Adrian Payne:
CLASS OF 1972
Kennedy High SchoolClass of 1972
Denver, CO
Adrian's Story
Adrian is from Denver, Colorado. Adrian's schools include Kennedy High School. Adrian works(ed) at American Express.
Adrian's interests include Cars, DIY, Politics. Music Adrian likes includes Wikked Rev, The Fifth Dimension, The Beatles. Books Adrian likes include Alternate history, Science fiction, Mystery novels. Movies Adrian likes include Darling Companion, Galaxy Quest, Ocean's Eleven (2001). TV shows Adrian likes include House M.D, Fairly Legal, Scifi.
One of Adrian's favorite quotes is:""Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence" Napoleon Bonaparte
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
- Segal's Law
"If the human race is to survive, then for all but a very brief part of our history, the word ‘ship’ will mean ‘Space Ship’." (Arthur C. Clarke)
“Already people propose to put glittering solar power collectors all over perfectly good deserts, instead of in orbit, as God intended.” - Larry Niven – preface to A Step Farther Out by Jerry Pournelle
"...The world will little note, nor long remember, what we say here, but can never forget what they did here. It is *for us, the living*, rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they have, thus far, so nobly carried on..." - Abraham Lincoln - Gettysburg Address
"In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. From time to time we've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of governing himself, then wh...Expand for more
o among us has the capacity to govern someone else?." Ronald Reagan (1st inaugural address, Jan 20,1981)
“The things that will destroy America are:
• Prosperity at any price
• Peace at any price
• Safety first instead of duty first, and
• Love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life." - Theodore Roosevelt
The surest way to civil war is to begin prosecuting policy differences as criminal. There is no faster way to destroy a republic than to give the loser great fear of losing the election. - Jerry Pournelle - Chaos Manor
"In small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening, we tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco." Sarah Palin; 3 Sept, 2008
"No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible." - Voltaire
"Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain
Get the facts, or the facts will get you. And when you get them, get them right, or they will get you wrong.
- Dr. Thomas Fuller
Wirth’s law: "Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster" - Nicklaus Wirth - inventor of Pascal, Modula-2, & Oberon
“Mongo only pawn in great game of life.” - Mongo -
Blazing Saddles
“Pathetic earthlings. Hurling your bodies out into the void, without the slightest inkling of who or what is out here. If you had known anything about the true nature of the universe, anything at all, you would've hidden from it in terror.”
Ming the Merciless - From Flash Gordon (1980)".
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