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The bad reputation UNIX has gotten is totally undeserved, laid on by people who don't understand, who have not gotten in there and tried anything.
-- Jim Joyce, former computer science lecturer at the University of California

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When they say, "Gee, it's an information explosion!" --no, it's not an explosion, it's a disgorgement of the bowels is what it is. Every idiotic thing that anybody could possibly write or say or think can get into the body politic now --where before things would have to have some merit to go through the publishing routine, now, anything. And all you're getting is an explosion of useless crap, which added to the other useless crap that was being done originally, only makes it that much worse."
-- Harlan Ellison

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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

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If you shoot at mimes, should you use a silencer?
-- Stephen Wright

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Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus

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America: The only country that matters. If you want to experience other "cultures," use an atlas or a ham radio.
-- Ron Swanson

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Physicists like to think that all you have to do is say, these are the conditions, now what happens next?
-- Richard P. Feynman

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The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
-- Mark Twain

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If I had a mine shaft, I don't think I would just abandon it. There's got to be a better way.
-- Jack Handey

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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