Harmful

Like the well-meaning, a warm wind often blows harm disguised.

Think

Instead of teaching people what they should think, just teach them to think for themselves.

Truth

"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick
themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened."
- Winston S. Churchill

Our Power

"What lies in our power to do, lies in our power not to do."
 - Aristotle

He Forgot

“The fact that we are here today to debate raising America ’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the US Government cannot pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies. Increasing America ’s debt weakens us domestically and internationally. Leadership means that ‘the buck stops here.' Instead, Washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and grandchildren. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better.”
-- Senator Barack H. Obama, March 2006

Just Imagine

 "Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere."
 - Albert Einstein

They Chose Poorly

 "Not he who has little, but he who wishes more, is poor."
  - Seneca

The Government Lies

Lying to Congress shouldn't be a crime; they lie to us.

How Many Times Must You Be Told

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of their currency, first by inflation, then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their Fathers conquered... I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies... The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs."
- Thomas Jefferson

Examples

"Example is not the main thing in influencing others, it is the only thing."
- Albert Schweitzer

Choices

"My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!"
Harry Truman, US President

Just Think

If you think you can do a thing or think you can't do a thing, you're right.
Henry Ford

God's Wisdom

It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
-Mark Twain

Thanking Obama?

"Thanking Obama for killing Bin Laden is like going into McDonalds and thanking Ronald McDonald for the hamburger.  It's the guy cooking the burger that should get the credit, not the clown."
-David Rapponotti

Stormo Algorithm

If it can't be cleaned up after with a couple disposable paper towels; then reassess its relative functional importance.

If it still can't be cleaned up with paper towels; then abandon the function.

No Debate

"It is better to debate a question without settling it
than to settle a question without debating it."
- Joseph Joubert

Who Watches

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
-Roman poet, Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis, know in English as Juvenal: 

which is literally translated as "Who will guard the guards themselves?" Also sometimes rendered as "Who watches the watchmen?

Politicians

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

-George Bernard Shaw

Who Bites

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
-Mark Twain

Work Reward

Chop your own wood, and it will warm you twice.
-Henry Ford

Truly Poor

Who are the truly poor, and who chooses to act poorly?

Less Government

That government is best which governs least.
-Thomas Paine

Wrong Cure

Capital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
-Henry Ford

Health

Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
-Mark Twain

Awards

"I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either."

- Jack Benny

Water Everywhere

Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man - who has no gills.
-Ambrose Bierce

Life Long Learning

Personally, I would be delighted if there were a life after death, especially if it permitted me to continue to learn about this world and others, if it gave me a chance to discover how history turns out.
-Carl Sagan

Eating

Never eat more than you can lift.
-Miss Piggy

Help People

Help people that need it a little; when you help too much, you hurt a lot.

Poverty

Ignorance causes poverty; provide more knowledge, not more money.

More Means Faster

Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.

-Wernher von Braun

Hidden

"Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon and the truth."
-Buddha

Hard Choices

The fiction of campaigning is very different from the reality of governing.

What Rebels?

Dead fingers don't pull tiggers.
Moammar el-Qaddafi?

Abandon Reason

"As soon as we abandon our own reason, and are content to rely
upon authority, there is no end to our troubles."
- Bertrand Russell

Truth from Genius

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
- Benjamin Franklin

An Original

"You're born an original. Don't die a copy."
- John Mason

Revolutions

Revolutions are like genetic mutations, nearly all are bad and forunately most can't reproduce.

Mistakes

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
- Albert Einstein

Leadership

"Leadership consists of nothing but taking responsibility for everything that goes wrong and giving your subordinates credit for everything that goes well."
- Dwight Eisenhower

Life

Life is about what you will do next, not what you are doing; and certainly not about what you have done.

Appeasers

“An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last”
- Winston Churchill

Believers

Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand
- Kurt Vonnegut

Life

Life is what you make of it; try not to get too fancy or too complex.

Carry a Gun

"Laws' that forbid the carrying of arms, disarm only those who are
neither inclined nor determined to commit crime... Such laws make
things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants..."
-Thomas Jefferson, 1746

Harm or Help

Good help is somewhat less than is needed.

Poverty, the Way Out

I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or driving them out of it.
- Benjamin Franklin

Geniuses?

But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown.
- Carl Sagan

You Can't Go Home

Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
- Bill Cosby

Communists

"How do you tell a Communist?  Well, it's someone who reads
Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist?  It's someone who
understands Marx and Lenin."
- Ronald Reagan