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 Jr.
Saturday, January 31, 2009
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Friday, January 30, 2009
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Sentimentality -- that's what we call the sentiment we don't share.
-- Graham Greene
Thursday, January 29, 2009
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The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly make models. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such a mathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.
-- Johann Von Neumann
Wednesday, January 28, 2009
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
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If only he had joined a mainstream religion, like Oprahism or Voodoo.
-- Professor Hubert Farnsworth
Monday, January 26, 2009
Sunday, January 25, 2009
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I don't own a computer, or a modem, or anything like that; I still work on a manual typewriter, by choice, and to those who consider me a Luddite I say: Fuck you and yo mama. I operate at the level of technology that best suits my needs. And I type at 120 words per minute --two fingers --I make no mistakes, and my manuscripts are real. You can pick them up and hold them. My typewriter doesn't dump it's memory --I don't lose a book.
-- Harlan Ellison
Saturday, January 24, 2009
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Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original and the part that is original is not good.
-- Samuel Johnson
Friday, January 23, 2009
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That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"
-- Terry Pratchett
Thursday, January 22, 2009
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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
-- Richard P. Feynman
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
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The concept of the rock-guitar solo in the eightees has pretty much been reduced to: Weedly-weedly-wee, make a face, hold your guitar like it's your weenie, point it heavenward, and look like you're really doing something. Then, you geta big ovation while the the smoke bombs go off, and the motorized lights in your truss twirl around.
-- Frank Zappa
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
Monday, January 19, 2009
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It's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.
-- Derek Smalls
Sunday, January 18, 2009
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Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.
-- Martin Mull
Saturday, January 17, 2009
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Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
-- H.L. Mencken
Friday, January 16, 2009
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Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
-- Stephen Wright
Thursday, January 15, 2009
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It is not that polar co-ordinates are complicated, it is simply that cartesian co-ordinates are simpler than they have a right to be.
-- Kleppner & Kolenhow, An Introduction to Mechanics
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
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Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see that I forgot to put on my pants.
-- Jack Handey
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
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When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, January 11, 2009
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The startling truth finally became apparent, and it was this: Numbers written on restaurant checks do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single statement took the scientific world by storm. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure, and the science of mathematics was put back by years.
-- Douglas Adams
Saturday, January 10, 2009
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At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
-- Emo Philips
Week in Review
Friday, January 09, 2009
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Sex without love is an empty experience, but, as empty experiences go, it's one of the best.
-- Woody Allen
Thursday, January 08, 2009
Wednesday, January 07, 2009
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What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word QUALITY cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates. This is not because Quality is so mysterious but because Quality is so simple, immediate, and direct.
-- R. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Tuesday, January 06, 2009
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If you ever catch on fire, try to avoid looking in a mirror, because I bet that will really throw you into a panic.
-- Jack Handey
Monday, January 05, 2009
Sunday, January 04, 2009
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No one has an idea really of where we should draw the line. What about the Bible? Every nut who kills people has a Bible lying around. If you're looking for violent rape imagery, the Bible's right there in your hotel room. If you just want to look up ways to screw people up, there it is, and you're justified because God told you to. You have Shakespeare and you have Sophocles--what are we going to do, lose Oedipus Rex if someone pokes an eye out?
-- Penn Jillette, from Reason magazine, on censorship of violent TV shows
Saturday, January 03, 2009
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I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.
-- Henny Youngman
Week in Review
Friday, January 02, 2009
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Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
-- Bob Marley
Thursday, January 01, 2009
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A lot of the stuff I do is so minimal, and it's designed to be minimal. The smallness of it is what's attractive. It's weird, 'cause it's so intellectually lame. It's hard to see me doing that for the rest of my life. But at the same time, it's what I do best.
-- Chris Elliot, writer and performer on Late Night with David Letterman
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