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"An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made in a very narrow field."

"Not for nothing is their motto TGIF - 'Thank God It's Friday.' They live for the weekends, when they can go do what they really want to do."

Great dreams... never even get out of the box. It takes an uncommon amount of guts to put your dreams on the line, to hold them up and say, "How good or how bad am I?" That's where courage comes in.

"When I stand before God at the end of my life, I would hope that I would not have a single bit of talent left, and could say, "I used everything you gave me";"

"Don't confuse fame with success. Madonna is one; Helen Keller is the other."

"It takes a lot of courage to show your dreams to someone else."

"Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely."

"Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever."

"What is history but a fable agreed upon?"

"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon."

"Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich."

"If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god."

"A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon."

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

"Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge."

"Education is learning what you didn't even know you didn't know."

"I got the bill for my surgery. Now I know what those doctors were wearing masks for."

"When in doubt, mumble; when in trouble, delegate; when in charge, ponder."

"Bush Sr. was a jerk, Quayle an idiot, Clinton was atrocious and disgusting, most of those who persecuted him were hypocritical, Gore is shallow and weak, Bradley is an idealist, Bush Jr. a fool, and all of the independent candidates act like they're on drugs."

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."

"Democracy is an abuse of statistics."

"Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees."

"A woodland in full color is awesome as a forest fire, in magnitude at least, but a single tree is like a dancing tongue of flame to warm the heart."

"Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence."

"You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet."

"The peculiar malaise of our day is air-conditioned unhappiness, the staleness and stuffiness of machine-made routine."

"I don't pay good wages because I have a lot of money; I have a lot of money because I pay good wages."

"Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has."

"Few people even scratch the surface, much less exhaust the contemplation of their own experience."

"What makes a river so restful to people is that it doesn't have any doubt - it is sure to get where it is going, and it doesn't want to go anywhere else."