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Famous Quotes Trivia

Subject : trivia
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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  • Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
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.






2. Most people would die sooner than think -- in fact they do so.






3. It is hard to fail - but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.






4. It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them.






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.






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.






7. We are all in the gutter - but some of us are looking at the stars.






8. Knowledge speaks - but wisdom listens.






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






10. Winston Churchill said: _____ from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm.






11. I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.






12. Cowards die many times before their deaths. The valiant never taste of death but once.






13. I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.






14. To one who has faith - no explanation is necessary. To one without faith - no explanation is possible.






15. Two roads diverged in a wood - and I... I took the one less traveled by - and that has made all the difference.






16. Everyone is a moon and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody.






17. Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.






18. Mother Teresa said: _____ with a smile.






19. I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.






20. Jimi Hendrix said: Knowledge speaks - _____






21. Sun Tzu said: Opportunities multiply _____






22. A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.






23. Ralph Waldo Emerson said: _____ Tell me what you know.






24. Winston Churchill said: I am easily satisfied _____






25. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.






26. I know not what course others make take - but as for me - give me Liberty - or give me death.






27. As for a future life - every man must judge for himself between conflicting vague probabilities.






28. He is one of those people who would be enormously improved by death.






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.






30. Thomas Paine said: Government - even in its best state - is but a necessary evil; in its worst state - _____






31. William Shakespeare said: Love all - trust a few - _____






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.






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.






34. The battle - Sir - is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant - the active - the brave.






35. I like the dreams of the future better than the history of the past.






36. You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.






37. I didnt attend the funeral - but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.






38. Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. Its the transition thats troublesome.






39. To find yourself - think for yourself.






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






41. No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.






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.






43. Women and cats will do as they please - and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.






44. What is now proved was once only imagined.






45. Oscar Wilde said: _____ stab you in the front.






46. Mark Twain said: History doesnt repeat itself - _____






47. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.






48. Research is what I'm doing when I Don't know what I'm doing.






49. You may delay - but time will not.






50. Be careful about reading health books. You may die of a misprint.






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