One of the things that I really like about Thursday is that I get to hang out with friends afer work instead of going right home. So, YAY! it is Thursday!
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7 years ago in #newbie by markhinnebusch (26)
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One of the things that I really like about Thursday is that I get to hang out with friends afer work instead of going right home. So, YAY! it is Thursday!
It is morally wrong to allow suckers to keep their money. Addendum; a Smith and Wesson beats four aces. (Canada Bill Jones)
Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory there is no survival. -- Winston Spencer Churchill
Laws of Programming: #15 - Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer to maintain it
ON WAR Don't rejoice at the defeat, you men, Now that you have killed the bastard. The bitch that bore him is in heat again.
Freedom begins when you tell Mrs. Grundy to go fly a kite.
He'p me! Somebody, pleez, he'p me! I been hypmotize'!
They that would give up essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. - Benjamin Franklin
The Unspeakable Law: As soon as you mention something ... - if it's good, it goes away. - if it's bad, it happens.
If you want a picture of the future, imagine a boot stomping on a human face -- forever. --George Orwell--
Avery's Rule of Three: Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when working around the house the next job after a series of three is not the fourth job -- it is the start of a brand new series of three.
Broder's Law: Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he'll spend two years organizing and campaigning for it is not to be trusted with the office.
The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history. --Joseph Conrad--
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices. --William James--
The history of woman is the history of the worst form of tyranny the world has every known; the tyranny of the weak over the strong. It is the only tyranny that lasts. --Oscar Wilde--
War to the hilt between capitalism and communism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in 20 or 30 years. In order to win, we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep, so we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist.-Quoted by Dmitri Z. Manuisky, Lenin School of Political Warfare (1931).
There is no underestimating the intelligence of the American public. --H. L. Mencken--
Hmmm. And the second of Your commandments, Lord?
It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't under- stand that bother me, it's the parts that I do understand. --Mark Twain--
Sorry, Nick. I lied, man.
Brooks's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
He's not Santa Claus...He doesn't LOOK like Santa Claus!
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something. --Stephen Leacock--
Baker's Byroad: When you are over the hill, you pick up speed.
Thoughts on Programming, Number 16: When a programmer has a difficult time finding a bug, it is because he is looking in the wrong place. -The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg
Avery's Rule of Three: Trouble strikes in series of threes, but when working around the house the next job after a series of three is not the fourth job -- it is the start of a brand new series of three.
Thoughts on Programming, Number 27: This time it will surely run. -Anonymous I just found the last bug. -Unanimous
No! No, heavens, no, no.. Just vests.
Thoughts on Programming, Number 19: We stand at the brink of a new age, an age made possible by the revolution that is embodied in the computer. Standing on the brink, we could totter either way - to a golden age of liberty or a dark age of tyranny, either of which would surpass anything the world has ever known. Perhaps no individual's efforts will make any difference in the result, but we must never cease trying, for then the result is sure to be tyranny. -The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg
Home...? We're on an express elevator to HECK!
Hope in reality is the worst of all evils, because it prolongs the torments of man. --Nietzsche--
Ooh, neat! Santa got caught in this beartrap I set! Wow! He gnawed his own foot off to escape!
Kill one man and you are a murderer. Kill millions and you are a conqueror. Kill everyone and you are a God. --Jean Rostand-
More pie, Admiral?
Whatever goes around, comes around.
(Tony) Brown's Law of Business Success: Our customer's paperwork is profit. Our own paperwork is loss.
Borstelmann's Rule: If everything seems to be coming your way, you're probably in the wrong lane.
Shut up!
The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win, you're still a rat. --Lily Tomlin--
War to the hilt between capitalism and communism is inevitable. Today, of course, we are not strong enough to attack. Our time will come in 20 or 30 years. In order to win, we shall need the element of surprise. The bourgeoisie will have to be put to sleep, so we shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of concessions. The capitalist countries, stupid and decadent, will rejoice to cooperate in their own destruction. They will leap at another chance to be friends. As soon as their guard is down, we shall smash them with our clenched fist.-Quoted by Dmitri Z. Manuisky, Lenin School of Political Warfare (1931).
Gallois's Revelation: If you put tomfoolery in a computer nothing comes out but tomfoolery. But this tomfoolery, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and none dare criticize it.
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how its done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves. --Brendan Behan--
The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. - Senator Hubert Humphrey
Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. --Anton Chekhov--
Okay, so there's these two guys, right? Okay, so this one guy says to the other... oh, right, they're in a bar. Okay, so these two guys, anyway, so... So he says to the guy, who's black, he says to him, no, wait, he's Chinese. He says,
Hey have you seen my mother-in-law?' No, wife... It's his wife, right. So he says,Hey, have you seen my wife?' And so the bartender says... no, the Jew, Chinese, the Chinese guy, he HAW HAW! HAW... snort. Sorry, I just remembered something funny.They have rights who dare maintain them. -- James Russell Lowell
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. --Peter DeVries--
There's another weird lizard farm coming up fast at eleven o'clock.
Patience........A minor form of despair, disguised as a virtue. --Ambrose Bierce--
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid.)