Gullkorn:

{ How does a project get to be a year late? ... One day at a time. }



Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:
It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Albert Einstein:
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Leonardo Da Vinci:
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.

Louis Pasteur:
Chance favours the prepared mind.

Henri E.B. Matisse:
Precision is not thruth.

Friedrich Nietzsche:
There are no facts, only interpretations.

Lotfi Zadeh:
As the complexity of a system increases, our ability to make precise and yet significant statements of its behavior diminishes until a threshold is reached beyond which precision and significance (or relevance) become almost mutually exclusive characteristics.

Bertrand Russell:
Into every tidy scheme for arranging the pattern of human life, it is necessary to inject a certain dose of anarchism.

Patric Henry:
I know no way of judging the future but by the past.

Franklin D. Roosevelt:
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Edward Aloysius Murphy, Jr. Aka Murphys Lov:
If anything can go wrong, it will.
Whatever can go wrong will go wrong, and at the worst possible time, in the worst possible way.
If a series of events can go wrong, they will do so in the worst possible sequence.

Laws:
First Law of Barbecue:
Do not let gravitation and a full propan cylinder work on your big toe, at the same time.
Woltman's Law:
Never program and drink beer at the same time.
First Law of Wing Walking:
Never let hold of what you've got until you've got hold of something else.
Second Law of Wing Walking:
You can tell a happy wingwalker by the number of flies on her theet.
Berra's Law:
You can observe a lot just by watching.

Other interesting statements:
I don't believe in bad luck, but I do realize that terrible circumstances sometimes cooperate!

To a tree, balsa wood and MonoKote taste just like chicken!

Takeoff is optional, landing is mandatory.

Takeoff is volitional, but landings (of one sort or another) is compulsory.

It's easier to beg forgiveness than ask permission.

From ABC News:
The transition phase we know as a "takeoff" is that process of transferring the weight from the landing gear struts to the wings.

Some Alfred E. Neuman MAD quotes:
Teenagers are people who act like babies if they're not treated like adults!
You can be on the right track and still get hit by a train!
In retrospect it becomes clear that hindsight is definitely overrated!
How come stealing from one book is plagiarism, but stealing from many is research?
Who says nothing is impossible? Some people do it every day!

Fra Nettavisen:
Sideroret er lokalisert helt bakerst på halepartiet og er en bevegelig rorflate som er vertikalt hengslet til vertikalstabilisatoren på fly.

Danny Cohen "On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace":
Swift's (Gulliver's Travels) point is that the difference between breaking the egg at the little-end and breaking it at the big-end is trivial. Therefore, he suggests, that everyone does it in his own preferred way. We agree that the difference between sending eggs with the little- or the big-end first is trivial, but we insist that everyone must do it in the same way, to avoid anarchy.
Since the difference is trivial we may choose either way, but a decision must be made.

Handy Guide to Modern Science:
1. If it's green or it wiggles, it's biology.
2. If it stinks, it's chemistry.
3. If it doesn't work, it's software.

Movie qoutes I like:

The Shawshank Redemption (Frihetens Regn): Red (Morgan Freeman):
Get busy living, or get busy dying.

Three Days of the Condor: G. Joubert (Max Von Sydow):
You have not much future there. It will happen this way. You may be walking. Maybe the first sunny day of the spring. And a car will slow beside you, and a door will open, and someone you know, maybe even trust, will get out of the car. And he will smile, a becoming smile. But he will leave open the door of the car and offer to give you a lift.

Big Fish: Norther Winslow (Steve Buscemi):
This is why you should never show a work in progress.

Black Hawk Down: Lt. Colonel Danny McKnight (Tom Sizemore):
Nothing takes 5 minutes.

The Constant Gardener: Sir Bernard Pellegrin (Bill Nighy):
Some very nasty things live under rocks, especially in foreign gardens.

Jurassic Park: Dr. Ian Malcolm (Jeff Goldblum):
Life will find a way.

Apollo 13: Gene Kranz, lead flight director for Mission Control (Ed Harris):
Failure is not an option.

The Bourne Identity: Alexander Conklin (Chris Cooper):
Well, why don't you go upstairs and book a conference room. Maybe you can talk him to death.

Apocalypse Now: Bill Kilgore (Robert Duvall):
You either surf or you fight..
I love the smell of napalm in the morning.
Lieutenant, bomb that tree line about 100 yards back! Give me some room to breathe!

Blade Runner: Roy (Rutger Hauer):
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.
I watched C-beams glitter in the darkness at Tan Hauser Gate.
All those moments will be lost in time like tears in rain.
Time to die.
Dette er så flott at det må sees og høres!
Se også beskrivelse på "Kipple" lenger ned.

Lost: John Locke (Terry O'Quinn):
You never know when some C4 may come in handy.

Lost: Daniel Faraday (Jeremy Davies):
Whatever happened, happened.

Lost: Juliet Burke (Elizabeth Mitchell):
Any plan is better than no plan.

Wild Wild West: U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon (Kevin Kline):
You never know when a high power magnet may come in handy.

The Terminator: The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger):
I'll be back.

Terminator 2: The Terminator (Arnold Schwarzenegger):
Hasta la vista, baby.

The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951): Klaatu (Michael Rennie)
Klaatu barada nikito.

Raw Deal: Mark Kaminsky (Arnold Schwarzenegger):
You should not drink and bake.

The Ninth Gate: Boris Balkan (Frank Langella):
There's nothing more reliable than a man whose loyalty can be bought for hard cash.

Wargames: David (Matthew Broderick):
Hey, I don't believe that any system is totally secure.

Tron: Ram (Dan Shore):
Do you believe in the Users?
You really think the Users are still there?
I've been stuck here for two hundred microseconds.

Romancing the Stone: Jack T. Colton (Michael Douglas):
Yeaaahh. Now that's what I call a real campfire.

Ghostbusters: Dr. Ray Stantz (Dan Aykroyd):
Sir, what we have here is what we call a non-repeating phantasm, or a class-5 free roaming vapor, real nasty one too.

Ghostbusters 2: Dr. Peter Venkman (Bill Murray):
I have more than two grades of laundry. There's not just clean and dirty, there are many subtle levels. okay?

Under Siege 2, Dark Territory: Travis Dane (Eric Bogosian):
Assumption is the mother of all fuckups.

The Fly 2: Computer operator:
It's got to be Abracadabra! That's the magic word, everybody knows that!

Blade Runner:
Liker du filmen Blade Runner? I så fall bør du lese boka filmen er inspirert av; "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?", av Philip K. Dick. Han innfører i boka et begrep "Kipple" som han beskriver slik:
- Kipple is useless objects, like junk mail or match folders after you use the last match or gum wrappers of yesterday's homeopape. When nobody's around, kipple reproduces itself. For instance, if you go to bed leaving any kipple around your apartment, when you wake up the next morning there's twice as much of it. It always gets more and more.
- I see.
- There's the First Law of Kipple, "Kipple drives out nonkipple." Like Gresham's law about bad money. And in these apartments there's been nobody there to fight the kipple.
- So it has taken over completely. Now I understand.
- Your place, here, this apartment you've picked - it's too kipple-ized to live in. We can roll the kipple-factor back; we can do like I said, raid the other apartments. But -
- But what?
- We can't win.
- Why not?
- No one can win against kipple, except temporarily and maybe in one spot, like in my apartment I've sort of created a stasis between the pressure of kipple and nonkipple, for the time being. But eventually I'll die or go away, and then the kipple will again take over. It's a universal principle operating throughout the universe; the entire universe is moving toward a final state of total, absolute kippleization. Except of course for the upward climb of Wilber Mercer.

J.R. Isidore explaining kipple to Pris
Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Note: Homeopape by Philip K. Dick: A automated device that produces a newspaper without human assistance.