- First Corollary of Taber’s Second Law:
- Machines that piss people off get murdered.
— Pat Taber
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they’ve always worked for me.
— Hunter S. Thompson
It is something to be able to paint a particular picture, or to carve a statue, and so to make a few objects beautiful; but it is far more glorious to carve and paint the very atmosphere and medium through which we look, which morally we can do. To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts.
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Must … defy … laws … of … physics …
— The Tick
The Road goes ever on and on,
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with weary feet
Until it joins some larger way,
Where many Paths and errands meet
And wither then? I cannot say.
Still round the corner there may be
A new road or a secret gate.
And though I oft have passed them by,
A time will come at last when I
Shall take the hidden paths that run
West of the Moon, East of the Sun.
— J.R.R. Tolkein
We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation.
— Lily Tomlin
If there’s something cooler than RPN, it has to be sex.
— Tomy Tucker (on Reverse Polish Notation)
The very ink with which all history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
— Mark Twain
Profanity often lends itself to contentment not found even at prayer.
— Mark Twain
The woman of my dreams knows how to break into systems.
— Doug Tygar