Favorite Quotes

[Boerseun]

"while we're on the subject of file formats, let's pause for a moment in frank admiration of the way in which Microsoft brazenly built backward-incompatibility into its product. By initially making it virtually impossible to maintain a heterogenous environment of Word 95 and Word 97 systems, Microsoft offered its customers that most eloquent of arguments for upgrading: the delicate sound of a revolver being cocked somewhere just out of sight."

- Dan Martinez

[Boerseun]

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, in a moment of reasoned lucidity which is almost unique among its current tally of five million, nine hundred and seventy-three thousand, five hundred and nine pages, says of the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation products that "it is very easy to be blinded to the essential uselessness of them by the sense of achievement you get from getting them to work at all." In other words, - and this is the rock-solid principle on which the whole of the Corporation's Galaxywide success is founded - their fundamental design flaws are completely hidden by their superficial design flaws. -Douglas Adams

(Could be equally well applied to Microsoft, and its products...:))

[Turtle]

When in doubt, just give up. - Roger Thelonious George

[Boerseun]

"When in doubt, f**k."

- Al Pacino to his cat, in "Scent of a Woman"

[freeztar]

"There's something mildly distressing about living in a society where cash-strapped public schools are more likely than ever to be cutting their music programs, and yet the must-have game of the season teaches you to play a fake guitar." - Peter Hartlaub

[Turtle]

When sure of your course, second guess it three or four times. - Roger Thelonious George

[Turtle]

When one is prepared to use one, then one is prepared to see one used. - Roger Thelonious George

[freeztar]

"The victory of Christianity over paganism was the greatest psychic revolution in the history of our culture. By destroying pagan animism, Christianity made it possible to exploit nature in a mood of indifference to the feelings of natural objects." - Lynn I. White, Jr., Science, 10 March 1967

[InfiniteNow]

"We are all atheists about most of the gods that humanity has ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further."

~ Richard Dawkins

[Queso]

"There's something mildly distressing about living in a society where cash-strapped public schools are more likely than ever to be cutting their music programs, and yet the must-have game of the season teaches you to play a fake guitar." - Peter Hartlaub

 

"I beat level three" - unattested feed

[Turtle]

Whither philosophy is a necessary evil, it is a sufficient one.

- Roger Thelonious George -

[Buffy]

When I think of the number of disagreeable people that I know who have gone to a better world, I am sure hell won't be so bad at all.

-- Mark Twain

 

You have many contacts among the lumberjacks, :winter_brr:

Buffy

[DougF]

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955),

[DougF]

If you would not be forgotten as soon as you are dead and rotten, either write something worth reading or do things worth the writing.

 

Benjamin Franklin

[Turtle]

Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans.

- John Lennon -

[DougF]

I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life.

 

George Burns (1896 - 1996)

[DougF]

I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.

 

 

Rita Rudner