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Amusing quotes
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Amusing quotes
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/chicks-net/quote-file
- Owner: chicks-net
- License: other
- Created: 2013-06-12T04:13:14.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
- Default Branch: master
- Last Pushed: 2015-09-19T04:56:58.000Z (over 9 years ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-01-25T20:44:00.610Z (4 months ago)
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- Readme: README.md
- License: LICENSE
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quote-file
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Amusing and inspiring quotes
Favorite quotes
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These are some of my favorite quotes of all time.
> Free software isn't free, but expensive software is expensive.
I heard that at [Usenix](https://www.usenix.org/) in San Antonio and I've used it as my email signature for several years.
> The great thing about standards is there are so many to choose from.
I say this every week it seems. It applies to so many areas of technology.
Thankfully the same idea has now been immortalized by [xkdc](http://xkcd.com/927/).
Good quotes
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> Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
- Thomas A. Edison
> Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it’s wrong.
- [Prof. E.O. Wilson](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._O._Wilson)
> I think it’s intoxicating when somebody is so unapologetically who they are.
- Don Cheadle
> You are so brave and quiet I forget you are suffering.
- Ernest Hemingway
> Art washes from the soul the dust of everyday life.
- Pablo Picasso
> Seven blunders of the world that lead to violence: wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, politics without principle.
- Mahatma Gandhi
> The difference between peace and fuck is one finger.
- Theresa
Technology quotes
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> Systems administration is boredom punctuated with typing the exact right command.
If you're still awake to type it, I suppose. There was a similar quote about war,
but wars end and systems administration is eternal. :gun:
> Q: What is the best platform for running Oracle?
> A: A PowerPoint presentation!
The answer used to be a "slide projector", but nobody knows what that is anymore.
> Awfluence
Christine H's name for Confluence
Funny quotes
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> If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.
- [Jack Handey](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Handey) ([video](https://screen.yahoo.com/deep-thoughts-trees-000000989.html))
> The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
— Bertrand Russell
OpenX quotes
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During my days at OpenX we often said:
> We do it to ourselves.
and
> Tested in Production
Kelly even had brandy snifters printed up with "Tested in Production" etched on them. Many lol's and toasts ensued.
Rhonda quotes
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My cousin Rhonda is full of amusing quotes, often with a rustic ring.
> If it was easy anybody could do it.
We know these people
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> Great minds think alot.
:rainbow: :rainbow:
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