Politiker

Der beste Platz für Politiker ist das Wahlplakat.
Dort ist er tragbar, geräuschlos und leicht zu entfernen.
- Loriot

Enough

Genoeg is meer dan teveel.
- Kasper H.'s Granddad

("Enough is more than too much")

Understanding

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
- Albert Einstein

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
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Elementary particles

Scientists say the universe is made up of protons, neutrons and electrons.
They forget to mention the morons!
- Bugs Bunny

Driving

"Drive Smarter, Not Harder!"
- Carlo Sparacio

Minds

Strong minds discuss ideas,
average minds discuss events,
weak minds discuss people.
- Socrates

The End

In the end it's not the years in your life that count,
it's the life in your years.
- Anonymous

Relativity of time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams in The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Good drivers

Good drivers have dead flies on the side windows.
- Walter Röhrl, World Rally Champion 1980 & 1982

Optimization

We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.
- Donald E. Knuth

Software design

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.
- Tony Hoare, inventer of Quicksort

Resting on your laurels?

Yesterday's home runs don't win today's games.

- Babe Ruth

Architecture

A truly great architecture is as elegant as a cathedral -- you design it, and then you pray a lot.

- Anonymous IT architect 

Truth

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
- Albert Einstein

Danger

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
- Albert Einstein

How to accomplish world peace

Fighting for peace is like f*cking for virginity.
- Chris W. at a BBQ :-P

Pacing

Young bull: Let's run down the mountain and f*ck a cow!
Old bull: No, let's walk down the mountain and f*ck them all!
- From the collective wisdom of Dutch commandos

Mistakes

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.

- Albert Einstein

Perspective

"Ya. Democracy is good, but sausage is better."
- Russian woman interviewed in an empty supermarket post-Perestroika

Smart people

Try never to be the smartest person in the room. And if you are, I suggest you invite smarter people … or find a different room.
- Michael Dell

Plans

A goal without a plan is just a wish.

 - Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Respect

Respect is for those who deserve it,
not for those who demand it.

Curiosity

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
- Albert Einstein

Friends

Being honest may not get you many friends, but it'll always get you the right ones.
- John Lennon

Socialism

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.
- Margaret Thatcher