The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself? - Frank Zappa

The best thing about the future is that it only comes one day at a time.
-Abraham Lincoln

"Too many pieces of music finish too long after the end." - Igor Stravinsky

"There comes a time when every man feels the urge to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats." - H.L. Mencken

"Never let your mind outlive your dreams"
- David W. Foster

"The line between making a total ass out of yourself and being fundamentally funny is very narrow."
- William Shatner, to Esquire

The exact contrary of what is generally believed is often the truth.
- Jean de La Bruyere

"Free downloads didn't begin the dismantle of the record industry. GREED did. Free downloads just allow music lovers the ability to preview the crap record labels have been forking out for years and say, 'hey, I don't want this for $20.00.'"
-Scooter Scudieri

"Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats." - Howard Aiken

"Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement."
- Helen Keller

"Intelligence is not the ability to store information, but to know where to find it."
- Albert Einstein

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music. -Groucho Marx (more)

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." - Descartes

Being defeated is often a temporary condition, giving up is what makes it permanent.

"I'm ahead of my time - unfortunately, only by about ten minutes." -Elias Sorianao

"Who is more irrational? A man who believes in a God that he can't see, or a man who is offended by a God that he doesn't believe in?" -- Brad Stine

"Organization is for people who are too lazy to look for things"

Sometimes life is tough like a long piece of tape. -Amber Knapp

"Blessed is the man, who having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact." -George Eliot

Pretension - The downside of being better than everyone else is that people tend to assume you're pretentious.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. --E.F. Schumacker

"There are always an unlimited number of mistakes available for us to make." -Greg Mackie

Remember the tallest blade of grass is the first to be cut by the lawnmower.

Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps down new roads armed with nothing but their own vision. -Ayn Rand

"Try to look at the big picture... we're all in it, and you're not!" – Betty Bennett to a stubborn Apogee engineer

"The only thing worse than kicking a dead horse is saddling one."

"I love mornings. The only thing, is that my mornings don't start getting good until about six in the evening." -Bob Clearmountain

"I don't want to not be important." -Irving Azoff

"Give the people what they think they want, I say, and then tell them why they want it." -Richard Elen

"Ya' know, these days kids seem to be getting younger and younger." -David Foster

"Man, it's like working with mental hospital patients." -John Kalodner

"I'm the perpetual optimist, unfortunately." -Ed Doyle

"That's not a bug, that's a feature." -Phil Cork, SSL software engineer