There are two kinds of fool. One says, "This is old, and therefore good."
And one says "This is new, and therefore better."
-- John Brunner, "The Shockwave Rider"
"One thing they don't tell you about doing experimental physics is that sometimes you must work under adverse conditions ... like a state of sheer terror."
-- W. K. Hartmann
"When I get real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving."
-- Steven Wright
The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the
crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no
one has ever been.
-- Alan Ashley-Pitt
"You know, it's at times like this when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young!"
"Why, what did she tell you?"
"I don't know, I didn't listen!"
-- Douglas Adams, "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
How about a closing quote from me? I've got a couple that I really like. I'll just put them all here (against the rules ... wooooo).
"What good is having money if you don't have someone to spend it on?"
-- Me
I say that because I don't live to gain "stuff" in my life, but there's just something about giving gifts that light up people's faces that really makes me happy.
"Hmmm ... that's not good."
-- Me
Standard line following just about anything I do trying to fix a computer problem at work (:
"Is it supposed to do that?"
-- Me
Heh ... you don't want to know where that comes from.
