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The invisible hand of the free market seems to finds itself around a lot of throats.
"With increased knowledge comes an increased capacity for pain. So if ignorance is bliss, enlightenment must be pure hell."-- Darien Fawkes (The Invisible Man)
"They say necessity is the mother of invention. And when the necessity is survival, she can be one mean mother. Of course, it's her child, invention, who's the real dangerous one."-- Darien Fawkes (The Invisible Man)
"Greek mythology says that whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad. I'd never been sure whether 'mad' meant crazy or angry. Either way, the gods were working on me pretty good right now."-- Darien Fawkes (The Invisible Man)
For an instant I think I saw. I saw the loneliness of man as a gigantic wave which had been frozen in front of me, held back by the invisible wall of a metaphor.-- Carlos Casteneda
On-line, adj: The idea that a human being should always be accessible to a computer.
The intensity comes from meaning, not from extremes.
Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn't have to do it himself.-- A. H. Weiler
One can't proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
Those who speak by the yard and think by the inch should be kicked by the foot.
Education, then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great machinery.-- Horace Mann
An idea isn't responsible for the people who believe in it.-- Don Marquis
Guru, n: A computer owner who can read the manual.
Reasonable, adj: Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.-- Ambrose Bierce
Sodd's Second Law: Sooner or later, the worst possible set of circumstances is bound to occur.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.-- George Bernard Shaw
The greatest possible mint of style is to make the words absolutely disappear into the thought.-- Nathaniel Hawthorne
All New: The software is not compatible with any previous version.
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.-- Susan Sontag
The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.
There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of man, with the possible exception of the sword.-- Benjamin Dana
Sometimes I wish I had a knob to turn up the intelligence on the Internet. I have one on my monitor marked brightness, but it doesn't seem to work very well, does it?-- Bryan Manske
"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 hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.-- Albert Einstein
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society.
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
A truly wise man never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible simulation.
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.-- Mark Twain
The future exists first in the imagination, then in the will, then in reality.
'Impossible' tends to be an opinion rather than a fact.
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.
Elbonics, n: The actions of two people maneuvering for one armrest in a movie theater.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
Patageometry, n: The study of those mathematical properties that are invariant under brain transplants.
"We are at times too ready to believe that the present is the only possible state of things."-- Marcel Proust
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says; he is always convinced that it says what he means.-- George Bernard Shaw
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.-- James Branch Cabell
Television: the bland leading the bland.
Belief is that which explains that we cannot reason. Therefore it is almost impossible to change someone's belief.
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.
When ideas fail, words come in very handy.-- Goethe
The BeOS takes the best features from the major operating systems. It's got the power and flexibility of Unix, the interface and ease of use of the MacOS, and Minesweeper from Windows.-- Tyler Riti
It is possible to believe that all the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn. It is possible to believe that all the human mind has ever accomplished is but the dream before the awakening.-- H.G. Wells
Computers save man a lot of guesswork, but then, so do bikini's.
"The most merciful thing in the world...is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents."-- H.P. Lovecraft
Moral behavior is survival behavior above the individual level.-- Robert Heinlein
On the internet, no one knows you're a CHICKEN! A GIANT CHICKEN!-- Denis Moskowitz
Speer's 1st Law of Proofreading: The visibility of an error is inversely proportional to the number of times you have looked at it.
There are of course many problems connected with life, of which some of the most popular are `Why are people born?', `Why do they die?', `Why do they spend so much of the intervening time wearing digital watches?' (The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy)
"The bigger the information media, the less courage and freedom they allow. Bigness means weakness."-- Eric Sevareid
"Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished."-- Goethe
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.
"A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us."-- Franz Kafka
"If man could be crossed with the cat, it would improve man but deteriorate the cat."-- Mark Twain