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"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."-- Robert Anthony
"One thing you who had secure or happy childhoods should understand about those of us who did not. We who control our feelings, who avoid conflicts at all costs, or seem to seek them. Who are hypersensitive, self-critical, compulsive, workaholic, and above all survivors. We are not that way from perversity, and we cannot just relax and let it go. We've learned to cope in ways you never had to."-- Piers Anthony
"Loved by some, accepted by others and misunderstood by most."
Be good to your friends, or they may develop psychokinetic powers and destroy Tokyo.
Your powers are useless, I'm wearing tin foil underwear!
"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets."-- Voltaire
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.-- John Simon
"Not all moderators and FAQ-compilers eventually become power-mad and insane. Some of them started out that way."
"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
"Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever."
Nobody's gonna believe that computers are intelligent until they start coming in late and lying about it.
"We tend to idealize tolerance, then wonder why we find ourselves infested with losers and nut cases."-- Patrick Nielsen Hayden