Never whistle while you’re pithing.
Don’t pith in to the wind?
People can SAY anything. It don’t make it true.
And that goes double for “I saw it on the Internet.”
Change is neither good, nor bad-it is just different. “At least I did something” is not something to brag about unless it is followed by “…and by doing so I accomplished this!”
Violent revolution is seldom lead by reasonable people, and there is little reason to believe that those willing to kill for their beliefs will either be reasonable after the revolution, or let those that are reasonable depose them.
Imaginary bravery and actual bravery have little to no relationship with each other.
I’m a prosecutor. I’ve been giving this out to some cops lately: “You’ll never say to yourself, ‘gosh, I wish I’d never gotten that warrant.’” Which is true; even if you’re in a situation where a warrant isn’t necessary, you won’t regret getting one.
Believing Is Seeing
Nobody worries more about being robbed than a thief.
You are entitled to your own opinion, not your own facts.
Always wear clean underwear.
Common sense isn’t.
Regards,
Shodan
From my dad…
Give the hardest job to the laziest man and he will find the easiest way to do it.
Mitch Ratcliffe…
“A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention with the possible exceptions of handguns and Tequila.”
Bertrand Russell…
“Most people would die sooner than think – in fact, they do so.”
Gerald M. Weinberg…
“If you cannot think of three ways of abusing a tool, you do not understand how to use it.”
Winston Churchill…
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.”
and an un-credited favorite…
Not my circus, not my monkeys.
Assume a virtue, if you have it not.
Try to see things from your enemy’s point of view; it’s the best way to figure out how he plans to f**k you over.
What isn’t important doesn’t matter.
Everything can be divided into important versus unimportant, and urgent versus non-urgent. That gives four categories. Figure out which one of the four your various “jobs to do” fit into, and you’ll know which ones to actually do, in which order.
Do you know what dirty dishes mean? It means there’s food in the house.
Never show all your cards nor all your smarts.
Love is always the answer. Just not always the right answer.
Respectfully disagree. What if Rosa Parks had thought that way? And many other examples, of course.
I guess things have changed since I studied engineering. The way I learned it, a safety factor of one would mean the glass was only as big as it needed to be. If it could handle an additional 100% of the design volume, it would be a safety factor of two.
Stupid is as stupid does.
Respect is earned.
If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all.
Everything in moderation.
Those who trade liberty for security deserve neither.
All things being equal, they ain’t.
If at first you don’t succeed, do it another way.
You can’t test boundaries by tip-toeing up to them.
If you seek “better” you can never go wrong, but if you seek “perfect” you will never go anywhere.
Random acts of kindness are their own reward.
It is not the principles you are willing to kill for that define you-It is the principles that you are willing to die for.
“Don’t ask a question unless you want to hear the answer.” — A summer-job boss whose name I’ve long since forgotten.
Don’t ask anyone why did they something wrong. Work at fixing it, then decide if it’s worth the time to ask them that question.
I read this in a book this morning: Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo.
Also, I love the saying “Change the name and the tale is told about you.”