Computers are like air conditioners...they stop working properly when you open windows.-anonymous

First time I read the dictionary, I thought it was a poem about everything

If the pen is mightier than the sword then in a duel i'll let you have the pen

I stayed up all night playing poker with tarrot cards, I got a full house and four people died.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while there I was a suspect

When ideas fail, words come in very handy

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.

If what you are is what you have and what you have is lost, then what are you?

If at first you don't succeed...then skydiving is not for you --cigarette lighter

"One treats others with courtesy not because they are gentlemen or gentlewomen, but because you are"
--G. Henrichs

As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error

"One World, One Web, One Program" --Microsoft Ad
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" --Adolf Hitler

Those who dance are thought mad, by those who hear not the music.

When in doubt, follow your heart.

The real trouble with reality is that there's no background music.

...So you learn to listen, or seem to be listening, and to figure out when and how to nod at the right time, when to ask questions, when not to, and finally when to say you agree. This is called the art of conversation.

We buy the truth.

Don't take life seriously, you'll never get out alive.

If a man loses his reverence for any part of life, he will lose his reverence for all of life. -- Albert Schweitzer

If Linux is not Unix then Windows are not Gates
--Anonymous, XXI Century

Today is a good day to die.
Oh, with you today is always a good day to die.

We live for the One, we die for the One, but we don't die stupidly.

Within a computer, natural language is unnatural.

The trouble with a kitten is that When it grows up, it's always a cat
--Ogden Nash.

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter.
--William Lloyd Garrison

Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those that count the votes decide everything.
--Joseph Stalin

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
--G.B. Shaw

"What the scientists have in their briefcases is terrifying."
--Nikita Khrushchev

"Know that there is nothing inside you, mind or body, that is so nasty, noxious, or poisonous that it will not be understood, accepted, transformed and recycled by the Great Goddess."
--Barbara Ardinger

Live by the sword die by the sword. Don't live by the sword - die by the sword - really quickly, and without even putting up a fight.

(a word of caution: this is a very powerful tool for experiencing possibility. it is very important that you learn from the experience, and come away from it with the ability to bring some of that possibility to your every day life. the drug shows us what's possible, it is not the only way to live those possibilities.)

It might look like I'm standing motionless, but I'm actively waiting for my problems to go away
--Scott Adams

'If you don't pray in my school, I won't think in your church'

You will pay for your sins. If you have already paid, please disregard this message.

I reserve and often exercise the right to change my mind and correct the boneheaded things that I inevitably do

The optimist proclaims we live in the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist fears this is true.
--James B. Cabell

A hacker is someone who experiments with systems... Hacking is playing with systems and making them do what they were never intended to do.

"Large amounts of money tend to quench any scruples I might be having."
--Stephan Wilms

The despair I can live with. It's the hope I can't stand.

To believe in the power of a fancy cable surely pales into insignificance beside belief in a deity, and there are plenty of people who go for that.

NASA needs to simply glue machine guns to every launch vehicle they have to assure permanent funding.

Yes, I'm always this drunk.

"Retreat Hell! We're just attacking in another direction."
--Major General Oliver P. Smith

Penn's aunts made great apple pies at low prices. No one else in town could compete with the pie rates of Penn's aunts.

"No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven and every indiviual of the same species has the right to enjoy it."
--Diderot

"...I might say my sufferings were great; but when I compare my lot with that of most of my countrymen, I regard myself as a particular favorite of heaven..."
--Equiano

Before you can follow your dreams, you have to follow the rules.

What does education often do? It makes a straight cut ditch of a free meandering brook.
--Henry David Thoreau

One must remember that the reason for life is happiness. Without happiness life has no purpose. Without purpose life has no meaning. Without meaning life has no value. Without value life is no better than death.

And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.
--Kahlil Gibran

I don't mind arguing with myself. It's when I lose that it bothers me.
--Richard Powers

We have met the enemy, and he is us.
--Walt Kelly

I'll never understand why the close minded people are the first to open their mouths, always funny to see prejudice people give their opinions as they can't think for themselves. They know only what they've been taught.

"In Germany they came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. They came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by that time no one was left to speak up."
--Martin Neimoeller

Little Guido, six years old, was sitting on a park bench munching on one candy bar after another.
After the 6th one... a man on the bench across from him said, "Son, you know eating all that candy isn't good for you. It will give you acne, rot your teeth, make you fat."
Little Guido replied, "My grandfather lived to be 107 years old."
The man asked, "Did your grandfather eat 6 candy bars at a time?"
Little Guido answered, "No, he minded his own fucking business!"

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than education, than money, than circumstances, than failures, than success, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than apperance, giftedness, or skill. It will make or break a company... a church... a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday reguarding the attitude we embrace for that day. We cannot change our past... We cannot change the fact that people act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing that we can do is play the one string we have, and that is our attitude... I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% how I react to it. And so it is with you... we are in charge of our attitudes.