Life

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-- Albert Einstein

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
-- George Bernard Shaw

Insults are the last weapons of those who have been defeated by the facts.
-- Unknown

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
-- Stephen Vincent Benet

All relevant people are pertinent.
All rude people are impertinent.
Therefore, no rude people are relevant.
-- Unknown

Try not to become a success, but rather to become a man of value.
-- Albert Einstein

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
-- Fran Lebowitz, Metropolitan Life

Success is when those who know you best love you the most.
-- Unknown

He was eminent when my eminence was merely imminent.
-- Miles on the TV show Frazier

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
-- Unknown

It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
-- Oscar Wilde

There is only one success--to spend life in your own way.
-- Christopher Morley

since feeling is first
who pays any attention
to the syntax of things
will never wholly kiss you
-- e.e. cummings

I personally think we developed language out of a deep inner need to complain.
-- Jane Wagner, Lily Tomlin

To venture causes anxiety, but not to venture is to loose one's self.
-- Kierkegaard

Every one is concerned about apathy.
-- Richard J. Daley, Mayor, City of Chicago.

A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

It's more fun to arrive at a conclusion than to justify it.
-- Malcolm S. Forbes

I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death my right to mock you.
-- Matt Hicks, Tech. Writer, Unidata

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging conceptions and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. There is the whole case against censorship in a nutshell.
-- G. B. Shaw

Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.
-- W. B. Yeats

My mother once said, "If you screw up, 'fess up or you'll mess up more than you screwed up!"

My favorite quote re: technical communication is the STC Code for Communicators, which, naturally, I can't find at the moment. It's a really nice, idealistic statement of what it is I like to think I'm doing.

Life's been nothing but paperwork.
-- Gustav Mahler

Never put pen to paper!
-- Lady Ida Sitwell

Drawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
-- Robert Benchley

Few people have the imagination for reality.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe