The quote of the day [2]

[A Guy]

A vacuum is a hell of a lot better than some of the stuff that nature replaces it with.
~Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Life was simple before World War II. After that, we had systems.

~ Grace Murray Hopper

 

[A Guy]

Not only is the universe stranger than we imagine, it is stranger than we can imagine.
~Sir Arthur Eddington

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer.

~ Source unknown

 

[A Guy]

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.
~Bill Vaughan

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.

~ Steve Wozniak

 

[A Guy]

I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.
~Thomas Jefferson

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

When money is taken freedom is forsaken.

~ Proverb

 

[A Guy]

They always talk who never think.
~Matthew Prior

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.

~ Anonymous

 

[A Guy]

Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
~David Letterman

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

The lion and the calf will lay down together, but the calf won't get much sleep..

~ Woody Allen

 

[A Guy]

The world is round; it has no point.
~Adrienne E. Gusoff

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

In Beverly Hills... they don't throw their garbage away. They make it into television shows.

~ Woody Allen

 

[A Guy]

Always be wary of any helpful item that weighs less than its operating manual.
~Terry Pratchett

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

I've never been an intellectual but I have the look.

~ Woody Allen

 

[A Guy]

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
~Charles Austin Beard

A Guy

 

[HippsieGypsie]

In perpetrating a revolution, there are two requirements: someone or something to revolt against and someone to actually show up and do the revolting. Dress is usually casual and both parties may be flexible about time and place, but if either faction fails to attend, the whole enterprise is likely to come off badly.

~ Woody Allen [A Brief Yet Helpful Guide To Civil Disobedience (Without feathers), 1972]

 

[GrapeLivre]

From Ghostbusters -
Dr Ray Stantz: Symmetrical book stacking. Just like the Philadelphia mass turbulence of 1947.
Dr. Peter Venkman: You’re right, no human being would stack books like this.

 

[A Guy]

Because things are the way they are, things will not stay the way they are.
~Bertolt Brecht

A Guy