<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Maxioms.com</title><description>Quotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxioms</description><link>http://maxioms.com</link><language>en-us</language><copyright>Copyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9596]]></link><description><![CDATA[A system support specialist's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over ER doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards! Dick Maliska  Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining. •Jeff Raskin   Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw. •Anonymous   The Programmer's Time-Space Continuum is defined as "Programmers continuously space the time." •Leon Lanthier   Computers are useless - they only give you answers. •Pablo Picasso   "Paradosfunctionoracle" is the term used by technicians to describe the reason no one knows why your computer won't work. •J. H. Goldfuss   No machine will increase the possibilities of life. They only increase the possibilities of idleness. •John Ruskin   All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors. •Anonymous  Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except the things in the world that just don't add up. •James Magary  Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. •E W Dijkstra  Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons. •Popular Mechanics, 1949  Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done. •Andy Rooney  Not even computers will replace committees, because committees buy computers. •Edward Shepherd Mead  A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. •John Gall   There won't be anything we won't say to people to try and convince them that our way is the way to go. •Bill Gates  If you can't make it good, at least make it look good. •Bill Gates  Looking at the proliferation of personal web pages on the net, it looks like very soon everyone on earth will have 15 Megabytes of fame. •MG Siriam   Surfing on the Internet is like sex; everyone boasts about doing more than they actually do. But in the case of the Internet, it's a lot more. •Tom Fasulo   Cyberspace: A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation. •William Gibson   URLs are the 800 numbers of the 1990's. •Chris Clark   My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them. •Penn Jillett   We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire works of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true. •Robert Wilensky   It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. •Denise Caruso   Wow! They've got the internet on computers now! •Homer Simpson  Man is a game playing animal and a computer is another way to play games. •Scott Adams  I do not fear computers. I fear lack of them. •Isaac Asimov   Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idoits. So far, the Universe is winning. •Rich Cook   If automobiles had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. •Robert Cringely   I try to get people to see what I have... When you run a computer company, you have to get people to buy into your dreams. •Steve Jobs   The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up there's no law against wacking them around a little. •Porterfield   People who buy Macs are the same people who said BETA is better than VHS 15 years ago. •Anonymous  Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. •Anonymous  But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with new weaknesses. •Bruce Leverett  Anybody who's studied software engineering knows that a schedule which underestimates the time needed to develop a project actually makes the project take longer.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2051]]></link><description><![CDATA[How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2051</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[She's had many double-doubles. She's a hard post to stop, and a dominating post inside. She's solid for us in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40164]]></link><description><![CDATA[She's had many double-doubles. She's a hard post to stop, and a dominating post inside. She's solid for us in the middle of our zone. She's the best post player in the district.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40164</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57506]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hail Caesar, those who are about to die salute you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57506</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance? ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64249]]></link><description><![CDATA[Is it not strange that desire should so many years outlive performance?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64249</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rule needs significant work. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39583]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rule needs significant work.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39583</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We who lived in the concentration camps can rememberthe men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away theirlast ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22676]]></link><description><![CDATA[We who lived in the concentration camps can rememberthe men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away theirlast piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offersufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing:The last of the human freedoms-to choose one's attitude in any given setof circumstances, to choose one's own way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/22676</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15153]]></link><description><![CDATA[The house does not rest upon the ground, but upon a woman]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15153</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you come back from injuries like this the actual injury is fine - it's just nagging soreness coming back. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31570]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you come back from injuries like this the actual injury is fine - it's just nagging soreness coming back. I'm feeling good and close to 100 percent. If we feel that I'm ready, I'm going to go and give as much as I can. Hopefully that's the case.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55780]]></link><description><![CDATA[For he is but a bastard to the time That doth not smack of observation. -King John. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55780</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43720]]></link><description><![CDATA[By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43720</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The kids were really shocked to learn that genocide is still happening. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32675]]></link><description><![CDATA[The kids were really shocked to learn that genocide is still happening.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32675</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4821]]></link><description><![CDATA[Of all wild beasts, the most difficult to manage.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/4821</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's out there. You can't be quite as selective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31234]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's out there. You can't be quite as selective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23409]]></link><description><![CDATA[Shared joy is a double joy; shared sorrow is half a sorrow]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/23409</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61142]]></link><description><![CDATA[And always we had wars, and more wars, and still other wars — all over Europe, all over the world. 'Sometimes in the private interest of royal families,' Satan said, 'sometimes to crush a weak nation; but never a war started by the aggressor for any clean purpose — there is no such war in the history of the race.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61142</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33785]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst thing that can happen is when the bull jumps, he sets you up so that you lean way back,]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33785</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That scared a lot of people and they sold their units cheaply. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41199]]></link><description><![CDATA[That scared a lot of people and they sold their units cheaply.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41199</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51869]]></link><description><![CDATA[Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51869</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53439]]></link><description><![CDATA[We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53439</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48599]]></link><description><![CDATA[The man that heweth over high, Some chip falleth in his eye.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48599</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I doubt it. I just think he's going to equal or slightly exceed the $74 million from the last time. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35629]]></link><description><![CDATA[I doubt it. I just think he's going to equal or slightly exceed the $74 million from the last time. I don't think he'll reach $100 million.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35629</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17055]]></link><description><![CDATA[Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17055</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What we have to do . . . is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12593]]></link><description><![CDATA[What we have to do . . . is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Between the businesse of life and the day of death, a space ought to be interposed.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's nice for him to finally get rewarded. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31319]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's nice for him to finally get rewarded.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31319</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27441]]></link><description><![CDATA[I was thrown out of college for cheating on the metaphysics exam; I looked into the soul of the boy next to me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27441</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[There's a lot to take in. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29072]]></link><description><![CDATA[There's a lot to take in.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29072</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31642]]></link><description><![CDATA[We've found that sales of nominated DVDs do significantly better if they are released prior to the Oscar ceremony compared to after because of all the media. Later, it's more about the ceremony itself and not the films.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31642</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thoughts shut up want air, And spoil like bales unopen'd to the sun.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51866</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17965]]></link><description><![CDATA[The primary function of the government is - and here I am quoting directly from the U.S. Constitution - "to spew out paper."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17965</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25663]]></link><description><![CDATA[Love's like the measles, all the worse when it comes late.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25663</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26975]]></link><description><![CDATA[A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/26975</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25320]]></link><description><![CDATA[The universe is made up of stories, not of atoms.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25320</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25969]]></link><description><![CDATA[My foot is on my native heath, and my name is MacGregor.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25969</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24242]]></link><description><![CDATA[Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24242</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7895]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have had more trouble with myself than with any other man I have ever met.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/7895</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29179]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29179</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We're confident that Floridians support our positions and that's been reflected in our fund raising. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30951]]></link><description><![CDATA[We're confident that Floridians support our positions and that's been reflected in our fund raising.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/30951</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50016]]></link><description><![CDATA[To the counsell of fooles a woodden bell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/50016</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there, Where most it promises. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51219]]></link><description><![CDATA[Oft expectation fails, and most oft there, Where most it promises.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51219</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12442]]></link><description><![CDATA[By placing discretion in the hands of an official to grant or deny a license, such a statute creates a threat of censorship that by its very existence chills free speech.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12442</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19860]]></link><description><![CDATA[True friendship's laws are by this rule express'd, Welcome the coming, speed the parting guest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19860</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54206]]></link><description><![CDATA[Ridicule is the language of the devil]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54206</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne;  He held them sixpence all too ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58570]]></link><description><![CDATA[King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne;  He held them sixpence all too deere,   Therefore he call'd the taylor lowne.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58570</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The pen is the tongue of the mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57073]]></link><description><![CDATA[The pen is the tongue of the mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/57073</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!--  Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13178]]></link><description><![CDATA[All human history attests That happiness for man,--the hungry sinner!--  Since Eve ate apples, much depends on dinner.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13178</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53595]]></link><description><![CDATA[The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary; men alone are quite capable of every wickedness.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53595</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Make me over, Mother April, When the sap begins to stir!  When thy flowery hand delivers   All ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2984]]></link><description><![CDATA[Make me over, Mother April, When the sap begins to stir!  When thy flowery hand delivers   All the mountain-prisoned rivers,    And thy great heart beats and quivers,     To revive the days that were.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2984</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[My grandmother was a maid and baby sitter, ... From the time she was a teenager until she was 85 ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36789]]></link><description><![CDATA[My grandmother was a maid and baby sitter, ... From the time she was a teenager until she was 85 years old, she was working for somebody. Both she and my mother took on whatever jobs they could. Anything to have an extra dime or quarter. They made tremendous sacrifices.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36789</guid></item></channel></rss>