From George Smart's Wiki

Interesting Quotes

Here are some quotes, lyrics, sayings, proverbs and the like. There are a good few, but they mean something to me. They are in no specific order.

"Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind."

--Dr. Seuss 

"Once social change begins, it cannot be reversed.  You cannot uneducate the person who has learned to read."

–- César Chávez

"Chuck Norris can restore a system from sudo rm -rf /.  You can't."

–- Seen in the Ubuntu User Forums, here.

"I always tell my co-workers. 'Comments don't run!!'"

–- Oscar Reyes Mar 27 at 0:43, from here.

"You're a problem creator.  Me, I'm a solution provider!"

–- Aaron Brown, in one of his ramblings.

"How does that make you feel?"  (Shouted)

–- Lorenzo Levrini, in response to Dr Liu's comments on Vicky's RLC understanding.

"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.

"If you can’t explain what you are doing to a nine-year-old, then either you still don’t understand 
it very well, or it’s not all that worthwhile in the first place."

-- Albert Einstein

"Physics is much too hard for physicists."

-- David Hilbert

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants. --Isaac Newton
   If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. --Hal Abelson
   Mathematicians stand on each other’s shoulders. --Gauss
   Computer scientists stand on each other’s feet. --Richard Hamming
   Software engineers dig each other’s graves. --Unknown

"Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much."

-- Oscar Wilde

I'm here without you baby, but you're still on my lonely mind;
I think about you baby, and I dream about you all the time;
I'm here without you baby, but you're still with me in my dreams; 
And tonight its only you and me.

-- 3 Doors Down - Here Without You (song)

"He cannot write any quicker than can be understood."

-- Myself, refering to Dr Kenyon's hand-written lectures and lack of PowerPoint.

"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up."

-- Jesse Jackson

"I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, 
It's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, And 
that enables you to laugh at life's realities."

-- Dr. Seuss

"An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a
very narrow field"

-- Nils Bohr

"Those folks who try to impose analog rules on digital content will find themselves
on the wrong side of the tidal wave."

-- Mark Shuttleworth

"At 300dpi you can tell she's wearing a swimsuit.
At 600dpi you can tell that it's wet.
At 1200dpi you can tell it's painted on,
I suppose at 2400dpi you can tell if the paint is giving her a rash."

-- Joshua Poulson

When man invented fire, he didn’t say, 'hey, let’s cook', he said,
'great, now we can see naked bottoms in the dark.'

-- Coupling

"Go that extra mile.  There's always plenty of room there!"

-- U2XS Ubuntu Forums

"If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet." 

-- Nils Bohr

"If you are good enough to make a hobby your work, then it's probably more than a hobby."

-- Lorenzo Levrini