Be sociable with them that will be sociable, and be formidable with them that will not. -- Thomas Hobbes

I am your constant companion.
I am your greatest helper or your heaviest burden.
I will push you onward or drag you down to failure.
I am completely at your command.

Half the things you do, you might just as well turn over to me,
And I will be able to do them quickly and correctly.
I am easily managed; you must merely be firm with me.
Show me exactly how you want something done,
And after a few lessons I will do it automatically.

I am the servant of all great men.
And, alas, of all failures as well.
Those who are great, I have made great.
Those who are failures, I have made failures.

I am not a machine, though I work with all the precision of a machine.
Plus, the intelligence of a man.
You may run me for profit, or run me for ruin;
It makes no difference to me.

Take me, train me, be firm with me
And I will put the world at your feet.
Be easy with me, and I will destroy you.

Who am I?

I am HABIT!

The fundamental delusion of humanity is to suppose that I am here and you are out there. -- Yasutani Roshi, Zen master (1885-1973)

"Imaginiation is more important than knowledge" - Albert Einstein

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? -- T. S. Eliot (1888-1965)

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from that of their social environment. -- Albert Einstein (1879-1955)

Anger, if not restrained, is frequently more hurtful to us than the injury that provokes it. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca, philosopher (BCE 3-65 CE)

"When a diplomat says 'yes' he means 'maybe'; when he says 'maybe' he means 'no'; if he says 'no' he's no diplomat!

"When a lady says 'no' she means 'maybe'; when she says 'maybe' she means 'yes'; if she says 'yes' ..." -- Mr Buggie, Senior.

lord help me remember this:
 

Never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by stupidity. Ahem
Unknown, Hanlon's Razor

Will this help?

cf:

You have attributed conditions to villainy that simply result from stupidity. -- Robert Heinlein

Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. -- Robert Heinlein


I love this thread.

Well, if I haven't been smacked upside the head by the wet socks filled with sand and tied with a rubber band of the gods of coincidence!

Now who is in my brain? Get out. Get out, I tell you! :rotflol:

"To each his own." -I don't remember.

"Let not the pot call the kettle boring."
--R.P. Hoffenstotterstein

Edmund Blackadder

"An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them."

Stephen Fry