Relevant Quotes: Fun

Somebody has to do something, and it’s just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Jerry Garcia

Our plan is to invent some sort of doohickey that everyone wants to buy.

A “visionary” in a Dilbert cartoon strip

I got a lot of Ph.D.-types and smart people around me who come into the Oval Office and say, 'Mr. President, here's what's on my mind.' And I listen carefully to their advice. But having gathered the device, I decide, you know, I say, 'This is what we're going to do.

George W. Bush, Lancaster, Pa., Oct. 3, 2007

I will not expose the ignorance of the faculty.

Bart Simpson (writing 100 times on the blackboard as punishment)

I used to think that the problem with American business was a lack of focus. Now I realize that it’s a lack of courage.

J. Foxworthy

Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.

S. Johnson

The kind of humor I like is the thing that makes me laugh for five seconds and think for ten minutes.

William Davis

No matter what happens, somebody will find a way to take it too seriously.

Dave Barry

I heard somebody say, 'Where's (Nelson) Mandela?' Well, Mandela's dead. Because Saddam killed all the Mandelas.

George W. Bush, on the former South African president, who is still very much alive, Washington, D.C., Sept. 20, 2007

Whenever I think of the past, it brings back so many memories...

Steven Wright

If you are too busy to laugh, you are too busy.

Proverb

“I hate quotations.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson

In the future, it will become increasingly obvious that your competitors are just as clueless as you are.

Scott Adams

The Dilbert Future Thriving on Stupidity in the 21st Century

After all is said and done, more is said than done.

Anonymous

If my film makes one more person feel miserable, I’ll feel like I’ve done my job.

Woody Allen

I took a course in speed reading and was able to read War and Peace in 20 minutes. It's about Russia.

Woody Allen

There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once, shame on --shame on you. Fool me -- you can't get fooled again.

George W. Bush

Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002

If you want to kill an idea without being identified as the assassin, suggest that the legal department take a look at it.

“The Dilbert Zone”

What a waste it is to lose one’s mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

Dan Quayle

Today is a good day to create a new paradigm and tell everyone about it. Put it in PowerPoint so it doesn’t seem so obvious.

If morale is low it’s because the employees have character defects. There’s nothing you can do about that.

From “The Dilbert Zone”

You work three jobs? ... Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that.

George W. Bush to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy — but that could change.

Dan Quayle

Remind people that profit is the difference between revenue and expense. This makes you look smart.

USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75% of the population.

David Letterman

I always wanted to be somebody, but I should have been more specific.

Lily Tomlin

Users don’t read the manual.

Joel Spolsky www.joelonsoftware.com

If you had to identify, in one word, the reason why the human race has not achieved, and never will achieve, its full potential, that word would be “meetings.”