To Err is Human; To Really Foul Things Up Requires a Computer
Paul Ehrlich? Alexander Pope? Senator Soaper? Bill Vaughan? Agatha Christie? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: I am reading your blog and that shows I am not a Luddite, but computers can be very...
View ArticleDenial Is Not a River in Egypt
Florence Kerns? Ray Hallinan? Herb Caen? Pauline Tymon? Larry Pickard? David Crosby? Joe Bob Briggs? Al Franken? Stuart Smalley? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: The Saturday Night Live television...
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“What Do You Think of Western Civilization?” “I Think It Would Be a Good Idea”
Mohandas Gandhi? Apocryphal? Dear Quote Investigator: Mahatma Gandhi is credited with a brilliantly acerbic remark made in response to a question from a self-satisfied journalist: Journalist: What do...
View ArticleNostalgia Is Not What It Used To Be
Yogi Berra? Simone Signoret? Peter De Vries? Tommy Handley & Ronald Frankau? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: Holidays sometimes make me nostalgic. They also remind me of the following clever...
View Article“To Be Is To Do” “To Do Is To Be” “Do Be Do Be Do”
Kurt Vonnegut? Frank Sinatra? Jean-Paul Sartre? Dale Carnegie? Bud Crew? Socrates? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: The 1982 novel “Deadeye Dick” by the popular author Kurt Vonnegut mentioned the...
View ArticleEven If You Win the Rat Race, You’re Still a Rat
Lily Tomlin? Jackie Gleason? Bill Cunningham? William Sloane Coffin? Russell Baker? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: There is a popular quip about the competitive daily grind of the working world....
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Death Is Nature’s Way of Telling You to Slow Down
Madison Avenue? Doctor’s Advice? Graffito? Dick Sharples? Anonymous? Dear Quote Investigator: When I strained a muscle recently a friend told me that the injury was nature’s way of telling me to slow...
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