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Author Message Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEED AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 536 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 10:51 am:    Just to get us all started, here's one of my favorites. I even have it as a magnet on one of my file drawers: "There is no use trying", said Alice, "one can't believe impossible things." "I daresay you haven't had much practice," said the Queen. "When I was your age, I always did it for half-an-hour a day. Why, sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast." - Lewis Carroll Sheldon Wolfe Senior Member Username: sheldon_wolfe Post Number: 251 Registered: 01-2003 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 12:37 pm:    "Do or do not. There is no try." Yoda Bob Woodburn Senior Member Username: bwoodburn Post Number: 171 Registered: 01-2005 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 01:03 pm:    Nothing personal, Sheldon, but "Do or do not. There is no try" is as a good example as any of the blatant nonsense that some take for truth or wisdom, even though it was supposedly said by a fictional--yea, a fantasy--character. Many years ago, I was severely admonished by an employer for using the word "try," citing a variant of this "maxim"; it was evident that she had accepted it as a fundamental truth. It may indeed be one, for those lucky few with perfect prescient knowledge--a great advantage; knowing in advance an attempt would fail lets them avoid attempting altogether, so they can strike the word "try" from their vocabulary. Saves a lot of time, too. However (to paraphrase Solomon), there is a time to try, and a time to give up. IMNSHO, in a few special cases, it may even be good to keep on trying, as long as it takes--even if one never succeeds... Nathan Woods, CCCA, LEED AP Senior Member Username: nwoods Post Number: 192 Registered: 08-2005 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 01:10 pm:    LOL, Bob, you seem to miss the point. The point in what Yoda is saying (LOL!), is that you are to try with the intent to succeed, instead of trying with merely a hope to succeed. It is commanding you to have faith in your efforts. It has very little to do with actually succeeding or not. It is all about the attitude in which you make the attempt. John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 273 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 01:18 pm:    "No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from." Linus Van Pelt (Peanuts) John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 274 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 01:20 pm:    "How can we lose when we're so sincere?" Charlie Brown (Peanuts), speaking of his baseball team Robin E. Snyder Senior Member Username: robin Post Number: 100 Registered: 08-2004 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 01:22 pm:    "Get over it" - James Ray (Inspirational speaker) Ron Beard CCS Senior Member Username: rm_beard_ccs Post Number: 178 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 01:30 pm:    "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration." - Thomas Edison Trying = Persistence Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEED AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 538 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 01:32 pm:    Since we seem to be on a try/Peanuts vein, how's this: Life is like a ten-speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use. - Charles Schulz, cartoonist (1922-2000) Bob Woodburn Senior Member Username: bwoodburn Post Number: 172 Registered: 01-2005 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 01:37 pm:    As to what Yoda really meant, we'd have to ask him (or it); that's not what was said. I think my former employer took it at face value. Some things may in fact be worth trying, even if one has little faith in one's efforts; the intent is still embedded in the word "try." If not, it's not really trying, it's pretense--going through the motions to produce the illusion of trying in order, perhaps, to please someone else (or even to please oneself, in which case it would be self-delusion). On the other hand, if one keeps trying with an unrealistic belief of success, may that not also be self-delusion? It's interesting that so many favorite quotes tend to be from the workd of fantasy. May the force be with you... Bob Woodburn Senior Member Username: bwoodburn Post Number: 173 Registered: 01-2005 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 01:45 pm:    Edison's statement "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration" has been one of my favorite quotes for a long time--ever since I realizd that, if he's right, Houston (where I live) has the perfect atmosphere for genius. Russell W. Wood, CSI, CCS Senior Member Username: woodr5678 Post Number: 83 Registered: 11-2003 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 02:05 pm:    "If you don't know where you're going...any road will take you there." -George Harrison "If you can't make your documents be right...at least make them look right!" -Herbert Anson "Well done is better than well said." -Benjamin Franklin "Discovery is seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no one else has thought." -Albert Szent-Gyoigi "Whatever you are...be a good one." -Abraham Lincoln Jim Brittell Senior Member Username: jwbrittell Post Number: 37 Registered: 08-2004 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 02:50 pm:    "....Don't think - it can only hurt the team." -Kevin Costner in "Bull Durham" Ron Beard CCS Senior Member Username: rm_beard_ccs Post Number: 179 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 02:51 pm:    I don't mind trying and trying .... as long as I'm being paid by the hour. Ellis C. Whitby, AIA, PE, CSI, LEED® AP Senior Member Username: ecwhitby Post Number: 29 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 03:01 pm:    “Abandon the search for Truth. Settle for a good fantasy.” Unknown “A woman drove me to drink and I didn't even have the decency to thank her.” W.C. Fields “All things are possible, except skiing through a revolving door.” Unknown “If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would have destroyed civilization.” Unknown “Anything not worth doing is not worth doing well.” Unknown “Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.” Unknown “Become a perfectionist; just lower your standards.” Unknown “Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” Unknown “Everyone is entitled to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.” Unknown Sheldon Wolfe Senior Member Username: sheldon_wolfe Post Number: 252 Registered: 01-2003 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 03:44 pm:    "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once." Cyril Connolly, critic and editor Apologies to Cyril, but had he known of our profession, he might have gone a step further: "Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once; specifying what will not be read until too late." Mark Twain could have been a specifier; he apparently had little use for needless modifiers. "Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very'; your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be." Twain Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEED AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 539 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 03:48 pm:    That Twain quote is one of my favorites, too, Sheldon. And how's this on spec writing? A man who uses a great many words to express his meaning is like a bad marksman who, instead of aiming a single stone at an object, takes up a handful and throws at it in hopes he may hit. - Samuel Johnson, lexicographer (1709-1784) David J. Wyatt Senior Member Username: david_j_wyatt_csi_ccs_ccca Post Number: 48 Registered: 07-2005 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 03:53 pm:    "If you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing." W. Edwards Deming "No man but a blockhead ever wrote...except for money." Samuel Johnson Doug Frank FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: doug_frank_ccs Post Number: 176 Registered: 06-2002 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 04:08 pm:    Specifications Writing is to Writing as Military Music is to Music John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 275 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 06:59 pm:    "The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese." ~Author Unknown John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 276 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Monday, April 02, 2007 - 07:27 pm:    "There are three kinds of people: those who are good at math and those who aren't" -Unknown John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 277 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 09:35 am:    "Nostalgia isn't what it used to be." - Yogi Berra (?) Ralph Liebing, RA, CSI Senior Member Username: rliebing Post Number: 577 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 09:41 am:    "It is neither criminal nor sinful to finish the specs early-- before the drop-dead deadline". And because I am older than all of you-- "Cageyness is usually achieved in direct proportion to age". "Undoubtedly! Old-Age and treachery overcome youth and skill!" Nathan Woods, CCCA, LEED AP Senior Member Username: nwoods Post Number: 193 Registered: 08-2005 Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 11:42 am:    "Youth is wasted on the young." Ronald L. Geren, RA, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP Senior Member Username: specman Post Number: 435 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 11:50 am:    "A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his clients to plant vines." Frank Lloyd Wright David R. Combs, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: davidcombs Post Number: 219 Registered: 08-2004 Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 12:30 pm:    "I don't have pet peeves, I have whole kennels of irritation." -Whoopie Goldberg Wayne Yancey Senior Member Username: wyancey Post Number: 338 Registered: 05-2005 Posted on Tuesday, April 03, 2007 - 03:34 pm:    "The code of tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. In law firms, we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following: buying a stronger whip, changing riders, saying things like "This is the way we have always ridden this horse"; appoinitng a committee to study the horse; arranging to visit other firms to see how they ride dead horses; increasing the standards to ride dead horses; declaring that the horse is better, faster and cheaper dead; and finally, harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed." - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson (U.S. v. Microsoft trial) Tracy Van Niel Senior Member Username: tracy_van_niel Post Number: 211 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 09:48 am:    Our brightest blazes of gladness are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks -- Samuel Johnson Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring--it was peace. - Milan Kundera My goal in life is to be as good of a person my dog already thinks I am. Author Unknown Wayne Yancey Senior Member Username: wyancey Post Number: 339 Registered: 05-2005 Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 10:07 am:    "The closer you are to death, the more you realize you are alive." - From the movie "Touching the Void" Andrew Wilson (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 02:40 pm:    "It is the mark of an instructed mind to rest satisfied with the degree of precision which the nature of the subject admits and not to seek exactness when only an approximation of the truth is possible." - Aristotle "Beauty is the purgation of superfluities." - Michaelangelo Buonarroti "For in truth great love is born of great knowledge of the thing loved." - Leonardo da Vinci "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery, it wouldn't seem so wonderful at all."- Michaelangelo Buonarroti Ron Beard CCS Senior Member Username: rm_beard_ccs Post Number: 180 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 03:29 pm:    I relate to the more common sense realities in life: "Don't squat with your spurs on." ~Will Rogers Gary L. Beimers, FCSI, CDT, CSC Senior Member Username: gbeimers Post Number: 11 Registered: 05-2005 Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 03:31 pm:    Landed on this one during MasterFormat 2004 implementation and the development of OmniClass. "We must bear in mind, then, that there is nothing more difficult and dangerous, or more doubtful of success, than an attempt to introduce a new order of things in any state. For the innovator has for enemies all those who derived advantages from the old order of things while those who expect to be benefited by the new institutions will be but lukewarm defenders." - Niccolo Machiavelli, The Prince 1513 Bob Woodburn Senior Member Username: bwoodburn Post Number: 175 Registered: 01-2005 Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 04:06 pm:    The following must be a favorite of mine (I cited it just yesterday, and have many times over several decades): "Low costs have a high aesthetic value." - Pier Luigi Nervi (Italian engineer known for concrete structures such as the 1960 Rome Olympics buildings) Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEED AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 542 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 04:08 pm:    Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool. The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes -- ah, that is where the art resides. - Artur Schnabel, pianist (1882-1951) The average pencil is seven inches long, with just a half-inch eraser – in case you thought optimism was dead. - Robert Brault, software developer, writer (1972- ) Some people walk in the rain, others just get wet. - Roger Miller, musician (1936-1992) Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: awhitacre Post Number: 506 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 04:16 pm:    don't have the actual quote here, but the image is lovely: Music is simply the sculpting of giant quantities of air. And then I have a couple of all time favorites: "Before you are forty, you have the face you were born with. After forty, you have the face you deserve." and for women: "From birth to age 20, a person needs good parents. From 20 to 40, a person needs good looks; from 40 to 60, a person needs a good personality; after 60, a person needs a good annuity." (slightly modified, but by Sarah Vaughn -- her version used "woman" but I think its pretty universal) Bob Woodburn Senior Member Username: bwoodburn Post Number: 176 Registered: 01-2005 Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 04:16 pm:    Regarding "Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool": Some time ago a fellow specifier used the word "foolproof"; I suggested perhaps we ought to consider using, instead, the term "fool-resistant"... Harold S. Woolard Senior Member Username: harold_woolard Post Number: 46 Registered: 12-2003 Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 05:37 pm:    My favorite quote as an Industry person is going out on a job site and talking about your products, and some Supt. let's you have it " nothing beats quality like a cheaper price" or from an architect when he tell's you " you have been valued engineered out of our specs." Tom Peck Senior Member Username: tom_peck_csi Post Number: 39 Registered: 08-2004 Posted on Wednesday, April 04, 2007 - 08:27 pm:    "Never attempt vast projects with half vast ideas." Sorry, don't remember the author of this one. Russ Hinkle, AIA, CCS Senior Member Username: rhinkle Post Number: 19 Registered: 02-2006 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 08:50 am:    From a sticker on my high school biology teachers desk: "Engage brain before starting mouth" In todays day an age of quick witted responses on every TV show, this has become more and more relevant (or is it just because I am growing older?). Ralph Liebing, RA, CSI Senior Member Username: rliebing Post Number: 579 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 09:08 am:    "The bitterness of poor quality far outlasts the sweetness of low cost!" Randy Cox Senior Member Username: randy_cox Post Number: 37 Registered: 04-2004 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 09:27 am:    "A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money." Attributed to Sen Everett Dirksen James R. Sweeney New member Username: sweemts Post Number: 1 Registered: 03-2004 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 09:41 am:    " It is not the destination, it is the journey" Unknown Anonymous   Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 09:54 am:    James That quote is by Carrie Bradshaw. James R. Sweeney Junior Member Username: sweemts Post Number: 2 Registered: 03-2004 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 09:58 am:    Thank you! Wayne Yancey Senior Member Username: wyancey Post Number: 341 Registered: 05-2005 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 11:08 am:    The immigrant father of a former employer used to say "We are to poor to buy cheap." The father was a mason who immigrated from the Ukrane after WW2. Wayne Yancey Senior Member Username: wyancey Post Number: 342 Registered: 05-2005 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 11:15 am:    “It’s unwise to pay to much… BUT IT IS WORSE TO PAY TO LITTLE. When you pay to much, you loose a little money—that is all. When you pay to little, you sometimes lose everything, because the thing you bought was incapable of doing the thing it was bought to do. The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot—it can’t be done. If you deal with the lowest bidder, it is well to add something for the risk you run. And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better. —John Ruskin David J. Wyatt Senior Member Username: david_j_wyatt_csi_ccs_ccca Post Number: 50 Registered: 07-2005 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 12:18 pm:    "You can lead a horticulture... but you can't make her think." Dorothy Parher Don Harris CSI, CCS, CCCA, AIA Senior Member Username: don_harris Post Number: 125 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 12:32 pm:    "Every time you learn the rules, they change the game." R. Hunter David J. Wyatt Senior Member Username: david_j_wyatt_csi_ccs_ccca Post Number: 51 Registered: 07-2005 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 01:21 pm:    Don, Is that Robert Hunter, as in Garcia/Hunter? Brett M. Wilbur CSI, CCS, AIA Senior Member Username: brett Post Number: 151 Registered: 12-2004 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 01:29 pm:    "The drug one takes in solitude, is ones self". -Walter Benjamin "Architecture is frozen music" -Goethe "If you have one foot in yesterday, and one foot in tomorrow, you are probably sh**ing on a perfectly good day." -Anonymous Ronald L. Geren, RA, CSI, CCS, CCCA, SCIP Senior Member Username: specman Post Number: 436 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 02:29 pm:    Modifying Don's quote submission to make it applicable to our (the specifiers') business: "Every time you finalize the specifications, they change the design." R. Geren Sheldon Wolfe Senior Member Username: sheldon_wolfe Post Number: 253 Registered: 01-2003 Posted on Thursday, April 05, 2007 - 04:53 pm:    Reminds me of an observation made by a forensic engineer at our convention a few years ago. It went something like this: "We go to great lengths to define phases of the design process, from schematic design through design development, construction documents, bidding, and construction. In order to move forward on schedule, it is important that the work of each phase be finished when the next phase begins, as it's hard to complete a project when things keep changing. Recognizing this need, many offices have this strict policy: Design stops at substantial completion." Don Harris CSI, CCS, CCCA, AIA Senior Member Username: don_harris Post Number: 126 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 08:31 am:    David, Yes it is. Ron, Good analogy. Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEED™ AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 544 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 08:45 am:    Re: "Every time you learn the rules, they change the game" and "Every time you finalize the specifications, they change the design." Maybe we should create "Calvin Specifications"? (with a nod toward Calvin and Hobbs and "Calvin Ball") We could get them before they get us! Ralph Liebing, RA, CSI Senior Member Username: rliebing Post Number: 584 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 09:04 am:    "Any resemblance of the finished project to the approved design concept is usually specified." Dave Metzger Senior Member Username: davemetzger Post Number: 190 Registered: 07-2001 Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 11:20 am:    Look at drawings in the field and specs in court. Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEED™ AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 545 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Friday, April 06, 2007 - 11:57 am:    "What's the difference between a Plan Room and a Court Room? They read specs in a Court Room." anon. Roy Crawford csi ccs ccca Senior Member Username: roy Post Number: 11 Registered: 03-2005 Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 01:38 pm:    As a CCCA I never saw this quote in my certification lessons but I have used it in practice in administering construction contracts: "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing is the wrong thing; and the worst thing you can do is nothing". Theodore Roosevelt Ron Beard CCS Senior Member Username: rm_beard_ccs Post Number: 213 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 01:24 pm:    A good time to keep your mouth shut is when you're in deep water. Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: awhitacre Post Number: 583 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 05:06 pm:    "Money can't buy happiness but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're miserable" Clare Boothe Luce "Erotica is using a feather. Pornography is using the whole chicken" Isabel Allende Mitch Miller, AIA ,CSI, CCS, MAI Senior Member Username: m2architek Post Number: 117 Registered: 02-2004 Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 05:17 pm:    "if you always do what you always do, then you will always get what you always got." unknown "Aging is inevitable, maturity is optional!" M2 Mitch Miller, AIA ,CSI, CCS, MAI Senior Member Username: m2architek Post Number: 118 Registered: 02-2004 Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 05:20 pm:    "if I would have known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself" unknown Nathan Woods, CCCA, LEED AP Senior Member Username: nwoods Post Number: 213 Registered: 08-2005 Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 05:21 pm:    LOL, those are good ones Anne. The first one is similar to: "Money can't buy you friends, but it certainly provides a better caliber of enemy." (Churchill?) Others I enjoy: "Never draw more in the morning that what you can erase in the afternoon." - from an old mentor named Alan. "The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.” —Frank Lloyd Wright "A good plan executed now is better than the perfect plan next week." —General George S. Patton "In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing; the next best thing is the wrong thing; and the worst thing you can do is nothing.” —Theodore Roosevelt “The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary.” —Thomas A. Edison "We write frankly and fearlessly but then we "modify" before we print.” —Mark Twain, Life on the Mississippi “The Navy is a master plan designed by geniuses for execution by idiots. If you’re not an idiot, but find yourself in the Navy, you can only operate well by pretending to be one. All the shortcuts and economies and commonsense changes that your native intelligence suggests to you are mistakes. Learn to squash them. Constantly ask yourself, ‘How would I do this if I were a fool?’ Throttle down your mind to a crawl. Then you’ll never go wrong.” —Herman Wouk, The Cain Mutiny (I have a bit of personal history with that one!) "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities.” —Frank Lloyd Wright "I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.” —Frank Lloyd Wright " The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.” —Frank Lloyd Wright " My ideas have undergone a process of emergence by emergency. When they are needed badly enough, they are accepted.” —Buckminster Fuller "When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.” —Buckminster Fuller Ron Beard CCS Senior Member Username: rm_beard_ccs Post Number: 214 Registered: 10-2002 Posted on Monday, July 09, 2007 - 05:31 pm:    I've reached the age where the happy hour is a nap. The CSI Show/Convention/Construct 200x is important because it demonstrates how many people a company can operate without .....ugh oh! Ed Alting Junior Member Username: mood Post Number: 2 Registered: 02-2007 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 06:42 am:    We never have enough time to do it right...but we always have time to do it over. Ralph Liebing, RA, CSI Senior Member Username: rliebing Post Number: 651 Registered: 02-2003 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 07:06 am:    " Undoubtedly! Old age and treachery overcome youth and skill"!!!!! -Another person older than dirt [thank you, Ron Beard!} John Bunzick, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: bunzick Post Number: 748 Registered: 03-2002 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 08:55 am:    On a tombstone in the Key West cemetery: "I told you I was sick" Brett M. Wilbur CSI, CCS, AIA Senior Member Username: brett Post Number: 153 Registered: 12-2004 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 11:09 am:    The worst thing a leader can say is "Follow me, I'm behind you all the way". -unknown John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 317 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 11:43 am:    "No problem is so big or so complicated that it can't be run away from." - Linus Van Pelt (Peanuts) Lynn Javoroski CSI CCS LEED™ AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 616 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 11:51 am:    The code of tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. In law firms, we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following: buying a stronger whip, changing riders, saying things like "This is the way we have always ridden this horse"; appointing a committee to study the horse; arranging to visit other firms to see how they ride dead horses; increasing the standards to ride dead horses; declaring that the horse is better, faster and cheaper dead; and finally, harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed. - U.S. District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson (U.S. v. Microsoft trial) Marc C Chavez Senior Member Username: mchavez Post Number: 212 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Tuesday, July 10, 2007 - 12:46 pm:    • "Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is an absurd one." --- Voltaire , letter (to Frederick the Great, 1767) Years ago, I discovered that Ruskin who’s Stones of Venice I liked, had been one of the major persecutors of Oscar Wilde. I felt I had to make a choice; I chose Wilde besides his quotes are more fun. • Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination • Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months • I think that God in creating Man somewhat overestimated his ability • I am not young enough to know everything. • The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself • The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about • Whenever people agree with me, I always feel I must be wrong. • To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness. (my personal fav) • Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation I freely admit to a passion for his quotations especially from Importance of being Ernest. Beyond that, I’ve found the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy to be a book to live by: • The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss • Charming man. I wish I had a daughter so I could forbid her to marry one... • Arthur: You know, it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young. Ford: Why, what did she tell you? Arthur: I don't know, I didn't listen. OK that's it all in one shot. Bill Morley Senior Member Username: billm Post Number: 12 Registered: 08-2005 Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 01:37 pm:    Quoted from above: "if I would have known I was going to live this long, I would have taken better care of myself" unknown I heard George Burns deliver that line when he spoke at his 90th birthday celebration. Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: awhitacre Post Number: 596 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Monday, July 16, 2007 - 04:54 pm:    and then there is the classic from Marcus Aurelius: "Stand up or be set up" Kenneth C. Crocco Senior Member Username: kcrocco Post Number: 100 Registered: 04-2003 Posted on Tuesday, July 17, 2007 - 10:36 am:    At a special dinner, celebrities were invited to attend (I don't remember the organization that hosted this dinner). One celebrity would be asked to give a toast for the evening, but the subject of the toast would not be announced until the person was standing. I believe it was George Burns. He was asked to give the toast. As he stood, the subject was announced: "Sex" His toast: "Ladies and gentlemen, it gives me great pleasure. . . . " Robert J. Bailey (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 - 09:52 am:    The first rule of being in a hole is to stop digging. David J. Wyatt, CSI, CCS, CCCA (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Friday, July 20, 2007 - 09:55 am:    Seen at a Grateful Dead show (albeit a long time ago): "Just say ...know!" Not a bad motto for a specifier.