Topic: favourite quotes

Tiwaking! · Reply #1575 Posted: October 30, 2021, 06:18:31 pm

Yes you can program without maths just like you can bake without learning chemistry. But you are doing it anyway.

Tiwaking! · Reply #1576 Posted: November 03, 2021, 06:09:10 pm

When consultants cant sell it anymore to industry because they know it doesnt work, they go and sell it to government as industrial best practice.

Tiwaking! · Reply #1577 Posted: November 13, 2021, 06:58:18 am

There are two types of people in this world: 1.) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data

Tiwaking! · Reply #1578 Posted: November 14, 2021, 10:09:12 am

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice

Tiwaking! · Reply #1579 Posted: November 15, 2021, 07:16:51 am

Happiness is reality minus expectations.

Tiwaking! · Reply #1580 Posted: November 22, 2021, 09:11:47 am

Resistance is the grindstone of our soul

Tiwaking! · Reply #1581 Posted: November 26, 2021, 10:33:00 am

One man who stopped lying could bring down a tyranny

Tiwaking! · Reply #1582 Posted: November 27, 2021, 10:43:33 am

This, to me, is the ultimately heroic trait of ordinary people; they say no to the tyrant and they calmly take the consequences of this resistance. Their deeds may be small, and almost always unnoticed, unmarked by history.

Tiwaking! · Reply #1583 Posted: December 03, 2021, 12:48:55 pm

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad

Tiwaking! · Reply #1584 Posted: December 10, 2021, 11:34:32 am

If someone's voice is silenced, then I am deprived of the right to hear

Tiwaking! · Reply #1585 Posted: December 12, 2021, 01:02:57 am

Satire is a lesson, parody is a game

Tiwaking! · Reply #1586 Posted: December 14, 2021, 06:56:40 pm

In a democracy, the people get the government they deserve

Tiwaking! · Reply #1587 Posted: December 16, 2021, 09:17:57 am

Madness is something rare in individuals — but in groups, parties, peoples, and ages, it is the rule

Tiwaking! · Reply #1588 Posted: January 16, 2022, 02:02:05 am

you learn from diversity but you are comforted by commonality

Tiwaking! · Reply #1589 Posted: January 18, 2022, 05:28:19 pm

The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.

Tiwaking! · Reply #1590 Posted: January 19, 2022, 04:24:36 pm

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Tiwaking! · Reply #1591 Posted: January 22, 2022, 12:12:51 am

Plans are worthless, but planning is everything

Tiwaking! · Reply #1592 Posted: January 23, 2022, 10:57:28 pm

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare: my business is to create.

Tiwaking! · Reply #1593 Posted: January 27, 2022, 12:07:05 pm

Be a first-rate version of yourself, not a second-rate version of someone else

Tiwaking! · Reply #1594 Posted: January 30, 2022, 01:40:30 pm

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all

Tiwaking! · Reply #1595 Posted: February 14, 2022, 11:32:24 am

A Vorlon said, "Understanding is a three edged sword. Your side, their side, and the truth."

Tiwaking! · Reply #1596 Posted: February 16, 2022, 10:36:49 pm

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all the people some of the time, which is just long enough to be president of the United States.

Tiwaking! · Reply #1597 Posted: February 20, 2022, 09:00:27 pm

Equality of opportunity is freedom, but equality of outcome is repression

Clin · Last Edit: February 24, 2022, 09:38:46 pm by Clin

If any of you sons of bitches, have anything else to say, now's the fucking time.

Tiwaking! · Reply #1599 Posted: March 05, 2022, 08:46:31 pm

The courts must protect the soapbox, the ballot box and the jury box. When those fail, that’s when people proceed to the ammunition box.

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