Stand for Something

  "You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life."

  ~  Winston Churchill

Sense

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18."
 ~ Albert Einstein

Argument

 "Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance."
 ~ Robert Quillen

Unnecessary

 "A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary."
 - Fred Allen

Change

 "If you want to make enemies, try to change something."
 ~ Woodrow Wilson

What Matters

  “What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matters compared to what lies within us.”
 - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ability

"Ability will never catch up with the demand for it."
 - Confucius

Just Imagine

 "Imagination is more important than knowledge."
 - Albert Einstein

Excessive Credit

"The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit
for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses."
 - Lowell Thomas

Make Up Your Mind

"The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who
never make up their minds to be good or evil."
- Hannah Arendt

Thinkers

 "Life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those who think."
- Jean de la Bruyere

Slavery

"There are two ways to enslave a country, one is by sword the other is by
debt." John Adams

Life's Tough

"Life's tough, Pilgrim, it's tougher when you're stupid"  The Duke 

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

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.

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

Water Everywhere

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