Favourite Quotes
Created | Updated Sep 12, 2007
Sorry this page is a bit brief at the moment! I am only going to add quotes when I stumble across one and get a good laugh from it. If you have any quotes that are worthy of my consideration, let me know. You will need to get a right good laugh out of me though! :-)
Critical Decisions
"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
Woody Allen
Democracy
"If you meet a powerful person ask them five questions: what power have you got, where did you get it from in whose interests do you exercise it, to whom are you accountable and how can we get rid of you. And if they can't answer the last question, you're not in the democratic business at all."
Tony Benn MP
Computer Programmers
"A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a dangerously perfect match."
Bill Bryson
Design rules
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Adams
The Meaning of Life
"We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anyone tell you any different."
Kurt Vonnegut,Jr.
(Second most) Memorable Comment from the Moon
"Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but it's a long one for me."
Pete Conrad (after stepping onto the moon on the second Apollo landing)
Consultants
"Consultants are nature's way of telling you that you have too much money."
Gene Kerrigan
American Beer
"Other nations drink Ray Charles beer while we drink Barry Manilow."
Dave Barry
Pain
"Why in the world did He ever create pain? … Why couldn’t He have used a doorbell instead to notify us, or one of his celestial choirs? Or a system of blue-and-red neon tubes right in the middle of each person’s forehead. Any jukebox manufacturer worth his salt could have done that. Why couldn’t He?"
Joseph Heller (Quote from Yossarian in Catch 22)
Psychic Powers
"It seems Mr. Geller's alleged psychic powers weren't working correctly when he decided to file this suit."
Paul Kurtz, Chairman of Prometheus Books, after Uri Geller sued him for publishing a book which doubted his psychic ability. Geller lost the case.
Critical Decisions
"More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly."
Woody Allen
Democracy
"If you meet a powerful person ask them five questions: what power have you got, where did you get it from in whose interests do you exercise it, to whom are you accountable and how can we get rid of you. And if they can't answer the last question, you're not in the democratic business at all."
Tony Benn MP
Computer Programmers
"A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things. They are, in short, a dangerously perfect match."
Bill Bryson
Design rules
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
Douglas Adams
The Meaning of Life
"We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anyone tell you any different."
Kurt Vonnegut,Jr.
(Second most) Memorable Comment from the Moon
"Whoopie! Man, that may have been a small one for Neil, but it's a long one for me."
Pete Conrad (after stepping onto the moon on the second Apollo landing)
Consultants
"Consultants are nature's way of telling you that you have too much money."
Gene Kerrigan
American Beer
"Other nations drink Ray Charles beer while we drink Barry Manilow."
Dave Barry
Pain
"Why in the world did He ever create pain? … Why couldn’t He have used a doorbell instead to notify us, or one of his celestial choirs? Or a system of blue-and-red neon tubes right in the middle of each person’s forehead. Any jukebox manufacturer worth his salt could have done that. Why couldn’t He?"
Joseph Heller (Quote from Yossarian in Catch 22)
Psychic Powers
"It seems Mr. Geller's alleged psychic powers weren't working correctly when he decided to file this suit."
Paul Kurtz, Chairman of Prometheus Books, after Uri Geller sued him for publishing a book which doubted his psychic ability. Geller lost the case.
