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Lecture, n: Where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.
If the mind were exercised as much as the mouth, we would be a race of geniuses.
Law of diminishing IQ:
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.
"Don't apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem."
Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.
"One good turn gets most of the blankets"
The business of the mind is first and foremost the pure joy of knowing and comprehending, the pure joy of consciousness.-- Anais Nin
People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.
Half of the people in the world are below average.
2, 3, 3, 37 - the prime factorization of the beast.
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After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true.-- Spock (Star Trek, "Amok Time")
"Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief."-- Arthur Schnitzler
The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.-- Plato
The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
Eat a live toad in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Spagmumps, n: Any of the millions of Styrofoam wads that accompany mail-order items.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.-- Perry Farrell
Oh yeah? You wanna step out of the giant robot and say that again?
"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."
"You're not exactly catching us at our best" -- Kirk
"That much is certain" -- Spock (Star Trek IV)
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.-- Steven Wright
Pedestrian, n: The variable (and audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.
He was just... well, like a lot of madmen. Somewhat accurate view of the problem, really insane view of the solution. (Kid Radd)
Government of the people
By a corrupt subset of the people
For the people who can afford the corrupt subset of the people.
-- Chris Newport
'You are not in my shoes.' -- Worf
'Too bad. You'd be amazed at what I can do in a pair of size 18's.' -- Dax (Star Trek: DS9)
How do you know if honesty is the best policy unless you've tried some of the others?
I do not like the man: he has all of the virtues I detest and none of the vices I admire.-- Winston Churchill
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.-- Oscar Wilde
X.400 is the mail system of the future, and I hope it stays that way.-- Erik Fair
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.-- John Simon
TCP_UP - The 16-bit TCP Urgent Pointer, encoded as the hex representation of the value of the field. The hex string MUST be capitalized since it is urgent. (RFC 3093)
"The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."-- Mark Twain
"How many fingers am I holding up?" -- Kirk, making the Vulcan salute
"That's not very damn funny."-- McCoy (Star Trek III)
And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords.-- Alan Watts
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.-- E. B. White
Most children grow up to be adults in spite of their parents, not because of them.
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought"-- Basho
"You ever hear of the Spartans, Lewis? Ancient Greece...traditional enemies of the Athenians? They were a warrior society. I'll try to make it simple for you...they were Klingon." (The Rhipodon Society)
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."-- Oscar Wilde
"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex."-- Oscar Wilde
I once talked a guy out of blowing up the Sears tower, but I can't talk my wife out of the bathroom or my daughter off the phone. (The Negotiator)
"I am not part of the problem; I am a Republican."-- Dan Quayle
"I'm the Queen of the nerds. I love nerds- by which I mean, not a cool, bitchin' person. I guess I was a cool nerd. I wasn't shuffling my feet in the corner of the playground, I was the homecoming queen, but then, all the nerds voted for me."-- Tori Amos
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."-- Stewart Brand
God must love assholes--she made so many of them.
The Pet Principle:
No matter which side of the door your dog or cat is on, it is the wrong side.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.-- Susan Sontag
Stand and fight, you misbegotten spawn of the perverse breeding between a pixie and a squirrel!
"Man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."-- Alexander Smith
"The Prophets teach us patience."
-- Vedek Bareil
"It appears they also teach you politics."-- Sisko (Star Trek: DS9)
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.-- Oscar Wilde
"I wanted to make a little spot in the context of the record where there was this break in the action. In the midst of this buildup of these ever-growing, terrible machines, I just wanted to remember that there is somewhere... else."-- Trent Reznor
Choconiverous, adj: Biting off the head of the chocolate Easter bunny first.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
"The most merciful thing in the world...is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."-- H.P. Lovecraft
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have trained for years and years can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.-- Augustine
Q: Why did the germ cross the microscope?
A: To get to the other slide.
Gina: "Isn't it customary for the suspect to leave the scene of the crime?"
Debra: "Definitely an amateur" (Empire Records)
"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."-- George Bernard Shaw
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.-- John Stuart Mill
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.-- The Anarchist Cookbook
There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are `Why are people born?', `Why do they die?', `Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?' (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)