There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics. - Anonymous
To-do does not mean to-day. - Steve Scheider
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all. - Peter Drucker
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. - James Madison
Boys peak at 8. - Steve Scheider
Good things happen slow; bad things happen fast. - Steve Scheider
If you aren't implementing change, you're impeding it. - Steve Scheider
Fixed fortifications are monuments to man's stupidity. - George Patton
Patience, persistence, and perseverance. - Steve Scheider
Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think? ― L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
What's behind you doesn't matter - Enso Ferrari
Most “new things” are marketing re-sells of old bits. Oddly, I keep revisiting my past as I continually learn new things. - Steve Scheider
What to give to a man that has everything? Your time. - Steve Scheider
Measure, Manage, Automate. - Steve Scheider
There's never a bad time to be a good dad. - Chris Shelby
If you don't plan for the future, you won't have one. - Steve Scheider
If there is only one Devil, then why are there so many religions? - Steve Scheider
"carpe diem, quam minimum credula postero" translated -> Seize the day, trust as little as possible in the next - Quintus Horatius Flaccus (aka Horace)
What a depressingly stupid machine. - Marvin, the Paranoid Android, via Douglas Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
Everyone has five maladies and one really great story. - Steve Scheider, on Growing Old
Be present. Be punctual. Be prepared. - Steve Scheider, to Students
That's do-able. - Steve Scheider, to my wife wrt living in a mobile home
I'd rather be lucky than good. - Lefty Gomez
Sometimes you feel like a nut; sometimes you are one. - Steve Scheider
It takes a village to maintain an app. - Steve Scheider
We have no more wisdom to offer than you have time to hear it. - Steve Scheider
Instead of space expanding, could time be getting longer? - Steve Scheider
Son, in 35 years of religious study, I have only come up with two hard, incontrovertible facts: there is a God, and...I am not Him. - Robert Prosky as Father Cavanaugh in "Rudy"
"No fim, tudo dá certo. Se não deu, ainda não chegou ao fim.” -> translated: “In the end, everything will be ok. If it's not ok, it's not yet the end." - Fernando Sabino
Not all those who wander are lost - J. R. R. Tokien, from poem "All that is gold does not glitter", The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Pablo Piccasso
All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up. - Pablo Piccasso
The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away. - David Viscott
... to look, to see, to remember, to enjoy. - Joseph P. Fitzpatrick
"μούνη δ᾽ αὐτόθι Ἐλπὶς ἐν ἀρρήκτοισι δόμοισιν / ἔνδον ἔμιμνε πίθου ὑπὸ χείλεσιν, οὐδὲ θύραζε / ἐξέπτη" -> translated: Only Hope remained there in an unbreakable home within under the rim of the great jar, and did not fly out at the door - Hesiod, from the poem "Works and Days", translated by Hugh G. Evelyn-White
You never hear the bullet that kills you. - Anonymous
And you know that you're over the hill when your mind makes a promise that your body can't fill. - Paul Barrère, "Old Folks Boogie," on Little Feat album Time Loves a Hero
Wit and humor do not reside in slow minds. ― Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote
The heat makes the stupid leak out - Steve Scheider, on drivers during the summer
These go to eleven - Christopher Guest as Nigel Tufnel, This is Spinal Tap
"Nan demo dekimasu" -> translated: "We can do anything" - motto of U.S. Naval Ship Repair Facility, Yokosuka, Japan
It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow. – Robert H. Goddard
Learn from the mistakes of others. You can never live long enough to make them all yourself. - Groucho Marx
" " - Harpo Marx
Now, it is clear that anyone working with rocket fuels is outstandingly mad. I don't mean garden-variety crazy or merely raving lunatic. I mean a record-shattering exponent of far-out insanity. There are, after all, some chemicals that explode shatteringly, some that flame ravenously, some that corrode hellishly, some that poison sneakily, and some that stink stenchily. As far as I know, though, only liquid rocket fuels have all these delightful properties combined into one delectable whole. - Issac Asnimov
We have been doing very much talking but not very much doing. - A DBA on creating an ERD
The war to end war. - H. G. Wells
All I want is fluff - Dorothy Scheider, my sister-in-law who raised me
Bye-bye 'no-man! - a young girl after visiting Santa's factory in Calera, AL onboard the North Pole Express
Diversity and censorship are antonyms. - Steve Scheider
Hot burnie! - my granddaughter, Leslie, at three years old, describing the oven
Fire! - another Leslie quote, this time at two years old, experiencing her first Japanese hibachi dinner
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups - George Carlin
Metaphorically, we are all stalked by death. When we give him the time of day, we lose out on living life. - Steve Scheider
It can't be that tough - other people can do it. - Steve Scheider
Aptitude, not attitude. - Steve Scheider
Let's see how that goes. - Steve Scheider
Your "differences" are your group's similarities. - Steve Scheider
Practice is a word I don't use. I use play. If you play, you get better. - Tommy Tedesco
If you hit a wrong note, then make it right by what you play afterward. - Joe Pass
It was late and I was tired. - Gary Larson
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. - Upton Sinclair
I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code. - Anonymous
Hope is not a strategy. - Vince Lombardi
The measure of what we are is what we do with what we have. - Vince Lombardi
Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? - Donald Sutherland as "Oddball" in Kelly's Heroes
Those who are ignorant naturally consider everything possible. - Franz Kafka, The Castle
There was once a day and a time; but that's not today. - Steve Scheider
History is written by the victors. - Winston Churchill (et. al.)
Rap is the wasabi of music. - Steve Scheider
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbs", 6 Nov. 1989.
The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm. - J. R. R. Tolkien, as spoken by Pippin the Hobbit, The Two Towers, Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy. - George MacDonald
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." - C. S. Lewis
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. - Anonymous
一期一会 -> romanized: ichigo, ichie -> translated: one time, one meeting. - Ii Naosuka
The time is always right to do what is right. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are three Cs in life: choice, chance, change. You must make a choice to take a chance, or your life will never change. - Zig Ziglar
Choose, commit, do - Wendy Scheider
We have a lot of meetings, but very few conversations. - Steve Scheider
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. - A. A. Milne, as spoken by Winnie the Pooh
You are your best thing. - Toni Morrison
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. - Robin Williams
Just another nut in the tree. - Steve Scheider
Yet another dude on the internet. - Steve Scheider
Yet another old white guy (YAOWG). - Steve Scheider
The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree. - Anonymous
Like dancing with my dad when I was little ... just hang on and whirl - Rene Patteen
Ancora imparo. translated: Yet, I am learning. - Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
No good deed goes unpunished. - Anonymous
Never anger a volunteer. - Steve Scheider
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right. - Mae West
Ipse se nihil scire id unum sciat. translated -> He himself thinks he knows one thing, that he knows nothing. - Cicero, Academica Book I
I know nothing! - John Banner, as Sgt. Schultz, in "Hogan's Heroes"
εἰδέναι μὲν μηδὲν πλὴν αὐτὸ τοῦτο εἰδέναι. Translated -> That he knew nothing except that he knew that very fact. - Diogenes Laërtius, quoting Socrates
Hindsight is 20/20. - Anonymous
Can't argue with success. - Anonymous
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - Leo Tolstoy
We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents. - Bob Ross
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize that I should have been more specific - Lily Tomlin
Vote for the man that promises least; he will be the least disappointing. - Bernard M. Baruch
Though nothing will drive them away / We can beat them / Just for one day - David Bowie and Brian Eno, "Heroes", Heroes, 1977
Let me tell you about life with an engineer... - Cindi Pape
You can never go back. You have changed; it has changed. - Steve Scheider
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. - George Santayana
I always entertain great hopes. - Robert Frost
How many deaths and how much suffering are you willing to accept to get back to what you want to be some form of normality sooner rather than later? - Dr. Anthony Fauci
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. - Henry David Thoreau
Exposing a weapon makes you a target. - Steve Scheider
If only something tasted as good as coffee smells. - Mary Scheider, my mother
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. - Dolly, as written by Bil Kearne, Family Circus, 1994
Fix your little problem and light this candle. - Alan Shepard
America is not a battleground. Our fellow citizens are not the enemy. - Martin Dempsey
History is written by the victors. - Winston Churchill (et. al.)
Rap is the wasabi of music. - Steve Scheider
Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us. - Bill Watterson, "Calvin and Hobbs", 6 Nov. 1989.
The closer we are to danger, the farther we are from harm. - J. R. R. Tolkien, as spoken by Pippin the Hobbit, The Two Towers, Lord of the Rings (Trilogy)
God is easy to please, but hard to satisfy. - George MacDonald
There are two kinds of people: those who say to God, "Thy will be done," and those to whom God says, "All right, then, have it your way." - C. S. Lewis
Luck is when preparation meets opportunity. - Anonymous
一期一会 -> romanized: ichigo, ichie -> translated: one time, one meeting. - Ii Naosuka
The time is always right to do what is right. - Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
There are three Cs in life: choice, chance, change. You must make a choice to take a chance, or your life will never change. - Zig Ziglar
Choose, commit, do - Wendy Scheider
We have a lot of meetings, but very few conversations. - Steve Scheider
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else. - Booker T. Washington
People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day. - A. A. Milne, as spoken by Winnie the Pooh
You are your best thing. - Toni Morrison
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world. - Robin Williams
Just another nut in the tree. - Steve Scheider
Yet another dude on the internet. - Steve Scheider
Yet another old white guy (YAOWG). - Steve Scheider
The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree. - Anonymous
Like dancing with my dad when I was little ... just hang on and whirl - Rene Patteen
Ancora imparo. translated: Yet, I am learning. - Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni
No good deed goes unpunished. - Anonymous
Never anger a volunteer. - Steve Scheider
If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right. - Mae West
Ipse se nihil scire id unum sciat. translated -> He himself thinks he knows one thing, that he knows nothing. - Cicero, Academica Book I
I know nothing! - John Banner, as Sgt. Schultz, in "Hogan's Heroes"
εἰδέναι μὲν μηδὲν πλὴν αὐτὸ τοῦτο εἰδέναι. Translated -> That he knew nothing except that he knew that very fact. - Diogenes Laërtius, quoting Socrates
Hindsight is 20/20. - Anonymous
Can't argue with success. - Anonymous
The two most powerful warriors are patience and time. - Leo Tolstoy
We don't make mistakes, just happy little accidents. - Bob Ross
I always wanted to be somebody, but now I realize that I should have been more specific - Lily Tomlin
Vote for the man that promises least; he will be the least disappointing. - Bernard M. Baruch
Though nothing will drive them away / We can beat them / Just for one day - David Bowie and Brian Eno, "Heroes", Heroes, 1977
Let me tell you about life with an engineer... - Cindi Pape
You can never go back. You have changed; it has changed. - Steve Scheider
Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repeat it. - George Santayana
I always entertain great hopes. - Robert Frost
How many deaths and how much suffering are you willing to accept to get back to what you want to be some form of normality sooner rather than later? - Dr. Anthony Fauci
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. - Henry David Thoreau
Exposing a weapon makes you a target. - Steve Scheider
If only something tasted as good as coffee smells. - Mary Scheider, my mother
Yesterday's the past, tomorrow's the future, but today is a gift. That's why it's called the present. - Dolly, as written by Bil Kearne, Family Circus, 1994
Fix your little problem and light this candle. - Alan Shepard
America is not a battleground. Our fellow citizens are not the enemy. - Martin Dempsey
It's better to be timely than right because our boss can't judge the quality of our work, but he knows when it is late. - Scott Adams, as voiced by Dilbert.
Without data, you're just another person with an opinion. - W. Edwards Deming
Angry people want you to see how powerful they are. Loving people want you to see how powerful you are. - Chief Red Eagle (William Weatherford)
But to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty; let me ask, "would any one be a changeling, because he is less determined by wise considerations than a wise man? Is it worth the name of freedom, to be at liberty to play the fool, and draw shame and misery upon a man's self?" If to break loose from the conduct of reason, and to want that restraint of examination and judgement, which keeps us from choosing or doing the worse, be liberty, true liberty, madmen and fools are the only free men; but yet, I think, nobody would choose to be mad for the sake of such liberty, but he that is mad already. - John Locke
We are very, very small, but we are profoundly capable of very, very big things. - Stephen Hawking
Right now I'm having amnesia and deja vu at the same time... I think I've forgotten this before. - Steven Wright
It's difficult to attack vanilla. - Carlos Curbelo
I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost. - A. A. Milne, as spoken by Winnie the Pooh
I'm not going to spend my life being a color - Bill Botrell and Michael Jackson, "Black and white", Dangerous, 1991
My claim to fame? I was the youngest person in history once. - Ray Yamartino
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you. - Riley "B. B." King
They may take your chair, but they will never take your place. - Steve Scheider
No whammies! - every contestant on "Press Your Luck"
I never wanted to be famous. I only wanted to be great. - Ray Charles
When I teach others, I teach myself. - Itzhak Perlman
Who's more foolish, the fool or the fool who follows him? - George Lucas, as spoken by Alec Guiness as Obi Wan Kenobi, Star Wars: A New Hope, 1977
All models are wrong, some are useful. - George E. P. Box
The old saying is that “figures will not lie,” but a new saying is “liars will figure.” It is our duty, as practical statisticians, to prevent the liar from figuring; in other words, to prevent him from perverting the truth, in the interest of some theory he wishes to establish.
- Carrol D. Wright, 1889
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present. - Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbs, 27 Dec. 1990.
Someday, we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny. - Bruce Springsteen, "Rosalita", The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle, 1973
Art, in itself, is an attempt to bring order out of chaos. - Stephen Sondheim
Ideas are one thing and what happens is another. - John Cage
You're in pretty good shape for the shape that you're in! - Dr. Seuss
It's never just about us. - Anonymous
Religion is a culture of faith; science is a culture of doubt. - Richard Feynman
Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. - Margaret Mead
No one on his deathbed ever said, "I wish I had spent more time on my business." - Arnold Zack
Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. - Tim Notke
Happy wife, happy life! - Sherman Edwards
Each man is three men: What he thinks he is, what others think he is and what he really is. - Christopher Leiningen, as acted by Charlton Heston, in The Naked Jungle, 1954.
Revenge is not Justice. - Steve Scheider
You're only as good as the company you keep. - Frank Sonnenberg
Terrorism from white supremacy is the most lethal threat to the homeland today -- not ISIS, not al-Qaida, white supremacists. - Joe Biden
All is well despite some crazy people in this world. - Dr. Anthony Fauci
The less that you involve doctors and lawyers, the better. - Steve Scheider
If you can't effect change, then it's time to move on. - Steve Scheider, on work
Everyone knows your job but you. - Steve Scheider
Every daily event has an appropriate and corresponding Simpson's quote that can shed light or wisdom on the matter at hand. - Will Samari, Ray Yamartino, and Rafaan Anvari, Dog House Diaries, comic 5550
That's 50-50-90-10: 50% of the time you choose the 90% that fails. - Steve Scheider
Help me, Mr. Wizard! - Tooter Turtle as voiced by Adam Swift.
Drizzle, drazzle, drozzle, drone - Time for this one to come home.. - Mr. Wizard, as voiced by Sandy Becker
Pride is the problem, humility is the answer. - Joyce Meyer
It always seems impossible until it's done. - Nelson Mandela
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think. - Werner Heisenberg
Every wake-up is a win. - Steve Scheider
The capacity to learn is a gift; the ability to learn is a skill; the willingness to learn is a choice. - Brian Herbert
Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real. - Niels Bohr
If I thought data would influence my decisions, I wouldn't let you gather it. - Scott Adams, as spoken by Pointy Haired Boss (PHB) in Dilbert, 10/10/2021.
That is because it is the shortest route to your brain! - Joel Grey as Chuin in Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins, 1985, after being told that he's a pain in the ass.
The carpenter's house always needs work. - Anonymous
To be a programmer is to develop a carefully managed relationship with error. - Ellen Ullman
And in the end / The love you take / Is equal to the love you make. - John Lennon and Paul McCartney, "The End", Abbey Road, The Beatles, 1969
Ὅσον ζῇς φαίνου / μηδὲν ὅλως σὺ λυποῦ / πρὸς ὀλίγον ἔστι τὸ ζῆν / τὸ τέλος ὁ χρόνος ἀπαιτεῖ. Translated -> While you live, shine / have no grief at all / life exists only for a short while / and Time demands his due. - Seikilos epitaph, 1st or 2nd Century CE.
When I left the dining room after sitting next to Gladstone, I thought he was the cleverest man in England. But when I sat next to Disraeli I left feeling that I was the cleverest woman. - Jennie Jerome, Winston Churchill's mother
The threat is stronger than the execution. - Aron Nimzowitsch
If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in. - Edsger W. Dijkstra
I don't know how many of you have ever met Dijkstra, but you probably know that arrogance in computer science is measured in nano-Dijkstras. - Alan Kay
If the purpose of your life is to prolong your life, then maybe there's not much life to prolong. - Stephan Pastis, spoken by the character Rat in Pearls Before Swine, 26 Nov 2021
He who works with his hands is a laborer;
He who works with his hands and his brain is an Artisan;
He who works with his hands, his brains and his heart is an Artist. - Anonymous, "Boys' Workers Round Table", Boys Club Federation Inc., Mid-Summer Vol. 3, Cornell University: State College of Agriculture, Ithaca, NY, 1923
The hurrieder I go the behinder I get. - Anonymous (Pennsylvania Dutch)
... a clock that stands still is sure to point right once in twelve hours ... - Joseph Addison, “The Spectator”, 1711
If God does play dice, as quantum theory would suggest, then religion must follow Bayes Rule. - Steve Scheider
There is no perfect way to do my job. - Sue Bell Cobb, Chief Justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
Code never lies; comments sometimes do. — Ron Jeffries, software developer
No, Spock. He means that he feels safer about your guesses than most other people's facts. - Roddenberry, Nimoy, and Bennet, voiced by Dr. McCoy, as portrayed by DeForest Kelly, "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," Paramount Pictures, 1986
A library serves no purpose unless someone is using it. - Jean Lisette Aroeste, voiced by Mr. Atoz, as portrayed by Ian Wolfe, "All Our Yesterdays," Star Trek, 1969
Believe half of what you see and nothing of what you hear. - Edgar Allan Poe
Testing leads to failure, and failure leads to understanding. - Burt Rutan
Everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. Be kind. - Robin Williams
I need ammunition, not a ride. - Volodymyr Zelenskyy
When you embrace impermanence, all that remains is optimism. - Steve Scheider
The most damaging phrase in the language is: "It's always been done this way." - Grace Hopper
Hope is the foundation of optimism. - Steve Scheider
That's all I can stands, I can stands no more. - Popeye, as voiced by William Costello
Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man; and, therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. - Francis Bacon
Aging is an extraordinary process where you become the person you always should have been. - David Bowie
