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"I love Saturday morning cartoons, what classic humour! This is what entertainment is all about... Idiots, explosives and falling anvils."
-- Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

I think true happiness can only be found in the wanton indulgence of animals.
-- Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Watterson))

Rehab is for quitters.

"Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity."
-- Alan Watts

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
-- Bill Bulko

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
-- Emerson

Fame is proof that people are gullible.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Most bad government has grown out of too much government."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Beware by whom you are called sane.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

If you sat a monkey down in front of a keyboard, the first thing typed would be a UNIX command.
-- Bill Lye

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.

"Make lots of money", "enjoy the work", "operate within the law": choose 2
-- Brian Anderson

"One person can trigger a million thoughts."

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."

All that glitters has a high refractive index.

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
-- Bill Gates

Be the person you needed when you were younger.

"Those who would sacrifice a little freedom for a little order, will lose both, and deserve neither."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Our families have values, but our government doesn't.
-- Bill Clinton (Democratic National Convention, 1992)

Thinking is not a panacea, but to paraphrase Gandhi, maybe it would be a good idea to try some.
-- Jess Anderson

Recession: your friend loses his job. Depression: you lose your job. Recovery: Bush loses his job.
-- Bill Davidsen

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
-- Thomas Jefferson

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
-- Oscar Wilde

The weirder you are, the better you have to be if you still want to get paid.
-- Ben Aveling

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

"Not a Morning Person" doesn't even begin to cover it.

Secret, n: Something you tell to one person at a time.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I told [my doctor] that I thought having an orgasm a day instead of hormone replacement therapy was more fun.
-- Cybill Shepard

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
-- Thomas Jefferson

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
-- Thomas Jefferson

I'm an apatheist. The question is no longer interesting, and the answer no longer matters.
-- petro (a.s.r)

"They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck."

"Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."
-- Oscar Wilde

"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

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

A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free.

The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
-- Bill Gates (The Road Ahead)

"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person, perfectly."