User talk:Plumb Bob

 "If a rule prevents you from improving or maintaining Wikipedia, ignore it." Foundational Principles against overly-controlling forces developing on the wikis. Even if you have read them before, PLEASE EXAMINE ANEW: Wikipedia:Ignore all rules, and the other links available there, including the links delineating much which Wikipedia was NOT.''' These were some of the earliest directives established by the founding workers on the Wikimedia projects. "Ignore all rules: If rules make you nervous and depressed, and not desirous of participating in the wiki, then ignore them entirely and go about your business." ~ RulesToConsider "IAR is policy, always has been" ~ Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales This is an account of Kalki, who has also used many other account-names here, some since the very first days of this Wiki.

What one refuses in a minute No eternity will return. Friedrich Schiller

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain. Friedrich Schiller

Fixed fortifications are a monument to the stupidity of man. George S. Patton

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do, and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. George S. Patton

God grant me the courage not to give up what I think is right even though I think it is hopeless. Chester W. Nimitz

Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves. Chester W. Nimitz