Favorite Quotes.

[swestrup]

Here are some of my favorite quotes, collected here for your amusement, and because I often forget the attributions:

A little learning is a dangerous thing; drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring: there shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

Alexander Pope

The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled.

Plutarch

Sow an act...reap a habit;
Sow a habit...reap a character;
Sow a character...reap a destiny.

George Dana Boardman, the Younger

Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.

Hanlon's Razor - Robert J. Hanlon (among others)

90% of everything is Crap.

Sturgeon's Law - Theodore Sturgeon

90% of the remainder isn't too hot either.

Westrup's Corollary - swestrup

Comments

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

oh yeah, the Hanlon quote is one of my favourite ones as well!

[cpirate.livejournal.com]

Note that Sturgeon's Law does, in fact, apply to any set, including the set of the 10% of stuff that isn't crap. And to the 10% of stuff that doesn't suck from that, and so on.