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- Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation.
- Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
- People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
- Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they AREN'T after you.
- Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is allowed.
- If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything.
- You don't have to drain the swamp to deal with the alligators.
- It's easier to seek forgiveness than permission.
- Experience is what causes a person to make new mistakes instead of old ones.
- Experience is that wonderful thing that helps you recognize your 
  mistakes when you make them again.
- Heuristics are bug-ridden by definition.  If they didn't have bugs,
  then they'd be algorithms.

Grabel's Law: 2 is not equal to 3 -- not even for large values of 2.

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it
wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought.  Debugging had
to be discovered.  I can remember the exact instant when I realized that
a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding
mistakes in my own programs. (Maurice Wilkes discovers debugging, 1949)

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. (Publilius Syrus)

Be careful of reading health books; you might die of a misprint. (Mark Twain)

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is
good for dandruff. (Peter de Vries)

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people
are right more than half of the time. (E. B. White)

I generally avoid temptation unless I can't resist it. (Mae West)

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. (Eleanor Roosevelt)

I just need enough to tide me over until I need more. (Bill Hoest)

I have the simplest tastes.  I am always satisfied with the best. (Oscar Wilde)

If I had any humility I would be perfect. (Ted Turner)

If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. (Paul Beatty)

If all the world's economists were laid end to end, we wouldn't reach a
conclusion. (William Baumol)

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

Innovation is hard to schedule. (Dan Fylstra)

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee. (Graham Summer)

I hate quotations. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)