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"Does it occur to you, the fallibility of CIT thinking? Flux-thinking. You have prophetic dreams, remember? You can dream about a man drinking a glass of milk. A week later you can see Yanni drinking tea at lunch and if seeing him do that has a high shock-value, you'll super the dream-state right over him, you'll swear you dreamed about him doing that, exactly at that table, and even psychprobe can't sort it out after that."-- C.J. Cherryh (Cyteen, Grant ALX)
"In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."-- Bertrand Russell
"So you want a realistic, down-to-earth show that's off-the-wall and full of magical robots?" (The Simpsons)
A "practical joker" deserves applause for his wit according to its quality. Bastinado is about right. For exceptional wit one might grant keelhauling. But staking him out on an anthill should be reserved for the very wittiest.-- Lazarus Long
Just about all real intellectual activity starts from the understanding that *there is a problem here*, especially in things we take for granted.-- Arnold Zwicky
"I want a chocolate bar infused with nicotine that's got a creamy coffee center... And wrap it in porn." (TheWax.com)
"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."-- J. Bartlett Brebner
A winning formula can be obliterated simply by the change to an ingorant new manager.
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.-- Ivern Ball
The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering!-- Ashleigh Brilliant
I want to die like my grandfather, peaceful and in my sleep - not screaming like the other people in the car.
"Please don't lie to me, unless you're absolutely sure I'll never find out the truth."-- Ashleigh Brilliant
Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"By doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me."-- Ashleigh Brilliant
"I think that happiness is when you can let yourself feel every emotion you want at any time instead of being a lying little fuck."-- Tori Amos
I don't understand men, women, sheep, grass, or computers. Understanding is for those too weak to handle confusion.-- Stevie Ulrich
"It's good to know that if I behave strangely enough, society will take full responsibility for me."-- Ashleigh Brilliant
The commercial availability of software to check spelling, grammar, and style does serve quite well as a form of stupidity tax.-- Amanda Walker
They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.-- Terry Pratchett ("Equal Rites")