I like my beer cold...my TV loud...and my homosexuals flaming.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Friday, December 31, 2010
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Quote of the Day
Many a time in the past six years I have bit my tongue so I wouldn't annoy people with the always obnoxious observation, "I told you so." But, dammit it all to hell, I did tell you, and I've been telling you since 1994, and I am so sick of this man and everything he represents -- all the sleazy, smug, self-righteous graft and corruption and "Christian" moralizing and cynicism and tax cuts for all his smug, rich buddies. Next time I tell you someone from Texas should not be president of the United States, please pay attention.
-- Molly Ivins
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
Quote of the Day
When they say, "Gee, it's an information explosion!" --no, it's not an explosion, it's a disgorgement of the bowels is what it is. Every idiotic thing that anybody could possibly write or say or think can get into the body politic now --where before things would have to have some merit to go through the publishing routine, now, anything. And all you're getting is an explosion of useless crap, which added to the other useless crap that was being done originally, only makes it that much worse."
-- Harlan Ellison
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Quote of the Day
Okay, okay. So, say I put my brain in a robot body and there's a war. Robots versus humans. What side am I on?
-- Derek 'Stormy' Waters
Monday, December 27, 2010
Quote of the Day
After one look at this planet any visitor from outer space would say "I want to see the manager."
-- William S. Burroughs
Sunday, December 26, 2010
Quote of the Day
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
-- Charles Anthony Richard Hoare
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Quote of the Day
If only more Christians read their bibles there'd be less Christians.
-- Derek W. Clayton
Friday, December 24, 2010
Thursday, December 23, 2010
Quote of the Day
What's in a name? That is what we ask ourselves in childhood when we write the name that we are told is ours.
-- James Joyce
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
Quote of the Day
I'm condemned by a society that demands success when all I can offer is failure!
-- Max Bialystock
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Quote of the Day
I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins.
-- Jack Handey
Monday, December 20, 2010
Quote of the Day
I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.
-- Mark Twain
Sunday, December 19, 2010
Quote of the Day
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Saturday, December 18, 2010
Quote of the Day
You must lash out with every limb, like the octopus who plays the drums.
-- The Sphinx
Friday, December 17, 2010
Quote of the Day
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
-- David Letterman
Thursday, December 16, 2010
Quote of the Day
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
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Quote of the Day
Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.
-- Bob Marley
Tuesday, December 14, 2010
Quote of the Day
I used to think that cyberspace was fifty years away. What I thought was fifty years away, was only ten years away. And what I thought was ten years away... it was already here. I just wasn't aware of it yet.
-- Bruce Sterling
Monday, December 13, 2010
Quote of the Day
Whenever I see an old lady slip and fall on a wet sidewalk, my first instinct is to laugh. But then I think, what is I was an ant, and she fell on me. Then it wouldn't seem quite so funny.
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, December 12, 2010
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
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Quote of the Day
I like a cold because I get to do my favorite drug, which is NyQuil. I love that stuff. What do the rest of you use? Robitussin? Robitussin, why do you bother? Non-narcotic sissy pansy bullshit! NyQuil's the best thing I've ever read on a medicine package, '180 Proof.' It's the moonshine of medicine. You can buy it on a holiday! When I got a cold, I want something that's gonna fuck me up! Cause that way the blur seems interesting... NyQuil comes in two colors, red and green. It's the only thing on the planet that tastes like...red and green. And red and green are what? Christmas colors! That's right, NyQuil makes a dandy eggnog. Oh yeah, my friends bitched through the whole party, 'This tastes like shit!' But at the end of it, we had a fun sleepover.
-- Lewis Black
Friday, December 10, 2010
Quote of the Day
Isn't pomo really one big cover-up for for the failure of the French to write a truly interesting novel ever since a sports car ate Albert Camus?
-- John Leonard
Thursday, December 09, 2010
Quote of the Day
I bet a fun thing would be to go way back in time to where there was going to be an eclipse and tell the cave men, "If I have come to destroy you, may the sun be blotted out from the sky." Just then the eclipse would start, and they'd probably try to kill you or something, but then you could explain about the rotation of the moon and all, and everyone would get a good laugh.
-- Jack Handey
Wednesday, December 08, 2010
Quote of the Day
Sometimes glass glitters more than diamonds because it has more to prove.
-- Terry Pratchett
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Quote of the Day
It doesn't matter what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
-- Steven Wright
Monday, December 06, 2010
Quote of the Day
Too bad you can't buy a voodoo globe so that you could make the earth spin real fast and freak everybody out.
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, December 05, 2010
Quote of the Day
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
-- Aaron McGruder
Saturday, December 04, 2010
Week in Review
Friday, December 03, 2010
Quote of the Day
What I have done is to show that it is possible for the way the universe began to be determined by the laws of science. In that case, it would not be necessary to appeal to God to decide how the universe began. This doesn't prove that there is no God, only that God is not necessary.
-- Stephen W. Hawking, Der Spiegel, 1989
Thursday, December 02, 2010
Wednesday, December 01, 2010
James A. Chappell
Looks like one of my alter-egos died. (I used to work in North Stonington, CT and would occasionally get Rev. Chappell’s mail at work).
Quote of the Day
...the stereo- type of scientists being scruffy nerds with rows of pens in their top pocket is just about as wicked as racist stereotypes.
-- Richard Dawkins
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