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True friendship comes when silence between two people is comfortable.-- David Tyson Gentry
"Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see."-- Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency)
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
Do not go gentle into that good night... Rage, rage against the dying of the light.-- Dylan Thomas
Any sufficiently optimistic statement is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
A sufficiently optimistic statement is indistinguishable from social sycophancy.
Politicians should be changed frequently, like diapers - and for much the same reason.
"Faith" is a fine invention
When Gentlemen can see --
But microscopes are prudent
In an Emergency.-- Emily Dickinson
"If you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your own mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've certainly learned something about it yourself. The teacher usually learns more than the pupil."-- Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency)
People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.-- Rich Kulawiec
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.-- Andy Finkel
"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."-- J. Bartlett Brebner
I've decided, I'm going to feed every little addiction and silently go mad 'cause right now my writing sucks.-- Zaffel
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.-- Arthur C. Clarke
The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.-- Eden Phillpots
TP's 3rd Law: Any sufficiently advanced philosophical discourse is indistinguishable from bullshit.
-- TitanPoint
"This was, apparently, beyond her ken. So far beyond her ken that she was well into barbie territory."-- J.D. Baldwin
"A nuclear power plant is infinently safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year."-- Dixy Lee Ray
We may begin to see reality differently simply because the computer ... provides a different angle on reality.-- Heinz Pagels
I think that sick people in Ankh-Morpork generally go to a vet. It's generally a better bet. There's more pressure on a vet to get it right. People say "it was god's will" when granny dies, but they get angry when they lose a cow.-- Terry Pratchett (alt.fan.pratchett)