Some wonderful quotes

November 30th, 2008 by admin

“Good designers borrow, great designers steal.” Pablo Picasso
“The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.” Albert Einstein
“About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” Herbert Hoover
“Parents were invented to make children happy by giving them something to ignore.” Ogden Nash
“What’s another word for Thesaurus?” Steven Wright
“I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.” Albert Einstein
“Imagination is more important than knowledge…” Albert Einstein
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.” Albert Einstein
“Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” Dorothy Parker
“If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.” Dorothy Parker
“Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it’s open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.” Dave Barry
“Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.” Dave Barry
“A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.” Groucho Marx
“Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.” Groucho Marx
“From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.” Groucho Marx
“I never forget a face, but in your case I’ll be glad to make an exception.” Groucho Marx
“Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.” Groucho Marx
“Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.” Mark Twain
“Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are more pliable.” Mark Twain
“Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn’t.” Mark Twain
“Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please.” Mark Twain
“I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.” Mark Twain
“We can learn even from our enemies.” Ovid
“Humans are not proud of their ancestors, and rarely invite them round to dinner.” Douglas Adams
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.” Douglas Adams
“You live and learn. At any rate, you live.” Douglas Adams
“I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies.” Thomas Jefferson
“Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.” Thomas Jefferson
“The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object.” Thomas Jefferson
“Advertisements… contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.” Thomas Jefferson
“An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.” Will Rogers
“An onion can make people cry, but there has never been a vegetable invented to make them laugh.” Will Rogers
“Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what’s going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?” Will Rogers
“Diplomacy is the art of saying ‘Nice doggie’ until you can find a rock.” Will Rogers
“I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.” Rita Rudner
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” Abrahman Lincoln
“A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.” George Bernard Shaw
“I am not bound to please thee with my answers.” William Shakespeare
“Though I am not naturally honest, I am so sometimes by chance.” William Shakespeare
“We know what we are, but not what we may be.” William Shakespeare
“Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none.” William Shakespeare
“I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester than I.” William Shakespeare
“Every man has his fault, and honesty is his.” William Shakespeare
“Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.” George Bernard Shaw
“Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.” Bertrand Russell
“I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.” Bertrand Russell
“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” J. R. R. Tolkien

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A New T&PI WIKI

November 19th, 2008 by admin

I have started a T&PI Wiki. It is located here:

http://www.technicaltrainer.org/TrainingTiki/tiki-index.php

Interesting thing about WIKIs. All I can say is that I have started it. For now, I am the sole contributor. Sooner or later others will add to it, at least I hope they do. And, on that day, I will lose control and gain something greater. It will be both glorious and scary. Glorious because it is the beginning step of collaboration. Scary because I will no longer control what I created. I will be relegated to merely being the father of something. I will do my best to guide it, and let it grow into something wonderful. But, I will lack full control. I guess you could say, I will have become a Dad-e.

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