Quotation Meme
Meme, gacked from redpram
Go to this page and refresh until you get a total of five quotations that are meaningful to you, or mean something about you, or you agree with them, or whatever criteria you choose, I guess. Then post those five.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
I've heard this, and find it amusing, and probably true. Who would know better that Thos. A. Edison?
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Peter De Vries
Haven't heard this before, and it is thought-provoking.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
No comment needed, I think!
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
This is Funny and True. Similar for Sys Admins, I think, also!
Better late than never.
Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD), History
Anyone who is around me knows why I like that one...it is me.
Found some others that were funny (esp. a few Terry Pratchett), but not funny enough to post.
Go to this page and refresh until you get a total of five quotations that are meaningful to you, or mean something about you, or you agree with them, or whatever criteria you choose, I guess. Then post those five.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
I've heard this, and find it amusing, and probably true. Who would know better that Thos. A. Edison?
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Peter De Vries
Haven't heard this before, and it is thought-provoking.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
Mark Twain (1835 - 1910)
No comment needed, I think!
At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985
This is Funny and True. Similar for Sys Admins, I think, also!
Better late than never.
Titus Livius (59 BC - 17 AD), History
Anyone who is around me knows why I like that one...it is me.
Found some others that were funny (esp. a few Terry Pratchett), but not funny enough to post.