18, 2011 12:26:17 GMT -5
My all time favorite quote - and one I use at planning meetings for work all the time: "A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week." By General George S. Patton Translated to business speak = Lets not sit here in this meeting room for hours trying to hash out the perfect solution, instead lets come up with a reasonable plan and get it implemented...NOW! Which brings me to my next favorite quote (more of a slogan really): K.I.S.S. Keep It Simple Stupid
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Post by FORSETIS on Oct 18, 2011 13:12:17 GMT -5
No good decision was ever made in a swivel chair. -George S. Patton
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Post by DM Smass (Retired) on Oct 18, 2011 13:56:26 GMT -5
One of my favorite Dutch Reagan quotes:
"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
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Post by ritefoot on Oct 18, 2011 16:40:48 GMT -5
Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect. Benny Hill
Never trust a man, who when left alone with a tea cosey... Doesn't try it on. Billy Connolly
Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list. Jasper Carrott
A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. Charlie Chaplin
I'm nuts and I know it. But so long as I make 'em laugh, they ain't going to lock me up. Red Skelton
You're about as useful as a one-legged man at an arse kicking contest. Rowan Atkinson
I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance. Stephen Fry
I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin. Hugh Laurie
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Post by ritefoot on Oct 18, 2011 16:59:28 GMT -5
Don't dream it, be it. Tim Curry
Just do it! Nike
He who dares wins. SAS
There is no right and wrong. Only right and left. (I forget, get the feeling they are too busy to care though)
Be most excelent to each other. Bill and Ted.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle
Rite.
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Post by darinder on Oct 18, 2011 17:26:49 GMT -5
My father always used to quote the SAS motto as simply "Who dares wins" and would follow it up with the Reservists' motto of "Who cares who wins?"
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Post by urghargh on Oct 18, 2011 17:40:50 GMT -5
My father always used to quote the SAS motto as simply "Who dares wins" and would follow it up with the Reservists' motto of "Who cares who wins?" My father's regiment, The Royal Artillery's motto is "Wherever right and glory leads" but I cannot post it here as in its original Latin form it contains something the censor will bleep out....regarding the SAS motto, his friends had their own variant being gunners: "Whoever shoots first wins".
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Post by FORSETIS on Oct 18, 2011 20:32:49 GMT -5
Some stuff we laughed at, and lived by when I was in the Army.
"Aim towards the Enemy." - Instruction printed on US rocket launcher
"If the enemy is in range, so are you." - Infantry Journal
"Whoever said the pen is mightier than the sword obviously never encountered automatic weapons." - Gen. Douglas MacArthur
"Try to look unimportant; they may be low on ammo." - Infantry Journal
"Tracers work both ways." - U.S. Army Ordnance
"Five-second fuses only last three seconds." - Infantry Journal
"Bravery is being the only one who knows you're afraid." - David Hackworth
"Don't draw fire; it irritates the people around you." - Your Buddies
"If your attack is going too well, you’re walking into an ambush." - Infantry Journal
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Post by brian333 on Oct 19, 2011 0:18:38 GMT -5
"...the most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win." -- Robert A. Heinlein, "The Happy Days Ahead" in Expanded Universe
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Post by Booze Hound on Oct 19, 2011 8:54:37 GMT -5
"Here comes halfling death!!" -Tomi Undergallows.
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Post by EDM Neo on Oct 19, 2011 15:24:42 GMT -5
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Post by Micteu on Oct 19, 2011 17:07:40 GMT -5
Haha, I was thinking the same thing. Some halflings don't need to be flanking to deal serious death.
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Post by darinder on Oct 19, 2011 18:02:46 GMT -5
Back to the military... "Friendly fire isn't."
In a similar vein, from an undergraduate friend (many years ago) complaining about a buggy FORTRAN compiler we had to use (Yay, one for the programmers!): "Constants aren't and variables won't!"
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Post by Micteu on Oct 20, 2011 13:43:17 GMT -5
Back to the military... "Friendly fire isn't." In a similar vein, from an undergraduate friend (many years ago) complaining about a buggy FORTRAN compiler we had to use (Yay, one for the programmers!): "Constants aren't and variables won't!" I've never had the joy of programming in Fortran. Is it as nasty as COBOL?
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Post by darinder on Oct 20, 2011 16:53:19 GMT -5
In a similar vein, from an undergraduate friend (many years ago) complaining about a buggy FORTRAN compiler we had to use (Yay, one for the programmers!): "Constants aren't and variables won't!" I've never had the joy of programming in Fortran. Is it as nasty as COBOL? That'd be like comparing apples and oranges; they're both fruit but that's as close as it gets. If you really want to go into details, drop me a PM or we can fire up another thread (let's try to keep this one on-topic ).
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Post by ritefoot on Oct 20, 2011 17:57:36 GMT -5
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving the kiss the attention it deserves. Albert Einstein
All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling. Blaise Pascal (vivere la perdita di ragionamento - Rite)
Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature. Michael Faraday
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie
The laws of nature are but the mathematical thoughts of God. Euclid
God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen. Stephen Hawking
It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth. Daniel Bernoulli
If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. Thomas A. Edison
The oldest, shortest words - "yes" and "no" - are those which require the most thought. Pythagoras
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain and most fools do. Benjamin Franklin
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy. Isaac Newton
Rite.
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Post by urghargh on Oct 21, 2011 4:50:50 GMT -5
People with many interests live, not only longest, but happiest. - George Matthew Allen
In the hopes of reaching the moon, men fail to see the flowers that blossom at their feet. - Albert Schweitzer
There is more to life than increasing its speed. - Mahatma Ghandi
Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it. - J. Petit Senn
Happiness depends upon ourselves. - Aristotle
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness. - George Santayana
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Post by ritefoot on Oct 21, 2011 18:42:03 GMT -5
Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey. Lord Byron
If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley
Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced. John Keats
I listened, motionless and still; And, as I mounted up the hill, The music in my heart I bore, Long after it was heard no more. William Wordsworth
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know. William Shakespeare
Do not wait to strike till the iron is hot; but make it hot by striking. William Butler Yeats
Irresponsibility is part of the pleasure of all art; it is the part the schools cannot recognize. James Joyce
What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. C. S. Lewis
You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream. C. S. Lewis
To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance. Oscar Wilde
All that's bright must fade, The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest. Thomas Moore
The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close. Thomas Moore
I have drunken deep of joy, And I will taste no other wine tonight. Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rite.
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Post by elysiumfields on Oct 25, 2011 10:42:19 GMT -5
My father always used to quote the SAS motto as simply "Who dares wins" and would follow it up with the Reservists' motto of "Who cares who wins?" My father's regiment, The Royal Artillery's motto is "Wherever right and glory leads" but I cannot post it here as in its original Latin form it contains something the censor will bleep out....regarding the SAS motto, his friends had their own variant being gunners: "Whoever shoots first wins". I was Royal Artillery - 32 Heavy Regt. in Larkhill (he should know Larkhill very well.). Did you ever ask him about the story of the cap badge?
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Post by urghargh on Oct 25, 2011 12:20:48 GMT -5
My father's regiment, The Royal Artillery's motto is "Wherever right and glory leads" but I cannot post it here as in its original Latin form it contains something the censor will bleep out....regarding the SAS motto, his friends had their own variant being gunners: "Whoever shoots first wins". I was Royal Artillery - 32 Heavy Regt. in Larkhill (he should know Larkhill very well.). Did you ever ask him about the story of the cap badge? I didn't, no, I'd like to hear it
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Post by elysiumfields on Oct 25, 2011 16:58:44 GMT -5
PM sent Wish I could post it for all to see
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Post by darinder on Nov 3, 2011 17:22:47 GMT -5
Given some of the supposed hostility on the forum recently, I think the following is a nice reminder...
"Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right." -- Marie Von Ebner-Eschenbach
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