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"Dreams are the answers to questions that we haven't yet figured out how to ask."
-- Fox Mulder (The X Files)
"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")
"The Schizophrenic: An Unauthorized Autobiography"
"Sometimes the need to mess with their heads outweighs the millstone of humiliation."
-- Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
"SPOOOOOOON!"
-- The Tick
"The first 80% of software development is the easy part. The hard part is the next 80%"
"The worst thing about censorship is [deleted by censorship bereau]."
"Our country was founded on a distrust of government. Our founding fathers gave power to the people to keep an eye on government. So when politicians say "Trust me" they're actually being very unamerican."
-- David Duchovny (X Files)
There are always alternatives.
-- Spock (Star Trek, "The Galileo Seven")
"Wipe Info uses hexadecimal values to wipe files. This provides more security than wiping with decimal values."
(Norton SystemWorks 2002 Manual)
"The more corrupt the republic, the more numerous the laws."
-- Cornelius Tacitus
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.
-- Goethe
"The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit."
-- Maugham
"The degree of normality in a database is inversely proportional to that of its DBA"
"The strongest man in the world is he who stands alone."
-- Henrik Ibsen
"The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience."
"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
"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."
Extreme feminine beauty is always disturbing.
-- Spock (Star Trek, "The Cloud Minders")
"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away."
-- Goethe
"Must... defy... laws... of... physics!"
-- The Tick
The voters have spoken, the bastards...
Television: the bland leading the bland.
"The way I play is a bit torturous but... it's the only way I know how to play."
-- Tori Amos
"The drug user drowns in the same pool mystics swim in."
-- Joseph Campbell
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."
-- Mark Twain
The bigger they are, the harder they hit.
"The world breaks everyone, and afterward, some are strong at the broken places."
-- Hemingway
"The only interesting answers are those which destroy the questions."
-- Susan Sontag
"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."
The Creation of the Universe was made possible by a grant from Texas Instruments.
(Credits, "The Creation of the Universe" (A PBS scientific documentary))
"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."
-- Mark Twain
In the beginning was the word, and the word was "aardvark".
"The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."
-- Peter De Vries
There is nothing more frightful than ignorance in action.
-- Goethe
Beauty lies in the hands of the beer holder.
"The more I watch television, the more I wonder why I'm not already supreme ruler of Earth."
-- Dogbert (Dilbert)
Unfortunately, there are like five people in the world who understand the X keyboard model--I'm not one of them--and three are insane. It's that bad.
-- Tim Showalter
"All the people stared as if we were both quite insane."
-- The Hollies
"The human mind treats a new idea the way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it."
-- P. B. Medawar
"The most merciful thing in the world...is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."
-- H.P. Lovecraft
"The computer world is like a great big toy store. But all the toys are broken."
-- Steve Witham
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
-- John Gilmore
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 shortest distance between two points is under construction."
-- Noelie Alito
"The poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese."
-- G. K. Chesterton
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 bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness."
-- Eric Sevareid
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump.
"The final delusion is the belief that one has lost all delusions."
-- Maurice Chapelain
"Remember the Golden Rule: Those who have the gold make the rules."
"The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies."
-- R. A. Pinker
Of all the truths in the world, humor is the most satisfying and often the healthiest.
"The country has charms only for those not obliged to stay there."
-- Edouard Manet
"The great tragedy of science, the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact."
-- Aldous Huxley
"Your uniform is very... informative."
-- The Doctor (to Seven of Nine)
Monday is the root of all evil.
A bird in the hand is the best way to eat chicken.
Half of the people in the world are below average.
Tourist, Rincewind decided, meant "idiot".
-- Terry Pratchett ("The Colour of Magic")
There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their REAL earnings to the IRS.
-- Bastard Operator From Hell
Silence is the door between Love and Fear; and on Fear's side there is no latch.
-- Diane Duane ("the Door into Fire")
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.
2, 3, 3, 37 - the prime factorization of the beast.
"The thing that I'm into is the philosophy of the music. I love the surprise of things, the accidents--just the sound of a word, to try to express them in the best way, so that the emotion is totally revealed."
-- Beth Gibbons
Ban the bomb. Save the world for conventional warfare.
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."
-- Goethe
No I in team but there's con in economy
-- The Stupendium
Notice in a hotel lobby in Bucharest:
"The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable."
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."
-- Robert Frost
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."
-- Ben Franklin
"The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad."
-- Friedrick Nietzsche
"The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."
-- George Bernard Shaw
And the pickles frolicked with the waffles, joyously.
The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears.
"The first thing to remember about Unix is that nothing is ever spelled correctly."
-- Steve Lidie
"The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do."
-- Walter Bagehot
"The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular."
-- Edward Gibbon
"The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks."
-- Douglas Adams (Dirk Gently)
"The stone age was marked by man's clever use of crude tools; the information age, to date, has been marked by man's crude use of clever tools."
"The world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those who feel."
-- Horace Walpole
"The biggest disease today isn't leprosy or tuberculosis, but the feeling of being unwanted."
-- Mother Theresa
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.
"The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it."
-- Doug Larson
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.
"The Prophets teach us patience."
-- Vedek Bareil
"It appears they also teach you politics."
-- Sisko (Star Trek: DS9)
"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
"The ultimate test of a relationship is to disagree but hold hands."
-- Alexander Penney
"The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn."
-- David Russell
"We all know god invented liquor to keep the Irish from ruling the world."
(The Ghost and The Darkness)
Beware the fury of a patient woman.
Ask not for whom the bell tolls, let the machine get it.
The more we disagree, the bigger the chance that at least one of us is right.
"Whoever ceases to be a student has never been a student."
-- George Iles
"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to be insane in such a useful way that they can't commit you."
-- Mark Edwards
"The secret of staying young is to live honestly, eat slowly, and lie about your age."
-- Lucille Ball
America is like a melting pot. The people at the bottom get burned, and the scum floats to the top.
The future exists first in the imagination, then in the will, then in reality.
The problem with reality is the lack of background music.
Q: Why did the tachyon cross the road?
A: Because it was on the other side.
After 16 years, MTV has finally completed its de-evolution into the shiny things network.
-- The Onion
"News" is just the stuff they use to fill up all the empty space they couldn't sell for advertising.
"The problem with post-modernism is that you like it more if you're innumerate or illiterate; both is best."
-- Graydon
The future ain't what it used to be.
Those who speak by the yard and think by the inch should be kicked by the foot.
I like the kind of people that can hold on to the the feeling they have after the song or movie ends.
Funny. All the wireless people seem to be the marionettes.
The light at the end of a tunnel may be an oncoming train.
Only the good die young. Note the average age in Congress.
Lecture, n: Where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.
Accuracy, n: The vice of being right.
Be alert. The world needs more lerts.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
I object to intellect without discipline; I object to power without constructive purpose.
-- Spock (Star Trek, "The Squire of Gothos")
"I'm not mad at the world... just at all the people in it."
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."
-- Robert R. Coveyou
"The chains of habit are too weak to be felt until they are too strong to be broken."
-- Samuel Johnson
"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
"The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment."
-- Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990)
Domestication is the enemy of romance.
The truth is not decided by democracy.
We accept the love we think we deserve
"The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his audience so that they will believe they are as clever as he."
-- Karl Kraus
Mad, adj: Affected with a high degree of intellectual independence.
-- Ambrose Bierce ("The Devil's Dictionary")
"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."
-- Oscar Wilde
There is no salvation in becoming adapted to a world which is crazy.
-- Henry Miller ("The Colossus of Maroussi", 1941)
The knowledge. It fills me. It is neat.
-- Evil GIR (Invader Zim)
"They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck."
Thinking: The talking of the soul with itself.
-- Plato
"The learned fool writes his nonsense in better language than the unlearned, but still 'tis nonsense."
-- Benjamin Franklin
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"The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority."
-- Stanley Milgram
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."
-- George Bernard Shaw
"The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved, loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves."
-- Victor Hugo
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground."
-- Thomas Jefferson
"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
-- Stanley Kubrick (in an interview with The Guardian, 5th June 1963)
"The remarkable thing about Shakespeare is that he really is very good, in spite of all the people who say he is very good."
-- Robert Graves
"One good turn gets most of the blankets"
Microsoft: Re-inventing the square wheel.
Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor.
Eat a live toad in the morning, and nothing worse will happen to you the rest of the day.
"If you speak the truth, have a foot in the stirrup."
(Turkish proverb)
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.
"The Hindenburg crash had 62 survivors and 35 fatalities. Of the 35 deaths, 27 resulting from jumping from the airship. Many of the remaining 8 deaths resulted from burns and injuries due to the ensuing diesel fuel fire."
-- Dan Egnor
The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
-- Steven Wright
"Geologists know how to make the bedrock."
Cloning is the sincerest form of flattery.
A man said to the universe, "Sir, I exist."
"However," replied the universe, "the fact has not created in me a sense of obligation."
-- Stephan Crane ("War is Kind," 1899)
"The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action."
-- Frank Herbert
"Even the AI hated [my book]?"
"The AI loved it. That's when we knew for sure that people were going to hate it."
-- Dan Simmons (Hyperion)
"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
Is not that the nature of men and women--that the pleasure is in the learning of each other?
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 problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise and thinking that having problems is a problem."
-- Theodore Rubin
Sarchasm (n): The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.
Love is like an hourglass, with the heart filling up as the brain empties.
-- Jules Renord
Just because you're not paranoid, doesn't mean they're not out to get you.
-- The Register
The writer is the engineer of the human soul.
-- Joseph Stalin
Idle hands are the air guitar's playground
(Alas)
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.
The reward for a job well done is more work.
we make happen the stuff we fear will happen
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