Fortune Cookies

I didn’t know what else to call the items on this page. Quotable Quotes? Noteable Notes? Something else?

So I decided to just call ’em “Fortune Cookies,” and be done with it. Anyway, whatever they’re called, here are ten of ’em, randomly chosen just for you…

"The ships hung in the sky in the same manner that bricks don't."
— Douglas Adams

"The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in: we're computer professionals. We cause accidents."
— Nethaniel Borenstein

Transmitted on 100% recycled electrons

"Few things are harder to put up with than the annoyance of a good example."
— Mark Twain

"Nature gave man two ends - one to sit on and one to think with. Ever since then man's success or failure has been dependent on the one he used most."
— George R. Kirkpatrick

Programming: An act similar to banging one's head against a wall, but with fewer opportunities for reward.

"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
— Winston Churchill

"STOP: DRIVE SIDEWAYS!"
— detour sign in Kyushi, Japan

"An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows."
— Dwight D. Eisenhower

"It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty."
— George Burns