"It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves."

-- Joseph O'Neill

“Stupidity makes you dangerous-to yourself and everyone around you.”

Source : Jennifer Lee Carrell (2007). “Interred with Their Bones”, p.111, Penguin
“A man of correct insight among those who are duped and deluded resembles one whose watch is right while all the clocks in the town give the wrong time.”
“If Perl is the solution, you're solving the wrong problem.”
“If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.”

Source : Members in the Commons Hansard Debates, publications.parliament.uk. March 22, 2001.
“I went camping for 33 days, and now everybody seems to care.”
“Let the pictures do the talking!”
“The point is not to take the world's opinion as a guiding star but to go one's way in life and working unerringly, neither depressed by failure nor seduced by applause.”

Source : Alma Mahler, Gustav Mahler, Donald Mitchell, Knud Martner (1973). “Gustav Mahler: memories and letters”, John Murray Publishers
“The one thing about players today is that they're very sensitive, and very fragile. They didn't grow up with tough coaches.”

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