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ON CATS:
Meow! -- Socks The Cat
Socks The Cat has green eyes. Like yours, lady, like yours. -- after Graham Nash
That's what it is! In Spanish, "S O C K S." -- Modern
Dynamics Speed Tapes
ON MOTIVATION:
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir
men's blood. -- Daniel H. Burnham
Keep your eye on the doughnut, not on the hole. -- Warren Layne
Do not doubt for a moment that a concerned group of citizens can change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever does. -- Margaret Mead
It's not a failure of management to manage; it's a failure of leadership to lead. -- Clara Griffin
Talent imitates, but genius steals. -- T.S. Eliot
It's easier to get forgiveness than permission. -- C. Stewart
Expect luck. Trust it and worship it. -- Robert Townsend
You know what the reward is for doing good work?
You get to do more good work ...
If you sleep with dogs, you wake up with fleas.
-- Sonnie Wind
You have a plan? Now you have a plan and a problem. Before, you just had a problem. -- Kieran Lal
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell? -- J.J. Wind (1969)
-- seen on a t-shirt in Atlanta (1994)
ON POLITICS
No one can change yesterday, but we can all change
tomorrow. -- Bill Clinton
I must study politics and war that my children might study mathematics and philosophy in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, and music. -- John Adams
The absence of alternatives clears the mind beautifully. -- Henry Kissinger
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for
good men [and women] to stand by and do nothing. -- Edmund Burke
ON EFFORT:
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
-- R.W.Emerson
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will treat everything as if it is a nail. -- Abraham Maslow
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work. -- Thomas Edison
Some people see things as they are and say why. I see things that never were and say why not. --George Bernard Shaw
There are two kinds of people in this world: people who do what they say they're going to do, and people who don't. You should always be one of the people who do. -- Ed Korn
Idle hands are the devil's playthings. -- Benjamin Franklin
Only Robinson Crusoe had it all done by Friday ...
If you can't get it done working 24 hours a day,
try working nights ...
If you make the same mistake twice, be sure you
don't make it again. -- J.J.W.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. -- Alexander Graham Bell
You can't hit a home run if you don't come up to bat. -- Darius Baer
If you don't toot your own horn, someone else will
use it as a spittoon. -- Ken Blanchard
ON SYSTEMS:
Clutter is not a property of information. Clutter
is a failure of design. -- Edward Tufte
That's not artificial intelligence -- that's artificial stupidity! -- Jule Kaplan
We'll burn that bridge when we get to it. ... That's water over the bridge. -- Barbara Clemmensen
Invention is the mother of necessity. -- Estelle Roth
Laziness is the father of innovation. -- Clifford A. Tell
Don't give me your software, give me your data. -- Loren Hall
It works better if you plug it in ... It works better if you spell it right. -- Paul Dickson
There'll be time enough for counting when the dealing's done. -- Kenny Rogers
Users are infinitely more creative at finding bugs
than developers. ...
When all else fails, question your own work first.
... Trouble comes in lumps, not streams. -- Jay Wind
Easy to use is easy to say. -- Jeff Garbers
Any idea can be attacked by taking it to its illogical extreme. -- Rene Voltaire
If I am not for me, who will be for me? If I am for
myself alone, who am I for? If not now, when? -- Hillel
ON HUMANITY:
I attempt to compose symphonies, although it is
clear to me that logically it is pointless. -- Alfred Schnittke
Your failure to plan ahead does not constitute an emergency on my part. -- Sign at print shop
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal
lobotomy.
If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons. -- W.C.
Fields
If I had known I was going to play this long, I would have taken better care of myself. -- Mickey Mantle
At the risk of sounding ridiculous, let me say that the true revolutionary is guided by great feelings of love. -- Che Guevara
The only love sincerer than the love of good food, is the love of good friends. -- Tony Rivenbark
Every man is the builder of a temple called his body
... That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest ...
Many of the so-called comforts of life and not only
not indispensable, but positive hindrances to the elevation of mankind
... Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. -- H.D.Thoreau
Saints, it has been said, are the sinners who go on trying. So free people are the oppressed who go on trying and who in the process make themselves fit to bear the responsibilites and to uphold the discipline which will maintain a free society. -- Aung San Suu Kyi
Why ask for the moon, when we have the stars? -- Bette Davis
This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship. -- Humphrey Bogart
Yes, but you still owe me 10,000 francs. -- Sydney Greenstreet
humanity i love you youre always finding the secret
to life
putting it in your back pocket forgetting about
it and sitting on it -- e.e. cummings
You can't pretend to be something you're not for long without becoming what you're pretending to be ... We can never understand how other people think; we can only assume they think like we do. -- J.J.W.
The modern age has a false sense of security because
of the great mass of data at its disposal.
But the valid issue is the extent to which man knows
how to form and master the material at his command. -- Johann Wolfgang
Goethe (1832)
Insanity is carried on the Y chromosome. -- Sheila Douglas
A manager would rather live with a problem he cannot accept than accept a solution he cannot understand. -- Russ Barnett
The more people participate in the process of their own education, and the more people participate in defining what kind of production to produce, and for what and why, the more people participate in the development of their selves. The more people become themselves, the better the democracy. -- Paulo Freire
Educate me. -- Bill Gates
Sometimes you just have to make the best of it. --
Grandma Wagner
ON EXERCISE:
Run as much miles as I did and you'll learn the
secret of running, but I can't guarantee you'll win in Olympics. -- Lasse
Viren
You can't be a 20-mile a day eater if you're just a 5-mile a day runner. -- Bruce Robinson
The best way to get hurt is to run when you're tired. The best way to get hurt bad is to run when you're hurt. -- Jim Hagen
Pain is nature's way of telling you to slow down. Death is nature's way of telling you to stop. -- Jim Fixx
When I race my mind is full of doubts. Who
will come in second? Who will come in third? -- Noureddine Morceli
And remember,
MR NATURAL SAYS:
Use the right tool for the job! -- R. Crumb
... and now, a few words from SOCKS THE CAT ...
CATaclysmic
CATastrophic
CATalyst
CATalog (see ours!)
CATatonic
CATerpillar
CAToctin Mountains (near Camp David!)
CATegory
CATechism (I really believe it!)
CATecholamine (I really feel it!)
CATwalk (Together, we can build one to the 21st
Century!)
CATamaran
CATnap
CATchy
CATegorical
CATerwaul
CAThodes (and anodes)
CATions (and onions?)
CATherine The Great ...
CATherine The Grape ...
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