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Thinking is not a panacea, but to paraphrase Gandhi, maybe it would be a good idea to try some.-- Jess Anderson
Sometimes you have to bite people hard on the lip before they realize you're not kissing them, so keenly do they yearn for approval.-- Jess Anderson
"Make lots of money", "enjoy the work", "operate within the law": choose 2-- Brian Anderson
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence.-- Jeremy S. Anderson
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
We've built a deep, dark hole for your mind, and you get down in there and stay there no matter what, because if you don't obey, we'll take away everything and you'll be good and sorry, and no complaining either. Shut up! Don't EVER think. We're your mommy and your daddy and your teacher and your preacher, and we love you so much, that's why we're setting your switch to OFF. When you're older, you'll realize what a sacrifice you made for us, er, I mean, we made for you.-- Jess Anderson
"Loved by some, accepted by others and misunderstood by most."
To be understood is a luxury.
You have to get with the program. People raised in the era of books are out to pasture, did they forget to tell you? Knowledge used to be a lacework of connections; now it's a motley of facts. Doing is valued; knowing is devalued: after all, you can look it up, so why bother actually knowing anything? Don't waste your precious productivity on the Big Picture; that'll just get in your way as you frantically race toward Right Now and What Counts. After all, all you can do with a free mind is get into mischief, so no more whining after printed pages; the future is help screens!-- Jess Anderson
A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.-- K (MiB)
Absent, adj: Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered.
"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us.
At 40, we don't care what they think of us.
At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all."-- Ann Landers
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.-- Emerson
Lies, damned lies and user documentation.
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."-- Thomas Jefferson
Doubt your beliefs and believe your doubts.
Sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains arouse me.
"One person can trigger a million thoughts."
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.-- Doug Larson
"That must be wonderful! I don't understand it at all."
Be the person you needed when you were younger.
"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands."-- Alexander Penney
"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."
"Man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."-- Alexander Smith
"Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night."-- Andy Warhol
"I love Saturday morning cartoons, what classic humour! This is what entertainment is all about... Idiots, explosives and falling anvils."-- Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)
"Those who would sacrifice a little freedom for a little order, will lose both, and deserve neither."-- Thomas Jefferson
"Not a Morning Person" doesn't even begin to cover it.
Secret, n: Something you tell to one person at a time.