I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
-- Isaac Asimov
Wednesday, December 31, 2014
Tuesday, December 30, 2014
Quote of the Day
I think it is not helpful to apply Darwinian language too widely. Conquest of nation by nation is too distant for Darwinian explanations to be helpful.
-- Richard Dawkin
Monday, December 29, 2014
Quote of the Day
If you want to do evil, science provides the most powerful weapons to do evil; but equally, if you want to do good, science puts into your hands the most powerful tools to do so.
-- Richard Dawkins
Sunday, December 28, 2014
Quote of the Day
My favorite thing about the Internet is that you get to go into the private world of real creeps without having to smell them.
-- Penn Jillette
Saturday, December 27, 2014
Quote of the Day
Weather forcast for tonight: dark. Continued dark overnight, with widely scattered light by morning.
-- George Carlin
Friday, December 26, 2014
Quote of the Day
It's no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase 'As pretty as an airport' appear.
-- Douglas Adams
Thursday, December 25, 2014
Wednesday, December 24, 2014
Quote of the Day
I donĂ¢t want to paint with a broad brush here, but every single contractor in the world is a miserable, incompetent thief.
-- Ron Swanson
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Quote of the Day
Just give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Wait... wait. I worry what you just heard was: Give me a lot of bacon and eggs. What I said was: Give me all the bacon and eggs you have. Do you understand?
-- Ron Swanson
Monday, December 22, 2014
Sunday, December 21, 2014
Quote of the Day
Most people don't realize that large pieces of coral, which have been painted brown and attached to the skull by common wood screws, can make a child look like a deer.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, December 20, 2014
Quote of the Day
If only he had joined a mainstream religion, like Oprahism or Voodoo.
-- Professor Hubert Farnsworth
Friday, December 19, 2014
Quote of the Day
In the Schrute family, we believe in a five-fingered intervention. Awareness, education, control, acceptance and punching.
-- Dwight Kurt Schrute III
Thursday, December 18, 2014
Quote of the Day
If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?
-- Stephen Wright
Wednesday, December 17, 2014
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
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
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...)
Monday, December 15, 2014
Quote of the Day
I still went to church regularly, though, until I was eighteen years old. Then suddenly, the light bulb went on over my head. All the mindless morbidity and discipline was pretty sick--bleeding this, painful that and no meat on Friday. What is this shit?
-- Frank Zappa
Sunday, December 14, 2014
Saturday, December 13, 2014
Quote of the Day
To alcohol! The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Friday, December 12, 2014
Quote of the Day
He's turned his life around. He used to be depressed and miserable. Now he's miserable and depressed.
-- David Frost
Thursday, December 11, 2014
Wednesday, December 10, 2014
Quote of the Day
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.
-- James Joyce
Tuesday, December 09, 2014
Quote of the Day
1/2 oz. gin
1/2 oz. vodka
1/2 oz. rum (preferably dark)
3/4 oz. tequilla
1/2 oz. triple sec
1/2 oz. orange juice
3/4 oz. sour mix
1/2 oz. cola
shake with ice and strain into frosted glass.
-- Long Island Iced Tea
Monday, December 08, 2014
Quote of the Day
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them.
-- Mark Twain
Sunday, December 07, 2014
Quote of the Day
Fame is a vapor; popularity an accident; the only earthly certainty is oblivion.
-- Mark Twain
Saturday, December 06, 2014
Quote of the Day
You may have hoodwinked everyone else in this backwater town, but you can't fool me. I listen to public radio.
-- Squidward Tentacles
Friday, December 05, 2014
Quote of the Day
If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.
-- Dorothy Parker
Thursday, December 04, 2014
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
Wednesday, December 03, 2014
Tuesday, December 02, 2014
Quote of the Day
Hey, wouldn't it be terrible if we ended up having to eat each other? Like those sailors did in that film, um..."We Ended Up Having To Eat Each Other."
-- Neil Pye
Monday, December 01, 2014
Quote of the Day
When Gary told me he had found Jesus, I thought, Yahoo! We're rich! But it turned out to be something different.
-- Jack Handey