Friday, November 29, 2013

Quote of the Day

I'd rather be rich than stupid.
-- Jack Handey

Thursday, November 28, 2013

Quote of the Day

All right, brain. You don't like me and I don't like you, but let's just do this and I can get back to killing you with beer.
-- Homer J. Simpson

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Quote of the Day

All theoretical chemistry is really physics; and all theoretical chemists know it.
-- Richard P. Feynman

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

Quote of the Day

Live a good life. If there are gods and they are just, then they will not care how devout you have been, but will welcome you based on the virtues you have lived by. If there are gods, but unjust, then you should not want to worship them. If there are no gods, then you will be gone, but will have lived a noble life that will live on in the memories of your loved ones.
-- Marcus Aurelius

Monday, November 25, 2013

Quote of the Day

Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)

Sunday, November 24, 2013

Quote of the Day

It takes a big man to cry, but it takes an even bigger man to laugh at that man.
-- Jack Handey

Saturday, November 23, 2013

Friday, November 22, 2013

Quote of the Day

It's a recession when your neighbour loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
-- Harry S. Truman

Thursday, November 21, 2013

Quote of the Day

Then you have to say one or other of two things. Either God only speaks to a very small percentage of mankind--which happens to include yourself--or He deliberately says things are not true in talking to the consciences of savages.
-- Bertrand Russell

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Quote of the Day

It's hard to have a righteous opinion on the environment when you're as selfish and uninformed as I am. On one hand, I'm a cat-loving vegetarian who ought to care deeply about the caribou or koala bears or bats or whatever they have in Alaska. On the other hand, I live in California so I'd be willing to squeeze school children to death if I thought some oil would come out.
-- Scott Adams

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

Quote of the Day

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.
-- A. Whitney Brown

Monday, November 18, 2013

Quote of the Day

Of all the tyrannies that affect mankind, tyranny in religion is the worst.
-- Thomas Paine

Sunday, November 17, 2013

Quote of the Day

Mmmm, Gummy-beer.
-- Homer J. Simpson

Friday, November 15, 2013

Quote of the Day

I'd mock you, but the challenge is gone.
-- Dogbert

Thursday, November 14, 2013

Quote of the Day

I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than first programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then I suspect all fortran programs look like "firsts")
-- Olaf Kirch

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Quote of the Day

Why do birds suddenly appear every time you're near? I'm guessing it might have something to do with your birdseed sombrero.
-- Stephen Colbert (via Twitter)

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Quote of the Day

Carob works on the principle that, when mixed with the right combination of fats and sugar, it can duplicate chocolate in color and texture. Of course, the same can be said of dirt.
-- Sandra Boynton

Monday, November 11, 2013

Quote of the Day

I ask for so little. And boy do I get it.
-- Dilbert

Sunday, November 10, 2013

Quote of the Day

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.
-- H.G. Wells

Friday, November 08, 2013

Quote of the Day

Irrationality is the square root of all evil.
-- Douglas Hofstadter

Thursday, November 07, 2013

Quote of the Day

True ornament is not a matter of prettifying externals. It is organic with the structure it adorns, whether a person, a building, or a park. At its best it is an emphasis of structure, a realization in graceful terms of the nature of that which is ornamented.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright

Wednesday, November 06, 2013

Quote of the Day

Like the wind crying endlessly through the universe, Time carries away the names and the deeds of conquerors and commoners alike. And all that we are, all that remains, is in the memories of those who cared we came this way for a brief moment.
-- Harlan Ellison

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Quote of the Day

I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
-- Rita Rudner

Monday, November 04, 2013

Quote of the Day

... C++ offers even more flexible control over the visibility of member objects and member functions. Specifically, members may be placed in the public, private, or protected parts of a class. Members declared in the public parts are visible to all clients; members declared in the private parts are fully encapsulated; and members declared in the protected parts are visible only to the class itself and its subclasses. C++ also supports the notion of *friends*: cooperative classes that are permitted to see each other's private parts.
-- Grady Booch, "Object Oriented Design with Applications"

Sunday, November 03, 2013

Quote of the Day

Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
-- H.L. Mencken

Friday, November 01, 2013

Quote of the Day

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
-- Bertrand Russell