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An Enterprise Admin command prompt might get lime green background with red text. That color combination in particular is annoying to me and I purposely choose that annoying color scheme… Why? I do it because I shouldn’t be playing around as an Enterprise Admin long enough for it to bother me too much and I [...]

If it weren’t for erroneous conclusions, these people would never arrive at any at all.
   – William henry Devereaux Jr  – Straight Man (written by Richard Russo)

One of the sanest, surest, and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.
     – Robert A. Heinlein

A society that gets rid of all its troublemakers goes downhill.
     – Robert A. Heinlein

Clocks slay time… time is dead as long as it is being clicked off by little wheels; only when the clock stops does time come to life.
     – William Faulkner

For disappearing acts, it’s hard to beat what happens to the eight hours supposedly left after eight of sleep and eight of work.
      – Doug Larson

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
    – C. S. Lewis

Time is the longest distance between two places.
     -Tennessee Williams

Day, n. A period of twenty-four hours, mostly misspent.
      – Ambrose Bierce

…an experiment in designing a solution by feeling the bumps on the walls and listening for screams…
     – me (discussing an infrastructure architecture project)

Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
    – Robert Heinlein (Time Enough For Love)

Whatever you do, do not let the past be a straitjacket!
   Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

One way or another, what you get, you pay for.
    – Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for everything I do.
 
    – Robert Heinlein (The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress)

When I was 13 I knew it all…
When I was 16 I realized I didn’t know it all at 13 because I now knew it all…
At 19 I realized I didn’t know so much when I was 16 because I really knew it all then.
At 21 I finally got the point and [...]

If you don’t know joe’s tools, are you really into AD?
     – Florian Frommherz (http://www.frickelsoft.net/blog/?p=180)

People like to think they know more than they do, especially the ones that know the least.
   – me

History is cyclical in nature, the evidence shows us. What is today, was before. What was yesterday, will be tomorrow. We need to learn from our mistakes, so that instead of travelling endlessly in a repetitious cycle, we move in an upward spiral towards perfection and utopia.
   – David Hatcher Childress in Technology of [...]

I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions while soaking in comfortable baths in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral.
   – Edmund Wilson

When (Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer, the “Father of the H-Bomb”) asked in an interview at Rochester University seven years after the Alamogordo Nuclear test whether that was the first atomic bomb ever to be detonated, his reply was, “Well, yes, in modern history.”
    – David Hatcher Childress – Technology of the Gods
 
joe Note: It is [...]

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
    – Aldous Huxley

Choose your friends carefully. Association brings about assimilation. If you think your friends are stupid and crude, get new friends unless you want to be stupid and crude. Or to put it another way… Birds of a feather flock together.
   – Combination of quotes from Chris Rock, Patrice Dean & others

спални комплектиCenterfold, your previous answer was so wrong it almost became right again… If you would… please help me choose the subject for my pending criticism.
    – Dr. Perry Cox (Scrubs)

Stupid is a condition.
           Ignorance is a choice…
  – Not sure where this is from originally but saw it in Non Sequitur 10/14/2009

‘To (Robert) Sternberg, practical intelligence includes things like “knowing what to say to whom, knowing when to say it, and knowing how to say it for maximum effect.” It is procedural: it is about knowing how to do something without necessarily knowing why you know it or being able to explain it. It’s practical in [...]

Don’t ever become a pessimist… a pessimist is correct oftener than an optimist, but an optimist has more fun, and neither can stop the march of events.
    – Robert Heinlein

“They’ve got the vision of Stevie Wonder without the creativity.”
    – Donald Livengood

If you spend your time living your life, you don’t have time to waste talking about others’ lives.
   -me

On a conference call today my manager John Tanner was explaining who I was and said I had “Ridiculously Deep AD knowledge”…
I couldn’t help it, I had to LOL when I heard it as I have never heard that said before.

A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and social ties; no religious basis is necessary. Man would indeed be in a poor way if he had to be restrained by fear of punishment and hope of reward after death.
 
  -Albert Einstein