In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-- Douglas Adams
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
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Monday, January 30, 2012
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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
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
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Bishops move diagonally. That's why they often turn up where the kings don't expect them to be.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)
Friday, January 27, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
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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...)
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be correct.
-- William of Occam
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
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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
Sunday, January 22, 2012
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Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
-- David Letterman
Saturday, January 21, 2012
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Capital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
-- Emo Philips
Friday, January 20, 2012
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One does not have to appeal to God to set the initial conditions for the creation of the universe, but if one does He would have to act through the laws of physics.
-- Stephen Hawking (Black Holes & Baby Universes)
Thursday, January 19, 2012
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People who think of videos as an art form are probably the same people who think Cabbage Patch Dolls are a revolutionary form of soft sculpture.
-- Frank Zappa
Wednesday, January 18, 2012
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Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
-- Albert Einstein
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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There's nothing so tragic as seeing a family pulled apart by something as simple as a pack of wolves.
-- Jack Handey
Monday, January 16, 2012
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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
Sunday, January 15, 2012
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Economics is extremely useful as a form of employment for economists.
-- John Kenneth Galbraith
Saturday, January 14, 2012
Friday, January 13, 2012
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Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it.
-- Bertrand Russell
Thursday, January 12, 2012
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
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If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
-- Vannevar Bush
Tuesday, January 10, 2012
Monday, January 09, 2012
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Human beings are seventy percent water, and with some the rest is collagen.
-- Martin Mull
Sunday, January 08, 2012
Saturday, January 07, 2012
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I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.
-- Jack Handey
Friday, January 06, 2012
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When I was a child, the other children in my neighborhood would taunt me, calling me "noodle-head" or "neo-Calvinist" So I would run after them, but lucky for them the chain would snap tight and pull me back.
-- Emo Philips
Thursday, January 05, 2012
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It's not good to let any kid near a container that has a skull and crossbones on it, because there might be a skeleton costume inside and the kid could put it on and really scare you.
-- Jack Handey
Wednesday, January 04, 2012
Tuesday, January 03, 2012
Sunday, January 01, 2012
Quote of the Day
I saw this anti-drug commercial that showed a kid smoking pot in his dad's room with his friend. This kid finds a gun, the gun accidentally goes off and kills his friend. Only in America is the villain in this commercial not guns or bad parenting, but pot.
-- Bill Maher
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