Annual PDML Quotation List:

2004

The wit, wisdom and occasionally incoherent ramblings of the Pentax Discussion Mailing List, selected somewhat arbitrarily and compiled and archived annually by yr humble servant (me).

Other years: 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2003

"The best thing to do with rules is to learn them really well, and then to learn how to break them even better."

— Tanya Mayer

"If you act like a professional, people will treat you like one."

— Tom Van Veen

"I shoot and sell photos full time, but I wouldn't call it a job. It's more like self-unemployment. :-)"

— Mark Cassino

"Skill at anything takes study and practice. I have always wondered why there are so many people who do not think that applies to photography."

— Tom "Graywolf" Rittenhouse

"I think lens wipes is the one area Kodak will continue to dominate."

— Tom Van Veen

"All the mathematics in the world won't change your mind when you're happy with your images."

— Steve Desjardins

"If you want to be a great artist you have to be at least borderline insane."

— Tom "Graywolf" Rittenhouse

"If one is brought up to try and respect the world in which we live, and make use of the marvels we have... but at the same time to try and conserve things, to try and make better use, create less waste, then a different approach is apparent. This is not age related at all. This is awareness-related."

— Cotty

"You can never have enough monkeys."

— Bob Walkden

"It hurts my eyes, but I still like it. Kinda like sex in yer old age."

— Bob Blakely

"The number one rule in photography: You can't take a photograph without a camera."

— Frank Theriault

"The species (humans) has thrived with a Gaussian distribution of gullibility so far."

— Bill "the Roadie" Carton (quoted from Usenet, not the PDML, but insightful none the less!)

"I once built a model of the Mission at San Luis Obispo out of sugar cubes."

— Cotty

"If you go to GFM, you'd better let me fondle it!"

— Tanya Mayer

"Most 'street photography' is itself pointless, exploitative, vacuous crap masquerading as insight and concern, but hiding a boundless vapidity. Its pompous, pseudo-profundity is chaff thrown out to hide the true depths of its shallowness."

— Bob Walkden

"Very few photos are worth archiving anyway. It is human arrogance that makes people think that their photos are worth the effort."

— William Robb

"There are no promises that the human race is smart enough to understand the universe."

— Steve Desjardins

"Photography is something you can hold in your hand and say 'this really sucks'."

— William Robb

" It's a good job the 600mm f4's can be obtained so readily and cheap then!"

— John Whittingham

"The 'street photography' thing has created the most clichè-filled body of garbage in photography. Shoot someone poor and you suddenly made a social statement. Give me a break!... Give me a sunset any day. It doesn't pretend anything."

— Pål Jensen

"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument."

— William G. McAdoo, 1863-1941 (former U.S. senator)

"Clients paid me to make things work, not whine about how it's too hard or too inconvenient."

— William Robb

"Good pornography can be art. Bad pornography can still be interesting."

— William Robb

"Sometimes angles choose themselves. We're just there with a camera..."

— Frank Theriault

Other years: 2007 - 2006 - 2005 - 2003

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