I got lots of votes at the MacNN best sig contest.... Jesus - maybe that means something! LOL
I remember I did have someone go off on me about having this bullshit signature over there - "I'm so sick of seeing that in your sig line. What the hell could you know that Apple demanded you take it out of your signature?!?! It's ****ing bullshit!"
I like yours, BTW Sine.
I used to have this one in emails:
"In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows or Gates?"
I like Anders', MacAgent's and SDW2001's sigs and EmAn's old sig. Don't know which I like the most, though.
I also like this one: "It might look like I am doing nothing - but at the cellular level, I'm really quite busy." I don't remember whose it was. I stole it and sometimes I use it in my email. Also this one is good too (I also use it in my email): "We are all worms but I do believe I am a glowworm. -- Winston Churchill"
Windows 95/NT: A 32 bit patch for a 16 bit graphical shell plastered onto an 8 bit OS originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
Microsoft: The only company named after the chairman's penis.
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
--last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
I think all of us should be critics of each other. Whenever you can't stand criticism you can never grow.... I don't think we should be above criticism. I don't think anyone should be above criticism.
--Malcolm X, in Malcolm X: The Last Speeches
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
--Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
--General George Patton (1885-1945)
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
--General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
if you gave an infinite amount of monkeys an infinite amount of typewriters...
--unknown
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
--Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Hell is other people.
--Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
A witty saying proves nothing.
--Voltaire (1694-1778)
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
--Voltaire (1694-1778)
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
--Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
--Saint Augustine (354-430)
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
--Frank Zappa
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
--Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageouslyuses his intelligence.
--Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
--Albert Einstein
I want to know all Gods thoughts...all the rest are just details.
--Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
--Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
--Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
--Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
--Albert Einstein
Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.
--Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
--Albert Einstein
Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
--Albert Einstein
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
--Albert Einstein
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
--Emile Zola (1840-1902)
I'll moider da bum.
--Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
--Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
--Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
--Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.
--Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
--Paul Erdos
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
--Plato (427-347 B.C.)
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
--Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig
was 'committed'.
--unknown
Black holes are where God divided by zero."
--Steven Wright
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
--Steven Wright
I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it.
--Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
--Vince Lombardi
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
-- Jimi Hendrix
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
--Will Durant
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
--Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
--Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Wit is educated insolence.
--Aristotle (284-322 B.C.)
The gods too are fond of a joke.
--Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
--Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
I would have made a good Pope.
--Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
What do you take me for, an idiot?
--General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
--Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
--John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
--Yogi Berra
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
--Mark Twain (1835-1910)
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
--Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
He would make a lovely corpse.
--Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
--Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
--William Shakespeare (Troilus and Cressida)
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
--William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
A deed without a name.
--William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Farewell, fair cruelty.
--William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
--William Shakespeare (Henry IV Part I)
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
--William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
--William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Cudgel thy brains no more about it.
--William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
Why this is very midsummer madness.
--William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
I will praise any man that will praise me.
--William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra)
Boldness be my friend.
--William Shakespeare (Coriolanus)
Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!
--William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
--William Shakespeare (Othello)
How now, wit! Whither wander you?
--William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
--William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra)
He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.
--William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice)
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
--William Shakespeare
I bear a charmed life.
--William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
They say miracles are past.
--William Shakespeare (All's Well that Ends Well)
This is the very coinage of your brain.
--William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
--William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Never, never, never, never, never!;Pray you, undo this button.
--William Shakespeare (King Lear)
What's in a name? That which we call a rose....
--William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
The wheel is come full circle.
--William Shakespeare (King Lear)
For my part, it was Greek to me.
--William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
--William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
--Mark Twain
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
--Mark Twain
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
--Mark Twain
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
--Mark Twain
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
-Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
--Mark Twain
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
--Mark Twain
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
--Mark Twain
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
--Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.
--Mark Twain
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
--Mark Twain
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
--Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
--Mark Twain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
--Mark Twain
Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
--Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
Comments
One of these days I'll come up with a good one for myself.
"When you find your self on the side of majority, its time to change"
not actually an exact quote, as all my quote links got wiped when I had to re-install win2k...
I got lots of votes at the MacNN best sig contest.... Jesus - maybe that means something! LOL
I remember I did have someone go off on me about having this bullshit signature over there - "I'm so sick of seeing that in your sig line. What the hell could you know that Apple demanded you take it out of your signature?!?! It's ****ing bullshit!"
I like yours, BTW Sine.
I used to have this one in emails:
"In a world without walls and fences, who needs Windows or Gates?"
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I also like this one: "It might look like I am doing nothing - but at the cellular level, I'm really quite busy." I don't remember whose it was. I stole it and sometimes I use it in my email. Also this one is good too (I also use it in my email): "We are all worms but I do believe I am a glowworm. -- Winston Churchill"
Oh and my real name is Anders to. Always fakes me out when people start talking about the other Anders in here.
[ 12-24-2001: Message edited by: alphamatrix ]</p>
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My signature has also been modified and used by some other AI members.
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Yes I have had two "Fran variants"
"Its time for Apple to release a black iMac but untill it does, long live Tangerine"
And we all know what happened with that <img src="graemlins/bugeye.gif" border="0" alt="[Skeptical]" />
"Its time for Apple to give Fran a PBG4 but untill then, screw them"
And I haven´t bought an Apple product for over a year (and of course I would have bought both a dual G4 and a TiBook if it hadn´t been for this
Windows 95/NT: A 32 bit patch for a 16 bit graphical shell plastered onto an 8 bit OS originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor by a 2 bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.
Microsoft: The only company named after the chairman's penis.
--> <a href="http://www.asciibabes.com"; target="_blank">http://www.asciibabes.com</a>;
We are such stuff
As dreams are made on, and our little life
Is rounded with a sleep.
--Edward de Vera
The Tempest, Edward de Vere (aka: William Shakespeare)(Prospero to Miranda, "The Tempest")
<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/"; target="_blank">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shakespeare/</a>;
<a href="http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/"; target="_blank">http://www.shakespeare-oxford.com/</a>;
Don't let it end like this. Tell them I said something.
--last words of Pancho Villa (1877-1923)
I think all of us should be critics of each other. Whenever you can't stand criticism you can never grow.... I don't think we should be above criticism. I don't think anyone should be above criticism.
--Malcolm X, in Malcolm X: The Last Speeches
It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both.
--Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527), "The Prince"
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
--General George Patton (1885-1945)
We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction.
--General Douglas MacArthur (1880-1964)
if you gave an infinite amount of monkeys an infinite amount of typewriters...
--unknown
Everything has been figured out, except how to live.
--Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
Hell is other people.
--Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
A witty saying proves nothing.
--Voltaire (1694-1778)
Anything that is too stupid to be spoken is sung.
--Voltaire (1694-1778)
Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies.
--Voltaire (1694-1778) on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.
Give me chastity and continence, but not yet.
--Saint Augustine (354-430)
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
--Frank Zappa
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Gravitation is not responsible for people falling in love.
--Albert Einstein
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.
--Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageouslyuses his intelligence.
--Albert Einstein
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
--Albert Einstein
I want to know all Gods thoughts...all the rest are just details.
--Albert Einstein
Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
--Albert Einstein
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
--Albert Einstein
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
--Albert Einstein
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
--Albert Einstein
Before God we are equally wise and equally foolish.
--Albert Einstein
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
--Albert Einstein
Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
--Albert Einstein
Too many of us look upon Americans as dollar chasers. This is a cruel libel, even if it is reiterated thoughtlessly by the Americans themselves.
--Albert Einstein
The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work.
--Emile Zola (1840-1902)
I'll moider da bum.
--Heavyweight boxer Tony Galento, when asked what he thought of William Shakespeare
In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
--Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.
--Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so.
--Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
Do, or do not. There is no 'try'.
--Yoda ('The Empire Strikes Back')
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
--Paul Erdos
Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.
--Plato (427-347 B.C.)
Whenever I climb I am followed by a dog called 'Ego'.
--Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
The difference between 'involvement' and 'commitment' is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was 'involved' - the pig
was 'committed'.
--unknown
Black holes are where God divided by zero."
--Steven Wright
I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it.
--Steven Wright
I've had a wonderful time, but this wasn't it.
--Groucho Marx (1895-1977)
We didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time.
--Vince Lombardi
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being
self-evident.
--Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860)
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
-- Jimi Hendrix
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
--Will Durant
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
--Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.
--Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
Wit is educated insolence.
--Aristotle (284-322 B.C.)
The gods too are fond of a joke.
--Aristotle (384-322 B.C.)
There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread.
--Mahatma Gandhi (1869-1948)
I would have made a good Pope.
--Richard M. Nixon (1913-1994)
What do you take me for, an idiot?
--General Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970), when a journalist asked him if he was happy
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
--Charles de Gaulle (1890-1970)
Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
--John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
You got to be careful if you don't know where you're going, because you might not get there.
--Yogi Berra
Few things are harder to put up with than a good example.
--Mark Twain (1835-1910)
It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.
--Professor Scott Elledge on his retirement from Cornell
He would make a lovely corpse.
--Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray.
--Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
Words, words, mere words, no matter from the heart.
--William Shakespeare (Troilus and Cressida)
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.
--William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
A deed without a name.
--William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Farewell, fair cruelty.
--William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
--William Shakespeare (Henry IV Part I)
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece!
--William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
--William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Cudgel thy brains no more about it.
--William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
Why this is very midsummer madness.
--William Shakespeare (Twelfth Night)
I will praise any man that will praise me.
--William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra)
Boldness be my friend.
--William Shakespeare (Coriolanus)
Rest, rest, perturbed spirit!
--William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
Here is my journey's end, here is my butt,
And very sea-mark of my utmost sail.
--William Shakespeare (Othello)
How now, wit! Whither wander you?
--William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.
--William Shakespeare (Antony and Cleopatra)
He makes a swan-like end, fading in music.
--William Shakespeare (Merchant of Venice)
He that loves to be flattered is worthy o' the flatterer.
--William Shakespeare
I bear a charmed life.
--William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
They say miracles are past.
--William Shakespeare (All's Well that Ends Well)
This is the very coinage of your brain.
--William Shakespeare (Hamlet)
The attempt and not the deed confounds us.
--William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Never, never, never, never, never!;Pray you, undo this button.
--William Shakespeare (King Lear)
What's in a name? That which we call a rose....
--William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet)
The wheel is come full circle.
--William Shakespeare (King Lear)
For my part, it was Greek to me.
--William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
If you have tears, prepare to shed them now.
--William Shakespeare (Julius Caesar)
It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the wisdom never to use either.
--Mark Twain
I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.
--Mark Twain
We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know anything and can't read.
--Mark Twain
When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.
--Mark Twain
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
-Mark Twain
The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.
--Mark Twain
To succeed in life, you need two things: ignorance and confidence.
--Mark Twain
There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.
--Mark Twain
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board.
--Mark Twain
Man is the only animal that blushes, or needs to.
--Mark Twain
It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American criminal class except Congress.
--Mark Twain
Denial ain't just a river in Egypt.
--Mark Twain
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
--Mark Twain
It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
--Mark Twain
Always do right- this will gratify some and astonish the rest.
--Mark Twain
Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.
--Mark Twain