some quotes

i love quotes… i love words, i love good writing, and i love thought boiled down to its irreducable minimum, so, quotes sort of wrap it all up into one for me… “the wisdom of many, the wit of one” i think is the way someone once put it… i have a db in my psion filled with great quotes and RefDesk.com’s thought of the day email keeps me well-stocked with consistently great quotes…

so, anyway, i came across this page today, which has random quotes at the bottom, so, i reloaded a few dozen times…

some favorites…

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook

When everything is coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.
Sir Winston Churchill

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is “God is crying.” And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is “Probably because of something you did.”
[sounds like a jack handey deep thought to me – i_p]

Free speech only goes so far until you need the right to bear arms.

Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.
Will Rogers

We tend to scoff at the beliefs of the ancients. But we can’t scoff at them personally, to their faces, and this is what annoys me.