More Quotes from Work
I've found more self-quotations stored in my laptop, these quotes from June 2004-August 2005. I can't really remember when I made most of these but half of them are lines I created as signatures for my email messages back in Azeus.
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Case: Glass, filled halfway with water.
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Pessimistic user: This glass is half empty already.
Optimistic user: This glass is still half full.
System Analyst: This glass is twice as large as it needs to be.
Tester: We need to see if the glass can handle its full capacity.
Developer: WHO THE HELL DRANK MY WATER? WHO ARE YOU PEOPLE?
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Memories are little gifts that we borrow from Time. They are never lost, only returned.
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If rabbits' feet are lucky, how come rabits never win the lottery? (Maybe because they don't bet.)
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It's hard to admit that we have a lot more animal instincts that we realize. Even our refusal to admit is designed by nature. The less likely we are to realise that we are acting like animals, the less likely we are going to fight against it.
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Im shouting already but you never hear me
My screams always fall to deaf ears
There's a cobbled wall between us; you dont see
that I stand alone against my fears
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Help keep our planet clean. Keep your mouth shut.
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God does not answer. He inspires us to find out for ourselves.
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The prefect optimist lives his life in a series of tragedies.
The perfect pessimist, in a stream of jaded miracles.
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I don't understand people who are afraid of the unknown when the certain and the inevitable
have so much more fear to offer.
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Moving on is just backing out in another direction.
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Backing out is just moving on in another direction.
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If there's a deadline you must meet
then in five minutes files you commit
lest changes in code, you have none
a click of a mouse, the build be done
(a programmer's build song - similar to an irish beer song)
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Oftentimes playing dumb is the smartest thing to do.
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God does not always want us to be happy. If it were so, he wouldn't have given us tears.
Sometimes he wants to make us cry. As a doctor would have slapped us to make us cry after He has delivered us into this world, God gives us trials for the same reason - so we realize that we are alive, and that we have to breathe to stay alive.
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The heart may be the weakest part of the body but we should also never underestimate the
tenacity of the soul to go on. [bad quote, kept in list just to remind myself not all quotes here are actually quotable]
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We are shattered glass. We cant fit where we dont belong without shattering ourselves.
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Sometimes it's not
the story that needs to be told
but the manner by which it is told
that counts.
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Attitude is not in what you wear,
it's in what you have to remove
when washing what you've worn.
- Mr. Clean [autoquotations]
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You can give birth but you can never take it.
You can give hope but you can never grab it.
You can grant forgiveness but you can never force it.
You can give a gift but you can never grab one.
You can give love but you can never steal someone else's.
Most things in life that count are given and cannot be obtained otherwise.
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If you have an open mind and it plays a note evertime the wind blows, it's probably hollow.
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you know the smile so wide, it's tearing your heart apart?
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It takes a great man to shed tears
for when tears come out of a man,
they come out thicker than blood
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The original smiley emoticon was born out of the need to convey emotions through text-only data medium. Whenever you type a smiley to whoever your communicating with, are you really smiling? Or has the emoticon become nothing more than a protocol of politeness? [autoquotations]
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"I am the boatman to perdition. Somebody has paid me to take you across."
- Hitman's Diaries
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Between fantasy and reality? Consequence.
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You know your country is screwed up when a police official defects to the communists. For almost any other case around the world, throught history, it's the opposite case. The poor feller actually has given up what Communism is almost self-destructively trying to prevent.
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It's amazing how timely the wiretapped evidence has surfaced. Just when we're already an arm's length deep up the asses of the Jueteng Lords in the governmental ranks, we take it out again and answer the goddamn phone.
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HK is celebrating Tuen Ng.
RP is celebrating Independence Day.
They're celebrating fast-moving dragon boats.
We're celebrating a sinking ship.
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The hardest moral decisions are not between right and wrong.
They're between right and right.
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Do you tie your shoelaces so your shoes don't fall off or do you do it so you don't fly out of them?
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Isn't it stupefyingly dumb albeit useful how sometimes
the words you mean the least come into the ears of another person
as words that mean the most?
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Everything in life has a purpose. Even those that appear to have none have the purpose of reminding us that not everything has to have purpose to have a purpose.
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A man who does no evil when there is good all around him cannot be worthed to a man who does even minute goodness to his fellowmen in the face of evil. For bubbles are formed not with a large absence of water, but with the presence of even the most miniscule air amidst water.
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Immitation as the best form of flattery does NOT apply for acts of mockery.
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Anybody who has done enough overtime can tell you one simple rule in life:
He who hesitates, starves.
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Many a great change came to be not because of the euphony of a thousand voices but because of the silence of one.
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Sometimes, the key to avoid losing something dear is to not find it in the first place.
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Our heart is the strongest and weakest muscle in the body. For the heart, when wounded, bleeds the most and endures pain longest..
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A simple rule governing work: Do what you love and love what you've done.
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You're never too old for anything that's not too old for you.
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Do be historically accurate, you need an accurate history first.
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Stupidity is a prerogative. I just happen to know how to exploit it properly.
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The first thing that you have to learn when working in a technical field is to be
forgiving of ignorance.
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God exists not in the overtly blatant truths. He does not exist in the majestic that is everything he created. He is not in the masonry of the Church. He is not in the paperback religion. He is not in the blessed stagnation of water.
God exists in the happy coincidences of life, in the smiles of schoolboys and schoolgirls, inside the accidentally half-burnt but still tasty pasta, in the cries of the newly born, beside the falling tree, with the unexpected kiss, amidst the ephemeral rain, in anything that you do that you did because you could.
God is not the gears inside the clock of life.
He is its very ticking.
5-18-2005 1840
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The one thing that we should learn from all computer role playing games is that the world's greatest adventures cannot be uncovered just by sitting in front of the couch.
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Man puts faith on anything but himself.
(Theory: We are wired by nature to think of this way not because it wants us to start worshiping a great unknown factor. We are made to have faith on things other than ourselves so that we can thrive through coexistence, but for some reason, man has managed to distort this dented natural adaptation as an actual reasoning for a divine existence and a reason to be independent, id est, to be dependent on a nonexistent factor)
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A company that wont even trust us when we call in sick during saturdays, mondays, and after holidays?
Why do we have waste what could be more efficacious rest just to get a farflung doctor's opinion on the most basic of sicknesses that neither need diagnosis nor prescription?
Cant they take our word for it? A mature company who thinks it has the most immature employees is farce.
(hahaha funny enough, the last quote is neither funny nor profound. what makes it so damn special is that 1 week after having written that on my text file, I submitted my formal letter of resignation)
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