30 September 2010

Quotes of the Week

Here, in random order, is this week's rather rich helping of amusing and insightful quotes.

The first two are from Scott Adams, creator of Dilbert; right on the money as always:
A CEO has something called a "vision." That is a view of the future that is not supported by evidence.
[Scott Adams at The Scott Adams Blog]

The primary function of a CEO is hurting other people, specifically the stockholders and employees of competing companies. He wants to take their market share, their wealth, and their happiness. And a CEO isn't too affectionate with his vendors and employees either.
[Scott Adams at The Scott Adams Blog]

I can think of many who won't like the next, but again it is so true:
Morality is doing what is right regardless of what you are told.
Religion is doing what you are told regardless of what is right.
[Found on Tumblr]

And this was from a video clip of an interview with a couple of gays; it cracked me up!
Love at first innuendo.
[Dan Savage]

This one is for Katy ...
Eat cake. Change lives.
[Macmillan Cancer Support advertisement]

I couldn't resist this wonderful critical put-down on a paragraph of absolute scientific mumbo-jumbo:
That paragraph reads like he authors were cobbling together a braille sentence using the random distribution of acne on someone's back.
[Jesse Bering at www.scientificamerican.com/blog/, 22/09/2010]

If only I'd been told this next many years ago!
The only disability in life is a bad attitude
[Quoted by Kittypinkstars at Flickr]

How the other half live:
Glamour model Katie Price has been found guilty of not being in proper control of her pink horsebox after veering into another lane in Sussex.
[BBC News]

Needless to say it was the very idea of a pink horsebox which got me! And so finally an interesting "off the wall" take which again contains a huge element of truth:
I have heard many times that atheists know more about religion than religious people. Atheism is an effect of that knowledge, not a lack of knowledge. I gave a Bible to my daughter. That's how you make atheists.
[Dave Silverman, president of American Atheists]

That's all for this week.

1 comment:

  1. I would agree with the bad attitude one - definitely. I've seen too many people ruin their own careers - not to speak of their personal lives - for justt that reason. Not that I've had a good attitude for the whole of my life :-)

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