“I was in the Eagles? Cool!” —Joe Walsh

“I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do. Life’s been good to me so far.” —Joe Walsh

“I have never let schooling interfere with my education.” —Mark Twain

“Crash programs fail because they are based on theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month.” —Wernher von Braun

“it is better to solve the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way” —Dick Hamming, as reported by Doug McIlroy, as reported by Eric S. Raymond

“The secret we should never let the gamemasters know is that they don’t need any rules.” —Gary Gygax

“Of course it originated with the Romans! Who else would need a word that means ‘kill every tenth person’?” —Loren Wiseman

“There are only two industries that refer to their customers as ‘users’.” —Edward Tufte

“Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.” —Bill Gates

“I did say something along the lines of ‘C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows your whole leg off.’” —Bjarne Stroustrup

“Most of you are familiar with the virtues of a programmer. There are three, of course: laziness, impatience, and hubris.” —Larry Wall

“When one is postulating correlations or causations extant in reality, one should always remember that the human brain is mainly a pattern recognition engine. And it is such a persistent pattern recognition engine that it often perceives patterns where none exist.” —Jeff Walther

“The RPG as designed by me was meant to be mainly action-adventure, an even mix of roll-playing and role-playing, but never rule-playing” —Gary Gygax on ENWorld

“What I think isn’t important. It is what your DM decides that is.” —Gary Gygax (on DF, I think)

“I did enjoy The Hobbit, and I was awfully fond of the Tom Bombadil character. The rest was just too slow and dull for my taste. I somehow never could really relate to the mental agonies of a furry-footed midget and his similar companions. At least when Elric becomes deptessive there is soon some action to make the reader forget the boring passage preceeding it :lol:” —Gary Gygax on JRRT (from ENWorld)

“On two occasions I have been asked,—‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ In one case a member of the Upper, and in the other a member of the Lower, House put this question. I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.” —Chapter 5, Passages from the Life of a Philosopher, Charles Babbage, 1864. ISBN 1-85196-040-6

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“Si quis me convincere mihique ostendere potest, me me non recte sentire aut agere, laeto animo ad meliorem frugem redibo: veritatem enim sector, a qua nemo unquam laesus est, laeditur autem, qui in errore suo et ignorantia persistit.” —Marcus Aurelius, Meditationes, Liber VI, XXI(?)

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Need to add Ghandi on scripture...

I should make sure I verify these...

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The biggest flaw in this page is that I don’t really have/know what my criteria for adding to it are. That may also be its virtue.

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