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As you can probably tell from our popular cartoon section, we at the Data Governance Institute are firm believers in the old adage “A Laugh a Day Keeps the Data Professional From Snapping and Going Full On ‘Office Space’ on the Company Printer.” Man, that old maxim is just timeless. So much of our lives are taken up by serious matters; serious work, serious meetings, serious bosses, serious messes in the break room… With all of that, don’t you think we seriously need to laugh too?

Humor Quotes

 Some of the quotes below are about business, some are about life, all of them are about laughing at the absurdity of it all. Enjoy!

Bill Gates is a very rich man today… and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: Versions.

– Dave Barry

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy

– Joseph Campbell

Do not trust any statistics you did not fake yourself.

– Winston Churchill

Do you realize if it weren’t for Edison we’d be watching TV by candlelight?

– Al Boliska

For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three.

– Alice Kahn

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

– Mark Twain

He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lamp posts – for support rather than for illumination.

– Andrew Lang

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

– Peter De Vries

It is very sad that nowadays there is so little useless information.

– Oscar Wilde

People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.

– Thomas Sowell

Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds.

– John Perry Barlow

The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education.

– Albert Einstein

There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

– Mark Twain

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself.

– Albert Einstein