"...and I came to regard humans as a strange sort of delicacy."
It looks like an optical illusion, but it isn't.
"Can you prove it didn't happen?"  -PLAN NINE FROM OUTER SPACE
"I think it needs more juice."
"It is bad luck to be superstitious."
"It is essential that opposing action systems do not execute simultaneously."
"Virtual" means never knowing where your next byte is coming from.
"Where do 'cannot' and 'must' meet on the graph?" -ROBOT MONSTER
186,282 miles per second; not just a good idea, it's the LAW.
A day for firm decisions!!!!  Or is it?
A hollow voice says "plugh".
A professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
A seminar on Time Travel will be held two weeks ago.
Beware of quantum ducks:  quark, quark.
Brains:  The apparatus with which we think that we think.
CDC -- Consistency Doesn't Count.
CPU time files when you're having fun.
Computers are not intelligent.  They only think they are.
Control Data... before IT controls YOU!
Dawn:  The time when men of reason go to bed.
Do you know where *your* towel is?
Don't panic.
Down with categeorical imperatives!
Everyone should know where his towel is.
Have you hugged your Teleray today?
He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.
Heisenberg may have been right.
I must have slipped a disk - my pack hurts.
Infinity is a self-cancelling thought form.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean the world ISN'T out to get you.
Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not really after you.
Long live the great electronic underground!!
       1000000000000000.667 CP SECONDS EXECUTION TIME.
Live better, electrically!
Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
On a clear disk you can seek forever.
Predestination was doomed from the start.
Reality is a crutch for people who can't handle science fiction.
Reality stems from the line printer.
So long, and thanks for all the fish.
Stay away from flying saucers today.
The earth is like a tiny grain of sand, only much, much heavier.
The light of a hundred stars does not equal the light of the moon.
The world is an 8000 mile in diameter spherical pile of dirt.
The world is coming to an end! Repent and return those library books!
There are no games on this system.
There's always one more bug.
They're only trying to make me LOOK paranoid!!
This file will self-destruct in five minutes.
Those who can't write,  write manuals.
Those who can, do.  Those who can't, simulate.
Vote anarchist
"Imagination is more important than knowledge" -A. Einstein
Reality is achieved by the indefinite enumeration of objects.
Long live The Great Electronic Underground!
EOI ENCOUNTERED.
"Picture if you will..."
"Submitted for your approval..."
"Do not adjust your set.  WE are in control."
"Your move" -Colossus
"This is the voice of world control.  I have brought Peace."
"Call Gregory."  -P1
"I can feel it.  My mind.  It's going, Dave.  I can feel it."
*There is another*
17.38.07.UCLP, ACG150200,      0.809KLNS.
All those who believe in telekinesis, raise my hand!
Why does Microsoft call EVERY Windows version "The most stable ever?"
If psychics can tell the future, why don't they pick winning lottery numbers?
Those who think they know it all upset those of us who do.
"Some mornings it's just not worth chewing through the leather straps" -anon
"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents... What does happen is that its opponents gradually die out, and that the growing generation is familiarized with the ideas from the beginning." -Max Planck
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds." -Albert Einstein
Research is the process of going up alleys to see if they are blind. -Bates
Technological progress is like an ax in the hands of a pathological criminal. -Einstein
"Be not enslaved by the tyranny of fear and superstition."  -Rod Serling
The ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons.  Computers in the future may have 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh just 1.5 tons. -Popular Mechanics, March 1949
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a work station...
Ideas are such funny things; they never work unless you do.
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the ones most responsive to change. -Charles Darwin
In just two days, tomorrow will be yesterday.
There is a limit to how much work can be done before the last minute.
Home is where you hang your @.
The revolution will not be televised.
"Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuehrer" -Adolph Hitler              "One World, One Web, One Program"  -Microsoft promotional ad
"Not using Microsoft products is like being a non-smoker 40 or 50 years ago: You can choose not to smoke, yourself, but it's hard to avoid second-hand smoke."  -M. Tiemann
The difference between common sense and paranoia is that common sense is thinking everyone is out to get you.  That's normal; they are.  Paranoia is thinking they're conspiring.  -J. Kegler
"At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done--then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago." -Frances Hodgson Burnett
"Enthusiasm is the match that lights the candle of achievement." -William Arthur Ward
"Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets, and then teams up with three complete strangers to kill again."  -Rick Polito's That TV Guy column, describing the movie "The Wizard of Oz"
kill -9 them all.  Let init sort it out.
"People demand freedom of speech to make up for the freedom of thought which they avoid." -Soren Aabye Kierkegaard (1813-1855) 
"Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 
"A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on." -Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965) 
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." -Galileo Galilei 
"The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work." -Emile Zola (1840-1902) 
"The full use of your powers along lines of excellence." -Definition of "happiness" by John F. Kennedy (1917-1963) 
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is." -Jan L.A. van de Snepscheut 
"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems." -Rene Descartes (1596-1650), "Discours de la Methode" 
"Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right." -Henry Ford (1863-1947) 
"The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offense." -Edsgar Dijkstra
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." -Bjarne Stroustrup
"A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." -Paul Erdos
"Talent does what it can; genius does what it must." -Edward George Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
"I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters." -Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959)
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1931)
"Maybe this world is another planet's Hell." -Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
"Black holes are where God divided by zero." -Steven Wright
I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
"You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it." -Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)
"I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth." -Umberto Eco
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life." -Frank Zappa
"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -Antoine de Saint Exupery
"Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome." -Isaac Asimov
"If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe." -Carl Sagan
"It is much more comfortable to be mad and know it, than to be sane and have one's doubts." -G. B. Burgin
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." -Jimi Hendrix
"A clever man commits no minor blunders." -Goethe (1749-1832)
"Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance." -Will Durant
"I have often regretted my speech, never my silence." -Xenocrates (396-314 B.C.)
"I do not consider it an insult, but rather a compliment to be called an agnostic. I do not pretend to know where many ignorant men are sure -- that is all that agnosticism means." -Clarence Darrow, Scopes trial, 1925.
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal." -Henry Ford (1863-1947)
"Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together." -Georg Lichtenberg (1742-1799)
"Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it" -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)
"Where are we going, and why am I in this handbasket?"  -Bumper Sticker
"Most people would sooner die than think; in fact, they do so." -Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) 
"Wit is educated insolence." -Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) 
"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 
"The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. The opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth." -Niels Bohr (1885-1962) 
"We all agree that your theory is crazy, but is it crazy enough?" -Niels Bohr (1885-1962) 
"When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong." -Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) 
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." -John von Neumann (1903-1957)
"Grove giveth and Gates taketh away." -Bob Metcalfe (inventor of Ethernet) on the trend of hardware speedups not being able to keep up with software demands 
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955) 
"One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly important." -Bertrand Russell (1872-1970) 
"A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation." -H. H. Munro (Saki) (1870-1916)
"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." -C. A. R. Hoare
"Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler." -Albert Einstein (1879-1955)
"Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do." -Jean-Paul Sartre (1905-1980)
"Logic is in the eye of the logician." -Gloria Steinem 
"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater." -Gail Godwin 
"You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty." -Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) 
"I have an existential map; it has 'you are here' written all over it." -Steven Wright 
"I am become death, shatterer of worlds." -Robert J. Oppenheimer (1904-1967) (citing from the Bhagavad Gita, after witnessing the world's first nuclear explosion) 
"Men are not disturbed by things, but the view they take of things." -Epictetus (55-135 A.D.)                                                                                           "What about things like bullets?" -Herb Kimmel, Behavioralist, Professor of Psychology, upon hearing the above quote (1981)
"How can I lose to such an idiot?" -A shout from chessmaster Aaron Nimzovich (1886-1935) 
"Men have become the tools of their tools." -Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) 
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -Mark Twain (1835-1910) 
"Copy from one, it's plagiarism; copy from two, it's research." -Wilson Mizner (1876-1933) 
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." -Alan Kay 
"Ask her to wait a moment - I am almost done." -Carl Friedrich Gauss (1777-1855), while working, when informed that his wife is dying 
"I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -Thomas Watson (1874-1956), Chairman of IBM, 1943 
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977 
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." -Bill Gates (1955-), in 1981 
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." -Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, U.S. Office of Patents, 1899 
"The difference between fiction and reality? Fiction has to make sense." -Tom Clancy 
"If you were plowing a field, which would you rather use? Two strong oxen or 1024 chickens?" -Seymour Cray (1925-1996), father of supercomputing
"#3 pencils and quadrille pads." -Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when asked what CAD tools he used to design the Cray I supercomputer; he also recommended using the back side of the pages so that the lines were not so dominant.
"I just bought a Mac to help me design the next Cray." -Seymoure Cray (1925-1996) when was informed that Apple Inc. had recently bought a Cray supercomputer to help them design the next Mac.
"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis." -Pierre Laplace (1749-1827), to Napoleon on why his works on celestial mechanics make no mention of God. 
"I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need." -Francois-Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), when asked how he managed to make his remarkable statues 
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." -Mark Twain (1835-1910)
"The truth is more important than the facts." -Frank Lloyd Wright (1868-1959) 
"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." -Wernher Von Braun (1912-1977) 
"Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." -Helen Keller
"If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track." -Clarissa Pinkola Estes
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
It is better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.
Wise men learn more from fools than fools learn from the wise.
"Don't use Outlook.  Outlook is really just a security hole with a small e-mail client attached to it." -Brian Trosko in r.a.sf.w.r-j
"We all have a certain amount of time to live. It's best to spend it doing more constructive things than talking to ignorant people." -Diamanda Galas
"The war that matters is the war against the imagination- all other wars are subsumed in it." -Diane Di Prima
"Why is it that whenever Microsoft 'invents' something that everyone else has had for decades, it's 'big news' and 'innovation'?" -Elladan
Q: Why have all the Mars probes from the U.S. and U.K Failed?  A: Because the Martians have seen what we have done to Earth,     and want no part of us.
If you're too open minded, your brains will fall out.
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
There is not one shred of evidence to support the notion that life is serious.
For every action, there is an equal and opposite government program.
The meek shall inherit the Earth, the rest of us will go to the stars..." -Dr. Isaac Asimov
There are two kinds of people in the world: Those with good memory.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary, and those who don't. -Seen on a T-shirt
Power Corrupts, Absolute Power Corrupts Absolutely, Leaving one person (or group) in charge is absolutely corrupt.
Blessed are those who know how to think for themselves, truth will speak to them.
Light is faster than sound. That is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day...Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Diplomacy is the art of being able to tell someone to go to hell in such a way that they'll look forward to the trip.
If C gives you enough rope to hang yourself, then C++ gives you enough to bind and gag your neighborhood, rig the sails on a small ship, and still have enough to hang yourself from the yardarm.
"A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver." -Richard Braakman
Light travels faster than sound. This is why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.........
Don't anthropomorphize computers, they don't like it.
The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking. -- Christopher Morley
Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
Art is a lie which makes us realize the truth. -- Picasso
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
A computer without Microsoft is like ice cream without ketchup.
Curiosity was framed; ignorance killed the cat. -- Author unknown
"A man is but the product of his thoughts: What he thinks, he becomes." -Mahatma Gandhi
"Computers are useless. They only give you answers." -- Pablo Picasso
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Winston Churchill
"A wise man speaks because he has something to say; a foolish man speaks because he has to say something." -Anonymous
"We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities." - Bill Maher
A day without sunshine is like. . . night.