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All Rights Reserved.</copyright><item><title><![CDATA[Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25163]]></link><description><![CDATA[Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/25163</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14564]]></link><description><![CDATA[Time = Life, Therefore, waste your time and waste of your life, or master your time and master your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14564</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16715]]></link><description><![CDATA[We are not free, it was not intended we should be. A book of rules is placed in our cradle, and we never get rid of it until we reach our graves. Then we are free, and only then.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16715</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17440]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give an inch, he'll take an ell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17440</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54417]]></link><description><![CDATA[The rose that all are praising Is not the rose for me.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54417</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I would rather start a family than finish one. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15176]]></link><description><![CDATA[I would rather start a family than finish one.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15176</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208]]></link><description><![CDATA[With curious art the brain, too finely wrought, Preys on herself, and is destroyed by thought.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/59208</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46234]]></link><description><![CDATA[The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46234</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And the gilded car of day, His glowing axle doth allay  In the steep Atlantic stream. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58334]]></link><description><![CDATA[And the gilded car of day, His glowing axle doth allay  In the steep Atlantic stream.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58334</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10147]]></link><description><![CDATA[Cooking is like love. It should be entered into with abandon or not at all.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/10147</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37497]]></link><description><![CDATA[Eddie Jordan found me all the drives. If I am with Tyrrell today, it is because Eddie was there.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37497</guid></item><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[He played the rest of the game, and I have gotta tell you, we were watching him like a hawk. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31719]]></link><description><![CDATA[He played the rest of the game, and I have gotta tell you, we were watching him like a hawk. He did outstanding for a young guy that was a little nervous.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31719</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15490]]></link><description><![CDATA[Most people have a harder time letting themselves love than finding someone to love them.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/15490</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I wanted to tell a story of violence and intolerance but in a contemporary way. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41429]]></link><description><![CDATA[I wanted to tell a story of violence and intolerance but in a contemporary way.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41429</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53537]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sermons are like pie-crust, the shorter the better.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/53537</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18646]]></link><description><![CDATA[Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18646</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. [It., Superbia, invidia ed avarizia sono  Le tre faville ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14305]]></link><description><![CDATA[Three sparks--pride, envy, and avarice--have been kindled in all hearts. [It., Superbia, invidia ed avarizia sono  Le tre faville che hanno i cori accesi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Where annual elections end where slavery begins. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66825]]></link><description><![CDATA[Where annual elections end where slavery begins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66825</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51766]]></link><description><![CDATA[Suretyship is the precursor of ruin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51766</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27266]]></link><description><![CDATA[What a dreadful thing it must be to have a dull father.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27266</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47938]]></link><description><![CDATA[Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47938</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39411]]></link><description><![CDATA[They have literally stuck their hands into a hornets' nest. This is going to inflame a lot of scientists who are very, very concerned and are far more knowledgeable in this area than the authors appear to be. This is not the last word ÃƒÂ¢Ã¢Â‚Â¬Ã¢Â€Âœ definitely not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39411</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55348]]></link><description><![CDATA[If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are married and have more occasion to know one another: I hope, upon familiarity will grow more contempt. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act i. Sc. 1.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55348</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45865]]></link><description><![CDATA[And suddenly there was with the angel a multitude of the heavenly host praising God, and saying Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45865</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42534]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm more nervous about doing this than anything I've ever done before, because it is so prestigious.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42534</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49357]]></link><description><![CDATA[He that hath one foot in the straw, hath another in the spittle.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49357</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2131]]></link><description><![CDATA[The force of truth that a statement imparts, then, its prominence among the hordes of recorded observations that I may optionally apply to my own life, depends, in addition to the sense that it is argumentatively defensible, on the sense that someone like me, and someone I like, whose voice is audible and who is at least notionally in the same room with me, does or can possibly hold it to be compellingly true.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/2131</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41261]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think it is obvious that people repeat acts that are shown on the television or the screen and I wouldn't want to inspire any violence on anyone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/41261</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In time there is no present, In eternity no future,  In eternity no past. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14212]]></link><description><![CDATA[In time there is no present, In eternity no future,  In eternity no past.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14212</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's more news of good economic growth and low inflation. That takes pressure off of stocks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37899]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's more news of good economic growth and low inflation. That takes pressure off of stocks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/37899</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5787]]></link><description><![CDATA[Lord, Make me chaste, but not yet]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5787</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133]]></link><description><![CDATA[A man can do what he ought to do; and when he says he cannot, it is because he will not.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/43133</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;  No fear lest he should swerve ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6158]]></link><description><![CDATA[Look in, and see Christ's chosen saint In triumph wear his Christ-like chain;  No fear lest he should swerve or faint;   "His life is Christ, his death is gain."]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/6158</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54555]]></link><description><![CDATA[The flying rumours gather'd as the roll'd, Scarce any tale was sooner heard than told;  And all who told it added something new.   And all who heard it made enlargements too.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/54555</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Tennis has given me soul. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58956]]></link><description><![CDATA[Tennis has given me soul.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58956</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'm glad that by working together we were able to come up with a suitable location for her fund-raiser. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38159]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'm glad that by working together we were able to come up with a suitable location for her fund-raiser.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38159</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29565]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/29565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of theheart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21932]]></link><description><![CDATA[Hope is an orientation of spirit, an orientation of theheart. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but thecertainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21932</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have good home cooking. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40760]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have good home cooking.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40760</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39677]]></link><description><![CDATA[It was tough on the way back this morning. I was so mad; it kept snowing and snowing. We should have been here half an hour ago.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/39677</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55360]]></link><description><![CDATA[We have some salt of our youth in us. -The Merry Wives of Windsor. Act ii. Sc. 3.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55360</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24748]]></link><description><![CDATA[The true character of liberty is independence, maintained by force.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/24748</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56882]]></link><description><![CDATA[Propaganda does not deceive people; it merely helps them to deceive themselves.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56882</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66880]]></link><description><![CDATA[The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66880</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't use a lot where a little will do ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12730]]></link><description><![CDATA[Don't use a lot where a little will do]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/12730</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe we're still going to have a good real estate market this year. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31830]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe we're still going to have a good real estate market this year.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/31830</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19196]]></link><description><![CDATA[Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19196</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35195]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have arrived at the conviction that the neglect by economists to discuss seriously what is really the crucial problem of our time is due to a certain timidity about soiling their hands by going from purely scientific questions into value questions.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/35195</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38677]]></link><description><![CDATA[Batting for Vivian Richards is a matter of strokes, more strokes, and even more strokes.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/38677</guid></item></channel></rss>