Great Albums to listen to while riding

 The Allman Brothres Band - Live at Filmore East
The Band - Music from Big Pink
Derek and the Dominos - Layla
BobDylan - Highway 61Revisited
The Gin Blossoms - New Miserable Experience
Guns &Roses  - Appetite for Distruction
The Greadful Dead - American Beauty
Robert Johnson - King of the Delta Blues Singers
Oasis - (Whats the Story) Morning Glory
Pearl Jam  - 10
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
The Rolling Stones - Exile on Main St
Bruce Springsteen - Darnkess on the Edge of Town
Izzy Stradlin and the  Ju Ju Hounds
Pete Townsend - Empty Glass
The Who - Quadrophenia
Neil Young - Everybody Knows this is Nowhere
Neil Young / Rust Never Sleeps
Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac

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My favorite quotes.............

 "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later"
     -- Brooks's Law

"Brevity is the soul of wit"
     --Shakespeare

"This one goes to 11..."
     --Nigel, This is Spinal Tap

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
     --Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

The time from now until the completion of the project tends to become constant."
     --(early British computer scientist) Douglas Hartree

"We are what we repeatly do.  Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
     --Atistotle

"I just want to break even"
     --Richard Manuel, "The Last Waltz"

"Hocus-pocus religions and archaic weapons are no substitute for for a good blaster at your side"
     --Han Solo, "Star Wars"

She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid. I've added some special modifications myself."
-Han Solo

Elwood: It's a 106 miles to Chicago. We got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark and we're wearing sunglasses.
Jake: Hit it!

"You treat her like a lady, and she'll always bring you home"
     -- Dr McCoy

"Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity."
     --Hanlon's Razor, A corollary of Finagle's Law

"Ninety percent of everything is crap".
     --Sturgeon's Law

"Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular
 opinion.
     --Jack Kerouac

"Life is too short to splice wire rigging"
     --Bernard Moitessier

"This is without subtlety".  
     --Hideo, "Neuromancer"

"How old are you, Boss?"
"Old enough to know that you are f****d, burnt, that this is over, and you are in the way."

     --Case and Pierre, "Neuromancer"

"Play F****g Loud!"
     --Bob Dylan, to The Hawks, Manchester Free Trade Hall, May 1966.
 

/* Keef */

"5 strings, 2 fingers, one a**hole"
     --Keith Richards, on open G tuning

"...as far as I'm concerned, Art is just short for Arthur."
     --Keith Richards

"I never had a problem with drugs, only with cops."
     --Keith Richards

/* Phaedrus */

"However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual  information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It's not very factual on motorcycles, either."
     --Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.   

"An untrained observer will see only physical labor and often get the idea that  physical labor is mainly what the mechanic does. Actually the physical labor is the smallest and easiest part of what the mechanic does. By far the greatest  part of his work is careful observation and precise thinking."
     --Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.   

"Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind."
     --Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.   

"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is  fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going  to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious
 faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or  goals are in doubt

     --Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.   

"Finally, thanks to Remy Martin Cognac for saving my life by making the bloody stuff so expensive".

     -- Pete Townshend, "Empty Glass" dedication

"I've finally figured out what's wrong with photography. It's a one-eyed man looking through a little 'ole. Now, how much reality can there be in that?"
     -- David Hockney

/* Noel and Liam */

"That fellow, that pays for the nice car that's outside, it pays for the wife's jewelry, it pays for the swimming pool, and the house in Spain, it pays - paid -
 for a very f***ing large drug habit for a while...

     -- Noel Gallagher, discussing "What's the Story (Morning Glory)".

"That one, I can't remember doing anything onit".
"why"
"Cause I was just off my f***ing head"

     -- Liam Gallagher, discussing "What's the Story (Morning Glory)".

".....It pays the tax bill, (points to interviewer) it pays your wages, (points to cameraman) yours, (points to soundman) probably yours, (points to audience) pays your TV bill, (points back to interviewer) bought you Sky, kept the economy of
 England going for a while, got a lot of people very fat, and, uh, its got "She's Electric" on it".

     -- Noel Gallagher, continiung to reflect on "What's the Story (Morning Glory)".

"Like I said, I've got great memories of all of these (albums) ...Don't remember too much about that one, obviously".

     -- Noel Gallagher, a final thought on "What's the Story (Morning Glory)".

" I want him where I can see him. That's what we mean when we say family."

     -- Tony Soprano, discussing his soon to be (departed) brother-in-law.

"Favorite Greatful Dead Album?"
"Red Wine or White"
"Sushi, Yes or No?"
     --The Three Questions

 
"Forget all about that Macho S**t and learn how to play Guitar!"
    --John Mellencamp

 "A Man has got to know his limitations"
     --Dirty Harry

 
"In my mind, I'm already there"
     --Kramer, Seinfeld

 When my mood gets too hot and I find myself wandering beyond control I pull out my motor-bike and
hurl it top-speed through these unfit roads for hour after hour. My nerves are jaded and gone near
dead, so that nothing less than hours of voluntary danger will prick them into life...
     --T.E. Lawrence, April, 1923

If your pictures are not good enough, then you are not close enough"
    -- Robert Capa

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Hughes' Laws of Finance

"The difficulty of integrating an acquisition is inversely proportional to its size."

     --Hughes' first law of Finance

"As the length of a meeting increases, the probability of a discussion involving cost allocations approaches one." 

     --Hughes' second law of Finance

"The number of people claiming credit for an acquisition is directly related to its ongoing profitability."

     --Hughes' third law of Finance

The length of time required to close the books is equal to the number of days in the closing schedule.

     --Hughes' fourth law of Finance

"The Books are NEVER really closed"

     --Corollary to Hughes' fourth law of Finance

"The further someone’s occupation is from Bookkeeper, the greater the likelihood they wish to be involved in Book-keeping".

     --Hughes' fifth law of Finance

 “Greater precision applied to an estimate does not result in a more valuable analysis.  Avoid applying infinite precision to a gross approximation”.

     --Hughes' sixth law of Finance

 “The quality of an investment decision, and its likelihood of being funded, is directly proportional to the number of alternative scenarios seriously investigated and rejected”.

     --Hughes' seventh law of Finance (AKA “The “McAllen Trap”)

"Would you do it if it was YOUR money"?