Quote of the Day

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

    The older I grow the more I
distrust the familiar doctrine
that age brings wisdom.
            -- H. L. Mencken
    
  

[Terring 6,476]

“A late game is only late until it ships. A bad game is bad until the end of time.”

- Shigeru Miyamoto

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Alliance, n.:
    In international politics, the union of two thieves who have
    their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pocket that they cannot
    separately plunder a third.
        -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

    They (robots) learn to speak,
write, and do arithmetic.  They
have a phenomenal memory.  If
one read them the Encyclopedia
Britannica they could repeat
everything back in order, but
never think of anything original.
They'd make fine university professors.
        -- Karel Capek

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

    In the beginning the Universe
was created.  This has made a lot
of people very angry and has been
widely regarded as a bad move
            -- Douglas Adams
            The Restaurant at the End of the Universe

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.
        -- Ralph Waldo Emerson

[Terring 6,476]

"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it"

George Santayana

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
        -- Voltaire

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Men have a much better time of it than women; for one thing they marry later;
for another thing they die earlier.
        -- H. L. Mencken

[Terring 6,476]

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Little girls, like butterflies, need no excuse.
        -- Lazarus Long

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

    One today is worth two
tomorrows.
            -- Benjamin Franklin

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

"A new father quickly learns that his child invariably comes to the bathroom at precisely the times that he's in there, as if he needed company."

 

- Bill Cosby

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

The most dangerous food is wedding cake.
        -- American proverb

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

    Science is organized
knowledge.  Wisdom is
organized life.
            -- Immanuel Kant

[Terring 6,476]

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

You should never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for
freedom and liberty.
        -- Henrik Ibsen

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the national debt.
        -- Herbert Hoover

[Terring 6,476]

"Transhumanism is about how technology will eventually help us overcome the problems that have, up until now, been endemic to human nature. Cyberpunk is about how technology won't."

Stephen Lea Sheppard of RPG.Net, on the relation between transhumanism and cyberpunk

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradictions to the sentiments of
others, and all positive assertion of my own.  I even forbade myself the use
of every word or expression in the language that imported a fixed opinion,
such as "certainly", "undoubtedly", etc.   I adopted instead of them "I
conceive", "I apprehend", or "I imagine" a thing to be so or so; or "so it
appears to me at present".

When another asserted something that I thought an error, I denied myself the
pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing him immediately some
absurdity in his proposition.  In answering I began by observing that in
certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present
case there appeared or seemed to me some difference, etc.

I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I
engaged in went on more pleasantly.  The modest way in which I proposed my
opinions procured them a readier reception and less contradiction.  I had
less mortification when I was found to be in the wrong, and I more easily
prevailed with others to give up their mistakes and join with me when I
happened to be in the right.
        -- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

[Terring 6,476]

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one,
an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
        -- Edmund Burke

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

    When men are pure, laws are useless;
when men are corrupt, laws are broken.
                    -- Benjamin Disraeli

[Terring 6,476]

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

If little else, the brain is an educational toy.
        -- Tom Robbins

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real
with the ideal never goes unpunished.
        -- Goethe

[NMUSpidey 3,956]

"I wanna just let 'em know that they've been hit, and when they get up they don't have to see who it was that hit 'em.  It shouldn't be any puzzle, when they come to, well they gotta say 'it musta been Buktus that got me.'"

 

 - Dick Butkus

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

Newlan's Truism:
    An "acceptable" level of unemployment means that the
    government economist to whom it is acceptable still has a job.

[A Nonny Moose 8,262]

    Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
            -- Thomas Alva Edison

[Terring 6,476]