quotes
“3 out of 4 rounding errors agree unanimously.”
02/28/2020
“The optimist: we don't have flaws everywhere in our system, only where you look.”
10/30/2018
“Alcohol doesn't solve very many problems at all, but sometimes it's nice to pretend.”
8/31/2016
“Sleep is the hope that you can make tomorrow better by letting go of today.”
5/5/2016
“Before me is a set of trivial tasks. As I select each, I fight with the need to do it better--properly! Better soon becomes intractable. Pick again.”
9/11/2015
“Another day. Another day the coffee isn't holding up its end of the bargain.”
1/12/2015
“There is no brain; there is only meme.”
1/12/2015
“It's when you vow to only indulge on special occasions...that you realize just how many special occasions there are.”
1/5/2015
“If you want to believe everything that science "has not disproven", you will have a very complex and interesting life. Why pick just one thing?”
12/31/2014
“There's a fine line between destroying memorabilia that no longer has relevance to you and blowing your brains out.”
12/28/2014
“Don't believe everything you think.”
12/4/2014
“The mind's soil suffers without crop rotation.”
8/12/2014
“People tend to be far more interesting than they think themselves to be...unless they think themselves particularly interesting.”
6/15/2014
“Sometimes the only way to finish a project is to actually work on it.”
6/5/2013
“Now is almost never the moment you wish it were; yet so often the moment you miss it being.”
3/26/2013
“Writing a story is a lot like choreographing a ballet obscured by fog—you have to make the movements people can see convincing enough for them to believe the ones they can't.”
3/25/2013
“If you've questioned all your assumptions and you still can't see the point of failure, you're missing an assumption.”
11/14/2012
“Sometimes the words just spin in circles in my head and I don't know what they are anymore when they come out.”
11/14/2012
“You can pick your friends, and you can pick your battles…but you can't pick your friends' battles.”
8/27/2012
“Go where hope takes you.”
8/15/2012
“Religion's a lottery. There are winners and losers, but you don't know 'til all the balls drop, and the chances are infinitesimal anyway.”
5/3/2012
“Life is like a simile. You can do just about anything with it.”
1/29/2012
“Saying there's no invention without need denies imagination. Saying there's no morality without religion denies humanity.”
11/21/2011
“I think the hallmark of a rich nation should be its ability to afford the lazy and the will to indulge them.”
11/21/2011
“The key to seeming smart is hanging around people that ignore your bad ideas and latch on to your good ones.”
11/16/2011
“Cell phone area codes are becoming the modern day "last name". It's not where you are, it's where you're from.”
10/21/2011
“I hate just about everything, given half an excuse. You'd think it gets old...it does. It's just who I am. I'm towards the top of my list.”
08/04/2011
“Optimism's a great drug, but the crash is absolute hell.”
01/24/2011
“Just because you don't understand doesn't mean I'm wrong; just because I don't understand doesn't mean you're right. Truth doesn't follow belief.”
01/15/2011
“There is no trust or mistrust, forgive or forget--only more data for your belief net.”
03/06/2010
“May your children grow up bright enough to counter your every measure and wise enough to know when not to.”
12/24/2009
“Art as immortality is a delusion we tell ourselves as we hasten to the grave, wax melting all around--as much a dream as any religion, though perhaps less frequently subverted.”
12/2/2009
“No matter how accelerated discovery becomes, it never is quite so fast as when you are learning it in school.”
11/23/2009
“True wisdom is the awareness of the opportunity to learn.”
11/1/2009
“To a point, selfishness is a survival trait. Say no as you need to, to survive, and understand others will understand.”
10/12/2009
“normal. pah. just because everyone else is doing it doesn't mean it deserves its own word.”
5/21/2009
“I really miss knowing everything. It was nice. At the same time I'm glad I grew out of it. ;)”
5/14/2009
“Even rocks get worn down to sand.”
4/15/2009
“Me and focus are like peanut-butter and chocolate. I think I'm the peanut-butter. I don't get nearly enough chocolate.”
12/9/2008
“Reality is a near-infinite biochemical reaction.”
11/06/2008
“Measure once, cut twice is a great way to make irregular snowflakes.”
02/16/2008
“The problem of personal liberation is that you sometimes disagree with the universe's capriciousness as to what your chains actually were. Sometimes the wall breaks, sometimes the chains break, and sometimes your arms break.”
01/18/2008
“I fear most the day when I at last admit, to myself, that all my struggles are in vain.”
09/26/2007
“Mind, meet sieve. Oh, wait, I see you know each other already...”
04/13/2007
“It's more exciting to think than do; more exciting to do than sell; more exciting to sell than account for what's been sold. And yet all of that must be done or the whole of it fails.”
01/17/2007
“Don't you think it's a bit odd that the brain is so hardwired to link coincidences? To assume conspiracy? Doesn't it suggest to you that the universe is trying to tell us something?”
12/13/2006
“The only trust there is is in your own judgment of other people.”
11/21/2006
“No matter how screwed up something looks on initial inspection, there's always room for an epiphany of understanding showing you that things are actually much worse.”
11/20/2006
“I think due to sleep I'm thinking I'm a lot more clear than my last night's lack of sleep is really allowing.”
07/20/2006
“Low lying fruit is squishy and breaks in the hand if grabbed too eagerly.”
11/14/2005
“If you need it "yesterday" so badly, talk to me tomorrow.”
08/31/2005
“Belief is the things we tell ourselves when we think no one is watching.”
03/01/2005
“You load the dice the best you can, but you've still got to roll them.”
11/15/2004
“It is unsettling and somewhat depressing to be appreciated for that which I have had no part in being.”
08/24/2004
“You could keep a clock by my schedule. In fact, you'd almost have to or all sense of time would be delirium.”
07/27/2004
“You are what eats you.”
05/25/2004
“One day you wake up and realize that the pain actually isn't going to go away.”
05/20/2004
“Passion does not beget greatness, but greatness has no foothold without it.”
05/19/2004
“Optimism is blind, pessimism hyperopic.”
05/10/2004
“Measuring your words can be a good way of measuring your self.”
04/20/2004
“It may look like a groove to you, but to me it's just a rut.”
04/15/2004
“Sleep is for the sane.”
02/26/2004
“Programming is a binary operation: when it's good, it's really, REALLY good, and otherwise it sucks.”
10/02/2003
“Never trust a programmer typing quickly.”
09/24/2003
“I don't deal well with answers I don't yet know the question to.”
09/17/2003
“I think my course has run. vetoing caffeine and ushering in the new sleep.”
01/25/2003
“It can generally be hoped that either somebody knew about it, or nobody did.”
11/27/2002
“Pounding my head against the wall is a perfectly rational response. I'm sorting my thoughts by granularity.”
09/29/2002
“peels emos? peels? slepe pelse omes some!”
08/15/2002
“No artificial attitude or preservitude.”
04/23/2002
“There is magic in freedom; and where there is magic, the church is sure to kill it.”
03/31/2002
“What's really interesting is when you're part of the world rushing by someone who's part of the world rushing by you.”
03/18/2002
“Fun? Endless fun. Keyword endless; fun optional.”
02/11/2002
“What could be more peaceful than a slug crawling along your plate while you're eating?”
12/07/2001
“You can't CAPTURE (the moment) just by LIVING or WRITING - Your puke is (the sum of its parts,) NOT the context of PUKING.”
09/25/2001
“Cats bite the hand that feeds them; Dogs lick the foot that kicks them.”
09/20/2001
“When it's all been said and done, it's all been said and done, and there's nothing left to do but do it well.”
09/17/2001
“"Sell Sell Sell" doesn't.”
08/29/2001
“See marketing for lack of details.”
08/29/2001
“It's amazing what avoiding doing something can get done.”
04/23/2001
“You say semantics, I say pedantics.”
03/15/2001
“The world is your oyster; don't eat it, aggravate it.”
03/13/2001
“Exhiliration is fear without care.”
03/12/2001
“You choose what you remember.”
03/12/2001
“Sometimes things are said without thinking them through in the fear that one might forget one's trying to say anything at all.”
02/27/2001
“Millions Dead! They won't last long; buy yours now!”
02/26/2001
“There's no such thing as a hypothetical person.”
10/31/2000
“And of course, on top of all that, I'm turning into myself, and I ain't got none of a clue what I think of that.”
10/16/2000
“The disconnected definition exists not.”
06/06/2000
“How often do you use "I don't know" to stop thinking?”
05/23/2000
“Hell is life not stopping when you want it to.”
05/17/2000
“In my sanity I find insanity.”
02/03/2000
“You can't resist temptation if you don't flirt with it.”
11/16/1999
“Sometimes in order to remember you must forget everything.”
11/15/1999
“Starting and sticking with are all you can do in life, besides give up.”
11/14/1999
“In my teeth I grind my sleep.”
11/13/1999
“Consciousness exists to destroy itself.”
11/07/1999
“Beware quantum selfhood. Observation may cause change.”
11/06/1999
“Consciousness causes causes.”
11/05/1999
“Quote pre-emptively. Make every statement a wonder.”
11/04/1999
“Interpret each phrase in light of the postceding.”
10/02/1999
“Children yearn to know, adults are afraid not to.”
09/28/1999
“To quote is to limit yourself to what's already been said.”
08/29/1999
“I quote therefore I am.”
07/28/1999
“Ignorance is nine tenths of the law.”
06/14/1999
“Nonexistence of a black cat does not pre-empt the finding thereof.”
05/31/1999
“Flowers for no reason is reason enough for flowers.”
05/28/1999
“Jaded is a bad trip.”
04/10/1999
“Sometimes pain has a habit of ignoring the fact that you're trying to ignore it.”
01/26/1999
“That which is general is made less so when the particulars are instantiated.”
12/10/1998
“Philosophers strive for senility.”
10/01/1998
“And the Monk said... let there be God. And woe unto man, there was God.”
05/06/1998
“Happy wits is when they go on strike.”
11/23/1997
“Math is like the streets of Ankh Morpork. Nuff Said.”
11/05/1997
“Society has many complex values -- real and imaginary intertwined in one hideous transformation of ethics.”
11/01/1997
“Pointed implications are always more fun than the truth...”
07/19/1997
“Having your fingers crushed under the heel of a boot hurts more when they're crossed.”
07/11/1997
“FYI: ask fwhy.”
06/20/1997
“Throttle throttle *WHAM*... Throttle throttle *WHAM*!”
06/12/1997
“Oops! Wrong button!”
1994
“A pigment of someone's distorted magnification...”
1991