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Author Message John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 711 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Sunday, September 21, 2014 - 02:39 pm:    - Never visit a home office worker on "Dress Down Friday." - If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." - If you don't know where you're going, you'll end up somewhere else." (Yogi Berra) - A bird in the hand spoils the broth." - Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." (Groucho Marx) Ellis C. Whitby, PE, CSI, AIA, LEED® AP Senior Member Username: ecwhitby Post Number: 238 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 - 08:31 am:    "A lack of success leads to mediocrity.” George A. Everding, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: geverding Post Number: 768 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 - 12:51 pm:    (1) Nothing difficult is ever easy; (2) Anything worth doing is worth overdoing; (3) When you earnestly believe you can compensate for lack of skills by doubling your efforts, there is no limit to what you can't do. [In memory of my friend Joe Sliger] Richard A. Rosen, CSI, CCS, AIA Senior Member Username: rarosen Post Number: 114 Registered: 08-2006 Posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 - 01:38 pm:    1. We never really grow up, we just learn how to act in public. 2. Nothing is difficult for the person who doesn't have to do it. 3. The next time you feel yourself getting sucked into other peoples nonsense, repeat this words: Not my Circus, Not my monkeys. Robert E. Woodburn, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: bob_woodburn Post Number: 106 Registered: 11-2010 Posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 - 01:57 pm:    There's nothing wrong with talking to yourself, as long as you don't believe everything you hear... Anon (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 - 02:08 pm:    There are three types of people in this world: 1) those who can count, and B) those who can't. Dave Metzger Senior Member Username: davemetzger Post Number: 538 Registered: 07-2001 Posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 - 03:09 pm:    Growing old is mandatory. Growing up is optional. Scott Piper Intermediate Member Username: spiper Post Number: 4 Registered: 08-2014 Posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 - 03:56 pm:    it is okay to talk to yourself it is okay to answer yourself But; when you start to say Huh? to yourself then you have one too many voices in your head John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 712 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 - 04:13 pm:    "eschew obfuscation, espouse elucidation" John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 713 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Monday, September 22, 2014 - 04:20 pm:    My next book will be very short. Working title: "Humor in Construction Specifications." Tomas Mejia, CCS, CCCA, LEED Senior Member Username: tmejia Post Number: 54 Registered: 09-2003 Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 01:29 pm:    How come there is never enough time to do it right but always enough time to do it over? John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 714 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 01:59 pm:    See Murphy's Law and similar at: http://www.murphys-laws.com/ and remember, Murphy was an optimist. Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 1894 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 04:09 pm:    "Nothing is foolproof to the sufficiently talented fool" - Berenstein Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 1895 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 04:09 pm:    "Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy." - Albert Einstein Robert E. Woodburn, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: bob_woodburn Post Number: 107 Registered: 11-2010 Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 05:28 pm:    Lynn, I long ago gave up on trying to produce foolproof specs. (Fool-resistant, maybe...) Ellis C. Whitby, PE, CSI, AIA, LEED® AP Senior Member Username: ecwhitby Post Number: 239 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 06:23 pm:    "Anytime things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something." Richard Feynman (1918-1988) ken hercenberg Senior Member Username: khercenberg Post Number: 825 Registered: 12-2006 Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 09:56 pm:    Does Murphy's Law apply to Murphy Beds? This Murphy fellow really gets around. Anon (Unregistered Guest) Unregistered guest Posted on Tuesday, September 23, 2014 - 05:38 pm:    Back in high school I owned a T-shirt with the following written across the front: "Make it idiot-proof, and someone will make a better idiot." I kid you not, about half of the people who read it said, "I don't get it." My response would vary between, "I guess it's true then," and "you must be the better idiot." Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 1897 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Wednesday, September 24, 2014 - 04:14 pm:    One SIL got me a T-shirt that reads: "I can explain it to you, but I can't understand it for you" That one gets grins. Anne Whitacre, FCSI CCS Senior Member Username: awhitacre Post Number: 1383 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 07:23 pm:    "before 40 you have the face you were born with; after 40 you have the face you deserve" John Regener, AIA, CCS, CCCA, CSI, SCIP Senior Member Username: john_regener Post Number: 715 Registered: 04-2002 Posted on Thursday, September 25, 2014 - 11:04 pm:    “When they first built the University of California at Irvine they just put the buildings in. They did not put any sidewalks, they just planted grass. The next year, they came back and put the sidewalks where the trails were in the grass." Gotta be a philosophy of life in there somehow. Louis Medcalf, FCSI, CCS Senior Member Username: louis_medcalf Post Number: 33 Registered: 11-2010 Posted on Friday, September 26, 2014 - 09:23 am:    Real stupidity can always defeat artificial intelligence. Ellis C. Whitby, PE, CSI, AIA, LEED® AP Senior Member Username: ecwhitby Post Number: 240 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Friday, October 10, 2014 - 10:35 am:    Nunc est bibendum [Latin: "now it is time to drink"] Horace (65 BCE- 8 BCE) George A. Everding, AIA, CSI, CCS, CCCA Senior Member Username: geverding Post Number: 776 Registered: 11-2004 Posted on Monday, November 17, 2014 - 12:46 pm:    Kleptomaniacs don't understand puns because they always take things literally. Lynn Javoroski FCSI CCS LEED® AP SCIP Affiliate Senior Member Username: lynn_javoroski Post Number: 1921 Registered: 07-2002 Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 12:53 pm:    Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté. - Margaret Atwood, novelist and poet (b. 1939) (Another one from Word-A-Day) Ellis C. Whitby, PE, CSI, AIA, LEED® AP Senior Member Username: ecwhitby Post Number: 241 Registered: 03-2003 Posted on Tuesday, November 18, 2014 - 01:48 pm:    "All those who believe in psychokinesis, raise my hand." Steven Wright (1955-)