User:GenQuest/quotes

Take a Breath Before That Edit

• "It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has all the data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts." –Sherlock Holmes (A.C. Doyle), The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Skip the Contentious Editiing

• "Gentlemen! You can't fight in here; this is the war room!" —Dr. Strangelove

Understand Notability

• "Fame is inheritable, notability is not! (...unless, of course, you're British...)"—GQ

Take a Look in the Editor's Mirror

• "A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds..." —Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance

Understanding Another Point of View?

• "O civile si ergo, fortibus es in ero, o nobile deus trux, votis inem Causan dux." ["Oh see, Willy, see her go; forty busses in a row. Oh no, Billy, they is trucks. What is in 'em? Cows and ducks."] —Lady Monde-Green

Always Being Right Has Its Cost

• "TANSTAFL!" (There Ain't No Such Thing As A Free Lunch) —GQ

It's Called Consensus ArbCom

• "Opfer müssen gebracht werden!" ("Sacrifices must be made!") —Otto Lilienthal

Wiki-Fauna Gone Wild

• "Good is something you do, not something you talk about. Some medals are pinned to your soul, not to your jacket." —Gino Bartali

Put That Thing Away

• "Damn it, Jim; It's an encyclopedia, not a collection of random trivia!" —apologies to Dr. McCoy (DeForest Kelley), Star Trek

Neutral?!?

• "Neutrality is hard!" —GQ