Science commits suicide when it adopts a creed. ~Thomas Henry Huxley
We're designed to be hunters and we're in a society of shopping. There's nothing to kill anymore, there's nothing to fight, nothing to overcome, nothing to explore. In that societal emasculation this everyman is created. ~David Fincher, director of Fight Club, interview with Gavin Smith, "Inside Out," Film Comment, Sep/Oct 1999 (Thank you, sexbratsrocknroll.) We're finally going to get the bill for the Industrial Age. If the projections are right, it's going to be a big one: the ecological collapse of the planet. ~Jeremy Rifkin, World Press Review, 30 December 1989
Freedom is strangely ephemeral. It is something like breathing; one only becomes acutely aware of its importance when one is choking. ~William E. Simon
A friend accepts us as we are yet helps us to be what we should. ~Author Unknown
A dinner invitation, once accepted, is a sacred obligation. If you die before the dinner takes place, your executor must attend. ~Ward McAllister
When I am anxious it is because I am living in the future. When I am depressed it is because I am living in the past. ~Author Unknown
Good code is its own best documentation. As you're about to add a comment, ask yourself, "How can I improve the code so that this comment isn't needed?" ~Steve McConnell
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is fourteen days. ~Totie Fields
Chemicals, n: Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. ~Author Unknown
Just because you make mistakes doesn't mean you are one. ~Author Unknown
I guess I've spent my life listening to what wasn't being said. ~Eli Khamarov, America Explained!
When you're arguing with a fool, make sure he isn't doing the same thing. ~Author Unknown
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. ~Edward Abbey
It's easier to ask forgiveness than it is to get permission. ~Grace Hopper
When the wine goes in, strange things come out. ~Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller, The Piccolomini, 1799
History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake. ~James Joyce, Ulysses
If America ever passes out as a great nation, we ought to put on our tombstone: America died from a delusion she had Moral Leadership. ~Will Rogers
When you're riding lead, don't spit. ~Author Unknown
Nothing risque, nothing gained. ~Alexander Woollcott
Backpacking: An extended form of hiking in which people carry double the amount of gear they need for half the distance they planned to go in twice the time it should take. ~Author Unknown
We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate. ~Henry Miller
Ink on paper is as beautiful to me as flowers on the mountains; God composes, why shouldn't we? ~Terri Guillemets
I trade sweat for strength. I trade doubt for belief. I trade cheerleading for nothing. ~Author Unknown
Half the promises people say were never kept, were never made. ~Edgar Watson Howe
