Notebooks

After twelve years of therapy my psychiatrist said something that brought tears to my eyes. He said, 'No hablo ingles.' Ronnie Shakes

When one person suffers from a delusion It is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion It is called Religion. Robert M. Pirsig

Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. Ron Nesen

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true. Robert Wilensky

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. Robert X. Cringely

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet. Saint Augustine

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling. Robert M. Pirsig

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated. Poul Anderson

A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities; an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. Reginald B. Mansell

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory. Rita Mae Brown

There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. Peter F. Drucker

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up. Paul Valery

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

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority. Ralph W. Sockman

An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. Robert A. Humphrey

Technology is dominated by two types of people

Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems. Rene Descartes

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. Albert Einstein

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--/ I took the one less traveled by, / And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost

I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to help me behind my back. Richard Lewis

I hate quotations. Tell me what you know. Ralph Waldo Emerson

You have to know how to accept rejection and reject acceptance. Ray Bradbury

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. Plato

A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer. Robert Frost