Quoth the Raven:
"Nevermore!"
Quotes 7
"From all us Slackers to all you Boomers... HAHAHAHAHAHA! WE HAVE SATELLITE MOUNTED RAIL-GUNS! HEH HEH. Who's laughing now?"
- S. Lang
"I always make sure and keep one slug in reserve... either for myself--or the other poor jerk!"
"You think you've got it rough?! When I'm a gangster, the cops want to kill me. When I'm a cop, *everyone* wants to kill me. I'm scared to death!"
"Death is whimsical today...."
"There's nothing quite so off-putting at a wedding as a priest with a huge erection."
"If I cried me a river
Of all my confessions
Would I drown in my shallow regret?"
"Life is a gamble at terrible odds--if it was a bet, you wouldn't take it."
"Be happy while you're living, for you're a long time dead."
"My dear girl, replied Candide, when a man is in love, jealous, and just whipped by the Inquisition, he is no longer himself."
"All of our final decisions are made in a state of mind that is not going to last."
"A part of kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve."
"Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know."
"This is the nicest ship for a million kilometers, and they seem intent on running around trying to find some space anomaly that will rip it into pieces."
"That's a six-four-three play if you're scoring at home, or even if you're not getting any."
"Circuit City--We've got your new computer RIGHT HERE."
"I was trying to leave telnet after it had locked up on me, so I typed 'Feh dick bag' at the prompt... and it responded 'INVALID FEH COMMAND SYNTAX'."
"Basically, Doom is a (violent) 3D arcade game where you run around in a maze and kill things with shotguns and chainsaws.... After you get tired of killing things, you can run it over a network and kill things together with your friends. After you get tired of that, you can kill your friends. "
"I've been confusing my T1's, 10BaseT's, 100BaseT's, T3's, TCS (Tin-Cans-with-a-String), v.32's 42's, bis's, RJ45's, AAAAGGGGHHHH!!!! I'm just glad it all works... :-)"
"Oh, you can't log into 'Darwin'? That's because DARWIN'S IN MY TRUCK."
"...proving once and for all that she is NOT A FIGMENT OF MY DERANGED IMAGINATION!!! Of course, that wouldn't prove that *I* wasn't a figment of *her* deranged imagination. Hmm. But it's not my problem."
"In database design, as in life, integrity is the key to sound relationships."
"Anything worth knowing was learned in the last 60 days."
"Microsoft: Bringing you yesterday's technology--tomorrow."
"Indeed, it would not be an exaggeration to describe the history of the computer industry for the past decade as a massive effort to keep up with Apple."
"I heard that some non-drinkers even came last year, but I was too waxed to notice."
"If the best we can do for 'T' is 'Titfucking'... I quit."
"There's more than one way to skin a cat: Way number 27--Use an electric sander."
"The most terrifying thing in the world is your own life, the fact that it's yours and nobody else's."
"Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame."
"He's no failure. He's not dead yet."
"Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen."
"...this thing that we call 'failure' is not the falling down, but the staying down."
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work."
"There is no difference between someone who eats too little and sees Heaven and someone who drinks too much and sees snakes."
"The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but blind, pitiless indifference."
"Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster. And if you gaze long into the Abyss, the Abyss gazes into you."
"Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe, in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty."
"Live Free Or Die."
"The terms 'Sporting Purpose' and 'Hunting' are nowhere to be seen in the Second Amendment. I checked twice."
"Rights ARE rights, arms ARE arms and people ARE people."
"I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward."
"Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain."
"Nothing we are afraid to live without can be the source of our success."
"When a man's willing and eager, the gods join in."
"Glory gives herself only to those who always dreamed of her."
"But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation."
"No one imagines that a symphony is supposed to improve in quality as it goes along, or that the whole object of playing it is to reach the finale. The point of music is discovered in every moment of playing and listening to it. It is the same, I feel, with the greater part of our lives, and if we are unduly absorbed in improving them we may forget altogether to live them."
"If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time."
"Always carry a flagon of whiskey in case of snakebite, and, furthermore, always carry a small snake."
"Someday I'm going to murder the bugler.
Someday they're going to find him dead.
I'll amputate his reveille
And step upon it heavily
And spend the rest of my life in bed."
"I think the person who takes a job in order to live--that is to say, for the money--has turned himself into a slave."
"If you don't want to work, you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work."
"It's a shame that the only thing a man can do for eight hours a day is work. He can't eat for eight hours; he can't drink for eight hours; he can't make love for eight hours. The only thing a man can do for eight hours is work."
"Money often costs too much."
"That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest."
"I've been rich and I've been poor. Rich is better."
"Spring has returned. The earth is like a child that knows poems."
"My mistake. *Four* coffins."
"It's a bit like Doom meets home shopping."
"Ever since we convinced our boss that a site on the Internet was a good idea, we have been under a certain amount of pressure to make that true."
"Humankind has not woven the Web of Life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the Web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound together. All things connect."
"Information is the currency of democracy."
"That article and its poster have been canceled."
"The more things change, the more they suck."
"Finally, after a long period of hating your family, your upbringing, the fact that you grew up in the suburbs, finally you stand there to take full responsibility for yourself. I think it's called maturity."
"Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry has said he wants local businesses to create 5000 summer jobs for area youth. He also wants some crack."
"This show was brought to you by the Committee to Re-elect Marion Barry--the only candidate who's all he's cracked up to be."
"Washington D.C. Mayor Marion Barry is on a 10 day visit to Africa. He says he likes everything about it--but he really misses crack."
"What are you doing giving drummers music? They're just going to eat it."
"On our LA roadtrip, a 'renegade faction' of the Band reached 'a new low in tastelessness' when it 'rallied' the L.A. 'County' courthouse during the O.J. Simpson murder 'trial.' These agents of chaos (tm) received national attention and subsequent stern reprimands from both attorney Robert Shapiro and our Athletic Department. We feel just terrible about it. Bad renegades. No pudding for you."
"Beef: Good Fast Food from the Makers of Milk."
"If it is all the same to you I won't be coming in to work. The voices told me to clean all the guns today."
"We can make it to the fence in two seconds, can you?"
"I must apologize for the lack of bloodshed in tonight's program. We shall try to do better next time."
"I don't care what anyone says. Call me Chicken Little, but the motherfucking sky is falling."
"The Dead Tour is now officially over."
"But groundless hope, like unconditional love, is the only kind worth having."
"It is as useless to argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason as to administer medication to the dead."
"A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him."
"To gain that worth having, it may be necessary to lose everything else."
"Drinking when we are not thirsty and making love all year round, madam; that is all there is to distinguish us from other animals."
"With Major Lawrence, mercy is a passion. With me, it is merely a matter of good manners. You may judge which is the more reliable."
"There is the path of light,
Of fire and day,
The path of the moon's bright fortnight
And the six months' journey
Of the sun to the north:
The knower of Brahman
Who takes this path
Goes to Brahman:
He does not return.There is the path of night and smoke,
The path of the moon's dark fortnight
And the six months' journey
Of the sun to the south:
The yogi who takes this path
Will reach the lunar light:
This path leads back
To human birth, at last."
"You know, I believe if there's any kind of god, it wouldn't be in any of us--not you or me . . . but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world, it must be in the attempt of understanding someone, sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed, but--who cares, really? The answer must be in the attempt."
"To make a fuss about sexual injustice is more than unfeminine; it is now uncool. Feminist anger, or any form of social outrage, is dismissed breezily--not because it lacks substance but because it lacks 'style'."
"Like a cat preparing for a leap, you can throw your heart into something ahead and the rest of you catches up. However, what seems most important is the muscle power available for the leap."
"I know somebody and they call your name
A million times and still you never came
They go on loving you just the same."
"No philosophy that he had ever heard or read gave any reasonable purpose for man's existence, nor any rational clue to his proper conduct. Basking in the sunshine might be as good a thing to do with one's life as any other--but it was not for him and he knew it, even if he could not define how he knew it."
"He sat very quietly, rubbing his hands against the soil of the Moon and sensing the curiously light pressure of his body against the ground. At long last there was peace in his heart. His hurts had ceased to pain him. He *was* where he had longed to be--he had followed his need. Over the western horizon hung the Earth at last quarter, a green-blue giant moon. Overhead the Sun shone down from a black and starry sky. And underneath the Moon, the soil of the Moon itself. He was on the Moon! He lay back still while a bath of content flowed over him like a tide at flood, and soaked to his very marrow. His attention strayed momentarily, and he thought once again that his name was called. Silly, he thought, I'm getting old--my mind wanders."
"What distinguished them from other men (aside from their terror of Social Security cards and cedula de identidad) was their refusal to equate work with life and an inability to stay anywhere for long. Some were Huck Finns; some Nigger Jims. Others were Calibans, Stagerlees and John Henrys. Anarchic, wandering, they read about their hometowns in the pages of out-of-town newspapers."
"PEOPLE ARE HELPLESS TO FATE, VICTIMS OF TIME--THEIR OWN EMOTIONS UNDO THEM, AND SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS OF ALL KINDS FAIL THEM.... BELIEF IN GOD, OR A BELIEF THAT--EVENTUALLY--*EVERYTHING* HAS TRAGIC CONSEQUENCES... EITHER WAY, YOU DON'T LEAVE YOURSELF ANY ROOM FOR PHILOSOPHICAL DETACHMENT. EITHER WAY, YOU'RE NOT BEING VERY CLEVER."
"WHAT I'M TELLING YOU IS, IF YOU WANT TO DO THINGS YOUR OWN WAY, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE A *DECISION*--YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO FIND A LITTLE COURAGE.... IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT--IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO *LIVE* IT."
"Somewhere in the notes Estraven wrote during our trek across the Gobrin Ice he wonders why his companion is ashamed to cry. I could have told him even then that it was not shame so much as fear. Now I went on through the Sinoth Valley, through the evening of his death, into the cold country that lies beyond fear. There I found you can weep all you like, but there's no good in it."
"Ravenous fish and tasy plankton. Rain forests dripping with nameless reptiles, birds gliding under canopies of leaves, insects buzzing like electrons in an accelerator. Frost belts where voles and lemmings flourish and diminish with tidy four-year periodicity in the face of nature's bloody combat. The world makes a messy laboratory for ecologists, a cauldron of five million interacting species. Or is it fifty million? Ecologists do not actually know."
"As we begin to understand complex systems, we begin to understand that we're part of an ever-changing, interlocking, nonlinear, kaleidoscopic world. So the question is how you maneuver in a world like that. And the answer is that you want to keep as many options open as possible. You go for viability, something that's workable, rather than what's 'optimal'. A lot of people say to that, 'Aren't you then accepting second best?' No, you're not, because optimization isn't well defined anymore. What you're trying to do is maximize robustness, or survivability, in the face of an ill-defined future. And that, in turn, puts a premium on becoming aware of nonlinear relationships and causal pathways as best we can. You observe the world very, very carefully, and you don't expect circumstances to last."
"We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks."
"Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding...."