Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.
-- Richard Dawkins
Friday, April 30, 2021
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Thursday, April 29, 2021
Wednesday, April 28, 2021
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Sen. Danforth: There is nothing on the face of the album which would notify you if the record has pornographics material or material glorifying violence?
Tipper Gore: No, there is nothing that would suggest that to me.
Frank Zappa: I would say that a buzz saw blade between the guy's legs on the album cover is good indication that it's not for little Johnny.
-- The Senate Commerce Committee hearing on rock lyrics, from The Village Voice, 6 Oct 1985
Tuesday, April 27, 2021
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Luke, I'm yer father, eh. Come over to the dark side, you hoser.
-- Dave Thomas (Strange Brew)
Monday, April 26, 2021
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On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?" I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
-- Charles Babbage
Sunday, April 25, 2021
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Once I posed naked for a magazine. But it was very demeaning, and I've never been back to that newsstand.
-- Emo Philips
Saturday, April 24, 2021
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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
-- Frederick Brooks, (The Mythical Man-Month)
Friday, April 23, 2021
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It was I, you fools! The man you trusted wasn't Wavy Gravy at all! And all this time, I've been smoking harmless tobacco.
-- Charles Montgomery Burns
Thursday, April 22, 2021
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Are you correcting me? Don't correct me! I'm a Pantera's box you do NOT want to open!
-- Mr. Furious
Wednesday, April 21, 2021
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The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by side to our common doom.
-- Clarence Darrow
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
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Today's public figures can no longer write their own speeches or books, and there is some evidence that they can't read them either.
-- Gore Vidal
Monday, April 19, 2021
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In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their language.
-- Mark Twain
Sunday, April 18, 2021
Saturday, April 17, 2021
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In an ideal world I would have all ten fingers on my left hand so my right hand could just be a fist for punching.
-- Dwight Kurt Schrute III
Friday, April 16, 2021
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It's all Christianity, people. The little, stupid differences are nothing next to the big, stupid similarities.
-- Bartholomew J. Simpson
Thursday, April 15, 2021
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And as of this morning, we are completely wireless here at Schrute Farms, but as soon as I find out where Mose hid all the wires, we'll get all that power back on.
-- Dwight Kurt Schrute III
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
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There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. Some kind of high powered mutant never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
-- Hunter S. Thompson
Tuesday, April 13, 2021
Monday, April 12, 2021
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It is convenient that there be gods, and, as it is convenient, let us believe there are.
-- Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid)
Sunday, April 11, 2021
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Inspector Clay is dead! Murdered! And someone's responsible!
-- Detective (Plan 9 from Outer Space)
Saturday, April 10, 2021
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I regard monotheism as the greatest disaster ever to befall the human race. I see no good in Judaism, Christianity, or Islam -- good people, yes, but any religion based on a single, well, frenzied and virulent god, is not as useful to the human race as, say, Confucianism, which is not a religion but an ethical and educational system.
-- Gore Vidal
Friday, April 09, 2021
Thursday, April 08, 2021
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In the Schrute family, the youngest child always raises the others. I've been raising children since I was a baby.
-- Dwight Kurt Schrute III
Wednesday, April 07, 2021
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It's like fire and ice, basically. I feel my role in the band is to be somewhere in the middle of that, kind of like lukewarm water.
-- Derek Smalls
Tuesday, April 06, 2021
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Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.
-- Donald E. Knuth
Monday, April 05, 2021
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Religion supports nobody. It has to be supported. It produces no wheat, no corn; it ploughs no land; it fells no forests. It is a perpetual mendicant. It lives on the labors of others, and then has the arrogance to pretend that it supports the giver.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll
Sunday, April 04, 2021
Saturday, April 03, 2021
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New York... when civilization falls apart, remember, we were way ahead of you.
-- David Letterman
Friday, April 02, 2021
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Washington couldn't tell a lie, Nixon couldn't tell the truth, and Reagan couldn't tell the difference.
-- Mort Sahl
Thursday, April 01, 2021
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It's very unusual for Michael not to show up to work. My guess, he's either deeply depressed or an icicle has snapped off his roof and impaled his brain. He has this terrible habit of standing directly underneath them and staring up at them. And I always say, "Michael, take two steps back and stare at the icicle from the side." And he's like, "No, I like the way they look from standing directly underneath them." It was only a matter of time.
-- Dwight Kurt Schrute III