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"Sometimes the need to mess with their heads outweighs the millstone of humiliation."-- Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
"Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask."-- Fox Mulder (The X Files)
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.-- Goethe
"You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends.'"-- Scully ("The X Files")
"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."-- Goethe
The voters have spoken, the bastards...
"Must... defy... laws... of... physics!"-- The Tick
Television: the bland leading the bland.
The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
In the beginning was the word, and the word was "aardvark".
Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.-- Goethe
"All the people stared as if we were both quite insane."-- The Hollies
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.-- Goethe
The day after tomorrow is the third day of the rest of your life.
The law should make men free. The problem is making the law free.
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
Monday is the root of all evil.
"Remember the Golden Rule: Those who have the gold make the rules."
Of all the truths in the world, humor is the most satisfying and often the healthiest.
A bird in the hand is the best way to eat chicken.
Half of the people in the world are below average.
"The first 80% of software development is the easy part. The hard part is the next 80%"
2, 3, 3, 37 - the prime factorization of the beast.
Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.
And the pickles frolicked with the waffles, joyously.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."-- Goethe
"Life is like a box of chocolates. Cheap, thoughtless, perfunctory gift that nobody ever asks for. Unreturnable because all you get back is another box of chocolates, so you're stuck with this indefinable whipped mint crap that you mindlessly wolf down when there's nothing else left to eat. Sure, once in a while there's a peanut butter cup, English toffee, but they're gone too fast and the taste is fleeting. They end up nothing but broken bits filled with hardened jelly and teeth shattering nuts. If you're desperate enough to eat those, all you've got left is an empty box filled with useless brown paper wrappers."-- Cancerman (The X-Files)
The standard you walk past is the standard you accept.
Q: Why did the germ cross the microscope?
A: To get to the other slide.
Beware the fury of a patient woman.
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.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, let the machine get it.
The future ain't what it used to be.
The more we disagree, the bigger the chance that at least one of us is right.
The problem with reality is the lack of background music.
"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student."-- George Iles
The future exists first in the imagination, then in the will, then in reality.
America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.
Q: Why did the tachyon cross the road?
A: Because it was on the other side.
Accuracy, n: The vice of being right.
Be alert. The world needs more lerts.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
Funny. All the wireless people seem to be the marionettes.
Only the good die young. Note the average age in Congress.
The light at the end of a tunnel may be an oncoming train.
Those who speak by the yard and think by the inch should be kicked by the foot.
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its de-evolution into the shiny things network.-- The Onion
I like the kind of people that can hold on to the the feeling they have after the song or movie ends.
"I'm not mad at the world... just at all the people in it."
Domestication is the enemy of romance.
The truth is not decided by democracy.
We accept the love we think we deserve
Lecture, n: Where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.
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Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.-- Plato
"One good turn gets most of the blankets"
Microsoft: Re-inventing the square wheel.
Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
"Geologists know how to make the bedrock."
Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.
Eat a live toad in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
"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
A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Aftermath, n: The period following algebra.
He who laughs last found the dirty meaning.
I get my kicks above the .sigline, Sunshine
The chance of a lifetime is to be yourself.
The only rose without thorns is friendship.
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.-- Steven Wright
Idle hands are the air guitar's playground (Alas)
Is not that the nature of men and women--that the pleasure is in the learning of each other?
The reward for a job well done is more work.
we make happen the stuff we fear will happen
Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
I'd love to change the world, but they won't give me the source code.
Renning's Maxim: Man is the highest animal. Man does the classifying.
Just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.-- The Register
Know thyself. If you need help, call the C.I.A.
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
Proof by omission: The reader may easily supply the details. The other 253 cases are analogous.
In the fight between you and the world, back the world.-- Franz Kafka