Today Quotes
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The person who knows how will always have a job. The person who knows why will always be his boss.Diane Ravitch, quoted in "Quotable Business," by Louis E. Boone
Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.Unknown
For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong.Henry Louis Mencken
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.Benjamin Disraeli
The important thing in science is not so much to obtain new facts as to discover new ways of thinking about them.Sir William Bragg
What we must decide is how we are valuable rather than how valuable we are.Edgar Z. Friedenberg
All I really need to know about how to live and what to do and how to be I learned in kindergarten. Remember the Dick-and-Jane books and the first word you learned--the biggest word of all--look.Robert Fulghum
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.Rodin
One man scorned and covered with scars still strove with his last ounce of courage to reach the unreachable stars; and the world will be better for this.Joe Darion, "The Impossible Dream"
Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.George Orwell