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Talk to your kids about sex. Tell them just how absolutely incredible it really is. (The Covert Comic)
The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going down.
"Making the simple complicated is easy. Making the complicated simple is brilliant."
Nobody's gonna believe that computers are intelligent until they start coming in late and lying about it.
"Not a Morning Person" doesn't even begin to cover it.
"Success consists of doing the common things of life uncommonly well."
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."-- Robert R. Coveyou
In the end, man is not entirely guilty — he did not start history. Nor is he wholly innocent — he continues it.-- Albert Camus
"I don't mind you coming here and wasting all my time, 'cause when you're standing oh so near, I kinda lose my mind."-- The Cars
An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.-- Albert Camus
"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex."-- Oscar Wilde
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")
Common sense: The collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.-- Albert Einstein
"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
"Shouldn't we be carefully placing these comics in plastic bags?"
"No, we have lives." (MST3K)
You know what charm is: a way of getting the answer `yes' without having asked any clear question.-- Albert Camus
The chance of a lifetime is to be yourself.
If people behaved like governments, you'd call the cops.-- Kelvin Throop
The course of true love never did run smooth.-- Shakespeare
All New: The software is not compatible with any previous version.
"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."-- Mark Twain
Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
"The computer world is like a great big toy store. But all the toys are broken."-- Steve Witham
"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."-- Robert Hummel
"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution."-- Oscar Wilde
"Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt."-- Herbert Hoover
What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?-- Marilyn Pittman
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them that Benjamin Franklin said it first.-- David H. Comins
When it comes to thought some people stop at nothing.
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 imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies."-- R. A. Pinker
The more we disagree, the bigger the chance that at least one of us is right.
"I really didn't foresee the Internet. But then, neither did the computer industry. Not that that tells us very much of course - the computer industry didn't even foresee that the century was going to end."-- Douglas Adams
Renning's Maxim: Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead
Just walk beside me and be my friend-- Albert Camus
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.-- Goethe
In a church bulletin: The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The Congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
"The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there."-- Edouard Manet
"Everything is convention, including law. When it is not the thought that led to the convention, but just the records of the convention that define morals, structural ethics are too dependant, and likely doomed."
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.-- Gandhi
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than any talent for abstract, positive thinking.-- Albert Einstein
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.-- Aldous Huxley
"Virtual" means never knowing where your next byte is coming from.
"To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition."-- Albert Einstein
The value of the Constitution depends on the good will of government itself. If the Supreme Court rules that the Bill of Rights should not interfere with the important business of government (which they have done on at least two occasions), then the Constitution is meaningless.-- John Kormylo
Commitment can be illustrated by a breakfast of ham and eggs. The chicken was involved; the pig was committed.
We may begin to see reality differently simply because the computer ... provides a different angle on reality.-- Heinz Pagels
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."-- Ben Franklin
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
The principle difference between a cat and a lie is that the cat has only nine lives.
She's not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she's a client and she sleeps above her covers. Four feet above her covers.-- Dr. Peter Venkman (Ghostbusters.)
Even if you're paranoid, maybe the guy with the chainsaw really is after you.
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.
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