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"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
Better blatant than latent.
-- Scott Safier
A GUI is to a command-line as a TV is to a book.
-- Scott Hess
If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon.
-- Scott Fahlman
"Grand ennui" sounds so much nicer than "annoyance."
-- Eric P. Scott
"Who ever walked behind anyone to freedom? If we can't go hand in hand, I don't want to go."
-- Hazel Scott
"Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person."
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald
I don't say we all ought to misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
-- Orson Welles
Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.
Headline: Arson Suspect is Held in Massachusetts Fire
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
"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
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
-- Jonathan Larson
Boycott shampoo. Demand real poo!
Dissent is the highest form of patriotism.
-- Thomas Jefferson
It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them.
-- Emerson
A child is a person who can't understand why someone would give away a perfectly good kitten.
-- Doug Larson
Fame is proof that people are gullible.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
[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
"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
Sometimes a scream is better than a thesis.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)
"One person can trigger a million thoughts."
"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
"We're not exploiting women. We're exploiting middle-aged men with credit cards."
(on porn)
Be the person you needed when you were younger.
Thinking is not a panacea, but to paraphrase Gandhi, maybe it would be a good idea to try some.
-- Jess Anderson
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
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
-- Thomas Jefferson
Secret, n: Something you tell to one person at a time.
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson