Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.
-- H.L. Mencken
Saturday, January 17, 2009
Quote of the Day
Friday, January 16, 2009
Quote of the Day
Last night I stayed up late playing poker with Tarot cards. I got a full house and four people died.
-- Stephen Wright
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Quote of the Day
It is not that polar co-ordinates are complicated, it is simply that cartesian co-ordinates are simpler than they have a right to be.
-- Kleppner & Kolenhow, An Introduction to Mechanics
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Quote of the Day
Sometimes life seems like a dream, especially when I look down and see that I forgot to put on my pants.
-- Jack Handey
Tuesday, January 13, 2009
Monday, January 12, 2009
Quote of the Day
When you go in for a job interview, I think a good thing to ask is if they ever press charges.
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, January 11, 2009
Quote of the Day
The startling truth finally became apparent, and it was this: Numbers written on restaurant checks do not follow the same mathematical laws as numbers written on any other pieces of paper in any other parts of the Universe. This single statement took the scientific world by storm. So many mathematical conferences got held in such good restaurants that many of the finest minds of a generation died of obesity and heart failure, and the science of mathematics was put back by years.
-- Douglas Adams
Saturday, January 10, 2009
Quote of the Day
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
-- Emo Philips
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