Thursday, November 07, 2024

Quotes - Part Twenty-Three

 

351.                   Copy from one, it’s plagiarism; copy from two, it’s research.

--Wilson Mizner

352.                   Why does Sea World have a seafood restaurant? I’m halfway through my fishburger, and I realize, “Oh my God, I could be eating a slow learner.”

--Lynda Montgomery

353.                   In fact, one thing that I have noticed… is that all of these conspiracy theories depend on the perpetrators being endlessly clever.  I think you’ll find the facts also work if you assume everyone is endlessly stupid.

--Brian E. Moore (ellipsis his)

354.                   May your traditional cuisine be unrecognizably corrupted and then presented in small easy-to-carry boxes to foreigners.

--David Morgan-Mar, “Irregular Webcomic”

355.                   Nothing is as easy as it looks.

--Murphy’s First Law

356.                   Everything takes longer than you think.

--Murphy’s Second Law

357.                   Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.

--Murphy’s Third Law

358.                   If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

--Murphy’s Fourth Law

359.                   If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

--Murphy’s Fifth Law

360.               If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

--Murphy’s Sixth Law

361.               Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.

--Murphy’s Seventh Law

362.               If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.

--Murphy’s Eighth Law

363.               Nature always sides with the hidden flaw.

--Murphy’s Ninth Law

364.               Mother Nature is a bitch.

--Murphy’s Tenth Law

365.               It is impossible to make anything foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.

--Murphy’s Eleventh Law

366.               Whenever someone says they did something “like a boss,” I assume that means they didn’t do it at all and are merely taking credit for it.

--Bill Murray

367.               Facts are facts and will not disappear on account of your likes.

--Jawaharlal Nehru

368.               I don’t like country music, but I don’t mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means “put down.”

--Bob Newhart

369.               You should not be afraid of someone who has a library and reads many books; you should fear someone who has only one book; and he considers it sacred, but he has never read it.

--Friedrich Nietzsche

370.               Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.

--Larry Niven

371.               I always loved particle physics. Gotta love how they study something by smashing it into pieces. I always pictured using the same technique to study how a radio works by shooting bullets into it, and then observing the pieces as they fly out of the radio.

--Nizo, on Slashdot

372.               A miniskirt speech: Short enough to keep you interested, long enough to cover the topic.

--Norby

373.               An atheist believes that a hospital should be built instead of a church.  An atheist believes that a deed must be done instead of a prayer said.  An atheist strives for involvement in life and not escape into death.  He wants disease conquered, poverty banished, war eliminated.

–Dr. Madalyn Murray O’Hair

374.               Atheism is a very positive affirmation of man’s ability to think for himself, to do for himself, to find answers to his own problems.

–Dr. Madalyn Murray O’Hair

375.               I’ll tell you what you did to atheists for about 1,500 years.  You outlawed them from universities or any teaching careers, besmirched their reputations, banned or burned their books or their writings of any kind, humiliated them, seized their properties, arrested them for blasphemy.  You dehumanized them with beatings and exquisite torture, gouged out their eyes, slit their tongues, stretched, crushed, or broke their limbs, tore off their breasts if they were women, crushed their scrotums if they were men, imprisoned them, stabbed them, disemboweled them, hung them, burned them alive.  And you have the nerve enough to complain to me that I laugh at you.

–Dr. Madalyn Murray O’Hair

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