Proverbs, aphorisms, quotations (English) | by Linux fortune |
Television -- the longest amateur night in history. -- Robert Carson | |
The countdown had stalled at 'T' minus 69 seconds when Desiree, the first female ape to go up in space, winked at me slyly and pouted her thick, rubbery lips unmistakably -- the first of many such advances during what would prove to be the longest, and most memorable, space voyage of my career. -- Winning sentence, 1985 Bulwer-Lytton bad fiction contest. | |
The algorithm for finding the longest path in a graph is NP-complete. For you systems people, that means it's *real slow*. -- Bart Miller | |
A shortcut is the longest distance between two points. | |
Issawi's Laws of Progress: The Course of Progress: Most things get steadily worse. The Path of Progress: A shortcut is the longest distance between two points. | |
Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure. -- George Gordon, Lord Byron, "Don Juan" | |
Some of the things that live the longest in peoples' memories never really happened. | |
The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. -- Marcus Terentius Varro | |
To spot the expert, pick the one who predicts the job will take the longest and cost the most. |