149 | Adam Quinn | | When you're fairly apathetic you can solve almost any problem. |
148 | Naldo Montoya | | Barry... a riot's just a party you didn't know you were throwing. |
147 | Roxette | | Tasty like a raindrop... |
146 | Dr. Carol Marcus | | Let me show you something that will make you feel young, as when the world was new. |
145 | James T. Kirk | | Young... I feel young. |
144 | Buck George | BUCK | A nice, pithy tagline should go here, but I think it will be a random quote of mine. |
143 | Van Halen | PHOTO | While she watches I can never be free—such good photography! |
142 | Anonymous | | Procrastinators make the world go 'round... eventually. |
141 | Buck George | BUCK | You can't expect too much out of a Monday |
140 | René Magritte | PHOTO | Ceci n'est pas une pipe. |
139 | Isabelle [from <i>Hugo</i> (2011), played by Chloe Grace Moretz] | PHILO | This might be an adventure... and I never had one before. |
138 | Alice Eve | | "Like" is a helpful word. It vocalizes the comma. |
137 | Maggie (r.e. Water Droplet Man, 1/9/17) | POET | He looks like dirty water on a blank place at the end of time. |
136 | Buck George | BUCK | Being a programmer is a lot like being a janitor. Somebody is always coming along and pissing on your work. |
135 | Leonard Cohen | POET | "Poetry" is the verdict that others give to a certain kind of writing. |
134 | Tom Sachs | PHOTO | Creativity is the enemy. |
133 | A.J. Todd | PHILO | The real story is in the margins. |
132 | Emily Dickinson (last words) | POET | I must go in. The fog is rising. |
131 | David Hockney (from Visiting with Huell Howser, KCET) | PHOTO | You always need a bit of low-tech.You always need a pair of scissors, it seems to me. You can do better things.... The high-tech, somehow, you do have to combine it with low-tech things. |
130 | ancient Buckzen proverb | BUCK | One must learn to find his own silence amongst the noise. |
129 | Buck George | BUCK | People try to live their lives without consequences and end up living lives of no consequence. |
128 | Thomas Merton | PHOTO | Each particular being, in its individuality, its concrete nature and entity, with all its own characteristics and its private qualities and its own inviolable identity, gives glory to God by being precisely what He wants it to be here and now, in the circumstances ordained for it by His Love and His infinite Art. |
127 | Brian Eno (Oblique Strategies) | PHILO | The most important thing is the thing most easily forgotten. |
126 | Thomas Merton | PHOTO | There is not a flower that opens, not a seed that falls into the ground, and not an ear of wheat that nods on the end of its stalk in the wind that does not preach and proclaim the greatness and the mercy of God to the whole world. |
125 | Holden Caulfield | NULL | I'm quite illiterate, but I read a lot. |
124 | Leonardo da Vinci | PHOTO | Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art. |
123 | Albert Camus | PHILO | Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk beside me and be my friend. |
122 | Vincent van Gogh | PHOTO | If you hear a voice within you say, "you cannot paint," then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. |
121 | Pablo Picasso | PHOTO | Inspiration exists, but it must find you working. |
120 | Plato | PHILO | We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. |
119 | Dorothea Lange | PHOTO | The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. |
118 | A.J. Todd | PHILO | The acceptance of imperfection is a grace. |
117 | Noam Chomsky | POET | Colorless green ideas sleep furiously. |
116 | Victor Wooten | MUSIC | Lessons are good but there's a lot inside of us that can be pulled out. |
115 | David Berlinski | PHILO | No man is obliged to be what he might have been. |
114 | IBM | CSCI | Other product and service names might be trademarks of IBM or other companies. |
113 | Sylvia Plath | POET | The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt. |
112 | Jack Hamm | PHOTO | The artist is the creator and what is seen is simply raw material... The optical is always optional. |
111 | Noam Chomsky | PHILO | Education is a system of imposed ignorance. |
110 | Leonard Cohen | POET | better than poetry / is my poetry / which refers / to everything / that is beautiful and / dignified, but is / neither of these itself |
109 | Leonard Cohen | POET | There is a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in. |
108 | Robert Frank | PHOTO | Black and white are the true colors of photography. They symbolize the hope and despair to which mankind is forever subject. |
107 | The Wallflowers | MUSIC | I can't get the girl with the Spanish tears out of my mind. |
106 | Leonard Cohen | PHILO | It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosophies and the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through. |
105 | Maggie | NULL | Daddy, the next time you have a surprise, get a doll. A princess doll. |
104 | Harry Callahan | PHOTO | The mystery isn't in the technique, it's in each of us. |
103 | Walker Evans | PHOTO | Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. |
102 | Brassai | PHOTO | The purpose of art is to raise people to a higher level of awareness than they would otherwise attain on their own. |
101 | Bob Dylan | PHILO | You say you lost your faith, but that's not where it's at. You had no faith to lose and you know it. |
100 | Steven Soderbergh | NULL | It's become absolutely horrible the way the people with the money decide they can fart in the kitchen. |
99 | Jackson Browne | | What you see revealed within the anger is worth the pain. |
98 | Tony L. Corbell | PHOTO | Everyone needs to work to create their own voice... but please use good grammar. |
97 | Joe McNally | NULL | Seems [Google] management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch. |
96 | St. Augustine | CSCI | The good Christian should beware of mathematicians, and all those who make empty prophecies. The danger already exists that the mathematicians have made a covenant with the devil to darken the spirit and to confine man in the bonds of Hell. |
95 | Victor Wooten | MUSIC | You are never more than a half-step away from a right note. |
94 | Carlos Santana | MUSIC | If you're afraid of your feelings then you shouldn't be a musician. How do you find your own voice? Learn to get out of your own way. |
93 | Eric Clapton | MUSIC | I'm an egomaniac with an inferiority complex. |
92 | Rich Mullins | PHILO | Psycho-babble is that language spoken by sailors who have become so interested in navigating their way around their boat that they have forgotten to read the stars and sea. They may be able to get from the galley to the head but will be lost in their journey from point to port. |
91 | Anonymous | NULL | It should be dark by nightfall. |
90 | Buck George | BUCK | The other pastures are greener because more cows have been crapping on them. |
89 | Buck George | BUCK | You can get to everywhere from almost anywhere. |
88 | Buck George | BUCK | Make every Daily Double a true Daily Double, and live every day as if it's Final Jeopardy. |
87 | Jack's boss | PHOTO | Can I get the icon in cornflower blue? |
86 | Jack | PHILO | This is your life, and it's ending one minute at a time. |
85 | Buck George | BUCK | I have two kids in diapers and a cat whose litter box I clean out. I deal with an awful lot of crap. |
84 | Buck George | BUCK | I love a good non sequitur. |
83 | St. Francis de Sales | PHILO | Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset. |
82 | Anonymous | CSCI | Declare variables, not war. |
81 | Scott Black | NULL | You know, the Germans spoke Nazi. |
80 | Henry David Thoreau | PHILO | The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. |
79 | German proverb | PHILO | So fängt es immer an. [It always begins this way.] |
78 | Buck George | BUCK | Statistics don't lie. It's the people who make up the statistics that lie. |
77 | G.K. Chesterton | PHILO | It is absurd for the Evolutionist to complain that it is unthinkable for an admittedly unthinkable God to make everything out of nothing, and then pretend that it is more thinkable that nothing should turn itself into everything. |
76 | G.K. Chesterton | PHILO | The madman is not the man who has lost his reason. The madman is the man who has lost everything except his reason. |
75 | George Orwell, 1984 | PHILO | Being in a minority, even a minority of one, did not make you mad. There was truth and there was untruth, and if you clung to the truth even against the whole world, you were not mad. |
74 | G.K. Chesterton | PHILO | The aim in opening one's mind, is the same as in opening one's mouth—to shut it again on something both solid and nourishing. |
73 | Fr. Dwight Longenecker | PHILO | Like the dog who barks at the train, I bark not because I expect the train to stop, but because I am a dog. |
72 | Buck George | BUCK | There are no dumb questions, but there are plenty of people who give dumb answers. |
71 | Matt Cuda | NULL | Daughters are fun and they don't pee in your face when you change them. |
70 | anonymous | NULL | Life is like a jar of jalapeños. What you do today might burn your ass tomorrow. |
69 | Jeff Kinard | NULL | Cats don't have masters, they have staff. |
68 | Buck George | BUCK | Woodstock's over. It's okay to go home and wash off the mud. |
67 | Angie | NULL | I just wanted to share some space with you. |
66 | Jann Arden | MUSIC | Every voice inside my head is telling me to run like mad! |
65 | Kernighan and Plauger, The Elements of Programming Style | CSCI | Don't patch bad code—rewrite it. |
64 | Michael Kennedy, professor of History, High Point University | NULL | There is no way in hell that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. |
63 | James Herriot | NULL | No animal is a better judge of comfort than a cat.... |
62 | Albert Einstein | NULL | I have no special talents, I am only passionately curious. |
61 | Buck George, I think (this sounds too good to be me) | BUCK | Man's worst enemies are boredom and discontent. |
60 | Johnny Cash | NULL | You know, the man's best friend is his dog... if he's got nothing else. |
59 | bumper sticker | NULL | Visualize whirlled peas. |
58 | Jim Rockford | PHILO | This is Jim Rockford. At the tone, leave your name and message. I'll get back to you. |
57 | Buck George | BUCK | The universe is a really interesting place. I couldn't live anywhere else. |
56 | Isaac Newton | PHILO | I do not know what I appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on a seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay undiscovered before me. |
55 | Mark Twain | NULL | First get your facts; and then you can distort them at your leisure. |
54 | Bertie Wooster | NULL | You can't be a successful dictator and design women's underclothing. |
53 | Roderick Spode | NULL | Nothing stands between us and our victory except defeat! |
52 | ELO | CSCI | I met someone who looks a lot like you. She does the things you do. But she is an IBM.... She tells me that she likes me very much but when I try to touch, she makes it all too clear.... Maybe one day I'll feel her cold embrace, and kiss her interface. Till then, I'll leave her alone. |
51 | Butch Cassidy (as played by Paul Newman) | PHILO | I've got vision and the rest of the world wears bifocals. |
50 | Paul Simon | MUSIC | You read your Emily Dickinson, and I my Robert Frost. And we note our place with bookmarkers that measure what we've lost. |
49 | General Chuck Yeager | NULL | Unfortunately, many people do not consider fun an important item on their daily agenda. For me, that was always high priority in whatever I was doing.... If I auger in tomorrow, it won't be with a frown on my face. I've had a ball. |
48 | The Who | MUSIC | I asked Bobby Dylan, I asked the Beatles. I asked Timothy Leary but he couldn't help me either. They call me the seeker. |
47 | Ben Shelander, flight instructor | NULL | Let's head toward those clouds over there. |
46 | Werner Heisenberg | NULL | The more precisely the position is determined, the less precisely the momentum is known in this instant, and vice versa. |
45 | Paul Simon | MUSIC | The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenement halls, and whispered in the sounds of silence. |
44 | Green Day | MUSIC | Sometimes I give myself the creeps. |
43 | Green Day | MUSIC | I read the graffitti in the bathroom stall like the holy scriptures of a shopping mall.... It didn't say much but it only confirmed that the center of the earth is the end of the world. |
42 | Green Day | MUSIC | I beg to dream and differ from the hollow lies. |
41 | Ernest T. Bass | NULL | I talks through my nose so'st I can talk whilst I eat. |
40 | Homer Simpson, improvising lyrics to Chumbawumba's "Tubthumper" | MUSIC | I drink a whiskey drink, I drink a chocolate drink. And when I have to pee, I use the kitchen sink. |
39 | Harvey Danger | MUSIC | Hear the voices in my head, I swear to God it sounds like they're snoring! |
38 | Albert Einstein | NULL | It is important for the common good to foster individuality: for only the individual can produce the new ideas which the community needs for its continuous improvement and requirements—indeed, to avoid sterility and petrification. |
37 | Chuck Yeager (as played by Sam Shepard) | NULL | Sometimes you get a pooch that can't be screwed. |
36 | Bob Cecil (13013) | NULL | Be sincere whether you mean it or not. |
35 | Bob Cecil (13013) | NULL | Fanaticism is redoubling your efforts when you've lost sight of your goals. |
34 | R. Andrew Mitchum, Ph.D. | PHILO | Don't think of prayer as an obligation, think of it as opportunity. |
33 | William Shakespeare, on computer programming (Macbeth, Act I, scene vii) | CSCI | Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor. |
32 | Hercule Poirot | NULL | The impossible cannot have happened, therefore the impossible must be possible in spite of appearance. |
31 | Kilgore Trout's father | NULL | My boy, you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles—champions every one. |
30 | Kilgore Trout | NULL | Ting-a-ling! Ting-a-ling! |
29 | Charles de Mar | NULL | I have been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy. |
28 | Charles de Mar (on skiing) | NULL | Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn. |
27 | Charles de Mar | NULL | This is pure snow! Do you have any idea what the street value of this mountain is? |
26 | Buck George | BUCK | We'll burn that bridge when we come to it. |
25 | Albert Einstein | PHILO | The important thing is to not stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. |
24 | Albert Einstein | PHILO | Few are those who see with their own eyes and feel with their own hearts. |
23 | Albert Einstein | PHILO | It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. |
22 | Douglas Adams | NULL | A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely fool proof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. |
21 | Sarah McLachlan | MUSIC | What is it in me that refuses to believe this isn't easier than the real thing? |
20 | Dianne Chambers | NULL | Thoughts can't cross your mind, Sam. The bridge is out! |
19 | Toto | MUSIC | I seek to cure what's deep inside, frightened of this thing that I've become. |
18 | Charlie Brown | NULL | Don't you know a sarcasm when you hear it? |
17 | Lucy van Pelt | NULL | Of all the Charlie Browns in the world, you're the Charlie-Browniest. |
16 | front of a T-shirt | NULL | I left the house for this!? |
15 | front of a T-Shirt | CSCI | There are only 10 types of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't. |
14 | Buck George | BUCK | When you don't know where you're at, you don't get upset you're not somewhere else. |
13 | Steve Wozniak | CSCI | Never trust a computer you can't throw out the window. |
12 | Albert Einstein | NULL | Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. |
11 | Albert Einstein | NULL | E=mc2 |
10 | Kurt Vonnegut (Jr.) | NULL | The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of the zipper on the fly of God Almighty. |
9 | Cook Out marquee | NULL | Meticulously prepared chargrilled chicken oreo shakes. |
8 | Mark Twain | NULL | Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of 80 and gradually approach 18. |
7 | Yogi Berra | NULL | Before you build a better mousetrap, it helps to know if there are any mice out there. |
6 | Woody Allen | NULL | It's not that I'm afraid to die, I just don't want to be there when it happens. |
5 | Groucho Marx | NULL | Before I speak, I have something important to say. |
4 | Chinese fortune cookie | NULL | Do not follow the instructions of this fortune. |
3 | Paul Simon | PHOTO | Long ago it must be, I have a photograph. |
2 | Jack Hamm | PHOTO | What in life is more important than people? Take people away and there's not much left. Take people out of art and art becomes lonesome. |
1 | Bob Krist | PHOTO | Carrying a camera on vacation pretty much guarantees you won't see anything worth shooting. |