New Quotes

[Midshipman]

Is there any way to get new or different quotes that pop up after we post in the Off-Topic? I've had just about enough of Magellan and Shakespeare.
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[tonic]

I have earlier asked the question in the thread here Quotes while you wait.

Still no answer from the Admins.

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[Midshipman]

Why has there been absolutely no response on this from Admin?

[DanQ]

1) We are busy people
2) I'll get Markos to answer your question as he is the one that put the quotes up in the first place...

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Dan; Apolyton CS

[Mao]

For some reason, the admin. has this crazy idea that there is actually more to this site than the forums... Go figure.

[MarkG]

yeah, and the other crazy idea that there more important things around the site than changing a quote or adding new smilies....

[tonic]

It's attention to detail that finally puts the stamp of distinction on a site. For the stressed administrator there's always delegation. What about Web-savvy volunteers to take on this pleasant task? Shall we call the position, "Quotations Curator" or more WWW-like, "Quotations Qrator".

[Midshipman]

Sorry if I sounded impatient, DanQ.

It's just that after having to read Twelfth Night in AP Lit this last year, I get somwhat tird of seeing a quote from it everyday, and was just wondering if there was a way to get some variation.

[Fiera]

Maybe there's something we (the posters) could do about it. What about opening a thread in which people could post interesting quotes. The Admins would read it and get the better ones, so part of the work would already be done. I bet we could have hundreds of good quotations in just three days.

What do you think of it, MarkG/DanQ?

(Note: I've just changed my user name. Former was jgv_fiera, so not a big difference).

[tonic]

I did this not long ago in the Civ2 General/Community Forum (Quotes while you wait). Perhaps it was the wrong forum to start the thread. We could do it here.

So to continue from where I left off, a few more culled from Net sources:

F. P. Jones: "Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again."

"Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm." Publilius Syrus (first century B.C.), Maxim 358

E. B. White:
"Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it."

Alan Perlis:
"The computing field is always in need of new cliches."

Unknown:
"Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses."

Robert A. Humphrey:
"An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions."

Albert Camus:
"Too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity."


Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931):
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."

Casey Stengel:
"The key to being a good manager is keeping the people who hate me away from those who are still undecided."

Dale Carnegie:
"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain - and most fools do."

[Fiera]

OK, so if this is the place, here are my own suggestions:

"Men fear death as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other."
-Francis Bacon

"The conquest of the Earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it."
-Joseph Conrad

"If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is posible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong."
-Arthur C. Clarke

Plus one bonus quote in my sig!

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"To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my horse German"
Emperor Charles V (1500-1558)
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[Urban Ranger]

"If you really a superior person, the fact is likely to leak out without much assistance." John Andrew Holmes


"In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?" Anon.


"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." Henry Spencer

UR
A kludge is like an elastic band, stretch it too much and it breaks.
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[Mao]

I think we already had a place for suggestions, an old thread, Narck had it...now let's see if I can dig it up...

[Kumiorava]

Urban, those last two are great!

So I threw them in my sig...

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"In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows and Gates?" - Anon.

"Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly." - Henry Spencer

Thanks to Urban Ranger for supplying those...

[Urban Ranger]

As soon as you think you have created an idiot-proof device, somebody comes up with a better idiot.