Quotes

  • Funny,  Quotes

    Quote of the morning

    From Despair.com

    When you wish upon a falling star, your dreams can come true. Unless it’s really a meteorite hurtling to the Earth which will destroy all life. Then you’re pretty much hosed no matter what you wish for. Unless it’s death by meteor.

  • Adages,  Quotes

    Quotes of the evening

    From Napoleon

    In war, moral is to the physical as three is to one.

    And this old chestnut from the Duke of Wellington

    For a great nation there are no small wars.

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  • Adages,  Funny,  History,  Quotes

    The quotable Dwight Eisenhower

    While perusing WikiQuote while waiting for some files to upload I came across these nuggets of wisdom

    if a political party does not have its foundation in the determination to advance a cause that is right and that is moral, then it is not a political party; it is merely a conspiracy to seize power.

    An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

    If you want total security, go to prison. There you’re fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking… is freedom.

    In his case, there seems to be no final answer to the question, “How stupid can you get?”

    The runner up

    The United States never lost a soldier or a foot of ground in my administration. We kept the peace. People asked how it happened — by God, it didn’t just happen, I’ll tell you that.

    Any my favorite

    Oh, goddammit, we forgot the silent prayer.

  • Books,  Economics,  Quotes

    Line of the moment

    I came across this podcast of Steven Landsburg, author of More Sex Is Safer Sex: The Unconventional Wisdom of Economics and found it quite entertaining. I thoroughly enjoyed his earlier works, especially The Armchair Economist (much better than Freakonomics). In the excerpt it has this bit:

    If your common sense tells you otherwise, remember that common sense also tells you the earth is flat.

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  • Funny,  Quotes,  Tech

    Quote of the moment

    Via CodePoet, and from this page

    It should be noted that no ethically-trained software engineer would ever consent to write a DestroyBaghdad procedure. Basic professional ethics would instead require him to write a DestroyCity procedure, to which Baghdad could be given as a parameter. (Nathaniel S Borenstein)

    and

    There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. (Bjarne Stroustrup)

    and

    Should array indices start at 0 or 1? My compromise of 0.5 was rejected without, I thought, proper consideration. (Stan Kelly-Bootle)

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