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[awesty]

"Time is the slowest form of death"

I dont know who originally said it but someone told me it at school

[recordlovelife]

"The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, in the other direction."

Chevy Chase in "Caddy Shack"

[recordlovelife]

There's a quote I love from one of the most prolific inventors in the nineteenth century:

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Alva Edison

I was waiting for this one as i read through. I wrote my Senior Thesis in college on Vacuum Tubes. Tommy Alva ftmfw!

[MetalSkin]

There's a quote I love from one of the most prolific inventors in the nineteenth century:

I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.

Thomas Alva Edison

I was waiting for this one as i read through. I wrote my Senior Thesis in college on Vacuum Tubes. Tommy Alva ftmfw!

I had a feeling that there would be some people in here who would know it Man writing a thesis on Vacuum tubes, that must have been interesting, on audio equipment I take it?

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up

Terry Pratchett, Theif of Time

[Mezzo]

Get the facts first. You can distort them later - Mark Twain

[MetalSkin]

I'm going to continue with the Terry Pratchett theme:

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Not sure which book it is from, but such an accurate observation!

[U1]

loved by some, hated by many, envied by most, yet wanted by plenty!

[MetalSkin]

If you can't do, teach.
If you can't teach, lecture.

I have also heard:

If you can't do, teach.
If you can't teach, teach gym.

Edited by MetalSkin, 11 July 2007 - 09:38 PM.

[Daniel D]

"One day your life is going to flash before your eyes, make sure it's worth watching."

[Mezzo]

If you can't do, teach.
If you can't teach, teach gym.

That was from Scool of Rock with Jack Black.

[Mezzo]

The solution to Iraq -- an Iraq that can govern itself, sustain itself and defend itself -- is more than a military mission. Precisely the reason why I sent more troops into Baghdad." --George W. Bush

Sorry I thought this one should be added