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"Pity the educated cynics who refuse to enjoy the fun, choosing instead to remain faithful to their numb anguish. Mourn for the humorless devotees who refuse to join in the juicy unpredictable game so that they might feed their spiritual greed, pretzeled up motionless on prayer mats with the torment of grave meditations. Have compassion for the imagination-dead heroes who cling so tightly to the masks they've forged for themselves that they're dead to the delight of molting."-- Rob Brezsny
The goodness of morals depends upon what the morals say, not just the fact that they are morals.-- Rob Bernardo
To some extent any use of language (and conceptual categories) distorts reality by coercing instances into types.-- Rob Bernardo
If god meant for us to program, he's a sadist.-- Rob Earhart
Always behave like a duck: keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.-- Jacob Braude
I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck.-- Rob Pike (on X)
"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."-- Robert Hummel
Saying that the just overturned systems of eastern Europe are proof the socialism isn't good or doesn't work, is sort of like saying that a particular Christian church that failed in producing ethical behavior in its adherents is proof that we need to abandon the Golden Rule and start being nasty to each other.-- Rob Bernardo
Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired-- Robert Frost
It is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.-- Robert Bly
It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.-- Robert Park
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.-- Robert Benchley
Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.-- Robert Heinlein
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."-- Robert Frost
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.-- Rob Stampfli
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.-- Robert Frost
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."-- Robert Anthony
You can't make a program without breaking some egos.
"It's Hong Kong action. Anything you know about physics is just going to hold you back."-- Robin D. Laws
"A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity."-- Robert Frost
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."-- Robert R. Coveyou
By working faithfully 8 hours a day you may eventually get to be a boss and work 12 hours a day.-- Robert Frost
Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.-- Robert A. Heinlein
Great Lover, n: A man who can breathe through his ears.
There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.-- Robert A. Heinlein
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa.-- Robert A. Heinlein
A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain.-- Robert Frost
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling.-- Robert Pirsig
"Anyone can do any amount of work provided it isn't the work he's supposed to be doing at that moment."-- Robert Benchley
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."-- Robert A. Heinlein
Oh yeah? You wanna step out of the giant robot and say that again?
Ellen Ripley: Whenever he says anything, you say, "right," Brett. You know that?
Brett: Right. (Alien)
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."-- Robert Graves
Sticks and stones may break my bones but whips and chains arouse me.
Sticks and Stones may break my bones, but so would an 80 pound carrot.
feet and stones may break my bones, but metrics are more comprehensive
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."-- Robert Frost
The sun is like breasts - risky to look at unless you've got sunglasses.
Our hope of immortality does not come from any religions, but nearly all religions come from that hope.-- Robert Green Ingersoll
I once listed all the good things I did over the past year, and then turned them into resolution form and backdated them. That was a good feeling.-- Robert Fulghum
"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."-- J. Bartlett Brebner
Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful-- just stupid.)-- Robert A. Heinlein
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are software.-- Richard P. Brennan
"Familiarity breeds contempt--and children."-- Mark Twain
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.-- Robert Hutchins ("Great Books", 1954)
Motrin and espresso. The breakfast of champions.-- Sweet Poly
Stand and fight, you misbegotten spawn of the perverse breeding between a pixie and a squirrel!
If the automobile had followed the same development as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year killing everyone inside.-- Robert Cringely ("InfoWorld")
"So you want a realistic, down-to-earth show that's off-the-wall and full of magical robots?" (The Simpsons)
You see, the conditional modifers depend on certain variables like the day of the week, the number of players, chair positions, things like that. [...] There can't be more than a dozen or two that are pertinent.-- Robert Asprin ("Little Myth Marker")
Commitment can be illustrated by a breakfast of ham and eggs. The chicken was involved; the pig was committed.
You don't have to flaunt technical ability in order to benefit from it. If you have the capability to play a million notes, and then you play only three notes, that lends an amazing profundity to the three notes you did choose.-- Robert Fripp (paraphrased)