Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
— From
Mt. Molelog weblog [http://molelog.molehill.org]
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I figured out years ago that the human species is totally fucked and has
been for a long time. I also know that the sick, media-consumer culture
in America continues to make this so-called problem worse. But the trick,
folks, is not to give a fuck. Like me. I really don't care. I stopped
worrying about all this temporal bullshit a long time ago. It's
meaningless. (See the preface of Braindroppings.)
— George Carlin, from his web site
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My wits are no match for his stupidity.
— Red Green character on “The
Red Green Show”
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there is some shit i will not eat
— ee cummings
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Error is robust, correctness frail and fleeting.
— Old saying among editors
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... and explain it like I'm stupid, because, well ...
— Anonymous Internet Posting
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Republicans are preferable to Democrats because they believe in the
right to bear arms. If you disagree strongly enough with them you can
shoot them.
— P. J. O'Rourke
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The day the second amendment is repealed, is the day it was meant for.
— Unknown
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Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time
to pause and reflect.
— Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a/k/a Mark
Twain)
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Its name is Public Opinion. It is held in reverence. It settles
everything. Some think it is the voice of God. Loyalty to petrified
opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.
— Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a/k/a Mark
Twain)
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Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
— Thomas Jefferson
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If I’d tried for them dinky singles I could’ve batted around
.600.
— Babe Ruth
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The answers I have found have just served to raise a whole new set of
questions. In some ways I am as confused as ever, but I believe I am
confused on a much higher level and about more important things.
— Unknown
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Don’t try to teach a pig to sing. It probably can’t be done
and it annoys the pig.
— Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a/k/a Mark
Twain)
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Nothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
— Samuel Langhorne Clemens (a/k/a Mark
Twain)
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Two and two continue to make four, in spite of the whine of the amateur
for three, or the cry of the critic for five.
— James Whistler
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This is the kind of pedantry up with which I will not put.
— Winston Churchill (in reply to a memo
in which the respondent criticised him for ending a sentence with a
preposition)
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Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.
— Mignon McLaughlin
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I’m not impatient and your time is up.
— "Alan Brady" character on
The Dick Van Dyke Show
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So powerful it’s kinda ridiculous.
— Television advertisement for 3dfx
video chip.
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Faced with the choice between changing one’s mind and proving that
there is no need to do so, almost everybody gets busy on the proof.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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Success is attending a funeral as a spectator.
— E. BonAnno
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The chief value of money is the fact that one lives in a world in which
it is overestimated.
— H.L. Mencken
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When an elderly but distinguished scientist says something is impossible,
he is almost surely wrong.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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The hardest part about being free is that you must allow your neighbor
to be the same.
— Bob Lonsberry
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90% of the people in the world are idiots. Everybody knows this, and
thinks they are part of the other 10%.
— Unknown
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Fuck the system? Nah, you might catch something.
— Unknown
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Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and
conscientious stupidity.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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To know what you prefer instead of humbly saying Amen to what the world
tells you you ought to prefer, is to have kept your soul alive.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.
— Friedrich von Schiller,
The Maid of Orleans , Act III, Scene 6
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If you are angry with someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes
… then you'll be a mile away from them, and you’ll have
their shoes.
— Unknown
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The subdivision paradox: Where people who rant about government
intrusion live and then form governing groups to rant about the
color of a neighbor’s lawn.
— Unknown
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and
I’m not sure about the former.
— Albert Einstein
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A person is smart, people are scared stupid animals, and you know it.
— Men In Black
(movie)
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is
not the reason we are doing it.
— Richard Feynman
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A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in
human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
— Anonymous Internet posting
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The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always
so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
— Bertrand Russell
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Never let your conscience trick you into owning up to the truth when
there’s still some chance somebody might believe the lie.
— Charles Noblett
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I’ve lost my faith in nihilism.
— Anonymous Internet posting
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Assume the worst about people, and you'll generally be correct.
— Scott Adams, author of
“Dilbert” cartoon
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Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the
rest of your life.
— Michael Sinz
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Gun manufacturers don’t make bad products, bad parents do.
— Anonymous Internet posting
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Beliefs are more powerful than facts.
— Duke Paulus Atreides character in the
novel “Dune” by Frank Herbert
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Yes, I am a minion of the Devil, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
— Anonymous Internet posting
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Cthulhu for President! Why vote for a lesser Evil?
— Anonymous Internet posting
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You will be liberated the moment you recognize them for what they are.
— Tibetan Book of the Dead
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We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do
is learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
— Aldous Huxley
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