Favourite quotes

[Ian H]

Don't think you are coming under my umbrella.

 

[Shortfall]

"Very slowly then all at once".

Supposedly used by Ernest Hemingway to describe the process of going bankrupt. Could be prescient looking at the current state of the UK's finances.

 

[Rusty Nails]

"Very slowly then all at once".

Supposedly used by Ernest Hemingway to describe the process of going bankrupt. Could be prescient looking at the current state of the UK's finances.

I thought it might have been your version of having sex.

 

[Shortfall]

I thought it might have been your version of having sex.

Just the all at once bit!

 

[Rusty Nails]

Just the all at once bit!

Wham, bang, thank you ma’am!

Another quote from somewhere.

 

[Psamathe]

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
(from Dune)

 

[briantrumpet]

"Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts" (John Dryden)

 

[Ian H]

The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted

 

[Bazzer]

The Great Hyperlobic Omnicognate Neutron Wrangler can talk all four legs off an Arcturan Mega Donkey, but only I can persuade it to go for a walk afterwards.

 

[Ianonabike]

Don't think you are coming under my umbrella.

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." - Roger Miller

"Confidence is the feeling we have before knowing all the facts" (John Dryden)

"If facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." - not Einstein

Wham, bang, thank you ma’am!

I hate to be a pedant, but it's wham bam. Consonance counts.

 

[C R]

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.

This seems to have evolved over time from an original by Bernard Baruch.

 

[Beebo]

I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too. It gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing and then I'm happy for the rest of the day.

 

[Beebo]

Two from HG Wells

Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

 

[Ianonabike]

"You affect the world by what you browse." - Tim Berners-Lee

Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
(from Dune)

"The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do." - B. F. Skinner

I feed the pigeons, I sometimes feed the sparrows too. It gives me a sense of enormous wellbeing and then I'm happy for the rest of the day.

"Bring us the day they switch off the machines, 'cause men in yellow jackets are putting adverts inside my dreams." - Blur

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion, but not to their own facts.

This seems to have evolved over time from an original by Bernard Baruch.

"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it." - Flannery O’Connor

 

[Cirrus]

“Trying is the first step towards failure“

Homer Simpson