"It is said that the present is pregnant with the future." -Voltaire
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own." -Aesop
When it comes to knowledge it is better to be like a vacuum cleaner than a weed blower. -Jake Sr.
Sex isn't everything. –Sally Stanford
Never Let a woman take advantage of you. –Sally Stanford
Understanding is not knowing. Truth is knowing. –Jake Sr.
Diamonds and gold mean nothing. It is the written word that counts. –Jake Sr.
Vince Lombardi - "Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."
a perfect woman is a cross between a nun, a whore, and a business woman. -Anon
"Tell the truth when you're still friends. An enemy is just a friend that you told the truth to too late." - carlos segura
"Fortune favours the bold." -Virgil
There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. -Shakespeare
Years from now, you'll look back and you'll say that this was the moment, this was the place where America remembered what it means to hope... Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path... Hope is that thing inside us that insists that despite all the evidence to the contrary that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, to work for it and to fight for it.-Barak Obama
Of course I believe in luck. How otherwise to explain the success of some people you detest?"
--Jean Cocteau, French poet, novelist and filmmaker
"True love is the recognition of the formless in the other, which is the recognition of yourself in the other. That is inseparable from looking upon the other in stillness, without a form arising saying this is who she is and what she is. And if forms still arise in your mind recognize it is only a thought, it is not who that human being is. What beauty if you can recognize the formless in form." ~ Eckhart Tolle [Editke sent this in]
What are you really doing? At the core? My answer is-and this is what I have learned-you're basically getting people to trust you. -Steve Wynn
"We are what we believe we are."- CS Lewis
Money does not make people happy. People make people happy. -Steve Wynn
"The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions." -Mike Krzyzewski
God is the answer when we don't know the answer. -Phillip Starck
We've learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone. PC guys are not going to just figure this out. They're not going to just walk in. - Palm CEO Ed Colligan, commenting on then-rumored Apple iPhone, Nov. 16, 2006
“You don’t love a woman because she is beautiful. She is beautiful because you love her. -Grace Kelly
"Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking." -Steve Jobs
"The cure for Apple is not cost-cutting. The cure for Apple is to innovate its way out of its current predicament." -Steve Jobs
-- Apple Confidential 2.0: The Definitive History of the World's Most Colorful Company, by Owen W. Linzmayer
"You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me." -Steve Jobs
-- Fortune, Sept. 18, 1995
"Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it."
-- Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998 -Steve Jobs
"I've always wanted to own and control the primary technology in everything we do." -Steve Jobs
"It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show it to them."-Steve Jobs
"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas." -Marie Curie
"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever." –Mohandas Gandhi
Ultimately, though, it is all about the links. Links are the currency of the Web. –Erick Schonfeld
Google's corporate philosophy includes statements such as "Don't be evil" and "Work should be challenging and the challenge should be fun", illustrating a somewhat relaxed corporate culture. –Wikipedia
"If you were to ask me what the greatest all-time opportunity is right at this second, It's creating a new operating system." –Mark Cuban at the Business Innovation Factory Oct 2007
Once on staff, I learned the difference between a gigahertz and a gigabyte, but more important, I saw that, like the iPod's user interface, training of Apple Store employees has been carefully designed. A series of podcasts I listened to and watched showed that selling was all about the approach. I shadowed other workers as they executed the company's three-step sales process. They explained to customers that they had some questions to understand their needs, got permission to fire away, and then kept digging to ascertain which products would be best. Position, permission, probe. –Alex Frankel
Every man want's to go to heaven, but no man want's to die. –Wyclef Jean - Gone Till November
"A throne is only a bench covered with velvet." -Napoleon Bonaparte
"Freedom is actually a bigger game than power. Power is about what you can control, freedom is about what you can unleash. " - Harriet Rubin
I didn’t fail ten thousand times. I successfully eliminated, ten thousand times, materials and combinations which wouldn’t work. –Thomas Edison
I never perfected an invention that I did not think about in terms of the service it might give others. –Thomas Edison
I am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. My principal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others. –Thomas Edison
Time is really the only capital that any human being has, and the one thing that he can’t afford to lose. –Thomas Edison
I find out what the world needs. Then I go ahead and try to invent it. –Thomas Edison
I have more respect for the fellow with a single idea who gets there than for the fellow with a thousand ideas who does nothing. –Thomas Edison
Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. –Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison, World’s Greatest…..Product Marketer discusses Edison’s emphasis on marketing.
Edison was not so much an inventor as a great product marketer. His image as an inventor was part of his carefully cultivated and controlled public relations and media strategy. He was opportunistic and extremely media savvy. He had a special office set up at Menlo Park and carefully designed the entire operation from a media perspective such that he was able to brand himself as the world’s greatest inventor.
And Edison – Inventing and Marketing Genius reveals Edison’s (Jobs-like) approach to product announcements.
Edison not only wrote his own press releases, but frequently held press conferences. He would announce a dramatic and innovative breakthrough long before the invention was ready for prime time.
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success. –Nikola Tesla, 1896, Inventor of Alternating Current.
The size of this problem is enormous. It is the biggest problem we all face. We share one atmosphere. Never underestimate the power of a handful of dedicated entrepreneurs to change the world, because in my experience that is the only thing that ever has. –John Doerr
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted. –Randy Pausch
Look upon life as one long railway journey. In this journey it is not good to carry heavy luggage. There are stations on the way like Aarthi (suffering), Arthaarthi (desire for objects), jignaasu (yearning for understanding) and Jnaani (Self-realization). The less luggage one carries the more easily and quickly one can get through various stages and reach the destination. The primary requisite, therefore, is the eradication of desires. –Sai Baba
Foreign policy is the law of unintedned consequenses. –Jason Meek
I am constantly amazed at how little most people care about others or even themselves. Burt Bacharach sings that "All the world needs now, is love sweet love. Love is the only thing that there is just too little of" and I agree. Caring comes from loving and loving comes from caring. –Jake Ehrlich III (October 4, 2007)
"I was a soldier so that my son could be a farmer so that his son could be a poet"
–Thomas Jefferson.
A strong economy is an incumbent's best friend. –Anon
Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life. –John F. Kennedy
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to fool. –Richard Feynman (Nobel Prize-winning Physicist)
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. –Albert Einstein
An entrepeneur is ne who shifts economic resources out of an area of lower and into an area of higher yield. – J.B. Say (1800)
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and reflect. –Mark Twain
I also have in mond that seemingly wealth, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forges their own golden or silver fetters. –Henry David Thoureau
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be mad in a very narrow field. –Niels Bohr, Danish physicist and Nobel Prize Winner.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid. –Heinrich Heine, German Critic and Poet.
Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them. –Bill Cosby
Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination. –Oscar Wilde
You laugh at me because I'm strange I laugh at you because your stupid!
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. -- Carl Jung
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. -- Robert F. Kennedy
Friendship with one's self is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself. -- George Bernard Shaw
As you grow in years, detachment too should grow; as time passes by, the fruit must get ripe and become sweet. Life should not be frittered away in accumulating riches; it should be spent in knowing about the glory of God and in realizing Him in the innermost being of oneself. No other intellectual exercise can give such joy. To discard this attempt as only seeking to discover the unknowable, as some men are prone to argue, is the height of foolishness. They are labeling the true as "trash" and cherishing the trash as "true"! –Sai Baba
"Everyday is a gift, thats why they call it the present." –Anon
Don't think of yourself as an ugly person, just a beautiful monkey.
"Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet" - Roger Miller
"To control others is to have power, to control yourself is to know the way" - Lao Ma
Don't take advice from anyone. –Emerson
"Knowledge talks, wisdom listens" –Anon
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
While we may not be able to control all that happens to us, we can control what happens inside us. -- Ben Franklin
What do we live for, if it is not to make life less difficult for each other? -- George Eliot
People remember important or emotional events more than they remember routine ones. Quick, what did you have for dinner on October 1 of last year? How about your birthday? –Adam Shostack
Only, after you've in the deepest valley, can you see how magnificent it is, to stand on the Highest Mountain"
Bill Clinton is the best Republican President we have had. –Alan Greenspan.
"If it has four legs and is not a chair, has wings and is not an aeroplane, or swims and is not a submarine, the Cantonese will eat it." –Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh (1986)
“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” - Albert Einstein
Discretion is the better part of valor. –David Beers
Our lives are determined by the decisions we make when critical opportunities come our way" - Allen Ray Eichelberger
Love is blind. –Chaucer
When you have kids there is constant comprimise and sacrafice. –Jon Rappaport.
Love consists of overestimating the differences between one woman and another. –George Bernard Shaw
For every success there are ten failures. –Anon
It is not how old you are, but how you are old. –Jules Renard
Louis Sullivan said "Form follows function."
Frank Lloyd Wright said the proper way to put it was "form and function are one."
Treat everything like a piece of art. –Anon
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"As with nearly any purchase, there are three prices to consider in buying a mobile phone," Daniel Eran writes for RoughlyDrafted.
• Upfront cost on the day of purchase.
• Total cost of ownership over its lifetime.
• Resale value after it is replaced.
For example, ;A $600 PC laptop that costs half as much as a new Mac Book--but which is worthless after two years of grief--isn't really a good deal considering that the Mac Book would easily command more second hand after two years than the “savings” offered by a generic laptop," Eran writes.
Apple's iPhone "is cheaper overall than other phones when considering total cost of ownership over its lifetime, even much cheaper phones with a subsidized upfront cost. Obviously, more expensive phones that compare to the iPhone in features are even more expensive when a service plan is included," Eran writes.
"The next time you hear a pundit referring to the iPhone's '$2000' price or its '50% profit margin,' you can rest assured that ignoring the rest of their comments is probably the best way to avoid being mislead by the noise of their desperate astroturfing," Eran writes.
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I live to learn as opposed to learning to Live. –Jake 3 (June 2007)
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work. –Thomas Edison
In the real world, those who can do, do. Those who can’t do, share with others who can’t do. -Guy Kawasaki
At the end of the day, if you pay peanuts, you'll get monkeys. –Anon
Life is a banquet, and most poor suckers are starving to death! -Auntie Mame
The value of a business in based on the cash it is going to produce in the future. -Warren Buffet
If you want to go quickly:go alone. If you want to go far:go together. –African Proverb
Evil is absence of thruth.-M. Scott Peck
The iPhone was driven by the fact that everyone hates their phones, and it's all about "core competence"—making all of the features easy-to-use and self-discoverable. -Jacqui Cheng
Mike Wallace asked Dr. Jack Kervorkian "You are a happy man aren't you? Jack said, "I am content. I am doing what I think is important. Like George Bernard Shaw said, 'Doing that, a man can never loose his self-respect' –and that is all that matters.
I'm too old to do things where I'm not appreciated. -Harold Jenkins
"You become what you think about."
By Earl Nightingale
“Problems cannot be solved by the same level of thinking that created them.” –Albert Einstein
"People with goals succeed because they know where they are going... It's
as simple as that."
By Earl Nightingale
"What's going on in the inside shows on the outside."
By Earl Nightingale
"Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm."
By Earl Nightingale
Perfection and power are overrated. I think you were wise to choose happiness and love. -Anon
Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul. -Vincent van Gogh
Term: Hidden in plain sight. -Edgar Allen Poe
You can’t always believe the people who are the “experts” because they will usually have their own interests at heart instead of yours. I feel the same way about dentists, lawyers, and pretty much all professionals. –Jason Dunn (Jason in response to this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBvUt2bIQFk&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ejasondunn%2Ecom%2F)
Engineering isn't about cramming in features, its about making the solution fit the problem within constraints at hand. –Dan Eran
"Cross-examination is the most potent weapon known to the law for separating falsehood from truth, hearsay from actual knowledge, things imaginary from things real, opinion from fact, and inference from recollection" Jake Ehrlich Sr. (The Lost Art of Cross-Examination, Dorset, 1970, p. 18)
Plan B is to make plan A work. –George Bush
There is value in a worthy apponent. –Deborah Price
"Remember when" is the lowest form of conversation. –Tony Soparano
The things you own, end up owning you. –Fight Club
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed, second it is violently opposed, and third, it is accepted as self evident. –Arthur Scholpenhaur (Philosopher 1788-1860)
Whatever made us think we would ever live to see him with grey hair? (I think this is from King Lear? I once heard somebody refer to this quote as being on point for JFK Jr. and Sr. I also think this applies to Elvis.)
Nothing worth doing is every easy. –Anon
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Dream On by Aerosmith
Everytime that I look in the mirror
All these lines on my face gettin clearer
The past is gone
It went by like dust to dawn
Isnt that the way
Everybodys got their dues in life to pay
I know what nobody knows
Where it comes and where it goes
I know its everybodys sin
You got to lose to know how to win
Half my life is in books written pages
Live and learn from fools and from sages
You know its true
All the things come back to you
Sing with me, sing for the years
Sing for the laughter, sing for the tears
Sing with me, if its just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good lord will take you away
(x2)
Dream on, dream on
Dream yourself a dream come true
Dream on, dream on
Dream until your dream come true
Dream on, dream on, dream on...
Sing with me, sing for the years
Sing for the laughter and sing for the tears
Sing with me, if its just for today
Maybe tomorrow the good lord will take you away
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Friendship is when people know all about you, but like you anyway. –Anon
Your outlook on life is a direct reflection of what you think about yourself. –Anon
Engaging learning experiences are the foundation of great education. –Adobe
There is a golden rule: If we do not posses we have nothing to lose. –Editke Mihaly
The 1st 20 years of life, your parents take care of you. The next 10 years are likely the only time that no one is taking care of anyone. The next 20 after that, you are raising kids. The next 20 after that, you are taking care of your parents. The last 20, your kids are taking care of you. – Mike DiMartino
"What I've learned is that if you don't have the courage to speak out against it ... then it becomes tolerable" –Presidential hopeful John Edwards
The most important thing you can give your children are wings, because you are not always going to be able to bring food to the nest. Sometimes they are going to have to be able to fly by themselves. –Mrs. John Edwards
Life is a series of contests. –Andy Rooney
The most we can ask of ourselves is tho give it our best shot, knowing that sometimes we will fail. We are often defined by how we handle that failure. –Tiger Woods
“In business, I look for economic castles protected by
unbreachable ‘moats’.”
-Warren Buffett
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According to Buffett, the wider a business’ moat, the more likely it is to stand the test of time.
In days of old, a castle was protected by the moat that circled it. The wider the moat, the more easily a castle could be defended, as a wide moat made it very difficult for enemies to approach. A narrow moat did not offer much protection and allowed enemies easy access to the castle. To Buffett, the castle is the business and the moat is the competitive advantage the company has. He wants his managers to continually increase the size of the moats around their castles.
When looking to purchase a business, Buffett pays careful attention to a business he understands not just in terms of what the business does but also of “what the economics of the industry will be 10 years down the road, and who will be making the money at that point.” He is “also looking for enduring competitive advantages.” This, in a nutshell, is what makes a company great: the width of the moat around the company’s core business.
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I have a pet peeve: people who insist that tomorrow will look like today..."Unfortunately, I frequently find myself peeved because this type of myopic thinking is everywhere, and always has been. Why? Probably due to the social psychology concept called framing, e.g., we are systematically given the messages that dominant companies, technologies, social and political mores, etc. will persist indefinitely, and therefore find it hard to move away from these beliefs. "It could also be just plain idiocy, but I'll opt for the more textured and academically-appropriate answer for now. We clearly know this to be the case yet we keep on making the same stupid, short-sighted judgments again and again and again."–Roger Ehrenberg
Any fool can make something complicated. Only a genius can make things really simple. –Jon T
I have never felt so overwhelmed in my life, and yet so alive. –Jake 3 March 21, 2007
Somebody said to Abraham Lincoln that he was an illegitamate bastard. Abe replied, "I care not what my father was, but I do care about what my father's son becomes." (Janet Smith)
Keep you freinds close, and your enemies closer, but confide in neither one. –Jake Sr.
Keep you own counsel. –Jake Sr. (confied in nobody. trust yourself)
I hate these machines, they are too bossy. –Janet Smith referring to a PC.
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If no one is complaining about your prices, they are too low. If lots of people are complaining about your prices, they are too high. In the latter case, you maximize profits by lowering the price. Micro Econ 101.
Pricing is always tricky and you need real feedback, actual signup data and complaints, to know where you stand. Then bust a move, if warranted.
One thing I learned about pricing in the retail sector is that people don’t tell you when they are not coming back. So if you don’t adjust pricing quickly, your future customer acquistion cost goes through the roof, even if you decide to lower prices later. –Stacy 20 Mar 07
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Out of the mud growes the lotus. –Confucious Porverb (the most beautiful flower comes from the uglises mud)
Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die tommorrow. –James Dean
Our job–the job of all architects–is to bring forth the magic from the mundane. –Robert A.M. Stern
I figured out when I got a tivo that most of the stuff I had been watching, I had been watching becasue nothing else was on. And then several years after watching tivo, I realized I did not even want to watch tv anymore. Now 9 out of the 10 of the video moment I have are in front of the computer screen and they are tiny little video clips. –Corey
One man's antique is another man's garbage. –Brad Ellman
"I own a car restoration business in europe. I specialize in classic american cars (cadillac mostly). Cadillac in 50's and 60's made the most technologically advanced, most luxurious, most reliable cars in the world. and noone, and I mean NOONE said there were for people who "hate cars".
Lexus LS is basically the car Cadillac should be making. It's the most technologically advanced, most luxurious, most reliable car in the world. But of course all the idiots call it the car for people who "hate cars" just because it's not a sports car. Well, neither was Cadillac 40-50 years ago, and I can't even tell you how many clients I get who drive a BMW as their daily driver and want a classic Caddy as their sunday car." –Zaza
"Visual intruige is part of the package" –Charles Schwarze
To understand those who came before you and after you is to truly understand yourself. –Jake
All cats are grey at night. –Brad Ellman (refering to women)
It is hard to know the number of Angels on the head of a pin. -Bob Parzick
"The Lexus LS (460) must to be put into context. If you have ever been asked "What would you like to do this weekend" and never replied with "Absolutely nothing would be ideal," it’s probably difficult to understand what Lexus set out to accomplish. Serenity is not boring, and to many it means separation from the outside world. You know, like to the executive types who have enough money to buy one of these… for instance.
With that, the LS is compared to an S Class, 7, or A8 in every article… but it’s priced like an E, 5 or A6. If you have the means and desire for ultimate luxury, the LS isn’t knocking anyone off their pedestal; but if you’re looking for a "serene" luxury car in that price range, the LS is clearly the best." –Webguy
There is a fine, fine line between having balls of steel and balls and stupidity. –Jake 3
All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.- Edgar Allen Poe
One man's criticism is another man's praise. -Jeff Smith
Great Speeches Posted 28 Sep
“The three most important elements in any speech are: brevity, levity, and repetition. Let me say that again: brevity, levity, and repetition.”
Daniel Pink, author, Free Agent Nation, at a 2005 commencement address If he’d sat down right after that, it would (theoretically) have been a perfect speech.
HAHAHA Posted 3 Oct
...and decide to go slumming with a five who’s pushing maximum density.
24 Posted 3 Oct
I MAY BE WRONG, BUT I WASN’T UNDER THE IMPRESSION THAT HE WAS IN THE MOOD FOR ANY BUREAUCRATIC SQUABBLE TODAY.
Life Posted 2 Apr
Life asks of you what it thinks you can handle
Jobs sends ‘email chuckle’ on marketcap Posted 3 May
On Friday, Steve Jobs took a moment to remind Apple employees of a historic moment of sorts—when Apple’s marketcap surpassed Dell’s. The note came following a 12 percent rise last week in Apple’s stock value, according to the New York Times: “It may not be the last laugh, but on Friday afternoon, after the close of the stock market, Steven P. Jobs, the chief executive of Apple Computer, shared an e-mail chuckle with his employees at the expense of Dell, a big rival…. On Friday, apparently savoring the moment, Mr. Jobs sent a brief e-mail message to Apple employees, which read: ‘Team, it turned out that Michael Dell wasn’t perfect at predicting the future. Based on today’s stock market close, Apple is worth more than Dell. Stocks go up and down, and things may be different tomorrow, but I thought it was worth a moment of reflection today. Steve.’”
The note comes after CEO Michael Dell—in 1997, shortly after Jobs returned to Apple—said that he would shutdown Apple and give the money back to its shareholders. The remarks came in response to a question at technology conference about what he would do with the then-financially troubled Apple.
Quote from Jay Redding.com Posted 26 May
Chances are it’s made of the scent of money, new-Lexus smell, and diamond particles.
On Nicole Richie Posted 16 Nov
Page Six has a blind item today asking: “Which young Hollywood starlet had secret gastric bypass surgery, but then lost too much weight? During a recent four-day stint at a health clinic, she was actually having an operation to remove the bypass.”
Which sounds a lot like it could be Nicole Richie. If it is her, then it turns out she’s not anorexic at all, just ridiculously stupid. You don’t get gastric bypass surgery when you’re 12 pounds overweight. That’s like killing a spider with a hammer. And by hammer I mean the hammer that’s glued to the missile you shot at it.
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Bob Parsons 16 Rules for Success in Business & Life...
1. Get and stay out of your comfort zone.
I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone. I hear people say, "But I'm concerned about security." My response to that is simple: "Security is for cadavers."
2. Never give up.
Almost nothing works the first time it's attempted. Just because what you're doing does not seem to be working, doesn't mean it won't work. It just means that it might not work the way you're doing it. If it was easy, everyone would be doing it, and you wouldn't have an opportunity.
3. When you’re ready to quit, you’re closer than you think.
There's an old Chinese saying that I just love, and I believe it is so true. It goes like this: "The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed."
4. With regard to whatever worries you, not only accept the worst thing that could happen, but make it a point to quantify what the worst thing could be.
Very seldom will the worst consequence be anywhere near as bad as a cloud of "undefined consequences." My father would tell me early on, when I was struggling and losing my shirt trying to get Parsons Technology going, "Well, Robert, if it doesn't work, they can't eat you."
5. Focus on what you want to have happen.
Remember that old saying, "As you think, so shall you be."
6. Take things a day at a time.
No matter how difficult your situation is, you can get through it if you don't look too far into the future, and focus on the present moment. You can get through anything one day at a time.
7. Always be moving forward.
Never stop investing. Never stop improving. Never stop doing something new. The moment you stop improving your organization, it starts to die. Make it your goal to be better each and every day, in some small way. Remember the Japanese concept of Kaizen. Small daily improvements eventually result in huge advantages.
8. Be quick to decide.
Remember what General George S. Patton said: "A good plan violently executed today is far and away better than a perfect plan tomorrow."
9. Measure everything of significance.
I swear this is true. Anything that is measured and watched, improves.
10. Anything that is not managed will deteriorate.
If you want to uncover problems you don't know about, take a few moments and look closely at the areas you haven't examined for a while. I guarantee you problems will be there.
11. Pay attention to your competitors, but pay more attention to what you’re doing.
When you look at your competitors, remember that everything looks perfect at a distance. Even the planet Earth, if you get far enough into space, looks like a peaceful place.
12. Never let anybody push you around.
In our society, with our laws and even playing field, you have just as much right to what you're doing as anyone else, provided that what you're doing is legal.
13. Never expect life to be fair.
Life isn't fair. You make your own breaks. You'll be doing good if the only meaning fair has to you, is something that you pay when you get on a bus (i.e., fare).
14. Solve your own problems.
You'll find that by coming up with your own solutions, you'll develop a competitive edge. Masura Ibuka, the co-founder of SONY, said it best: "You never succeed in technology, business, or anything by following the others." There's also an old Asian saying that I remind myself of frequently. It goes like this: "A wise man keeps his own counsel."
15. Don’t take yourself too seriously.
Lighten up. Often, at least half of what we accomplish is due to luck. None of us are in control as much as we like to think we are.
16. There’s always a reason to smile.
Find it. After all, you're really lucky just to be alive. Life is short. More and more, I agree with my little brother. He always reminds me: “We’re not here for a long time, we’re here for a good time!”
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Nothing surprises me any more...especially when it comes to women. –James Gentili
"We are the hero of our own story." –Mary McCarthy
"Success is simple. Do what's right, the right way, at the right time." –Arnold H. Glasow
Computer scientist and Apple Fellow, Allen Kay is famous for saying: The best way to predict the future is to invent it, and at KPCB we like to say, the second best way is to fund it. –John Doer
There's a great quote by Henry Ford, right? He said, 'If I'd have asked my customers what they wanted, they would have told me 'A faster horse.'–Steve Jobs
I would ALWAYS rather lose honestly, than win by cheating or lying. –Jake 3
Some men, after causing you an injury, soon reach the point of forgiving you for what they did. –Jake Sr. (from Joe Cherney, Feb 29, 2008)
You should always know where everything is that you posses. If somebody asks you where anything you posses is, you should be able to know where it is. Mental inventory is everthing–if it is not in your head you amy as well not posses it. –Jake 3
If you learn anything from me, I hope it's to get used to unsatisfying endings. –Stacey Grenrock Woods
Being married without children is like running a store with no inventory. –Wanda Sykes
"When one teaches, two learn." –Robert Half
Love isn't all take. –Jake 3 (To Troy 1986)
On managing through the economic downturn: "We've had one of these before, when the dot-com bubble burst. What I told our company was that we were just going to invest our way through the downturn, that we weren't going to lay off people, that we'd taken a tremendous amount of effort to get them into Apple in the first place -- the last thing we were going to do is lay them off. And we were going to keep funding. In fact we were going to up our R&D budget so that we would be ahead of our competitors when the downturn was over. And that's exactly what we did. And it worked. And that's exactly what we'll do this time." –Steve Jobs
I don't see pieces anymore–only squares. –Vincent Valdes
Success, often times is more about the opportunities you don't take advantage of than the ones you do. –Jake 3 (Sunday, February 24, 2008, 3:11am)
The belts are just politics. –Vincent Valdes (referring to martial arts)
The older I get, the more I notice the generations passing by. –Vincent Valdes
Learning is remembering. –Socrates
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This was a favorite poem of the lovely Audrey Hepburn:
For attractive lips, speak words of kindness.
For lovely eyes, seek out the good in people.
For a slim figure, share your food with the hungry.
For beautiful hair, let a child run his or her fingers through it once a day.
For poise, walk with the knowledge you'll never walk alone.
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed, and redeemed; Never throw out anybody.
Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, you'll find one at the end of your arm.
As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others.
The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, the figure that she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides.
The beauty of a woman is not in a facial mole, but true beauty in a woman is reflected in her soul. It is the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she shows, and the beauty of a woman with passing years only grows!
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Apple is about that 80% of features that people actually use. –Jake 3
To make a long story longer. –Jason Meek
You can't be a curious solider. –Jason Meek
Having been there before is everything. –James Dornan
The sturup changed everything because an armored man could now move far easily. –Anon
The difference between a million and a billion? A million seconds is 12 days; a billion seconds is 32 years. –Edgar Brofman Jr.
I am trying to tread the mystical path with practical feet. –Anon
Lying is cowardice. Lying to avoid a present dander is Cowardice. –Jake Ehrlich Sr.
The moment of our death is the highlight of our live. –Editke Mihaly (October 15, 2007)
Most behavior is habitual. The chains of habit are light to be felt until they are too heavy to be broken. -Warren Buffet
Never underestimate peoples vanity. –James Dornan
Quantitatively I have to figure out what the price is. It is either yes or no. I don't fool around a lot with negotiations. If they name a price that makes sense to me, I buy it and if they don't, I was happy the day before, so I will be happy the day after without owning it. –Warren Buffet
We are what we believe. –Anon
Capital is stored labor. –Carl Marx (Das Capital)
Paul Harvey - "I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist."
"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." -Marie Curie
"The less you talk, the more you're listened to." -Abigail Van Buren
"Don't go through life, grow through life." -Eric Butterworth
"Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it." -Irving Berlin
"The purpose of life is a life of purpose." –Robert Byrne
"There are three constants in life... change, choice and principles." –Stephen Covey
There is no such thing as security on earth, only opportunity. -General Douglas McCarthur
The BulletTrain logo looks very futuristic and compelling, like and Alien with lots of energy. –Editke Mihaly
BulletTrain is creating its own ecosystem. –Jake 3
Good manners are a good idea. –Kareem
Instead of making people think like computers, BulletTrain makes computers that think like people. –Jake 3
Google understands algorithms-Not Design. –Jake 3
The truth is always bitter. -Anon
If it has tits or tires it is going to give you trouble. –Michael McClure
Life has its own agenda with you in it. –Anon
Sooner or later you end up with yourself. – Steve Crouch
Most people fanasize about a life they don't have. –Steve Croouch
Jake makes everybody think. –Editke Mihaly
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The quality remains long after the price is forgotten.
John Ruskin - "There is no wealth but life."
"Often, the wanting is more fun than the having". –Patrick's Father
Stephen Covey - "Live out of your imagination, not your history."
Winston Churchill - "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."
Oscar Wilde - "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
"Dream like you'll live forever. Live like you'll die tomorrow."–Steve
Ronald Reagan - "If we love our country, we should also love our countrymen."
“Photographers deal in things which are continually vanishing and when they have vanished there is no contrivance on earth which can make them come back again.” -Henri Cartier Bresson
Thomas A. Edison - "What you are will show in what you do."
"Reason is the slave of the passions, and can pretend to no other office than to serve and obey them." –David Hume
Thomas Huxley - "All truth, in the long run, is only common sense clarified."
Pablo Picasso - "Action is the foundational key to all success."
Dwight D. Eisenhower - "Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin."
Lord Chesterfield - "Whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing well."
Colin Powell - "Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier."
"When one person suffers from a delusion it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion." –Robert Pirsig
Douglas MacArthur - "You are remembered for the rules you break."
It's amazing–I waste one third of my time dealing with other people's incompetence!!! –Chris Rea (Friday, Octover 3, 2008)
"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." –As Ralph Waldo Emerson
Lack of resources forces you to do a lot more original thinking. –Steve Wozniak
Louis Pasteur - "Fortune favors the prepared mind."
Robert Byrne - "The purpose of life is a life of purpose."
Firing the average people: Again, it’s totally politically
incorrect, but I highly recommend firing anyone who is good or
average. Startups are an Olympic sport and every slot on your team is
critical. You wouldn’t put a “good” swimmer in a relay, would you?
Don’t have one in your startup. Fire the good and replace them with
the great. –Jason Calacanis
Hold an optional off-site breakfast meeting on a Sunday and see who
shows up: If folks don’t show up for you to grow/save the company on a
Sunday for a two hour breakfast, they probably aren’t going to step up
when the sh#$%t really hits the fan. You need to know who the real
killers on your team are and you need to get close with them now.
Again, it’s fine to have 9-5ers on your team–if you’re the Post
Office. You can’t have them at a startup company. Note: if you reading
this and saying I’m anti-family, save it. Folks don’t have to work at
startups and some of the hardest working folks I’ve met have families
and figure out how to balance things. –Jason Calacanis
Bono - "The less you know, the more you believe."
I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82." -Dave Brubeck, American jazz pianist
Aristotle Onassis - "It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
There is nothing new under the son except the history you don't know. –Harry Truman
There is really something to be said for simplicity. –Jake 3 (September 29, 2008 2:08pm)
“We are such spendthrifts with our lives. The trick of living is to slip on and off the planet with the least fuss you can muster. I’m not running for sainthood. I just happen to think that in life we need to be a little like the farmer, who puts back into the soil what he takes out.” –Paul Newman
Jim Rohn - "Success is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
Eleanor Roosevelt - "You must do the things you think you cannot do."
Pablo Picasso - "It takes a long time to become young."
The Barbara Walters List for Success
1. Work harder than anyone else.
2. Accept most every assignment.
3. Do your homework.
4. Keep your complaints to yourself.
5. Finish the job.
6. Move on.
Abigail Van Buren - "The less you talk, the more you're listened to."
Frank Lloyd Wright - "The truth is more important than the facts."
Vince Lombardi - "Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence."
Katharine Hepburn - "If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun."
Life is cause and effect. –Arnon
Dissension is the highest form of Patriotism. –Thomas Jefferson
Jack Kerouac - "If moderation is a fault, then indifference is a crime."
Time is the school in which we learn. Time is the fire in which we burn. –Anon
“Life is an ongoing process of choosing between safety (out of fear and need for defense) and risk (for the sake of progress and growth): Make the growth choice a dozen times a day.”
—Abraham Maslow on 8 Ways to Self-Actualize
David Sarnoff - "Nobody can be successful unless he loves his work."
If you need money, go to people who don't have it. –Beulah Axton (Marty Carmack's Grandmother)
Paul Harvey - "I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist."
Irving Berlin - "Life is 10 percent what you make it, and 90 percent how you take it."
If the world's ethical standards fail to rise with the advances of our technological revolution, the world will go to hell. Let us remember that in the horse-and-buggy days nobody got hurt if the coachman had a drink too many. In our times of high-powered automobiles, however, that same drink may be fatal...–Wernher van Braun
Great men don't attend school, they create their own and teach themselves. –Jake 3 (August 17, 2008 5:24pm)
Walt Disney - "Laughter is America's most important export."
Dependency is Dangerous. –Jake 3 (May 26, 2008)
Sigmund Freud - "Love and work are the cornerstones of our humanness."
Euripides - "Prosperity is full of friends."
James Russell Lowell - "Fate loves the fearless."
Without dreams we have no goals. Jake 3
“Apple is about the idea that people with passion can change the world.” –Steve Jobs
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be. Kurt Vonnegut, Mother Night US novelist (1922 -2007)
"Ninety percent of everything is crap, science fiction author Ted Sturgeon once said.
Laurence J. Peter - "Lead, follow, or get out of the way."
Peter Drucker - "The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different."
Bernard Baruch - "Millions saw the apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why."
Jules Renard - "It is not how old you are, but how you are old.
George S. Patton - "If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking."
Marie Curie - "Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas."
Edgar Allen Poe is worth noting "That which is most simple and obvious is the hardest to fathom"
Sanctuary never comes without some kind of risk. Bob Seger
Dick Armey - "You cannot get ahead while you are getting even."
Euripides - "There is just one life for each of us: our own."
Frank Lloyd Wright - "There is nothing more uncommon than common sense."
Woodrow Wilson - "I not only use all the brains that I have, but all that I can borrow."
"All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers." –Orison Swett Marden
"He who is not courageous enough to take risks will accomplish nothing in life." –Muhammad Ali
“It is the soldier, not the reporter, who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who won the freedoms enjoyed for protesters to burn the flag.” -- Charles M. Province
"Don't fight forces, use them." –Buckminster Fuller
""If you have duct tape and you need money, you're better off than if you have money and need duct tape". - Red Green
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As long as someone knows my name
as long as someone sings my song
as long as someone feels my pain
I'm living on
Raven Newland
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I live for myself and I answer to nobody. –Steve Mcqueen
Doing is easy. Choosing is what's difficult. –Confucius Proverb
I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather, not like the screaming passengers in his car. –Robert Preston.
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Oprah Winfrey quotes from Stanford Graduation speech 2008:
"The secret I've learned to getting ahead is being open to the lessons. "It's being able to walk through life eager and open to self-improvement and that which is going to best help you evolve, because that's really why we're here-to evolve as human beings."
"I believe that there is a lesson in almost everything that you do and every experience. Getting the lesson is how you move forward, is how you enrich your spirit. And trust me; I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain."
"Money is pretty nice. I like money. It's good for buying things. But having a lot of money does not automatically make one a successful person. What you want is money and meaning - you want your work to be meaningful, because meaning is what brings the real richness to your life."
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"To be is to do." –Immanuel Kant
Those who can do. Those who can't Don't. –Jake 3, June 1, 2008
Manage the top line which is your strategy, your talented people, and your execution, and the the bottom line will take care of itself–and I have always found that to be the case. –Steve Jobs
MacDailyNews Take: Charge less upfront, but it costs more over the long-term. That's just perfect for the mentality of the average Windows PC buyer; they'll only see the sticker price and not comprehend or just ignore the rest.
"EVERYONE HAS A PHOTOGRAPHIC MEMORY. SOME JUST DON'T HAVE FILM" :)
Microsoft makes products that people have to use. Apple makes products that people want to use. That's why we love Apple and deride Microsoft. It's as simple as that. –Matt Asay, CNET News.com
"A good word is an easy obligation; but not to speak ill requires only our silence, which costs nothing." - John Tillotson, English prelate (1630 - 1694)
"Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing." - Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
"Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities"
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1932.
"Buddhism has the characteristics of what would be expected in a cosmic religion for the future: it transcends a personal God, avoids dogmas and theology; it covers both the natural & spiritual, and it is based on a religious sense aspiring from the experience of all things as a meaningful unity" - Albert Einstein
“Fire people who are not workaholics…. come on folks, this is startup life, it’s not a game. go work at the post office or stabucks if you want balance in your life. For realz. –Duncan Riley
The bad news is that time flies. The good news is that you are the pilot. –MIchael AlthSuler
“Haste is a form of violence.” –Anon
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret. –Laurence J. Peter (1919 - 1988)
There must me some mistake I didn't mean to let them take away my soul Am I too old Is it too late? –Just In Time
"It is the emotional discovery of the secrets of time, of the very soul of a watch. Watches appeal to us, and win us over by the beauty of their soul and the secrets the conceal: the life of a mechanical watch and of its beating heart; its words; its ticking; and its face, which expresses sadness at 8:20 and joy at 10:10. The relationship we have with a watch is like a love story, and love cannot be described by specific and objective criteria"- Franco Cologni
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In a note, written the year before his death, Einstein dismissed the idea of God as the product of human weakness and the Bible as "pretty childish."
In it, Einstein said that "the word God is for me nothing more than the expression and product of human weaknesses, the Bible a collection of honorable but still primitive legends which are nevertheless pretty childish."
"For me," he added, "the Jewish religion like all other religions is an incarnation of the most childish superstitions."
Addressing the idea that the Jews are God's chosen people, Einstein wrote that "the Jewish people to whom I gladly belong and with whose mentality I have a deep affinity have no different quality for me than all other people. As far as my experience goes, they are also no better than other human groups, although they are protected from the worst cancers by a lack of power. Otherwise I cannot see anything 'chosen' about them."
"I do not believe in the God of theology who rewards good and punishes evil. My God created laws that take care of that. His universe is not ruled by wishful thinking, but by immutable laws."
Brooke said Einstein believed that "there is some kind of intelligence working its way through nature. But it is certainly not a conventional Christian or Judaic religious view."
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Why do they call a watch a watch? Nobody watches a watch...You look at a watch or may peek at your watch....Why don't they call it a look? -Seinfeld
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“Designing is not a profession but an attitude” is an excerpt from László Moholy-Nagy’s 1947 book “Vision in Motion.”
The designer must see the periphery as well as the core, the immediate and the ultimate, at least in the biological sense. He must anchor his special job in the complex whole. The designer must be trained not only in the use of materials and various skills, but also in appreciation of organic functions and planning. He must know that design is indivisible, that the internal and external characteristics of a dish, a chair, a table, a machine, painting, sculpture are not to be separated…
There is design in organization of emotional experiences, in family life, in labor relations, in city planning, in working together as civilized human beings. Ultimately all problems of design merge into one great problem: ‘design for life’.
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even a broken watch is right twice a day
"Never mistake activity for achievement" John Wooden
Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. –Steven Wright US comedian and actor
"One can only forget time by using it"–Charles Baudelaire
How long a minute is, depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on. ~Zall's Second Law
The recently reported illness of actor Patrick Swayze caused me to remember his memorable character in Dirty Dancing and the song "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life".
Watches are so named as a reminder - if you don't watch carefully what you do with your time, it will slip away from you. ~Drew Sirtors
There is a very fine line between "hobby" and "mental illness."–My wife emailed this to me (Wifes are "cute" in that way. If I spend $10K on watches and/or car mods in a given year, she'll spend 2-3 times that on brand name clothes and shoes. 75% of which she'll wear only once. I'm an ebay power seller mostly because of my wife's leftovers. lol
Mike)
"When I am sizing up a potential customer, I always check out his watch." –Documentary on high-end legal prostitution in Nevada, as spoken by the Madam at Bunny Ranch. (no kidding)
"He is winding the watch of his wit; by and by it will strike."--William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Tempest, Act II scene 1
“The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.”....Einstein
Profanity demonstrates a lack of vocabulary. –Jake 3.
I'd rather be lucky than smart. –Jon Rappaport
"Success seems to be largely a matter of hanging on after others have let go." –Anon
"I'm not interested in living long, I'm only interested in living well!" -W.R.
"Why is it a penny for your thoughts but you have to put your two cents in? Somebody is making a penny." ~ Steven Wright
In her memoir, Walters freely shares the secret of her success as an interviewer: the right questions. One of the most useful, she says, is to ask your subjects what they think is the greatest misconception about themselves.
"The maxims of men reveal their characters." – Luc de Clapier
Time is the most valuable thing a man can spend. –Anon
"Why tiptoe through life if you are going to arrive at death eventually?" –Anon
Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. - Stephen Hawking
"The Quality Remains Long After The Price Is Forgotten", Henry Royce (Rolls Royce)
Alas I stand on a mountain of broken glass, searching for the diamonds I threw away yesterday. –Anon
Thy fate is the common fate of all; Into each life some rain must fall. –Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"Time keeps on slippin', slippin', slippin' into the future..." - Steve Miller
You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you find you get what you need. –Rolling Stones
"I want to have the same last dream again, the one where I wake up and I'm alive" (Angels and Airwaves).
You don't know where you are going unless you know where you've come from. –Debrah Rolon
We should never negotiate out of fear but we should never fear to negotiate. –JFK
Is privacy an illustion? –Anon
The web is a consumer paradise. –Chris Anderson
Crime does not pay–only for the criminal Attorney. –Jake Sr.
Mourning is self pity. –Mad Men
An error does not become a mistake until you refuse to correct it. –JFK
Why do men appreciate beauty over brains? Because they see better than they think. –Anon
"Fortune favors the prepared mind." –Louis Pasteur
When you buy quality, you only cry once. –Mike
"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible , and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile."
-Bertrand Russell
Buy a professional camera and you´re a professional photographer, buy a flute and you own a flute.
Some men see things as they are and wonder, "Why?" I dream of things that never were and wonder, "Why not?" –George Bernard Shaw
Everything considered classic today was once considered modern. –Jake 3
A fanatic is one who won't change his mind and won't change the subject - WSC
Friendship is like peeing your pants, everybody can see it, but only you can feel the warmth. –Anon
'TIME' is natures way of stopping everything happening at once. –Anon
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take - but by the moments that take our breath away. –Anon
We are not strangers just friends who have never met. –Anon
In Silicon Valley, failure is experience. Now, if you fail at everything, that's different. But a failure is a mark of experience more than anything else. –Vint Cerf (Creator of the Internet)
"With freedom comes responsibility, which is why so many despise it." -Anon
"Discontent is the first necessity of progress."- Thomas A. Edison
"Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art." –Stanislaw Lec
When you stop dreaming you stop living. –Anon
Success has many authors and failure few. –Chris Rea
The greatest luxury in life is time. Savour every moment. –Bentley
There's and old saying that God exists in your search for him. I just want you to understand that I ain't looking. –Leslie Nielsen at 82
"Like stars, friends you know are there even when you can't see them." –Marty Carmack
“Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of an intelligent effort.” John Ruskin
"Big Hat, No Cattle" –Anon
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A few George Patton quotes:
“A good plan, violently executed now, is better than a perfect plan next week.”
“Don’t tell people how to do things, tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results.”
“If you tell people where to go, but not how to get there, you’ll be amazed at the results.”
“Battle is an orgy of disorder.”
“Courage is fear holding on a minute longer.”
“I don’t measure a man’s success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom.”
“If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.”
“Nobody ever defended anything successfully, there is only attack and attack and attack some more.”
“Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.”
“Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.”
“The time to take counsel of your fears is before you make an important battle decision. That’s the time to listen to every fear you can imagine! When you have collected all the facts and fears and made your decision, turn off all your fears and go ahead!”
“Watch what people are cynical about, and one can often discover what they lack.”
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
George Bernard Shaw
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
George Bernard Shaw
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard Shaw
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard Shaw
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
George Bernard Shaw
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
An index is a great leveller.
George Bernard Shaw
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
George Bernard Shaw
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Better never than late.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw
Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw
Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
George Bernard Shaw
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
George Bernard Shaw
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
General consultant to mankind.
George Bernard Shaw
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
George Bernard Shaw
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
George Bernard Shaw
I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
George Bernard Shaw
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
George Bernard Shaw
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
George Bernard Shaw
I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
George Bernard Shaw
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
I want to be all used up when I die.
George Bernard Shaw
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
George Bernard Shaw
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
George Bernard Shaw
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
George Bernard Shaw
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard Shaw
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
George Bernard Shaw
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard Shaw
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
George Bernard Shaw
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard Shaw
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
George Bernard Shaw
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw
My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
George Bernard Shaw
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw
No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
George Bernard Shaw
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
George Bernard Shaw
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
George Bernard Shaw
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
Property is organized robbery.
George Bernard Shaw
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
George Bernard Shaw
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
George Bernard Shaw
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
Syllables govern the world.
George Bernard Shaw
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
George Bernard Shaw
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
George Bernard Shaw
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
George Bernard Shaw
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
George Bernard Shaw
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
George Bernard Shaw
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.
George Bernard Shaw
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
George Bernard Shaw
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
George Bernard Shaw
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
George Bernard Shaw
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
Very few people can afford to be poor.
George Bernard Shaw
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
George Bernard Shaw
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
George Bernard Shaw
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
George Bernard Shaw
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
George Bernard Shaw
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
George Bernard Shaw
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
George Bernard Shaw
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
George Bernard Shaw
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
George Bernard Shaw
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
George Bernard Shaw
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
George Bernard Shaw
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw
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101 Atheist Quotes:
1. The fact that a believer is happier than a sceptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality. - George Bernard Shaw
2. Faith means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzsche
3. I believe in God, only I spell it Nature. - Frank Lloyd Wright
4. We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes. - Gene Roddenberry
5. To surrender to ignorance and call it God has always been premature, and it remains premature today. - Isaac Asimov
6. A man is accepted into a church for what he believes and he is turned out for what he knows. - Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain)
7. Religion is regarded by the common people as true, by the wise as false, and by the rulers as useful. - Seneca the Younger
8. Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. - Anonymous
9. Not only is there no god, but try getting a plumber on weekends. - Woody Allen
10. If I were not an atheist, I would believe in a God who would choose to save people on the basis of the totality of their lives and not the pattern of their words. I think he would prefer an honest and righteous atheist to a TV preacher whose every word is God, God, God, and whose every deed is foul, foul, foul. - Isaac Asimov
11. Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. - Edward Abbey
12. 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
13. I still say a church steeple with a lightning rod on top shows a lack of confidence. - Doug McLeod
14. The world holds two classes of men - intelligent men without religion, and religious men without intelligence. - Abu’l-Ala al Ma’arri
15. Since the Bible and the church are obviously mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust them to tell us where we are going? - Anonymous
16. I distrust those people who know so well what God wants them to do because I notice it always coincides with their own desires. - Susan B. Anthony
17. The invisible and the non-existent look very much alike. - Delos B. McKown
18. Two hands working can do more than a thousand clasped in prayer. - Anonymous
19. Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all of which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, even if religion vanished; but religious superstition dismounts all these and erects an absolute monarchy in the minds of men. - Francis Bacon
20. The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully. - Richard Dawkins
21. A God who kept tinkering with the universe was absurd; a God who interfered with human freedom and creativity was tyrant. If God is seen as a self in a world of his own, an ego that relates to a thought, a cause separate from its effect. he becomes a being, not Being itself. An omnipotent, all-knowing tyrant is not so different from earthly dictators who make everything and everybody mere cogs in the machine which they controlled. An atheism that rejects such a God is amply justified. - Karen Armstrong
22. It is not as in the Bible, that God created man in his own image. But, on the contrary, man created God in his own image. - Ludwig Feuerbach
23. People ask me what I think about that woman priest thing. What, a woman priest? Women priests. Great, great. Now there’s priests of both sexes I don’t listen to. - Bill Hicks
24.All the biblical miracles will at last disappear with the progress of science. - Matthew Arnold
25.Blind faith is an ironic gift to return to the Creator of human intelligence. - Anonymous
26.Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one. - Richard Dawkins
27. What can be asserted without proof can be dismissed without proof. - Christopher Hitchens
28. In Christianity neither morality nor religion come into contact with reality at any point. - Friedrich Nietzsche
29. It will yet be the proud boast of women that they never contributed a line to the Bible. - George W. Foote 1.
30. On the first day, man created God. - Anonymous
31. I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours. - Stephen Roberts
32. You do not need the Bible to justify love, but no better tool has been invented to justify hate. - Richard A. Weatherwax
33. What’s “God”? Well, you know, when you want something really bad and you close your eyes and you wish for it? God’s the guy that ignores you. - Steve Buscemi (From the movie “The Island”)
34. As far as I can tell from studying the scriptures, all you do in heaven is pretty much just sit around all day and praise the Lord. I don’t know about you, but I think that after the first, oh, I don’t know, 50,000,000 years of that I’d start to get a little bored. - Rick Reynolds
35. Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he will eat for a lifetime; give a man religion and he will die praying for a fish. - Anonymous
36. Calling Atheism a religion is like calling bald a hair color. - Don Hirschberg
37. God should be executed for crimes against humanity. - Bryan Emmanuel Gutierrez
38. To say that atheism requires faith is as dim-witted as saying that disbelief in pixies or leprechauns takes faith. Even if Einstein himself told me there was an elf on my shoulder, I would still ask for proof and I wouldn’t be wrong to ask. - Geoff Mather
39. I do not fear death. I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it. - Mark Twain
40. Of all religions the Christian is without doubt the one which should inspire tolerance most, although up to now the Christians have been the most intolerant of all men. - Voltaire
41. And if there were a God, I think it very unlikely that He would have such an uneasy vanity as to be offended by those who doubt His existence. - Bertrand Russell
42. Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus
43. I’m a polyatheist - there are many gods I don’t believe in. - Dan Fouts
44. If it turns out that there is a God, I don’t think that he’s evil. But the worst that you can say about him is that basically he’s an underachiever. - Woody Allen
45. A lie is a lie even if everyone believes it. The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it. - David Stevens
46. Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a God superior to themselves. Most Gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child. - Robert A Heinlein
47. I refuse to prove that I exist,” says God, “for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing. - Douglas Adams
48. It ain’t the parts of the Bible that I can’t understand that bother me, it is the parts that I do understand. - Mark Twain
49. He that will not reason is a bigot; he that cannot reason is a fool; he that dares not reason is a slave. - William Drummond
50. Remember, Jesus would rather constantly shame gays than let orphans have a family. - Steven Colbert
51. Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s? - Friedrich Nietzsche
52. Religion does three things quite effectively: Divides people, Controls people, Deludes people. - Carlespie Mary Alice McKinney
53. Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea. - Anonymous
54. When a man is freed of religion, he has a better chance to live a normal and wholesome life. - Sigmund Freud
55. They felt that science would be corrosive to religious belief and they were worried about it. Damn it, I think they were right. It is corrosive to religious belief and it’s a good thing. - Steven Weinberg
56. Take from the church the miraculous, the supernatural, the incomprehensible, the unreasonable, the impossible, the unknowable, the absurd, and nothing but a vacuum remains. - Robert G. Ingersoll
57. History teaches us that no other cause has brought more death than the word of god. - Giulian Buzila
58. Atheism is a non-prophet organization. - George Carlin
59. We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further. - Richard Dawkins
60. A believer states everything must have a creator but fail to say how he was created. - Anonymous
61. “There are no atheists in foxholes” isn’t an argument against atheism, it’s an argument against foxholes. - James Morrow
62. People will then often say, ‘But surely it’s better to remain an Agnostic just in case?’ This, to me, suggests such a level of silliness and muddle that I usually edge out of the conversation rather than get sucked into it. (If it turns out that I’ve been wrong all along, and there is in fact a god, and if it further turned out that this kind of legalistic, cross-your-fingers-behind-your-back, Clintonian hair-splitting impressed him, then I think I would choose not to worship him anyway.) - Douglas Adams
63. Properly read, the bible is the most potent force for Atheism ever conceived. - Isaac Asimov
64. If all the Christians who have called other Christians “not really 1. a Christian” were to vanish, there’d be no Christians left. - Anonymous
65. An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support. - John Buchan
66. Gods don't kill people. People with Gods kill people. - David Viaene
67. If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself. - Alexandre Dumas
68. Atheism is nothing more than the noises reasonable people make when in the presence of religious dogma. - Sam Harris
69. I don’t believe in God because I don’t believe in Mother Goose - Clarence Darrow
70. No philosophy, no religion, has ever brought so glad a message to the world as this good news of Atheism. - Annie Wood Besant
71. I refuse to believe in a god who is the primary cause of conflict in the world, preaches racism, sexism, homophobia, and ignorance, and then sends me to hell if I’m ‘bad’. - Mike Fuhrman
72. Faith does not give you the answers, it just stops you asking the questions. - Frater Ravus
73. Believing there is no God gives me more room for belief in family, people, love, truth, beauty, sex, Jell-o, and all the other things I can prove and that make this life the best life I will ever have. - Penn Jillette
74. Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power but absolute power is corrupt only in the hands of the absolutely faithful. - Anonymous
75. Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. - Chapman Cohen
76. The inspiration of the bible depends on the ignorance of the person who reads it. - Robert G. Ingersoll
77. When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. - Robert Pirsig
78. I wonder who got the shit job of scouring the planet for the 15000 species of butterfly or the 8800 species of ant they eventually took on board Noah’s Ark. But at least we got that magical rainbow for all their trouble. - Azura Skye
79. I have no need for religion, I have a conscience. - Anonymous
80. Man has always required an explanation for all of those things in the world he did not understand. If an explanation was not available, he created one. - Jim Crawford
81. I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world. - Richard Dawkins
82. What has been Christianity’s fruits? Superstition, Bigotry and Persecution. - James Madison
83. The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental. - Penn and Teller
84. If god is the alpha and the omega. The begining and the end, knows what has passed and what is to come, like it states in the bible, why do people pray and think it will make any difference. - Mark Fairclough
85. The finality of death is the coldest truth one must face. Religion makes the perfect distraction. - Anonymous
86. Religion is the opiate of the masses. - Karl Marx
87. If God created the world, then who created god? and who created whoever created god? So somewhere along the line something had to just be there. So why can’t we just skip the idea of god and go straight to earth? - Ryan Hanson
88. If we expect God to subscribe to one religion at the exclusion of all the others, then we should expect damnation as a matter of chance. This should give Christians pause when expounding their religious beliefs, but it does not. - Sam Harris
89. Atheists will celebrate life, while you’re in church celebrating death. - Anonymous
90. Animals do not have gods, they are smarter than that. - Ronnie Snow
91. I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or explorers but fanatics and ideologues who menace decency and progress. No agnostic ever burned anyone at the stake or tortured a pagan, a heretic, or an unbeliever. - Daniel Boorstin
92. I have never seen the slightest scientific proof of the religious ideas of heaven and hell, of future life for individuals, or of a personal God. So far as religion of the day is concerned, it is a damned fake… Religion is all bunk. - Thomas Edison
93. Fundamentalism, of any type, due to its prerequisite lack of intelligent thought, could prove to be the worst weapon of mass destruction, of all. - David J. Constable
94. To really be free, You need to be free in the mind. - Alexander Loutsis
95. Most religions prophecy the end of the world and then consistently work together to ensure that these prophecies come true. - Anonymous
96. Jesus hardly made the greatest sacrifice. He knew he would be resurrected anyway. - Anonymous
97. Religion is like a virus that affects the behaviour of its host in such a way as to propagate itself further. - Jack Pritchard
98. Religions are like pills, which must be swallowed whole without chewing. - Anonymous
99. Today’s religion will be the future’s mythology. Both believed at one time by many; but proved wrong by the clever. - Steven Crocker
100. The Bible - A Fairytale book of rules brainwashing millions. Obliviously used to help create war, kill, hate, judge and discriminate. - Anonymous
101. Isn’t it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too? - Douglas Adams
