Thanks to a word limit on Facebook I'm continuing my quote collection here on my blog.
"If the circus is coming to town and you paint a sign saying “Circus Coming to the Fairground Saturday”, that’s advertising. If you put the sign on the back of an elephant and walk it into town, that’s promotion. If the elephant walks through the mayor’s flower bed, that’s publicity. And if you get the mayor to laugh about it, that’s public relations. If the town’s citizens go to the circus, you show them the many entertainment booths, explain how much fun they’ll have spending money at the booths, answer their questions and ultimately, they spend a lot at the circus, that’s sales. And, if you planned the whole thing, that’s Marketing!"
-Unknown
(this one brazenly stolen from the website of the company my cousin Jeff works for)
Confusion is always the most honest response.
- Marty Indik
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
- Iris Murdoch
"It is impossible to speak in such a way that you cannot be misunderstood."
- Karl Popper
We are here on Earth to do good to others. What the others are here for, I don't know.
- W. H. Auden
I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.
- Dave Barry
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
- Chinese Proverb
Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.
- Theodore Roosevelt
As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns, the ones we don’t know we don’t know.
- Donald Rumsfeld
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Confusion is always the most honest response.
- Marty Indik
The nice part about being a pessimist is that you are constantly being either proven right or pleasantly surprised.
- George F. Will
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
- T. S. Eliot
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
- Dave Barry
The English language was carefully, carefully cobbled together by three blind dudes and a German dictionary.
- Dave Kellett
Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
- Jonathan Swift
"Racism is a grown-up disease and we must stop using our children to spread it."
- Ruby Bridges
This is science: the process of playing with rules that enables one to reveal previously unseen patterns of relationships that extend our collective understanding of nature and human nature.
- Blackawton bees
P. S. Blackawton1, S. Airzee1, A. Allen1, S. Baker1,
A. Berrow1, C. Blair1, M. Churchill1, J. Coles1, R. F.-
J. Cumming1, L. Fraquelli1, C. Hackford1, A. Hinton
Mellor1, M. Hutchcroft1, B. Ireland1, D. Jewsbury1,
A. Littlejohns1, G. M. Littlejohns1, M. Lotto1,
J. McKeown1, A. O’Toole1, H. Richards1,
L. Robbins-Davey1, S. Roblyn1, H. Rodwell-Lynn1,
D. Schenck1, J. Springer1, A. Wishy1,
T. Rodwell-Lynn1, D. Strudwick1 and R. B. Lotto2,*
1Blackawton Primary School, Blackawton, Devon, UK
2Institute of Ophthalmology, University College London,
11-43 Bath Street, London EC1V 9EL, UK
I am nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I am perfect.
- Bumper sticker on way to work
On the right project, some bad rust looks better than some good paint.
- imakeprojects.com
More to come as I find worthy quotes!
GDC
