The most dangerous thing in the combat zone is an officer with a map.
The problem with taking the easy way out is that the enemy has already mined it.
If the enemy is within range, so are you.
You can never tell which way the train went by looking at the track.
Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.
Carelessly planned projects take three times longer to complete than expected. Carefully planned projects take four times longer to complete than expected, mostly because the planners expect their planning to reduce the time it takes.
If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
The tough part of a Data Manager's job is that users don't really know what they want, but they know for certain what they don't want.
No matter which way you go, it's uphill and against the wind.
When reviewing your notes for a test, the most important ones will be illegible.
Murphy's Law of Research: Enough Research will tend to support your theory.
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ALLIANCE, n. In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
AUSTRALIA, n. A country lying in the South Sea, whose industrial and commercial development has been unspeakably retarded by an unfortunate dispute among geographers as to whether it is a continent or an island.
BOUNDARY, n. In political geography, an imaginary line between two 'nations, separating the imaginary rights of one from the imaginary 'rights of the other.
COMMENDATION, n. The tribute that we pay to achievements that resembles, but do not equal, our own.
DISTANCE, n. The only thing that the rich are willing for the poor to call theirs, and keep.
ECONOMY, n. Purchasing the barrel of whiskey that you do not need for the price of the cow that you cannot afford.
EFFECT, n. The second of two phenomena which always occur together in the same order. The first, called a Cause, is said to generate the other -- which is no more sensible than it would be for one who has never seen a dog except in the pursuit of a rabbit to declare the rabbit the cause of a dog.
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London -- "Rubbish may be shot here."
GEOGRAPHER, n. A chap who can tell you offhand the difference between the outside of the world and the inside.
HARBOR, n. A place where ships taking shelter from stores are exposed to the fury of the customs.
HOUSE, n. A hollow edifice erected for the habitation of man, rat, mouse, beelte, cockroach, fly, mosquito, flea, bacillus and microbe.
LAND, n. A part of the earth's surface, considered as property. The theory that land is property subject to private ownership and control is the foundation of modern society, and is eminently worthy of the superstructure. Carried to its logical conclusion, it means that some have the right to prevent others from living; For the right to own implies the right exclusively to occupy; And in fact laws of trespass are enacted wherever property in land is recognized. It follows that if the whole area of terra firma is owned by A, B and C, there will be no place for D, E, F and G to be born, or, born as trespassers, to exist.
METROPOLIS, n. A stronghold of provincialism.
NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
OCEAN, n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man -- who has no gills.
PASSPORT, n. A document treacherously inflicted upon a citizen going abroad, exposing him as an alien and pointing him out for special reprobation and outrage.
PEACE, n. In international affairs, a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
PHILOSOPHY, n. A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.
POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
PROPERTY, n. Any material thing, having no particular value, that may be held by A against the cupidity of B. Whatever gratifies the passion for possession in one and disappoints it in all others. The object of man's brief rapacity and long indifference.
RESIDENT, adj. Unable to leave.
ROAD, n. A strip of land along which one may pass from where it is too tiresome to be to where it is futile to go.
TARIFF, n. A scale of taxes on imports, designed to protect the domestic producer against the greed of his consumer.
URBANITY, n The kind of civility that urban observers ascribe to dwellers in all cities but New York. Its commonest expression is heard in the words, "I beg your pardon," and it is not consistent with disregard of the rights of others.
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Geographers never get lost. They just suddenly find themselves
doing field work.
We shrink Alaska because it's inconvinietly big.
Nicholas R. Chrisman, Professor of Geography at the University
of Washington.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
Noelie Altito