Quotes of the Month – November, 2008

by Harwell on November 11, 2008

in Quotations

“Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.”

David Letterman (1947 – )

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“Fortunately, the second-to-last bug has just been fixed.”

Ray Simard

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“When anyone asks me how I can best describe my experience in nearly forty years at sea, I merely say, uneventful. Of course there have been winter gales, and storms and fog and the like. But in all my experience, I have never been in any accident… or any sort worth speaking about. I have seen but one vessel in distress in all my years at sea. I never saw a wreck and never have been wrecked nor was I ever in any predicament that threatened to end in disaster of any sort.”

E. J. Smith, 1907, Captain, RMS Titanic

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“It is neither necessary or possible to educate someone who never questions anything.”

Joseph Heller (1923 – 1999), Catch-22

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“Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men have mediocrity thrust upon them.”

Joseph Heller (1923 – 1999), Catch-22

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