"I want to find out who this FICA guy is and how come he's taking so much of my money." --Nick Kypreos

oops. I guess I posted my 'thought' in the wrong place... perhaps it shoulda gone here.

it's perfectly swell just where it is...

thank you!

"Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." --Brooke Shields

did she really say that??? When?? Where??? At what age????

not sure when, but she was attempting to demonstrate why she should become spokesperson for a federal antismoking campaign

and she didn't get the job, I hope.

don't know that, either...

"A cow may be drained dry; and if the Chancellors of the Exchequer persist in meeting every deficiency that occurs by taxing the brewing and distilling industries, they will inevitably kill the cow that lays the golden milk." --Sir Frederick Milner

"I have a documented case of one boy [traveling] 35 days across Texas with a chicken. Everyone wants to know why the boy came home. The chicken was worn out. A chicken can take only so much travel." --H. Ross Perot

"A Boy's Best Friend!" - Take that, Lassie!

Hmmm...

Alborg, Denmark -- This region is in the midst of a drought so severe that officials are urging everyone to sacrifice their modesty -- by showering with a friend! "We've all seen naked people of both sexes, so let's do the right thing and bathe together -- because every drop of water counts," said conservation boss Ulrik Topgaard.

wonder if their birth rates will jump up in 9 months??

*shrug*

I had forgotten all about this conference! Today!

Hey! I get the quote du jour ...shall I post them when I get them? Your quotes for February 1, 2000 are: "In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends." -- Martin Luther King Jr. "The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." -- Oscar Wilde "Black holes are where God divided by zero." -- Steven Wright

Your quotes for February 2, 2000 are: "We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." -- Vince Lombardi "All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." -- Arthur Schopenhauer "There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." -- Frank Zappa

From TFTD-L@TAMU.EDU Never wear a backward baseball cap to an interview unless applying for the job of umpire. -Dan Zevin

Your quotes for February 3, 2000 are: "It's kind of fun to do the impossible." -- Walt Disney "Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." -- Isaac Asimov "It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." -- G. B. Burgin ======================================================= TFTD-L@TAMU.EDU * In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus, "one when he was a boy and one when he was a man." -- Mark Twain

Your quotes for February 4, 2000 are: "I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means." -- Clarence Darrow, Scopes Trial, 1925. "Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." -- Henry Ford "The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." -- Niels Bohr ******************* TFTD-L@TAMU.EDU One of the Ten Commandments for Technicians: (1) Beware the lightening that lurketh in the undischarged capacitor, lest it cause thee to bounce upon thy buttocks in a most untechnician-like manner.

Your quotes for February 5, 2000 are: "Wit is educated insolence." -- Aristotle "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are." -- Gore Vidal "The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled." -- Plutarch

Your quotes for February 6, 2000 are: "I'll sleep when I'm dead." -- Warren Zevon "There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread." -- Mahatma Gandhi "The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head." --Jean Cocteau

Your quotes for February 7, 2000 are: "Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains." -- Sir Winston Churchill "I would have made a good Pope." -- Richard M. Nixon "A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." -- H. H. Munro

Your quotes for February 8, 2000 are: "Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them." -- Samuel Palmer "Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." -- Jean-Paul Sartre "It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid." -- George Bernard Shaw

TFTD-L@TAMU.EDU * His face looked like an ice sculpture. Not one of those pretty ones in the middle of a cruise ship buffet, but the kind they do in a contest with a chainsaw -- and it had been out in the heat too long.

Your quotes for February 9, 2000 are: "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -- Albert Einstein "No one can earn a million dollars honestly." -- William Jennings Bryan "It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating." -- Oscar Wilde

Your quotes for February 10, 2000 are: "When ideas fail, words come in very handy." -- Goethe "He who hesitates is a damned fool." -- Mae West "The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his." -- General George Patton

See my posting on preoccupation - I could do with some words, let alone ideas, although I did find some nice cockney ones when I was looking for something else (see travel/england)

Your wish is my command (thank you, Lucie!): One day at a time is enough. Do not look back and grieve over the past, for it is gone. Do not be troubled about the future, for it has not come. Live in the present, make it so beautiful that it will be worth remembering.

Your quotes for February 11, 2000 are: "There is no sincerer love than the love of food." -- George Bernard Shaw "I don't even butter my bread; I consider that cooking." -- Katherine Cebrian "I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it." -- Steven Wright

Reactions: nope nope I like that one

Yup! Agreed. If you see the horses running toward the cliff, you want to disengage the stage coach. -Dean Barkley Commenting on the possibility of leaving the Reform Party along with Jesse 'Whatever' Ventura

Naw, I'm not giving up on the thesis yet!

That's good news. After all, this is the endpoint of your degree, not the beginning. Thou shalt not fail...we want to cry "Huzzah" and good things like that for you!

Thanks, it's been a tough week.

*Hugs* of support and commiseration... Just pop in for a chat anytime you are sagging at the reins. We shall buoy you when you need us to be there!

*hugs* back. I appreciate that.

Quotes for February 12, 2000 are: "The great dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." -- Justice Louis D. Brandeis "The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty." -- James Madison "Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure. " -- Oliver Herford

The last one's certainly true of my professor (and me)!!!

Aren't they all??? *lol* Quotes for February 13, 2000 are: "Ninety-eight percent of the adults in this country are decent, hardworking, honest Americans. It's the other lousy two percent that get all the publicity. But then, we elected them." -- Lily Tomlin "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -- Hanlon's Razor (from Murphy's Laws) "Destiny is not a matter of chance, it is a matter of choice; it is not a thing to be waited for, it is a thing to be achieved." --William Jennings Bryan

Yeah, go with the last one. (see my earlier comments somewhere!)

Quotes for February 15, 2000 are: "There's so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?" -- Dick Cavett "Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid." --George Bernard Shaw "Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them." --Samuel Butler

Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. -E. L. Konigsburg, Author of books for children from Kevin Eikenberry's Power Quotes as reported on a net bulletin board --------------------------------------------------------- "The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare." -- Michael Crichton, The Lost World "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 "We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc." -- Julian Huxley, Religion without Revelation

From an Auschwitz survivor: They say time is a great healer. I am not sure about that. What time does give you is perspective. that I spend much of my time working for better understanding between religious groups, and fighting racism as hard as I can, is partly because I know that you can only be safe and secure in a cosiety that practices tolerance, cherishes harmony and celebrates difference. (from Chasing Shadows by Hugo Gryn with Naomi Gryn)

"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws." -- Plato "Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -- Antoine de Saint Exupery "In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite." -- Paul Dirac TFTD-L@TAMU.EDU We must believe in luck. How else can we explain the success of those we don't like? -Jean Cocteau

"He who hesitates is a damned fool." -- Mae West "Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." -- Arthur C. Clarke

Your quotes for February 19, 2000 are: "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work. -- Emile Zola "A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies." -- Oscar Wilde "I do not care to belong to a club that accepts people like me as members." -- Groucho Marx

"I can write better than anybody who can write faster, and I can write faster than anybody who can write better." -- A. J. Liebling "Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo." -- H. G. Wells "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd." -- Voltaire

"Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons." -- Bertrand Russell "I have enough money to last me the rest of my life, unless I buy something." -- Jackie Mason "Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa

"What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists?" -- Woody Allen "I think that I shall never see a billboard lovely as a tree. Perhaps, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all." -- Ogden Nash "Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others." -- Jonathan Winters

* "Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read." -- Frank Zappa Question: Who said, and where, that "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture!"

Don't know, but it is great...I'll ask John...!

I asked John. It was a trick question, was it not?! He, ever the patient scholar gave me the complete answer. Now, apologize! From a website maintained by Alan P. Scott: The original quote was 'Talking about music is like dancing about architecture.' No one really seems to know who said it first, and when. It has been attributed to Frank Zappa, Steve Martin and a host of others. Here is a listing of attributions of the quote and a common variant, which starts 'Dancing...' instead of 'Talking...': Laurie Anderson. Laurie Anderson is the most frequent attribution. That's where I saw the quote first myself, in her video Home of the Brave (Warner, 1986). She also said "How about a square dance?" as a riposte, which I think is pretty funny. However, that attribution is incorrect. She is not the originator of the quote, nor does she pretend to be. Ponty Lox, an email correspondent, kindly informed me on May 30, 1998 that in Mark Russell's book Out of Character (Bantam, January 1997), Anderson attributes this quote to Steve Martin. This was enough to get me to pull the quote from my section on Laurie Anderson's quotes. Anderson herself is quite clear that Steve Martin said it; Thornley Jobe, another kind correspondent, sent me a link to an online copy of the listeners' mail section of National Public Radio's Morning Edition for January 14, 2000, in which they speak with Anderson herself and she confirms this. And, though not by name, the NPR commentator actually mentions this page! While I have no trouble believing that Anderson heard it from Martin, and also that Martin's certainly capable of coming up with something this witty, I'm still not sure I believe she's correct about its ultimate origin. Other citations insist that this quote has been around longer than Martin's career. I'd like to hear what Martin says about it. Anyway, though it may seem a moot point now, here's the rest of the list I compiled in '96: Frank Zappa - next most common; still too many to count, though. William S. Burroughs, at least twice, plus one maybe ("A certain William" on one Website that I didn't record). Steve Martin - three times, once by Laurie Anderson (see above). Elvis Costello - twice, but tentatively to "Frank Zappa" on one of the same pages. Charles Mingus - twice, but repeated many times on one, a music Web site (http://www.popi.com/). Nick Lowe - once. Thelonius Monk - twice in Usenet posts, but both times without certainty. Martin Mull - once. Miles Davis - once. George Carlin - once. Mark Mothersbaugh (Devo) - once. W.G. "Snuffy" Walden, TV music composer (from Burlingame, Jon, "TV's Biggest Hits...") - once, and probably a real latecomer. John Cage, from a Usenet post archived at http://newalbion.com/artists/cagej/silence/text/silence1003.txt (thanks to Ponty for pointing this one out). One guy attributes the quote to "L. Anderson/S.Martin/F.Zappa/E.Costello?", which at least acknowledges the uncertainty. Then there's a variant version, "Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." At one point the Lexmark company maintained a quote server (http://www.lexmark.com/) which attributed this version of the quote to "Anonymous," a big help. Howard Shih "paraphrases" the above variant as being from Laurie Anderson. On the other hand, this variant is attributed to Frank Zappa by this site, several Usenet posts on rec.music.movies, and a site at Carnegie-Mellon which I don't feel like keying in...and to Elvis Costello by the band Gherkin, and by a couple of other Usenet cites. This variant is also attributed to "Thelonious Monk" [sic] by a Usenet .sig belonging to alek@best.com. copyright 1999, Alan P. Scott ______________________________________________________

"There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot." -- Steven Wright "Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees." -- David Letterman "The best way to keep one's word is not to give it." -- Napoleon Bonaparte

No great advance has ever been made in science, politics, or religion, without controversy. -Lyman Beecher

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." -- Charles Schultz "The cost of living is going up and the chance of living is going down." -- Flip Wilson "I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them." -- H. L. Mencken I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb... and I also know that I'm not blonde. -Dolly Parton

Oops. Sorry --Marcia

"You always pass failure on the way to success." --Mickey Rooney "I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals." -- Winston Churchill "Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to." --Mark Twain "Drinking makes such fools of people, and people are such fools to begin with, that it's compounding a felony." -- Robert Benchley

TAMU.EDU What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. -Will Rogers

"It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it." -- Mark Twain "Living in a vacuum sucks." -- Adrienne E. Gusoff "What we call 'Progress' is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance." -- Henry Havelock Ellis "Out of every fruition of sucess, no matter what, comes forth something to make a new effort necessary." -- Walt Whitman

"I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens." -- Dwight David Eisenhower "All the world's a cage." -- Jeanne Phillips "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it." -- Former Vice President Dan Quayle

In politics stupidity is not a handicap. --Napolean Bonaparte

"The face is the mirror of the mind, and eyes without speaking confess the secrets of the heart." -- Saint Jerome "How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to." -- Goethe "D'you call life a bad job? Never! We've had our ups and downs, we've had our struggles, we've always been poor, but it's been worth it, ay, worth it a hundred times I say when I look round at my children." -- Somerset Maugham, "Of Human Bondage"

"There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact." -- Mark Twain "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx "Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all." -- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg "I haven't failed. I've found 10,000 ways that won't work." --Benjamin Franklin

"Everything has been figured out, except how to live." -- Jean-Paul Sartre Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye." -- H. Jackson Brown Jr. "In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on." -- Robert Frost

"The better work men do is always done under stress and at great personal cost." -- William Carlos Williams "Men always want to be a woman's first love - women like to be a man's last romance." -- Oscar Wilde " All the taxes paid over a lifetime by the average American are spent by the government in less than a second." --Jim Fiebig

"Life is cheap. It's the accessories that kill you." -- Anon. "None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives." -- Kathleen Norris "We aim above the mark to hit the mark." -- Ralph Waldo Emerson "We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are." -- Tobias Wolffe

"The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it." -Carl R. Rogers "Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud." -Sophocles "Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere may be happy." -Bumper Sticker "Since I've become a celebrity, when I bore people, they assume it's their fault." -Henry Kissinger "The penalty of success is to be bored by the people who used to snub you." -Lady Astor

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. -- Mark Twain The most predictable thing about the stock market is the number of experts who take credit for predicting it. -- Dave Weinbaum No mind is thoroughly well-organized that is deficient in a sense of humor. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

As I look in the mirror I see, And my wondering never ceases, How year after year I receive, My cost of living in creases! (Richard Armour)

*lol* When you say that you agree to a thing in principle, you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out. --Otto von Bismarck

Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes. -- Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Writing about music is like dancing about architecture. -- Elvis Costello Adolescence is like a house on moving day -- a temporary mess. -- Julius Warren

Sign: "Highway of Life -- Prepare to Pay Tolls" -- Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest) I'm not going to grow old gracefully. I'm going to do it kicking, screaming and complaining!" -- Stephanie Piro (Fair Game) One mosquito to another: "Sure, I believe in reincarnation -- in my previous life I was an IRS agent!" -- Bob Thaves (Frank & Ernest) I have only made this letter longer because I have not had the time to make it shorter. --Blaise Pascal (1623 - 1662) "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." -- Francis Bacon

I'm not going to grow old gracefully. I'm going to do it kicking, screaming and complaining!" -- Stephanie Piro (Fair Game) That's me. I intend to grow old discgracefully and have made my intentions quite clear to my family.

Nothing seems to make children more affectionate than sticky hands! Franklin Jones Children seldom misquote you. In fact they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn�t have said! O.A. Battista

Oh Maggie - those are delicious quotes! I may have to grow up but I refuse to grow old!!! I'm with you!

I really shocked the rector ( an earlier one) I don't think he ever really approved of me. oh dear!

His loss, I am sure. I have found that one cannot be what everyone wants you to be without losing self. Been there and did that. Most destructive!

``I'm afraid there's a few things in this movie that couldn't quite happen. Having people in space take their helmets off is wonderful drama, but ...'' --Former astronaut BUZZ ALDRIN, at the premiere of the space drama``Mission to Mars.'' ``I can't quantify what it is, but it's vibrations that we all feel it reminds us where we came from and where we're going.'' --jazz guitarist PAT METHENY, on what he sees as the universal appeal of music. "It's always been a friend to me, through relationships that haven't always lasted, friendships that have come and gone or business associates, the piano has always been a great source of comfort and friendship.'' --singer-songwriter BILLY JOEL, describing what the piano has meant to his life at the kickoff of a museum exhibit celebrating the instrument's 300th anniversary. "There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it." -- Pat Riley TV is chewing gum for the eyes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright

People who need people are people who don't realize just how annoying people can be. -- J Wagner (Crabby Road) Did Mary and Joseph ever get up enough nerve to send Jesus to his room? -- Bil Keand (Family Circus) Just because something's toxic doesn't mean it's not tasty. -- Matthew J. Siske Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. -Charlotte Bronte (from Jane Eyre) One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon -- instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today. -Dale Carnegie (1888-1955) American writer and speaker Twenty years fron now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. -Mark Twain

"Remember that as a teenager you are in the last stage of your life in which you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you." --Fran Lebowitz "A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin." --H.L. Mencken "It ain't so much the things you don't know that get you in trouble. It's the things you know that just ain't so." --Artimus Ward

Don't tell me about the phone - I just live here and i'm becoming an automated answering machine.

"You don't manage people; you manage things. You lead people." - Admiral Grace Hooper No time for your health today; no health for your time tomorrow. -Irish Proverb "Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it." - Oprah Winfrey

Capital is the fruit of labor and could have never existed if labor had not first existed. -- Abraham Lincoln "What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print." -- Isadora Duncan For the creator of Geo: "Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night." -- Anon.

"Always remember this: If you don't attend the funerals of your friends, they will certainly not attend yours." -- H.L. Mencken "A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author." -- G. K. Chesterton "Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the United States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the nine millimeter bullet." -- Dave Barry

May those that love us, love us; and those that don't love us, May God turn their hearts; and if He doesn't turn their hearts, may He turn their ankles so we'll know them by their limping. -Old Irish Toast "Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." - George Washington Carver

"Don't worry about people stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats." -- Howard Aiken "Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell." -- Anon. "The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it." -- Abbie Hoffman

*---- Quote of the Day ----* I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter. -Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) British statesman If you're going through hell, keep going. -Sir Winston Churchill "History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats." - B.C. Forbes

"May you live every day of your life." -- Jonathan Swift "What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us." -- Oliver Wendell Holmes "Live every day as if it were your last, because one of these days, it will be." -- Jeremy Schwartz

"There is real magic in enthusiasm. It spells the difference between mediocrity and accomplishment." - Norman Vincent Peale "We advance on our journey only when we face our goal, when we are confident and believe we are going to win out." - Orsen Swett Marden

"To talk to someone who does not listen is enough to tense the devil." -- Pearl Bailey "If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried." -- Anon. "Once you get into this great stream of history, you can't get out." -- Richard Nixon The meaning of America is not to be found in a life without toil. Freedom is not only bought with a great price; it is maintained by unremitting effort. --Calvin Coolidge, US President (1924-1928) My Country, right or wrong" is a thing no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying, "My mother, drunk or sober." --Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936) English writer

"Only in solitude do we find ourselves; and in finding ourselves, we find in ourselves all our brothers in solitude." -- Miguel de Unanimo "If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...?" -- Anon. "It's easy to cry 'bug' when the truth is that you've got a complex system and sometimes it takes a while to get all the components to co-exist peacefully." -- Doug Vargas "Your opponent is yourself, your negative internal voices, your level of determination." -- Grace Lichtenstein Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want rain without thunder and lightning. --Frederick Douglass, (1817-1895) American writer As nightfall does not come all at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight. And it is in such twilight that we all must be aware of change in the air -- however slight -lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. -- Justice William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court (1939-75)

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift would be curiosity. --Eleanor Roosevelt Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832) "I try to learn from the past, but I plan for the future by focusing exclusively on the present. That's where the fun is." -- Donald Trump

"Information Superhighway is really an acronym for 'Interactive Network For Organizing, Retrieving, Manipulating, Accessing And Transferring Information On National Systems, Unleashing Practically Every Rebellious Human Intelligence, Gratifying Hackers, Wiseacres, And Yahoos'." -- Keven Kwaku "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us." -- Helen Keller "As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand." -- Josh Billings

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. --- Woody Allen "Yesterday is a cancelled check. Today is cash on the line. Tomorrow is a promissory note." -- Hank Stram This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness. -- The Dalai Lama (b. 1935) Tibetan spiritual leader