Color My Web

"Let us take care of the children, for they have a long way to go. Let us take care of the elders, for they have come a long way. Let us take care of those in between,for they are doing the work." A traditional African Prayer

"Caminante, no hay camino. Se hace el camino al andar" (Traveler, there is no road. The road is made as you walk.) - Antonio Machado

"One word from me and my computer does what I_t want_s." - Anon

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

Improvement makes straight roads. But the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius." - William Blake

"I have learned through bitter experience the one supreme lesson to conserve my anger, and as heat conserved is transmuted into energy, even so our anger controlled can be transmuted into a power that can move the world. " - Mahatma Gandhi

"In capitalism, man exploits man. In communism, it's exactly the opposite." -John Kenneth Galbraith

"The highest compliment you can pay an artist is to buy her work!" -Jill Halvorsen

"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results." -Winston Churchill

"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." - Emerson

"He is an halibut. I chose him out of thousands. I didn't like the others; they were all too flat." - Monty Python

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." -Albert Einstein.

"There is no sin punished more implacable by nature than the sin of resistance to change." - Anne Morrow Lindbergh

"There is a time for departure, even when there's no certain place to go." - Tennessee Williams

"Confusion is a word we have invented for order which is not yet understood." - Henry Miller.

"No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft." -- H.G. Wells

"If you see it coming you should get out of its way, unless you want it to reach you..." Malcolm Boswell on destiny

"Son, in this life you need to learn to give as much as you take, and take as much as you give..."

"All people feel afraid at times, it is how we react to our fears that makes us warriors or cowards..." (paraphrased from "The Thornberries", a childrens cartoon series on Nickelodeon )

"You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should." Desiderata - Max Ehrmann

"Never Let A Plan Get In The Way Of An Adventure!" ---Mundo Fabbi

"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not after you..." ---unknown

"Holding a grudge is like letting an enemy live rent-free inside your head" ---unknown

"You gotta learn the rules before you can change 'em" ---unknown

"When making a presentation, the goal is not to remove all the butterflies in your stomach, but to convince the butterflies to fly in formation." -- Vincent deSalvo

"These things matter in a speech, who says it, how he says it, and what he says and, of the three, the last matters the least." --- John Morley

"Speech is a mirror of the soul; as a man speaks, so is he." --- Publium Syrus, 1st century BC

"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." ---T. S. Eliot

"Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do". --- Goethe

"Most of what matters in our lives takes place in our absence." --- Salman Rushdie

"It is easy to praise folks for having the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach them the courage of their confusion. Yes, I am confused, but I prefer the larger confusion to the smaller certainty." ---John Ciardi

"If you're looking to find the key to the Universe, I have some bad news and some good news. The bad news is - there is no key to the universe. The good news is - it has been left unlocked." ---anonymous

"The trick is to stop thinking about it as 'your money'." ---IRS auditor

"Space isn't remote at all. It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight up." ---Sir Fred Hoyle

"Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand." ---Baruch Spinoza

"To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive." ----Robert Louis Stevenson

"A discovery is said to be an accident meeting a prepared mind" ---Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

"May the skin of your bum never cover a drum". ---Cannibal wedding toast

"Conceit is not a fault, it is the privilege of those who are good, and I'm great!" ---Malcolm Boswell on Malcolm Boswell

"Failure is not an option. It is a privilege reserved only for those who try." ---Einstein

"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, President and visionary, Digital Equipment, 1977

"Woodstock: We're all here because we're not all there." -- (bumper sticker)

"Rock is dead! Long live paper and scissors!"

"This telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is of no value to us." --- Western Union Memorandum circa 1876

"If you go flying back through time, and you see somebody else flying forward into the future, it's probably best to avoid eye contact." -- anonymous

"It is well to remember that the entire universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others." --John Andrew Holmes

"Truth is life" -- Frank Lloyd Wright

"Reality is the existence of an unimaginative mind." -- Mark Allan

"There is nothing quite so practical as a good theory." -- Albert Einstein

"The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese." -- author unknown

"The reasonable man expects to conform to society. The unreasonable man expects society to conform to him. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." -- George Bernard Shaw

"In theory, there's no difference between theory and practice. But in practice, there is." -- author unknown

"Computers are very good at solving the sorts of problems you have when you use computers." -- author unknown

"For small creatures such as we, the vastness is bearable only through love." -- Carl Sagan

"The surest sign intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it tried to contact us" -- Calvin & Hobbes

"Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it." -- Max Frisch

"Those who desire to give up freedom in order to gain security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." -- Thomas Jefferson

"That inward eye / Which is the bliss of solitude." -- William Wordsworth

"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook" -- William James

"Good artists copy, great artists steal." -- Pablo Picasso

"640K ought to be enough for anybody" -- Bill Gates

"We must not make a scarecrow of the law, setting it up to fear the birds of prey, and let it keep one shape, till custom make it their perch and not their terror." -- Measure for Measure, William Shakespeare

"First get your facts; then you may distort them at your leisure." -- Mark Twain

The Six Phases of a Project:

praise and honors for the non-participants
-- author unknown

"It's a dog-eat dog world out there, Woody, and I'm wearing Milk Bone underwear." -- Norm Peterson

"If we knew what we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?" -- Albert Einstein

"What goes around often gets dizzy and falls right over." -- author unknown

"The idea is not to make art, but to be in that wonderful state which makes art inevitable." -- Robert Henri

"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese".

"There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life: music and cats." - Albert Schweitzer

"Keep a firm grip on reality so that you can strangle it at any time" -- author unknown

"The only Zen you find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there." -- Robert M. Pirsig

"I feel like I'm diagonally parked in a parallel universe." --anonymous

"The masters of technology will have to be lighthearted and intelligent. The machine easily masters the grim and the dumb." -- Marshall McLuhan

"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -- Albert Einstein

"There is neither beginning nor end to the imagination but it delights in its own seasons reversing the usual order at will" -- William Carlos Williams

"Although I can accept talking scarecrows, lions and great wizards of emerald cities, I find it hard to believe there is no paperwork involved when your house lands on a witch." -- Dave James

"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there." -- Will Rogers

"Music is the pleasure the human soul experiences from counting without being aware that it is counting" -- Gottfried Leibniz

"You might as well fall flat on your face as lean over too far backwards" -- James Thurber

"We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us." -- Marshall McLuhan

"If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything tends to look like a nail" -- author unknown

"A time is called dark, not because the light refuses to shine but because people refuse to see it." -- James Michener

" 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards' the Queen remarked." -- Lewis Carroll

"A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices." -- William James

"I intend to live forever. So far, so good."

"Public media should not contain explicit or implied descriptions of sex acts. Our society should be purged of the perverts who provide the media with pornographic material while pretending it has some redeeming social value under the public's 'right to know.'" -- Kenneth Starr, 1987, "Sixty Minutes" interview with Diane Sawyer.

"Today's oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground" -- author unknown

"If you don't have the time to do it right, where do you think you're going to find the time to do it over?" -- author unknown

"The Earth is the cradle of the mind, but one cannot stay in the cradle forever." -- Tchiakovsky

"Imagination is more important than knowledge." -- Albert Einstein

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." -- author unknown

"A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular." -- Adlai Stevenson

"Borrow money from pessimists - they don't expect it back." -- author unknown

"If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?"

"All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind." -- Aristotle

"Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped." -- Elbert Hubbard

"I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year. " -The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall, 1957