Quotations - Famous Quotes from Ancient to the Present

[M Greenaway]

"99% of statistics are made up" - Vic Reeves

 

[Sam]

" Never mistake motion for action"

Ernest hemingway

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

Couple of my favorites...

By my old Engineering Manager, "Opinion is like a bellybutton, everybody has one... in God I trust and all others bring data."

By Dick Shainin a few years ago, "All models are wrong... some are just more useful than others."

 

[db]

The most famous quote

My boss came up with this one:

"Are you on-line again? Log off and get back to work before I rip your head off!"

 

[M Greenaway]

I am pink, therefore I'm spam.
(anon)

 

[Chris May]

Stats

Not sure where this came from.........

"The analysis of the decline in mathematical aptitude can be attributed as 78% teaching methods and 24% government policy"

Chris

 

[Aaron Lupo]

This is a sh!t sandwich and we are all going to have to take a bite

 

[M Greenaway]

There's no 'I' in 'team'. But then there's no 'I' in 'useless smug colleague', either. And there's four in 'platitude-quoting idiot'. Go figure.


and which one of you sent in this gem.........

https://www.bbc.co.uk - Link was: /comedy/theoffice/wisdom/wisdom3_3.shtml

 

[Marc]

There are a few Oldies but Goodies here (some repeats):

(broken link removed)

 

[Tom Slack]

Vision - Need help

In the Old Testament, there is a passage like "For without vision, the people shall perish". Can someone tell which passage? That is one Author I don't want to plagiarize!