Trust but verify!

Just one idiot can screw everything up!

Do it once and do it right!

Always do your best!

Just because it is there, doesn’t mean I have to climb on it!

Love what you do and you will be good at doing it!

Love what you do and you never work a day in your life!

I wish all Satellites would crash into each other!

Internet is the downfall of humanity!

I’m glad I’m already that old!

I’m not a pessimist- I’m a realist….…

. “…….go back where you came from” “they didn’t want me either”

One guy ruling over everything is not democracy!

… Just inject some bleach… You’ll be fine!

Here are a few...

Failing to plan is planning to fail.

I've taught you everything you know; I haven't taught you everything I know.

Chance favors the prepared mind.

The Golden Rule:  Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.

Alternative Golden Rule:  He who has the gold makes the rules!

Measure twice, cut once!

From my grandfather: "It's hell to grow old."   I always replied, "But it beats the alternative!"  Glad he stayed with us as long as he did! (1901-1991)

If you don't ask, you don't get.

USE to be my mantra;

“I often say that when you can measure what you are speaking about, and express it in numbers, you know something about it; but when you cannot measure it, when you cannot express it in numbers, your knowledge is of a meagre and unsatisfactory kind; it may be the beginning of knowledge, but you have scarcely, in your thoughts, advanced to the stage of science, whatever the matter may be.” (Thomson Citation1889).  ie Lord Kelvin

I

"Better to have Died Beside Heroes, Than to Live a Lifetime Amongst Cowards"

"The Most Lethal Weapon on the Battlefield, is a Well-Aimed Bullet"

“Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
― Benjamin Franklin

"You can't fix stupid." - my sister

"Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it." - Winston Churchill

"When all the alternatives are eliminated, the Americans will do the right thing." - Churchill again, but sometimes, not always!

When you don't know, shut up!

"Better to keep mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open mouth and remove all doubt."  Supposedly an old Chinese proverb

..."never was so much owed by so many to so few" Winston Churchill

August 20, 1940 For the Efforts of the Royal Air Force against the Luftwaffe During the Battle of Britain (10 July - 31 October 1940).

..."Woman, No see the Light, until Taken into the Dark, by a Man"

"Man who makes Love to Woman on Hillside...Not on Level"

Chinese Proverbs

..."If You're Not Kicking-Up Dust...You're Collecting It!"

(The Revolver)

"...I said I didn't have much use for one...Never said, I Didn't Know How to Use it!"

'Quigley Down Under'

"...You Know, there Ain't No Forget'in"

'The Outlaw Josey Wales'

I do not like that person. I must get to know him better. - Abe Lincoln

If you plant ice, you're gonna harvest wind. - Robert Hunter

"Nuts" - General Anthony McAuliffe when asked to surrender by the Germans  at the Battle of the Bulge.

Great topic! There must be a thousand quotes I admire. Not so many I can remember off hand, though.

"three reasons for equipment failure;

1) human error

2) human error

3) human error

(the designer, the machinist, the operator)"

never been able to confirm but tribute to Admiral Rickover.

"$1 charge for marking with an X, and $9,999 for knowing where to put it" - Charles Proteus Steinmetz

Time wounds all heels

A close cousin of no good deed goes on punished.

“Love is not finding someone to live with. It’s finding someone you can’t live without.” ~ Rafael Ortiz

..." Better to Have Loved and Lost, Than Never to Have Loved At All ". For KMD

" No Good Deed Goes Unpunished "

" Fortune Favors the Bold "

" In an Investigation, Assumptions Kill "

" 'Lady Luck', Loved James Bond "

Autocorrect and failure to proof read are powerful adversaries.

Funny thing about common sense - its not that common.

You can't deviate unless you have a plan.

Responsibility is a unique concept... You may share it with others, but your portion is not diminished. You may delegate it, but it is still with you... If responsibility is rightfully yours, no evasion, or ignorance or passing the blame can shift the burden to someone else. Unless you can point your finger at the man who is responsible when something goes wrong, then you have never had anyone really responsible. Admiral Hyman G. Rickover. Father of the Nuclear Navy

"It Don't Mean Nothin'...It Don't Mean a Thing!"

"What doesn't Kill us, Only Makes Us Stronger!"

"Not Everyone who Died in Vietnam, Died There"

"You talk the Talk...Do You walk the Walk?"

"All gave Some...Some Gave All"

" It's All 'Mind over Matter'!...If You Don't Mind, It Don't Matter! "

" I AM Lying! "

..."I Don't Offer Excuses! I Give Results!!"

"...I Give You My Personal Vietnam Guarantee"

"...I am Going to Take a Personal Interest in Seeing You Suffer!"  'Platoon'

"Listen to Me Now...Or Believe Me Later"

(Now, Go Buy My 8 Inch Wheels!!)

"Which School do I teach? I Teach Them All!"

Movies:

"The Ayatollah of rock and rolla'"

and my sentimental favorite

"You men go northward, you men go southward... I'm gonna' walk here in a circle"

"...I Gotta Make a Living!"..."Well, Die'in Ain't Much of a Liv'n, Boy!!" 'The Outlaw Josey Wales'

“I must be willing to give up what I am in order to become what I will be.”

― Albert Einstein

“If I want your opinion, I’ll give it to you.”

"Judge Not, Least Thee be Judged"

"Before You Accuse Me, Take a Look at Yourself!"

"Even a Broken Clock, is Correct Twice a Day!"

...Any Professional,

"You're Not Paying Me for Doing the Job...You're Paying Me for Knowing HOW to Do the Job!"

"...You Smoke this Shit so's You can Escape Reality?! I AM REALITY!!!" Platoon

" The Bravery of My Enemy Does Me Honour "

Light is right

Colin Chapman

"A Man who Knows the Center of His Universe, Can Never be Defeated in Battle!" 'The Art of War'

No matter where you are, or how you got there, there you are.

Buckaroo Bonsai

...Womens' Make-Up:

"It don't Cure Ugley!"

"It's Going to Need a Second Coat!"

...Now, I'am in my own apartment and My Ex-Wife will Not except my phone calls.

...There are Three Types of People in this World!

...Those who Make Things Happen!

...Those who Watch Things Happen!

And, Those who Wonder What Happened!!

...Up at the Blackhawk Farms Raceway, in South Beloit, Illinois, it was 1971. I was there watching a friend race his Lotus...OR, was it a Lola. I know it had a Bad-ass F.I. 4 Cylinder Engine. They run the Small Engine Race Cars First. When they brought out the Big-Blocks and Prototypes, for Their Last Race, I heard over the Loud Speakers...

"Ladies and Gentlemen, It's Time to Knock the Due Off the Lilies! Gentlemen, Start Your Engines!" Great LOUD Roaring!!.

"The Safest Driver on the Highways, is Never 'Seen'!"

"Officer, I'am Not Driving Fast, I'am Flying Low!"

A comment from a Champion Roadrace Driver. "You'll Know You're Not doing very well, when all 4 Tires Are Not Off the Ground, All of the Time!!"

"I Thought You Said, We Were Done Doing Things The 'Stupid Way'!!"

"It Is The Hour of the CAT!"

"You have Engaged My Valuble Services!"

“I taught you everything you know. But I didn't teach you everything I know.”

I just found this one yesterday, inside the first cover pages of the book Airframe (1996), by Michael Crichton, which seems to RING EVEN MORE SO TRUE today, some 30 years later :

"The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion,"

Veteran reporter John Lawton, 68, speaking to the American Association of Broadcast Journalists in 1995.

WE CERTAINLY DO NOT HEAR THIS OFTEN ENOUGH!!!  To think I worked so hard to make this reality happen...... (Cable TV fiberoptic distribution systems......and TiVo's!   Ugh.)

Steve