<?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[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18716]]></link><description><![CDATA[I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy. Mary Baker Eddy -Ursula K. LeGuin.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/18716</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21060]]></link><description><![CDATA[It is difficult to inspire others to accomplish what you haven't been willing to try]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21060</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56593]]></link><description><![CDATA[I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56593</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[That somehow they can't shut up -- that they're dangerous, ... That somehow you get them in a room and ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32999]]></link><description><![CDATA[That somehow they can't shut up -- that they're dangerous, ... That somehow you get them in a room and they are just going to start spouting classified information to somebody who is an enemy of the United States.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/32999</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21284]]></link><description><![CDATA[One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/21284</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The cankers of a calm world and a long peace. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55891]]></link><description><![CDATA[The cankers of a calm world and a long peace. -King Henry IV. Part I. Act iv. Sc. 2.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/55891</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40312]]></link><description><![CDATA[It would have been a waste to switch. But had we moved anywhere else, I wouldn't have gotten to stay.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/40312</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16428]]></link><description><![CDATA[While forbidden fruit is said to taste sweeter, it usually spoils faster.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/16428</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17282]]></link><description><![CDATA[Gifts are hooks.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/17282</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49263]]></link><description><![CDATA[Give a clowne your finger, and he will take your hand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/49263</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63952]]></link><description><![CDATA[Sometimes I think of life as a process where everybody is discouraging and taking everybody else down a peg or two.rn]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63952</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47343]]></link><description><![CDATA[Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47343</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63962]]></link><description><![CDATA[A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63962</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Your secret is your prisoner; once you reveal it, you become its slave.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/63936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64166]]></link><description><![CDATA[Human nature is evil, and goodness is caused by intentional activity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/64166</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[When you have faith in yourself you don’t need others to believe in you. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65596]]></link><description><![CDATA[When you have faith in yourself you don’t need others to believe in you.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65596</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27978]]></link><description><![CDATA[No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making other bastards die for their country.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27978</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48993]]></link><description><![CDATA[What sorrow was, thou bad'st her know, And from her own she learnt to melt at others' woe.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/48993</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65305]]></link><description><![CDATA[I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/455]]></link><description><![CDATA[I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/455</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9936]]></link><description><![CDATA[Some things are of that nature as to make One's fancy chuckle, while his heart doth ache.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/9936</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5800]]></link><description><![CDATA[A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/5800</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58861]]></link><description><![CDATA[A tart temper never mellows with age; and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58861</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[t's just hard to meet new people, in my position. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66481]]></link><description><![CDATA[t's just hard to meet new people, in my position.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13493]]></link><description><![CDATA[Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13493</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56907]]></link><description><![CDATA[Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56907</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45718]]></link><description><![CDATA[The worst speak something good; if all want sense, God takes a text, and preacheth patience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45718</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47565]]></link><description><![CDATA[[expressing John Locke's view]...whenever anyone threatens any other innocent human in a way that makes manifest an ignorance or disregard of the fundamental equality as regards the right to self-preservation, the creature in human shape who acts in this way is to be treated by any and all other rational humans as a wild, clever, and therefore very dangerous animal, to be destroyed (if necessary) in order to safeguard the rest.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47565</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[This article reaffirms the fact that there is a shortage of drilling rigs especially in Colorado and we are in ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33006]]></link><description><![CDATA[This article reaffirms the fact that there is a shortage of drilling rigs especially in Colorado and we are in a position to help satisfy that demand.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/33006</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I do love My country's good with a respect more tender,  More holy and profound, then mine own life, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45815]]></link><description><![CDATA[I do love My country's good with a respect more tender,  More holy and profound, then mine own life,   My dear wife's estimate, her womb increase,    And treasure of my loins.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45815</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA['Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below,  Half frantic in its joyousness,   And wild ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61305]]></link><description><![CDATA['Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below,  Half frantic in its joyousness,   And wild in eager flow.    The earth is dried and parched with heat,     And it hath long'd to be      Released from out the selfish cloud,       To cool the thirsty tree.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/61305</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,  By winding ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46753]]></link><description><![CDATA[Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread,  By winding myrtle round your ruin'd shed?]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/46753</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52491]]></link><description><![CDATA[Let thy speech be better than silence, or be silent.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/52491</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[An optimist is a man who has never had much experience. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45210]]></link><description><![CDATA[An optimist is a man who has never had much experience.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/45210</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602]]></link><description><![CDATA[Discontent is likely to be highest when misery is bearable; when conditions have so improved that an ideal state seems almost within reach. A grievance is most poignant when almost redressed. De Tocqueville in his researches into the state of society in France before the revolution was struck by the discovery that "in no one of the periods which have followed the Revolution of 1789 has the national prosperity of France augmented more rapidly than it did in the twenty years preceding that event." He is forced to conclude that "the French found their position the more intolerable the better it became.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/47602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66501]]></link><description><![CDATA[Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66501</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[It's adding to their cost of operations, but like any business, they'll probably add it onto our costs. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36004]]></link><description><![CDATA[It's adding to their cost of operations, but like any business, they'll probably add it onto our costs.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/36004</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14286]]></link><description><![CDATA[Wicked acts are accustomed to be done with impunity for the mere desire of occupation. [Lat., Solent occupationis spe vel impune quaedam scelesta committi.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/14286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42915]]></link><description><![CDATA[He saw her charming, but he saw not half The charms her downcast modesty conceal'd.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/42915</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.". ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11894]]></link><description><![CDATA[... government that "substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.".]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/11894</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66286]]></link><description><![CDATA[I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/66286</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.] ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51067]]></link><description><![CDATA[The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. [Lat., Altissima quaeque flumina minimo sono labuntur.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/51067</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65874]]></link><description><![CDATA[Smile in the mirror. Do that every morning and you'll start to see a big difference in your life.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/65874</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28479]]></link><description><![CDATA[God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/28479</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62336]]></link><description><![CDATA[Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather and prunello.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/62336</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;  Down on the vale of ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56189]]></link><description><![CDATA[Again she plunges! hark! a second shock Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;  Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries,   The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes    In wild despair; while yet another stroke     With strong convulsion rends the solid oak:      Ah Heaven!--behold her crashing ribs divide!       She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/56189</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19549]]></link><description><![CDATA[The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and grows, feeding on all the life around it, scouring the earth to find new sources of nourishment. This beast lives in each man who battens on female servitude.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/19549</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. [It., Il y en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses differentes, ...]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13911]]></link><description><![CDATA[In England three are sixty different religions, and only one sauce. [It., Il y en Angleterre soizante sectes religieuses differentes, et une seule sauce.]]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/13911</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[I must plough my furrow alone. ]]></title><link><![CDATA[http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27790]]></link><description><![CDATA[I must plough my furrow alone.]]></description><guid>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/27790</guid></item></channel></rss>