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- Seek simplicity, and distrust it.
- Alfred North Whitehead (1861 - 1947)
- An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
- G. K. Chesterton (1874 - 1936)
- In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.
- John C. Dvorak
- He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)
- Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
- Philip G. Hamerton, "The Intellectual Life"
- To be amused by what you read--that is the great spring of happy quotations.
- C. E. Montague, "A Writer's Notes on His Trade"
- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862), "Walden", 1854
- To be a book-collector is to combine the worst characteristics of a dope fiend with those of a miser.
- Robertson Davies, "The Table Talk of Samuel Marchbanks"
- There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.
- Robertson Davies
- There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
- Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)
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