It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
— Douglas Adams
Tuesday, 20 December 2011
Monday, 19 December 2011
Sunday, 18 December 2011
Nevertheless
He may be an athlete, but he's quite bright.
— Will Parker on Fritz Eger in Tripods
— Will Parker on Fritz Eger in Tripods
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T-Shirt Slogans
Saturday, 17 December 2011
Friday, 16 December 2011
Reverse Nonlinearity
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
— Dr. Seuss
— Dr. Seuss
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Dr Seuss
Thursday, 15 December 2011
Tuesday, 13 December 2011
Time Heals
ZEAL, n. A certain nervous disorder afflicting the young and inexperienced. A passion that goeth before a sprawl.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce,
Definitions
Monday, 12 December 2011
Sunday, 11 December 2011
A Nation Of Customers
To found a great empire for the sole purpose of raising up a people of customers may at first sight appear a project fit only for a nation of shopkeepers. It is, however, a project altogether unfit for a nation of shopkeepers; but extremely fit for a nation whose government is influenced by shopkeepers.
—Adam Smith 'The Wealth of Nations'
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Adam Smith
Saturday, 10 December 2011
Friday, 9 December 2011
Thursday, 8 December 2011
Wednesday, 7 December 2011
Sage Advice
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
— Hesiod
— Hesiod
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Hesiod
Tuesday, 6 December 2011
No Matter What
You know Tom Paine wrote the first best-seller at a dark time in the Revolution when we were losing and all the soldiers were deserting. Giving up. And the book was called Common Sense and it was really just a long list of questions. And one of the questions was: Does it make common sense for an island to rule a continent? And everybody kind of went hmmm and they signed back up.
And today you could ask: Does it make common sense for a country to rule the world? But no matter what your answer, no matter what you think, no matter what you vote for–
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. No matter what.
We just keep calling em up, calling em, calling em up. No matter what.
— Laurie Anderson 'Dark Time In The Revolution'
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Laurie Anderson,
Lyrics
Monday, 5 December 2011
Consumerism
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.
— HL Mencken
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H. L. Mencken
Saturday, 3 December 2011
Friday, 2 December 2011
Thursday, 1 December 2011
Wednesday, 30 November 2011
Brave, Brave James Hardie
Brave, Brave James Hardie
When lawsuits raised their ugly head,
they bravely changed their name and fled
Brave, Brave, Brave, Brave James Hardie


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Homo defæcans,
Monty Python
Tuesday, 29 November 2011
Mysterious Ways
God for you is where you sweep away all the mysteries of the world, all the challenges to our intelligence.
You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
— Carl Sagan
You simply turn your mind off and say God did it.
— Carl Sagan
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Carl Sagan,
Mythology
Monday, 28 November 2011
Clairvoyants
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
— Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, in 1943
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
— Bill Gates, in 1981
— Thomas Watson, Chairman of IBM, in 1943
640K ought to be enough for anybody.
— Bill Gates, in 1981
Sunday, 27 November 2011
Faithless
Faith: not wanting to know what is true.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Definitions,
Friedrich Nietzsche
Saturday, 26 November 2011
Friday, 25 November 2011
Corporate Intelligence
There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home.
— Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
— Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corporation, 1977
Thursday, 24 November 2011
The Way Out
We don’t like their sound, and guitar music is on the way out.
— Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, in 1962
— Decca Recording Company, rejecting the Beatles, in 1962
Wednesday, 23 November 2011
The Evolution Of Error
Science is the record of dead religions.
— Oscar Wilde
— Oscar Wilde
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Mythology,
Oscar Wilde,
Science
Tuesday, 22 November 2011
Slight
The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Ambrose Bierce
Monday, 21 November 2011
Variation And Selection
Any man who afflicts the human race with ideas must be prepared to see them misunderstood.
— HL Mencken
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H. L. Mencken
Sunday, 20 November 2011
Saturday, 19 November 2011
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