dumber and dumber quotes

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.



We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. ~C.A.R. Hoare, quoted by Donald Knuth



Always be a poet, even in prose. ~Charles Baudelaire, "My Heart Laid Bare," Intimate Journals, 1864



A thing of beauty is a joy forever. ~John Keats



A daydream is a meal at which images are eaten. Some of us are gourmets, some gourmands, and a good many take their images precooked out of a can and swallow them down whole, absent-mindedly and with little relish. ~W.H. Auden



They lard their lean books with the fat of others' works. ~Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, 1621



God brings men into deep waters, not to drown them, but to cleanse them. ~John Aughey



Are right and wrong convertible terms, dependant upon popular opinion? ~William Lloyd Garrison



Every man's memory is his private literature. ~Aldous Huxley



Novelties please less than they impress. ~Byron, Don Juan, 1824



Action is the last resource of those who know not how to dream. ~Oscar Wilde



When we recall Christmas past, we usually find that the simplest things - not the great occasions - give off the greatest glow of happiness. ~Bob Hope



Think positively about yourself.... ask God who made you to keep on remaking you. ~Norman Vincent Peale



Hatred is one long wait. ~Rene Maran



The more that learn to read the less learn how to make a living. That's one thing about a little education. It spoils you for actual work. The more you know the more you think somebody owes you a living. ~Will Rogers



Fear is the lengthened shadow of ignorance. ~Arnold Glasow



Caffeine Allocation Error: COFFEE.SYS missing, Programmer halted. ~Author Unknown



It has been said that figures rule the world; maybe. I am quite sure that it is figures which show us whether it is being ruled well or badly. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830, translated



We live with our heels as well as head and most of our pleasure comes in that way. ~John Muir



My swing is so bad I look like a caveman killing his lunch. ~Lee Trevino