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1, " Kleptomaniac: A rich thief."
2, " Labor: One of the processes by which A acquires property for B."
3, " The shortest distance between two points is under construction."
4, " Liar: A lawyer with a roving commission."
5, " Mad: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence..."
6, " Misfortune: The kind of fortune that never misses."
7, " Monday: In Christian countries, the day after the baseball game."
8, " The most powerful force in the world is that of a frisbee straining to land under a car, just out of reach."
9, " Never precede any demo by a comment more predictive than \042Watch this!\042."
10, " It is bad luck to be superstitious."
11, " If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law."
12, " For every action there is an equal and opposite government program."
13, " When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut."
14, " Nothing in the known universe travels faster than a bad check."
15, " A quarter-ounce of chocolate = four pounds of fat."
16, " Any small object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object."

17, " Pro is to con as progress is to Congress."
18, " The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the stupidity of your action."
19, " Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots."
20, " Bank error in your favor. Collect 200!"
21, " Go placidly amid the noise and waste, and remember what value there may be in owning a piece thereof."
22, " Help! I'm trapped behind a Window!!!!"
23, " If anything can go wrong, it will."
24, " This fortune intentionally left blank."
25, " Look out! Behind you!"
26, " A diplomat is someone who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that you will look forward to the trip."
27, " It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious."
28, " In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake."
29, " Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse."
30, " Dimensions will always be expressed in the least usable term. Velocity, for example, will be expressed in furlongs per fortnight."
31, " Any given program, when running, is obsolete."
32, " Any given program costs more and takes longer."

33, " If a program is useful, it will have to be changed."
34, " Any given program will expand to fill all available memory."
35, " The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output."
36, " Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it."
37, " There's always one more bug."
38, " Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it."
39, " It works better if you plug it in."
40, " Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out."
41, " Government expands to absorb all available revenue and then some."
42, " The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent."
43, " Progress is made on alternate Fridays."
44, " If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization."
45, " Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.\012 Anything not fitting into these categories causes cancer in rats."
46, " You can fool all of the people some of the time, and some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool Mom."
47, " If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.\012 -- Mark Twain"
48, " Why is it that we rejoice at a birth and grieve at a funeral? It is because we are not the person involved\012 -- Mark Twain"

49, " We have met the enemy, and he is us.\012 -- Walt Kelly"
50, " Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing."
51, " There is a great discovery still to be made in Literature: that of paying literary men by the quantity they do NOT write."
52, " 1.) If the document should exist, it doesn't.\012 2.) If the document does exist, it's out of date.\012 3.) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws."
53, " Probable-Possible, my black hen,\012 She lays eggs in the Relative When.\012 She doesn't lay eggs in the Positive Now\012 Because she's unable to postulate how.\012 -- Frederick Winsor"
54, " Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses.\012 -- H. L. Mencken"
55, " Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.\012 -- Mark Twain"
56, " If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?"
57, " The shortest distance between two points is off the wall."
58, " Blessed are they who Go Around in Circles, for they Shall be Known as Wheels."
59, " You will be Told about it Tomorrow. Go Home and Prepare Thyself."
60, " Ambidextrous: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left."
61, " Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head."
62, " Dawn: The time when people of reason go to bed."
63, " While your friend holds you affectionately by both your hands you are safe, for you can watch both of his."
64, " Did you know that clones never use mirrors?"

65, " There are four kinds of homicide: felonious, excusable, justifiable, and praiseworthy...\012 -- Ambrose Bierce"
66, " The goal of mechanical engineering is to build better mousetraps.\012 The goal of genetic engineering is to build better mice."
67, " Genetics explains why you look like your father, and if you don't, why you should."
68, " Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said."
69, " Winter is the season in which people try to keep the house as warm as it was in the summer, when they complained about the heat."
70, " If bankers can count, how come they have eight windows and only four tellers?"
71, " An elephant is a mouse with an operating system."
72, " A sine curve goes off to infinity or at least the end of the blackboard"
73, " It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know nothing about the problem."
74, " Computers are not intelligent. They only think they are."
75, " Let He who taketh the Plunge Remember to return it by Tuesday."
76, " Those who can, do. Those who can't, simulate."
77, " Those who can't write, write manuals."
78, " Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him."
79, " A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn."
80, " It seems like the less a statesman amounts to, the more he loves the flag."

81, " SHIFT TO THE LEFT! SHIFT TO THE RIGHT!\012 POP UP, PUSH DOWN, BYTE, BYTE, BYTE!"

82, " Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people.\012 -- W.C. Fields"
83, " There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.\012 --Mark Twain"
84, " Beware of low-flying butterflies."
85, " Your analyst has you mixed up with another patient. Don't believe a thing he tells you."
86, " You could get a new lease on life -- if only you didn't need the first and last month in advance."
87, " Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so get used to it."
88, " You worry too much about your job. Stop it. You are not paid enough to worry."
89, " A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep."
90, " The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning, and does not stop until you get to work."
91, " Paranoids are people, too; they have their own problems. It's easy to criticize, but if everybody hated you, you'd be paranoid too.\012 -- D. J. Hicks"
92, " What use is magic if it can't save a unicorn?\012 -- Peter S. Beagle"
93, " Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has been discontinued."
94, " Wasting time is an important part of living."
95, " Nihilism should commence with oneself."
96, " Nudists are people who wear one-button suits."

97, " In case of atomic attack, the federal ruling against prayer in schools will be temporarily cancelled."
98, " Alexander Graham Bell is alive and well in New York, and still waiting for a dial tone."
99, " UNIX is like sex - if you've tried it, you can't get along without it, if you haven't you really have no idea what the fuss is about."
100, " Give your child mental blocks for Christmas."
101, " Modern man is the missing link between apes and human beings."
102, " Xerox never comes up with anything original."
103, " George Orwell was an optimist."
104, " Gravity is a myth, the Earth sucks."
105, " Nostalgia isn't what it used to be."
106, " Hail to the sun god\012 He sure is a fun god\012 Ra! Ra! Ra!"
107, " Tangent tangent cosine sine\012 three point one four one five nine\012 Caltech! Caltech! Rah!"
108, " Brain fried -- Core dumped"
109, " Remember now, no more jokes about eununchs."
110, " Q: What's an IBM man-year?\012 A: 730 people trying to get a project done before noon."
111, " Who cares if it doesn't do anything? It was made with our new Triple-Iso-Bifurcated-Krypton-Gate-MOS process..."
112, " \042There are three possibilities: Pioneer's solar panel has turned away from the sun; there's a large meteor blocking transmission; or someone loaded Star Trek 3.2 into our video processor.\042"

113, " Hummingbirds never remember the words to songs."
114, " Coward: One who in a perilous emergency thinks with his legs."
115, " Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves."
116, " Slang is language that takes off its coat, spits on its hands, and goes to work."
117, " As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.\012 --Einstein"
118, " \042We don't care. We don't have to. We're the Phone Company.\042\012 --Ernestine"
119, " Flappity, floppity, flip\012 The mouse on the mobius strip;\012 The strip revolved,\012 The mouse dissolved\012 In a chronodimensional skip."
120, " Oh, dear, where can the matter be\012 When it's converted to energy?\012 There is a slight loss of parity.\012 Johnny's so long at the fair."
121, " 100 blocks of crud on the disk,\012 100 blocks of crud!\012 You patch a bug, and dump it again:\012 101 blocks of crud on the disk!..."
122, " If the odds are a million to one against something occurring, chances are 50-50 it will."
123, " Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example."
124, " Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy."
125, " Antonym: The opposite of the word you're trying to think of."
126, " A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain.\012 -- Mark Twain"
127, " Collaboration: A literary partnership based on the false assumption that the other fellow can spell."
128, " Conscience is the inner voice that warns us somebody is looking\012 -- H. L. Mencken"

129, " Conversation: A vocal competition in which the one who is catching his breath is called the listener."
130, " The cow is nothing but a machine which makes grass fit for us people to eat.\012 -- John McNulty"
131, " Democracy is a form of government in which it is permitted to wonder aloud what the country could do under first-class management."
132, " Diplomacy is the art of saying \042nice doggy\042 until you can find a rock."
133, " A diplomat is a man who can convince his wife she'd look stout in a fur coat."
134, " Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again."
135, " Fairy Tale: A horror story to prepare children for the newspapers."
136, " Faith is the quality that enables you to eat blackberry jam on a picnic without looking to see whether the seeds move."
137, " Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months.\012 -- Oscar Wilde"
138, " You can make it foolproof, but you can't make it damnfoolproof."
139, " If an idea can survive a bureaucratic review and be implemented it wasn't worth doing."
140, " In any organization there will always be one person who knows what is going on.\012 This person must be fired."
141, " Consultants are mystical people who ask a company for a number and then give it back to them."
142, " Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving from where you left them to where you can't find them."
143, " If you hit two keys on the keyboard, the one you don't want will get to the screen first."
144, " Science is true. Don't be misled by facts."

145, " 1. If reproducibility may be a problem, conduct the test only once.\012 2. If a straight line fit is required, obtain only two data points."
146, " Unless the results are known in advance, funding agencies will reject the proposal."
147, " Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle."
148, " When the government bureau's remedies do not match your problem, you modify the problem, not the remedy."
149, " Among economists, the real world is often a special case."
150, " How long a minute is depends on which side of the bathroom door you're on."
151, " Superiority is recessive."
152, " When it is possible for programmers to program in English we will find the programmers cannot write in English."
153, " The attention span of a computer is only as long as its electrical cord."
154, " One good reason why computers can do more work than people is that they never have to stop and answer the phone."
155, " If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee -- that will do them in."
156, " At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer."
157, " If you put garbage in a computer nothing comes out but garbage. But this garbage, having passed through a very expensive machine, is somehow enobled and none dare criticize it."
158, " Old programmers never die. They just branch to a new address."
159, " The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group."
160, " Ingrate: A man who bites the hand that feeds him, and then complains of indigestion."

161, " Justice: A decision in your favor."
162, " Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date."
163, " Love at first sight is one of the greatest labor-saving devices the world has ever seen."

164, " Man is the only animal that blushes -- or needs to.\012 -- Mark Twain"
165, " Menu: A list of dishes which the restaurant has just run out of."
166, " The way to make a small fortune in the commodities market is to start with a large fortune."
167, " The Law, in its majestic equality, forbids the rich, as well as the poor, to sleep under the bridges, to beg in the streets, and to steal.\012 -- Anatole France"
168, " God is a comic playing to an audience that's afraid to laugh."
169, " To determine how long it will take to write and debug a program, take your best estimate, multiply that by two, add one, and convert to the next higher units."
170, " Predestination was doomed from the start."
171, " Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together...."
172, " Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.\012 -- Mae West."
173, " When God endowed human beings with brains, He did not intend to guarantee them."
174, " What makes us so bitter against people who outwit us is that they think themselves cleverer than we are."
175, " Misery loves company, but company does not reciprocate."
176, " If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think they'll hate you."

177, " Software makes hardware happen."
178, " Hugh Hefner is a virgin."
179, " Ocean: A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills."
180, " History has the relation to truth that theology has to religion -- i.e. none to speak of.\012 -- Lazarus Long"
181, " ...the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost would never throw the Devil out of Heaven as long as they still need him as a fourth for bridge.\012 -- Letter in NEW LIBERTARIAN NOTES #19"
182, " If God wanted us to have a President, He would have sent us a candidate.\012 -- Jerry Dreshfield"
183, " Hackers do it with all sorts of characters."
184, " Hackers know all the right MOVs."
185, " Hackers do it with fewer instructions."
186, " Hackers do it with bugs."
187, " Mathematicians do it in theory."
188, " Statisticians probably do it."
189, " Statisticians do it with 95% confidence."
190, " Doctors take two aspirin and do it in the morning."
191, " Bankers do it with interest (penalty for early withdrawal)."
192, " Politicians do it to everyone."

193, " Test makers do it sometimes/always/never."
194, " Procrastinators do it tomorrow."
195, " Evangelists do it with Him watching."
196, " God gives us relatives; thank goodness we can choose our friends."
197, " Hofstadter's Law:\012 It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take Hofstadter's Law into account."
198, " There are two types of dirt: the dark kind, which is attracted to light objects, and the light kind, which is attracted to dark objects."
199, " The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body.\012 This means that only left handed people are in their right mind."
200, " To be is to do\012 -- Hegel\012 To do is to be\012 -- Marx\012 Do be do be do\012 -- Sinatra"
201, " Seduced, shaggy Samson snored.\012 She scissored short. Sorely shorn,\012 Soon shackled slave, Samson sighed\012 Silently scheming,\012 Sightlessly seeking\012 Some savage, spectacular suicide.\012 -- Stanislaw Lem"
202, " \042If God lived on Earth, people would knock out all His windows.\042\012 -- Yiddish saying"
203, " I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.\012 -- Linus van Pelt"
204, " Courage is the fear of being thought a coward.\012 -- Horace Smith"
205, " When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him.\012 -- Jonathan Swift"
206, " Lady Astor: If you were my husband, Winston, I'd put poison in your tea.\012 Winston Churchill: If I were your husband, Nancy, I'd drink it."
207, " Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.\012 -- David Frost"
208, " Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations.\012 -- Oscar Wilde"

There. Those are some funny quotes I found. Hope you guys enjoy 'em too.
(sorry bout the triple post: Message length limit.)

Those are some quotes that I found in a shareware program called "Pundit"
It randomly pops up with one of these quotes (randomly selected.)
And I hacked into it and got all the quotes.

(Okay, so there was a resource fle and I opened it in Notepad. But it's the thought that counts, right?)

I'm not even gonna TRY to read all that. IT'd kill my eye's and i'd be blind, and we wouldn't want that now 😛

Some are prety stupid, you jsut hafta sift through 'em. There are some pretty good ones in there.
Like:
159, " The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group."

102, " Xerox never comes up with anything original."

But there are some funnier ones.

😮dd: too.....many.....words.....in one.....place.....head.....going to.....explode..... *head explodes leaving a very messy.....mess. :goofy:

I got throu the 1st page (81) then saw 2 more pages and...??
Some are good will save the rest for later.
What you do post a whole book of quotes?
One that stuck out was;
16, " Any small object that is accidentally dropped will hide under a larger object."
How true.

I saw a few Einsteinisms in the first page, I think. But I stopped at around ten, and scanned the list. Later decision: leave page open, read offline. :nerd:

The Xerox one is good. 😊

Cyclone