Dr Wingnut

Category: Quotations

  • Decline and Fall

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    Ancient Rome declined because it had a Senate; now what’s going to happen to us with both a Senate and a House?Will Rogers

  • Noise

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    Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.Samuel Johnson

  • Honesty

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    I hope I shall follow firmness of virtue enough to maintain that I consider the most enviable of all titles — the character of an honest man.George Washington

  • Finding bugs

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    I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.Maurice Wilkes, 1949I don’t remember the exact instant, but I too remember having this realization while I was in college.

  • Gambling

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    The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.Ambrose Bierce

  • Normal

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    Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for in order to get to the job you need to pay for the clothes and the car, and the house you leave vacant all day so you can afford to live…

  • The bore

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    Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.Frank Moore Colby