favourite quotes

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A dumbarse is someone who is so dumb that the smartest part of them is their arse

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playing (Chess) against a computer is like playing against an idiot that beats you every time

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If you can’t say something good about someone, sit right here by me

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If the right people had been in charge of Nixon's funeral, his casket would have been launched into one of those open-sewage canals that empty into the ocean just south of Los Angeles. He was a swine of a man and a jabbering dupe of a president. Nixon was so crooked that he needed servants to help him screw his pants on every morning

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A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?

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"Keep the Americans in, the Soviets out and the Germans down." - The basic objective of N.A.T.O

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Always trust those searching for The Truth, never those who have found it.

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出る釘は打たれる。
The nail that sticks out gets hammered down

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弱肉強食
The weak are meat; the strong eat

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When we have clients who are thinking about Flash splash pages, we tell them to go to their local supermarket and bring a mime with them. Have the mime stand in front of the supermarket, and, as each customer tries to enter, do a little show that lasts two minutes, welcoming them to the supermarket and trying to explain the bread is on aisle six and milk is on sale today.

Then stand back and count how many people watch the mime, how many people get past the mime as quickly as possible, and how many people punch the mime out.

That should give you a good idea as to how well their splash page will be received. That's the crux of it

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If you’re incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent. […] the skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you need to recognize what a right answer is.
— David Dunning

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Bush lawyer is a common name of a group of climbing blackberry plants. The colloquial English name is often said to have been given because once this thorny plant becomes attached to you it will not let you go until it has drawn blood

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Being different from others. Being special. It always motivates people

That is how stars are made

[Black Heart]

You're unique, just like everybody else.

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If you expect to rate as a gentleman
Do not expectorate on the floor

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It matters not if a cat is black or white; If it catches mice, it's a good cat!

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The party would be better known as "Winston First"

[Lias]

This house will become a shrine, and punks and skins and rastas will all gather round and hold their hands in sorrow for their fallen leader. And all the grown-ups will say, "But why are the kids crying?" And the kids will say, "Haven't you heard? Rick is dead! The People's Poet is dead!"

Rik Mayall as Rick in The Young Ones

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Don’t design by committee. Do not treat the design work as a democratic process in which each person’s opinion has equal value. One person must have the authority to make final decisions, and the others must acknowledge this person’s authority

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If you win, you live. If you lose, you die.
If you don't fight, you cannot win

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

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seagull manager - A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything, and then leaves

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A composer of lofty character imprints his high morality in his music. On the other hand, music composed by depraved men will bring disaster to the audience.

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No man can be a good teacher unless he has feelings of warm affection toward his pupils and a genuine desire to impart to them what he believes to be of value.

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Not all visitors to New Zealand are impressed by a bare-bottomed native making threatening gestures.