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"Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity."-- Alan Watts
Once in a while it really hits people that they don't have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.-- Alan Keightley
I think it's a beautiful day to go to the zoo and feed the ducks.
To the lions.-- Brian Kantor (the SDM)
As the cheetah said to the chameleon:
You can hide, but you can't run!-- Alan Williams
We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done.-- Alan Turing
"Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what it is you want to hear."-- Alan Coren
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords.-- Alan Watts
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?-- Alan Kay (``Computer Software'', Scientific American)
"I've always wanted to be Brigitte Bardot."-- Bob Dylan
"To live outside the law you must be honest."-- Bob Dylan
Maybe life is a grindstone; whether it polishes you or wears you down depends on what you're made of.-- Kay Fletcher
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.-- Alan Ashley-Pitt
Good news is just life's way of keeping you off balance.
The average, healthy, well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.-- Jean Kerr
Insanity, a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.-- R. D. Lang
Poetry is a deal of joy and pain and wonder, with a dash of the dictionary.-- Kahlil Gibran
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"-- Jean Kerr
Half of what I say is meaningless; but I say it so that the other half may reach you.-- Kahlil Gibran
Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly; your wholeness when you are broken; your innocence when you feel guilty; and your purpose when you are confused.-- Alan Cohen
I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.-- Edgar Allan Poe
The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity.-- Harlan Ellison
Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light.-- Dylan Thomas
No need crying over spilt milk. Unless, of course, you're a truck driver and you just lost nearly 3800 gallons on the interstate - then it's okay to cry.-- Dan Lantz
Almost everything alive is about some kind of balance. Heck, even a lot of things that are not alive are about balance. However, thinking a particular balance is the only balance is often a mistake.
He uses statistics as a drunken man uses lampposts — for support rather than illumination.-- Andrew Lang
Adventure: The land between entertainment and panic.
Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it.-- Brian Kernighan
"Don't be afraid to go after what you want to do, and what you want to be. But don't be afraid to be willing to pay the price."-- Lane Frost
I think the strangest (or, perhaps, at least the most inappropriate) conversation I've ever had during sex with anyone was a long discussion (punctuated by the obvious noises) of analytic means of setting a bound on the primality of generalised Fibonacci numbers.-- Kay Dekker
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."-- Kahlil Gibran
C++, the language in which only friends can access your private members.
I'm in love with a girl who doesn't even know I'm alive.
She thinks she got me with her long range rifle, but she missed.-- Jonathan Colan
“I speak two languages: Body and English.”-- Mae West
Yes, yes, sensitive, acoustic, multicultural rhythms, sensitive, yoga, tantric sex, sensitive.
Shut up and sing some old Police stuff again.-- Nat Lanza (on Sting)
The person discriminated against -- whether black or white -- is undoubtedly hurt, but there is a real difference between the institutional impact and intensity of the hurt suffered as part of an invidious pattern or racial subordination and as part of a benevolent pattern of racial equalization. As Oliver Wendell Homes once put it: "Even a dog understands the difference between being stumbled over and being kicked."-- Alan Dershowitz
"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
A trial is a lot like gladiator combat. Except trials don't feature half-naked men in armor with swords and spears and those ball thingies at the ends of ropes. Well, okay -- the good trials do, but it doesn't happen often enough, if you ask me.-- Jonathan Colan
No group of parents should have the right either to prevent other people's children from being educated or to require--as a quid pro quo--that they be equally exposed to the religious doctrines of Christian fundamentalism. It's bad enough that these parents may be denying their own children the educational tools necessary to cope with the diverse society into which they will be graduating. It is too much to give them a veto over the education of the rest of our children.-- Alan Dershowitz
I thought I was in love once, and then later I thought maybe it was just an inner-ear imbalance.-- Fraser (Due South)
All animals except man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it.-- Samuel Butler
Law of Cat Landing:
A cat will always land in the softest place possible; often the mid-section of an unsuspecting, reclining human.
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.-- Ambassador Kosh
Maybe you can keep me from ever being happy, but you're not gonna stop me from having fun.-- Ani Difranco
'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.-- Keith Sullivan
Real programmers can write assembly code in any language.-- Larry Wall