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Lecture, n: Where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.
If the mind were exercised as much as the mouth, we would be a race of geniuses.
"Don't apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem."
QUOTE OF THE DAY: `
Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.
Law of diminishing IQ:
The IQ of the group is the lowest IQ of a member of the group divided by the number of people in the group.
"One good turn gets most of the blankets"
Half of the people in the world are below average.
2, 3, 3, 37 - the prime factorization of the beast.
The business of the mind is first and foremost the pure joy of knowing and comprehending, the pure joy of consciousness.-- Anais Nin
People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.
After a time, you may find that "having" is not so pleasing a thing, after all, as "wanting." It is not logical, but it is often true.-- Spock (Star Trek, "Amok Time")
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.-- Plato
"Martyrdom has always been a proof of the intensity, never of the correctness of a belief."-- Arthur Schnitzler
The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
"You're not exactly catching us at our best" -- Kirk
"That much is certain" -- Spock (Star Trek IV)
Spagmumps, n: Any of the millions of Styrofoam wads that accompany mail-order items.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
Eat a live toad in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
The right half of the brain controls the left half of the body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.
If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.-- Perry Farrell
Oh yeah? You wanna step out of the giant robot and say that again?
"Without freedom from the past, there is no freedom at all, because the mind is never new, fresh, innocent."
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.-- Steven Wright
'You are not in my shoes.' -- Worf
'Too bad. You'd be amazed at what I can do in a pair of size 18's.' -- Dax (Star Trek: DS9)
Pedestrian, n: The variable (and audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.
He was just... well, like a lot of madmen. Somewhat accurate view of the problem, really insane view of the solution. (Kid Radd)
"How many fingers am I holding up?" -- Kirk, making the Vulcan salute
"That's not very damn funny."-- McCoy (Star Trek III)
Government of the people
By a corrupt subset of the people
For the people who can afford the corrupt subset of the people.
-- Chris Newport
How do you know if honesty is the best policy unless you've tried some of the others?
Manners are one of the truly lost causes.-- John Simon
X.400 is the mail system of the future, and I hope it stays that way.-- Erik Fair
I do not like the man: he has all of the virtues I detest and none of the vices I admire.-- Winston Churchill
Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.-- Oscar Wilde
TCP_UP - The 16-bit TCP Urgent Pointer, encoded as the hex representation of the value of the field. The hex string MUST be capitalized since it is urgent. (RFC 3093)
"The Prophets teach us patience."
-- Vedek Bareil
"It appears they also teach you politics."-- Sisko (Star Trek: DS9)
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought"-- Basho
"The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."-- Mark Twain
Most children grow up to be adults in spite of their parents, not because of them.
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
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time.-- E. B. White
"Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative."-- Oscar Wilde
"Simple pleasures are the last refuge of the complex."-- Oscar Wilde
"I am not part of the problem; I am a Republican."-- Dan Quayle
God must love assholes--she made so many of them.
I once talked a guy out of blowing up the Sears tower, but I can't talk my wife out of the bathroom or my daughter off the phone. (The Negotiator)
"You ever hear of the Spartans, Lewis? Ancient Greece...traditional enemies of the Athenians? They were a warrior society. I'll try to make it simple for you...they were Klingon." (The Rhipodon Society)
The Pet Principle:
No matter which side of the door your dog or cat is on, it is the wrong side.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.-- Susan Sontag
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."-- Stewart Brand
Stand and fight, you misbegotten spawn of the perverse breeding between a pixie and a squirrel!
"Man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road."-- Alexander Smith
"I'm the Queen of the nerds. I love nerds- by which I mean, not a cool, bitchin' person. I guess I was a cool nerd. I wasn't shuffling my feet in the corner of the playground, I was the homecoming queen, but then, all the nerds voted for me."-- Tori Amos
Choconiverous, adj: Biting off the head of the chocolate Easter bunny first.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
Q: Why did the germ cross the microscope?
A: To get to the other slide.
There is much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.-- Oscar Wilde
Gina: "Isn't it customary for the suspect to leave the scene of the crime?"
Debra: "Definitely an amateur" (Empire Records)
"The most merciful thing in the world...is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."-- H.P. Lovecraft
Odo: That's a very personal question.
Jadzia Dax: I'm sorry, but after seven lifetimes, impersonal questions aren't much fun anymore. (Star Trek: DS9 (Shadowplay))
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.-- John Stuart Mill
"I wanted to make a little spot in the context of the record where there was this break in the action. In the midst of this buildup of these ever-growing, terrible machines, I just wanted to remember that there is somewhere... else."-- Trent Reznor
Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.-- Augustine
Karate is a form of martial arts in which people who have trained for years and years can, using only their hands and feet, make some of the worst movies in the history of the world.
"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."-- George Bernard Shaw