A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support
of Paul.

-- George Bernard Shaw, Everybody's Political

The two most common elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.

-- Read by Andy Glick a software book sometime in his life, which

-- narrows it down to a few thousand possibilities.

Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.

-- Tom Robbins

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.
-- Nathaniel Borenstein

Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man.
-- Bertrand Russell

There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else.
-- James Thurber

Once the game is over, the King and the pawn go back in the same box.
 -- Italian Proverb

An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
-- Niels Bohr

Good judgement comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgement.
-- Barry LePatner

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
-- Douglas Adams

Life is good if you don’t weaken.

-- heard in a bar in Crook, Colorado, 1975

There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't.
-- Robert Benchley, Benchley's Law of Distinction

To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
-- Berton Averre

We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.

-- Walt Kelly, "Pogo"

If winning isn't everything, why do they keep score?
-- Vince Lombardi