Cool Quotes

Congratulations on choosing the Armstrong Whitworth 4 pounder Cannonette.
Please read the instructions carefully and it should give you
years of trouble free maiming.

If you do not create your destiny,
you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

– William Irwin Thompson

Descartes walks into a bar and sits down.
The bartender says “Hey bud, wanna beer?”
Descartes gets huffy and responds
"I think not!" then disappears.

There are three degrees of filial piety.
The highest is being a credit to our parents,
the second is not disgracing them,
the lowest is being able simply
to support them.

– Confucius

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself,
but talent instantly recognizes genius.

– Author Unknown

I seem to have been only a boy playing on the seashore, and
diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a
prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay
all undiscovered before me.

Time travel could have unexpected uses

– reporter for Hard Copy, the Historical Edition

Life is what happens to you while you’re busy makin’ other plans…

– John Lennon

A phrase is born into the world both good and bad at the same time.
The secret lies in a slight, an almost invisible twist.
The lever should rest in your hand, getting warm,
and you can only turn it once, not twice.

– Guy de Maupassant

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from
mediocre minds.

– Albert Einstein

Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way.

– Chrysler ad campaign

Politicians, like underwear, should be changed often,
and for the same reasons.

Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra
and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath.
At night, the ice weasels come.

Disease and Famine are stalking the country like two
giant stalking things.

To act is easy; to think is hard

– Goethe

One can not create culture with politics,
but perhaps one can make politics with culture.

– Huess

If you do not create your destiny,
you will have your fate inflicted upon you.

– William Irwin Thompson

I love California. I grew up in Phoenix.

– D. Quayle

A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art
should carry its justification in every line.

– Joseph Conrad

The fairest thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the
fundamental emotion that lies at the cradle of true art and true science.
He who knows it not, who can no longer feel amazement, is as good as dead,
a snuffed out candle.

– Albert Einstein

There comes a tide in a man’s life, when he must grab the bull
by the tale and face the situation.

– W.C. Fields

I need beauty like I need to breathe.

– Jack Henry Abbott

A man’s mind, stretched by new ideas,
can never go back to its original dimensions.

– Oliver Wendell Holmes

The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

– William Cowper

For these few days the hills are bright with cherry blossom.
Longer, and we should not prize them so.

– Yamabe no Akahito

The secret of the demagogue is to make himself as stupid as his
audience so that they believe they are as clever as he.

– Karl Kraus

We don’t make these pictures to make money; We make money so that
we can make more pictures.

– Walt Disney

Don’t look back… something might be gaining

– Satchel Paige

The significant problems we face cannot be solved
at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.

– Albert Einstein

Information is not knowledge

Knowledge is not wisdom

Wisdom is not truth

Truth is not beauty

Beauty is not love…

– Frank Zappa, Joe’s Garage

Good judgement comes from experience…

experience comes from poor judgement

– Unknown

Nothing travels faster than the speed of light with the
possible exception of bad news, which obeys its own special laws.
The Hingefreel people of Arkintoofle Minor did try to build
spaceships that were powered by bad news but they didn’t work particularly
well and were so extremely unwelcome whenever they arrived anywhere
that there wasn’t really any point in being there.

– Douglas Adams

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.

– Freud, smiling, when asked if there were any significance to his
frequent chewing on a cigar

Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?

That depends a good deal on where you want to get to, said the Cat.

I don’t much care where, said Alice.

Then it doesn’t matter which way you go, said the Cat.

So long as I get SOMEWHERE, Alice added as an explanation.

Oh, you’re sure to do that, said the Cat, if only you walk long enough.

– Alice & Cheshire Cat

Happy is the man who hath never known what it is to taste of fame
- to have it is a purgatory, to want it is a Hell!

– Edward Bulwer-Lytton

When a man retires and time is no longer a matter of urgent
importance, his colleagues generally present him with a clock.

– R. C. Sherriff

It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words. In your heart,
you’d prefer to stick to Oldspeak, with all its vagueness and useless
shades of meaning. You don’t grasp the beauty of the destruction of
words. Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the
range of thought? In the end, we shall make thoughtcrime literally
impossible, because there will be no words in which to express it.

– George Orwell

Forgiveness is the scent an orchid leaves
on the heel that has crushed it.

I cannot help mocking all our unwavering certainties.
It is, for example, great fun deliberately to confuse two and
three dimensions, the plane and space, and to poke fun at gravity.

– M.C. Escher

from Jon Navy, our Live Picture guy here at MetaTools:

Kill all the birds, and use all the stones you want.

Plodding wins the race.

– Aesop

When I am with you, we stay up all night.

When you’re not here, I can’t go to sleep.

Praise God for these two insomnias!

And the difference Between them.

– Rumi
Translation by Coleman Barks and John Moyne

I can’t teach you to be an artist;
all I can do is help you learn to see.

– J.P. Loveless

Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are anger and courage.
Anger that things are the way they are.
Courage to make them the way they ought to be.

– St. Augustine

All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel
heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones
are moving easily under the flesh.

– Doris Lessing

To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.

– Joseph Chilton Pearce

Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

– M. C. Richards

A popular government without popular information, or the means of
acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy, or perhaps both.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

– James Madison

One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are
crude until you have absorbed them or translated them. It is not so
much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.

– John Burroughs

When asked, Of what use is your latest invention?
Benjamin Franklin replied, Of what use is a newborn baby?

On Virtual Reality games:

Someday you’ll slip on the goggles, and walk around the city or tower
you created, and you’ll be able to tell people you run into that you
built the place, and they will be really impressed.

– Jeff Braun, CEO, Maxis
(of SimCity and all other SimThings out there)

Yes, I have learned from my mistakes…

I can reproduce them exactly.

– Peter Cook

If our knowledge of the world is controlled by the media
then we live in a mediocrity.

Never appeal to a man’s better nature. He may not have one.
Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

– Lazarus Long

…confusion is a misapprehension of a higher order…

First I was dying to finish high school and start college.

And then I was dying to finish college and start working.

And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough for school,
so I could return to work.

And then I was dying to retire.

And now, I am dying.

And suddenly, I realize – I forgot to live

– Anonymous

Not yet.

– an 80-year-old woodcarver, when asked if he had been
a woodcarver all his life.

It is the poor musician who blames his instrument

I feel more like I did when I got here than I do now.

The Sun has left us on time, I am going to read from Encyclopedia
Britannica to steady my nerves and go to bed early. I will shut my
eyes and imagine a terraced abyss, each terrace occupied by a beautiful
maiden. To the first I will deliver my mind and they will pass it down,
down to the uttermost depths of silence and oblivion.

– From the diary of Thomas Edison

Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs,
even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits
who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the grey
twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

– Theodore Roosevelt

Never trust a skinny cook

–Posted at the cash register at world famous Tony’s BBQ in Carpinteria.

Little Jack Horner

Sits in a corner

Extracting cube roots to infinity,

An assignment for boys

That will minimize noise

And produce a more peaceful vicinity.

– From The Space Child’s Mother Goose
verses by Frederick Winsor
(Simon and Schuster)

…You gonna finish that?

– famous Philadelphia photographer

When we walk to the end of all the light we have, and take a step
into the darkness of the unknown, we must believe one of two things
will happen: that we will land on something solid, or we will
learn to fly.

– unknown

I feel like a piece of sand inside an oyster. I can imagine the
pearl’s beauty, but right now all I can tell is that someone is
spitting at me

Je veux peindre comme si aucun peintre n’avait peint avant moi.

(I would like to paint as if no painter had ever painted before me.)

– Paul Cezanne

Give a man a fish and you have fed him for a day, but
give him a case of dynamite and soon the village will be showered with
mud and seaweed and unidentifiable chunks of fish.

Going on means going far. Going far means returning.

– Tao Te Ching

let your workings remain a mystery – just show people the results.

– Tao Te Ching

Denial is not just a river in Egypt.

– Carl Sagan

We may hammer wood for a house, but it is the space within that
makes it livable.

– Tao Te Ching

I’d say the two bookends of our lives are price enough for any
treasure.

Money is better than poverty if only for financial reasons.

– Woody Allen

Favorite Quote from Dan Margulis’ Professional Photoshop:

…HSB is more complicated than RGB, but you ain’t seen nothin’ yet,
since in the next chapter we will make the acquaintance of LAB, which
is roughly to HSB as James Joyce is to John Grisham.

Never forget who you are or where you stand in the struggle.

– Bob Marley

Optical illusion is optical truth.

– Goethe

I can’t believe it’s not Bahduh.

– Fabio

The colors are deeds of light-deeds and sufferings.

It is sacrilege to say that there is such a thing as optical fraud.

– Goethe

there is nothing new in art except talent

– Anton Chekhov

Isn’t that like flammable and inflammable?
Boy, I learned that one the hard way.

– Woodie Boyd

Long ago, there was a youth who got a bad palm reading.
Afterwards, he worked hard at trying to cut good lines into his palms.

– Sung-ok Kim

If the world should blow itself up, the last audible voice
would be that of an expert saying it can’t be done.

– Peter Ustinov

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up late last night!

– Deryle Perryman

I was playing poker with Tarot cards last night.
I got a full house and four people died.

– Stephen Wright

Henry James is one of the nicest little old ladies I ever met.

– William Faulkner

Nothing is less productive than to make more efficient
what should not be done at all.

– Peter Drucker

A good analogy is like a frog without

HELP! MY TYPEWRITER IS BROKEN!

– E. E. CUMMINGS

Just because a great many people believe in something is no
guarantee of it’s truth.

– Gandhi

I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.

– Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM, 1943

Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.

– Popular Mechanics’ scientific forecasts in 1949

There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.

– Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder
of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977

The mind does not create what it perceives,
anymore than the eye creates the rose.

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

There’s a party in my mind, and I can never leave…

– (Corey Glover?)

Nil nisi clavis deest-

Latin, meaning
nothing is wanting but the key.

Nemo nisi intus superatus

Latin, meaning You only get beaten from within.

through nature’s inflexible grace I’m learning to live

– dream theater

so fragile to balance

too potent to harness

life charges past the mortal in man

– echolyn

To be is to do.

– Socrates

To do is to be

– Aristotle

Do be, Do be, Do

– Sinatra

Find out what you like in life… and drink it!!

– Messy Jesse, The Odd Couple

The obstacle is the path.

I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.

– Joe Walsh

Few problems in life cannot be greatly helped by

1. An increase in sales, or

2. A hot fudge sundae.

– Jean Baum

If values don’t keep pace with our discoveries,
our values will destroy us.

– Dr. Frankenstein

The greatest enemy of art is the absence of Limitation

– Orson Welles

Art is not a mirror – it is a hammer.

– John Grierson

The mass media is supported and sustained by commercial entities.
And corn flakes and Shakespeare are simply not kissing cousins.
Leonard Bernstein and living bras are incompatible.
And you cannot sustain adult, probing, meaningful drama
when the proceedings are interrupted every twelve minutes
by a dozen dancing rabbits with toilet paper.

– Rod Serling

It’s times like this I wish I had listened to my mother….
-Why, what did she say?
I don’t know. I didn’t listen.

“I wonder who was watching Heisenberg when he came up with the
uncertainty principle.”

– LHM

I’m trying to think, but nothing’s happening!

We like to praise birds for their ability to fly, but how much of
that is actually flying, and how much is just coasting from the
last flap?

– Jack Handey

For whom is the funhouse fun? For Ambrose it is a place of fear and
confusion.

– John Barth

I got lost so I decided to go look for mmyself. If I happen to return before I find myself, tell me to sit down and wait. I’ll be right back.

the fear of sinking remains in place,
but its the fear of failure that’s a real disgrace

– james

“At least I won’t have to buy Windows ’95!”

– Anita Harding, neurologist, born September 17, 1952; died, September 11, 1995. Harding was a young full professor who was head of a unit at the Institute of Neurology at Queen’s Square in London. She died of cancer and her obituary appeared on October 4th, 1995 in The Guardian (published in London).

The self is a prison to which we’re all condemned…
and it’s a life sentence, pal!

Advancing years and treachery will always overcome youth and skill.

– Donald E. McKenney

Even a blind pig will find an acorn
once in a while.

Good luck soon!

– Tom’s fortune cookie (cookie!)

You’ve got a hundred-billion-neuron brain.
It’s wired and fired and it’s a reality-generating device.
But you’ve got to do it – free your self!

– Timothy Leary

…human beings cease to be human when they congregate and a mob
is a monster. If you think of a mob as a living thing and you want
to get its I.Q., take the average intelligence of the people there
and divide it by the number of people there. Which means that a
mob of fifty has somewhat less intelligence than an earthworm.

– Theodore Sturgeon

Pity the poor, diseased politician. Imagine: to spend your days and
expend your efforts making rules for others to live by, thinking up
ways to run other lives. Actually to strive for the opportunity to
do so! What a hideous affliction!

– from THE SECOND BOOK OF KYFHO

The moment of the meeting of media
is a moment of freedom and release
from the ordinary trance and numbness
imposed by them on our senses.

– Marshall McLuhan
Understanding Media:The Extensions of Man, 1964

I have tons of work to do.. tons of tons.
I have so many tons that I could live in
Taunton and ride a taun-taun to work and
still have a few tons left over.

– Bret Kulakovich

The beatings will continue until morale improves.

– unk.

Don’t think!
You thought… Don’t write!
You wrote… Don’t sign!
You signed…. Don’t be suprised!

– Nadav

As for me, I have no doubt that both Hell, and Heaven, actually exist. Nevertheless, I plan to avoid both of those places at all costs – and I recommend that others do the same.

– Greg McKenzie
Somewhere near Santa Cruz

There are some situations from which one can only escape
by acting like a devil or a lunatic.

– George Orwell

Ordinary thoughts and feelings are not necessarily shallow, any more
than subtle or unusual ones are necessarily profound!

“We shall protect free enterprise as the most expedient, or rather the sole possible economic order.”

– Adolf Hitler

The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless.

– Oscar Wilde

Is it Art or is it Computer Technology?

–(from a button I bought in Big Sur, CA)

“Good humor is more than just ice cream.”

– ACT

“Rest assured that if you place a low value on yourself,
the world will not increase the price.”

– Wilson from Home Improvement

“Champagne to our friends, and pain to our sham friends.”

– Sherm Strikhouser, morning DJ station WHJJ, Providence

“We sometimes congratulate ourselves at the moment of waking from
a troubled dream. It may be so the moment after death.”

– Nathaniel Hawthorne

Life is like a broken broomstick, you never know which end of the shaft your gonna get.

With doubt and dismay you are smitten,
You think that there’s no chance for you, son?
Why the best books haven’t been written,
The best race hasn’t been run.

– Berton Braley
Submitted by Christian Wehba

Losers quit when they’re tired, winners quit when they win.

I’ll meet you tonight under the moon.
Oh, I can see you now – you and the moon.
You wear a necktie so I’ll know you.

– Groucho Marx

Mama always said, “Life is like a box of chocolate, you never know what you are going to get.”

– Forrest Gump

Wishing won’t make it so
Hoping won’t do it, praying won’t do it
Religion won’t do it, philosophy won’t do it
The Supreme Court won’t do it, the President and the Congress won’t do it
The UN won’t do it, the H-bomb won’t do it, the sun and the moon won’t do it
And God won’t do it, and I certainly won’t do it

That leaves you, you’ll have to do it

– Todd Rundgren, "Fair Warning" (Initiation)

Although gold dust is precious,
when it gets in your eyes it
obstructs vision.

– Hsi-Tang

I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

– Tom Waites

I’ve strived for some time to develop a lifestyle that does not require my presence.

– Unknown

If you don’t take a chance, you never had a chance.

– Unknown

You take a mortal man
Put him in control
Watch him become a god
Watch peoples heads a’roll

– Dave Mustaine – Megadeth

When a man tells you he got rich through hard work, ask him whose.

– Don Marquis

NOTHING, ABSOLUTELY NOTHING HAPPENS IN GOD’S WORLD BY MISTAKE

– ANONYMOUS

COFFEE SPREADS DARKNESS

– FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Time is simply Nature’s way of keeping everything
from happening all at once.

– Unknown

The Big Suits love information technology because it promises to sustain the
most inexhaustible market, one that does not depend upon scarce natural resources, one in which genuine obsolescence is the norm, not the silly fiction of planned obsolescence that auto manufacturers had to dream up to keep us buying. We consume in a constant positive feedback loop where hardware and software chase each other around in a cycle of endless need, and we hurry along like the White Rabbit, always late for that very important date with the faster modem, the bigger hard drive, the new, more powerful machine.

– Kurt Vonnegut

Typical of a carpenter, he promises to plane
my doorframe on Wednesday, but he’s off
gallivanting to Jerusalem on a donkey.

640Kb ought to be anough for anybody

– Bill Gates, 1981

“I warned you not to eat on an empty stomach”

– Ringo, Yellow Submarine (the movie)

My father used to say,
“Laugh, and the world laughs with you.
Cry, and I’ll give you something to cry about!”

– From “The Great White Hype”

Sometimes it’s better to treat the wound than beat the dog that bit you.

– James W. Larsen

Information is just information until it becomes reality through
personal experience.

Ah women, they don’t fall in love with you,
but it’s you they break up with in the end…

“Computers… the perfect hiding place.”

The trouble with infinity is that it takes too long.

“Never ask a man what computer he uses.
If it’s a Mac, he’ll tell you.
If not, there’s no point in embarrasing him.”

– Ian Orchard

Saying Windows 95 is equal to Macintosh
is like finding a potato that looks like Jesus
and believing you’ve witnessed the second coming.”

– Guy Kawasaki

“Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration
to describe the history of the computer industry
for the past decade
as a massive effort to keep up with Apple.”

– Byte, December 1994

I may not be fast, but I sure am slow.

– Layne Karkruff

TANSTAAFL “There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch!”

– Robert A. Heinlein (used in several of his novels)

Just remember, wherever you go, there you are.

Christianity has not been tried and found wanting.
It has been found difficult and left untried.

– G. K. Chesterton

Good, fast, cheap – pick two.

An eye for an eye, makes the world go blind.

– Gandhi

I’d rather remain silent and be thought a fool,
than to open my mouth and remove all doubt.

– Abraham Lincoln

The regular vulgarian, I daresay,/ Is happier; / He glimpses the Milky Way / Only when making water

– Vladimir Nabokov (God)

Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.

I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying.

– Woody Allen

“It’s nice to be important, but it’s more important to be nice.”

– Mikael Pawlo, former news editor at the Swedish edition of MacWorld, now project manager at IDG\Sweden

An artist is a creature driven by demons. He doesn’t know why they choose him and is usually too busy to wonder why.

– WILLIAM FAULKNER

“…it’s a highway to hell, but it’s dirt road to heaven…”

– Samdragon

An artist cannot speak about his art any more than a plant can discuss horticulture.

– JEAN COCTEAU

When you work on any object, you must love it, you must be possessed by it; otherwise you will never get really good results.

– H.R. GIGER | Retrospective Exhibition

“Do the thing, and you will have the power.”

– Emerson

“Knowledge will never replace respect in
humanity’s dealings with living systems.”

– anthropologist Roy A. Rappaport

"Men cannot even make a single maggot but go on inventing gods
by the dozens…..”

“My friend, all theory is gray, and the Golden tree of life is green.”

– Goethe

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself – and you are
the easiest person to fool. So you have to be very careful about that.
After you’ve not fooled yourself, it’s easy not to fool other
scientists. You just have to be honest in a conventional way after
that.

– Richard Feynman

So I have just one wish for you – the good luck to be somewhere where
you are free to maintain the kind of integrity I have described, and
where you do not feel forced by a need to maintain your position in the
organization, or financial support, or so on, to lose your integrity.
May you have that freedom.

– Richard Feynman

– The Purpose of Economics –

Economics explains how human beings adjust their actions
and expectations to accommodate what each person in the
world knows, without anyone or everyone having to know
what very many other people know.

– See Israel Kirzner, “Entrepreneurship and Competition”

e to be willing to hang out
where the energy is most electric. But more than that. You
also have to work constantly to keep your chops up so that on
those rare occasions when sudden inspiration becomes
available, you have the skill to capture it in a useable form.

– Randall Jarrell

“THE SPIRIT OF DEMOCRACY IS THAT SPIRIT WHICH IS NOT
TOO SURE IT IS ALWAYS RIGHT.”

– Justice Learned Hand

“There is no need to seek a philosophy of life; life is enough.
All philosophies are false, including my philosophy. When I say
ALL, I mean all.
Wake up! Please wake up! That’s all that can be said.”

– Rajneesh

“A great deal of talent is lost to the world
for want of a little courage.”

– Goethe

Most Americans will never put up with the complexity of today’s
computer communications, which are unlike any utility, convenience,
or form of entertainment in people’s homes. No one has to “boot up”
their microwave, nor does anyone have to install software or
specialized video cards to watch TV. Interval Research’s Brenda
Laurel once compared using a computer to going to a movie theater
and having to watch the projector instead of the movie.

(Sorry, it’s German)
Bück Dich, Fee – Wunsch ist Wunsch!
(German short story)

It’s not a lie. It’s a terminological inexactitude.

– Alexander Haig

Originality is nothing more than undetected plagiarism.

– Ray A. Monigold

There was a faith healer from Deal
Who said, “although pain isn’t real,
If I sit on a pin
and puncture my skin
I dislike what I fancy I feel.”

– Robert Heinlein

Coffee should be black as night, hot as hell, and sweet as love.

– Omar Kayyaim

We promise according to our hopes,
and perform according to our fears.

– La Rochefoucauld (1664)

Je pense, donc je ris.

– David B. Klein

Urgency varies inversely with importance.

– Arthur Bloch

Money cannot buy happiness but it does afford a considerably wider selection of misery.

– Will Adams (Liberty, Missouri)

“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of congress. But i repeat myself.”

– Mark Twain

“Fear is something only criminals cringe from, and only crazy people live without”

– Rat

Tougher
Younger
Stronger
(And I practice while you sleep)

– No Fear clothing

I have the power to stun them. And while they are stunned by modern art the advertisers can do their poisonous jobs.

– Anais Nin

The sorry thing is we live in chains, have the key, and don’t know it.

– Isaac Francis

Cogito Ergo Sum
I think therefore I am

Hate. Let me tell you how much i’ve come to hate you since i began to live. There are 387.44 million miles of printed circuit in wafer-thin layers that fill my complex. If the word hate was engraved on each nanoangstrom of those hundreds of millions of miles it would not equal one-billionth of the hate i feel for humans at this micro-instant.
Hate. Hate!

– Harlan Ellison
"I have no mouth and I must scream"

My imagination is the limit,
My heart is the source.

– James Whitesun

My dreams are the key to my Soul.

– James Whitesun

It has become inherently obvious that our technology has surpassed our humanity.

– Albert Einstein

I eat my peas with honey, I’ve done it all my life. It makes the peas taste funny, but it keeps them on the knife!

– Bennett

Things you try to keep, you’ll always lose…
things you give away stay with you forever.

nothing excels like excess.

Ware tada taru o shiru.
(I learn only to be contented.)

– ancient Zen motto

[Nature is] not only queerer than we suppose, it is queerer than we can suppose.

– J.B.S. Haldane

It’s all mind over matter – if you don’t mind, it don’t matter.

“There’s no devil. There’s just God when he drinks.”

– Tom Waits

For artists who are afraid to put a good price on their work:

“Creativity is a commodity that must be paid for.”

– Stanley Marcus

Interviewer: Do good artists borrow from other artists’ works?

Picasso: No, but a GREAT artist steals them!

I have seen the truth and it makes no sense.

Everything I say is a lie.

Very funny, Scotty. Now beam down my clothes.

Your parents thought you were crazy when you told them aliens were among us and colonizing. I bet they feel stupid now!

“Life. Don’t talk to me about life.”

– Marvin, the paranoid android

Of the good in you I can speak, but not of the evil.
For what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Verily when good is hungry it seeks food even in dark caves, and
when it thirsts, it drinks even of dead waters.

– Kahlil Gibran

Be brave. If you can’t,pretend…..no one can tell the difference.

– Jon Dacosta

Men want sex, women want chocolate.

You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free, but first it shall make you miserable.

– Carl Rogers

I wouldn’t know sanity if it kicked me in the metaphor.

– Layne Karkruff

Me: Well babe, my name is immortalized on the net.
Her: Wow, do they let you have that many letters in a name?

– Layne Karkruff

There is no knowledge that is not power.

– Ed Boon, Mortal Kombat III

I want to move to theory, nothing ever goes wrong in theory.

“Life is a mystery to be led……Not a puzzle to be solved!”

– Martin Powell

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

– Albert Einstein

In the beginning, there was nothing. And then it exploded…

Intel inside! It’s no advertising. It’s a warning.

A noble soul has reverence for itself.

Get the cheap tool first and see if it feeds your life.
If it does, then get a better one.
Once you use it all the time, get the best.
You can only grow into quality. You can’t buy it.

– from The Last Whole Earth Catalog, 1972

It’s one thing about intellectuals. It proves you can be
absolutely brilliant and have no idea what’s going on.

– Woody Allen

An Entomological Discourse on Marxist Dialectic

Little bugs have on their backs
bigger bugs that bite ’em.
And bigger bugs have bigger still
and so ad infinitum.

– anon.

Television is called a medium because it is neither rare nor well done.

When you think today about tommorow,
On the NET don’t steal just borrow.

– Dennis Joesph Fallen, Multimedia expert, Sweden

Wise men say wise things, fools quote them.

“I came from a dysfunctional family and at the time, it seemed like
there was no place to run to, because the whole world is dysfunctional
too!”

“I know a lot of little, while everybody else knows a lot of
everything – no wonder everybody is confused.”

“Life is a state of mind, imagine the one you want and create it!”

– Shawn A. Cassista

This life is a test. It is only a test.
If it had been a real life, you would have
been given more information about where
to go and what to do.

– Unknown

Diplomacy is the art of saying “Nice doggy!”
until you can find a rock.

Person 1 – If I wanted your adivce I would pray for it!
Person 2 – Well you might as well ask me now and save yourself the trouble.

If bad things happen to good people and good things to bad,
where the hell is my good stuff.

Sowing Apple seeds, Mowing down Microsoft weeds…

Sometimes you just have to close your eyes and steer with your feet.

– explaining to a excellent illustrator
who envied my scrawling, surrealistic drawings

If you keep an open mind, people will try to put garbage in it.

– Albert Einstein?

Whatever you do,
or dream you can do,
begin it.

Boldness
has genius, power, and magic
in it.

– Goethe
(submitted by Bob Stein)

A certain combination of incompetence and indifference can cause
almost as much suffering as the most acute malevolence.

– Bruce Catton, A Stillness at Appomattox, 1953

Human speech is like crude rhythms tapped on cracked kettles for
bears to dance to, while all the while we long to make music that
would move the stars to pity.

– Gustav Flaubert

Happy Gilmore…. love that movie!

Having failed at life,I’m hoping it’s just a pop quiz for the real thing!

– Gene Edwards

mediocrity killed the cat
curiosity brought him back

– anonymous

Every normal man at sometime in his life must be tempted to spit on his hands
raise the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

– from Friday Night Lights

The mind is the most power force in the universe; to cross it is to walk the fine line between sanity and insanity.

Thought for the day:

How do I know what I think til I see what I’ve typed?

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else getting your way.

– Unknown

Only
a man could imitate
a doll. For
dolls are not women;
they are
man’s dream of
women.

Bumper sticker:
Sorry, but my Karma just ran over your Dogma!

– Tino Hammid

The sooner all the animals are extinct,
The sooner we’ll find their MONEY!

Burn fat not fuel…Ride a bike.

– Jim Adams

Do or not do, there is no try.

– Yoda

What’s the ugliest part
of your body?…

Some say it’s your nose,
Some say it’s your toes,
But I say
It’s your
Mind!

– Frank Zappa

If ya can’t run with the big dogs, Ya best stay on the porch.

Reality can be a drag, but it’s the only place that you can get a
good steak.

Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain.

The simple things in life are the last refuge
of the complex.

– Author Unknown
submitted by Dwayne Derrick

The truth is irrevelent;
Perception is everything.

– Troye Welch

“The human mind works at low efficiency. Twenty percent is the figure usually given. When, momentarily, there is a flash of greater power it is termed a hunch, or insight, or intuition.”

– Isaac Asimov

When forced to choose between two evils, I always choose
the one I haven’t done before.

– May West

Pizza is like sex. When it’s good, it’s really good. And when it’s bad, it’s still pretty good.

“Nothing succeeds like a budgie bird, with no teeth.”

– Tim Wallis

’tis better to be a wiseass than a dumbass

“In order to be the best, you must lose your mind”

– Dean Cameron as Dave Marshack in Ski School

Life is like a sewer – what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.

– Tom Lehrer

Oh, soon we’ll be out amid the cold world’s strife.
Soon we’ll be sliding down the razor blade of life.

– Tom Lehrer

I’d rather sit by myself on a pumpkin in the middle of a field
than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

– Henry David Thoreaux

Sometimes I sits an’ thinks.
Sometimes I sits an’ drinks.
But mostly I just sits.

– Ken Kesey, from “Sometimes a Great Notion” (a very good book)

I Watched in Horror as Aliens Ate my Brain!

– Mister Muckle

As far as I’m concerned, I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

– Albert Einstein

If losers never win,
and winners never quit,

Then who the hell said “Quit while your ahead”!?

– Unknown

A pig that doesn’t fly is just a pig.

– Kurenai no Buta (The Crimson Pig)

A good guess is as good as mine.

– Pierre Halfquiz

Life: From dust to dust and a whole lotta sh*t in between.

…The pump don’t work, ’Cause
the vandals took the handles…

– Bob Dylan

Be careful whose ass you kiss today . . . . because it may take a sh*t on your face tomorrow.

– Adam D. Heidel

IF the largest word in the vocabulary of mankind!
If my aunt had balls she be my uncle!

“Reality used to be a friend of mine!”

– uPM Dawn

Love, what a beautiful thing……………Shattered

– Jennifer Lillibridge

Genius may have it’s limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.

– Elbert Hubbard

The Question is the Answer.

“You spend whatever time you have left dying, or you spend it living.”

– Methos

In the Beginning, there was Nothing…
And Then it Exploded.

“When Life Knocks you down, Get your ass up and go back for more”

– Scottie Ryan

John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.