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"I love Saturday morning cartoons, what classic humour! This is what entertainment is all about... Idiots, explosives and falling anvils."
-- Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes)

I think true happiness can only be found in the wanton indulgence of animals.
-- Hobbes (Calvin & Hobbes (Bill Watterson))

Rehab is for quitters.

"Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity."
-- Alan Watts

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

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

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

Artificial Intelligence: the art of making computers that behave like the ones in movies.
-- Bill Bulko

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

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

What lies behind us and what lies before us are small matter compared to what lies within us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.

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

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

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

"One person can trigger a million thoughts."

If you sat a monkey down in front of a keyboard, the first thing typed would be a UNIX command.
-- Bill Lye

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

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

All that glitters has a high refractive index.

Be the person you needed when you were younger.

"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world."

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
-- Bill Gates

Our families have values, but our government doesn't.
-- Bill Clinton (Democratic National Convention, 1992)

"Those who would sacrifice a little freedom for a little order, will lose both, and deserve neither."
-- Thomas Jefferson

In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
-- Oscar Wilde

Thinking is not a panacea, but to paraphrase Gandhi, maybe it would be a good idea to try some.
-- Jess Anderson

Recession: your friend loses his job. Depression: you lose your job. Recovery: Bush loses his job.
-- Bill Davidsen

"Not a Morning Person" doesn't even begin to cover it.

Secret, n: Something you tell to one person at a time.

"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
-- Thomas Jefferson

The weirder you are, the better you have to be if you still want to get paid.
-- Ben Aveling

And it came to pass that in the hands of the ignorant, the words of the Bible were used to beat plowshares into swords.
-- Alan Watts

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

I told [my doctor] that I thought having an orgasm a day instead of hormone replacement therapy was more fun.
-- Cybill Shepard

I'm an apatheist. The question is no longer interesting, and the answer no longer matters.
-- petro (a.s.r)

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
-- Thomas Jefferson

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

Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck."

"Truth, in matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived."
-- Oscar Wilde

"In matters of conscience, the law of majority has no place."
-- Mahatma Gandhi

"When the people fear their government there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty."
-- Thomas Jefferson

A psychiatrist is a person who will give you expensive answers that your wife will give you for free.

Sometimes you have to bite people hard on the lip before they realize you're not kissing them, so keenly do they yearn for approval.
-- Jess Anderson

The obvious mathematical breakthrough [to break modern encryption] would be development of an easy way to factor large prime numbers.
-- Bill Gates (The Road Ahead)

"We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person, perfectly."

There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence.

-- Jeremy S. Anderson

All warfare is based on deception.
-- Sun Tzu (The Art of War)