Thursday, March 15, 2007

Random quotes I read recently and liked

It is not worth an intelligent man's time to be in the majority. By definition, there are already enough people to do that.
~ G. H. Hardy

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
~ Sir Winston Churchill

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
~ Eugene McCarthy (1916 - 2005)


To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
~ Farmers' Almanac, 1978

Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers and nobody thinks of complaining.
~ Jeff Raskin

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
~ Laurence J. Peter

1 comment:

Unknown said...

Hahaha! Thanks for posting those. They really brightened my afternoon!