Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.

Plato

It is no use saying, ‘We are doing our best.’ You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.

Winston Churchill

By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong.

Charles Wadsworth

Rise above principle and do what’s right.
– Joseph Heller

“The real contest is always between what you’ve done and what you’re capable of doing.  You measure yourself against yourself and nobody else.”  Geoffrey Gaberino

the best way to get an engineer to do something is to tell him he can’t.

Even if you are on the right track, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
– Will Rogers

We must believe in free will. We have no choice.

Vah! Denuone Latine loquebar? Me ineptum. Interdum modo elabitur – Oh! Was I speaking Latin again? Silly me. Sometimes it just sort of slips out

on the subject of sexism

Men generally treat each other like crap, and all men get ignored, talked over, dismissed etc. until they prove themselves. Women often mistake ‘equal treatment’ for sexism.

found on slashdot

BeanThere (28381) Alter Relationship on Thursday December 17, @07:19PM (#30482206)