My work software now features a quote of the day

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"History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree upon." --Napoleon Bonaparte

um, not exactly

work software quotes:

In the end it may well be that Britain will be honored by the historians more
for the way she disposed of an empire than for the way in which she acquired
it. -- Sir David Ormsby Gore, ambassador to U.S., 1962

Britain Friday withdrew the farthing from circulation as a coin of the realm
because after 800 years it isn't worth a farthing any more.
-- UPI dispatch, 1960

haha! Too bad that first one doesn't say:

"Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood." -- Marie Curie (killed by radiation)

Don't you have a machine that puts food into the mouth and pushes it down?
-- Nikita Krushchev, observing American model house, 1959

It is not a question of mooning him but of demooning him. Our national emblem
is already on the moon, but we don't want to place a coffin beside it.
-- Nikita Khrushchev, on landing a Soviet astronaut on the moon, 1961

Russian-Chinese friendship is as firm and industructible as the Himalayas,
as deep as the Pacific, as vast as the Yangtze and the Volga.
-- Pravda, 1961

well yeah Stan, that's why I loled

I never reprimand a boy in the evening - darkness and a troubled mind are a
poor combination. Frank Boyden of Deerfield Academy, 1962

I wouldn't attach too much importance to these student riots. I remember when
I was a student at the Sorbonne in Paris I used to go out and riot occasionally.
-- John Foster Dulles, 1958

your work quotes are way better than mine

Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a
club? Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals.
-- Whitney Griswold, president, Yale University, 1951

Yup:

Professional jargon is unpleasant. Translating it into English is a bore. I
narrow-mindedly outlawed the word 'unique'. Practically every press release
contains it. Practically nothing ever is. F.Hechinger, New York Times

"In the Middle West, the high school is the place where the band practices."

(lol)

"If moderation is a fault, indifference is a crime." -- Jack Kerouac

I don't quite get it.

“A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.” –Charles Darwin

RONG

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life ILX

"The world hates change, yet it is the only thing that has brought progress." -- Charles Kettering

"The world hates tautologies, yet they are self-evident."

what's wrong with the curie quote?

I guess folks think that she ought have feared radiation a bit more than she did.

not wrong, just ironic

What the French criticize [in Coca-Cola] is less the drink itself than the
civilization...red delivery trucks and walls covered with signs, placards and
advertisements...it is a question of the whole panorama and morale of French
civilization. -- Le Monde

Haha, even the newspaper in France talks like Baudrillard.