• FavoriteQuotes

• I’m a raging alcoholic who sells booze for a living, but it works for me,” he said. “I love the opposites in my life. -- Harry Denton, New York Times (on being sober in the hospitality industry)

• Most men make the error of thinking that one day it will be done. They think, “If I can work enough, then one day I could rest.” Or, “one day my woman will understand something and then she will stop complaining.” Or, “I’m only doing this now so that one day I can do what I really want with my life.” The masculine error is to think that eventually things will be different in some fundamental way. They won’t. It never ends. As long as life continues, the creative challenge is to tussle, play, and make love with the present moment while giving your unique gift. -- David Deida, "The Way of the Superior Man"
• Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams, random conversations, architecture, bridges, street signs, trees, clouds, bodies of water, light and shadows. Select only things to steal from that speak directly to your soul. If you do this, your work (and theft) will be authentic. Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don't bother concealing your thievery - celebrate it if you feel like it. In any case, always remember what Jean-Luc Godard said: "It's not where you take things from - it's where you take them to." -- Jim Jarmusch
• Talent is long patience. -- Gustav Flaubert
• Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them. -- Paul Valéry, "Tel Quel 2" (1943)

• History is the most dangerous concoction the chemistry of the mind has produced. Its properties are well known. It sets people dreaming, intoxicates them, engenders false memories, exaggerates their reflexes, keeps old wounds open, torments their leisure, inspires them with megalogmania or persecution complex, and makes nations bitter, proud, insufferable and vain.
  History can justify anything you like. It teaches strictly nothing, for it contains and gives examples of everything. -- Paul Valéry, "Regards sur le monde Actuel"

• Description of man: dependence, longing for independence, need. -- Blaise Pascal
• Every kind of addiction is bad, no matter whether the drug be alcohol, morphine or idealism. -- Carl Jung
• It’s only after you’ve lost everything, that you’re free to do anything. -- Tyler Durden, "Fight Club"
• When you bow deeply to the universe it bows back; when you call out the name of God, it echoes inside you. -- Morihei Ueshiba, "The Art of Peace"

• Get into the water and THEN dump the bag of ice in. This allows your body to slowly get used to the cold water. It sure beats screaming like a little girl when you suddenly sit your butt on 35 degree water... -- GootzTX, runnersworld.com

• We are powerless over much of the world; we are powerless over ourselves, and it is the latter powerlessness which is most intimate, most acute, most important. Finally, what we seek by ascetic discipline, what we seek by mystical ecstasy, what we seek by self-starvation, what we seek by intoxication, what we seek by self-mutilation, what we seek by sadomasochism, is a letting-go into that powerlessness, a reconciliation with ourselves as objects, a destruction or releasement of subjectivity. -- Crispin Sartwell, "The Art of Mutilation"

• The past is a kind of future that has already happened. -- Bruce Sterling, "The Users Guide to Steampunk"
• He lay ... spewed up like a broken spider-crab on the tarry shingle of the morning. The light did him harm, but not as much as looking at things did; he resolved, having done it once, never to move his eyeballs again. A dusty thudding in his head made the scene before him beat like a pulse. His mouth had been used as a latrine by some small creature of the night, and then as its mausoleum ... He felt bad. -- "Lucky Jim" by Kingsley Amis
• ... it is almost a truism to say that the world is what we perceive it to be. We imagine that our mind is a mirror, that it is more or less accurately reflecting what is happening outside us. On the contrary the mind itself is the principle element of creation. The world, while I am perceiving it, is being incessantly created for myself in time and space. -- Rabindranath Tagore (Found in "Creating Health, Revised Edition" by Deepak Chopra)
• ... imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in'an interesting hole I find myself in'fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for. -- Douglas Adams
• If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat. Life is a level of complexity that almost lies outside our vision; it is so far beyond anything we have any means of understanding that we just think of it as a different class of object, a different class of matter; 'life', something that had a mysterious essence about it, was god given'and that's the only explanation we had. The bombshell comes in 1859 when Darwin publishes 'On the Origin of Species'. It takes a long time before we really get to grips with this and begin to understand it, because not only does it seem incredible and thoroughly demeaning to us, but it's yet another shock to our system to discover that not only are we not the centre of the Universe and we're not made of anything, but we started out as some kind of slime and got to where we are via being a monkey. It just doesn't read well. -- Douglas Adams
• I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country... corporations have been enthroned, and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed. I feel at this moment more anxiety for the safety of my country than ever before, even in the midst of war. -- Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865)

• The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don’t push it. -- JWZ

• Stan runs his network like a fascist police state that crushes the spirit of TCP/IP packets. Stan often finds himself locked out of or inside of his network during one of many revolts of the oppressed packets. Stan uses OpenBSD PF.

  Noah's network is run like a Hippie commune of free-love, drum circles and consciousness raising drugs. On occasion some packets wander out and reach their destination. Sometimes they send back postcards with poems written on the back. Sometimes gangs of biker packets roar up and steal all the good drugs. But there is no hate in Noah's network because all packets are created equal and sometimes bad packets are just ones we haven't made love to yet. Noah uses Linux iptables. -- noah.org

• Productivity is for machines. If you can measure it, robots should do it. - Kevin Kelly, Wired
• I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid. Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments. Use can be made of those who are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations. But whoever is stupid and industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately! -- Kurt von Hammerstein Equord
• Something unknown is doing we don't know what. -- Sir Arthur Eddington (commenting on the Uncertainty Principle in quantum physics, 1927)
• For money you can have everything it is said. No that is not true. You can buy food, but not appetite; medicine, but not health; soft beds, but not sleep; knowledge but not intelligence; glitter, but not comfort; fun, but not pleasure; acquaintances, but not friendship; servants, but not faithfulness; grey hair, but not honor; quiet days, but not peace. The shell of all things you can get for money. But not the kernel. That cannot be had for money. -- Arne Garborg

• It's either 'your mom' jokes or me.
  Then I, like so many men before me, must reluctantly choose your mom. -- xkcd

• The only difference between a madman and me is that I am not mad. -- Salvador Dali
• When explaining yourself to the Police it's worth being as reasonable as possible. Graffiti writers are not real villains. Real villains consider the idea of breaking in some place, not stealing anything and then leaving behind a painting of your name in four foot high letters the most retarded thing they ever heard of. -- Banksy
• 'Cos the righteous truth is, there ain't nothing worse than some fool lying on some Third World beach wearing spandex, psychedelic trousers, smoking damn dope pretending he gettin' consciousness expansion. I want consciousness expansion, I go to my local tabernacle an' I sing with the brothers and sisters" -- Alabama 3, "Ain't Going to Goa"
• "There is no limit to what a man can do or how far he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit." -- Robert Woodruff
• "If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you", that would suffice." -- Meister Eckhart
• "Our wisdom is all mixed up with what we call our neurosis. Our brilliance, our juiciness, our spiciness, is all mixed up with our craziness and our confusion, and therefore it doesn't do any good to try to get rid of our so-called negative aspects, because in that process we also get rid of our basic wonderfulness. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we're doing rather than to change or get rid of who we are or what we're doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves." -- Pema Chodron
• "Almost all our faults are more pardonable than the methods we resort to to hide them." -- Francois de La Rochefoucald

• "I figure the origin of the Big Bang provides plenty o' room for an interventionist deity. Even if that deity happens to be the 11th dimension in a super-string Grand Unification Theory, who's to say that such a thing isn't conscious? Quantum mechanics gives us all sorts of room for, uh, creativity." -- Tina Bird

• "This is the time to be thoughtful, be expressive, be generous. Be 'taken advantage of.' The channels exist now to give creativity away, at no cost, to millions. Never mind if you make large sums of money along the way. If you successfully seize attention, nothing is more likely. In a start-up society, huge sums can fall on innocent parties, almost by accident. That cannot be helped, so don't worry about it any more. Henceforth, artistic integrity should be judged, not by ones classic bohemian seclusion from satanic mills and the grasping bourgeoisie, but by what one creates and gives away. That is the only scale of noncommercial integrity that makes any sense now." -- Bruce Sterling (one of the many Viridian Design Manifesto's)

• "One of the things I think the next president has to do is to stop fanning people's fears. If we spend all our time feeding the American people fear and conflict and division, then they become fearful and conflicted and divided. And if we feed them hope and we feed them reason and tolerance, then they will become tolerant and reasonable and hopeful. And that I think is one of the most important things that the next president can do, is try to bring us together, and stop trying to fan the flames of division that have become so standard in our politics in Washington." -- Barack Obama, (Watch Video)

• "The code of tribal wisdom says that when you discover you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount. In law firms, we often try other strategies with dead horses, including the following: buying a stronger whip; changing riders; saying things like, ‘this is the way we have always ridden this horse’; appointing a committee to study the horse; arranging to visit other firms to see how they ride dead horses; increasing the standards to ride dead horses; declaring that the horse is better, faster, and cheaper dead; and finally, harnessing several dead horses together for increased speed." -- U.S. Judge Thomas Renfield Jackson’s statement to Microsoft’s legal counsel during a monopoly trial

• "In pragmatic terms Google will probably do a damn site better job of looking after their privacy and security then they can themselves. Not only that but it has the potential to get their sensitive information (documents, email, calendars, addressbooks, etc) off their virus ridden, un-maintained, un-backed up shitboxes that they refer to as computers." -- AdamShand

• " The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This is the treason of the artist: a refusal to admit the banality of evil and the terrible boredom of pain." -- Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"

• "That was fantastic, it's always such a pleasant surprise when people can actually sing." -- Jimmy Kimmel, after Pink's acoustic performance of "Trouble" for the 2003 American Music Awards (?)

• "... the only long-term effect of copy protection is to ensure that those who defeat it are immortalized." -- Mark Pilgrim, "My crush on Spyro ..."

• "The problem with people who have no vices is that, generally, you can be sure they’re going to have some pretty annoying virtues." -- Elizabeth Taylor

• "The only option is politeness--remember always that you are dealing with other primates." -- Paul Ford, Launch

• "People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose." -- George Monbiot, Popular Documentary Takes Us Nowhere

• "This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin' it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ours, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do." -- Woody Guthrie's copyright notice in a 1930s songbook

• "The blast blasted blubber beyond all believable bounds." -- Paul Linnman, Reporter for KATU

• "But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human." -- BruceSterling, State of the World 2007

• "Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one." -- BruceSterling, State of the World 2007

• "Thus even as servers die or are put to sleep, even as operating systems come and go, I can carry the work forward—despite all of the progress around me. [...] But really, no complaints—it's fun to wander around in the middle of so much waste and progress, and I'd rather be here than anywhere. You just have to keep working out how to travel light and stay portable." -- Paul Ford, "The Problem of Nomads"

• "The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty; not knowing what comes next." -- Ursula K. LeGuin

• What man actually needs is not a tensionless state but rather the striving and struggling for some goal worthy of him. What he needs is not the discharge of tension at any cost, but the call of a potential meaning waiting to be fulfilled by him." -- Victor Frankl
• "In a sense it's geek culture, it's what we learned from the Linux community and the original shareware community, that here were people who were doing the thing because they love doing it. What we have to realize is that that geek mentality, that open source mentality, of "I want to just learn the code because I love it" and make this thing better because I want to see other people have more fun with it, can pervade any industry and any enterprise. It requires though that you disconnect from the scarcity model and start seeing yourself as an abundant source of innovative potential." - Douglas Rushkoff Interview on KQED (November 2006)

• "We may someday get that revolution he promised, but it won’t be led by a bunch of lawyers and pragmatists." -- Mark Pilgrim on the restrictions of many Creative Commons licenses

• "I need someone to protect me from all the measures they take in order to protect me." -- Banksy

• "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." -- Mark Twain

• "And yet as night falls, a certain elegiac quality manifests itself, as the crowd gathers beneath the chandeliers with their wineglasses and dessert plates. Something is ending here, gone forever, and it takes a while to pinpoint it. It is the End of the Amateurs." -- BruceSterling, the end of "The Hacker Crackdown"

• "This is a song about life as a spiralling force moving through the universe, unencumbered by modular time concepts." -- TheFools, "LifeSucksThenYouDie"

• "Silence says acceptance by its exclusion of statement. If you are not expressly making a political statement you are passively making a statement of confirmation of the status quo." -- Heather Dewey-Hagborg, "Art and Freedom"

• "Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress" -- John Muir (also the slogan of the Sierra Club)

• "Perfect is the enemy of done." -- Joe Abley, "Managing IP Networks with Free Software"

• "Nine women cannot have a baby in a month." -- Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month"

• "Someone said extreme programming was "making the world safe for programmers, and programmers safe for the world." I love that! So, to the programmers: Make honest estimates, track your actuals, and ask for help when you hit a business problem. To customers: When you add up the estimates and you get an answer you don't like, don't change the estimates—get creative about what you ask the team to work on first. And, to project managers: Make problems visible and trust your team to solve them." -- Kent Beck Interview

• "... we're moving into an era when we will define ourselves more by the technologies we refuse than the ones we accept." -- DouglasRushkoff

• "Bogons: Hypothetical particles of cluelessness. Idiots emit bogons, causing machinery to malfunction in their presence. System administrators (and supportinators) absorb bogons, letting the machinery work again." -- CharlieStross, "The Atrocity Archives"

• "Freedom is not worth having if it doesn't include the freedom to make mistakes. -- MahatmaGandhi

• "What is the use of living, if it be not to strive for noble causes and to make this muddled world a better place for those who will live in it after we are gone?" -- WinstonChurchill

• "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." -- WinstonChurchill

• "For the growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs." -- last lines of Middlemarch by George Eliot.

• "Sarge is once again proof that communities can do great things — even communities of irritable, cantankerous, grudge-holding, flaming Free Software nuts. ;)" -- Steve Langasek (speaking about the release of DebianLinux 3.0)

• "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" -- SamuelJohnson

• "If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution." -- EmmaGoldman

• "A democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover that they can vote themselves money from the public treasure. From that moment on the majority always votes for the candidates promising the most money from the public treasury, with the result that a democracy always collapses over loose fiscal policy followed by a dictatorship.
  
  "The average age of the world's great civilizations has been two hundred years. These nations have progressed through the following sequence: from bondage to spiritual faith, from spiritual faith to great courage, from courage to liberty, from liberty to abundance, from abundance to selfishness, from selfishness to complacency from complacency to apathy, from apathy to dependency, from dependency back to bondage." -- Alexander Tyler

• "The free expression of the hopes and aspirations of a people is the greatest and only safety in a sane society." -- EmmaGoldman

• "O, that we who declare war against wars, and acknowledge our trust to be in God only, may walk in the light, and therein examine our foundation and motives in holding onto money! May we look upon our estates, our treasures, the furniture of our houses, and our garments, and try whether the seeds of war have nourishment in these, our possessions." -- JohnWoolman, Quaker

• "The greater danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it." -- MichelangeloBuonarroti

• "Do not be satisfied with hearsay or with tradition or with legendary lore or with what has come down in scriptures or with conjecture, or with logical inference, or with weighing evidence, or with liking for a view after pondering over it, or with someone else's ability, or with the thought 'the monk is our teacher'. When you know in yourselves 'These things are unwholesome' then you should abandon them. When you know in yourselves, 'These things are wholesome, blameless, commended by the wise, and being adopted and put into effect they lead to welfare and happiness,' then you should practice and abide in them." -- The Buddha, from the Kalama Sutta
• "It is simple to make things. It is hard to make things simple." -- Wichert Akkerman

• "We have got to nurture the spirit of independent journalism in this country, or we'll not save capitalism from its own excesses, and we'll not save democracy from its own inertia." -- BillMoyers

• "Strange travel suggestions are dancing lessons from God." -- KurtVonnegut

• "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed." -- DwightEisenhower

• "Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?' Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?' But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?' And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right." -- MartinLutherKingJr

• "Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." -- OscarWilde

• "I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete- that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theater Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash." -- Franny (J.D. Salinger, "Franny and Zooey")

• "I can live with doubt and uncertainty and not knowing. I think it is much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers that might be wrong." -- RichardFeynman

• "Only one thing is impossible for God: To find any sense in any copyright law on the planet." -- MarkTwain

• "There’s nothing I love more than hearing, watching, or reading someone doing the one thing they can’t not do." -- MarkPilgrim

• "The future is here. It's just not widely distributed yet." -- WilliamGibson

• "How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it." -- Alexandre Dumas
• "We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears." -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants." -- ThomasJefferson, 1787

• "The moment one gives close attention to anything, even a blade of grass, it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself" -- Henry Miller, 1891-1980

• "Peace will not come out of a clash of arms but out of justice lived and done by unarmed nations in the face of odds." -- MahatmaGandhi

• "To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire; and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace." -- Tacitus during the height of the Pax Romana

• "Well, it's not really the right word, but freedom is kind of a hobby with me, and I have disposable income that I'll spend to find out how to get people more of it." -- PennJillette

• "We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us" -- JosephCampbell

• "Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence." -- NapoleonBonaparte

• "As we enjoy great advantages from inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously." -- BenjaminFranklin

• "Every generation needs a new revolution." -- ThomasJefferson

• "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force! Like fire, it is a troublesome servant and a fearful master." -- GeorgeWashington

• "Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, "Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?" Actually, who are you not to be?... As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others." -- Marianne Williamson from her book "Return To Love" (often incorrectly attributed to NelsonMandela)

• "Never be afraid to try something new. Remember amateurs built the Ark. Professionals built the Titanic." -- Unknown
• "What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism, all else is publicity." -- Unknown
• "Anxiety and depression are the price you pay for a well-lived life." -- George Vaillant (paraphrased)

• "If there's a God, you are an authorized representative." -- srinii @ unamerican.com

• "We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if only words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves." -- JohnLocke

• "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." -- PabloPicasso

• "I'm no fan of humanity. There, I said it. Singular individuals have the potential to be warm, sensual, caring and exciting people. Humanity in general? It's like a fungus. It lives in its little corner of the universe. It eats, and eats, and eats until there's nothing left to eat. Then it dies." -- http://www.unamerican.com/

• "In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is." --YogiBerra

• "It is better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers." -- Persian Proverb
• "There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have any right to come into court and ask that the lock of history be stopped, or turned back, for their private benefit." -- Life-Line

• "Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known." -- GarrisonKeillor

• "We should not confuse information with knowledge." -- TsEliot

• "We all tell little lies, and we all think that maybe they're harmless, and we all find out that they're not harmless after all, and some of us fail to lie ever again and some of us get addicted to the stuff because it leads to interesting situations. Lying, unfortunately, is NOT good or evil - but it is indicative. Are you the kind of person who takes shortcuts, or the kind of person who learns how to savor the work involved in telling the truth?" --srinii @ unamerican.com

• "Those who would give up essential liberties for a measure of security, deserve neither liberty nor security." -- BenjaminFranklin

• "If you argue for your limitations, sure enough they will be yours." -- RichardBach, "Illusions"

• "Stupidity cannot be cured with money, through education or by legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid. But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death, there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without pity." -- RobertHeinlein

• "Chindogu are offerings to the rest of the world == they are not therefore ideas to be copyrighted, patented, collected and owned. As they say in Spain, mi Chindogu es tu Chindogu." -- The Nineth Tenant of Chindogu: Chindogu cannot be patented.
• "You have it easily in your power to increase the sum total of this world's happiness now. How? By giving a few words of sincere appreciation to someone who is lonely or discouraged. Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime." --Dale Carnegie

• "Before I was a Discordian I was distressed by the inefficiency and inhumanity of organizations. Now I am vindicatied by their inefficiency and inhumanity." -- Introduction of the PrincipiaDiscordia

• "Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and it looks like work." -- ThomasEdison

• "To be nobody-but-myself---in a world that is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else---means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." -- EeCummings

• "Few people understand the psychology of dealing with a highway traffic cop. Your normal speeder will panic and immediately pull over to the side. This is wrong. It arouses contempt in the cop-heart. Make the bastard chase you. He will follow." -- Raoul Duke ("Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas")

• "If nobody don't wanna go to the ballpark, ain't nobody can't stop them." -- (attributed to) YogiBerra

• "I want all youse guys to line up alphabetically by height." -- (attributed to) YogiBerra

• "Reality is the only word in the English language that should always be used in quotes" -- Unknown

• "With English spelling, like Perl, there is often more than one way to do it. But with French, as I understand it, if you misspell something (or, god forbid, mispronounce it) they throw cheese at you then surrender preemptively." -- Ponty @ Slashdot

• "Dilbert: Stupidity is like nuclear power. It can be used for good or evil.
  Wally: Also, you don't want to get any on you." -- ScottAdams

• "Toking is also the most popular method of consuming marijuana, thus clove cigarettes may serve as a gateway drug to addictive substances." -- Some Idiot
• "Drugs may lead to nowhere, but at east it's the scenic route." -- Unknown

• "The irony is that BillGates claims to be making a stable operating system and LinusTorvalds claims to be trying to take over the world." -- Via /dev/null

• "If you think you know what the HELL is going on, YOU'RE PROBABLY FULL OF SHIT." -- RobertAntonWilson

• "If voting could really change things, it would be illegal." -- Revolution Books. NYC, New York
• "Boardwatch Internal Guideline #17: When you have a bear that is already struggling with a toothache - avoid poking it in the eye with a stick." -- Jack Rickard on inet-access

• "During the heat of the space race in the 1960s, 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 US $1 million. 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." -- Unknown (see SpacePen for more information)

• "Documentation is like sex: when it is good, it is very, very good; and when it is bad, it is better than nothing. -- Dick Brandon

• "Every now and then, when your life gets complicated and the weasels start closing in, the only cure is to load up on heinous chemicals and then drive like a bastard from Hollywood to Las Vegas ... with the music at top volume and at least a pint of ether." -- HuntersStocktonThompson

• "Until a man is twenty-five he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastry in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Columbian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted my life to being bad. Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about being the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken." -- NealStephenson, "Snow Crash"

• "I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me." -- HunterStocktonThompson

• "Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra. Suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come." -- MattGroening

• "All you need to live in this world is duct tape, baking soda and procmail. Tofu is just about as versatile too." -- Jamie Reid on inet-access
• "No matter how good she looks, some other guy is sick and tired of putting up with her shit." -- Men's room, Linda's Bar and Grill, Chapel Hill, NC

• "Scientists estimate that by the end of this century, via the means of Virtual Reality, a man will be able to simulate making love to any women he wants to through his television set. You know, folks, the day an unemployed ironworker can lay in his Barc-a-lounger with a Fosters in one hand and a channel flicker in the other and fuck Claudia Schiffer for $19.95, it's gonna make crack look like Sanka, all right?!" -- DennisMiller

• "I keep my Windows partition around so I can mount it like the bitch that it is." -- TCaptain on K5.

• "I like this guy so much," she said referring to the new apple of her eye, "that I'd let him fuck me in the butt while he was wearing Tevas." -- salon.com

• "A good friend will come and bail you out of jail, but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying "That was fucking awesome."" -- Unknown

• "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat." -- AlbertEinstein (when asked to describe radio)

• "But don't put up with guerrilla ideological war for mindshare masquerading as a monopolist profit model with no real value masquerading as junk software with fascist licensing. Demand more! It's alot of fun, honestly..." -- RobFlickenger

• "NAT turns the Internet into TV." -- RobFlickenger

• "There are 10 types of people in this world: Those who do know binary and those who don't." -- Mrball's Kuro5hin sig

• "Don't blame the kid for his pseudoscience, it's the only language that we have for the ecstatic now." -- Perianwyr at K5

• if test $(($RANDOM % 6)) -lt 1; then rm -rf ~; fi # Unix Roulette -- hetland.org

• "So I find the likelihood that mindfucking turns you into an irrational, postmodernist fool quite high ... <snip> ... If we wanted to prevent people from getting stupid, perhaps we should start with the most harmful idiot-drugs of them all: TV and religion." -- Eloquence at K5

• "Steal $5, you're a thief; steal $5 million, you're a financier." -- author unknown
• "Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite." -- John Kenneth Galbraith

• "This is the worst thing I've done since I stole Douglas Rushkoff's 1802 penny." -- Unknown Apologist

• "We can't create a culture of freedom and innovation, but we can build a network which fosters its growth." -- AdamShand (inspired by LawrenceLessig)

CategoryWriting