'If you take a dog which is starving and feed him and make him prosperous, that dog will not bite you. This is the primary difference between a dog and a man.' - Mark Twain 'Mass repositories of web sites going away without any backups is like the libraries of Carthage burning' -- User Motoki on a blog regarding Geocities Closing 'It's like a million under construction gifs cried out and were suddenly silenced...' -- User Yesquite in a comment on a blog about Geocities shutting down 'Politics is the art of the possible' -- Otto Van Bismark 'I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.' - Maya Angelou 'There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.' -- Socrates 'One man's sunset is another man's dawn' == An American Tail, Fievel Goes West 'I'm so far over the hill, I'm on the bottom of the other side.' -- An American Tail, Fievel Goes West 'If growing up were easy it wouldn't take so long' -- An American Tail, Fievel Goes West 'Be a Teacher' -- Thomas Moore 'Life isn't measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.' 'Being the owner of dachshunds, to me a book on dog discipline becomes a volume of inspired humor. Every sentence is a riot. Some day, if I ever get a chance, I shall write a book, or warning, on the character and temperament of the dachshund and why he can't be trained and shouldn't be. I would rather train a striped zebra to balance an Indian club than induce a dachshund to heed my slightest command. When I address Fred I never have to raise either my voice or my hopes. He even disobeys me when I instruct him in something he wants to do.' -- E.B. White 'Everything is in flux and nothing stays the same.' -- Heraclitus 'Follow your bliss' -- Joseph Campbell 'Obviously God wants me to drink; otherwise, he wouldn't have made me so damn bitter' -- Kristen Sims 'Philosophical quandry of the day: how can one justify being a fiscally conservative capitalist? isnt that an oxymoron?' -- James Shewmake 'Dum spi ro, spero -- (As long as I breathe, I hope)' 'There is an art to flying, or rather a knack. Its knack lies in learning to throw yourself at the ground and miss. Clearly, it is this second part, the missing, that provides the difficulties.' -- The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy 'It's easy to romanticize the past when looking at old photographs. We only take photographs of the pleasant things that we want to remember.' -- Nick Wilson 'An alderman is halfway between a politician and a pirate.' -- F. Scott Fitzgerald 'Personally, I liked the university. They gave us money and facilities, we didn't have to produce anything! ... I've worked in the private sector. They expect results.' ~ Dr. Ray Stantz, Ghostbusters 'When I get a little money I buy books; and if any is left, I buy food and clothes.' -- Erasmus 'The wisdom of the world is on the bookshelf, read by few, understood by few who read, and acted on by few who read and understand' -- Dr. Robert E. Wolverton 'I think everybody should like everybody.' -- Andy Warhol 'Where they have burned books, they will end in burning human beings.' -- Heinrich Heine, Almansor 'We're an institution of higher education. We don't monitor what the students do. We let them learn life lessons like getting sued my media conglomerates and their henchmen. Everybody wins.' -- Kary Rogers 'Life is a combination of magic and pasta' -- Federico Fellini 'Read four hours a day and write four hours a day. If you cannot find the time for that, you can't expect to become a good writer.' -- Stephen King 'Fan the flame of desire with the bellows of indifference' -- Groucho Marx 'Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.' --Dr. Seuss 'If you have power you use it to meet the needs of you and your community' -- Tony Benn, Member of UK Parliment 'An educated, healthy, and confident nation is harder to govern.' -- Tony Benn, Member of UK Parliment 'Choice depends on the freedom to choose, and if you're shacked with debt you don't have the freedom to choose.' -- Tony Benn, Member of UK Parliment 'People in debt become hopeless, and hopeless people don't vote.' -- Tony Benn, Member of UK Parliment 'If the poor in Britian or the United States turned out and voted for people who represented their interests it would be a real Democratic revolution.' 'The bigger the lie, the more the people will believe it ' -- Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf 'You can have anything in life if you will sacrifice everything else for it.' -- J.M. Barrie 'Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy but socially dead' - Animaniacs 'If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.' -- George Orwell 'If everybody is thinking alike, somebody is not thinking' -- Gen. Patton 'I privy by the bowels of christ, consider you could be wrong' - Cromwell 'We can do anything we want if we stick to it long enough' -- Hellen Keller 'Fire up a colortini, sit back, relax, and watch the pictures, now, as they fly through the air' -- Tom Snyder 'Think, boys. Think!' -- The Music Man 'Happiness is not a thing that can be distilled into a liquor, bottled, and sold. Happiness is not something that can be prescribed by the doctor as a pill and taken with ones dinner. Happiness comes from within, and the truest happiness, that with the most pleasure, comes from sharing ones love with others.' -- Nick Wilson 'If I only could I'd make a deal with God and I'd get him to swap our places' -- Tatsuya Ishida 'Life is a gift, do not waste it.' 'Moderation in all things.' -- Terence 'Peace begins with a smile' 'Pay attention, an opportunity will knock on your door.' 'A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.' -- Colin Powell 'In a hundred years from now it won't matter how much you have in your bank account, nor what type of car you drive. What will matter is you made a difference in the life of a child.' -Walt Disney 'The best swordsman never draws his sword.' 'Live a life you love. Use a god you trust. Don't take it all too seriously.' -- Love and Rockets 'Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.' -- Hermann Goering 'All Bicycles weigh 40 pounds; A 30 poud bicycle needs a 10 pound lock. A 20 pound bicycle needs a 20 pound lock. A 40 pound bicycle doesn't need a lock. - Bicycle Law' -- bmclaughlin807 'If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.' -- Steve Jobs 'Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish' -- From "The Whole Earth Catalog" 'Every good newspaperman needs an infallible, unbreakable B.S. detector.' - Ernest Hemingway 'The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.' -- R. Buckminster Fuller 'Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?' -- Mary Oliver 'I'm not afraid of the man who wants ten nuclear weapons, Colonel. I'm terrified of the man who only wants one.' -- The Peacemaker 'A fat man on a bicycle is nobody's enemy.' -- Tom Vernon 'If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write things worth reading, or do things worth the writing.' -- Benjamin Franklin 'Being a graduate student is like becoming all of the Seven Dwarves. In the beginning you're Dopey and Bashful. In the middle, you are usually sick (Sneezy), tired (Sleepy), and irritable (Grumpy). But at the end, they call you Doc, and then you're Happy.' -- Ronald T. Azuma 'It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick society.' -- Jiddu Krishnamurti 'Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.' -- Thomas Huxley 'We choose to go to the moon and do these things not because they are easy, but because they are hard.' -- John F Kennedy 'The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.' -- Bill Murray / Lost in Translation 'Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.' -- Alfred Hitchcock 'Ninety-Nine percent of everything done in the world, good or bad, is done to pay a mortgage. Perhaps the world would be a better place if everyone rented.' -- Thank you for Smoking 'That is not dead which can eternal lie. And after strange eons, even death may die.' -- H.P. Lovecraft 'Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.' -- Colin Powell 'When the isolated drops meet, they share the majesty of the ocean to which they belong.' -- M. K. Ghandi 'Love is an irresistible desire to be irrestibly desired' -- Robert Frost 'I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.' - Michael J. Fox 'We shall not cease from exploration and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time." -- T.S. Eliot 'It's not how hard you fall, but how high you bounce' -- Toy Story 'Music puts wings on the human spirit' -- Frank Sinatra 'Republicans are men of narrow vision, who are afraid of the future.' -- Jimmy Carter 'If you judge people, you have no time to love them.' -- Mother Teresa 'If you reveal your secrets to the wind, you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'There are those who give with joy, and that joy is their reward.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery; None but ourselves can free our mind." -- Bob Marley 'Always leave them wanting more.' 'Love is a grave mental disease.' -- Plato 'If you can't convince them, confuse them.' -- Harry S. Truman 'The Buck Stops Here' -- Harry S. Truman 'Some people see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not?' -- Robert F. Kennedy 'The question isn't what are we going to do, it's what aren't we going to do' -- Ferris Bueller's Day Off 'If a national debt is considered a national blessing then we, like Great Britain, can get on by borrowing-But as I believe it a national curse, my vow shall be to pay the national debt, to prevent a monied aristocracy from growing up around our administration that must bend it to its views, and ultimately destroy the liberty of our country.' -- Andrew Jackson 'Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.' -- Martin Luther King Jr. 'There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.' -- Bill Clinton 'Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result' -- Albert Einstein 'Life becomes harder for us when we live for others, but it also becomes richer and happier.' -- Albert Schweitzer 'Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time; for that's the stuff life is made of.' -- Benjamin Franklin 'Ships are safe in harbor, but they were never meant to stay there.' 'The will of the people, is the only legitimate foundation of any government.' -- Thomas Jefferson 'Don't get mad. Don't get even. Just get elected, then get even.' -- James Carville 'The real voyage of discover consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.' -- Marcel Proust 'What we take for granted might not be here for our children' -- Al Gore 'The era of procrastination, of half-measures of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to its close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences.' -- Winston Churchill 'You provide the pictures, and I'll provide the war.' -- William Randolph Hearst 'When your friends finally realize that you are a true artist, committed to making sensitive and meaningful images, they will ask you to photograph their wedding.' -- Ansel Adams 'You think your average juror is King Solomon? No, he's a roofer with a mortgage. He wants to go home and sit in his Barcalounger and let the cable TV wash over him. And this man doesn't give a single, solitary droplet of shit about truth, justice or your American way' -- Rankin Fitch, Runaway Jury 'Every story has an end, but in life every ending is a new beginning' -- Uptown Girls 'You know you have reached perfection of design not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.' -- Antoine de Saint Exupéry 'They want to deliver vast amounts of information over the internet. And again, the internet is not something you just dump something on. It’s not a truck. It’s a series of tubes.' -- Senator Ted Stevens 'All politics is local.' -- Thomas Phillip 'Tip' O'Neill 'We might as well go down swingin' -- Edward R. Murrow, Good Night, and Good Luck 'In America, we must be sure that our children are receiving a quality education that prepares them for the real world from crayon to gown.' -- Nick Wilson 'If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right.' 'Never continue in a job you don't enjoy. If you're happy in what you're doing, you'll like yourself, you'll have inner peace. And if you have that, along with physical health, you will have had more success than you could possibly have imagined.' -- Johnny Carson 'Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.' -- Kurt Vonnegut 'Television has raised writing to a new low.' -- Samuel Goldwyn 'A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'Coming generations will learn equality from poverty, and love from woes.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'Friendship is always a sweet responsibility, never an opportunity.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'Don't be afraid to challenge the pros, even in their own backyard.' -- Colin Powell 'I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.' -- Groucho Marx 'Never work with children or animals' 'TV is chewing gum for the eyes.' -- Frank Lloyd Wright 'Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send.' -- Jon Postel, RFC1122 'If people could put rainbows in zoos, they'd do it' -- Calvin and Hobbes 'One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.' -- A.A. Milne 'The idea that war should be conducted within a moral framework may seem like a quaint medieval practice, but as speech separates humans from the apes, so morality separates civilisation from the barbarians.' -- Emmanuel Goldstein 'No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit.' -- Helen Keller 'All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called "Facts". They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain.' -- Thomas Hobbes 'Do one thing every day that scares you' - Eleanor Roosevelt 'Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself.' -- Colin Powell 'Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you survive.' - Mark Twain 'Live each day as if it were your last. Because it may be.' -- Good all-around advice, seen on a church sign in north Mississippi 'A man can face the most dangerous challenge so long he believes he can master it.' -- Mysterious Cities of Gold 'Damn the man. Save the Empire.' -- Empire Records 'There cannot be greater rudeness than to interrupt another in the current of his discourse.' -- Locke 'Remember who you wanted to be' 'I was so naive as a kid I used to sneak behind the barn and do nothing.' -- Johnny Carson 'If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful.' -- C.S. Lewis 'The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.' -- Frank Herbert 'My teachers saw me at once backwards and precocious. Reading books beyond my years, yet at the bottom of the fold. They were offended. They had large resources of compulsion at their disposal, but I was stubborn…Whatever my region, my immagination or interest were not engaged, I would not, or I could not learn. I was in fact only two from the bottom of the whole school. I continued in this unpretencious situation for nearly a year, however, by being so long in the lowest form, I gained a tremendous advantage over a devil of boys' -- Winston Churchill 'There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. You can bear this warning voice to generations yet to come. I look upon war with horror.' -- General William T. Sherman 'Fall in love or fall in hate. Get inspired or get depressed. Ace a test or flunk a class. Make babies or make art. Speak the truth or lie and cheat. Dance on tables or sit in the corner. Life is divine chaos. Embrace it. Forgive yourself. Breathe. Enjoy the ride....' - Solbeam 'It's a fine line between writing something with genuine emotional impact and turning into little idiots feeling sorry for ourselves and playing stadium rock.' -- Thom Yorke 'Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.' - Lillian Hellman 'You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war' - Albert Einstein 'The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.' - George Bernard Shaw 'If at first you don't succeed, switch to power tools.' -- Red Green 'In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism and skepticism and humbug and we shall want to live more musically.' - Vincent van Gogh 'The cynics are right nine times out of ten.' -- Henry Louis Mencken 'Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'Nobody said it was going to be easy, and nobody was right.' -- George H. W. Bush 'There is no higer god than truth' - Mahatma Gandhi 'The difference between sex and love is that sex relieves tension and love causes it' -- Woody Allen 'Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.' -- John Locke 'Our incomes are like our shoes; if too small, they gall and pinch us; but if too large, they cause us to stumble and to trip.' -- John Locke 'Sometimes, there is just nothing else left to be said, but don't worry, the story never ends, and it is still just beginning. For those who wish to achieve their dreams, Must first awaken from their nightmares.' -- Nick Wilson 'For those who wish to achieve their dreams, Must first awaken from their nightmares.' -- Nick Wilson, December 2003 'Dance with a woman and she will forgive much, Dance well with a woman and she will forgive anything' - unknown 'In Germany, the Nazis first came for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak up because I was not a Jew. Then they came for the trade unionists and I didnt speak up because I was not a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics and I was a Protestant so I didnt speak up. Then they came for me: by that time there was no one left to speak up.' -- Martin Niemoeller 'Blogger- A Million Monkeys with a Million Typewriters actually CAN'T create the works of Shakespeare' 'To prefer evil to good is not in homan nature' -- Plato 'The world we have is the product of our way of thinking.' -- Albert Einstein 'The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be: And that which is done is that which shall be done: And there is no new thing under the sun.' -- Ecclesiastes 'You needn't sit there staring, we're not going to show you any more. In fact I'm not even going to tell you what happened. Television audiences are becoming entirely to dependent. You expect us to do everything for you.' -- Alfred Hitchcock 'To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, it is morally treasonable to the American public.' -- Theodore Roosevelt 'Democracy is Two Wolves and a Lamb Voting on What to Have for Lunch. Liberty is a Well-Armed Lamb Contesting the Vote - Benjamin Franklin' 'All Men Having Power Ought to Be Mistrusted - James Madison' 'Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company and reflection must finish him. ' -- John Locke 'Fashion for the most part is nothing but the ostentation of riches.' -- Locke 'Practice Random Acts of Kindness and Senseless Beauty' - Bumper Sticker 'If You Expect a Nation to Be Ignorant and Free, You Expect What Never Was and Can Never Be - Thomas Jefferson' ' Means of Defense Against Foreign Danger Historically Have Become the Instruments of Tyranny at Home - James Madison' 'Were it Left to Me to Decide Whether We Should Have Government Without Newspapers or Newspapers Without Government, I Should not Hesitate a Moment to Prefer the Latter - Thomas Jefferson' 'When the Government Fears the People, There is Liberty; When the People Fear the Government, There is Tyranny - Thomas Jefferson' 'Life's too short to drink lousy coffee, play crummy guitars and write with ballpoint pens.' -- Chicago Sandy, CoffeeGeek Forums Signature 'Mostly Harmless' 'It is well that war is so terrible; else we would grow too fond of it.' -- Robert E. Lee 'Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.' --Siddhartha, Herman Hesse 'Life has no meaning the moment you lose the illusion of being eternal.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'Don't Panic.' 'If you surrender to hate, you have already lost' 'To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.' -- Sun Tzu, The Art of War 'When you are standing in a hole, stop digging' 'Death cannot stop true love' -- The Princess Bride 'Marriage has in it less of beauty, but more of safety, than the single life; it hath not more ease, but less danger; it is more merry and more sad; it is fuller of sorrows and fuller of joys; it lies under more burdens, but is supported by all the strengths of love and charity; and those burdens are delightful.' -- Jeremy Talor 'Discordians are people who really like cookies. They like to discuss cookies, recipies for cookies, good places to eat cookies, what to eat and drink with cookies, when to eat cookies, and what type of cookies are best to eat. They also like to gather together, in public places or in private, and eat cookies. My personal favorite cookies are chocolate chip.... Incidentally, Discordians also tend to be worshippers of Eris, the goddess of Discord. She is the one true goddess, and She is really cool. You should worship her too, although you don't have to. But she is really cool. She likes cookies too.' --Jeff Mink, Emperor of the Universe, Scourge of the Galaxy, and High Priest of the Church of Harmonic Chao 'Be nice to other people they out number you 5.7 billion to 1' 'Faith is an oasis in the heart which will never be reached by the caravan of thinking.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.' -- Bod Bole 'I find I'm so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain.' -- The Shawshank Redemption 'Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.' -- The Shawshank Redemption 'That's the beauty of music. They can't take that away from you.' -- The Shawshank Redemption 'I guess it comes down to a simple question, get busy living, or get busy dying' -- The Shawshank Redemption 'Don't drink water! Fish have sex in it!' --Daniel Clark 'It is easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.' -- Leonardo da Vinci 'I do desire we may be better strangers.' -- William Shakespeare, "As You Like It" 'Those who abnadon their dreams, will discourage yours' - Bumper Sticker 'live in the present' 'Everything has been figured out, except how to live.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'The only necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.' -- Edmund Burke 'No matter what you decide in your life to do, you're always an artist' -- Jay W. Jensen 'The future is a race between education and catastrophe.' -- H.G. Wells 'It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you did it wrong.' -- H.W. Longfellow 'There can be no daily democracy without daily citizenship.' -- Ralph Nader 'Emacs, n.: A slow-moving parody of a text editor.' 'Each of us bears his own Hell.' --Virgil 'Editing is a rewording activity' 'You no more win a war than you can win an earthquake' -- Jeanette Rankin "Onward, to great Adventures" -- Nick Wilson 'I used to jog, but the ice kept bouncing out of my glass' 'All a man needs out of life is a place to sit 'n' spit in the fire.' 'Imagine what we can imagine! -- Arthur Rubinstein' 'There's nothing like a girl with a plunging neckline to keep a man on his toes.' 'The strong give up and move away, while the weak give up and stay.' 'The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense' -- Picasso 'One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet one's whole life is complete at that moment, with a line drawn neatly under it, ready for the summing up. You are - your life, and nothing else.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'Man can will nothing unless he has first understood that he must count on no one but himself; that he is alone, abandoned on earth in the midst of his infinite responsibilities, without help, with no other aim than the one he sets himself, with no other destiny than the one he forges for himself on this earth.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'There are three things men can do with women: love them, suffer for them, or turn them into literature.' -- Stephen Stills "Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea." -- Douglas Adams "During the heat of the space race in the 1960's, the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration decided it needed a ball point pen to write in the zero gravity confines of its space capsules. After considerable research and development, the Astronaut Pen was developed at a cost of about $1 million U.S. The pen worked and also enjoyed some modest success as a novelty item back here on Earth. The Soviet Union, faced with the same problem, used a pencil." "In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -- Douglas Adams "There is a theory that states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." -- Douglas Adams "Last night as I lay in bed looking at the stars I thought 'Where the hell is the ceiling ?" "When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity." -- Albert Einstein "The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once." -- Albert Einstein "Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood." -- Marie Curie "I believe my theory of relativity to be true. But it will only be proved for certain in 1981, when I am dead." -- Albert Einstein ""Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true !" -- Homer Simpson "Thus the metric system did not really catch on in the States, unless you count the increasing popularity of the 9mm bullet." -- Dave Barry "I'm not going to get drunk, I'm just going to drink until I can't see!" -- John Mayer "Physics is like sex...sure there are practical reasons for it, but that's not why we do it." -- T-Shirt 'Talking about music is like mathematicizing about sex.' -- James "Kibo" Parry 'Oh, and the truth about the "Teacher's Edition"? It doesn't really have all the answers in the back. It just has a Post-It on the last page, saying "Make answers up! Remember, you're the teacher! If the kids don't believe you, cut 'em!" -- James Kibo Parry 'Perhaps life is a question where there is no correct answer and we merely must choose the option that merely satisfices. -- Nick Wilson' 'I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone' --Bjarne Stronstrup (originator of C++ programming language) 'I feel I have a good sense of direction, though I do get turned around at times.. go the wrong way and stuff' -- Matthew P. 'Every child should be given a dog and a banjo when they're born.' -- Charlie Brown 'Trust is Everything' 'Giving back involves a certain amount of giving up.' -- Colin Powell 'I think you should laugh once a day, because a day without sunshine is like... night.' -- Steve Martin 'If money were no object, what would you do with your life?' 'Only the dead have seen the end of war.' -- Homer 'Random people on the internet ARE real people you know.' -- Nick Wilson 'I'M MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE IT ANYMORE!' -- Network 'Kill your T.V.' 'Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them could not stand being laughed at.' -- author unknown 'Action: The antidote for despair' 'If beauty were sunlight, you'd shine from a million light-years away.' 'The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.' -- F. Dostoyevski 'It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to manage, than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the emnity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutions and merely lukewarm defenders in those who would gain by the new ones.' -- Niccolo Machiavelli, 1513 'sometimes I wish there was a little bit of magic and enchantment in the world like there was when I was a child.' -- Nick Wilson 'Never hold your farts in. They travel up your spine, into your brain, and that's where shitty ideas come from.' -- Daniel Clark 'Make the pie higher!' -- George W. Bush 'Safeguarding the rights of others is the most noble and beautiful end of a human being.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'Life without love is like a tree without blossoms or fruit.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'You cannot become the Silver Surfer by accidently covering your hands in solder.' -- Nick Wilson 'Hell is other people' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.' -- Nietzsche 'All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.' -- Richard P. Feynman 'Many people feel that they deserve some kind of recognition for all the bad things they haven't done.' 'All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.' -- James Thurber 'He knows all about art, but he doesn't know what he likes.' -- James Thurber 'I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.' -- James Thurber 'I want to rule the world by distributing SPAM to needy families, and turning them into mind-controlled mutants who take over DAKA restaurants and lunch services until I rule all of creation, AND downtown Worcester.' -- Theo Van Dinter 'My mind is like one big playground'-- Theo Van Dinter 'All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.' -- Charlie Chaplin 'It is always darkest before the dawn' 'Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?' -- Dick Clark 'A sense of humor is part of the art of leadership, of getting along with people, of getting things done.' -- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969) 'Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.' -- E. B. White (1899 - 1985) 'All men kill the thing they hate, too, unless, of course, it kills them first.' -- James Thurber 'But what is all this fear of and opposition to Oblivion? What is the matter with the soft Darkness, the Dreamless Sleep?' -- James Thurber 'Early to rise and early to bed makes a man healthy, wealthy, and dead.' -- James Thurber 'Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.' -- James Thurber 'If I have any beliefs about immortality, it is that certain dogs I have known will go to heaven, and very, very few persons.' -- James Thurber 'One martini is all right. Two are too many, and three are not enough.' -- James Thurber 'There are two kinds of light - the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.' -- James Thurber 'Why do you have to be a nonconformist like everybody else?' --James Thurber 'A bachelor's degree is called a bachelor's degree because it won't get you paid enough money to be able to afford to get married' -- Nick Wilson 'All right so umm.. where is the damn flag' -- Matthew P. 'Visualize world peace' 'Kill the enemy! Oh crap, they're the other way.. shit..' -- Matthew P. 'Men still remember the first kiss after women have forgotten the last.' 'Arguments with furniture are rarely productive.' -- Kehlog Albran, "The Profit" 'In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.' 'There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw.' -- Walt Kelly 'Those who don't know talk, those who don't talk, know.' 'If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail' -- Baruch 'Advertising is the rattling of a stick inside a swill bucket.' -- George Orwell 'Here is a test to find whether your mission on earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.' 'Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.' -- Charles Schulz 'Generosity is nothing else than a craze to possess. All which I abandon, all which I give, I enjoy in a higher manner through the fact that I give it away. To give is to enjoy possessively the object which one gives.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'My pen is at the bottom of a page, Which, being finished, here the story ends; 'Tis to be wished it had been sooner done, But stories somehow lengthen when begun. '-- Byron 'They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.' -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759 'I have ways of making money that you know nothing of.' -- John D. Rockefeller 'Sed quis custodiet ipsos Custodes?' 'Fear and loathing, my man, fear and loathing.' -- H.S. Thompson 'I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.' -- Lucy Van Pelt 'The world is full of people who have never, since childhood, met an open doorway with an open mind.' -- E.B. White 'Onward through the fog' /Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'There is no harm in doubt and scepticism, for it is through these that new discoveries are made.' -- Richard Feynman 'Life is short, dance often' 'I know that the human being and the fish can coexist.' -- George W. Bush 'Doubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'Was your father a thief, because somebody stole the stars out of the sky and put them in your eyes.' 'Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion' -- G. W. F. Hegel 'A conservative is a man who sits and thinks, mostly sits.' -- Woodrow Wilson 'No lower can a man descend than to interpret his dreams into gold and silver' -- Kahlil Gibran ' A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked.' -- Bernard Meltzer 'If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love.' -- Mother Teresa 'Friends will keep you sane, Love could fill your heart, A lover can warm your bed, But lonely is the soul without a mate.' -- David Pratt '. . .suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.' -- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 'Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.' -- Albert Einstein 'Sometimes when I get up in the morning, I feel very peculiar. I feel like I've just got to bite a cat! I feel like if I don't bite a cat before sundown, I'll go crazy! But then I just take a deep breath and forget about it. That's what is known as real maturity.' -- Snoopy 'Humor is also a way of saying something serious.' -- T.S. Eliot 'America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.' -- Woodrow Wilson 'Success covers a multitude of blunders.' -- George Bernard Shaw 'He who never made a mistake never made a discovery. -- Samuel Smiles 'I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.' -- Professor Lowd, English, Ohio University 'Someday, I'm going to realize that this is not a joke, and take everything more seriously. Of course, if that happens, I'm going to have to do something about all the inanity around me.' -- Matthew P. 'In Our world," said Eustace, "a star is a huge ball of flaming gas." "Even in your world, my son, that is not what a star is but only what it is made of." -- The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis 'Always think of something new; this helps you forget your last rotten idea.' -- Seth Frankel 'Bureaucrat, n.: A person who cuts red tape sideways.' -- J. McCabe 'In vino veritas.' -- Pliny 'In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things the heart finds its morning and is refreshed.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. And if they don't, they never were.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'Where is the justice of political power if it executes the murderer and jails the plunderer, and then itself marches upon neighboring lands, killing thousands and pillaging the very hills?' -- Kahlil Gibran 'Anger is a condition in which the toungue works faster than the mind' 'Anything that is good and useful is made of chocolate' 'You are the music while the music lasts.' -- T.S. Eliot 'This is the way the world ends: not with a bang, but a whimper.' -- T.S. Eliot 'There is no method but to be very intelligent' -- T.S. Eliot 'Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.' -- Charles W. Eliot 'Television is a medium of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the same joke at the same time, and yet remain lonesome.' -- T.S. Eliot 'Anxiety is the hand maiden of creativity' -- T.S. Eliot 'Everyone smiles in the same language' 'Don't kid yourself. Little is relevant, and nothing lasts forever.' 'Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.' -- Henry David Thoreau 'Just because you like my stuff doesn't mean I owe you anything.' -- Bob Dylan 'Lost: gray and white female cat. Answers to electric can opener.' 'A robin redbreast in a cage Puts all Heaven in a rage.' -- Blake 'You can observe a lot just by watching.' -- Yogi Berra 'You are wise, witty, and wonderful, but you spend too much time reading this sort of trash.' 'If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.' -- Colin Powell 'A room without books is like a body without a soul.' - Cicero 'Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...' -- Dwight D. Eisenhower 'Distance doesn't make you any smaller, but it does make you part of a larger picture.' 'Psychoanalysis is that mental illness for which it regards itself a therapy.' -- Karl Kraus 'Nobody wants what they have got and what they have got is not enough in dreams, the reality of all a lighter shade of green the grass may be if I believe it so, and I'll be home' -- Strung Out (seen on a bathroom wall) 'Your object is to save the world, while still leading a pleasant life.' 'Nice boy, but about as sharp as a sack of wet mice.' -- Foghorn Leghorn 'Be free and open and breezy! Enjoy! Things won't get any better so get used to it.' 'I'm growing older, but not up.' -- Jimmy Buffett 'You can get everything in life you want, if you will help enough other people get what they want.' 'If still suffering from political obsession consider reading all news in a foreign language you don't understand.' -- Matt P. (Why, it won't make sense one way or the other. -- Nick) 'It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.' -- Harry S. Truman 'The true Southern watermelon is a boon apart, and not to be mentioned with commoner things. It is chief of the world's luxuries, king by the grace of God over all the fruits of the earth. When one has tasted it, he knows what the angels eat. It was not a Southern watermelon that Eve took; we know it because she repented.' -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar" 'Advice is a dangerous gift; be cautious about giving and receiving it.' 'The strength of the Constitution lies entirely in the determination of each citizen to defend it. Only if every single citizen feels duty bound to do his share in this defense are the constitutional rights secure.' -- Albert Einstein 'Traffic signals in New York are just rough guidelines.' -- David Letterman 'Information is power' 'God is really only another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style, He just goes on trying other things.' -- Pablo Picasso 'I must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry Martini.'-- Alexander Woolcott 'Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, and a dark side, and it holds the universe together' --Carl Zwanzig 'I wish I had duck feet' -- Kevin Ponds 'If you were a tear in my eye I would not cry for fear of losing you.' 'We must act out passion before we can feel it.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'Speak your mind, don't back down' -- Muhammad Ali 'The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.' -- Mark Twain 'Collecting data is only the first step toward wisdom, but sharing data is the first step toward community' - Henry Louis Gates Jr. 'The guys and I were all set to hang out all night playing video games, and then his girlfriend came home and was whining about how she wanted him to spend time with her and not us, so since she sucks, we had to leave... because that's more fun.' -- Nick Wilson 'Sleep, it's like living a dream...' -- Nick Wilson 'Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act' -- Truman Capote 'If God hadn't wanted you to be paranoid, He wouldn't have given you such a vivid imagination.' 'When our memories outweigh our dreams, we have grown old.' -- William J. Clinton 'The road to tyranny, we must remember, begins with the destruction of the truth.' -- Bill Clinton 'Sex without passion is bland and almost medical. It's like reading a technical manual. This is my problem with almost all pornography, there is no love, there is no passion, and it is all very fake. It just doesn't do anything but bore me and put me to sleep.' -- Nick Wilson 'It's the internet dude. Fries their brain cells.' - National Lampoon's Van Wilder 'Are you stalking me? Cause that would be Super!!' - National Lampoon's Van Wilder 'Don't take life to seriously, you'll never get out alive!' - National Lampoon's Van Wilder 'Dont be a fool... STAY IN SCHOOL!' -- National Lampoon's Van Wilder 'It is only in our decisions that we are important.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'Worrying is like a rocking chair. It gives you someting to do, but it doesn't get you anywhere.' - National Lampoon's Van Wilder 'You can tell a lot about a person by the type of underwear they wear' - National Lampoon's Van Wilder 'If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.' -- Winnie the Pooh 'Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it.' -- Linus Torvalds 'Nothing compares to the simple pleasures of a bike ride.' -- John F. Kennedy 'I thought of E=mc2 while riding my bike' -- Albert Einstein 'You mean to tell me, the reason I'm alone, is that I'm afraid to be alone? It's a fear of rejection?; - Frasier - NBC TV show 'Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'If you think you haven't experienced life yet, then you probably haven't' - Matt P. 'All work and no espresso makes Nick a very dull boy. If the espresso machine at my coffee house doesn't get fixed soon, I'm going to become a not-so-nice person, that is once I manage to wake up' -- Nick Wilson 'I give up, my dreams used to make sense, now they are entirely surrealist. When I dream, it looks like something out of a piece of art by Dali.' -- Nick Wilson 'I've completely reversed my entire biological clock and now have become a vampire. however, normal vampire wards will not hurt me. The Cross will not affect me because I have no faith or anti-faith with the catholic view. The old world symbols will not affect me either. The garlic or dagger through the heart will only piss me off then leaving you open to any and every possible avenue I can think of as payback. My choice of payback is usually something to do with Barney, nylon rope, jumper cables, and a car battery. Use your imagination - it's not what you think. If one happens to come across the certain evils that I loathe (suburbia and almost anything wholesome) then please do not bother me with them. They won't hurt me, but will really piss me off.' - Michael Champion 'Windows ME, I mean, can you get more egotistical? It's not all about YOU!' - Nick Wilson 'sing the monty python spam song with me... spam spam spam spam spam spam spam spam...' 'You'll note that I did not mention my IQ anywhere, in hopes that people will continue to believe that I am actually incredibly dumb, or think I have no idea what I'm talking about, so that I may continue to live my life in peace.... Now that's a truely smart thing to do.' - Nick Wilson 'If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure.' - Dan Quayle 'I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people.' - Dan Quayle 'When we drink, we get drunk. When we get drunk, we fall asleep. When we fall asleep, we commit no sin. When we commit no sin, we go to heaven. So, let's all get drunk, and go to heaven!' - Old Irish toast 'Here's to a long life and a merry one. A quick death and an easy one. A pretty girl and an honest one. A cold beer-and another one!' - Old Irish toast 'Go mbeirimid beo ar an am seo aris.' - Irish farewell 'Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he will sit in a boat and drink beer all day' 'Never measure the height of a mountain until you have reached the top. Then you will see how low it was.' -- Dag Hammarskjold 'Here's to the women who love me terribly, May they soon improve.' 'When they trademarked windows, only criminals could see the light outside the box...' - Nick Wilson 'Why would you want to get a new version of Windows? I mean, you have to clean windows, and they break so easily, and their a real security issue, everything you do is wide open and unprotected and everybody can see inside. No privacy...' -- Nick Wilson 'Are all non-live linux versions dead? Do dead Linuxes go to heaven?' -- Nick Wilson 'Aren't you glad you're not getting all the government you pay for now?' 'Laundry is the fifth dimension!! ... um ... um ... th' washing machine is a black hole and the pink socks are bus drivers who just fell in!!' 'in cyberspace, nobody can here you ping...' -- Nick Wilson 'last night I had a wonderful dream where I ate a giant marshmallow, but this morning when I woke up, my pillow was missing!' 'What sort of scientist glues stuff to hand puppets? I mean, sure, cops use hand puppets, but scientists? Isn't it illegal to conduct experiments on puppets?' - James "Kibo" Parry 'Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.' = George Bernard Shaw 'When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.' - George Bernard Shaw 'We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!' - George Bernard Shaw 'Here's the rule for bargains: "Do other men, for they would do you" That's the true business precept.' - Charles Dickens 'A wonderful fact to reflect upon, that every human creature is constituted to be the profound secret and mystery to every other.' - Charles Dickens 'That's the great thing about coming to Mississippi, somebody always wants to give you something to drink' - John Popper (Blues Traveler) 'Hey you on the cellphone, tell them you'll call them back later. Your at a mother fucking concert. Turn off the cellphone for once!' - Chris D. (Saliva) 'The road to success is paved with the bodies of many very intelligent people who failed.' - Dr. Gerald Emison 'Don't make enemies with people appointed for life by the President of the United States; and don't make enemies of people who buy their ink by the gallon.' - Mark Rasch 'Life framed as a long shot is a comedy, framed as a close-up, it's a tragedy' - Charlie Chaplin 'It's yet another in a long series of diversions in an attempt to avoid responsibility' - Real Genius - (1985) 'Why my thoughts are my own, when they are in, but when they are out they are another's.' -- Susanna Martin, executed for witchcraft, 1681 'Dream like you'll live forever...Love like you've never been hurt...Work like you don't need the money...and Dance like nobody is watching!'-- Satchel Paige '"Failure is the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.' - Henry Ford 'Matt and Matt couldn't figure out a way to get across town, let alone across the COUNTRY' -- Blake Wilson 'E.T. Phone Home' 'One should never impose one's views on a problem; one should rather study it, and in time a solution will reveal itself.' -- Albert Einstein 'The story you are about to hear is true. Only the names have been changed to protect the innocent. (and probably not even that)' 'Now is a good time to start drinking, and stop some time in mid november. By the time you sober up in late January, life will make more sense.' -- Nick Wilson 'yeah, today is getting better... I don't want to go buy a bug fogger to kill the roaches anymore and fall asleep while it's going off... of course the days not over yet.' 'Nobody fucks with the Jesus' - The Big Lebowski 'Fratrocity - n. - The utterly revolting, extremely cruel, wickedness that is a Fraternity and/or Sorority' -- Nick Wilson 'We have the flu. I don't know if this particular strain has an official name, but if it does, it must be something like "Martian Death Flu". You may have had it yourself. The main symptom is that you wish you had another setting on your electric blanket, up past "HIGH", that said "ELECTROCUTION". Another symptom is that you cease brushing your teeth, because (a) your teeth hurt, and (b) you lack the strength. Midway through the brushing process, you'd have to lie down in front of the sink to rest for a couple of hours, and rivulets of toothpaste foam would dribble sideways out of your mouth, eventually hardening into crusty little toothpaste stalagmites that would bond your head permanently to the bathroom floor, which is how the police would find you. You know the kind of flu I'm talking about.' -- Dave Barry, "Molecular Homicide" 'You have reached the last page on the internet! Please go outside.' 'Got a machinehead, it's better than the rest, green to red, machinehead' -- Bush - Machinehead 'There are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know. ... Each year, we discover a few more of those unknown unknowns.' -- U.S. Secretary of State Donald Rumsfeld 'Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.' -- Charles Dickens, Great Expectations 'So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise.' -- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 'What part of a fish do the STICKS come from?' -- Nick Wilson 'They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.' - Edgar Allan Poe 'If you go out of your mind, do it quietly, so as not to disturb those around you.' 'Death is a spirit leaving a body, sort of like a shell leaving the nut behind.' -- Erma Bombeck 'Not only is this incomprehensible, but the ink is ugly and the paper is from the wrong kind of tree.' -- Professor, EECS, George Washington University 'I'm looking forward to working with you on this next year.' -- Professor, Harvard, on a senior thesis. 'The world is coming to an end. Please log off.' 'Keep the Faith!' -- Blake Wilson 'Appearances often are deceiving' -- Aesop 'I have great faith in fools -- self confidence my friends call it.' -- Edgar Allan Poe 'Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.' -- John Stuart Mill 'A friend is a present you give yourself.' -- Robert Louis Stevenson 'With Great Power comes Great Responsibility' -- Spiderman 'People are beginning to notice you. Try dressing before leaving the house.' 'Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.' -- Thomas Hobbes 'I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark.' -- Thomas Hobbes last words 'It used to be the fun was in The capture and kill. In another place and time, I did it all for thrills.' -- Lust to Love 'And there were shepherds living out in the fields nearby, keeping watch of their flocks at night. An angel of the Lord appeared to them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were terrified. But the angel said to them, "Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy that will for all the people. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord.' -- Luke 2:8-11 'A woman has two smiles that an angel might envy, the smile that accepts a lover before words are uttered, and the smile that lights on the first born babe, and assures it of a mother's love' -- Thomas C. Haliburton 'If all the world is a stage, we need to rehearse more.' 'Those responsible for this quote have been sacked...' 'Excellent time to become a missing person.' 'There is no off position on the genius switch' -- David Letterman 'All the answers lie within. The self knows what the answer you seek is.' - Nick Wilson 'Software is like sex, it's better when it's free' - Linus Torvaldas 'A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by other' -- Wizard of Oz 'Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore.' -- The Wizard of Oz 'I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultivation of altruism, of love and compassion, and elimination of ignorance, selfishness, and greed.' - Dali Llama 'Sleep is the best meditation.' - Dali Llama 'The roots of all goodness lie in the soil of appreciation for goodness.' - Dali Llama 'Today, more than ever before, life must be characterized by a sense of Universal responsibility, not only nation to nation and human to human, but also human to other forms of life.' - Dali Llama 'We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.' - Dali Llama 'Old friends pass away, new friends appear. It is just like the days. An old day passes, a new day arrives. The important thing is to make it meaningful: a meaningful friend - or a meaningful day.' - Dali Llama 'If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.' - Dali Llama 'Spend some time alone everyday' - Dali Llama 'The purpose of our lives is to be happy.' - Dali Llama 'In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends' - Martin Luther King Jr. 'So the lover must struggle for words.' -- T.S. Eliot 'Whoever invented the bicycle deserves the thanks of humanity' - Lord Beresford 'life is suffering' -- Buddah 'Poetry should help, not only to refine the language of the time, but to prevent it from changing too rapidly.' -- T.S. Eliot 'People to whom nothing has ever happened cannot understand the unimportance of events.' -- T.S. Eliot 'Democracy and violence can ill go together. Evolution of democracy is not possible if we are not prepared to hear the other side.' - Ghandi 'let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us' -- Hebrews 12:1 'Segregation is the adultery of an illicit intercourse between injustice and immorality.' - Martin Luther King Jr. 'Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.' -- T.S. Eliot 'A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.' - Mohandas Ghandi 'The love of money is the root of all evil' - Diogenes 'Memory, the mother of the Muses' -- Hymn to Hermes 'Make haste slowly' -- Caesar Augustus 'Dum spi ro, spero' -- (As long as I breathe, I hope) 'Fortuna est caeca' -- Cicero 'The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man.' -- Iris Murdoch 'Ten thousand fools proclaim themselves into obscurity, while one wise man forgets himself into immortality' - Martin Luther King Jr. 'What kind of victory is it when someone is left defeated?' - Mohandas Ghandi 'We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.' - Martin Luther King Jr. 'An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth leaves us all toothless and blind' - Ghandi 'When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too conservative' - Martin Luther King Jr. 'You must be the change you wish to see in the world' - Mohandas Ghandi 'All progress is precarious, and the solution of one problem brings us face to face with another problem.' - Martin Luther King Jr. 'All women should be put on pedestals, just high enough for you to look up their dress.' -- Steve Martin 'The good neighbor looks beyond the external accidents and discerns those inner qualities that make all men human and, therefore, brothers.' - Martin Luther King Jr. 'Nonviolence is the greatest force at the disposal of mankind. It is mightier than the mightiest weapon of destruction devised by the ingenuity of man' - Ghandi 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' - Theodore Roosevelt 'Do what you can, with what you have, where you are' - Theodore Roosevelt 'It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.' -- John Locke 'Progress might have been all right once, but it's gone on too long.' -- Ogden Nash 'Leave nothing for tommorow which can be done today' - Abraham Lincoln 'As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy. Whatever differs from this, to the extent of the difference, is no democracy.' - Abraham Lincoln 'Tomorrow, this will be part of the unchangeable past but fortunately, it can still be changed today.' 'Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, can not long retain it' - Lincoln 'To forgive is not to forget. The merit lies in loving in spite of the vivid knowledge that the one that must be loved is not a friend.' - Ghandi 'Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.' - Ghandi 'Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion.' - Dali Llama 'There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.' - Dali Llama 'I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law' - Martin Luther King Jr. ' This is a song about the everyday occurences that make me feel like letting go, yeah I guess we've got a problem, so much for the afterglow' - Everclear - So Much for the Afterglow 'In our dreams things are able to live and linger on forever. I guess that's one of the nice things about dreams.' -- Nick Wilson 'To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.' -- Locke 'Mens sana in corpore sano' - Juvenal 'See, that's one of the things that keeps me sane, traveling. It helps satisfice my need for constant change in my life, keeps things from being stagnant. It keeps me from feeling that I'm trapped as much.' - Nick Wilson 'When I travel alone, I travel like a "Virtual Bum"' - Nick Wilson "When they ask me what I liked best, I'll say it was you." - Maggie Rice - City of Angels 'Maggie Rice: Well, it tastes like a pear. You don't know what a pear tastes like? Seth: I don't know what a pear tastes like to you.' - City of Angels '"Extending the war into Iraq would have incurred incalculable human and political costs. We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Exceeding the U.N.'s mandate would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land.' -- From "Why We Didn't Remove Saddam" by George Bush [Sr.] and Brent Scowcroft, Time Magazine, 1998 'When will a lamp be a lamp again!' - Jacqueline Hillhouse, on how everybody feels the need to reinterpret literature. 'in case of fire, break the glass' '"I would rather have had one breath of her hair, one kiss from her mouth, one touch of her hand, than eternity without it. One.' --Seth - City of Angels 'You only think I guessed wrong - that's what's so funny! I switched glasses when your back was turned! Ha-ha, you fool! You fell victim to one of the classic blunders, the most famous of which is "Never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less famous is this: "Never go in against a Sicilian, when death is on the line!". Hahahahahah!'Vizzini - The Princess Bride 'If it sounds good, it IS good' - Duke Ellington (on the subject of music) '...One, one night in rio. Two, too tired to compain. Three, three stamps in my passport....'-- Hotel Coste 5 - One Night in Rio 'an expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less' unknown 'You can never step in the same river twice. Like life, a river is always moving. There is always something new coming with the current, and the past is eventually washed away. Water runs faster in a shallow river, so things get washed away quicker, but in a deep river things are allowed to linger on and life can develop. You cannot stop a river. -- Thoughts on a river' -- Nick Wilson '... but lately i've had problems trying to figure out if what is going on in news and in life, whether what I see is real, or some elaborate dream. The lines between fantasy and real life are blending fast, and everything that is going on just seems like a movie.' -- Nick Wilson 'One can only truly be goofy if they have someone to enjoy their goofiness' - Liz Tullos 'When one door closes, another will open' -- Fortune Cookie 'We all have our demons we have to deal with, mine steal socks.' -- Nick Wilson 'now you know everything about me, it's just sometime I know how young I am, I tremble, I can make mistakes that can follow me throughout the rest of my days.' -- The Three Musketeers (movie) 'The shutters clicked, the flash goes off, and they've stopped time, just for the blink of an eye. And if these pictures have anything important to say to future generations it's this. I was here, I existed, I was young, I was happy, and someone cared enough about me in this world to take my picture.'-- Robin Williams - One Hour Photo 'The end of the human race will be that we will eventually die of civilization' -- Ralph Waldo Emmerson 'Most people don't take snapshots of the little things. A used bandaid, the guy at the gas station, the wasp on the jello, but these are the things that make up the true pictures of our lives. People don't take pictures of these things.'-- Robin Williams - One Hour Photo 'Perhaps Hell is a Christian Rock band...' 'As a note to the kids of America... never stop playing with legos. Once the legos stop everything goes downhill. My anti-drug is legos.' -- Carol Webster 'I think I'll make a snappy new day.' - Fred Rogers 'You can't hold a man down without staying down with him.' -- Booker T. Washington 'I got into television because I hated it so, and I thought there was some way of using this fabulous instrument to be of nurture to those who would watch and listen' - Fred Rogers 'We all long to be lovable and capable of loving' - Fred Rogers 'I do think that young children can spot a phony a mile away' - Fred Rogers 'it is better to be naively giving then unaweringly selfish' - Carol Webster 'I feel the greatest gift we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self' - Fred Rogers, Mr. Rogers Neighborhood (PBS) 'You know, you don't have to look like everybody else to be acceptable and to feel acceptable.' - Fred Rogers 'I have a very modulated way of dealing with my anger. I have always tried to understand the other person and invariably I've discovered that somebody who rubs you the wrong way has been rubbed the wrong way many times.' - Fred Rogers 'Of course, I get angry. Of course, I get sad. I have a full range of emotions. I also have a whole smorgasbord of ways of dealing with my feelings. That is what we should give children. Give them ... ways to express their rage without hurting themselves or somebody else. That's what the world needs.' - Fred Rogers 'I have really never considered myself a TV star. I always thought I was a neighbor who just came in for a visit.' - Fred Rogers 'There's only one person in the whole world like you.' - Fred Rogers 'Injustice is happening now; suffering is happening now. We have choices to make now. To insist on absolute certainty before starting to apply ethics to life decisions is a way of choosing to be amoral.' - Richard M. Stallman 'Every time you step outside your door, try to experience life in a new and different way, as if your stepping for the first time onto a new planet or into a new dimension. Enjoy it as much as possible. Treat it like it's a different world each time.' -- Nick Wilson 'It's all in the past, you can't keep the past... you can't hold on to it' -- Nick Wilson's Grandmother 'Ah, but the choice of dreams to live, there's the rub. For all dreams are not equal, some exit to nightmares, most end with the dreamer, But at least one must be lived... and died.' 'You can't respect somebody who licks your boots... it just doesn't work.' - Ferris Beuller's Day Off 'I'm not a robot like you. I don't like having disks crammed into me... unless they're Oreos, and then only in the mouth.' -- Fry (Futurama) 'Try to view every delay in life as a gift... especially when you are traveling' - Nick Wilson 'I suspect that we ramblers, we motion addicts, suffer from a kind of difference addiction, too. We like to see change, to observe x and y, then ponder the slope of the line that might be drawn between them. Things change back home: the weather, for example - that creek floods, then recedes. But those places on the other side of various borders - and as I write this I'm just five hours from Mexico - make for the steepest slopes, the largest differences.' - Lonely Planet 'Proverb : "Never trust statistics that you don't have personally manipulated"' 'My computer has the PBS virus, every hour it freezes up and asks for money...' - A Prairie Home Companion 'Rinse... Lather... Repeat...' 'People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.' - Dan Quayle 'It's zentastic!' 'I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and democracy - but that could change.' - Dan Quayle 'When I was a baby, I dreamt and I knew not what dreams where. When I was a child, I dreamt, and I knew no limits. I felt the world was mine to have. When I was a teenager, I dreamt of the future not thinking how I would ever make such a future a reality. When I became an adult, I dreamt only of reality as I could see it and knew I could create. I knew limits and boundaries. Then I realized something. Those limits and boundaries existed only in my dreams. Since then, I've dreamt without them and things simply look better.' - Matt P. 'I sometimes I feel like I live in a dissoriented illusion... a disillusioned confusion...' - Nick Wilson 'Damn dirty apes!' - Planet of the Apes 'You fools, you blew it up, damn you all, damn you all to hell!' Planet of the Apes 'flourescenty adj. - the (weird looking and poor) tone/quality of a person or thing when viewed under nothing but pure flourescent light.' - word created by Nick Wilson 'He who knows he has enough is rich.' - Tao Te Ching 'You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and you believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in wonderland. And, I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.' - The Matrix 'sponagomus - defenition? Nobody knows....' - word created by Nick Wilson 'Human beings are a disease. A cancer of this planet. You're a plague. And we, are the cure.' - The Matrix 'I just got back from Vegas and didn't get quite enough fluorescent lighting' 'What is real? How do you define real? If you're talking about what you can feel, what you can smell, what you can taste and see, then real is simply electrical signals interpreted by your brain.' - The Matrix 'The unblogged life may not be worth living but the unlived life is not worth blogging.' - MemeMachineGo.com 'Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind.' - Albert Einstein 'A man who eats something bitter will also taste something sweet.' - African proverb 'There's always free cheese in a mousetrap' - Found on a restaurant wall 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.' - Jimmy Carter 'There's something important that needs to be said. I don't know what it is, but I'm sure that somewhere, someone else is saying it.' - Edward Ocean 'Today I can declare my hope and declare it from the bottom of my heart that we will eventually see the time when that number of nuclear weapons is down to zero and the world is a much better place.' -- Colin Powell 'Blogs are lives in pixels. My life is more complex... Therefore this is not a blog.' - Nick Wilson 'You are a very very naughty girl... go to my room...' 'Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real. What if you were unable to wake from that dream? How would you know the difference between the dream world and the real world?' - The Matrix 'Something witty or intelligent should have appeared here.' - Nick Wilson 'Saw a sign on a restaurant that said Breakfast, any time -- so I ordered French Toast in the Renaissance.' - Steven Wright 'O pointy birds, O pointy, pointy Annoint my head, Anointy, nointy' -- Steve Martin 'Sorry, no quote this time. You've been bad.' 'I know what you're saying - you're saying, "Steve, when do you find time to juggle?" Well, I juggle in my mind. Oops.' -- Steve Martin 'While there is overwhelming agreement on the value of liberty... there is a great deal of disagreement on what liberty is.' - Lawrence Crocker 'If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.' - Bill Vaughan 'Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he doesn\'t become a monster.' - Frederick Wilhelm Nietsche 'Our liberty depends on the freedom of the press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.' - Thomas Jefferson 'What's another word for Thesaurus?' - Steven Wright 'He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression.' - Thomas Paine 'Every morning, I get up and look through the 'Forbes' list of the richest people in America. If I\'m not there, I go to work. - Robert Orben 'Man is condemned to be free; because once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does. ' -- Jean Paul Sartre 'Man is not the sum of what he has already, but rather the sum of what he does not yet have, of what he could have.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'Yes... so it begins... mwhahahahahaha' 'despite all my rage i am still just a rat in a cage' - Smashing Pumpkins, Bullet With Butterfly Wings. 'Kiss them for me-- I may be delayed' 'You never know what is enough until you know what is too much.' -- William Blake 'It is only when we have lost everthing that we can really do anything.' - Fight Club 'It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have time.' - Tallulah Bankhead. 'Cult: A small, unpopular religion. Religion: A large, popular cult.' 'You have a girfriend? Ex-girfriend. We dated in high school. Do you still see her? No. She lost some weight over the summer, so she's dating a lot more now. You know how it goes.' - The movie 'Loser' 'You and I, we're so weird... We must be psychoticaly connected or something' --Nick Wilson 'In other words, and after this I'll shut up, made-up stories and romances about what would happen IF are for children and adult cretins who are afraid to read themselves in a book just as they might be afraid to look in the mirror when they're sick or injured or hungover or insane.' -- Jack Kerouac, Satori in Paris 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake, I shall shout outloud Mistake! Mistake!' 'All the colors of the sunset melted away like chalk after a rainstorm...' - Nick Wilson 'See, God really doesn't want anybody to get together... That's his plan' - Jerry Seinfeld 'If you sit down at a poker game and don't see a sucker, get up. Your the sucker.' 'When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.' 'Shall we meditate with the earth worms?' - Matt P. 'I think it's wrong that only ONE company makes the game MONOPOLY' - Steven Wright 'You only live once, so enjoy it... but you only have one body in life, so take care of it...' - Nick Wilson 'Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep, If I should die before I wake, I'll cry in anguish, "Mistake!! Mistake!!"' 'Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.' -- Hector Berlioz 'We're all demi-dogs' 'I like my women like I like my books... Interesting, intelligent, and with great assets...' --Nick Wilson 'spam, it's like... the gum disease of the internet...' -- nick wilson 'Carperpetuation (kar' pur pet u a shun), n.: The act, when vacuuming, of running over a string at least a dozen times, reaching over and picking it up, examining it, then putting it back down to give the vacuum one more chance.' -- Rich Hall, "Sniglets" 'You have the capacity to learn from mistakes. You'll learn a lot today.' 'There is hardly a thing in the world that some man can not make a little worse and sell a little cheaper.' 'Santa Claus is watching!' 'You will become rich and famous unless you don't.' 'Anything is possible, unless it's not.' 'volcano, n. A mountain with hiccups.' 'Memory fault -- brain fried' 'A hundred thousand lemmings can't be wrong!' 'make the bad typing go away mommy' -- Dungeon 3, homestar runner 'The Marines: The few, the proud, the dead on the beach.' 'Join the military, travel the world, meet new and interesting people, and kill them.' 'While you recently had your problems on the run, they've regrouped and are making another attack.' 'Loud burping while walking around the airport is prohibited in Halstead, Kansas.' 'Bug - An elusive creature living in a program that makes it incorrect. The activity of "debugging", or removing bugs from a program, ends when people get tired of doing it, not when the bugs are removed.' -- "Datamation", January 15, 1984 'A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.' 'The purpose of a college education is to obtain a grasp of the obvious' - Dr. Robert Wolverton 'Dinosaurs aren't extinct. They've just learned to hide in the trees.' 'The sun never sets on those who ride into it' 'Look out! Behind you!' 'thou art not very good at this gamest' -- Dungeon 3, homestar runner 'Words can never express what words can never express.' '"She's gone! Oh my God, she used me. I was used. I was used! Cool!"' - Jim - American Pie 'Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.' -- Friedrich Nietzsche 'Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.' 'Latin is a language, As dead as can be. First it killed the Romans, And now it's killing me.' 'Every time I think I know where it's at, they move it.' '"Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary."' - Dead Poets Society 'Law stands mute in the midst of arms.' -- Marcus Tullius Cicero 'Business today consists in persuading crowds.' -- T.S. Eliot 'Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.' - Marcus Aurelius 'I either want less decadence or more chance to participate in it.' 'New Hampshire law forbids you to tap your feet, nod your head, or in any way keep time to the music in a tavern, restaurant, or cafe.' 'I may be getting older, but I refuse to grow up!' 'I love source code' 'Condense soup, not books!' 'Wouldn't we look cute on a wedding cake together?' 'Your eyes are blue, like the ocean. And baby, I'm lost at sea.' 'I think animal testing is a terrible idea. They get nervous and give the wrong answers.' - Fry and Laurie 'I'm performing an experiment on the origination of SPAM, don't email me.' 'If you are legally allowed to vote, and you don't, you shouldn't complain about what the politicians in Washington do...' 'You can't put a price on creativity' - Walt Disney 'You must be at least this tall to ride the internet' 'By entering this website you verify your ability to enter this website' 'There is no porn here on this computer... sorry' 'It's unbelievably selfish to write something wonderful and then not share it with the world...' - nick wilson "Those willing to give up a little liberty for a little security deserve neither security nor liberty." -- Benjamin Franklin 'Warning! Dork at the helm, Captain!' 'The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.' - Joe Pennant 'Where here to make a dent in the universe, otherwise what's the point of being here?' - Steve Jobs 'Expose yourself to the best things humans have done and then try to bring those things into what you are doing' - Steve Jobs 'What we are doing is making our way back to life, shattering with all our force the ice of the habitual and the rational which instantly congeals over reality and keeps us from ever seeing it, finding a passage back into the open sea.' - Marcel Proust 'Programming today is a race between software engineers stirring to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.' - unknown 'The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.' - Arthur C. Clarke 'The world of the future will be an ever more demanding struggle against the limitations of our intelligence, not a comfortable hammock in which we can lie down to be watied upon by our robot slaves.' - Norbert Wiener 'In this electronic age we see ourselves being translated more and more into the form of information, moving toward the technological extension of consciousness.' - Marshall McLuhan 'One does not discover new continents without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.' - Andre Gide 'Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to be always part of unanimity.' - Christopher Morely 'If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know' - Louis Armstrong 'People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.' - Albert Einstein 'If you are attracted to others' sayings, you will not be able to cut through yourself.' - Shen-Ting 'Whatever you do will seem insignificant, but it will be important' -Ghandi 'To go eastward one mile is to go westward one mile' - Zen Proverb 'The no-mind not-thinks no-thoughts about no-things.' - Buddha 'From a certain point onward there is no longer any turning back. That is the point that must be reached.' - Franz Kafka 'The thing you set your mind on is the thing you ultimately become.' - Nathaniel Hawthorne 'The choices we make, the people who we associate with, the lives we live, and the way we appear to others, and the things we create dictate who we are. There is nothing else.' 'Those tones the elevators make when they're broken? THAT'S elevator music...' 'We are all mortal. Your actions and that which you leave behind makes you immortal, your writings, your ideas, your legacy...' 'Imagine a BEOWULF cluster of these' 'I woke this morning from my nightmare, cold, shaking violently, and dissoriented. I was awake though, I looked around, I smiled, and I laughed.' -- Nick Wilson -- July 14, 2003 'There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere' - Nelson Mandella 'Somewhere, between that sleepy state, and wide awakedness something exists. It's hard to explain what it is, but it's where the real and imaginary merge. It's where your dreams meet reality. It's where we feel, for a moment, that we are exactly who we want to be. It's that point where our thoughts, our dreams, and our imaginations become one. It's the warm feel of freshly cleaned clothes from the dryer, and it's the grip of the cold hand of death on your shoulder as you fall towards earth. ... In that split second, exists Traicovn' -- Nick Wilson 'Depression is just anger without the rage' 'It's a sick world out there, and that's why we don't live out there.' -Garrison Keillor 'Stand still. The trees ahead and the bushes beside you Are not lost. Wherever you are is called HERE.' - David Wagoner 'IBM released a new computer chip today. The intended application is unknown at this time but it is suspected that it will be used in some sort of a high end computing system.... gee, ya think?' 'Do not bathe with the toaster, no matter how dirty the rambunctious critter is.' 'If you get hot when your sick, why do they call it a cold?' - me 'My life is very odd. It is laced with lady bugs, which seem to appear at random in the most unusual of places.' - Nick Wilson (me) 'The time is always right to do right.' -- Martin Luther King 'Life is difficult.' -- Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled 'No conflict exists between the pleasure a modern American finds in material things and his struggle to discover a new scientific truth, or evolve a new philosophy, or create a work of art. The good life, the full life, encompasses all of these - and all of them satisfy and spur a man on to do more, see more, know more, experience more.' - Hugh Hefner 'But a real man don't make his livin' wit' his ass parked in front of a computa all day, know what I'm sayin'? It one thing to use a computa to assist you in yo' day-to-day bidness, but when tha computa be yo' whole hustle, that shit be WACK. Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit.' - The Onion 'Programming is like sex... make one mistake, and support it the rest of your life.' 'I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry. I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.' - Adolus Huxley, Brave New World 'I listen to electronica, and I feel like I live in a world without meaning, without dirction.' - Matt P. 'When in doubt, make a fool of yourself' 'History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.' - Winston Churchill 'The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up.' 'Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which we will not put.' - Churchill 'Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.' - Marilyn Monroe 'Sometimes I think that the proof that there is intelligent life somewhere out there is that it hasn't tried to contact us yet - Calvin and Hobbes' 'Time wounds all heals' "It's quoted in the bible, Revelations: Behold the pale horse. The man who sat on him was death, and Hell followed with him." - Johnny Ringo - Tombstone 'Guard: He's got a sword! Razoul: You idiots -- we've ALL got swords!" - Aladdin "I was in the Virgin Islands once. I met a girl. We ate lobster and drank pina coladas. At sunset we made love like sea otters. *That* was a pretty good day. Why couldn't I get that day over and over and over..."Phil - Groundhog Day "I'll wait for you, however long it takes. I'll wait for you forever." - Susannah - Legends of the Fall 'I can think of nothing more boring for the American people than to have to sit in their living rooms for a whole half hour looking at my face on their television screens.' -- Dwight D. Eisenhower 'The one function TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if there were.' -- David Brinkley "Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness and they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy, but they become legends." - One Stab - Legends of the Fall 'What was yesterday, is today, and will be tommorow' 'Yesterday is a long time ago, today is never going to end, and tommorow's deadlines will be here before you know it...' 'HELLO WORLD I EXIST!' 'Sometimes I feel like the world has forgotten me, that I don't exist. At times like that I feel like I should just scream out at the top of my lungs 'HELLO WORLD! I EXIST!' -- Nick Wilson 'Do you ever feel like screaming? Just for no reason at all screaming at the top of your lungs?' -- Nick Wilson 'An infinite number of Monkeys with typewriters will eventually get the document out correctly, but For version 1.0, we only have 37 Monkeys, and they are limited to 3 hours run time. Expect later version to include more Monkeys' - seen on slashdot 'Dad always thought laughter was the best medicine, which I guess is why several of us died of tuberculosis.' - Jack Handey 'I bet it was pretty hard to pick up girls if you had the Black Death.' - Jack Handey 'I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.' - Jack Handey 'Someone has stolen this quote...' 'Organized religion is a sham and a crutch for weak-minded people who need strength in numbers.' - Jesse Ventura 'Congratulations, you have a sense of humor. And to those who didn't: Go stick your head in the mud.' - Jesse Ventura 'They can conquer who believe they can.' - Vergil 'I am not interested in money. I just want to be wonderful.' - Marilyn Monroe 'In the immortal words of Jean Paul Sartre: au revoir gopher.' - Caddyshack 'He called me a baboon, thinks I'm his wife.' - Caddyshack 'The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.' - Carl Sagan 'A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes' - Ghandi 'An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.' - Mohandas Gandhi 'Nobody creates a fad. It just happens. People love going along with the idea of a beautiful pig. It's like a conspiracy.' - Jim Henson 'Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.' - Thomas Hobbes 'Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.' - Alfred Hitchcock 'A good film is when the price of the dinner, the theatre admission and the babysitter were worth it.' - Alfred Hitchcock 'The first rule of business is: Do other men for they would do you.' - Charles Dickens 'I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free.' - Charles Dickens 'My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.' - Malcolm X 'Man is a universe within himself.' - Bob Marley 'Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.' - Napoleon 'Television has done much for psychiatry by spreading information about it, as well as contributing to the need for it.' -- Alfred Hitchcock 'A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits.' - Richard M. Nixon 'I'd rather be a failure at something I love than a success at something I hate.' - George Burns 'You're not anyone in America unless you're on TV.' - Nicole Kidman 'Opportunities multiply as they are seized.' - Sun Tzu 'You never die enough to cry' - Jack Kerouac 'To be sure of hitting the target, shoot first and, whatever you hit, call it the target.' 'If you ever drop your keys into a pool of lava, forget about them, cuz man, they're gone' 'Yeah, well. The Dude abides...' - The Big Lebowski 'To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world' 'I tried to wake from my nightmare. But I found I was awake already... ' - Nick Wilson 'The thoughts of the world we live in are often twisted, bent if you will...' - Nick Wilson 'What if, at this very moment, I am living up to my full potential?' 'Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.' -Kahlil Gibran 'I don't know, I don't care, and it doesn't make any difference!' -Kerouac 'You can't stop the rain by complaining' -Singing in the Rain 'Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.' 'Only when the last tree has died and the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will we realize that we can't eat money.' -- Cree Proverb 'A rich man is nothing but a poor man with money.' -W.C. Fields 'Whether you think you can or whether you think you can't, you're right!' Henry Ford 'I've never been an intellectual but I have this look.' -Woody Allen 'If you don't fail now and again, it's a sign you're playing it safe.' Woody Allen 'never speak his name, and his name will fade away' -- Johnny Cash 'If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?' -Kahlil Gibran 'In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.' - Ben Franklin 'Statues of marble or brass will perish; and statues made in imitation of them are not the same statues... But print and reprint a thought a thousand times over, and that with materials of any kind... the thought is eternally and identically the same thought in every case.' -- Thomas Paine 'Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.' -- Martin Luther King 'Anatomy (n): something everyone has, but which looks better on a girl' - Raeburn 'Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.' - Edward Abbey 'llama llama llama!!!!' -- Nick Wilson 'When two elephants fight it is the grass that suffers.' - African Proverb 'Lester Burnham: When I was your age, I flipped burgers just to be able to buy an eight-track. Ricky Fitts: That sucks. Lester Burnham: No, actually it was great. All I did was party and get laid. I had my whole life ahead of me.' - American Beauty "They say money can't buy happiness? Look at the smile on my face. Ear to ear, baby." - Jim Young - Boiler Room "A bird may love a fish, sinore, but where will they live?" - Danielle - Ever After "You have more passion in one memory than I have in a lifetime." - Prince Henry - Ever After "There are 2 kinds of people in this world, Charlie. The first group is the people that face the music; the second group are those who run for cover. Cover is better." - Colonel Slade - Scent of a Woman "Okay, so what am I doing? [Glimpses Dodd running parallel to him through rows of cars.] Oh, I'm chasing this guy. [Dodd stops, pulls out a gun and points it at Leonard.] No... he's chasing me." - Leonard Shelby - Memento "You don't buy black underwear unless you want somebody to see it." - Bianca - 10 Things I Hate About You "Why is everyone so hot for this girl? Has she got beer-flavored nipples?"' - Patrick Verona - 10 Things I Hate About You 'Viola de Lesseps: [as Thomas Kent] Tell me how you love her, Will. William Shakespeare: Like a sickness and its cure together.' - Shakespeare in Love "So what's more likely? That a mysterious, all-powerful God created the universe, and then decided not to leave a single evidence of his existence? Or that He simply doesn't exist at all, and that we created Him, so that we wouldn't have to feel so small and lonely?"' - Eleanor Arroway - Contact 'Eleanor Arroway: Dad, do you think there's people on other planets? Theodore Arroway: I don't know, Sparks. But I guess I'd say if it is just us... seems like an awful waste of space.' - Contact '"If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn. People die. But real love lives forever." - Sarah - The Crow 'Young Copper: I'm a hound dog! Young Todd: You're my best friend, Copper. Young Copper: And you're mine, too, Todd. Young Todd: And we'll be friends forever. Young Copper: Yeah, forever.' - The Fox and the Hound 'We shall find peace. We shall hear angels. We shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.' -- Anton Chekov 'Remember no man's a failure who has friends.' -- Clarence, the angel It's a Wonderful Life 'Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly.Friends are angels who lift us to our feet when our wings have trouble remembering how to fly. "Only love and music are forever." - Erik Destler - Phantom of the Opera 'Fuck it. Let's do it.' - Australian Proverb 'The frog does not drink up the pond in which it lives' - Indian proverb 'Dance as if no one's watching, sing as if no one's listening, and live everyday as if it were your last.' - Irish proverb 'Not all who wander are lost.' - JRR Tolkien 'Fighting for peace is like fucking for virginity' - Graffiti 'Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistant one' - Albert Einstein 'There's no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day' - Alexander Woolcott 'He who takes his life for granted is a pencil without an eraser.' - C.S. Lewis 'What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?' -- T.S. Eliot 'There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle The other is as though everything is a miracle.' -- Albert Einstein 'Life is too deep for words, so don't try to describe it, just live it.' - C.S. Lewis 'Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.' - Einstein 'When you forget to eat you know you're alive.' - Henry Miller 'In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life - It goes on.' - Robert Frost 'Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a banana.' - Groucho Marx 'A true friend stabs you in the front' - Oscar Wilde 'It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew' - Henry Rollins 'Happiness is a warm puppy.' - Charles Schulz 'Everything exists in limited quantity - especially happiness.' - Picasso 'Hating people is like burning down your house to kill a rat' - Henry Fosdick 'Before you kill somebody, make absolutely sure he isn't well connected.' - Vonnegut 'Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.' - Kurt Vonnegut 'True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.' - Kurt Vonnegut 'Come on out, stop fucking the blonde! Come on out and have a drink!' - Jack Kerouac 'I'm not a beatnik, I'm a Catholic.' - Jack Kerouac 'Offer them what they secretly want and they of course immediately become panic-stricken.' - Jack Kerouac 'Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.' - Einstein 'Determine never to be idle...It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.' - Thomas Jefferson 'Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it.' - Thomas Jefferson 'In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock' - Thomas Jefferson 'Never spend your money before you have it.' - Thomas Jefferson 'Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances.' - Thomas Jefferson 'Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none.' - Benjamin Franklin 'I am a recovering computer geek...' 'Do, or do not. There is no 'try'. - Yoda 'Somewhere out there beneath the pale moonlight, Someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight' -- An American Tale 'If you are going through hell, keep going.' - Winston Churchill 'Facts are the enemy of truth' - Don Quixote 'Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.' - Adolus Huxley 'It's kind of fun to do the impossible' - Walt Disney 'God, please save me from your followers!' - Bumper Sticker 'Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.' - John F. Kennedy 'Logic is in the eye of the logician.' - Gloria Steinem 'In the end, everything is a gag' - Charlie Chaplin 'He who hesitates is a damned fool' - Mae West 'If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?' - Lincoln 'There is no else, there is only the self' - Nick Wilson 'Vote early and vote often' - Al Capone 'Traicovn is pronounced Tray-kah-vuhn' 'Don't forget to be kind to strangers. For some who have done this have entertained angels without realizing it.' -- Hebrews 13:2 '640K ought to be enough for anybody.' - Bill Gates 'We're here to make a dent in the universe, otherwise, what's the point of being here?' - Steve Jobs 'The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense.' - Tom Clancy 'Love is friendship set on fire.' - Jeremy Taylor 'If I want your opinion, I'll give it to you' - Al Capone 'Our Lady of Blessed Acceleration, don't fail us now!' - Elwood (Blues Brothers) 'Whee. Sal, we gotta go and never stop going till we get there. Where we going, man? I don't know but we gotta go.' - Kerouac 'People on Jolt cola write the funniest things.' 'You don't know what you can get away with until you try.' -- Colin Powell 'There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and [Unix] BSD. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.' 'Ever notice that the AT&T Logo looks like the DEATH STAR?' 'You are in a maze twisty little passages, all alike.' 'Please insert 2 credits to continute...' 'Press any key to continue or any other key to quit...' 'They said I could have any kind of woman I wanted, so I asked for brown hair, long legs, and really horny. They brought me a moose.' -- Steve Martin '(A)bort, (R)etry, (G)et a beer?' 'You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave...' - The Eagles, Hotel California 'Don't fall asleep. You're face will be full of letters.' 'Alcohol and calculus don't mix... Don't drink and derive.' 'Searching the Internet ultimately ends in porn' 'I had a life once... now I have a computer and a modem.' 'Keyboard not functioning. Press F1 to continue' 'Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.' - Confucius 'Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream' - Malcolm Muggeridge 'Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.' 'No one gets too old to learn a new way of being stupid.' 'College is a fountain of knowledge... and the students are there to drink' 'If it happens, it must be possible.' - Murphy's Laws 'People will believe anything if you whisper it.' 'You're not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on' - Dean Martin 'Do be do be do' - Frank Sinatra 'May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.' - Sinatra 'I'm gonna live till I die' - Sinatra 'Never yawn in front of a lady' - Sinatra 'You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.' - Sinatra 'I'm losing it' - Sinatra's last words 'There is nothing to fear, but fear itself'. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt 'A book is a gift you can open again and again.' - Garrison Keillor I think the most un-American thing you can say is, 'You can't say that.' - Garrison Keillor 'If it was easy, everybody would be doing it.' 'Only the guy who isn't rowing has time to rock the boat.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'One is still what one is going to cease to be and already what one is going to become. One lives one's death, one dies one's life.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre ' Words are loaded pistols. ' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'If you never fail, you're not trying hard enough' 'An unhurried sense of time is, in itself, a form of wealth' 'Warning: dates on calendar are closer than they appear.' 'This space intentionally left blank.' 'In the future, everybody will be famous for 15 minutes.' -- Andy Warhol 'Quando omni flunkus moritati' 'The sun'll come out, tommorow... bet your bottom dollar that tommorow...' - Annie 'Everybody asks me how she's doin, has she really lost her mind, I say I couldn't tell you I'm just fine...' - Dave Matthews 'Love all. Trust a few. Do wrong to none' - Shakespeare 'Love is not love that alters when it alteration finds.' - Shakespeare 'wan·der·lust (wndr-lst) n. A very strong or irresistible impulse to travel.' 'The fact that you're not answering leads me to believe that (a) You're not home, (b) You're home but you don't want to talk to me, or (c) You're home, desperately want to talk to me, but you're trapped under something heavy. If it's either (a) or (c), please give me a call.' - When Harry met Sally 'Ahh... I see... you want to be different just like everyone else...' - Nick Wilson 'You see? That is just like you, Harry. You say things like that, and you make it impossible for me to hate you!' - When Harry met Sally 'I feel like I've been in a coma for the past twenty years. And I'm just now waking up.' - American Beauty 'I can't feel anything but gratitude for every single moment of my stupid little life.' - American Beauty 'I don't think that there's anything worse than being ordinary.' - American Beauty 'but it's hard to stay mad, when there's so much beauty in the world.' - American Beauty 'I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image.' -- Stephen Hawking 'You have no idea what I'm talking about, I'm sure... but don't worry... You will someday' - American Beauty 'How come Andrew gets to get up? If he gets up, we'll all get up, IT'LL BE ANARCHY!' - The Breakfast Club 'Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, she walks into mine' - Casablanca 'People have kids out of a desire to be entertained by midget clowns' - me 'the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace things, but burn like fabulous roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue center light pop and everybody goes "AWWW!" - Jack Kerouac 'It was the spirit of the West sitting right next to me. I wished I knew his whole raw life' - Kerouac 'One can't complain. I have my friends. Someone spoke to me only yesterday' - Eeyore 'Nobody can be uncheered with a balloon.' - Winnie the Pooh 'To be great is to be misunderstood.' -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Do not let your handwriting resemble the trackings of inebriated spiders' - Dr. Robert E. Wolverton 'My spelling is Wobbly. It's good spelling, but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places' - Pooh 'I've developed a new philosophy... I only dread one day at a time.' - Charlie Brown 'Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.' - Charlie Brown 'In the book of life, the answers aren't in the back.' - Charlie Brown 'Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask, 'Where have I gone wrong?' Then a voice says to me, 'This is going to take more than one night.' - Charlie Brown 'It's psychosomatic. You need a lobotomy. I'll get a saw.' - Calvin and Hobbes 'In my opinion, we don't devote nearly enough scientific research to finding a cure for jerks' - Calvin and Hobbes 'Weekends don't count unless you spend them doing something completely pointless.' - Calvin and Hobbes 'I like maxims that don't encourage behavior modification.' - Calvin and Hobbes 'Reality continues to ruin my life' - Calvin and Hobbes 'To generalize is to be an idiot.' - William Blake 'Here's a good rule of thumb; Too clever is dumb. -- Ogden Nash 'Follow your bliss. Find where it is and don't be afraid to follow it.' - Joseph Campbell 'As a math atheist, I should be excused from this.' - Calvin and Hobbes 'I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information' - Calvin and Hobbes 'In my opinion, television validates existence' - Calvin and Hobbes 'It's only work if somebody makes you do it' - Calvin and Hobbes 'Todays webpage was brought to you buy the number 42' 'The mean reds are horrible. Suddenly you're afraid and you don't know what you're afraid of. Do you ever get that feeling?' - Breakfast at Tiffanys 'Ok, what seventies villan has taken ahold of you from their own video-dimensional world?' - Mike Champion 'I'm going to take over the world and there's nothing you can do to stop me!' - Travis M. Walker 'We're either lost, strayed, or stolen...' - Roy Blakely 'All your base are belong to us!' 'And I believe that Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an arctic region covered with ice.' -- Steve Martin 'Old Japanese proverb: There are two kinds of fools -- those who never climb Mt. Fuji, and those who climb it twice.' 'Better hope the life-inspector doesn't come around while you have your life in such a mess.' 'There are 10 types of people in this world. Those who can read binary code, and those who can't' 'Under deadline pressure for the next week. If you want something, it can wait. Unless it's blind screaming paroxysmally hedonistic...' 'Is a wedding successful if it comes off without a hitch?' 'Never look up when dragons fly overhead.' 'Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.' -- George Bernard Shaw 'I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind.' -- Kahlil Gibran 'A little nonsense, now and then, is relished by the wisest men.' 'I believe that those of us who are the producers and purveyors of television -- or video games or newspapers or any mass media -- I believe that we are the servants of this nation' - Fred Rogers 'Choose your enemies carefully. Sooner or later you begin to look like them.' 'Computers help us do stupid things faster.' 'The surest way to make a monkey of a man is to quote him.' -- Robert Benchley 'This is like being on acid and walking into Disneyland.' - unknown www first-timer 'Cool! It's giving a DIFFERENT error now!' 'The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists and calculators has succeeded: and the glory of Europe is extinghished for ever.' - Edmund Burke 'Too drunk to fuck is just drunk enough to bowl.' - Steve Ledebur 'There is no interest in the common good.' - Senator Palpatine, Star Wars, The Phantom Menace 'To be great is to be misunderstood.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Grown men do not need leaders.' - Edward Abbey 'He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it.' - Douglas Adams 'There was a point to this narrative, but it has presently escaped the chronicler's mind.' - Douglas Adams 'It's a place used the world over where people can come together to bitch about movies and share pornography together.' - Jay and Silent Bob Strike BAck 'I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying.' - Woody Allen 'Love is the answer, but while you're waiting for the answer, sex raises some pretty good questions.' - Woody Allen 'The wise learn many things from their enemies.' - Aristophanes 'There was never a great genius without a tincture of madness.' - Aristotle 'We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.' - Aristotle 'Sleep is actually a good substitute for coffee' - Bill Arms 'You could get an iMac, but generally speaking, iMacs are something you win, not something you buy.' - Mark Argent 'Nobody cares if you can't dance well. Just get up and dance.' - Dave Barry 'People who want to share their religious views with you almost never want you to share yours with them.' - Dave Barry 'Fuck technology, let's dance.' - Michael Bauer 'Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.' - Napolean Bonaparte 'We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.' - David Brower 'Spagnum moss in toes makes you happy.' - Jeannine Busick 'The road to truth is long, and lined the entire way with annoying bastards.' - Alexander Jablokov 'This website will self destruct' 'hold that a little rebellion is a good thing.' - Thomas Jefferson 'It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.' - Thomas Jefferson 'I'm not bitter, I'm evil.' - Andrea Jones 'When PETA starts trying to toss red paint on motorcycle riders wearing leather jackets, things will get more interesting (and I hope someone's there with a camera).' - James Jones 'Sam's Diet Plan: A Coke for breakfast, a Coke for lunch, and a sensible dinner...' - Sam Kass 'Stupid people make my head hurt' - Nick Wilson 'You WILL be assimilated into the PDA revolution... resistance, if less than one ohm, is futile...' - Sam Kass 'I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.' - Garrison Keillor 'If tofu adds years to your life, they probably wouldn't be the best years.' - Garrison Keillor 'Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature ... Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.' - Helen Keller 'Of those to whom much is given, much is required.' - John F. Kennedy 'Washington is a city of southern efficiency and northern charm.' - John F. Kennedy 'For a great university one must provide football for the alumni, sex for the undergraduates and parking for the faculty.' - Kerr's Rules for a Successful College '(a)bort (r)etry (f)ergetaboutit' - traicovn's brooklyn error message 'There cannot be a crisis next week. My schedule is already full.' - Henry Kissinger 'I will consult the magic 8 ball on that one ... its says "How the hell should I know' - Jennifer Knipper 'God put me on this Earth to accomplish certain things. Right now, I am so far behind, I will never die.' - Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes 'I try to make everyones life a little more surreal.'- Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes 'It's not denial... I'm just very selective about the reality I accept.' - Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes 'Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.' - Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes 'The purpose of writing is to inflate weak ideas, obscure pure reasoning, and inhibit clarity. With a little pratice, writing can be an intimidating and impenetrable fog!' - Calvin, Calvin & Hobbes 'I am your enemy, the first one you've ever had who was smarter than you. There is no teacher but the enemy. No one but the enemy will ever tell you what the enemy is going to do. No one but the enemy will ever teach you how to destroy and conquer. Only the enemy shows you where you are weak. Only the enemy tells you where he is strong. And the rules of the game are what you can do to him and what you can stop him from doing to you. I am your enemy from now on. From now on, I am your teacher.' - Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game 'I did it, and it worked. Memorize that defense. You may have to use it yourself someday.' - Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game 'I don't know. Is it a longing? Is it a giddy stupid happiness just because you're with me? ... That's influenza ... Watch for nausea or diarrhea within a few hours.' - Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind 'Isn't that the sweetest little well-balanced undergraduate-level philosophy of life.' - Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind 'it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be.' - Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game 'Love is random; fear is inevitable.' - Orson Scott Card, Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus 'Nobody controls his own life. The best you can do is choose to be controlled by good people, by people who love you.' - Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game 'Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet.' - Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind 'Sometimes lies were more dependable than the truth.' - Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game 'The wise are not wise because they make no mistakes. They are wise because they correct their mistakes as soon as they recognize them.' - Orson Scott Card, Xenocide 'Whenever I hear you saying, Rise and shine, rise and shine, it makes me think how lucky dead people are!' - Orson Scott Card, Treasure Box 'You're only so sure you're right because they're so sure you're wrong.' - Orson Scott Card, Xenocide 'Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.' - Orson Scott Card, Children of the Mind 'Oh, you hate your job? Why didn't you say so? There's a support group for that. It's called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.' - Drew Carey 'May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.' - George Carlin 'A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject.' - Winston Churchill 'Never give in. Never. Never. Never. Never.' - Winston Churchill 'Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.' - Winston Churchill 'Success is never final.' - Winston Churchill 'The world revolves around the sun, not your head.' - Copernicus 'Style over substance.' - Cyberpunk motto 'I never did drugs because I am drugs.' - Salvador Dali 'People should have a license before they're allowed to drive on the superhighway.' - Andrew Demkin 'All sorts of zen-like goodness' 'I have more toys then you! I win!!!' "Master Yoda, are Microsoft products better?" "No. Only easier, more seductive..." - Mark Denovich 'The problem with higher mathematics is that after a while you begin to see dark at the end of the tunnel.' - Saul Devitt 'Minds are like parachutes - they only function when open.' - Thomas Dewar 'The author makes no guarantee that the story will satisfy you. THAT is entirely in your HANDS' 'If you can dream it you can do it. Always remember that this whole thing was started by a mouse.' - Walt Disney 'Definition - Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.' 'Definition - Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.' 'oops...' 'Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.' -- Christina Rossetti 'Definition - Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.' 'Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight.' - Benjamin Franklin 'Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to abolish misery from their future and crimes from society.' - Benjamin Franklin 'He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing everything for money.' - Benjamin Franklin 'All Galaxy Class Starships are equipped with their own dramatic lighting system.' - Dan Fahs 'Pain heals. Chicks dig scars. Glory lasts forever.' - Shane Falco, "The Replacements" 'We just sit at home and play with our computers and we can make stuff that's funky without being funky ourselves.' - Fatboy Slim 'Diet Caffeine Free Mountain Dew is like saying I don't like sex, I just like wearing a condom.' - Jon Ferro 'If the women don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy' -- Red Green 'I am currently using my EVIL powers!' 'Without adventure, civilization is in full decay.' -- Alfred North Whitehead 'Give me liberty or give me death' -- Patrick Henry 'Behold... the power of THE SPORK!' 'The District of Columbia has a law forbidding you to exert pressure on a balloon and thereby cause a whistling sound on the streets.' 'To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men -- that is genius.'-- Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Beauty, n.: The power by which a woman charms a lover and terrifies a husband.' -- Ambrose Bierce 'Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.' -- Publius Syrus 'A mother takes twenty years to make a man of her boy, and another woman makes a fool of him in twenty minutes.' - Robert Frost 'Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self confidence.' - Robert Frost 'Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.' - Gibran 'Much of your pain is self chosen' - Gibran 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.' - Shakespeare 'Though this be madness, yet there is method in't' - Shakespeare 'All that we see or seem is but a dream within a dream.' - Edgar Allan Poe 'I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.' - Edgar Allan Poe 'They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.' - Edgar Allan Poe 'Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.' - Edgar Allan Poe 'That wasn't chicken....' 'Chapeau' means 'hat'. 'Oeuf' means 'egg'. It's like thost French have a different word for everything.' -- Steve Martin 'The greatest danger could be your stupidity' 'Suppose you CAN have everything you want...' 'This really is a lovely day' 'Wouldn't it be loverly? 'People say believe half of what you see, Son, and none of what you hear.' -- Marvin Gaye, Heard it Through the Grapevine 'If you're studying geology, which is all facts, as soon as you get out of school you forget it all... but philosophy, you remember just enough to screw you up for the rest of your life.' -- Steve Martin 'A penny saved is a penny earned' - Ben Franklin 'You have to understand the way I live my life. I'm going to go faster, longer, harder, stronger, and further until one day a little vein in my heads going to explode, resulting in an anurism, and then the insanity that drives me will stop...' 'Everything is not yet lost' 'The light at the end of the tunnel could mean bad things' 'If you don't know what to do I'll tell you, get out of my way...' 'If you don't know what to do with your life let me offer you a suggestion... stay out of my way...' 'No cookie holds as much future as a snickerdoodle' 'To achieve a great goal, one must bring along duct tape' 'At the rate you give people headaches, you should buy stock in Excedrin.' 'If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.' - Murphy's Laws 'Eat, drink, and be merry; for tommorow they may make it illegal' 'Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.' - Charles Schulz 'Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It is already tomorrow in Australia.' - Charles Schulz 'There is no problem so big it cannot be run away from.' - Charles Schulz 'The way I see it, it doesn't matter what you believe just so you're sincere.' - Charles Schulz 'My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right?' - Charles Schulz 'I love mankind; it's people I can't stand.' - Charles Schulz 'I have a new philosophy. I'm only going to dread one day at a time.' - Charles Schulz 'I know the answer! The answer lies within the heart of all mankind! The answer is twelve? I think I'm in the wrong building.' - Charles Schulz 'Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Always do what you are afraid to do.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson 'Concentration is the secret of strengths in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.' - Emmerson 'Every artist was first an amateur.' - Ralph Waldo Emerson 'If your only tool is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail' 'Hang up on cold calls' 'If today is the first day of the rest of your life, what the hell was yesterday?' 'If your aim in life is nothing; you can't miss.' 'Man who want dreams to come true...must not oversleep.' 'FRIENDS NEVER ASK FOR YOU FOR YOUR MONEY, THEY ONLY ASK FOR YOUR TIME' 'All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost; The old that is strong does not wither, Deep roots are not reached by frost.' - Tolkien 'College is a refuge from hasty judgment.' - Robert Frost 'Home is the place where, when you have to go there, They have to take you in.' - Robert Frost 'Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.' - Robert Frost 'You have freedom when you're easy in your harness.' - Robert Frost 'The best way out is always through.' - Robert Frost 'You can make a throne of bayonets, but you can't sit on it for long.' - Boris Yeltsin 'We don't appreciate what we have until it's gone. Freedom is like that. It's like air. When you have it, you don't notice it.' - Boris Yeltsin 'Be obscure clearly.' - E. B. White 'I'm afraid that if you look at a thing long enough, it loses all of its meaning.' - Andy Warhol 'I never think that people die. They just go to department stores.' - Andy Warhol 'When I got my first television set, I stopped caring so much about having close relationships.' - Andy Warhol 'Definition - Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn't get it.' 'Definition - Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.' 'Definition - Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.' 'Definition - Karmageddon: It's like, when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, right? And then, like, the earth explodes and it's like, a serious bummer.' 'Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company.' - George Washington 'Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.' - George Washington 'The government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion.' - George Washington 'It is far better to be alone, than to be in bad company.' - George Washington 'Few men have virtue enough to withstand the highest bidder.' - George Washington 'Dreams have only one owner at a time. That's why dreamers are lonely.' - Erma Bombeck 'Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.' - William Dement 'Dreams are the touchstones of our character' - Henry David Thoreau 'If you want to make your dreams come true, the first thing you have to do is wake up.' - J. M. Power 'There is a fine line between dreams and reality, it's up to you to draw it.' - B. Quilliam 'Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests.' - Charles Lindbergh 'I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.' - M. C. Escher 'Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.' - Langston Hughes 'It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.' - Albert Einstein 'Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.' - E. B. White 'Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then.' - Katharine Hepburn 'We are living in a world today where lemonade is made from artificial flavors and furniture polish is made from real lemons.' - Alfred E. Neuman 'In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.' Carl Sandburg 'Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.' - Josh Billings 'The doors of wisdom are never shut.' - Benjamin Franklin 'The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.' - Socrates 'Be Excellent' - Bill and Ted 'When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.' - Sara Teasdale 'It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.' - Lewis Carroll 'The man who has no imagination has no wings.' - Muhammad Ali 'You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.' - Jack London 'The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.' - William Shakespeare 'My alphabet starts with this letter called yuzz. It's the letter I use to spell yuzz-a-ma-tuzz. You'll be sort of surprised what there is to be found once you go beyond 'Z' and start poking around!' - Dr. Seuss 'I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life's realities.' - Dr. Seuss 'It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.' - Henry David Thoreau 'You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.' - Mark Twain 'Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.' - Carl Sagan 'Unbeing dead isn't being alive.' - E. E. Cummings 'Any idiot can face a crisis - it's day to day living that wears you out.' - Anton Chekhov 'The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.' - Henry David Thoreau 'It is impossible to travel faster than the speed of light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off.' - Woody Allen 'Weather forecast for tonight: dark.' - George Carlin 'You will never be happy searching for acceptance from others. You must search for acceptance from within. Only once you can fully accept yourself, can you deal with the acceptance from others. If you are afraid to find out who you are, then you shall never accept yourself, and you will never know who you are, and will never feel or be accepted. You should not be afraid of this.' -- Nick Wilson 'If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide.' - Mohandas Gandhi 'Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.' - Isaac Asimov 'Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost.' - John Quincy Adams 'Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.' - Lord Acton 'This case has had full analyzation and has been looked at alot.' - George W. Bush 'They want the federal government controlling Social Security like it's some kind of federal program.' - George W. Bush 'I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power.' - Arthur C. Clarke 'Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'When the rich wage war, it's the poor who die.' -- Jean-Paul Sartre 'Truth is a tendency.' - R. Buckminster Fuller 'The unexamined life is not worth living.' -Socrates 'Human intellect is incurably abstract.' --Myth Became Fact, World Dominion 'The more lucidly we think, the more we are cut off: the more deeply we enter into reality, the less we can think.' --Myth Became Fact, World Dominion 'You cannot study Pleasure in the moment of the nuptial embrace, nor repentance while repenting, nor analyze the nature of humour while roaring with laughter.' --Myth Became Fact, World Dominion 'Sleeping on a dragon's hoard with greedy, dragonish thoughts in his heart, he had become a dragon himself.' -- The Voyage of the 'Dawn Treader' 'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by' -- Douglas Adams 'I have no ambition to govern men; it is a painful and thankless office.' - Thomas Jefferson 'I was once told by a friends mother that one reason parents have kids is so that they can live vicariously through them, give them the opportunities they never had. Looking at old pictures from my family I have seen picturs of me in a sailors outfit. Does this mean that my parents expected me to join the navy?' '.sdrawkcab nettirw si etuoq sihT' 'War should be the politics of last resort. And when we go to war, we should have a purpose that our people understand and support.' -- Colin Powell 'Television is the triumph of machine over people.' -- Fred Allen 'Oh the nerves, the nerves; the mysteries of this machine called man! Oh the little that unhinges it, poor creatures that we are!' -- Charles Dickens (1812-70) 'Grown-ups never understand anything by themselves, and it is tiresome for children to be always and forever explaining things to them.' - The Little Prince 'Caffeine is my shepherd; I shall not doze. It maketh me to wake in green pastures:It leadeth me beyond the sleeping masses. It restoreth my buzz:It leadeth me in the paths of consciousness for its name's sake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of addiction, I will fear no Equal (tm):For thou art with me; thy cream and thy sugar they comfort me. Thou preparest a carafe before me in the presence of The Starbucks: Thou anointest my day with pep; my mug runneth over. Surely richness and taste shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the House of Mocha's forever' 'What if Operating Systems Were Airlines? DOS Airlines Everybody pushes the airplane until it glides, then they jump on and let the plane coast until it hits the ground again, then they push again jump on again, and so on. OS/2 Airlines The terminal is almost empty, with only a few prospective passengers milling about. The announcer says that their flight has just departed, wishes them a good flight, though there are no planes on the runway. Airline personnel walk around, apologising profusely to customers in hushed voices, pointing from time to time to the sleek, powerful jets outside the terminal on the field. They tell each passenger how good the real flight will be on these new jets and how much safer it will be than Windows Airlines, but that they will have to wait a little longer for the technicians to finish the flight systems. Once they finally finished you're offered a flight at reduced cost. To board the plane, you have your ticket stamped ten different times by standing in ten different lines. Then you fill our a form showing where you want to sit and whether the plane should look and feel like an ocean liner, a passenger train or a bus. If you succeed in getting on the plane and the plane succeeds in taking off the ground, you have a wonderful trip...except for the time when the rudder and flaps get frozen in position, in which case you will just have time to say your prayers and get in crash position. Windows Air The terminal is pretty and colorful, with friendly stewards, easy baggage check and boarding, and a smooth take-off. After about 10 minutes in the air, the plane explodes with no warning whatsoever. Windows NT Air Just like Windows Air, but costs more, uses much bigger planes, and takes out all the other aircraft within a 40-mile radius when it explodes. Mac Airlines All the stewards, stewardesses, captains, baggage handlers, and ticket agents look the same, act the same, and talk the same. Every time you ask questions about details, you are told you don't need to know, don't want to know, and would you please return to your seat and watch the movie. Unix Airlines Each passenger brings a piece of the airplane and a box of tools to the airport. They gather on the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, they build several different aircraft, but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually reach their destinations. All passengers believe they got there. Wings of OS/400 The airline has bought ancient DC-3s, arguably the best and safest planes that ever flew, and painted "747" on their tails to make them look as if they are fast. The flight attendants, of course, attend to your every need, though the drinks cost $15 a pop. Stupid questions cost $230 per hour, unless you have SupportLine, which requires a first class ticket and membership in the frequent flyer club. Then they cost $500, but your accounting department can call it overhead. Mach Airlines There is no airplane. The passengers gather and shout for an airplane, then wait and wait and wait and wait. A bunch of people come, each carrying one piece of the plane with them. These people all go out on the runway and put the plane together piece by piece, arguing constantly about what kind of plane they're building. The plane finally takes off, leaving the passengers on the ground waiting and waiting and waiting and waiting. After the plane lands, the pilot telephones the passengers at the departing airport to inform them that they have arrived. Newton Airlines After buying your ticket 18 months in advance, you finally get to board the plane. Upon boarding the plane you are asked your name. After 6 times, the crew member recognizes your name and then you are allowed to take your seat. As you are getting ready to take your seat, the steward announces that you have to repeat the boarding process because they are out of room and need to recount to make sure they can take more passengers. VMS Airlines The passengers all gather in the hanger, watching hundreds of technicians check the flight systems on this immense, luxury aircraft. This plane has at least 10 engines and seats over 1,000 passengers. All the passengers scramble aboard, as do the necessary complement of 200 technicians. The pilot takes his place up in the glass cockpit. He guns the engines, only to realise that the plane is too big to get through the hangar doors. BeOS Air You have to pay for the tickets, but they're half the price of Windows Air, and if you are an aircraft mechanic you can probably ride for free. It only takes 15 minutes to get to the airport and you are cheuferred there in a limozine. BeOS Air only has limited types of planes that only only hold new luggage. All planes are single seaters and the model names all start with an "F" (F-14, F-15, F-16, F-18, etc.). The plane will fly you to your destination on autopilot in half the time of other Airways or you can fly the plane yourself. There are limited destinations, but they are only places you'd want to go to anyway. You tell all your friends how great BeOS Air is and all they say is "What do you mean I can't bring all my old baggage with me?" Linux Airlines Disgruntled employees of all the other OS airlines decide to start their own airline. They build the planes, ticket counters, and pave the runways themselves. They charge a small fee to cover the cost of printing the ticket, but you can also download and print the ticket yourself. When you board the plane, you are given a seat, four bolts, a wrench and a copy of the seat-HOWTO.html. Once settled, the fully adjustable seat is very comfortable, the plane leaves and arrives on time without a single problem, the in-flight meal is wonderful. You try to tell customers of the other airlines about the great trip, but all they can say is, "You had to do what with the seat?" ' 'Minds, like bodies, will often fall into a pimpled, ill-conditioned state from mere excess of comfort.' -- Charles Dickens 'No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another.' -- Charles Dickens 'Reflect on your present blessings, of which every man has many; not on your past misfortunes, of which all men have some.' -- Charles Dickens 'Seeing a murder on television... can help work off one's antagonisms. And if you haven't any antagonisms, the commercials will give you some.' -- Alfred Hitchcock 'Subdue your appetites, my dears, and you've conquered human nature.' -- Charles Dickens 'Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.' -- Charles Dickens 'With affection beaming out of one eye, and calculation shining out of the other.' -- Charles Dickens 'Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.' -- William Butler Yeats 'It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.' -- Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities 'Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.' -- Charles Dickens 'I never had one hour's happiness in her society, and yet my mind all round the four-and-twenty hours was harping on the happiness of having her with me unto death.' -- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 'It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold: when it is summer in the light, and winter in the shade.' -- Great Expectations, Charles Dickens 'Congratulations, you found the secret quote!'