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He's come up with half of the algorithms used in the 20th century, but wouldn't actually recognize an actual computer if you dropped it on him.-- Jason Riek (about Dana Scott)
'It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.'-- Jackie Mason
The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take.-- Roy Carlson
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.-- Jon Ribbens
I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me 'sir.'-- Joan Rivers
"He that will not reason is a bigot, He that cannot reason is a fool, He that dares not reason is a slave."-- William Drummond
I have a firm grip on reality. Now I can strangle it.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.-- Earl Wilson
'Impossible' tends to be an opinion rather than a fact.
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."-- Richard Nixon
'Be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give to people.-- Tom Masson
"What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"-- Richard Nixon
What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.-- Sloan Wilson
For years a secret shame destroyed my peace --
I'd not read Eliot, Auden or MacNiece.
But now I think a thought that brings me hope:
Neither had Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Pope.-- Justin Richardson
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.-- Susan Sontag
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
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.-- Emerson
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.-- Doug Larson
I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.-- Dave Edison
Law of Cat Motion:
A cat will move in a straight line, unless there is a really good reason to change direction.
As I stare into the abyss of the toilet bowl I try hard to rememeber the reason why I felt the desperate need to mix vodka and red wine with whiskey and tequila.-- Shirley Manson
"One person can trigger a million thoughts."
"The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions."-- Susan Sontag
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.-- Thomas Jefferson
"Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems."-- Homer Simpson
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.-- Orson Welles
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts; they come back to us with a certain alienated majesty."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wreckless Driving -- You'd think that would be a good thing.-- Chris Sampson
That your decision was right doesn't in any way mean your reasons were.
Be the person you needed when you were younger.
If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.-- Earl Wilson
"Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely-read man never quotes accurately for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely."-- Hesketh Pearson
"There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."-- Doug Larson
The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity.-- Harlan Ellison
"Make lots of money", "enjoy the work", "operate within the law": choose 2-- Brian Anderson
"All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with."-- Adam Richardson
In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.-- Adlai Stevenson
"If Today Was a Fish, I'd Throw It Back In." (Song Title)
"A successful tool is one that was used to do something undreamed of by its author."-- S. C. Johnson
Jason squared his shoulders, drew the Sword of - I couldn't give a toss what it's supposed to be called, he said to himself, I shall call it Freckles - and took one step forward.-- Tom Holt ("Ye Gods!")
By necessity, by proclivity, and by delight, we all quote. In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think it's adorable that our fans call me Shirl. It's preferrable to asshole.-- Shirley Manson
We are all inclined to judge ourselves by our ideals; others by their acts.-- Harold Nicolson
Secret, n: Something you tell to one person at a time.