“I have learned to use the word ‘impossible’ with the greatest caution.”

Wernher von Braun
US (German-born) rocket engineer (1912 – 1977)

Popularity: 13%

“A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs.”

Mark Twain, Following the Equator
US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 – 1910)

Popularity: 14%

“In all large corporations, there is a pervasive fear that someone, somewhere is having fun with a computer on company time. Networks help alleviate that fear.”

John C. Dvorak

Popularity: 4%

“An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.”

Jef Mallett
Frazz, 04-04-07

Popularity: 1%

“Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.”

Howard Scott
(1926 – )

Popularity: 31%

“You’ve achieved success in your field when you don’t know whether what you’re doing is work or play.”

Warren Beatty
US movie actor, director, & producer (1937 – )

Popularity: 21%

“Realism…has no more to do with reality than anything else.”

Hob Broun

Popularity: 34%

“I have noticed that the people who are late are often so much jollier than the people who have to wait for them.”

E. V. Lucas

Popularity: 21%

“Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.”

George Bernard Shaw
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 – 1950)

Popularity: 21%

“Defining and analyzing humor is a pastime of humorless people.”

Robert Benchley
US actor, author, & humorist (1889 – 1945)

Popularity: 15%

“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.”

Fred Allen
US radio comedian (1894 – 1956)

Popularity: 38%

“Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.”

Robert W. Sarnoff

Popularity: 91%

“I tend to live in the past because most of my life is there.”

Herb Caen

Popularity: 4%

“After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.”

De La Lastra’s Law

Popularity: 14%

“Anything too stupid to be said is sung.”

Voltaire
French author, humanist, rationalist, & satirist (1694 – 1778)

Popularity: 4%

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

Sir Winston Churchill
British politician (1874 – 1965)

Popularity: 11%

“The future, according to some scientists, will be exactly like the past, only far more expensive.”

John Sladek

Popularity: 100%