Quotes Thread...

[Captain Sensible]

"Education is a social process. Education is growth. Education is, not a preparation for life; education is life itself."

John Dewey


"There are no whole truths; all truths are half- truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil."

Alfred North Whitehead

[Cowperson]

"Dead men have indeed died in vain if live men are afraid to look upon them" - Life Magazine in roughly 1944 answering reader complaints after publishing graphic war photo's of Allied casualties.

Cowperson

[MrMastodonFarm]

Ordinary life is pretty complex stuff
-Harvey Peckar

[Ironhorse]

Mine are more infamous rather than famous:

"Louis Pasteur's theory of germs is ridiculous fiction."
-- Pierre Pachet, Professor of Physiology at Toulouse, 1872

"We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out."
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

"The singer will have to go."
-- Eric Easton (new manager of the Rolling Stones),
assessing Mick Jagger's value to the group, 1963

"You ain't goin' nowhere, son. You ought to go back to driving a truck."
-- Eddie Bond, May 1954, after Elvis Presley's first audition


"Everything that can be invented has been invented.",
-- Charles Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899

[Tron_fdc]

Late Prime Minister of England Benjamin Disraeli

- A precedent embalms a principle.

- Despair is the conclusion of fools.

- Desperation is sometimes as powerful an inspirer as genius.

- How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

- Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

- Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.

and others HERE
if anyone is interested.

[looooob]

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
— Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943.

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year."
— The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957.

"But what... is it good for ?"
— An engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division
of IBM, commenting on the microchip in 1968.

"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
— Al Gore

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
— Ken Olson, president of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

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[octothorp]

A few Douglas Adams ones:

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an Airport' appear.

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

One of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it. To summarize the summary: anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem.

[Ironhorse]

"640K ought to be enough for anybody."
-- Bill Gates, 1981

"Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons."
-- Popular Mechanics, 1949

[The Fonz]

http://www.pencible.com/dt/dt1.htm

Not sure who wrote these, but I think he used to work with SNL.

Anyways:

"It takes a big man to cry, but it takes a bigger man to laugh at that man."

"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."

"To me, boxing is like a ballet, except there's no music, no choreography, and the dancers hit each other."

"In weightlifting, I don't think sudden, uncontrolled urination should automatically disqualify you."

"The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face."

"I think in one of my previous lives I was a mighty king, because I like people to do what I say"

"If God dwells inside us, like some people say, I sure hope He likes enchiladas, because that's what He's getting!"

"I can picture in my mind a world without war, and a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it."

"Whenever you read a good book, it's like the author is right there, in the room, talking to you, which is why I don't like to read good books."

[Bring_Back_Shantz]

I believe those are all from the pen of Mr. Jack Handy.