Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, 
 they follow not reason, but faith. This naive faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally 
 potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course. 
	-- Reinhold Niebuhr 

 FYI -  The myth makers = Propaganda - Proaganda like our goverment placing and creating news stories
 and heavily promoting particular stories and points of view.

 You see, the facts can change, but my opinion will never change, no matter what the facts are.
      -- Stephen Colbert - poking fun of George Bush

 Is it that god created us in his/her own image or that people create god in their own image?
    -- Unknown.

 Good men do good deeds, evil men do evil deeds, but it takes religion 
 for a good man to do evil deeds.
   -- Unknown.

 What's the real difference between Radical Right Wing Islamists and Radical 
 Right Wing Christians? The goals are the same, so far one just applies slightly 
 less overt methods.
	-- NMH

 Heaven: The police are British, the chefs Italian, the mechanics German, the lovers French and it's organized by the Swiss.
 Hell: The police are German, the chefs British, the mechanics French, the lovers Swiss and it's organized  by the Italians.
   -- Unknown.

 George W. Bush, Making Reagan look smart, Nixon look honest, amd his dad look coherent!
	-- Unknown

 When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in the flag, carrying a cross.
 -- Sinclair Lewis

 Religion is nothing more than a useless, and sometimes dangerous, evolutionary accident. 
 Religious behavior may be a misfiring, an unfortunate byproduct of an underlying 
 psychological propensity which in other circumstances is, or once was, useful.
	-- Richard Dawkins


First they came for the big ISPs
and I did not speak out
because I used a little ISP and ran my own server.

Then they came for the telcos
and I did not speak out
because I used VoIP.

Then they came to my little ISP
and I did not speak out
because I could still encrypt some traffic and control my own firewall.

Then they came for my router
and there was no one left
to securely ping back to me.
 --- by Roger Weeks in Opinion


 "Being British is about driving in a German car to an Irish pub for a
Belgian beer, then travelling home, grabbing an Indian meal on the way,
to sit on Swedish furniture and watch American shows on a Japanese TV.
And the most British thing of all? Suspicion of anything foreign."
	-- BBC write in (I would say this applies to Americans as well)


"The scores are low enough that I can't tell who doesn't know shit from who
really doesn't know shit!"
	-- Anon

If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really
make them think, they'll hate you." 
	-- Don Marquis

A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless
found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe.
It is guilty, until found effective. 
	-- Edward Teller

Put your hand on a hot stove for a minute, and it
seems like an hour. Sit with a pretty  girl  for an
hour, and it seems like a minute. THAT'S
relativity.
	-- Albert Einstein
 
The brain is a wonderful organ. 
It starts working the moment you get up in the morning 
and does not stop until you get into the office.
	-- Robert Frost
 
The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it.
	-- Franklin P. Jones
 
We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like?
	-- Jean Cocturan
 
It matters not whether you win or lose; what
matters is whether I win or lose.
	-- Darrin Weinberg
 
Life is pleasant.
Death is peaceful.
It's the transition that's troublesome.
	-- unknown
 
Help a man when he is in trouble and he will remember you when he is in trouble again.
 
Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers.
 
It is not exactly cheating, I prefer to consider it creative problem solving.
 
Whoever said money can't buy happiness, didn't know where to shop.
 
Alcohol doesn't solve any problems , but then again, neither does milk.
 
Most people are only alive because it is illegal to shoot them.
 
Forgive your enemies but remember their names.
 
The number of people watching you is directly proportional to the stupidity of your action.

Dont worry that the world ends today, its already tomorrow in Australia! 


"Tact is for wimps. It's much more interesting to try to get through life by
being tactless."

"Tact is the art of lying to stay out of trouble."

"Being tactful takes effort that I would rather expend on other things."

"I was unusually tactful two days ago, and now I have to make up for that."

"I find thinking before speaking to be very inhibitive."

"I'm sarcastic even when I'm in a good mood. It's just a kinder, gentler type
of sarcasm."


"I have very little patience for certain things---such as other people."


"OK, fine. You're right! This is apathy, but it's a very proactive apathy."

"My inferiority complex is not as good as yours." (Steven Wright)

"Today I received a letter addressed to 'Caring Neighbor,' so I threw it away.
They must have had the wrong address."

"All my scientific articles were produced without the help of steroids."


"Determining where mathematics ends and science begins is as difficult, and as
pointless, as mapping the edge of a morning mist." (Peter Atkins)


"In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every
case gotten at second hand, and without examination." (Mark Twain)


"I am making no effort more emphatically than usual."

"Never fear, Young Lady! I shall overpower them with my mad quantum chaos
skillz!"


"Attending my ten-year reunion turned out to be pretty pointless. Everybody
there was either a lawyer or a lesbian."


"I'm from Los Angeles, so I become suspiscious whenever somebody is nice to me."


"As usual, I'm just going to attempt to be snide rather than contribute
anything useful. I have to be me, you know?"


"I like being a U.S. citizen. It prevents me from being deported."



"I can tolerate religious fanatics; I'm just disappointed that evolution hasn't
gotten rid of them yet."

"My maturity level fluctuates between the ages of 3 and 17 depending on the
phases of the moon, the hour of the day, and how much caffeine and sugar I have
in my system."

"My current objectives are as follows: (1) Smile more; (2) Don't trip; (3)
Obsess less; and (4) Be less goal-oriented."

"The main conflict in life isn't good versus evil. It's fun versus boring."

"Here's an interesting paradox: I always want to get work done, yet I never
want to do work."

"Sorry I missed church. I've been busy practicing witchcraft and becoming a
lesbian." (Actual bumper sticker)

"So many gerbils, so little time." (Actual bumper sticker)

"I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize." (on a t-shirt I once saw on a Georgia Tech
student)

"I didn't get where I am today by being intelligent."
  --George Bush?

"I don't see what I stand to gain by growing up."

"If you're damned if you do and damned if you don't, then the Principle of
Least Effort tells you that you shouldn't."


"There was this one time, at math camp..."
   -- Anon MIT Student

"I would long for the good old days if they hadn't sucked as much as they did."
(Anonymous Caltech Student or Alum)

"If you can't be a good example, then you'll just have to serve as a horrible
warning." (Catherine Aird)


"It isn't premarital sex if you have no intention of getting married." ('Matt'
[Dave?] Barry)

"Got enough guilt to start my own religion." (Tori Amos, "Crucify")

"Evolution is chaos with feedback." (Joseph Ford)



"And so I approached Miss Kelly's gravitational field and could feel my strings
vibrating. All I knew was that I wanted to wrap my weak-gauge bosons around her
gluons, slip through a wormhole, and do some quantum tunneling." (Woody Allen,
"Strung Out")

"I could feel my coupling constant invade her weak field as I pressed my lips
to her wet neutrinos." (Woody Allen, "Strung Out")

 

"If it weren't for the coffee, I'd have no identifiable personality
whatsoever." (David Letterman)

"Social correctness has traditionally had nothing whatever to do with reason,
logic, or physics." (Douglas Adams, "Tea")


"Remember that every good friend was once a stranger". (unknownsource)

"I honestly think it is better to be a failure at something you love than to be
a success at something you hate." (George Burns)

"There is a natural law. Physics tells us, that for every action, there must be
an equal and opposite reaction. They hate us, we hate them, they hate us back.
And so, here we are, victims of mathematics." (Londo Mollari, A Voice in the
Wilderness)

"If an infinite number of rednecks, riding in an infinite number of pick-up
trucks, fire an infinite number of shotgun rounds at an infinite number of
highway signs, they will eventually produce all the world's great literary
works in Braille." (Anonymous)


"Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things
in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind
lotteries, dating, and religion." (Scott Adams)

"Every great scientific truth goes through three stages. First, people say it
conflicts with the Bible. Next they say it had been discovered before. Lastly
they say they always believed it." -- Louis Agassiz

"If man is made in God's image, then God must be a chimpanzee." 
	--Allan Wilson, a UCLA professor

"For me to think before I speak would require a fundamental shift in my
personality that I am unwilling to endure."

"As always, when we are not able to calculate something, we give it a name."
   --Anonymous Physics Professor

"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet
reminds you of someone else." --Ogden Nash

"No poor bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making
other bastards die for their country." --George Patton


"Please don't jump. Life will be better." 
  (actual sign posted on a Japanese bridge)


"People don't ask for facts in making up their minds. They would rather have
one good, soul-satisfying emotion than a dozen facts." (Robert Keith Leavitt)


"I do not know with what weapons World War 3 will be fought, but World War 4
will be fought with sticks and stones." (Albert Einstein)

 You know we're sitting on four million pounds of fuel, one nuclear     
 weapon and a thing that has 270,000 moving parts built by the lowest   
 bidder. Makes you feel good, doesn't it?                               
 Rockhound in "Armageddon", 1998, about the Space Shuttle