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

Nowadays, originality is the art of concealing your source.

"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."

Behaviorism is the art of pulling habits out of rats.
-- O'Neill

Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock.

The BEST part of waking up? Hitting the snooze button and going back to sleep.

The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease.
-- Voltaire

It is a good thing to in your mind be able to seperate the artist from the art.

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

"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."
-- Anatole France

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.
-- Samuel Butler

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

What part of "AWW C'MON, PLEASE??" don't you understand?
(T-Shirt)

The best things in life aren't things.
-- Art Buchwald

If you're not part of the freaks, you're part of the boredom.
-- Perry Farrell

Monday is the root of all evil.

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

Pedestrian, n: The variable (and audible) part of the roadway for an automobile.

Destinesia: The act of entering a room and forgetting why.

"Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday."
-- Donald Robert Perry Marquis

I like being single. I'm always there when I need me.
-- Art Leo

"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."
-- Stewart Brand

Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.
-- Oscar Wilde

"I am not part of the problem; I am a Republican."
-- Dan Quayle

Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage.
-- H. L. Mencken

Join the army: meet interesting people, then kill them.

"One good turn gets most of the blankets"

Peace is not the absence of war. Peace is the presence of a system for resolving conflicts before war becomes necessary. War never creates peace.

The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.

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

"Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it."
-- Tori Amos

The cost of living is going up, and the chance of living is going down.

The best way to get rid of worries is to let them die of neglect.

9 out of 10 doctors will agree that 1 out of 10 doctors is an idiot.

Idle hands are the air guitar's playground
(Alas)

Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
-- Goethe

The right to search for the truth implies also a duty; one must not conceal any part of what one has recognized to be the truth.
-- Albert Einstein

Part of the difference of learning something by interest or necessity is how we file it, with what urgency, and how we think of it when we think of it again.

C, n.: A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.
-- Ray Simard

Logic is the beginning of wisdom; not the end.
-- Spock (Star Trek VI)

"We have art in order not to die of the truth."
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

People often find it easier to be a result of the past than a cause of the future.

The fewer clear facts you have in support of an opinion, the stronger your emotional attachment to that opinion.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.
-- Xenophon

Oh yeah? You wanna step out of the giant robot and say that again?

Only the good die young. Note the average age in Congress.

If the pen is mightier than the sword, what happens when you run out of ink?

Brandolini's law: The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it.

Cashtration, n.: The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.

Life is cheap. It's the accessories that kill you.

Being in a nudist colony probably takes all the fun out of Halloween.

"If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him."
-- John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Eat a live toad in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.

Brought to you by the people who made "out of context" a household word.

Most of us ask for advice when we know the answer but we want a different one.
-- Ivern Ball

Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.

"The degree of normality in a database is inversely proportional to that of its DBA"

Make the most of yourself, because that's all the self you are going to get, buster.

"Do not bend the spoon, instead realize the truth."
"The truth?"
"That the spoon effect will be added later by some sort of SGI workstation."

"SPOOOOOOON!"
-- The Tick

"The I.S.O. standard unit of female pulchritude is the milli-Helen. This is the amount of beauty capable of causing the launching of a single ship."
-- Terry Pratchett

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

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)

The secret of happiness is not getting what you want but wanting what you get.

"That for which we find words is something already dead in our hearts. There is always a kind of contempt in the act of speaking."
-- Nietzsche (The Twighlight of the Idols)

"Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society."
-- John Adams

Progress, n: The process through which the Internet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals.

I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent.

"Advertising reaches out to touch the fantasy part of people's lives. And you know, most people's fantasies are pretty sad."
-- Frederik Pohl

Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.

Can we have a new wall?
(graffiti at foot of graffiti-strewn wall)

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

Beware the fury of a patient woman.

"So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root of all money?"
-- Ayn Rand