Favourite quotes

[Sargeant Orange]

"Never tell your problems to anyone. 20% don't care and the other 80% are glad you have them"

[FredClogs]

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

- George Orwell

[-crookedtail-]

Well let me just quote the late-great Colonel Sanders, who said..."I'm too drunk to taste this chicken."

[slipstream 1985]

"nail that sticks out gets hammered"

And a rule from playing online multiplayer shooter games. "if yo don't want to die never ever go first"

[EggsBenedict]

'An imperfect solution delivered with vigour now is better than a perfect solution delivered too late' - George Patten

'We won't solve the problems of today using the same thinking as we did when we created them ' - Einstein

'No plan survives first contact with the enemy' - Helmuth von Moltke

'If you're going through hell, keep going' - Churchill

One that gets used rather a lot by me at work: 'this document, by its very length, defends itself against being read' - Churchill

'Do unto others what you would be done to yourself' - Anon

[Johnniem]

One oft used by a co-director of mine back in the 90's (mostly when explaining to his son the ways of how things should be done)...."just as good....isn't. It'll do....wont".

To clarify, this chap bought a short wheel base Rarri sub frame and built a GTO on top of it, from scratch, in his basement. If he couldn't find the right screw or whatever, he made it on a lathe. The car was/is amazing! It took 10 years to build. He lived by his word. Nice chap too.

Edited by Johnniem on Monday 3rd August 14:17

[john2443]

Don't believe everything you read on the internet - Abe Lincoln

Wikipedia doesn't work in theory, it only works in practice.

If Love/God/MX5/Arsenal/Labour/Conservative/UKIP (insert your preferred word) is the answer it must have been a bloody stupid question.

[Morningside]

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

I always wish that the "640K will be enough for everyone" or something like that was true by Bill Gates but he says it is not.

[Moonhawk]

"You cannot reason somebody out of a position they didn't reason themselves into."

[mattdaniels]

Blib said:

Davey S2 said:

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.

Plato

That's well worth remembering.

It's a shame he doesn't when he's ramming Matt Neal off the track.

[DaveGoddard]

So refreshing to read some of these when they're not being shared on Facebook with a sodding Minion next to them, usually by people who don't know what they actually mean.

[Pints]

Miguel Alvarez said:

"If you can't hear you must feel"

Old Man Pints, circa 1986?

[Dr Jekyll]

"Don't ask who will let you, ask who's going to stop you."


Also a great response from a famous atheist (maybe Christopher Hitchens) when someone said that since he hadn't studied theology or even attended church he wasn't qualified to discuss the existence or otherwise of God.

"I don't need to go to a Star Trek convention to know that Captain Kirk isn't real."

[Grumbly]

There is nothing as pleasant as the sound of children playing, unless you can hear what the're actually saying.

The late Terry Pratchett

[viscountdallara]

Anonymous Bodge said:

I don't know what I want, but I want it now.

Sir Henry Rawlinson

" I'll tell you what I want, what I really, really want "

Spice Girls.

[davhill]

"You can't win Darth."

Sir Alec Guinness as Obi-Wonky Knobby.

[ClaphamGT3]

Morningside said:

"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers."
Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943

"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home."
Ken Olsen, founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977

I always wish that the "640K will be enough for everyone" or something like that was true by Bill Gates but he says it is not.

"I genuinely believe that it is no exaggeration to say that, one day, there will be one of these instruments in every major town in America" - Alexander Graham Bell, on the invention of the telephone

[richardgcs]

ClaphamGT3 said:

"I genuinely believe that it is no exaggeration to say that, one day, there will be one of these instruments in every major town in America" - Alexander Graham Bell, on the invention of the telephone

I presume he was talking about Signor Meucci's invention ?
Here we go.

[tvrforever]

"Your inability to plan doesn't constitute an emergency on my behalf!" - Larry Teaberry Jr. and I have to use it quite often...

[Marvib]

Grumbly said:

There is nothing as pleasant as the sound of children playing, unless you can hear what the're actually saying.

The late Terry Pratchett

The use of multiple exclamation marks is the sure sign of a deranged mind!!!!!

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