Quotes

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The best thing about being in the IT industry is that you get to surf the net all day long. While going about this endeavor I came upon some quotes which I liked and am sharing with you all.

Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you. - Kahlil Gibran quotes

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. - Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

Some people see things that are and ask, why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that ... - George Carlin

To believe in one's dreams is to spend all of one's life asleep - Chinese Proverb

Not everything that can be counted counts and not everything that counts can be counted. - Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort. – Herm Albright

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards. - Rudyard Kipling

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by - Douglas Adams

"Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves, for they shall never cease to be amused." - Anonymous

"A lady came up to me on the street and pointed to my suede jacket.’You know a cow was murdered for that jacket?' she sneered. I replied in a psychotic tone, 'I didn't know there were any witnesses. Now I'll have to kill you too.'"- Jake Johanson

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