Practicality For Intellectuals Quotes

#1. A huge parasite in the marketplace, feeding and fattening itself off of local television stations and copyright owners of copyrighted material. We do not like it because we think it wrong and unfair.

Jack Valenti

#2. Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don't get in their way without expecting to be hurt.

Patricia Briggs

#3. The pen is mightier than the sword unless it's a real sword in which case the guy with the pen should run away fast.

Roger Eschbacher

#4. A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful.

Criss Jami

#5. Once I opened up a fortune cookie and inside was the guy's cheque next to me I said hey buddy I got your cheque he said thanks.

Rodney Dangerfield

#6. The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

Criss Jami

#7. One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

Franz Kafka

#8. The day I realized I could speak well, I decided I won't speak for myself anymore.

Sharad Vivek Sagar

#9. How is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich, or just out of the poor, as usual?

Will Rogers

#10. Constrain the user's expectations to match the abilities of the software.

Bruce Tognazzini

#11. In a Giraffe institution, the head nurse job would be to serve the nurses, not to control them. Teachers are there to serve the students, not control them.

Marshall B. Rosenberg