Sunday, January 31, 2010

Quote of the Day

A thousand years frozen in carbonite? It'll be so cold!
-- Derek 'Stormy' Waters

Saturday, January 30, 2010

Quote of the Day

Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work.
-- James Randi

Week in Review

- Friday Random Ten: 2010-01-29
- Stupidity
- Art that sells itself
- Your argument is invalid
- Reading: _The Reverse of the Medal_
- Friday Random Ten: 2010-01-22
- Astronauts now able to access porn from space
- #45!
- Again: Are polygraphs worthless?
- Stupidity from Conservapedia

Friday, January 29, 2010

Quote of the Day

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
-- David Letterman

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Quote of the Day

We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the brutal purpose for which they were invented.
-- Albert Einstein

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Quote of the Day

Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
-- George Carlin

Monday, January 25, 2010

Quote of the Day

Have you ever noticed? Anybody going slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a moron..
-- George Carlin

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Quote of the Day

The two most abundant things in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity.
-- Harlan Ellison

Friday, January 22, 2010

Quote of the Day

I used to think it was a terrible thing that life was so unfair. Then I thought, 'what if life *were* fair, and all of the terrible things that happen to us came because we really deserved them?' Now I take great comfort in the general unfairness and hostility of the universe.
-- Marcus Cole (Babylon 5)

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Quote of the Day

The problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves and wiser people so full of doubts.
-- Bertrand Russell

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Quote of the Day

There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he has to take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
-- W. C. Fields

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Quote of the Day

Every Christmas my mom would get a fresh goose, for gooseburgers, and my dad would whip up his special eggnog out of bourbon and ice cubes.
-- Phillip J. Fry

Monday, January 18, 2010

Quote of the Day

I hope this has taught you kids a lesson: kids never learn.
-- Police Chief Clancy Wiggum

Sunday, January 17, 2010

Quote of the Day

There are two essential rules of management. One: the customer is always right. Two: they must be punished for their arrogance.
-- Dogbert

Friday, January 15, 2010

Quote of the Day

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
-- Dave Barry

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Quote of the Day

The National Rifle Association says, 'Gun's don't kill people. People do'. But I think the gun helps.
-- Eddie Izzard

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Quote of the Day

Instead of school busing and prayer in schools, which are both controversial, why not a joint solution? Prayer in buses. Just drive these kids around all day and let them pray their fuckn' empty little heads off.
-- George Carlin, Brain Droppings

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Quote of the Day

The connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems and solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting language features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best dangerous.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup (The C++ Programming Language)

Monday, January 11, 2010

Quote of the Day

It's Dr. Evil, I didn't spend six years in Evil Medical School to be called "mister," thank you very much.
-- Dr. Evil

Sunday, January 10, 2010

Quote of the Day

There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
-- Cicero

Friday, January 08, 2010

Quote of the Day

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

Thursday, January 07, 2010

Quote of the Day

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.
-- Jerry Seinfeld

Wednesday, January 06, 2010

Quote of the Day

I hope life isn't a big joke, because I don't get it.
-- Jack Handey

Tuesday, January 05, 2010

Quote of the Day

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell

Monday, January 04, 2010

Quote of the Day

I bet Einstein turned himself all sorts of colors before he invented the lightbulb.
-- Homer J. Simpson

Sunday, January 03, 2010

Quote of the Day

Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
-- Jack Handey

Friday, January 01, 2010

Quote of the Day

But this one goes to eleven.
-- Nigel Tufnel