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"You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends.'"
-- Scully ("The X Files")

"Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask."
-- Fox Mulder (The X Files)

"Sometimes the need to mess with their heads outweighs the millstone of humiliation."
-- Fox Mulder (The X-Files)

"The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography"

"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say "Trust me" they're actually being very unamerican."
-- David Duchovny (X Files)

There are always alternatives.
-- Spock (Star Trek, "The Galileo Seven")

"Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal values."
(Norton SystemWorks 2002 Manual)

Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing.
-- Spock (Star Trek, "The Cloud Minders")

"The worst thing about censorship is [deleted by censorship bereau]."

Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".
-- Terry Pratchett ("The Colour of Magic")

"The degree of normality in a database is inversely proportional to that of its DBA"

Unfortunately, there are like five people in the world who understand the X keyboard model--I'm not one of them--and three are insane. It's that bad.
-- Tim Showalter

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

"The first 80% of software development is the easy part. The hard part is the next 80%"

"The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience."

"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
-- Maugham

Notice in a hotel lobby in Bucharest:
"The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable."

Silence is the door between Love and Fear; and on Fear's side there is no latch.
-- Diane Duane ("the Door into Fire")

I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose.
-- Spock (Star Trek, "The Squire of Gothos")

The Creation of the Universe was made possible by a grant from Texas Instruments.
(Credits, "The Creation of the Universe" (A PBS scientific documentary))

There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
-- Henry Miller ("The Colossus of Maroussi", 1941)

Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
-- Ambrose Bierce ("The Devil's Dictionary")

"Do not bend the spoon, instead realize the truth."
"The truth?"
"That the spoon effect will be added later by some sort of SGI workstation."

Part of the difference of learning something by interest or necessity is how we file it, with what urgency, and how we think of it when we think of it again.