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Grammar is not a vice (though excessive picking at it can be). And nonstandard words/grammar can be used to good effect--but no one can do that without knowing how they're deviating.-- Randy Clark
"That's a hell of an ambition, to be mellow. It's like wanting to be senile."-- Randy Newman
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.-- Arthur C. Clarke
"Everybody winds up kissing the wrong person good night."-- Andy Warhol
I don't like to spread gossip, but what else can you do with it?-- Sandy Hereld
Glamour is that indefinable something about a girl who has a large bosom.-- Andy Rothman
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.-- Andy Finkel
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.-- Andy Tanenbaum
The first half of our life is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children.-- Clarence Darrow
Arthur C. Clarke's Law :
It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.-- Andy Rooney
People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.-- Andy Warhol
Don't you think that with the proper amount of manpower, pliers, ropes, belts and duct tape, you actually COULD lead a horse to water AND make it drink?-- Andy Overman
Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.
The UNIX system has a command, 'nice', which allows a user to voluntarily reduce the priority of his process, in order to be nice to other users. Nobody ever uses it.-- Andy Tanenbaum
"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"-- Ayn Rand
Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.-- Bertrand Russell
"Life is nothing but a competition to be the criminal rather than the victim."-- Bertrand Russell
Practice random kindness and senseless acts of beauty.
To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.-- Bertrand Russell
As far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence.-- Bertrand Russell
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."-- Stewart Brand
QoS means I don't have enough bandwidth, but if you pay me extra money I'll drop someone else's packets instead of yours.-- Dave Rand
Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.-- Dick Brandon
What is wanted is not the will to believe but the will to find out, which is the exact opposite.-- Bertrand Russell
On emulating hormones and long-range neurotransmitters:
"If your job is delivering packages and all the packages are very small and your boss doesn't care who you give them to as long as it's on the correct continent and you have until the next ice age to get the work done, then you don't have a very difficult profession. I see no reason why simulating that anachronism would present the slightest difficulty."-- John K. Clark
One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important.-- Bertrand Russell
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists -- that is why they invented hell."-- Bertrand Russell
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.-- Goethe
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.-- Bertrand Russell
"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
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves but wiser people are full of doubts.-- Bertrand Russell
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.-- Bertrand Russell
Customer: Cute cat. What's its name?
Randal Graves: Annoying customer. (Clerks)