Bit's & Peices, Sayings & Stuff

Customer Support

2010-12-02T07:56:00.001+11:00

Customer support should be called “delayed sales” because even though I am a customer now, you need to sell me on why I should continue to be a customer.
Rich Aberman

2008-05-28T13:16:00.003+10:00

"the product is not the news, the product is the news consumer. The responsibility for the news organization is not to the news consumer, since they don’t pay the bill, it is to the advertisers. On several levels, being called a product is very unsettling" -- Mark 'Rizzn' Hopkins

"Tact is the ability to describe others as the see themselves" -- Abraham Lincon

2008-05-26T08:17:00.000+10:00

"Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many - not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some" -- Charles Dickens

2008-05-26T08:16:00.001+10:00

"It is well to remember that the entire population of the universe, with one trifling exception, is composed of others" -- John Andrew Holmes

2008-05-26T08:15:00.002+10:00

"The difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the worlds problems" -- Mahatma Gandhi

2008-05-26T08:13:00.002+10:00

"The pleasure of criticising robs us of being moved by some very fine things" -- Jean de la Bruyere

2008-05-26T08:12:00.000+10:00

"You can fool all of the people all of the time if the advertising is right and the budget is big enough" -- Josephine E. Levine

2008-05-26T08:11:00.000+10:00

"What makes life dreary is want of a motive" -- George Eliot

2008-05-26T08:10:00.004+10:00

"The only way to entertain some folk is to listen to them" -- Kin Hubbard

2008-05-26T08:10:00.003+10:00

"Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way" -- David Frost

2008-05-26T08:09:00.000+10:00

"Good architecture lets nature in" -- Mario Pei

2008-05-26T08:08:00.000+10:00

"Envy is the most stupid of vices, for there is no single advantage to be gained from it" -- Honore de Balzac

2008-05-26T08:07:00.001+10:00

"One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long period of time" -- Andrew Gide (1869 - 1951)

2008-05-26T08:06:00.003+10:00

"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't" -- Margaret Thatcher

2008-05-26T08:05:00.001+10:00

"You cannont feed the hungry on statistics" -- Lloyd George

2008-05-26T08:03:00.001+10:00

2007-10-15T15:03:00.001+10:00

"Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer" -- C.C. Coulton

"I forget what I was taught. I only remember what I have learnt" -- Patrick White

2007-10-08T08:55:00.001+10:00

2007-01-02T09:04:00.000+11:00

"I have long been of the opinion that if work were such a splendid thing the rich would have kept more of it for themselves" -- Bruce Grocott

"I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life" -- George Burns

2006-10-24T08:57:00.000+10:00

2006-09-21T09:39:00.000+10:00

"I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends" -- Moby

"Little by little one walks far" -- Peruvian Proverb

2005-12-20T18:18:00.000+11:00

2005-11-22T09:41:00.000+11:00

"with less news out there than there used to be, you have to create a little yourself. Since most newspapers lack the wherewithal and expertise to start a war or cure cancer, it's a lot more cost-effective to do sex. And because it's a subject nobody really knows anything about, you don't have to get stuck on accuracy issues" -- Peter Ruehl AFR 22/11/2005

"The man who does things makes many mistakes, but he never makes the biggest mistake of all - doing nothing" -- Benjamin Franklin

2005-08-30T13:51:00.000+10:00

"Failure is the opportunity to begin again, more intelligently" -- Henry Ford

2005-08-11T13:26:00.000+10:00

2005-08-11T13:24:00.000+10:00

"If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person's point of view and see things from that person's angle as well" -- Henry Ford

"Democracy is an awful way to run a country, but it's the best system we have" -- Winston Churchill

2005-08-11T13:20:00.000+10:00

"I am always ready to learn although I do not always like being taught" - - Winston Churchill

2005-08-11T13:18:00.000+10:00

"The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon, but only to support your weight long enough so you can reach for something higher" -- Anonymous

2005-06-10T16:35:00.000+10:00

Quantum Mechanics is God's version of "Trust me."

2005-06-01T21:41:00.000+10:00

"I not only use all the brains I have, but all I can borrow" -- Woodrow Wilson

2005-04-27T14:20:00.000+10:00

"It's not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what's required" -- Sir Winston Churchill

2005-04-27T14:16:00.000+10:00

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in" -- Napoleon Bonaparte

2005-04-12T12:17:00.000+10:00

Apologise fast, apologise first

2005-04-09T18:53:00.000+10:00

"An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest" -- Benjamin Franklin

2005-03-29T13:23:00.000+10:00

"The way to get started is to quit talking and begin doing" -- Walt Disney

2005-03-16T10:35:00.000+11:00

“Do not arouse or awaken love until it so desires” -- Song of Songs 2:7

2005-03-12T20:15:00.001+11:00

“Whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, in the place where it falls there will it lie” -- Ecclesiastes 11:3

2005-03-12T20:15:00.000+11:00

“As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honour” -- Ecclesiastes 10:1

2005-03-12T20:14:00.000+11:00

“The first to present his case seems right, till another comes forward and questions him” -- Proverbs 18:17

2005-03-12T20:00:00.000+11:00

“The labourer’s appetite works for him; his hunger drives him on” -- Proverbs 16: 26

2005-03-12T19:58:00.000+11:00

“Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid” -- Proverbs 12:1

2005-03-12T19:54:00.000+11:00

“Of what use is money in the hands of a fool, since he has no desire to get wisdom” -- Proverbs 17:16

2005-03-12T19:52:00.000+11:00

All work and no pay makes a housewife

2005-03-12T19:39:00.000+11:00

Leveraging always beats prototyping

2005-03-12T19:38:00.001+11:00

“I have great faith in fools - self confidence my friends call it” -- Edgar Allan Poe

2005-03-12T19:38:00.000+11:00

“These baked beans look bully” –- John D Rockefeller Jnr

2005-03-12T19:35:00.000+11:00

Open Source; Every now and then, you get what you don't pay for

2005-03-12T19:31:00.000+11:00

Lowery's Law: “If it jams - force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway”

2005-03-12T19:30:00.001+11:00

"We have many children but none to spare. Please drive carefully" –- Golf Manor Subdivision

2005-03-12T19:30:00.000+11:00

Ever notice that even the busiest people are never too busy to tell you just how busy they are?

2005-03-12T19:29:00.000+11:00

Put your brain in gear before starting your mouth in motion

2005-03-12T19:23:00.001+11:00

“Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own conceit” -- Proverbs, 26:5

2005-03-12T19:23:00.000+11:00

“Guns are only deadly if used for their intended purpose” – The Onion

2005-03-12T19:22:00.001+11:00

“Mix a little foolishness with your serious plans; it's lovely to be silly at the right moment” –- Horace

2005-03-12T19:22:00.000+11:00

“All I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard, ya don't go lookin' for rutabagas” -- Kingfish

2005-03-12T19:21:00.000+11:00

“Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable” –- Gilb

2005-03-12T19:20:00.000+11:00

“The stone age did not end because they ran out of stones. It ended because they found something better” –- Sheikh Yamani

2005-03-12T19:18:00.000+11:00

“Where there is no revelation (or prophetic vision), the people cast off restraint; but happy is the one who keeps the law” -- Proverbs 29:18

2005-03-12T19:15:00.000+11:00

Ahh, but a person's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?

2005-03-12T19:05:00.002+11:00

The girl who stoops to conquer usually wears a low-cut dress.

2005-03-12T19:05:00.001+11:00

The girl who stoops to conquer usually wears a low-cut dress.

2005-03-12T19:05:00.000+11:00

“Money can't buy love, but it improves your bargaining position” -- Christopher Marlowe

2005-03-12T19:04:00.000+11:00

“I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth” –- Fry

2005-03-12T19:01:00.000+11:00

If life isn't what you wanted, have you asked for anything else?

2005-03-12T18:59:00.000+11:00

"If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning." -- Mahatma Gandhi

2005-03-01T14:20:00.000+11:00

If Patrick Henry thought that taxation without representation was bad, he should see how bad it is with representation

2005-02-20T16:55:00.001+11:00

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia" -- Charles Schultz

2005-02-20T16:55:00.000+11:00

“Exceptions prove the rule, and wreck the budget” –- Miller

2005-02-20T16:54:00.009+11:00

Theory of Selective Supervision: The one time in the day that you lean back and relax is the one time the boss walks through the office

2005-02-20T16:54:00.008+11:00

“In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable” -- W. Churchill, on General Montgomery

2005-02-20T16:54:00.007+11:00

An ounce of clear truth is worth a pound of obfuscation

2005-02-20T16:54:00.006+11:00

The part of the world that people find most puzzling is the part called "Me"

2005-02-20T16:54:00.005+11:00

“It's not easy, being green” -- Kermit the Frog

2005-02-20T16:54:00.004+11:00

“Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature” -- Rich Kulawiec

2005-02-20T16:54:00.003+11:00

"The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet" -- William Gibson, Science-Fiction Writer

2005-02-20T16:54:00.002+11:00

“Think network. Think open. Think extensible. Play well with others” -- Tim O'Reilly, founder and president of O'Reilly & Associates

2005-02-20T16:54:00.001+11:00

“You don't need permission to innovate” -- Mike O'Dell

2005-02-20T16:54:00.000+11:00

"First they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win" –- Gandhi

2005-02-20T16:53:00.004+11:00

"Any sufficiently advanced technology appears to be magic" -- Arthur C. Clarke

2005-02-20T16:53:00.003+11:00

“My question was whether they had ever discussed governing with a bunch of pinko fruitloops like Rod Donald or not?” -- Winston Peters

2005-02-20T16:53:00.002+11:00

"I'm not a god, I was misquoted" -- Lister, Red Dwarf

2005-02-20T16:53:00.001+11:00

If your life were a horse, you'd have to shoot it

2005-02-20T16:53:00.000+11:00

"I'm gonna walk around Downtown - I love it. I'm gonna contribute to the New Zealand economy" -- Bill Clinton

2005-02-20T16:52:00.000+11:00

Many people feel that if you won't let them make you happy, they'll make you suffer

2005-02-20T16:51:00.000+11:00

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude" -- Ralph Marston

2005-02-15T15:33:00.000+11:00

“Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them” -- Publilius Syrus

2005-02-11T19:29:00.000+11:00

There's nothing like good food, good wine, and a bad girl

2005-02-11T19:28:00.001+11:00

(1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes

2005-02-11T19:28:00.000+11:00

To err is human, to moo bovine

2005-02-11T19:27:00.002+11:00

“A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of” -- Burt Bacharach

2005-02-11T19:27:00.001+11:00

“Reality must take precedence over public relations, for Mother Nature cannot be fooled” -- R.P. Feynman

2005-02-11T19:27:00.000+11:00

“People seem to enjoy things more when they know a lot of other people have been left out on the pleasure” -- Russell Baker

2005-02-11T19:26:00.002+11:00

"Simulations are like miniskirts, they show a lot and hide the essentials" -- Hubert Kirrman

2005-02-11T19:26:00.001+11:00

"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one" -- John Galsworthy

2005-02-11T19:26:00.000+11:00

”Where there is much light there is also much shadow” -- Goethe

2005-02-11T19:14:00.000+11:00