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He's come up with half of the algorithms used in the 20th century, but wouldn't actually recognize an actual computer if you dropped it on him.-- Jason Riek (about Dana Scott)
A GUI is to a command-line as a TV is to a book.-- Scott Hess
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
"Grand ennui" sounds so much nicer than "annoyance."-- Eric P. Scott
If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon.-- Scott Fahlman
Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.
"Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go."-- Hazel Scott
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
You're about as accurate as an archer in a centrifuge.
Some women get excited about nothing, and then marry him.
There's old proverbs to suit about anything you want to do.
"Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person."-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
"The worst thing about censorship is [deleted by censorship bereau]."
There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of man, with the possible exception of the sword.-- Benjamin Dana
"If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd everytime, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side."-- Orson Scott Card
People want stories about things they can relate to: life and death, good and evil.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
One nice thing about egotists: They don't talk about other people.-- Lucille S. Harper
"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion."-- Scott Adams
Robin: I wanna make sure you're serious about turning over a new leaf. I need a sign.
Poison Ivy: How about "Slippery When Wet"? (Batman & Robin)
Talk to your kids about sex. Tell them just how absolutely incredible it really is. (The Covert Comic)
"Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever."
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.-- George Wald
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.-- Marie Osmond
A good listener is usually thinking about something else.-- Kin Hubbard
Nobody's gonna believe that computers are intelligent until they start coming in late and lying about it.
'Be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give to people.-- Tom Masson
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.-- Lily Tomlin
Why do we feel it's necessary to yak about bullshit in order to become comfortable?-- Mia (Pulp Fiction)
Some people have a way about them that seems to say: 'If I have only one life to live, let me live it as a jerk.'
"I find imperfection the most interesting thing about a person"-- Jodi Foster
I don't know much about morality but I know what I shouldn't like.-- Tim Minchin
You can be a professional without being constipated about it.-- David Keyser
[Disk] quotas are evil; they discourage users from learning how their greed impacts others. We're not here to parent users, we just provide a model electronic ecosystem. If they deplete their resources, they become extinct. A very simple concept.-- Eric P. Scott
"Ahh, Mr. Scott, I understand you're having difficulty with the warp drive. How much time do you require for repair?"
"There's nothing wrong with the bloody thing!"
"Mr. Scott, if we return to Spacedock, the assassins will surely find a way to dispose of their incriminating footwear, and we will never see the captain, or Dr. McCoy, alive again"
"Could take weeks, sir"
"Thank you, Mr. Scott"-- Spock and Scotty (Star Trek VI)
"I've never had a humble opinion. If you've got an opinion, why be humble about it?"-- Joan Baez
"We have enough youth, how about a fountain of smart?"-- Bumper sticker
"If you do not think about the future, you cannot have one."-- John Galsworthy
Glamour is that indefinable something about a girl who has a large bosom.-- Andy Rothman
Almost everything alive is about some kind of balance. Heck, even a lot of things that are not alive are about balance. However, thinking a particular balance is the only balance is often a mistake.
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."-- Carl Jung
"The first thing to remember about Unix is that nothing is ever spelled correctly."-- Steve Lidie
From the 'Rules for women':
Women wearing Wonderbras and low-cut blouses lose their right to complain about being stared at.
"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."-- J. Bartlett Brebner
"Mobile phones are the only subject on which men boast about who's got the smallest."-- Neil Kinnock
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."-- Lucille Ball
Everyone has their first date... and the object is to hide your flaws. And then you're in a relationship and it's all about hiding your disappointment. Then once you're married it's about hiding your sins. (Dollhouse)
UNIX is a scrawny kid from New Jersey who became something of a local hero, but is now middle-aged with a beer gut. Mach tries to turn modern UNIX into RoboCop; POSIX is an attempt to make UNIX more attractive to corporate America with silicone implants and Tammy Fay Bakker's double-parked Maybelline truck.-- Eric P. Scott
What is inconceivable about the universe is that it is at all conceivable.-- Albert Einstein
Even if complaints about man-bashing in this film were 99% true, it still wouldn't make up for the years of portraying women as bimbos in movies.-- Geena Davis (about "Themla & Louise")
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.-- Andy Tanenbaum
"It's Hong Kong action. Anything you know about physics is just going to hold you back."-- Robin D. Laws
Don't seek happiness. Happiness is like an orgasm. If you think about it too much it goes away.-- Tim Minchin
Law of Cat Elongation:
A cat can make her body long enough to reach just about any counter top that has anything remotely interesting on it.
"It's not denial. I'm just selective about the reality I choose to accept."-- Calvin and Hobbes
"If you think about it, somewhere there's a Logrus master with Amelia Earhart, a whole squadron of P-51's, and a mile-high pile of socks and keys."
Don't you talk to me about progress. Progress just means bad things happen faster.-- Terry Pratchett
If at first you don't succeed, try, try, again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.-- W. C. Fields
So where are all the lust-crazed engineering groupies that my college recruiter talked about ?-- James Knowles
Linda Emery: A philosophy major? Now, what can you do with a philosophy major?
Bruce Lee: You can think deep thoughts about being unemployed. (Dragon)
It is always easy to see both sides of an issue we are not particularly concerned about.
It says a lot about the US when they ban lawn darts but you can still buy semi-automatic weapons in a department store.-- Brian Manz
Say what you like about me, but sometimes I wish that I were really rich and didn't have to work. And also handsome.-- Dave George
Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.-- Albert Einstein
The less people know about how sausages and laws are made, the better they'll sleep at night.-- Otto Von Bismarck
"I'm tired of all this nonsense about beauty being only skin-deep. That's deep enough. What do you want, an adorable pancreas?"-- Jean Kerr
I think that Vulcan is a geekocracy where the people who know the most about sci-fi get to rule.-- <br />
Keith Irwin
Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think only about today.
Charlie Brown: No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get better.-- Charles Schultz
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."-- Robert Graves
There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.-- Bjarne Stroustrup
Don't talk to me about the public not being able to stomach the abnormal, man -- most people get too used to lying to themselves about anything uncomfortable at so early an age that they themselves are not a reliable source.-- Susan Juroff
Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused, but on a higher level.-- Enrico Fermi
Why do people settle their minds? When they see or while they know that about 3 billion other people don't agree with them, why do they hardly consider a serious talk with one of them?
I was curious as to what Hinduism says about homosexuality. I am sure it must be addressed.
-- Devesh S. Khatu
Why do you say that "it must be addressed?" What has Hinduism to say about photon torpedoes?-- Ravi K. Prasanth
"Goldilocks is about property rights. Little Red Riding Hood is a tale of seduction, rape, murder, and cannibalism."-- Bernard J. Hibbits
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had my life to live again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.-- Tallulah Bankhead
Just about all real intellectual activity starts from the understanding that *there is a problem here*, especially in things we take for granted.-- Arnold Zwicky
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.-- George Bernard Shaw
"What came first, the music or the misery? People worry about kids playing with guns, or watching violent videos, that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands, literally thousands of songs about heartbreak, rejection, pain, misery and loss. Did I listen to pop music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to pop music?" (High Fidelity)
There's a common component of scientific thought which says that a) if you're not a convicted Scientist then you can't get involved in discussions about Science and b) Science is all about Progress and means that things will always get better if Scientists are in Control.-- Neil Lewis
History, n. An account, mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.-- Ambrose Bierce
I'm totally unfreaked about any kind of bodily function. My band are with it too; they'll carry my tampons round in their pockets if I don't have a bag-- Shirley Manson
"At age 20, we worry about what others think of us.
At 40, we don't care what they think of us.
At 60, we discover they haven't been thinking of us at all."-- Ann Landers
"Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."-- George W. Bush