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"If you insist on leaving your fate to the gods, then the gods will repay your weakness by having a grin or two at your expense. Should you fail to pilot your own ship, don't be surprised at what inappropriate port you will find yourself docked."-- Tom Robbins (Jitterbug Perfume)
"A cult is a religion with no political power."-- Tom Wolfe
If god meant for us to program, he's a sadist.-- Rob Earhart
The more things change, the more they stay insane.-- Tom Weller
"It is better to be quotable than to be honest."-- Tom Stoppard
I have never seen anything fill up a vacuum so fast and still suck.-- Rob Pike (on X)
In the past, men created witches; now they create mental patients.-- Tom Szasz
'Be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give to people.-- Tom Masson
Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.-- Tom Stoppard
Counting in octal is just like counting in decimal--if you don't use your thumbs.-- Tom Lehrer
"Either what you've said is so vague that it's meaningless or I disagree with you completely."-- Tom Maddox
The goodness of morals depends upon what the morals say, not just the fact that they are morals.-- Rob Bernardo
I'd like to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony. Especially Bob Dylan.-- Jim Rosenberg
To some extent any use of language (and conceptual categories) distorts reality by coercing instances into types.-- Rob Bernardo
It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.-- Tom Holt
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.-- Lily Tomlin
"Fast, fat computers breed slow, lazy programmers."-- Robert Hummel
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
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?-- Lily Tomlin
It's a mistake to underestimate the human capacity for self-delusion.-- Robert Park
Jason squared his shoulders, drew the Sword of - I couldn't give a toss what it's supposed to be called, he said to himself, I shall call it Freckles - and took one step forward.-- Tom Holt ("Ye Gods!")
Let's get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini.-- Robert Benchley
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.-- Lily Tomlin
'I think,' he said slowly, 'that the only reason people think you can't kill a vampire by shoving its head up its own arse is because nobody's ever actually tried it. What do you think, guys?'-- Tom Holt ("My Hero")
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.-- Lily Tomlin
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
I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.-- Lily Tomlin
Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.-- Robert Heinlein
I have no problem dealing with reality, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.-- Lily Tomlin
"A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer."-- Robert Frost
The only valid censorship of ideas is the right of people not to listen.-- Tommy Smothers
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
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
The world is full of willing people; some willing to work, the rest willing to let them.-- Robert Frost
When I hear someone say they give '110%' to whatever they're doing, it makes me feel good inside, because I know I'm not as big a moron as that person is.-- Jim Rosenberg
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."-- Robert Anthony
"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
The meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us are going to the stars.-- Robert A. Heinlein
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.-- Lily Tomlin
There was something - difficult to describe, when you've only got shoddy, post-modernist adjectives to work with - cheerfully revential in his manner, as if he had just seen the Messiah and remembered that the Messiah owed him twenty quid.-- Tom Holt ("My Hero")
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
Never put off until tomorrow what you can avoid altogether.
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
The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
'You're a hero. Heroes are supposed to know these things.'
'Get stuffed,' replied the hero.
'You're formulating a plan of campaign, aren't you?'
'Get real. I'm trying to get this pxy chunk of gravel out of my - ah, that's got it. Right, where were we?'-- Tom Holt ("My Hero")
"Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea."-- Robert A. Heinlein
Genies rarely have nightmares, for the same reason that elephants don't usually worry about being trampled underfoot. With the possible exception of bottles, there's nothing in the cosmos large enough or malicious enough to frighten them, or stupid enough to try.-- Tom Holt ("Djinn Rummy")
Eat, drink, and be merry, for tomorrow they may cancel your VISA.
Oh yeah? You wanna step out of the giant robot and say that again?