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"Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask."-- Fox Mulder (The X Files)
"You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends.'"-- Scully ("The X Files")
"Sometimes the need to mess with their heads outweighs the millstone of humiliation."-- Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say "Trust me" they're actually being very unamerican."-- David Duchovny (X Files)
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.-- Goethe
"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."-- Goethe
"Must... defy... laws... of... physics!"-- The Tick
The voters have spoken, the bastards...
Unfortunately, there are like five people in the world who understand the X keyboard model--I'm not one of them--and three are insane. It's that bad.-- Tim Showalter
Television: the bland leading the bland.
In the beginning was the word, and the word was "aardvark".
The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
"All the people stared as if we were both quite insane."-- The Hollies
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.-- Goethe
Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.-- Goethe
The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
The law should make men free. The problem is making the law free.
There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their REAL earnings to the IRS.-- Bastard Operator From Hell
Of all the truths in the world, humor is the most satisfying and often the healthiest.
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.
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
"The first 80% of software development is the easy part. The hard part is the next 80%"
"Remember the Golden Rule: Those who have the gold make the rules."
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."-- Goethe
A bird in the hand is the best way to eat chicken.
Half of the people in the world are below average.
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.
2, 3, 3, 37 - the prime factorization of the beast.
And the pickles frolicked with the waffles, joyously.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.
Monday is the root of all evil.
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
The more we disagree, the bigger the chance that at least one of us is right.
"News" is just the stuff they use to fill up all the empty space they couldn't sell for advertising.
Lecture, n: Where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.
I like the kind of people that can hold on to the the feeling they have after the song or movie ends.
Q: Why did the germ cross the microscope?
A: To get to the other slide.
The future exists first in the imagination, then in the will, then in reality.
Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its de-evolution into the shiny things network.-- The Onion
"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student."-- George Iles
Those who speak by the yard and think by the inch should be kicked by the foot.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, let the machine get it.
The problem with reality is the lack of background music.
Q: Why did the tachyon cross the road?
A: Because it was on the other side.
Funny. All the wireless people seem to be the marionettes.
Only the good die young. Note the average age in Congress.
The light at the end of a tunnel may be an oncoming train.
"I'm not mad at the world... just at all the people in it."
Beware the fury of a patient woman.
The future ain't what it used to be.
"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
Accuracy, n: The vice of being right.
Be alert. The world needs more lerts.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
Eat a live toad in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
Domestication is the enemy of romance.
The truth is not decided by democracy.
We accept the love we think we deserve
Is not that the nature of men and women--that the pleasure is in the learning of each other?
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.-- Steven Wright
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.-- Plato
Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.-- Jules Renord
Just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.-- The Register
Proof by omission: The reader may easily supply the details. The other 253 cases are analogous.
There are three sorts of despots. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the body. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul. There is the despot who tyrannizes over the soul and body alike. The first is called the Prince. The second is called the Pope. The third is called the People.-- Oscar Wilde
"One good turn gets most of the blankets"
Microsoft: Re-inventing the square wheel.
Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Renning's Maxim: Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying.
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