Oliver Hansen » quote http://blog.oliverhansen.com A techie's not-so-technical weblog Sun, 27 Nov 2011 23:37:11 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Idiot or Maniac? http://blog.oliverhansen.com/index.php/2011/02/02/idiot-or-maniac/ http://blog.oliverhansen.com/index.php/2011/02/02/idiot-or-maniac/#comments Wed, 02 Feb 2011 16:21:41 +0000 Oliver http://blog.oliverhansen.com/?p=687 Here’s a good quote I got this morning from my World of Quotes Quote a day email list.

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac. ~Ronnie Corbett~

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Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac.
~Ronnie Corbett~

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From Ghandi An Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments With Truth p.68

I read the book of Genesis, and the chapters that followed invariably sent me to sleep. But just for the sake of being able to say I had read it, I plodded through the other books with much difficulty and without the least interest or understanding. I disliked reading the book of Numbers.

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