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- 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
- 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
- We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
- Bill Vaughan
- The last time anybody made a list of the top hundred character attributes of New Yorkers, common sense snuck in at number 79.
- Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001), "Mostly Harmless"
- Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.
- Robert Benchley (1889 - 1945)
- Inspiration is wonderful when it happens, but the writer must develop an approach for the rest of the time... The wait is simply too long.
- Leonard Bernstein (1918 - 1990)
- A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), "Man and Superman" (1903), act I
- Every composer knows the anguish and despair occasioned by forgetting ideas which one had no time to write down.
- Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869)
- With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
- Steven Weinberg (1933 - ), quoted in The New York Times, April 20, 1999
- When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
- Bob Edwards
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