Zo af en toe vind ik onder een mailtje van iemand een leuke quote of opmerking die ik de moeite waard vind. Zo af en toe is ook een boek of agenda een mooie bron van inspiratie. Hoe dan ook, als ik een leuke tegenkom zet ik ‘m ergens in een lijstje

Hieronder mijn inmiddels flink aangegroeide lijst.

640K ought to be enough for anybody|Bill Gates 1981
a positive attitude may not solve all your problems but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand
Amusement the happiness of those that cannot think|The Thinking Man’s Dictionary Kevin Solway
Architecture the art of how to waste space|The Thinking Man’s Dictionary Kevin Solway
Birthdays are good for you the more you have the longer you live
Caution cowardice|The Thinking Man’s Dictionary Kevin Solway
Committee a group of the unwilling picked from the unfit to do the unnecessary|The Thinking Man’s Dictionary Kevin Solway
Common-sense the reason so many people can be wrong at the same time|The Thinking Man’s Dictionary Kevin Solway
complaining is good for you as long as you’re not complaining to the person you’re complaining about
Crime has already been organised Now it’s up to the police
Dance like nobody’s watching work like you don´t need the money and love like you’ve never been hurt
Deep Space Nine To boldly stay where no one has stayed before
Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do|John Wooden
Due to economic difficulties the light at the end of the tunnel has been shut down until further notice
For Sale Parachute Only used once never opened small stain
For the list of reasons why technology has failed to improve the quality of life press 3|Mike Batchelor
Friends People who know you well but like you anyway
Give me the ready hand rather than the ready tongue |Giuseppe Garibaldi
He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt|Joseph Heller 1961
How do ‘Do Not Walk On Grass’ signs get there
I am the thought you are now thinking|Peter Pentchev
If at first you don’t succeed destroy all evidence that you tried
If it were not for Thomas Edison we would all be watching television in the dark|Michael Landon
If we are what we eat I’m fast cheap and easy
If we do what is necessary all the odds are in our favor |Henry Kissinger
If you drop toast it always lands butter-side down cats always land on their feet So what happens if you strap toast to a cat’s back and drop him
If you receive something that says ‘Send this to all your friends’ PLEASE consider me NOT your friend
If you’d lose your left arm your right arm would be left
Knowledge leads people to come and seek your help It makes one ‘useful’ and will tend to attract unpleasing tasks Therefore cultivate a suitable nonknowledge
Last night as I lay in bed looking at the stars I thought ‘Where the hell is the ceiling ‘
Lead me not into temptation I can find the way myself
Liberty one of Imagination’s most precious possessions|The Thinking Man’s Dictionary Kevin Solway
Listening a very dangerous thing If one listens one may be convinced|The Thinking Man’s Dictionary Kevin Solway
Living on Earth is expensive but it does include a free trip around the sun
Man is still the most extraodinary computer of all|John F Kennedy 1963
Mao Tse Tung Did Not Have To Deal With People Who Were Watching 7 Hours Of Television Every Day|Eugene Chadbourne
Microsoft manager to programmer You start coding I’ll go find out what they want
Minds are like parachutes they only function when they’re open|Frank Zappa
My operat~1 system unders~1 long filena~1 Does yours
Never be afraid to try something new Remember amateurs built the ark Professionals built the Titanic
No person is important enough to make me angry
Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted|Albert Einstein
On the other hand you have different fingers
Pardon me but you have obviously mistaken me for someone who gives a damn|John Galt
Patience a minor form of despair disguised as a virtue|The Thinking Man’s Dictionary Kevin Solway
Perhaps you should read the fucking manual
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Positive thinking will let you do everything better than negative thinking will |Zig Ziglar
Reality an illusion caused by lack of alcohol
Reality is the stuff that doesn’t go away just because you stop believing in it |Philip K Dick
Right now I’m having amnesia and deja vu at the same time I think I’ve forgotten this before
Save energy be apathetic
Shutting down networkservers reguarly during worktime prevents RSI and develops social contacts at work
Sleep A completely inadequate substitute for caffeine
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Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to when all they need is one reason why they can |Willis Whitney
Some women are more logical than men Their minds are cleaner they change them more often
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Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side
Sooner or later those who win are those who think they can |Richard Bach
Space isn’t remote at all It’s only an hour’s drive away if your car could go straight upwards |Sir Fred Hoyle 1979
Terrorists can only take my life Only my government can take my freedom|The Thinking Man’s Dictionary Kevin Solway
The distance is nothing it is only the first step that is difficult|Marquise du Deffand 1763
The meaning of life is to give life meaning
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing|Edmund Burke
The words printed here are concepts You must go through the experiences |Carl Frederick
There are only 10 kind of people in the world those who understand binary and those who don’t
There are two certainties in life death and taxes
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out |John Wooden
This sentence claims to be an Epimenides paradox but it is lying
Time is a waste of money|Oscar Wilde 1894
Time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time|Bertrand Russell
To be sure of hitting the target shoot first and call whatever you hit the target|Ashleigh Brilliant
Veni vidi visa – I came I saw I shopped
Very funny Scotty Now beam down my clothes
When life gets down and dirty jump in and make mudpies |Michelle Wade 2001
When someone once asked Diogenes why he often laughed by himself he said “For that very reason ”
Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t you’re right |Henry Ford
Why do people with closed minds always open their mouths
Work is life and without it there’s nothing but fear and insecurity|John Lennon 1969
Work is the greatest thing in the world so save some for tomorrow
Yeah yo mama dresses you funny and you need a mouse to delete files|BOFH Excuse #82
You don’t need eyes to see you need vision|Faithless

Met dank aan alle bovenstaande auteurs en Joost van Baal, Harm Bakker, Marc Dankers, Claudia van der Meer, Geert Verheij en Remy Wetzels.

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