"Yes, if you can't be a pine on top of the hill, be a shrub in the valley, but be the best little shrub on the side of the real -- be a bush if you can't be a tree. If you can't be a highway be a trail. If you can't be the sun, be a star. It isn't by size you win or fail -- be the best at whatever you are" Dr Martin Luther King

"When God made Time, he made a lot of it..." Old Irish Saying

"Everything in nature balances -- if you can't be there for the bad times, you have no right enjoying the good times" JH

"Other people get money for being married; they get benefits for being married; they get money for having children. When we want to be able to kiss and hold hands on the street without being beat up, suddenly we're asking for special rights." Mark Fisher

"A photograph is often looked at. It is seldom looked into." Ansel Adams

The following quotes come from my good friend David Morton -- I shamelessly reproduce them here because they are wonderful:

"It's a game ok? It's not serious. We don't know what we're doing. If we really knew what we were doing, we'd all go batty." Richard P. Feynman .

"the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars." Jack Kerouac.

"All men dream - but not equally. Those who dream by nightin the dusty recesses of their minds wake to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men - for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible. This I did." (T.E. Lawrence)

"Out of all the things I have lost, I miss my mind the most." Dom DeLuise

"If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error." J.K. Galbraith

"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect has intended us to forego their use." Galileo Galilei

"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." Albert Einstein

"God gave us a penis and a brain, but only enough blood to run one at a time." Robin Williams

"When it's a choice between two evils, I always pick the one I've never tried before." Mae West

"You're never too old to become the person you might have been." John Lennon

"The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation." Thoreau

"Whatever principles you put before you, hold fast to them as impious to transgress. Worry not what others think about you, for that is beyond your control." Epictetus

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." Winston Churchill

"I did not come across any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking" Albert Einstein

"We explained to him that writers in America have a different standing, that they are considered just below acrobats and just above seals." John Steinbeck

"All great battles are fought at the intersection of four maps." Duke of Wellington, said at Blenheim

"The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure, and the intelligent are full of doubt." Bertrand Russell

"On this dot, tiny lumps of impure water and carbon, of complicated structure, with somewhat unusual physical and chemical properties, crawl about for a few years, until they are dissolved again into the elements of which they are compounded. They divide their time between labour designed to postpone the moment of dissolution for themselves and frantic struggles to hasten it for others of their kind." Bertrand Russell

"I regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce." J. Edgar Hoover

"The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish and short." Stella Gibbons

"Keep your old love letters. Throw away your old bank statements." Mary Schmich

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best." Duke Ellington

"It's true hard work never killed anybody, but I figure, why take the chance?" Ronald Reagan

"If I want low-impact aerobics, I'll masturbate. If I want high-impact aerobics, I'll masturbate again." Dennis Miller

"The kiss originated when the first male reptile licked the first female reptile, implying in a subtle, complimentary way that she was as succulent as the small reptile he had for dinner the night before." F. Scott Fitzgerald

"Never give up unless you are on the last little drop of life you have in you" Jaymee Bowen

A thought from someone at Microsoft:

"If we could, at this time, shrink the earth's population to a village of precisely 100 people, with all the existing human ratios staying the same it would look like this:

There would be 57 Asians, 21 Europeans, 14 from the Western Hemisphere (North and South) and 8 Africans.

70 would be non-white: 30 white
70 would be non-Christian: 30 Christian
50% of the world's entire wealth would be in the hands of 6 people and all of them would live in the US.
70 would be unable to read
50 would suffer from malnutrition
80 would live in sub-standard housing
Only 1 would have a college education.
When one considers our world from such an incredibly compressed perspective, the need for compassion, tolerance and understanding becomes glaringly apparent."

And finally...

"Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone.

Silence the pianos and with muffled drum,
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let the airplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message "He is dead".

Put great bows around the white necks of the public doves.
Let traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my north, my south, my east, and west,
My working week and my Sunday rest,

My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song.
I thought that love would last forever. I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now, put out every one.
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun.

Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood.
For nothing now can ever come to any good."

W H Auden

And since it is so good, from my mate Simon Pride:

"A song for a dead NT server
(with apologies to W. H Auden)

NET STOP all the services, cut off the ISDN line
Prevent the Messenger service from wasting my time,
Silence the soundcard and with a stifled groan
Bring out the boot disks and the CD-ROM.

Let Post-Its (and emails from whatever's left)
Tell the users "Delay - the Server's Dead"
Hang a note on the machine room door
Saying "BEAR WITH US DURING THIS 8-TAPE RESTORE"

It was my PDC, my DHCP, my IIS and WINS
My file and print server and my DNS
My router, my bridge, Exchange Server, my strong
Firewall; I thought one disk would last forever: I was wrong.

The hubs are not wanted now; switch off every one
Pack up the cables and dismantle the WAN
Start the reinstall, then hunt for the blood
Of consultants who say that NT is good."