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Famous Quotes Trivia
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.
Well done is better
Voltaire
Rich Cook
Saul Bellow
2. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.
Thomas Edison
Religion
Carl Sagan
Bertrand Russell
3. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
Cleaning your house
Thomas Edison
Leonardo da Vinci
Theodore Roosevelt
4. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.
Socrates
Mark Twain
Like fire -
Richard Nixon
5. Thomas Paine said: The harder the conflict - the more glorious the triumph.What we obtain too cheap - we esteem too lightly. _____ that gives everything its value.
In an hour of play
Mario Andretti
Mark Twain
Tis dearness only
6. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.
An intolerable one.
Thomas Jefferson
And the Universe
Mark Twain
7. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.
Talent will not;
Oscar Wilde
Friedrich Nietzsche
Enemy to none.
8. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.
Benjamin Franklin
Socrates
Jimi Hendrix
Mark Twain
9. To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. And the Macintosh - of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that st
Margaret Thatcher
Albert Einstein
Bill Gates
Can be wonderful.
10. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.
Success is going
John Milton
Augustine
Thomas Paine
11. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
Thomas Watson
Speak softly
The first principle
Steven Wright
12. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.
William Shakespeare
Is another matter.
Isaac Newton
HenryFord
13. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
Benjamin Franklin
Mark Twain
Ah! the farce.
Socrates
14. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.
As they are seized.
Thomas Aquinas
C. S. Lewis
William Shakespeare
15. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.
Entire of itself;
Death is peaceful.
Robert Frost
Winston Churchill
16. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.
Mark Twain
Marcel Proust
G. K. Chesterton
Charles Darwin
17. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Saul Bellow
Leonardo da Vinci
Can be wonderful.
Abraham Lincoln
18. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.
Socrates
Mel Brooks
Success is going
Peace begins
19. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
William Shakespeare
Ansel Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Voltaire
20. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____
But wisdom listens.
Albert Einstein
Oscar Wilde
Like philosophy -
21. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____
George Bernard Shaw
Behind the lines -
Victor Hugo
As they are seized.
22. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Fools rush in
William James
It swears.
Muhammad Ali
23. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.
I hate quotations.
Oscar Wilde
Abraham Lincoln
All great truths
24. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____
With the very best.
Groucho Marx
Vince Lombardi
You see things;
25. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Mark Twain
He is richest
Thomas Aquinas
George Santayana
26. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.
Phyllis Diller
Aristotle
Patrick Henry
John Donne
27. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.
Jimi Hendrix
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tis dearness only
Charles Darwin
28. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.
Saki
Alexander Pope
Winston Churchill
Napoleon Bonaparte
29. I'm so fast that - last night - I turned off the light switch in my hotel room and was in bed before the room was dark.
Leonardo da Vinci
Muhammad Ali
Woody Allen
Charles Darwin
30. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____
Let us - to the end -
Voltaire
An intolerable one.
Yoda
31. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____
Is to be one.
Its kind of fun
Saint Augustine
Do wrong to none.
32. Rich Cook said: Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs - _____ trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far - the Universe is winning.
And the Universe
Socrates
Abraham Lincoln
Woody Allen
33. Non-violence leads to the highest ethics - which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings - we are still savages.
With a smile.
And the Macintosh -
Life is pleasant.
Thomas Edison
34. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.
Patrick Henry
Tom Clancy
HenryFord
Do wrong to none.
35. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.
Yogi Berra
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
36. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.
Thomas Jefferson
Bjarne Stroustrup
Plato
Louis Pasteur
37. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.
Theodore Roosevelt
Mark Twain
Be kind -
Aristotle
38. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.
Margaret Thatcher
Isaac Asimov
There is no art.
George Washington
39. To find yourself - think for yourself.
William Blake
Socrates
To utter
Or get busy dying.
40. Bill Gates said: To create a new standard it takes something thats not just a little bit different. It takes something thats really new and really captures peoples imagination. _____ of all the machines Ive ever seen - is the only one that meets that
And the Macintosh -
Than he finds.
As they are seized.
Margaret Mead
41. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
So - first of all -
Tears and sweat.
Eleanor Roosevelt
Rudyard Kipling
42. In the beginning - the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry - and has been widely regarded as a bad idea.
Pablo Picasso
Napoleon Bonaparte
Dave Barry
Douglas Adams
43. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
William James
Robert Heinlein
I hate quotations.
Eleanor Roosevelt
44. What is now proved was once only imagined.
Woody Allen
William Blake
George Santayana
Eleanor Roosevelt
45. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.
The prepared mind.
Is a waking dream.
True friends
Knowledge speaks -
46. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____
Cleaning your house
But it does rhyme.
Talent will not;
Meet any hardship -
47. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Aristotle
Benjamin Franklin
Familiar with few;
Dorothy Parker
48. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.
Henry David Thoreau
Decca Recording Co.
When people laugh.
Wernher Von Braun
49. You may delay - but time will not.
Winston Churchill
Isaac Asimov
God is a comedian
Benjamin Franklin
50. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.
George Carlin
Wernher Von Braun
Mark Twain
Naked people have
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