These are all of the aphorisms that you see flashing by in the intro...
Live so that your friends can defend you but never have to.
Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think.
I never think of the future -- it will come soon enough.
Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
Beware the man of one book.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
Math is like love -- a simple idea but it can get complicated.
A myth is a religion in which no one any longer believes.
Anyone who goes to a psychiatrist ought to have his head examined.
That which is static and repetitive is boring. That which is dynamic and random is confusing. In between lies art.
Religion is the opiate of the masses.
I don't necessarily agree with everything I say.
Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research.
The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Efficiency is intelligent laziness.
Hell, there are no rules here -- we're trying to accomplish something.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Most problems are either unimportant or impossible to solve.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get to work.
Committee: A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary.
Genius is an infinite capacity for taking pains.
The quality of an organization can never exceed the quality of the minds that make it up.
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
If you give me six lines written by the most honest man, I will find something in them to hang him.
A reasonable man adapts himself to suit his environment. An unreasonable man persists in attempting to adapt his environment to suit himself.
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
It's very easy to forgive others their mistakes; it takes more gut and gumption to forgive them for having witnessed your own.
If only I could be respected without having to be respectable.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the fool their lack of understanding.
It's hypocritical to say that those who give death should only recieve life.
A blow with a word strikes deeper than a blow with a sword.
Any fool can tell the truth, but it requires a man of some sense to know how to lie well.
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.
