Quotes - Part Eighteen

 

221.                   If you and a same sex friend are eating out, and request just one check, and the waitress sets it down in front you, she decided you’re the top.

--Roweland Fox

222.                   He had this van that was painted all around, you know, with large Feynman diagrams. And you know, most people would look at those diagrams, of course, and they would look like some squiggly lines and they would mean nothing. But every so often, obviously, someone would see them and say, “Why do you have Feynman diagrams on your van?” And he would say, “Because I’m Richard Feynman.”

--Edward Fredkin, physicist

223.                   What a distressing contrast there is between the radiant intelligence of the child and the feeble mentality of the average adult.

--Sigmund Freud

224.                   If you are physically bullied, the best thing to say is, “No, no no, don’t do that, you’ll give me an erection.”

--Stephen Fry

225.                   This is the point. One technology doesn’t replace another, it complements. Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators.

--Stephen Fry

226.                   I’d have her attack you with the ferocity of a maenad in AA.

–K. Fuhr, “Friendly Hostility”

227.                   The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.

--Mahatma Gandhi

228.                   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

229.                   The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent on it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.

--Galileo Galilei

230.               To absent friends, lost loves, old gods, and the season of mists; and may each and every one of use always give the devil his due.

--Hob in Sandman #22 by Neil Gaiman

231.               Woman on the train just clutches her Whole Foods baguette so tightly when I sat down next to her you’d think I was Jean Valjean.

--Taylor Garron

232.               640K ought to be enough for anybody.

--Bill Gates, 1981

233.               Notice they are not called “God-worshiping people”, they are called “God-fearing people”. So why are churches called “houses of worship” and not “houses of fear”?

--David Gerrold

234.               The Roman Empire died from an overdose of taxes, lawyers, and Christians. But we’re much too smart to make that mistake again.

--David Gerrold

235.               Yes, Mother Nature is a bitch. But she’s not your bitch.

--David Gerrold

236.               I’ve always felt that you shouldn’t criticize a man though, until you’ve walked a mile in his shoes. That way when you do criticize him, you’re a mile away. And you’ve got his shoes.

--David Gerrold

237.               You have the right to free speech. You do not have the right to an audience.

--David Gerrold

238.               The only winner of the War of 1812 was Tchaikovsky.

--David Gerrold

239.               A gentleman is one who doesn’t require a lady to prove that she is.

--David Gerrold

240.               I’m from a little place called England… We used to run the world before you.

--Ricky Gervais

241.               The future is here. It’s just not evenly distributed yet.

--William Gibson

242.               The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

--John Gilmore

243.               If it weren’t for electricity we’d all be watching television by candlelight.

--George Gobel

244.               I don’t care how holy somebody claims to be. If a person tells you it’s My will that they kill someone, they’re wrong. Got it? I don’t care what religion you are, or who you think your enemy is, here it is one more time: No killing, in My name or anyone else’s, ever again.

--God, The Onion

245.               Godwin’s First Law: As a discussion on the Internet grow longer, the likelihood of a person/s being compared to Hitler or another Nazi, increases.

--Mike Godwin

246.               Godwin’s Second Law: Drawing Bayesian inferences after extensive sampling, I’ve determined that it is 99-percent certain that anyone who uses “woke” as a pejorative will turn out to be a fuckhead.  Please don’t blame me for pointing this out – it’s just science.

–Mike Godwin

247.               Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them, they translate it into their own language, and forthwith it means something entirely different.

--Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

248.               If you ever see me getting beaten by the police, put down the video camera and come help me.

--Bobcat Goldthwait

249.                   Do not meddle in the affairs of cats, for they are subtle and will piss on your computer.

--Bruce Graham

250                   It would be very discouraging if somewhere down the line you could ask a computer if the Riemann hypothesis is correct, and it said, “Yes, it is true, but you won’t be able to understand the proof.”

--Ronald Graham