1421) It's such a fine line between stupid, and clever.

This Is Spinal Tap (film, 1984)
written by Christopher Guest, Michael McKean, Harry Shearer and Rob Reiner,
directed by Rob Reiner,
spoken by the character "David St. Hubbins"
played by Michael McKean
posted by Sara Miller [IQM] (10/11/1995)

1422) If you're going to make a mistake, you might as well make it going 100 miles an hour.

Rick Lantz
Virginia football defensive coordinator (attributed)
posted by Michael Fuchs [IQM] (10/11/1995)

1423) A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

Mitch Ratcliffe
Technology Review (4/1992)
posted by Michael Fuchs [IQM] (10/11/1995)

1424) When you have a choice in voting between a crook and an idiot, take the crook. It's easier to reform a crook than it is to inform an idiot.

Inside-the-Beltway maxim
invoked in the Senate gallery by a senior aide
to Sen. Dan Quayle sometime in late 1986
Cynthia Price, personal e-mail (10/11/1995)

1425) A man should never be ashamed to own that he is wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

Alexander Pope
"Thoughts on Various Subjects"
Pope and Swift's Miscellanies (1727) [WQ]
posted by George Osner [ISQ] (10/11/1995)

1426) Tradition is what you resort to when you don't have the time or the money to do it right.

Kurt Herbert Adler (widely attributed)
posted by Jim Speirs [ISQ] (10/11/1995)

1427) The ability to think rationally is pretty rare, even in prestigious universities.

Neal Stephenson
Zodiac (1988)

1428) Tact is the art of convincing people that they know more than you do.

Raymond Mortimer (attributed)
posted by Jim Speirs [ISQ] (10/11/1995)

1429) [I]t is often easier to fight for principles than to live up to them.

Adlai Stevenson
speech to the American Legion Convention
in New York City (8/27/1952) [WQ]

[Note: Often attributed to Alfred Adler.]

1430) In Cyberspace, the First Amendment is a local ordinance.

John Perry Barlow
founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation
keynote address to the Winter 1994
USENIX Conference (1/17/1994)
posted by Michael Fuchs [IQM] (10/11/1995)