"I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book. "

Groucho Marx

Man Plans - God/Fate laughs

Winners Never Quit.   Quitters never win.

(social media)'s like someone's just invented the 'house party' and everyone's trying to work out if it's ok to hit on each other's wives or shit in the salad bowl.

Some guy called Andy commenting on WallBlog

Quote from: mick g on November 08, 2010, 11:17:50 PM
don't tease fat kids they've enough on their plates

Funny.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around.
But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
– Mark Twain

"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." --Abraham Lincoln  (via reddit)

On food labeling laws in Australia, or perhaps the lack of them.

The choice here is between ''safe until proved dangerous'' and ''dangerous until proved safe''.

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/its-hard-to-swallow-food-rules-that-treat-us-like-mushrooms-20110202-1adoi.html

Quote from: rcjordan on February 02, 2011, 11:58:04 PM
"The trouble with quotes on the internet is that you can never know if they are genuine." --Abraham Lincoln  (via reddit)

Awesome! Still laughing. I think when I steal it, though, I'll say Mark Twain b/c so many quotes are misattributed to him.

In theory, the following quote is true:

Quote"Rational prediction requires theory and builds knowledge through systematic revision and extension of theory based on comparison of prediction with observation. ... It is an extension of application that discloses inadequacy of a theory, and need for revision, or even new theory. Again, without theory, there is nothing to revise. Without theory, experience has no meaning. Without theory, one has no questions to ask. Hence without theory, there is no learning."

But in practice, this one is better:

Quote
In theory, the difference between theory and practice is small. In practice, the difference between theory and practice is large.

"I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened"
-Mark Twain

"I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. What God desires is here [head] and here [heart] and (by) what you decide to do every day, you will be a good man - or not." - Hospitaller, Kingdom of Heaven

"Affiliates have the most value when they're doing something that the merchant can't do for themselves." - Buckworks

By popular demand (or at least at the request of grnidone)

I think most people would think my dad was one of the most driven people they had ever met. But when I was 22 and told him that I couldn't think of one purposeful, productive thing in the world that interested me, he said:

QuoteIt doesn't matter. Just keep doing new things and don't hurt others. Eventually, you'll either find the things you love or you will have lived a full and varied life and you'll be eligible for Social Security. Either way, it works out.

Actually, that conversation set the course for the next 25 years (and counting).

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rick Cook

Nice one Peter