Post some of your favorite quotes

"Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." - Charles Schulz

"My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there." - Jim Henson

Clare Booth Luce. Though sometimes attributed to Dorothy Parker.

It may have been Groucho Marx but I'm not sure.

- Malcolm Reynolds

as spoken by Richard Masur as Georgie the delivery boy on All in the Family. It's still one of my favorite episodes and one rule that guides many of my actions in my life.

Quote from my supervisor, Shuttle Avionics Integration Laboratory.

conspiracy-minded you are, what the government is actually doing is worse than you imagine.

--- William Blum, author and historian

Don't Panic!

Back in the good old days-- the "Golden Era" of computers-- it was easy to separate the men from the boys (sometimes called "Real Men" and "Quiche Eaters" in the literature). During this period, the Real Men were the ones who understood computer programming, and the Quiche Eaters were the ones who didn't. A real computer programmer said things like "DO 10 I=1,10" and "ABEND" (they actually talked in capital letters, you understand), and the rest of the world said things like "computers are too complicated for me" and "I can't relate to computers-- they're so impersonal". (A previous work points out that Real Men don't "relate" to anything, and aren't afraid of being impersonal.)

http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/real.programmers.html

by stupidity".

Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality.
-- Frank Zappa, Statement to the Senate Hearing on "Porn Rock," 1985

Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?
-- Douglas Adams, from Last Chance To See

We live on a hunk of rock and metal that circles a humdrum star that is one of 400 billion other stars that make up the Milky Way Galaxy which is one of billions of other galaxies which make up a universe which may be one of a very large number, perhaps an infinite number, of other universes. That is a perspective on human life and our culture that is well worth pondering.
-- Carl Sagan, quoted in Dan Lewandowski and John Stear, "A Tribute To Carl Sagan"

to Grandmother's house we go.

"Me? Fail English? That's unpossible!" - George W. Bush

"If you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way." - Donald Trump

"Please don't eat me! I have a wife and kids. Eat them!" - Dennis Kucinich

"I'm in no condition to drive...wait! I shouldn't listen to myself, I'm drunk!" - Paris Hilton

"I like my beer cold, my TV loud and my homosexuals flaming." - Larry Craig

"How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?" - George W. Bush

"Save me, Jeebus!" - Jerry Falwell

"You're saying butt-kisser like it's a bad thing!' - Glenn Beck

"In this house, we obey the laws of thermodynamics" - Stephen Hawking

Ben Franklin

"This is our time. Let us embrace it."--Bill Clinton

"You're scared, right? "
"Maybe."
"The way it works is, you do the thing you're scared shitless of, and you get the courage AFTER you do it, not before you do it."
"That's a dumbass way to work. It should be the other way around."
"I know. That's the way it works."--From the movie Three Kings

My life is my own."


The Prisoner