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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.
-- G. M. Trevelyan

Antidotes are what you take to prevent dotes.

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

We cherish our friends not for their ability to amuse us, but for ours to amuse them.
-- Evelyn Waugh

You can only be young once, but you can be immature forever.

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.
-- Eleanor Roosevelt

For practical purposes we have agreed that sanity consists in sharing the hallucinations of our neighbors.
-- Evelyn Underhill

Modern times are an awkward spectacle. On the one hand, our public selves compete for scarce window space, for the opportunity to see in and to where power is decided and used. On the other, private life recedes like a glacier, a translucent corner of heaven meant only to be photographed, never settled.
-- Revel

Never moon a werewolf.

If there is no such thing as justice then the best we can hope for is revenge

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level then beat you with experience.

Arithmetic: An obscure art no longer practiced in the world's developed countries.

I revel some but not nearly enough to get up on stage. In fact, the amount of drunken revelry required to get me on stage in a karaoke bar would probably also send me into a coma.
-- Joe Lavin

Be good to your friends, or they may develop psychokinetic powers and destroy Tokyo.

Piety, n: Reverence for the Supreme Being, based on His supposed resemblance to man.

"The first 80% of software development is the easy part. The hard part is the next 80%"

Write a wise saying, and your name will live forever.
-- Anonymous

Even snakes are afraid of snakes.
-- Steven Wright

"Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go."
-- Oscar Wilde

"Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever."

"Has anyone ever told you you have a SERIOUS impulse control problem?"
-- Riddler (Batman Forever)

Never try to lick a glacier.

Statistics are like a bikini. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital.
-- Aaron Levenstein

Ah, twitter, where people will be deeply outraged for one to six hours, before forgetting forever.

Today was a really, really great day, on the "aaagh fuck me!" scale.
-- Steve VanDevender

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.
-- James Dean

Never only doubt or only believe your doubts.

Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.
-- Susan Sontag

Every silver lining has a cloud.

"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
-- Theodore Roosevelt

You can't have everything. Where would you put it?
-- Steven Wright

"Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them."
-- Albert Einstein

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.
-- Oscar Wilde

Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window.
-- Steve Wozniak

All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
-- Steven Wright

Everyone is entitled to my opinion.

Whenever you fall, pick someone up.

I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.
-- Lily Tomlin

Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.

There aren't enough days in the weekend.
-- Steven Wright

Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.
-- Robert Heinlein

If god dropped acid, would he see people?
-- Steven Wright

The revolution will NOT be televised.

"Dogs believe they are human. Cats believe they are God."

If common sense was so common then everyone would have it.
-- Steve Giammarco

99 percent of lawyers give the rest a bad name.
-- Steven Wright

Shin: a device for finding furniture in the dark.
-- Steven Wright

His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.
-- Woody Allen

Thy sky is falling...no, I'm tipping over backwards.
-- Steven Wright

"The first thing to remember about Unix is that nothing is ever spelled correctly."
-- Steve Lidie

Men forget, but never forgive. Women forgive, but never forget.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
-- Steven Wright

When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb.
-- Steve Haflich (alt.lang.design)

There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
-- Flannery O'Connor

It's been lovely, but I have to scream now.

Doubt your beliefs and believe your doubts.

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

I didn't go to university. Didn't even finish A-levels. But I have sympathy for those who did.
-- Terry Pratchett (alt.fan.pratchett)

There are things so deeply personal that they can be revealed only to strangers.
-- Richard Rodriguez

It's a small world, but I wouldn't want to have to paint it.
-- Steven Wright

Support bacteria - they're the only culture some people have.
-- Steven Wright

Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at least it's the scenic route.
-- Steven Wright

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

A thief believes everybody steals.
-- E.W. Howe

It's never too late to have a happy childhood.

A conscience is what hurts when all your other parts feel so good.
-- Steven Wright

The world that we have made as a result of the level of thinking that we have done so far, has created problems we cannot solve at the level of thinking at which we created them.
-- Albert Einstein

If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.
-- Steven Wright

The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
-- Steven Wright

If you tell a joke in the forest, but nobody laughs, was it a joke?
-- Steven Wright

You'll go to Heck if you don't believe in Gosh.

You're never too old to learn something stupid.

No matter what temperature the room is, it's always room temperature.
-- Steven Wright

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

Power doesn't always corrupt. Power always reveals. When you have enough power to do what you always wanted to do, then you see what the guy always wanted to do.

"There's nothing like desire to prevent the things one says from having any resemblance to the things in one's mind."
-- Marcel Proust

A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.

"The computer world is like a great big toy store. But all the toys are broken."
-- Steve Witham

"Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see."
-- Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency)

There was never a saint with red hair.
(Russian proverb)

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

Don't publicly appear clever. It is a real nuisance.

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

You can tell how far we have to go when FORTRAN is the language of supercomputers.
-- Steven Feiner

A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.

Children need encouragement. So if a kid gets an answer right tell him it was a lucky guess. That way he develops a good, lucky feeling.
-- Jack Handey

"To stimulate creativity, one must develop the childlike inclination for play and the childlike desire for recognition."
-- Albert Einstein

"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."
-- George Santayana

"The proverb warns that 'You should not bite the hand that feeds you.' But maybe you should if it prevents you from feeding yourself."
-- Thomas Szasz

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

Never send a monster to do the work of an evil genius.

Never underestimate the falseness of a generalisation.

Remember that you are unique, just like everyone else.

People are always so boring when they band together. You have to be alone to develop all the idiosyncrasies that make a person interesting.
-- Andy Warhol

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)

You think Oedipus had a problem--Adam was Eve's mother.

"Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations."
-- Machiavelli

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Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.