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Back-up, Back-up, Back-up!“ - C. R. Kettemborough 

“Drive thy business, or it will drive thee.“ - Benjamin Franklin

“Time is relative; its only worth depends upon what we do as it is passing.“ - Albert Einstein

“All of life is a very narrow bridge; and the most important thing is not to be afraid.“ – Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav

“Winning isn’t everything, but loosing sucks.“ - Anonymous

“No pessimist ever discovered the secrets of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.“ – Helen Keller

“People know what they do; they frequently know why they do what they do; but what they don’t know is what what they do does.“ – Michael Foucault, The Order of Things

“Study, Study, Study!“ - V. I. Lenin 

“You can observe a lot by watching.“ - Yogi Berra

“There is no greater luxury than the freedom to do nothing.  We’re not like our bosses, who can’t entertain themselves for a minute.  They’re either working or self-improving.“ – Anonymous Generation X employee quoted in Across the Board magazine

“You go to the office and people do whatever you say.  You go home and say, do this, and the kids just look at you like, no.  No matter what you accomplished at work, when you get home you are just dad. At the office you get a lot of respect; home is a great equalizer.“ – Fredric Rosen, former CEO of Ticketmaster Corp. in Fortune magazine.

“It is strange that you speak so well of Monsieur X when he always speaks so badly about you.  Really?!  Perhaps we are both wrong.“ – ac credited to Voltaire, 18th century French philosopher

“Ease and speed in doing a thing do not give the work lasting solidity or exactness of beauty.“ – Plutarch in “Life of Pericles” circa 46 – 120 A.D.

“A man’s got to know his limitations.“ – Dirty Harry in Magnum Force

“What one programmer can do in a year, two programmers can also do in a year.“ – Conventional software wisdom

“No problem is so big or so complicated that it can’t be run away from.“ – Linus in Peanuts

“Make things as simple as possible but no simpler.“ – A. Einstein

“It’s a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.“ – W. Somerset Maugham

“If you obey all the rules you miss all the fun.“ – Katherine Hepburn

“Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes.“ – Henry David Thoreau

“The user interface is the program.“ – Dr. Alan Kay, Apple Computer Corporation

“Time is a dress-maker specializing in alterations.“ - Faith Baldwin

“There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.“ – Beverly Sills

“Thunder is impressive, but it’s the lightning that does the work.“ – Mark Twain

“Necessity is the mother of invention – is a silly proverb.  Necessity is the mother of futile dodges – is much nearer the truth.“ – Alfred North Whitehead

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!“ – The Wizard in The Wizard of Oz

“People who like this sort of thing will find this sort of thing they like.“ – Abraham Lincoln

“He who hesitates is something saved.“ – James Thurber

“Spare no expense to make everything as economical as possible.“ – Sam Goldwyn

“When there are two bosses in town, there's money to be made.“ – Clint Eastwood in A Fist Full of Dollars

“In life success is 90% show-up.“ – Woody Allen

“Take your life in your own hands and what happens?  A terrible thing: no one to blame.“ – Erica Jong

“That’s like putting lipstick on a bulldog.  It might look good, but it’s still a bulldog.“ – Joe Szabo, Fleet Credit Services, Inc.

“All companies will be Internet companies, or they won’t be companies.“ – Andy Grove, Intel Corp.’s Chairman

"When we ask advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice." – Marquis de la Grange

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." – Ken Olson, President, Chairman, and Founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

"Leveraging knowledge may be management's most important task." – Ted Gautschi, Technology and Management Consulant

"In any operation, the plan is the first casualty." – Military saying

“If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything.“ - Anonymous

“Trying too hard to change your style can lower your value to everyone.“ - Herbert W. Lovelace, Information Week, July 5, 1999, p. 98.

“The fruit is at the end of the limb, and you have to go out on the limb to get it.“ -Carla Woods of Tyson Foods, Inc.

“Management speak: I like the way you think. Translation: I'm going to take credit for your ideas.“ - Toby Velte

“We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?“ - Neils Bohr, famous physicist (1885 - 1962)

“Management speak: I've been thinking about the situation, and it troubles me. Translation: I'm sorry you found out what we've been doing behind your back.“ - David Paul

“People will rarely succeed at anything unless they have fun doing it.“ - Annonymous

“There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, than to take a lead in the introduction of a new order of things, because the innovation has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new.“ - Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527): Il Principe (The Prince)

“There is no all-powerful magic potion–just an enormous population willing to believe in one .“  - Jim Smith, President and CEO Cambridge Management Sciences, Inc.

“Stupidity is doing the same thing and expecting different results.“  - Albert Einstein

“Management Speak: You don't understand the politics of this request. Translation: You're right, it's stupid, but we're going to do it anyway.“  - IS Survivalist Mike Little

“Management Speak: We're different. Translation: We're too lazy to find out how other industries do it.“  - IS Survivalist Steve Jackson

“Not only is there no god, but try getting technical support on a Sunday.“  - as would had been said by Woody Allen

“The judgement of history is not what is on tomorrow morning's television, but what is in the history books 50 to 100 years or more from now.“  - Henry Kissinger, former U.S. Secretary of State

“Pray as though everything depended on God.  Work as though everything depended on you.“  - St. Augustine

“When you cannot make up your mind which of two evenly balanced courses of action you should take -- choose the bolder.“  - W. J. Smith, British general

“Ever since Moses came down from the mountain with the tables, the world has been moved by salesmen.  I'm a salesman.“  - David Mahoney, chairman of Norton Simon, Inc.

“Men are never so likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it freely.“  - Lord Macauly (1830)

“Management Speak: That's a good question. Teh answer is, "It depends." Translation: I don't know the answer, but I'll try to impress you by telling you everthing I know that might have any bearing on the subject.“  - IS Survivalist Paul C. Aspinwall

“What distinguishes the winners from the losers in creating shareholder value?  The quality of investment decisions, which, in turn, depends on the soundness of a firm's resource allocation system.“ - Anjan Thakor, Faculty Director for Winning the Resource Allocation Game

“Despite the obvious consequences of misallocating capital and human resources, the history of corporate America is littered with examples of poor investment decisions.  Why do companies continue to blunder?  We believe it is because they have flawed resource allocation systems, which they apparently fail to recognize.“ - From "How Do You Win the Capital Allocation Game?" by J. Boquist, T. Milbourn, and A. Thakor, Sloan Management Review, Winter 1998.

"An optimist sees an opportunity in every calamity. A pessimist sees a calamity in every opportunity." - Winston Churchill

"Only a fool tests the water with both feet."- African proverb

"Any man whose errors take ten years to correct is quite a man."-  J. Robert Oppenheimer, speaking of Albert Einstein

"Good health is simply the slowest way to die."- Unknown

"A good scare is worth more to a man than good advice."- Ed Howe

"The Rules: 1. Never split up; 2. Never face the Powers of Darkness at night; 3. Always save the last bullet for yourself."- Unknown

"Every program has at least one bug and can be shortened by at least one instruction-from which, by induction, it is evident that every program can be reduced to one instruction that does not work." - Unknown

"We talk incessantly about teams. Yet we now practice-and not only in American industry-the most extreme personality cult of CEO supermen."- Peter Drucker

"All jobs are easy to the person who doesn't have to do them."- Holt's Law

"My brother Arthur asked, "If 2PIr is not an exact, measurable circumference, why isn't the beer leaking out?" - Stan Kelly-Bootle in Performance Computing, Dec. 1999 (PI = 3.14159.....)

"Quicquid recipitur per modum recipientis recipitur. - Whatever is received is received in the manner of the receiver." - Latin saying

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then, is not an act, but a habit." - Aristotle