Thread: Quip Of The Day

You can't get anywhere... Staring out a window.

Originally Posted by outback

You can't get anywhere... Staring out a window.

Until recently staring out a window was literally what I did for a living.

"Just because it can be easily measured with two digits doesn't mean that it's accurate, important or useful."
Seth speaking about rankings and specials

Originally Posted by outback

You can't get anywhere... Staring out a window.

Well, i stare out a window all day and im constanly getting somewhere. Place to place.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

" If everyone told the truth, it would be a simpler, engaging, world; polite, and a whole lot more dangerous!"

Protagonist in a novel by David Drake.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

- Oscar Levant

Answers to the problem of what is the diameter of the earth provided by various professionals:

Engineer: The answer to 4 decimal places is ...
Physisicist: The answer to within an order of magnitude is ...
Mathematician: I can prove that the problem has an answer.
Accountant: What do you want the answer to be?

To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail.
—Abraham Maslow

We are what we repeatedly do; excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle