Steve Jobs on clever jabs

It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the Navy.

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

We think basically you watch television to turn your brain off, and you work on your computer when you want to turn your brain on.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

Winston Churchill1874–1965

Thus far, the reputed idiot Bush has graduated from Yale and Harvard, made a stack of cash in the oil industry, become the first consecutive-term governor of Texas, defeated a dual-term VP for the presidency, and led his party to [November 5th’s] extraordinary triumphs. Let his opponents keep calling him stupid; if they do, within five years Bush will be King of England, the Pope, and world Formula One motor racing champion.

Tim Blairborn 1965

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I didn’t attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.

Mark Twain1835–1910