“There are 10 types of people in this world – those who understand binary, and those who don’t.”
“There are two types of people in this world – those who separate people into two types, and those who don’t.”
"There are two types of people in this world – those who finish what they started, and
“I still think of myself as I was 25 years ago. Then I look in a mirror and see an old bastard and realize it’s me.”
“A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.”
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—Dave Allen*
For that first quote, you’ve pretty much described every Vietnam War vet still traipsing around Southeast Asia (except now it’s become 40 or more years ago).
For the second, that was the mantra of an American journalist and essayist I worked with in Bangkok.
“There are two types of people in this world – those who can extrapolate from incomplete data…”
“My boys need room!”
—Cosmo Kramer
“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” - Aral Vorkosigan, A Civil Campaign
“The trouble ain’t that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain’t distributed right.” - Mark Twain
“The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane.” - Mark Twain
“Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.” - Abraham Lincoln
A principle that can’t bear being laughed at, frowned on, and cold-shouldered, isn’t worthy of the name. — Louisa May Alcott, An Old-fashioned Girl
“One man’s ball sweat is another man’s fragrant musk.”
—The Onion
“Burnside is the only person I know of who can snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.”
Abraham Lincoln
“The United States themselves are essentially the greatest poem.”
– Walt Whitman
“In America, anyone can become president. That’s the problem.”
“Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize that half of them are stupider than that.”
“Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.”
—George Carlin
“Maybe the People are always those who used to live the generation before last.” – John Steinbeck, in answer to a man decrying the depths to which the current crop of Americans had sunk. And this was in 1960!
What do you call someone who doesn’t understand hexadecimal?
How the fifteen should I know?!
“The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.” - W Somerset Maugham
“Baby Boomers—the most insufferable generation ever.”
—Cracked
“In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it’s the exact opposite.”
– Paul Dirac
“Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand. Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933. Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics.”
– Opening lines of “States of Matter”, by D. L. Goodstein
“In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move.”
– Douglas Adams
“Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love.”
– Albert Einstein
Why do software engineers celebrate Christmas on Halloween?
Because 25 DEC = 31 OCT.