Non Illegitimus Carborundum.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Quote of the Day
A Democratic victory would not change the world, but it would at least slow the berserk white-trash momentum of the bombs-and-Jesus crowd. Those people have had their way long enough. Not even the Book of Revelations threatens a plague of vengeful yahoos.
-- Hunter Thompson
Monday, December 29, 2008
Quote of the Day
You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
Sunday, December 28, 2008
Quote of the Day
I would like to suggest that you not use speed, and here's why: it is going to mess up your heart, mess up your liver, your kidneys, rot out your mind. In general this drug will make you just like your mother and father.
-- Frank Zappa
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Quote of the Day
Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.
-- Jack Handey
Week in Review
Friday, December 26, 2008
Quote of the Day
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
-- Bertrand Russell
Thursday, December 25, 2008
Quote of the Day
If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Quote of the Day
A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the business man it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Monday, December 22, 2008
Sunday, December 21, 2008
Quote of the Day
The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
-- Mark Twain
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Quote of the Day
I sent the club a wire stating, "Please accept my resignation. I don't want to belong to any club that will accept me as a member."
-- Groucho Marx
Friday, December 19, 2008
Quote of the Day
The people in the village were real poor, so none of the children had any toys. But this one little boy had gotten an old enema bag and filled it with rocks, and he would go around and whap the other children across the face with it. Man, I think my heart almost broke. Later the boy came up and offered to give me the toy. This was too much! I reached out my hand, but then he ran away. I chased him down and took the enema bag. He cried a little, but that's the way of these people.
-- Jack Handey
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Quote of the Day
...it bugs me when people try to analyze jazz as an intellectual theorem. It's not. It's feeling.
-- Bill Evans
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
Quote of the Day
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Quote of the Day
If you doubt that it is stinky personality that is the driving force behind conservative politics, look back to your pre political youth. A dollar to a doughnut everyone of those childhood friends and acquaintances who was an asshole then is a conservative today.
-- Rack Jite
Monday, December 15, 2008
Quote of the Day
...Another writer again agreed with all my generalities, but said that as an inveterate skeptic I have closed my mind to the truth. Most notably I have ignored the evidence for an Earth that is six thousand years old. Well, I haven't ignored it; I considered the purported evidence and *then* rejected it. There is a difference, and this is a difference, we might say, between prejudice and postjudice. Prejudice is making a judgment before you have looked at the facts. Postjudice is making a judgment afterwards. Prejudice is terrible, in the sense that you commit injustices and you make serious mistakes. Postjudice is not terrible. You can't be perfect of course; you may make mistakes also. But it is permissible to make a judgment after you have examined the evidence. In some circles it is even encouraged.
-- Carl Sagan, "The Burden of Skepticism," Skeptical Enquirer, Vol. 12, pg. 46
Sunday, December 14, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Quote of the Day
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands.
-- Douglas Adams
Friday, December 12, 2008
Quote of the Day
As we were driving, we saw a sign that said "Watch for Rocks." Marta said it should read "Watch for Pretty Rocks." I told her she should write in her suggestion to the highway department, but she started saying it was a joke - just to get out of writing a simple letter! And I thought I was lazy!
-- Jack Handey
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Quote of the Day
Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Quote of the Day
The world and the universe is an extremely beautiful place, and the more we understand about it the more beautiful does it appear.
-- Richard Dawkins
Tuesday, December 09, 2008
Monday, December 08, 2008
Quote of the Day
The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
-- Terry Pratchett (The Light Fantastic)
Sunday, December 07, 2008
Quote of the Day
A house is where you put your stuff when you're out buying other stuff.
-- George Carlin
Saturday, December 06, 2008
Quote of the Day
That which is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. That is the whole Torah; the rest is the explanation; go and learn.
-- Hillel the Elder
Friday, December 05, 2008
Quote of the Day
People who get nostalgic about childhood were obviously never children.
-- Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes
Thursday, December 04, 2008
Quote of the Day
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 and that enables you to laugh at all of life's realities.
-- Theodore Seuss Geisel
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
Quote of the Day
If you put butter and salt on it, it tastes like salty butter.
-- Terry Pratchett (Moving Pictures)
Tuesday, December 02, 2008
Quote of the Day
It was amazing, this mystic business. You tell them a lie, and then when you don't need it anymore you tell them another lie and tell them they're progressing along the road to wisdom. Then instead of laughing they follow you even more, hoping that at the heart of all the lies they'll find the truth. And bit by bit they accept the unacceptable. Amazing.
-- Terry Pratchett (Guards! Guards!)
Monday, December 01, 2008
Quote of the Day
I had no shoes and I pitied myself. Then I met a man who had no feet, so I took his shoes.
-- Dave Barry
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