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Nowadays, originality is the art of concealing your source.
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.
Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats.-- O'Neill
The BEST part of waking up? Hitting the snooze button and going back to sleep.
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease.-- Voltaire
It is a good thing to in your mind be able to seperate the artist from the art.
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."-- Anatole France
Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.-- Bill Bulko
Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.-- Samuel Butler
Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.-- Perry Farrell
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.-- Steven Wright
What part of "AWW C'MON, PLEASE??" don't you understand? (T-Shirt)
Pedestrian, n: The variable (and audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."-- Stewart Brand
Monday is the root of all evil.
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.-- Oscar Wilde
Destinesia: The act of entering a room and forgetting why.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.-- H. L. Mencken
I like being single. I'm always there when I need me.-- Art Leo
"I am not part of the problem; I am a Republican."-- Dan Quayle
Peace is not the absence of war. Peace is the presence of a system for resolving conflicts before war becomes necessary. War never creates peace.
Join the army: meet interesting people, then kill them.
"One good turn gets most of the blankets"
The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
Arithmetic: An obscure art no longer practiced in the world's developed countries.
"Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it."-- Tori Amos
The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going down.
Part of the difference of learning something by interest or necessity is how we file it, with what urgency, and how we think of it when we think of it again.
The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.-- Albert Einstein
C, n.: A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.-- Ray Simard
The best way to get rid of worries is to let them die of neglect.
9 out of 10 doctors will agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.-- Goethe
The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.
People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.
Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.
Cashtration, n.: The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy
Idle hands are the air guitar's playground (Alas)
Oh yeah? You wanna step out of the giant robot and say that again?
If the pen is mightier than the sword, what happens when you run out of ink?
Only the good die young. Note the average age in Congress.
Eat a live toad in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Being in a nudist colony probably takes all the fun out of Halloween.
The sweetest of all sounds is praise.-- Xenophon
Life is cheap. It's the accessories that kill you.
Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.-- Ivern Ball
Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Brought to you by the people who made "out of context" a household word.
"The I.S.O. standard unit of female pulchritude is the milli-Helen. This is the amount of beauty capable of causing the launching of a single ship."-- Terry Pratchett
"The degree of normality in a database is inversely proportional to that of its DBA"
Make the most of yourself, because that's all the self you are going to get, buster.
Progress, n: The process through which the Internet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals.
"Do not bend the spoon, instead realize the truth."
"The truth?"
"That the spoon effect will be added later by some sort of SGI workstation."
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)
"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."-- John Adams
"Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad."-- Frederik Pohl
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
The secret of happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get.
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?-- Alan Kay (``Computer Software'', Scientific American)
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
"The first 80% of software development is the easy part. The hard part is the next 80%"
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.
"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"-- Ayn Rand
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.
The unique operations of the (human) brain are the result of natural selection operating through the filter of culture. They have suspended us between the two antipodal ideals of nature and machine, forest and city, the natural and the artifactual, relentlessly seeking, in the words of geographer Yi-Fu Tuan, an equilibrium not of this world.-- Edward O. Wilson ("Biophilia")
Why can't they have gay people in the army? Personally, I think they are just afraid of a thousand gay guys with M16s going, "Who'd you call a faggot?"-- John Stewart
Absent, adj: Exposed to the attacks of friends and acquaintances; defamed; slandered.
Cigarette, n: A fire at one end, a fool at the other, and a bit of tobacco inbetween.
Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.
He was just... well, like a lot of madmen. Somewhat accurate view of the problem, really insane view of the solution. (Kid Radd)
I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy
Motrin and espresso. The breakfast of champions.-- Sweet Poly
Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.
Computers save man a lot of guesswork, but then, so do bikini's.
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all--the apathy of human beings.-- Helen Keller
Reporter, n: A writer who guesses his way to the truth and dispels it with a tempest of words.-- Ambrose Bierce
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.-- Confucius
Decafalon, n.: The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you.