Aren't all galaxies 'far far' away? ―Killybug, Dec 2014

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer's disease where they slowly began to recover other people's lost memories. -- George Carlin

I know that when I walk out of the studio someday and there is a child who has Downs Syndrome, for instance, and that child comes up and gives me a hug, I know that that's the field I want to be growing in. Because I see that people who are not the fancy people of this world are the ones who seem to nourish my soul. And I want to learn how to be the best receiver that I can ever be. Because I think graceful receiving is one of the most wonderful gifts we can give anybody. -- Fred Rogers

A man always remembers his first love with special tenderness, but after that he begins to bunch them. -- H. L. Mencken

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. -- Shakespeare, "Measure for Measure", II, 2

Did an Italian CRANE OPERATOR just experience uninhibited sensations in a MALIBU HOT TUB?

X windows: We will dump no core before its time. One good crash deserves another. A bad idea whose time has come. And gone. We make excuses. It didn't even look good on paper. You laugh now, but you'll be laughing harder later! A new concept in abuser interfaces. How can something get so bad, so quickly? It could happen to you. The art of incompetence. You have nothing to lose but your lunch. When uselessness just isn't enough. More than a mere hindrance. It's a whole new barrier! When you can't afford to be right. And you thought we couldn't make it worse. If it works, it isn't X windows.

Add up opposing sides of a dice cue and you'll always get seven.

Green Street Acquire a Japanese folding scroll. Keep it in a blank state. After a minimum of ten years, or on the death of the performer, inscribe the name of the performer, the date of acquisition and the date at the time of inscription. The performance continues until the scroll is filled with inscriptions. 1959 New London, Connecticut ~ Ken Friedman

Gratitude and treachery are merely the two extremities of the same procession. You have seen all of it that is worth staying for when the band and the gaudy officials have gone by. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

Reyna d’Assia: The Key to Immortal Consciousness 69. Look directly, and do not hide yourself.

If you drive from Los Angeles to Reno, NV, you will be heading west.

Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy. -- Groucho Marx

Reyna d’Assia: The Key to Immortal Consciousness 48. Do not complain.

End of "Lost": It was all the dog's dream. Watch us.

The urge to save humanity is almost always a false front for the urge to rule. -- H. L. Mencken

Nuria: That is my home? Picard: Seen from far, far above. Nuria: Yet we do not fall. I never imagined I would see the clouds from the other side. Your powers are truly boundless. Picard: Nuria, your people live in huts. Was it always so? Nuria: No. We have found remnants of tools in caves. Our ancestors must have lived there. Picard: So why do you now live in huts? Nuria (matter-of-factly): Huts are better. Caves are dark and wet. Picard: If huts are better, why did you once live in caves? Nuria: The most reasonable explanation would be that at one time we didn't know how to make huts. Picard: Just as at one time you did not know how to weave cloth, how to make a bow. Nuria: That would be reasonable. Picard: Someone invented a hut. Someone invented a bow, who taught others, who taught their children, who built a stronger hut, built a better bow, who taught their children. Now, Nuria, suppose one of your cave dwelling ancestors could see you as you are today. What would she think? Nuria: I don't know. Picard: Put yourself in her place. You see, she cannot kill a hornbuck at a great distance. You can. You have a power she lacks. Nuria: Only because I have a bow. Picard: She's never seen a bow. It doesn't exist in her world. To you, it's a simple tool. To her, it's magic. Nuria: I suppose she might think so. Picard: Now, how would she react to you? Nuria: I think she would fear me. Picard: Just as you fear me. Nuria: I do not fear you any longer. Picard: Good. That's good. You see, my people once lived in caves. And then we learned to build huts and, in time, to build ships like this one. Nuria: Perhaps one day, my people will travel above the skies. Picard (softly, but with utter conviction and admiration): Of that, I have absolutely no doubt. "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Who Watches the Watchers [3.4], Season 3"

Two things are certain about science. It does not stand still for long, and it is never boring. Oh, among some poor souls, including even intellectuals in fields of high scholarship, science is frequently misperceived. Many see it as only a body of facts, promulgated from on high in must, unintelligible textbooks, a collection of unchanging precepts defended with authoritarian vigor. Others view it as nothing but a cold, dry narrow, plodding, rule-bound process -- the scientific method: hidebound, linear, and left brained. These people are the victims of their own stereotypes. They are destined to view the world of science with a set of blinders. They know nothing of the tumult, cacophony, rambunctiousness, and tendentiousness of the actual scientific process, let alone the creativity, passion, and joy of discovery. And they are likely to know little of the continual procession of new insights and discoveries that every day, in some way, change our view (if not theirs) of the natural world. -- Kendrick Frazier, "The Year in Science: An Overview," in 1988 Yearbook of Science and the Future, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.

It has gotten to the point that every time I see "defiantly" I automatically think some idiot misspelled "definitely" ―eatinchapstick, Jan 2016

EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING 20. Wherever there is modularity there is the potential for misunderstanding: Hiding information implies a need to check communication.