Blog Archives
Get it over with
Start every day off with a smile and get it over with.
Outdoors
I hate the outdoors. To me the outdoors is where the car is.
Lost in translation
A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconsciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.
Patience
I am extraordinarily patient, provided I get my own way in the end.
– Margaret Thatcher
Progress
Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.
Bridges
The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
– David Russell
Religion
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
What would we do about it?
Professor Bernard Quatermass: The will to survive is an odd phenomenon. Roney, if we found out our own world was doomed, say by climatic changes, what would we do about it?
Dr. Mathew Roney: Nothing, just go on squabbling like usual.
Professor Bernard Quatermass: Yes, but if we weren't men?
– Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Nigel Kneale
On Ambition
Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.
– Edgar Bergen
Easier
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
– Andy Rooney