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In the real world, you must consider the inherent perversity of things.
"I think there's a world market for about 5 computers."                         -- Thomas J. Watson, Chairman of the Board, IBM
"Everything that can be invented has been invented."                            -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899
"We don't need to learn Ada. Mark my words, it'll go away."                     -- Anonymous
"Anarchy is better than no government at all."                                  -- Anonymous
"He who tooteth not his own horn, the same shall not be tooted."                -- John L. Lewis
"This man must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked"      -- Voltaire
"Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes"                            -- Thoreau
"Tell the truth and you won't have so much to remember"                         -- Abraham Lincoln
"I've never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with a lot of         pleasure"    -- Clarence Darrow
"Few things are harder to put up with than the anoyance of a good example"      -- Mark Twain
"There's always something about your success that displeases even your best     friends"  -- Mark Twain
"The line that is the straightest offers the most resistence"                   -- Leonardo daVinci
"Interruptions are the spice of life"                                           -- Don Herold
"To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence"             -- Mark Twain
"Laughter is surely the surest touch of genius in creation"                     -- Christopher Fry
"If you want to know somone's faults, praise him to his peers."                 -- Benjamin Franklin
"Patience is important for a man, vital for a teacher"                          -- Anon
"I don't believe it" -- Luke Skywalker                                          "That is why you fail"  -- Yoda
"I have never thought these thoughts before.  There has never before been those to think them for..."  -- John Merrick, The Elephant Man
"Programmers don't have to know exactly what they are doing; they can be very   sloppy as a matter of fact" -- Professor Marvin Minsky
"There is no such thing as gravity...the earth just sucks"                      -- Anon
"It is one thing to praise discipline and quite another to submit to it"        --Cervantes
"You have the gift of silence Watson.  It makes you quite an invaluable         companion  -- Sherlock Holmes, The Man With The Twisted Lip
"It is a capital mistake to theorize in advance before the facts"               -- Sherlock Holmes, The Adventure of the Second Satin
"Singularity is almost invariably a clue"                                       -- Sherlock Holmes, The Bascombe Valley Mistery
"The world is full of obvious things which nobody by chance ever observes"      -- Sherlock Holmes, The Hound of the Baskervilles 
"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact"                          -- Sherlock Holmes, The Bascombe Valley Mistery
"My life is spent in one long effort to escape from the commonplaces of         existence. These little problems help me do so -- Sherlock Holmes
"It is, I admit, mere imagination, but how often is imagination the mother of   truth.  -- Sherlock Holmes, The Valey of Fear
"It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible,         whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth  -- Sherlock Holmes
"Life is infinitely stranger than anything the mind could invent"               -- Sherlock Holmes, A Case of Identity
"Vengence is like a water vessel with a hole; nothing but the promise of        emptiness"  -- Kung Fu
"When a thing is funny, search it also for a simple truth"                      -- George Bernard Shaw
"To be idle requires a strong sense of personnal identity"                      -- Robert Louis Stevenson
"One advantage of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting    discoveries" -- A.A. Milne
"Anger is a poor counselor"                                                     -- Anon
"Women who seek equality with men lack ambition"                                -- Anon