Comment author: wedrifid 04 November 2010 11:02:26PM 5 points [-]

People were killed because someone neglected to sharpen their pencil. That's "scribbles on a piece of paper" for you.

I suppose it would be in bad taste to find that rather amusing. Or at least to admit it.

Comment author: Drawbacks 23 November 2010 10:23:09PM 1 point [-]

"The 350-mile detour in the Trans-Siberian Railway was caused by the Tsar, who drew the proposed route using a ruler with a notch in it." -- Not 1982

Comment author: Tesseract 05 November 2010 08:34:18PM 23 points [-]

Kołakowski's Law, or The Law of the Infinite Cornucopia:

For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which to support it.

Leszek Kołakowski

Comment author: Drawbacks 23 November 2010 08:09:40PM 2 points [-]

If you set out to beat a dog, you're sure to find a stick. -- Old Yiddish Proverb

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 November 2009 11:44:45PM 21 points [-]

Your calendar never lies. All we have is our time. The way we spend our time is our priorities, is our "strategy." Your calendar knows what you really care about. Do you?

-- Tom Peters, HT Ben Casnocha

Comment author: Drawbacks 03 December 2009 05:39:24PM 5 points [-]

"We are what we repeatedly do."

-- Russ Roberts, quoting some sports guy on the radio