Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.
-- Redd Foxx
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Quote of the Day
Monday, March 30, 2009
Quote of the Day
The answer to this is very simple. It was a joke. It had to be a number, an ordinary, smallish number, and I chose that one. Binary representations, base thirteen, Tibetan monks are all complete nonsense. I sat at my desk, stared into the garden and thought '42 will do' I typed it out. End of story.
-- Douglas Adams (on why "42" is The Answer...)
Sunday, March 29, 2009
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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
Saturday, March 28, 2009
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As I got up in front of them, I felt an intoxication that had nothing to do with alcohol. It was the intoxication of being a public spectacle.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Friday, March 27, 2009
Quote of the Day
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Thursday, March 26, 2009
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My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15 year old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize, he would drink, he would make outrageous claims, like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy - the sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament. My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon, luge lessons. In the spring, we'd make meat helmets. When I was insolent, I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds. Pretty standard, really.
-- Dr. Evil
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
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True, it returns "" for false, but "" is an even more interesting number than 0.
-- Larry Wall in <199707300650.XAA05515@wall.org>
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
-- Mark Twain
Monday, March 23, 2009
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Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
-- Eugene McCarthy
Sunday, March 22, 2009
Saturday, March 21, 2009
Quote of the Day
Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
-- Frank Zappa
Friday, March 20, 2009
Quote of the Day
I suspect that today if you asked people to justify their belief in God, the dominant reason would be scientific. Most people, I believe, think that you need a God to explain the existence of the world, and especially the existence of life. They are wrong, but our education system is such that many people don't know it.
-- Richard Dawkins
Thursday, March 19, 2009
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It's been suggested that if the supernaturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?
-- Richard Dawkins
Wednesday, March 18, 2009
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This is crazy! Why are we talking about going to bed with Wilma Flintstone? She'll never leave Fred and we know it.
-- Dave Lister
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
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The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo.
-- Terry Pratchett (Wyrd Sisters)
Monday, March 16, 2009
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That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
-- A. Whitney Brown
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Quote of the Day
Totally mad. Utter nonsense. But we'll do it because it's brilliant nonsense.
-- Douglas Adams
Saturday, March 14, 2009
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The face of a child can say it all, especially the mouth part of the face.
-- Jack Handey
Friday, March 13, 2009
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The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
-- Frank Zappa
Thursday, March 12, 2009
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The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
-- Richard Dawkins
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Monday, March 09, 2009
Quote of the Day
A little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems have been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects, those software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are the products of one or a few designing minds, great designers. Consider Unix, APL, Pascal, Modula, the Smalltalk interface, even Fortran; and contrast them with Cobol, PL/I, Algol, MVS/370, and MS-DOS.
-- Fred Brooks
Sunday, March 08, 2009
Quote of the Day
I don't have a fear of heights. I do, however, have a fear of falling from heights.
-- George Carlin
Saturday, March 07, 2009
Quote of the Day
I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am!
-- Monty Python
Friday, March 06, 2009
Quote of the Day
"What shall we do?" said Twoflower.
"Panic?" said Rincewind hopefully. He always held that panic was the best means of survival; back in the olden days, his theory went, people faced with hungry sabretoothed tigers could be divided very simply into those who panicked and those who stood there saying "What a magnificent brute!" and "Here, pussy."
-- Terry Pratchett (The Light Fantastic)
Thursday, March 05, 2009
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Thank God men cannot as yet fly and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!
-- Henry David Thoreau
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
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I'm never gonna get used to the 31st century. Caffineated bacon? Baconated grapefruit? ADMIRAL Crunch?
-- Philip J. Fry
Tuesday, March 03, 2009
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Science is facts; just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts; but a pile of stones is not a house and a collection of facts is not necessarily science.
-- Henri Poincare
Monday, March 02, 2009
Sunday, March 01, 2009
Quote of the Day
The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
-- Albert Einstein
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