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"We're not exploiting women. We're exploiting middle-aged men with credit cards."
(on porn)

Whoever said women don't like porn just isn't talking to the right women. Or showing them the right porn.

Fanfiction is just fixing things in post-post-production

"I became insane, with long instances of horrible sanity."
-- Edgar Allen Poe

"I want a chocolate bar infused with nicotine that's got a creamy coffee center... And wrap it in porn."
(TheWax.com)

The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
-- Gloria Leonard

I have great faith in fools; self-confidence my friends call it.
-- Edgar Allan Poe

"Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night."
-- Edgar Allen Poe

Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity.
-- Paul Biron

"In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence."
-- Laurence Johnston Peter

"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little."
-- Porterfield

I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.

Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?
-- Paul Simon

Pokemon (n), a Rastafarian proctologist.

To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.

Life is too short not to be horny on main

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
-- Oscar Wilde

At Group L, Stoffel oversees six first-rate programmers, a managerial challenge roughly comparable to herding cats.
(The Washington Post Magazine, June 9, 1985)

I've tried relaxing, but--I don't know--I feel more comfortable tense.
-- Caption for Hamilton cartoon

"It's been reported that John Bobbitt's porno movie grossed over 10 million. I'm not sure whether that's dollars or people."
-- Conan O'Brien

"Good food, good meat, good god - let's eat!"
-- Prayer by Homer Simpson

Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
-- Indian proverb

VB is very useful for allowing non programmers to prove they cant program.
-- Druck

A troll is someone who, finding that no-one likes them, decides to pretend that it's on purpose.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
-- Xenophon

Rhetorical subtlety doesn't work on people with the perceptive powers of an eggplant.
-- Spencer Sun

"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."

The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.

Never moon a werewolf.

War on common sense - I think we actually won that one...

On a toilet door: "Q2P"

"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
-- G. K. Chesterton

The guns and the bombs, the rockets and the warships, are all symbols of human failure.
-- Lyndon B Johnson

All colors agree in the dark.
-- Francis Bacon

Manners are one of the truly lost causes.
-- John Simon

Cornflakes are not the innocent critters they seem!
-- Sterling Morrison

"One person can trigger a million thoughts."

There is a superstition in avoiding superstition.
-- Francis Bacon

In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.
-- Charles De Gaulle

"Solutions are not the answer."
-- Richard Nixon

"A cult is a religion with no political power."
-- Tom Wolfe

The definition of a beautiful woman is one who loves me.
-- Sloan Wilson

What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?
-- Marilyn Pittman

Eloquence is logic on fire.

Dead men tell no tales, but then, neither do mimes.
-- Wade Kwon

"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
-- Edward Gibbon

"My dream job? You mean, besides marrying a millionaire and writing porno scripts for laughs? I dunno, maybe be the madam of a brothel? Could be a lot of fun."
-- Amanda Firefox

Ignorance is the Mother of Devotion.
-- Robert Burton

Motrin and espresso. The breakfast of champions.
-- Sweet Poly

Bathquake, n: The violent quake that rattles the entire house when the water faucet is turned on to a certain point.
-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")

It's summer and some people head for the woods.
Canoe wild streams to show they've got the goods,
Hiking and biking and running outdoors;
I think I'll just go out and lie on my porch.

Give me two pillows and a bottle of Pabst.
I once was a traveller, but my interest lapsed;
I went thousands of miles, natives to see
They were sitting on porches, laughing at me.

-- Garrison Keillor

Among economists, the real world is often a special case.
-- Horngren

Subduction leads to orogeny!

"You can only fuck your way to the middle."
-- Sharon Stone

To my opinion, most modern poetry is written because people do not want to stand up and fight for what they are writing about.

"The problem with post-modernism is that you like it more if you're innumerate or illiterate; both is best."
-- Graydon

If I can make just one person laugh, then it must've been a pretty good eulogy.
-- Wade Kwon

Nothing will ever be attempted if all possible objections must be first overcome.
-- Samuel Johnson

I plead contemporary insanity.

For every credibility gap, there is a gullibility fill.
-- R. Clopton

"Conviction is a luxury for those on the sidelines."

Coincidences are spiritual puns.
-- G. K. Chesterton

Success is simply a matter of luck. Ask any failure.
-- Earl Wilson

The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.
-- Plato

Nothing true is popular, and nothing popular is true.

"Alcohol is the cause and the solution to many of life's problems."
-- Homer Simpson

"I was not lying. I said things that later on seemed to be untrue."
-- Richard Nixon

"What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"
-- Richard Nixon

"[The] human mind was like a compass. No matter how much you shook it up, no matter what happened to it, sooner or later it'd carry on pointing the same way."
-- Terry Pratchett (Johnny and the Dead)

"All Bibles are man-made."
-- Thomas Alva Edison

'It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.'
-- Jackie Mason

Back of tranquility lies conquered unhappiness.
-- David Grayson

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
-- Jonathan Larson

There is no snooze button on a cat who wants breakfast.

"We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection."
-- Sidney Poitier

On an American Airlines package of nuts: Instructions: Open package, eat nuts.

Life is just a chance to grow a soul.
-- A. Powell Davies

A BBC correspondent, reporting on plans to build a McDonalds amidst ancient Roman ruins: 'To really get into the spirit of Pompeii, the restaurant would have to be buried in volcanic ash. And if you ask me, that's not a bad idea.'

"Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy."
-- Richard M. Nixon

Boycott shampoo. Demand real poo!

BASIC, n.:
A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.

After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its de-evolution into the shiny things network.
-- The Onion

"This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read."
-- Winston Churchill

I have a 3 year old. He'll have filtering software on his machine until he's at least thirteen or until he figures out how to disable it. If he's savvy enough to outgeek his dad who's been geeking for over 20 years more than him, then he deserves his porn.
-- Alex Johns

'Be yourself' is about the worst advice you can give to people.
-- Tom Masson

An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.
-- Don Marquis

"Knowledge is power. Power corrupts. Become a Librarian."

Talk is cheap because supply exceeds demand.
-- Laura Creighton

Terror: A female Klingon with PMS.

The two most common elements in the Universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
-- Harlan Ellison

Absence of proof is not proof of absence.
-- Michael Crichton

"Don't apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem."

Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
-- Thomas Jefferson

The sooner you start to code, the longer the program will take.
-- Roy Carlson

Lottery: A tax on people who don't understand statistics. (As it is statistically much more likely to get struck by lightning than win the lottery)

"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
-- Thomas A. Edison

"We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away."
-- Chuang Tzu

"Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month."
-- Wernher von Braun

All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.

There's a nut loose on your keyboard.

The revolution will NOT be televised.

This must be morning. I never could get the hang of mornings.

The first casualty when war comes is truth.
-- Hiram Johnson (U.S. Senate, 1917)

Friendship is Love without its wings. (l'Amiti� est l'amour sans ailes.)
-- Lord Byron

A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
-- Doug Larson

"Improvised be damned! I thought of it this morning in my bath and I wish now I hadn't wasted it on this little crowd."
-- Winston Churchill

Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Usenet is nothing like Shakespeare.
-- Blair Houghton

Happiness is as a butterfly which, when pursued is always beyond our grasp, but which if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
-- William J. Clinton

It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
-- Emerson

I'm sick of tattoos, sick of piercings, sick of temporary tattoos. They are the white stilettos of the '90s.
-- Shirley Manson

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
-- John Cleese

I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
-- Dave Edison

Domestication is the enemy of romance.

Procrastination will rule one day, OK?

"If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas."
-- Harold Abelson

Fame is proof that people are gullible.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
-- Adlai Stevenson

Censorship reflects society's lack of confidence in itself.
-- Potter Stewart

Q: How do you keep a moron in suspense?

A little knowledge may be a dangerous thing, but a little carnal knowledge rules.
-- Wade Kwon

The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne

"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)

"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"If we'd stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time."
-- Edith Wharton

People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a confession of character.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

We ignore truths for temporary happiness

"Pretty is something you're born with. But beautiful, that's an equal opportunity adjective."

"Public opinion sets bounds to every government, and is the real sovereign in every free one."
-- James Madison

Wreckless Driving -- You'd think that would be a good thing.
-- Chris Sampson

It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it.
-- Gilbert K. Chesterton

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
-- Robertson Davies

I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
-- Orson Welles

"Most bad government has grown out of too much government."
-- Thomas Jefferson

Beware by whom you are called sane.
-- Walter Inglis Anderson

If stupidity was a crime, honey, you'd get a life sentence.
-- Chris Stephenson

"There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If you think nobody cares if you're alive, try missing a couple of car payments.
-- Earl Wilson

Libert�, �galit�, anxi�t�
(someone on tumblr)

"Art, like morality, consists of drawing the line somewhere."
-- G. K. Chesterton

"Reminds me of a humorous sf story I read a few years back where an amoeboid alien escaped punishment this way (it was guilty of selling pornographic pictures to earthly biologists who used them to illustrate mitosis in their textbooks). Both the resulting individuals claimed innocence, and pointed out that they were underage."

In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
-- J. von Neumann

"What makes resisting temptation difficult, for many people, is that they don't want to discourage it completely."
-- Franklin P. Jones

The only rose without thorns is friendship.

Women's virtue is man's greatest invention.
-- Cornelia Otis Skinner

Organized Religion is like Organized Crime; it preys on peoples' weakness, generates huge profits for its operators, and is almost impossible to eradicate.
-- Mike Hermann

"The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws."
-- Cornelius Tacitus

Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
-- Doug Larson

"Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"All dogmas perish the thinking mind, especially ones you agree with."
-- Adam Richardson

'If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.'
-- Terry Pratchett (concerning popcorn, Moving Pictures)

"Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out."
-- Anton Chekhov

In America, anybody can be president. That's one of the risks you take.
-- Adlai Stevenson

What is the nature of God? His nature is entirely dependent upon the age or culture that has reinvented him.
-- Solomon Skink

Serving drinks on aircraft causes turbulence.

Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing.
-- Dick Brandon

"Success in almost any field depends more on energy and drive than it does on intelligence. This explains why we have so many stupid leaders."
-- Sloan Wilson

It swims through a sublogical fantasy world where there are no rules that can't be violated by the set designer, where everybody is really thin and beautiful and wears really cool clothes, and where death is everywhere.
-- Stephen Hunter (The Washington Post, review of 'The Cell')

There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of man, with the possible exception of the sword.
-- Benjamin Dana

"Make lots of money", "enjoy the work", "operate within the law": choose 2
-- Brian Anderson

Man is the best computer we can put aboard a spacecraft ... and the only one that can be mass produced with unskilled labor.
-- Wernher von Braun

In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.
-- Groucho Marx