Quote of the day

My favorite expression at work is based on our attempts at making the usage of the sampling equipment I designed as simple and easy as possible. We all work to make things as foolproof as possible but they keep making better fools.

 

"The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will."

-- Vince Lombardi,

 

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger...except for bears. Bears will kill you. - unknown

 

How to tell the difference between a black bear and a brown bear.

If you climb a tree and the bear climbs up the tree to eat you, it is a black bear. If it knocks the tree down to eat you, it is a brown bear.

 

Kind of fitting . . .

"There can be no courage unless you're scared."

-- Eddie Rickenbacker

 

"So you want to be successful? If so, you must OBSERVE the masses and do the OPPOSITE".

--A very wise mentor

 

"All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning."

-- Albert Camus,
writer and philosopher

 

"Never argue with an idiot, because bystanders don't know who the idiot is."

Mark Twain

 

In some cases they can tell which is the bigger idiot, however.

 

"Life starts out with everyone clapping when you take a poo and goes downhill from there."
Sloane Crosley

 

"A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."

-- John Shedd

 

Not a quote, but a story :

http://theoatmeal.com/comics/plane

 

"Outside of a dog, a book is your best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read."

Groucho Marx

 

"It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse."

-- Adlai Stevenson II

 

"The unexamined life is not worth living."

-- Socrates

 

Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Hanlon's razor

 

"You're a ghost driving a meat-coated skeleton made from stardust, riding a rock, hurtling through space. Fear nothing."

From this pretty cool article.​

 

Education is that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding.

Ambrose Bierce

 

A twofer . . .

"You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

-- Eleanor Roosevelt

and

"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored."

-- Aldous Huxley

 

"There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so."

-- Jose Marti,
writer and political theorist