24 Mar , 2011
Very little is known about the War of 1812 because the Americans lost it. Great short quote and quotation by: Eric Nicol ,
24 Mar , 2011
Vietnam is a jungle. You had jungle warfare. Kuwait, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, you have sand. [There is no need to worry about a protracted war because] from a historical basis, Middle East conflicts do not last a long time. Great short quote and quotation by: Dan Quayle, 10/2/90 (reported in Esquire, 8/92) , US Republican […]
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15 Feb , 2011
Waste no more time talking about great souls and how they should be. Become one yourself! Great short quote and quotation by: Marcus Aurelius Antoninus , Roman Emperor, A.D. 161-180 (121 AD – 180 AD)
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15 Feb , 2011
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements in life, when all we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Kingsley , English Anglican clergyman & novelist (1819 – 1875)
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15 Feb , 2011
We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us happy is something to be enthusiastic about. Great short quote and quotation by: Charles Kingsley , English Anglican clergyman & novelist (1819 – 1875)
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15 Feb , 2011
We are a kind of Chameleons, taking our hue – the hue of our moral character, from those who are about us. Great short quote and quotation by: John Locke , English empiricist philosopher (1632 – 1704)
15 Feb , 2011
We are a spectacular, splendid manifestation of life. We have language. . . . We have affection We have genes for usefulness, and usefulness is about as close to a “common goal” of nature as I can guess at. And finally, and perhaps best of all, we have music. Great short quote and quotation by: […]
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15 Feb , 2011
We are the people our parents warned us about. Great short quote and quotation by: Jimmy Buffett ,
15 Feb , 2011
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. Great short quote and quotation by: Kurt Vonnegut Jr. ,
15 Feb , 2011
We become what we think about all day long. Great short quote and quotation by: Ralph Waldo Emerson , US essayist & poet (1803 – 1882)
15 Feb , 2011
We cannot be too earnest, too persistent, too determined, about living superior to the herd-instinct. Great short quote and quotation by: Author Unknown ,
Gerald Weinberg, "The Psychology of Computer Programming"
15 Feb , 2011
We have come through a strange cycle in programming, starting with the creation of programming itself as a human activity. Executives with the tiniest smattering of knowledge assume that anyone can write a program, and only now are programmers beginning to win their battle for recognition as true professionals. Not just anyone, with any background, […]
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