Some of my favorite quotes. I've been collecting these for a while, and I have more that I'll be adding as I get around to it. Enjoy! Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away & you have their shoes. "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away." — Philip K. Dick "Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it, misdiagnosing it, and then misapplying the wrong remedies." — Groucho Marx There are 10 types of people in the world; those who understand binary, and those who don't. "An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind." — Ghandi "My therapy isn't going so great... my psychiatrist told me maybe life just isn't for everybody." "I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world because they'd never expect it." — Jack Handly, Deep Thoughts "... the reasonable man adapts himself to the world, the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man" — George Bernard Shaw "I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is; I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute." — Rebecca West, 1913 "Computers are useless; they can only give you answers." — Pablo Picasso "Oh, Bother," said Pooh, as he hid Piglet's mangled corpse. Always remember, you're unique. Just like everyone else. "On this dot, tiny lumps of impure water and carbon, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded. They divide their time between labor designed to postpone the moment of dissolution for themselves and frantic struggles to hasten it for others of their kind." — Bertrand Russell "This morning I took out a comma and this afternoon I put it back again." — Oscar Wilde "The surest sign of intelligent life in the universe is the fact that it hasn't tried to contact us." — Hobbes the tiger Dogs come when they are called. Cats take a message and get back to you. "We have to believe in free will. We've got no choice" — Isaac Bashevis Singer Live Now. Later it may be too late. "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." — Groucho Marx "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons." — Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." — Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943 "I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." — The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." — Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 "Professor Goddard does not know the relation between action and reaction and the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react. He seems to lack the basic knowledge ladled out daily in high schools." — 1921 New York Times editorial about Robert Goddard's revolutionary rocket work "So we went to Atari and said, 'Hey, we've got this amazing thing, even built with some of your parts, and what do you think about funding us? Or we'll give it to you. We just want to do it. Pay our salary, we'll come work for you.' And they said, 'No.' So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need you. You haven't got through college yet.'" — Apple Computer Inc. founder Steve Jobs on attempts to get Atari and HP interested in his and Steve Wozniak's personal computer "640K ought to be enough for anybody." — Bill Gates, CEO of Microsoft, 1981 "It's not the pace of life that concerns me ....It's the sudden stop at the end " In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move" — Douglas Adams "When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained." --Mark Twain "The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale." — Arthur C. Clarke