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"Never look at the trombones. You'll only encourage them."
-- Robert Strauss (on conducting)

Subduction leads to orogeny!

An unrestricted satisfaction of every need presents itself as the most enticing method of conducting one's life, but it means putting enjoyment before caution, and soon brings its own punishment.
-- Sigmund Freud

Fanfiction is just fixing things in post-post-production

War on common sense - I think we actually won that one...

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

Baby-sitter, n: A teenager acting like an adult, while the adults are out acting like teenagers.

"Doesn't anyone remember one of the biggest problems the Super Conducting Super Collider project ran into during construction in Texas? It wasn't politics... It was the Mecca of fire ants in all the extremely high-voltage conduits, junctions, transformers, and other high-strength field areas. The ants would eat the insulating compounds off and sit there basking in the emf high they apparently got. Occasionally, an ant would offer itself as sacrifice, prompting some Damn Big Breakers to blow..." -- RISKS

"The essence of intelligence is skill in extracting meaning from everyday experience."

"Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd."
-- Voltaire

'We don't like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.'
-- Decca Recording Co. rejecting the Beatles, 1962

Facts are stupid things.
-- Ronald Reagan (1988 Republican Convention)

"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education."
-- Paul Karl Feyerabend

The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking, 'Is there a meaning to music?' My answer would be, 'Yes.' And 'Can you state in so many words what the meaning is? My answer to that would be, 'No.'
-- Aaron Copland

Bullshit, in contrast to mere nonsense, is something that implies, but does not contain, adequate meaning or truth.

Organic chemistry is the chemistry of carbon compounds.
Biochemistry is the study of carbon compounds that crawl.

-- Mike Adams

No one may kill a man. Not for any purpose. It cannot be condoned.
-- Kirk (Star Trek, "Spock's Brain")

Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.
-- Kehlog Albran (The Profit)

Study the past, if you would divine the future.
-- Confucius

The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us... I'm glad the American Civil Liberties Union gets indignant, and I hope this will always be so.
-- Adlai Stevenson

A mathematician is a machine for converting coffee into theorems.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
-- Confucius

I plead contemporary insanity.

"It's been reported that John Bobbitt's porno movie grossed over 10 million. I'm not sure whether that's dollars or people."
-- Conan O'Brien

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
-- Confucius

Expecting something for nothing is the most popular form of hope.
-- Arnold Glasgow

"Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain -- and most fools do."
-- Dale Carnegie