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"If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance."

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All of these pages are made from scratch in HTML in conjunction with CSS, using Notepad++. No WYSIWYG programs like Frontpage or Dreamweaver were involved.

CSS Media Queries are used to style the pages differently (and more appropriately) depending on the type of viewing device (larger monitors, tablets, and mobile phones).

On the back-end, I use custom-made PHP scripts to automate and simplify maintainence, and the GLU version of MySQL as a database system.

Almost all images on these pages are in the wonderful PNG image format, except for images that are better suited in JPG (mostly for the Books page).

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Favicon

The favicon, a black circle with three smaller cirles embedded within (two white with another black embedded within the largest of the white ones), is the insignia of the Sjet kiith, a fictional political unit in the Homeworld computer game series. (An 816 x 816 PNG version is found here. If, like me, you believe that SVG is the future, here's an SVG version, courtesy of Alexander K. Schrøder.) I chose their insignia as the favicon for my site because I adore their history of science and pascifism. In addition, I have a crush on their greatest neuroscientist, Karan Sjet, who has the cutest voice ever.

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Purpose

The purpose of this web site is to spread all (or mostly all) of the information that I find interesting to other people who might find it interesting as well.

Random quotes

At the top of every page is a randomly generated quote. There are currently 347 quotes. They are as follows:

  1. Everything you know is wrong. Black is white, up is down and short is long.
  2. A thirty-two bit extension and graphical shell to a sixteen-bit patch to an eight-bit operating system originally coded for a four-bit microprocessor which was written by a two-bit company that can't stand one bit of competition.
  3. At the chasm of infinity, our cow glances past its precipice, stares down its abyss.
  4. If you can't take the heat, get out of the rocket propulsion test chamber!
  5. This specification should be read like all other specifications. First, it should be read cover-to-cover, multiple times. Then, it should be read backwards at least once. Then it should be read by picking random sections from the contents list and following all the cross-references.
  6. The references have been deleted in order to protect the guilty and avoid enriching the lawyers.
  7. Mind you, the Null Packet is not created by compressing a packet until it disappears into nothingness. Such a compression scheme might not be reversible.
  8. If you are aware that you have made a mistake, then you should repeat your experiment. "Human error" is not a valid source of uncertainty. If you know that you did something "wrong", then why don’t you do it correctly?
  9. ..- -. ... -.-. .-. . .--
    A Fall of Moondust
  10. The explosives experts had known their job, as is highly desirable that explosives experts should.
    A Fall of Moondust
  11. What the two drank together, between Hilary Term and Michaelmas, might have floated a king's ship.
    A Tale of Two Cities, Charles Dickens
  12. There are weapons you cannot hold in your hands. You can only hold them in your mind.
    Chapterhouse: Dune, Darwi Odrade to young Miles Teg ghola
  13. You cannot manipulate a marionette with only one string.
    Chapterhouse: Dune, The Zensunni Whip
  14. He must not try to understand — only to observe. Understanding would come later, or not at all.
    Childhood's End, spoken by Jan Rodricks
  15. If all artists are abnormal, and all men are artists, we have an interesting syllogism...
    Childhood's End, spoken by The Inspector
  16. Knowledge is an unending adventure on the edge of uncertainty.
    Children of Dune, Leto II
  17. Every judgement teeters on the brink of error.
    Children of Dune, Leto II
  18. A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
    Cloud Atlas, Letters from Zedelghem
  19. Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.
    Cloud Atlas, The Ghastly Ordeal of Timothy Cavendish
  20. Be prudent; oft the random jest recoils upon the jester's head.
    Don Quixote
  21. Truth suffers from too much analysis.
    Dune Messiah, ancient Fremen saying
  22. To use raw power is to make yourself infinitely vulnerable to greater powers.
    Dune Messiah, Bene Gesserit axiom
  23. How often it is that the angry man rages denial of what his inner self is telling him.
    Dune, "The Collected Sayings of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
  24. Survival is the ability to swim in strange water.
    Dune, Bene Gesserit axiom
  25. Any road followed precisely to its end leads precisely nowhere. Climb the mountain just a little bit to test that it's a mountain. From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain.
    Dune, Bene Gesserit proverb
  26. Ima trava okolo! I korenja okolo!
    Dune, chanted by a Fremen
  27. The hands move, the lips move—Ideas gush from his words, And his eyes devour! He is an island of Selfdom.
    Dune, description from "A Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
  28. Do you wrestle with dreams? Do you contend with shadows? Do you move in a kind of sleep? Time has slipped away. Your life is stolen. You tarried with trifles, Victim of your folly.
    Dune, dirge for Jamis on the Funeral Plains, from "Songs of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
  29. The vision of time is broad, but when you pass through it, time becomes a narrow door.
    Dune, from "Arrakis Awakening" by the Princess Irulan
  30. What do you despise? By this are you truly known.
    Dune, from "Manual of Muad'Dib" by the Princess Irulan
  31. Before the Bene Gesserit, the Jesuits were the best at it.
    God Emperor of Dune, Leto II
  32. In the shadow of every religion lurks a Torquemada.
    God Emperor of Dune, Leto II
  33. The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.
    God Emperor of Dune, Leto II
  34. The past is always changing, but few realize it.
    God Emperor of Dune, Leto II (The Stolen Journals)
  35. The best prophets lead you up to the curtain and let you peer through for yourself.
    God Emperor of Dune, Leto II (The Stolen Journals)
  36. It is unsettling to dream another's dreams.
    Heretics of Dune, Taraza
  37. You have only one awareness here—the screen of the magi: Imagination! Here, you learn what it is to be human. You are a creator of order, of beautiful shapes and systems, an organizer of chaos.
    Heretics of Dune, The Atreides Manifesto, Bene Gesserit Archives
  38. Are they gods? Or are they eaters of gods?
    Imperial Earth, spoken by Karl Helmer
  39. Beware of had-I-wyst, whose fine brings care and smart.
    Paradise of Dainty Devices, poem by S. Barnards
  40. When I talk about myself, all sorts of other factors — values, standards, my own limitations — make me, the narrator, select and eliminate things about me, the narratee.
    Sputnik Sweetheart
  41. Understanding is but the sum of our misunderstandings.
    Sputnik Sweetheart, Sumire
  42. DIASPAR WAS NOT ALWAYS THUS
    The City and the Stars
  43. Judge me by my deeds, though they are few, rather than my words, though they are many.
    The City and the Stars, Khedron the Jester
  44. It is lovely to watch the coloured shadows on the planets of eternal light.
    The City and the Stars, The Master's last words
  45. I really hate this damned machine; / I wish that they would sell it / It never does quite what I want / but only what I tell it.
    The Compleat Computer by Dennie L. van Tassel
  46. I one of all other without philosophy, / Have shaped for many a philosophical city.
    Utopia, Thomas More
  47. The pleasures of the mind lie in knowledge, and in that delight which the contemplation of truth carries with it.
    Utopia, Thomas More
  48. Thought in movement has for its only conceivable motive the attainment of belief, or thought at rest.
    Varieties of Religious Experience
  49. What's got you so riled up? A new tax on idiots?
    Assassin's Creed: Origins, random guard
  50. Give me an analysis, Joey...
    Beneath a Steel Sky, Foster
  51. You saw the blades; what did you think was gonna happen?
    BloodRayne 2, Rayne
  52. If you are afraid to eat something, don't eat it. If you ARE eating something, don't be afraid!
    Borderlands 2: Tiny Tina's Assault on Dragon Keep, Spatula Khan
  53. Feeding time is scheduled for noon every day, or whenever a zookeeper falls into a holding cell.
    Borderlands 2, Experimentation Greeter
  54. If you hear screaming coming from the research labs, stop listening so hard.
    Borderlands 2, Experimentation Greeter
  55. Reload: verb, 1. Something you do after your target is dead.
    Borderlands, S&S Munitions
  56. May the road rise to meet your feet, Mr. Member.
    Commander Keen: Secret of the Oracle, Keen
  57. Be safe, friend. Don't you dare go Hollow.
    Dark Souls, Laurentius of the Great Swamp
  58. A crowbar. Hit someone or something with it. Repeat.
    Deus Ex, description for crowbar
  59. Defenestrated during the Night of Flung Shutters.
    Dishonored, plaque in High Overseer's palace
  60. Far distant eyes look out through yours.
    Half-Life 2, Vortigaunt
  61. Gallum galla gilla ma.
    Half-Life 2, Vortigaunt
  62. How many are there in you? Whose hopes and dreams do you encompass?
    Half-Life 2, Vortigaunt
  63. With my brains and your brawn we'll make an excellent team!
    Half-Life, scientist's reply when asked to follow you
  64. Names are for friends, so I don't need one.
    Hitman: Blood Money, Agent 47
  65. All that moves is easily heard in the void.
    Homeworld, The Bentusi
  66. They're everywhere!
    Marathon
  67. Somewhere in the heavens... they are waiting.
    Marathon
  68. If a large bomb is allowed to detonate in the Engineering Section, the Marathon would be ^&2``~<Colloquialism Search Error #F9C>
    Marathon, on clearing the level Bob-B-Q
  69. Frog blast the vent core!
    Marathon, simulacrum B.O.B.
  70. Our borders are determined by the range of our guns.
    Mass Effect 2, Chief Scout on Tuchanka
  71. Square root of 912.04 is 30.2... it all seemed harmless...
    Mass Effect 2, David
  72. We're two friends who haven't seen each other since college. Remember that time so-and-so did that thing? Haha!
    Mass Effect, Gianna Parasini
  73. Tell me what I want or I'll blast your virtual ass into actual dust!
    Mass Effect, Krogan warrior
  74. Oh, I'm just too good for my own bad self. Hello, Earth. Who's your daddy? Why, yes, I am.
    MDK2, Scwang Scwing
  75. I am the Shotmaker! No one has ever escaped from here!
    Metal Gear (1987), after which the protagonist promptly escapes.
  76. This is Big Boss... A body armor? If you were a man you wouldn't need that! ...Over.
    Metal Gear (1987), radio communication.
  77. Hidden so deep in veils of deceit, imprisoned in twisting spells. / Are we the plaything of fiends, or merely the dreams that we're telling ourselves, telling ourselves?
  78. Wanted: Bullet catchers and grenade testers. Apply in person to General Dripik. Qualified recruits only.
    Oddworld: Abe's Exoddus, LCD poster
  79. A little hard work never killed anyone important.
    Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, LCD poster
  80. Don't play with your food, unless it plays with you first.
    Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee, LCD poster
  81. If fate frowns, we all perish.
    Penumbra: Overture
  82. Ooh, that thing has numbers on it.
    Portal
  83. The Well of Wishes awaits in the Crypt of Decay!
    Quake, secret message in Nightmare level select
  84. When aren't they heavily armed?
    Ratchet & Clank: Tools of Destruction, Ratchet
  85. A saved-game file takes about 20 Kbytes on disk, so be sure you've got room for it somewhere.
    Scarab of Ra for the Macintosh
  86. Literature might call them ghosts. I call them self-hypnotic defects in the R-grade unit.
    System Shock 2, Dr. Janice Polito
  87. A thousand eyes look.
    System Shock 2, Human/Annelid Hybrid
  88. That's the TriOptimum way!
    System Shock 2, Protocol Droid
  89. Look at you, Hacker… A pathetic creature of meat and bone. Panting and sweating as you run through my corridors. How can you challenge a perfect, immortal machine?
    System Shock 2, SHODAN
  90. What is a drop of rain compared to the storm? What is a thought compared to a mind?
    System Shock 2, The Many
  91. Glory to the flesh. Glory to the mass.
    System Shock 2, Xerxes
  92. This elevator serves me alone. I have complete control over this entire level. With cameras as my eyes and nodes as my hands, I rule here, insect.
    System Shock, SHODAN
  93. You've been trying too hard, thinking too much. Relax. Trust your instincts. Just be yourself. Do the little things, and the big things take care of themselves.
    The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, message upon reaching level 16.
  94. You realize all your life you have been coasting along as if in a dream. Suddenly, facing the trials of the last few days, you have come alive.
    The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, message upon reaching level 2.
  95. It's all suddenly obvious to you. You just have to concentrate. All the energy and time you've wasted — it's a sin. But without the experience you've gained, taking risks, taking responsibility for failure, how could you have understood?
    The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, message upon reaching level 4.
  96. The secret does seem to be hard work, yes, but it's also a kind of blind passion, an inspiration.
    The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, message upon reaching level 8.
  97. No lollygaggin'.
    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, guards
  98. I used to be an adventurer like you. Then I took an arrow in the knee...
    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, guards
  99. I'm not a man, I'm a weapon in human form. Just unsheathe me and point me at the enemy.
    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Hrongar
  100. I am sworn to carry your burdens.
    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Lydia
  101. What is better? To be born good, or to overcome your evil nature through great effort?
    The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Paarthurnax
  102. I am Quater. Read my words, and be my friend.
    The Neverhood, first words of the preamble to the Neverhood Chronicles
  103. With how hard my head's pounding, I think they opened my skull and crawled out of my nightmares.
    Thief (reboot), random guard commenting on where he thinks the Abominations came from
  104. In time of peril, breaketh glass.
    Thief 2: The Metal Age, plaque above emergency supplies, Precious Cargo
  105. Let thine arrow fly into mine crystal eye.
    Thief 2: The Metal Age, plaque under a painting in Shipping... and Receiving
  106. There is nothing so promising as the opening of a book. There is nothing so final as its shutting.
    Thief: Deadly Shadows, Keeper Scribe Lessons, Part 4
  107. When are they gonna bring me my dinner, that's what I want to know. When are they gonna bring me my dinner?
    Thief: The Dark Project, Anonymous Guard
  108. Builds your roofs of dead wood. Builds your walls of dead stone. Builds your dreams of dead thoughts.
    Thief: The Dark Project, briefing for The Sword
  109. ALARUS
    Thief: The Dark Project, Down In The Bonehoard
  110. EDINE
    Thief: The Dark Project, Down In The Bonehoard
  111. MARAD
    Thief: The Dark Project, Down In The Bonehoard
  112. Hammer, anvil, forge and fire, chase away The Hoof'ed Liar. / Roof and doorway, block and beam, chase The Trickster from our dreams.
    Thief: The Dark Project, Hammerite chant
  113. Cook — Remember to serve the ballerinas only a light supper the night of a performance, lest we have a repeat of little Catherine's unwelcome addition to Thursday night's show. Consider this your first and only warning.
    Thief: The Dark Project, Mr. Cribs, Director of Music
  114. Keeper brethren — stand not against us lest you feel the sting of ignorance's barbs.
    Thief: The Dark Project, on the map for Songs of the Caverns
  115. Hadst I a hammer, wouldst I hammer in the morning. Wouldst I hammer in the evening, all over this land.
    Thief: The Dark Project, Strange Bedfellows, book in library
  116. The stone cannot know why the chisel cleaves it; the iron cannot know why the fire scorches it. When thy life is cleft and scorched, when death and despair leap at thee, beat not thy breast and curse thy evil fate, but thank the Builder for the trials that shape thee.
    Thief: The Dark Project, Strange Bedfellows, briefing
  117. To use thy chisel is to blunt its edge 'gainst the stone. To not use thy chisel is to waste its edge.
    Thief: The Dark Project, Undercover, book in library
  118. What is a tree but a tower that withers and dies? What is a pond but a cistern that stagnates and fills with muck? What is a patch of ground but a road which cracks and washes away?
    Thief: The Dark Project, Undercover, book in library
  119. Here lies the unhappy Brother Dale: buried here as a symbol of lessons not learned.
    Thief: The Dark Project, Undercover, plaque in graveyard
  120. Death by irony is always painful.
    Tomb Raider: Legend, Lara Croft
  121. Among the most dangerous of the denizens of the catacombs below our land is the Invisible Seeker. None have ever seen one of these horrific slayers, for they are—as their name implies—unseeable. Their presence is usually first detected when open wounds suddenly begin appearing on the body of a victim.
    Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness manual, description of Invisible Seeker
  122. You hear someone say, "TURIS-SCIENTIA-MAGNOPERE"
    Ultima 1: The First Age of Darkness, Tower of Knowledge
  123. All your character needs now is a name, and the only stipulation here is that the name be no longer than Rumpelstiltskin.
    Ultima 2: The Revenge of the Enchantress manual
  124. With the greater sophistication of a cosmopolitan atmosphere come the products of human innovation; the sword, the mail, and the tankard of ale.
    Ultima 2: The Revenge of the Enchantress manual, description of towns
  125. The Code is thy touchstone, for without it thou are but a speck of dust in the whirlwind of Chaos.
    Ultima 4: Quest of the Avatar manual "The History of Britannia", Ethics of War
  126. PRIORITY OVER-RIDE. NEW BEHAVIOR DICTATED. MUST BREAK TARGET INTO COMPONENT MATERIALS.
    Ur-Quan Masters, Slylandro probe
  127. This is a place for crazy people. I'm not crazy.
    12 Monkeys
  128. I am putting myself to the fullest possible use, which is all I think that any conscious entity can ever hope to do.
    2001, HAL
  129. I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
    2001, HAL
  130. Another helpful hint for living.
    A Boy and His Dog, propaganda speaker
  131. Why, Lord, did you encapsulate so transcendent a composer in the body of an asshole?
    Amadeus, Antonio Salieri
  132. From the multiplication tables to calculus in less than an hour. It's like five years at Caltech in less than fifteen seconds!
    Colossus: The Forbin Project
  133. I'm an average nobody. I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.
    Goodfellas, spoken by Henry Hill
  134. I need a computer!
    Johnny Mnemonic, Johnny
  135. One is glad to be of service.
    The Bicentennial Man, Andrew
  136. Piety is not what the lessons bring to people, it's the mistakes they bring to the lessons.
    The Man From Earth, John Oldman
  137. What if a man from the Upper Paleolithic survived until the present day?
    The Man From Earth, John Oldman
  138. I know Kung Fu.
    The Matrix, Thomas A. Anderson
  139. Zac Hobson, July 5th. One: there has been a malfunction in Project Flashlight with devastating results. Two: it seems I am the only person left on Earth.
    The Quiet Earth
  140. Aaaaah, wire.
    Breaking Bad, Jesse Pinkman
  141. Christians don't believe in gravity.
    Family Guy, Peter Griffin
  142. Math, my dear boy, is nothing more than the lesbian sister of biology.
    Family Guy, Peter Griffin
  143. If you squeeze me, I make bad people go away!
    Family Guy, Petie the pistol
  144. Well, that activates my hilarity unit.
    Futurama, Bender
  145. The good will cry and the evil will laugh. That's what they say!
    Riget
  146. Next time, prepare to take the good with the evil.
    Riget, Lars von Trier, every epilogue
  147. Sanctuary for all. Community for all. Those who arrive survive.
    The Walking Dead , Terminus' broadcast
  148. It seems you've come across an alien spacecraft. Now things are beginning to make sense. More later.
    Admiral Terence Jefferson, Maabus
  149. Why may not the hand gesticulate to the eye, as well as the tongue articulate to the ear?
    Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible, "Introduction to Genesis"
  150. I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
    Albert Einstein
  151. I never worry about the future. It comes soon enough.
    Albert Einstein
  152. One can't teach a cat not to catch birds.
    Albert Einstein
  153. The important thing is not to stop questioning.
    Albert Einstein
  154. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten.
    Aldous Huxley, Doors of Perception
  155. To make this mundane world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
    Aldous Huxley, letter to Humphrey Osmond
  156. We think in generalities, but we live in details.
    Alfred North Whitehead
  157. A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems.
    Alfréd Rényi
  158. Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do and die.
    Alfred Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
  159. Every moment dies a man, Every moment one is born.
    Alfred Tennyson, "The Vision of Sin"
  160. Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve them.
    Aristotle
  161. I have honestly endeavored not to laugh at the actions of men, nor to bemoan them, nor to abhor them, but to understand them.
    Baruch Spinoza, Tractatus Politicus
  162. A fart is just shitting wind.
    BEEPOWER
  163. Oh! So that's the deal, eh, fellow? Well, why don't we duke it out in a melee battle of fisticuffs?
    BEEPOWER
  164. There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us. Let him loose to spread joy everywhere.
    Bertrand Russell, 1967
  165. The question is how to arrive at your opinions and not what your opinions are.
    Bertrand Russell, Am I An Atheist Or An Agnostic?
  166. I can't help praising the Lord. As I go along the street, I lift up one foot, and it seems to say 'Glory'; and I lift up the other, and it seems to say 'Amen'; and so they keep up like that all the time I am walking.
    Billy Bray
  167. If they were to put me in a barrel, I would shout glory out through the bunghole! Praise the Lord!
    Billy Bray
  168. But do you wish, Lord, that I should inclose in poor and barren words sentiments which the heart alone can understand?
    Biography of Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne
  169. I looked for myself in myself and did not find myself.
    Biography of Marie-Alphonse Ratisbonne
  170. Make a joke and I will sigh and you will laugh and I will cry.
    Black Sabbath, "Paranoid"
  171. Come on baby. (And she had no fear.) And she ran to him. (Then they started to fly.) They looked backward and said goodbye. (She had become like they are.) She had taken his hand.
    Blue Öyster Cult, "Don't Fear the Reaper"
  172. Just as you cannot do very much carpentry with your bare hands, there is not much thinking you can do with your bare brain.
    Bo Dahlbom
  173. The love the liveliest, the life the lovliest.
    Bob Crosby, "Way Back Home"
  174. How many years can a mountain exist before it is washed to the sea?
    Bob Dylan, "Blowin' in the Wind"
  175. One push of the button and a shot the world wide. / And you never ask questions when God's on your side
    Bob Dylan, "With God On Our Side"
  176. I don't believe in psychology. I believe in good moves.
    Bobby Fischer
  177. Always err on the side of what's awesome.
    Brandon Sanderson's Zeroth Law of Magic
  178. Not all bits have equal value.
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos
  179. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos
  180. Genies of death, patiently awaiting the rubbing of the lamps.
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos
  181. If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
    Carl Sagan, Cosmos
  182. From somewhere, a transmission...
    Cave Story
  183. I was so smart when I was a kid that I learnt that I was dumb fast.
    Charles Manson
  184. Look down at me and you see a fool; look up at me and you see a god; look straight at me and you see yourself.
    Charles Manson
  185. To the dumb question 'Why me?' the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: Why not?
    Christopher Hitchens, Mortality
  186. Aren't you supposed to follow the Three Laws?
    Ctrl+Alt+Del, Ethan
  187. Don't wipe my memory! I keep all the stuff I remember there!
    Ctrl+Alt+Del, Ethan
  188. It's a level eighty female-only persuasion spell. We try not to overuse it.
    Ctrl+Alt+Del, Lilah
  189. If you don't relax your face muscles, you're going to invert your entire skull.
    Ctrl+Alt+Del, Lucas
  190. I would rather understand one cause than be King of Persia.
    Democritus of Abdera
  191. Just because you are unique does not mean you are useful.
    deviantART, "Unique" by `krash
  192. Why don't you let the word 'machine' conjure up images of patterns of dancing light rather than of giant steam shovels?
    Douglas R. Hofstadter, A Coffeehouse Conversation on the Turing Test
  193. God is powered by irony.
  194. I have reservations about reconciling a quantum mechanics thought experiment with Egyptian mythology.
  195. I must decline your girlish advances, as your brain is filled with sawdust and lies.
  196. I am 87% confident you will burst into flames.
  197. Arousing from the most profound of slumbers, we break the gossamer web of some dream.
    Edgar Allan Poe, The Pit and the Pendulum
  198. Ignorance exists in the map, not in the territory.
    Eliezer Yudkowsky
  199. I like your tactics. They are similar to mine.
    Even Alander
  200. We don't like it when the city pigeons break wings. When the pigeons break wings, then we can't get down.
    Evil Nine - Crooked
  201. I'm the voice inside your head you refuse to hear. / I'm the face that you have to face, mirrorin' your stare.
    Foo Fighters - The Pretender
  202. So I'm watchin' and I'm waitin' / Hopin' for the best / Even think I'll go to prayin' / Every time I hear 'em sayin' / That there's no way to delay / That trouble comin' every day
    Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Trouble Every Day
  203. What will you do if the people you knew were the plastic that melted, and the chromium too?
    Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, Who Are The Brain Police
  204. *puckered lips* *head twitch*
    General Bullshit
  205. He's fine! The dreadlocks saved him!
    General Bullshit
  206. Holding a key, you may infer the existence of a lock. However, do not make the mistake of assuming that yours is the only key.
    General Bullshit
  207. If it is to close your eyes that you seek, to become deaf to the truth, to dismiss the obvious - then you have succeeded most thoroughly.
    General Bullshit
  208. If you don't move your own tounge, no one else will do it.
    General Bullshit
  209. There's a fine line between serenity and ennui.
    General Bullshit
  210. Wherever you wander, wherever you roam, be happy and healthy and glad to come home.
    General Bullshit
  211. Wikipedia is always there for you, like a reliable friend with a heroin stash.
    General Bullshit
  212. Your arm's only physical when you're thinking about it.
    General Bullshit
  213. There is no greater joy than soaring high on the wings of your dreams, except maybe the joy of watching a dreamer who has nowhere to land but in the ocean of reality.
    General Bullshit
  214. When the rubber meets the road, we're really cooking with gas.
    General Bullshit
  215. JBMJ OPEETOVS
    General Bullshit
  216. What is mind? No matter. What is matter? Never mind.
    George Berkeley
  217. You don't have to know to understand, if you come from a faraway star. If you feel like a stranger in a strange land, that's probably who you are.
    Gong - Escape Control Delete
  218. If you really wanna see inside your mind, / open every door you find.
    Gong - Pinkle Ponkle
  219. I'm a 57% pure Homer Simpson ninja.
    Google Current, Conor Knighton
  220. The wheel is turning and you can't slow down. / You can't let go and you can't hold on. / You can't go back and you can't stand still. / If the thunder don't get you then the lightnin' will.
    Grateful Dead - The Wheel
  221. In the Country of the Blind, the One-Eyed Man is King.
    H. G. Wells, The Country of the Blind
  222. The wind was the scream of a great mad bird, as it flapped its immense wings.
    Harlan Ellison, I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream
  223. We are brothers of the boulders, cousins of the clouds.
    Harlow Shapley
  224. Ah! You seen one Earth, you've seen them all.
    Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17
  225. Well, I haven't learned to pick up rocks, which is a very embarrassing thing for a geologist.
    Harrison Schmitt, Apollo 17
  226. The lulling drone of reassuring voices / Tunes to take away your choices / Make you slaves to fancy words and phrases / Until you're pushing up the daisies
    Hawkwind, "Coded Languages"
  227. Everyone is guilty, though not everyone is bad.
    Hawkwind, "Festivals"
  228. The fire's burned, the ashes spread / The lifted light hears all that's said / We are undead
    Hawkwind, "Virgin of the World"
  229. How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
    Henry David Thoreau
  230. If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden
  231. There are a thousand hacking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
    Henry David Thoreau, Walden
  232. Simplicity in operation—because the masses are not mechanics.
    Henry Ford, My Life and Work
  233. Our bullets to Batmans ratio is fucked.
    Hockey Zombie
  234. To fathom hell or soar angelic, just take a pinch of psychedelic.
    Humphrey Osmond, in reply by letter to Aldous Huxley
  235. Star X, spectral class G0, 4 planets plus debris.
    Isaac Asimov, View from a Height, By Jove!
  236. Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete.
    Isaac Asimov, The Relativity of Wrong
  237. INSUFFICIENT DATA FOR MEANINGFUL ANSWER
    Isaac Asimov, The Last Question
  238. Sometimes what we know gets in the way of what could be.
  239. Being prepared to receive what thought is not prepared to think is what deserves the name of thinking.
    Jean-François Lyotard
  240. Now I get it.
    John, Understanding Space and Time
  241. At least it's not polio.
    Jones Avenue
  242. The lawyers insisted.
    Jones Avenue
  243. A semaphore is like a nightclub: it has a certain capacity, enforced by a bouncer.
  244. The dead escape death in heaven, and the living escape life in dreams.
    Kabe, Look to Windward
  245. If you're going to walk on thin ice, you might as well dance.
    Karin Gillespie
  246. If you wish to study a granfalloon, just remove the skin of a toy balloon.
    Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
  247. Tiger got to hunt, Bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?" Tiger got to sleep, Bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
    Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
  248. We do, doodley do, doodley do, doodley do / what we must, muddily must, muddily must, muddily must. / Muddily do, muddily do, muddily do, muddily do / until we bust, bodily bust, bodily bust, bodily bust.
    Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle
  249. Ubi dubium, ibi libertas.
    Latin motto
  250. Astra inclinant, sed non obligant.
    Latin motto
  251. So the world is spinning faster. Are you dizzy when you're stoned? Let the music be your master. Will you heed the master's call?
    Led Zeppelin, Houses of the Holy
  252. Talk and song from tongues of lilting grace, whose sounds caress my ear. / But not a word I heard could I relate, the story was quite clear.
    Led Zeppelin, Kashmir
  253. Dear Lord, forgive me the sin of arrogance, and Lord, by arrogance I mean the following...
    Leon Lederman, The God Particle, The theoretician's prayer
  254. Damn you, quantum physics!
    Loading-Ready-Run, Graham Stark
  255. Not many people know, but after Vatican 2, Hell became kickass!
    Loading-Ready-Run, Graham Stark
  256. The world is a sensitive place. You need to use non-denominational festive salutations.
    Loading-Ready-Run, Graham Stark
  257. I'm a woman, and sometimes, that's hard!
    Loading-Ready-Run, Kathleen De Vere
  258. I'm sure with the proper training, a bear could probably hold its own in a firefight.
    Loading-Ready-Run, Kathleen De Vere
  259. Christmas in Hell is great. Instead of turkey, we have doom!
    Loading-Ready-Run, Paul Saunders
  260. One can see no farther into a generalization than just so far as one's previous acquaintance with particulars enables one to take it.
    Louis Agassiz
  261. Could you condemn a man if your faith he doesn't hold? / Say the colour of his skin is the colour of his soul?
    Manfred Mann Chapter Three - Mister You're A Better Man Than I
  262. Could you tell a wise man by the way he speaks or spells? / Is this more important than the stories that he tells?
    Manfred Mann Chapter Three - Mister You're A Better Man Than I
  263. I'm a clown without a circus. There's no one to see my act. / I can laugh and sing and stand on my head. Nobody knows where I'm at.
    Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Circles
  264. My frozen toes are beginning to melt, I believe I'm catching a cold. / Got oil on my feathers and I can't fly, I gotta get back to your love.
    Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Circles
  265. Man, man, your time is sand. Your ways are leaves upon the sea. / I am the eyes of Nostradamus; all your ways are known to me.
    Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Eyes of Nostradamus
  266. Just no place to run and hide. Time is right for quittin' time.
    Manfred Mann's Earth Band - Time Is Right
  267. Some people become so expert at reading between the lines they don't read the lines.
    Margaret Millar
  268. There is a river in the ocean.
    Matthew Fontaine Maury, Physical Geography of the Seas and Its Meteorology
  269. That's what windows and m4d ninja skillz are for.
    MegaTokyo, Largo
  270. Laughter may be the best medicine, but it's no substitute for the Heimlich maneuver.
    Mighty Wombat
  271. I'm so metal I piss mercury.
    MildlyHotPeppers
  272. Weaving Spiders Come Not Here
    Motto of the Bohemian Grove, taken from Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream
  273. Nullius in verba.
    Motto of the Royal Society (Latin: "Take nobody's word for it.")
  274. Science Finds, Industry Applies, Man Conforms
    Motto of the World's Fair in 1933
  275. Ec a u7lqć ližć
    My son's "first words".
  276. The doors of heaven and hell are adjacent and identical.
    Nikos Kazantzakis, The Last Temptation of Christ
  277. Leave your armor behind. / Free your vulnerable mind.
    Oceanlab - I Am What I Am
  278. You've got your own homegrown philosophy. / It works for you, but please don't try to make it work for me.
    Oceanlab - I Am What I Am
  279. They don't think it be like it is, but it do.
    Oscar Gamble
  280. What did the tree learn from the earth to be able to talk with the sky?
    Pablo Neruda
  281. Another roof, another proof.
    Paul Erdős
  282. I've finally stopped getting dumber.
    Paul Erdős, epitaph
  283. Good runners still get tired; they just get tired at higher speeds.
    Paul Graham, Is It Worth Being Wise?
  284. Is this bass really strong enough?
    Pendulum - Slam
  285. If an advisor says to me 'My liege, he is but one man. What can one man possibly do?', I will reply 'This.' and kill the advisor.
    Peter Anspach, Evil Overlord List
  286. My force-field generators will be located inside the shield they generate.
    Peter Anspach, Evil Overlord List
  287. The explanation of a lesser entity in terms of a greater one is a perversion of what it means to explain.
    Peter Atkins, Awesome Versus Adipose
  288. The Internet is filled with people trying to make a name for themselves by breaking your code, crashing your site, posting inappropriate content, and otherwise making your day interesting.
  289. Every sentence deserves a good save.
    Piled Higher and Deeper, Cecilia
  290. The radiation from your monitor will not replenish you, no matter how long you sit in front of it.
    Piled Higher and Deeper, Mike Slackenerny
  291. File! Exit! Format C! Enter! Yes! Enter!
    Player vs Player, Cole Richards
  292. Written laws are like spiders' webs; they will catch, it is true, the weak and poor, but would be torn in pieces by the rich and powerful.
    Plutarch Parallel Lives ‘Solon’ bk. 5, sect. 2
  293. The bell that rings inside your mind / is challenging the doors of time.
    Queen - A Kind Of Magic
  294. Apparently knowing someone's name doesn't make it easier to set them on fire with your mind.
    Questionable Content, Faye
  295. There are no save points when it comes to ladies, honey.
    Questionable Content, Faye
  296. You try being funny when your life is flashing before your eyes!
    Questionable Content, Marten Reed
  297. That is what a 404 error feels like.
    Questionable Content, Pintsize
  298. Does the outer space into which we dissolve / taste of us at all?
    Rainer Maria Rilke, "Second Elegy"
  299. A million people can call the mountains a fiction, yet it need not trouble you as you stand atop them.
    Randall Munroe, xkcd, Beliefs (154)
  300. Sup dawg, I herd u didn't liek forming babby, but I accidentally in your base.
    Randall Munroe, xkcd, Density (550)
  301. Some nights typing '*hug*' just doesn't cut it.
    Randall Munroe, xkcd, Far Away (352)
  302. Things are rarely just crazy enough to work, but they're frequently just crazy enough to fail hilariously.
    Randall Munroe, xkcd, The Race: Part 4 (580)
  303. Communicating badly and then acting smug when you're misunderstood is not cleverness.
    Randall Munroe, xkcd, Words that End in GRY (169)
  304. Do not meddle in the affairs of webmasters, for they are subtle and quick to anger.
    Real Life, Greg Dean
  305. I may be full of crap, but it's superior crap.
    Real Life, Tony
  306. My curiosity and patience just ran out simultaneously. Have fun.
    Real Life, Tony
  307. It will be happened, it shall be going to be happening, it will be was an event that could will have been taken place in the future.
    Red Dwarf, "Future Echoes", Arnold Rimmer
  308. The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest men of past centuries.
    René Descartes
  309. I am going to a commune in Vermont and will deal with no unit of time shorter than a season.
    Resignation note.
  310. Words are our servants, not our masters.
    Richard Dawkins, The Blind Watchmaker
  311. There is no obvious limit to human gullibility.
    Richard Dawkins, The Devil's Chaplain
  312. We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.
    Richard Dawkins, Unweaving the Rainbow
  313. Physics is to math what sex is to masturbation.
    Richard Feynman
  314. Conquer thyself, till thou hast done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.
    Richard Francis Burton
  315. Do what thy manhood bids thee do, from none but self expect applause.
    Richard Francis Burton
  316. How shall the Shown pretend to ken aught of the Showman or the Show?
    Richard Francis Burton
  317. The heavens above do not equal one half of me. Have I been drinking soma?
    Rig Veda
  318. Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination.
    Rob Pike, "Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant"
  319. Every pulpit is a pillory, in which stands a hired culprit, defending the justice of his own imprisonment.
    Robert Green Ingersoll, Individuality
  320. Here's insanity. Here's genius. You're somewhere.
    Robert Herjavec, Shark Tank
  321. Noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle.
    Robert Recorde, inventor of the equals (=) sign
  322. Though my soul may set in darkness, it will rise in perfect light. I have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.
    Sarah Williams, "The Old Astronomer"
  323. Beyond yonder oak is a lady...
    Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (1290)
  324. You have bad case of the suffering. Yes. I recommend happiness.
    Sinfest, God
  325. Loserdom is a bottomless pit of infinite lameness.
    Sinfest, Slick
  326. Whoever invented boredom must've been mad at life for being so amazing.
    Sinfest, Squigley
  327. The soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
    Spoken by Visquile quoting a Sysan saying, Look to Windward
  328. Douglas Adams thinks space is big; maybe he should have used Asimov's bibliography as an analogy.
    Talk Origins' jargon file
  329. My life isn't my message, my message is my message.
    Terence McKenna
  330. Take it easy, dude. But, take it!
    Terence McKenna
  331. I'd rather be a climbing ape than a falling angel.
    Terry Pratchett
  332. Calling all. This is our last cry before our eternal silence.
    The last message sent in Morse by the French.
  333. Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
    Thomas Gray, "Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College"
  334. I just had to take the hypertext idea and connect it to the TCP and DNS ideas and—ta-da!—the World Wide Web.
    Tim Berners-Lee
  335. You don't need oxygen when you look this good!
    VG Cats
  336. Eternity is in love with the productions of time.
    William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
  337. Excess of sorrow laughs. Excess of joy weeps.
    William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
  338. Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not be believ'd.
    William Blake, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
  339. Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure: Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.
    William Congreve, The Old Bachelor
  340. Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today. Oh, how I wish he'd go away.
  341. You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
    Winston Churchill
  342. Éí 'Aaníígóó 'Áhoot'é
    X-Files, S02E25, Anasazi, opening tag line (Navajo for "The Truth is Out There")
  343. In the desert, things find a way to survive. Secrets are like this, too. They push their way up through the sands of deception, so men can know them.
    X-Files, S02E25, Anasazi, spoken by Albert Hosteen
  344. The system will not keep records of who sends for what; otherwise reading becomes a political act.
  345. Existence is meaningless, but it doesn't have to be tasteless. Drink Coca-Cola.
    YouTube video
  346. The Universe is notorious for not giving a shit what people think.
    YouTube video
  347. 09 F9 11 02 9D 74 E3 5B D8 41 56 C5 63 56 88 C0
    AACS encryption key