Wise men make proverbs, only fools repeat them

[magic_moose]

The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.
~ Douglas Adams, Mostly Harmless

[TBean]

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself. Eleanor Roosevelt

[notalent]

"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."

-Voltaire

Which may be where Joe got his brilliance from

One death is a tragedy, One million deaths are a statistic

Josep Stalin

[TBean]

Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas. ~ Marie Curie

[notalent]

The price of freedom is constant vigalence
Thomas Jefferson

[Purple Fencer]

"Do.....or do not...there is no try."
Yoda

(y'know...it's amazing how many thing said in some films actually have validity once you get past the genre it was said in...)

[Purple Fencer]

"They were in the wrong place at the wrong time.....naturally, they became heroes."
Princess Leia, Star Wars (book version by George Lucas....front plate before the actual story starts)

[I_luv_saber]

"Theories have four stages of acceptance:

i. this is worthless nonsense, ii. this is interesting, but perverse, iii. this is true, but quite umimportant, iv. I always said so."

-J. B. S. Haldane 1963

[Inquartata]

The Six Stages of a Project:

1. Exultation.
2. Disenchantment.
3. Confusion.
4. Search for the Guilty.
5. Punishment of the Innocent.
6. Distinction for the Uninvolved.

-A. Nonymous