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Tuesday, March 9

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Freedom
Then join hand in hand, brave Americans all! By uniting we stand, by dividing we fall.
- John Dickinson

May the sun in his course visit no land more free, more happy, more lovely, than this our own country!
- Daniel Webster

Let no vandalism of avarice or neglect, no ravages of time, testify to the present or to the coming generations, that we have forgotten, as a people, the cost of a free and undivided Republic.
- John A. Logan

How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
- William Shakespeare

Freedom is never free.


Geek
Computer analyst to programmer: You start coding. I'll go find out what they want.


BREAKFAST.COM Halted...Cereal Port Not Responding


The first consideration for anybody should be whether you'd like to do it even if you got nothing at all back. If you answer yes, then it is probably a project you'd enjoy doing.
- Linus Torvalds

Shell to DOS...Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS...


Scandisk : Found 2 bad sectors. Please enter a new HD to continue scanning


Politics
There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask, Why?. I dream of things that never were, and ask, Why not?
- Robert F. Kennedy

With respect to the words 'general welfare' I have always regreted them as qualified by the detail of powers connected with them. To take them in a literal and unlimited sense would be a metamorphosis of the Constitution into a character not contemplated by its creators.
- James Madison

That government is best which governs least.
- Thomas Paine

The size of the federal budget is not an appropriate barometer of social conscience or charitable concern.
- Ronald Reagan

The lessons of paternalism ought to be unlearned and the better lesson taught that, while the people should patriotically support their government, its functions do not include the support of the people.
- Grover Cleveland

Technology
Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles- Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, they can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't.
- Philip Greenspun

We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
- Robert Wilensky

The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all his customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place.
- Douglas Adams

Right behind sex, commerce on the Internet seems to excite people the most.
- President, RSA Data Security

The Twentieth Century, the innovative century that brought you WW I, WW II, and WWW.
- Bill Higgins , .sig

Wisdom
A wise man will not communicate his differing thoughts to unprepared minds, or in a disorderly manner.
- Benjamin Whichcote

Who you are today is a product of what you did yesterday. Who you are tomorrow is a product of what you did today...make every second count!
- Christie Jean-Baptiste

You cannot expect to find strong wood from the tree that grows quickly.
- Langenhoven

The older I get, the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first a process which often reduces the most complex human problems to manageable proportions.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower

The best cure for anger is delay.
- Seneca

 

 

 

 

 

 
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