post a random quote

[Nicole Lambeth]

Any source, please just cite properly. See how many people you can out-nerd.

"God does not play dice with the universe; He plays an ineffable game of his own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players, to being involved in an obscure and complex version of poker in a pitch dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time."

Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman, "Good Omens"


*edited for improper author citation. Thanks, Kama.*

[Spacemom]

1. Lazarus Long

"This sad little lizard told me that he was a brontosaurus on his mother's side. I did not laugh; people who boast of ancestry often have little else to sustain them. Humoring them costs nothing and adds happiness in a world in which happiness is always in short supply."

Lazarus Long/Robert Heinlein

[Dr. Strange]

25. Solomon Short

Don't push the on-button if you don't know where the off-button is.

[Forkboy]

2. ...

"We will go out into the world and plant gardens and orchards to the horizons, we will build roads through the mountains and across the deserts, and terrace the mountains and irrigate the deserts until there will be garden everywhere, and plenty for all, and there will be no more empires or kingdoms, no more caliphs, sultans, emirs, khans, or zamindars, no more kings or queens or princes, no more quadis or mullahs or ulema, no more slavery and no more usury, no more property and no more taxes, no more rich and no more poor, no killing or maiming or torture or execution, no more jailers and no more prisoners, no more generals, soldiers, armies or navies, no more patriarchy, no more caste, no more hunger, no more suffering than what life brings us for being born and having to die, and then we will see for the first time what kind of creatures we really are."

— Kim Stanley Robinson (The Years of Rice and Salt)

[Ohio Joe]

3. "Einstein would turn over in his grave.

Not only does God play dice, the dice are loaded."

Chairman Sheng-Ji Yang - Alpha Centuari

[Sky Masterson]

4. okies

"I have often thought that in the hereafter of our lives, when I owe no more to the future and can be just a man, that we may meet, and you will come to me and claim me as yours, and know that I am your husband. It is a dream I have" King Arthur..Excalibur
:)

[HopeHoops]

5. "The sands of time were eroded by the river of constant change."

Genesis, "The Firth of Fifth".

[SKKY]

6. The only way to get rid of a temptation...

...is to yield to it. Oscar Wilde.

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

7. The dude

Maude: What do you do for fun?
Dude: Oh, you know, the usual. Bowl. Drive around. The occasional acid flashback.

:smoke:

[KamaAina]

8. FAIL.

The transcendent "Good Omens" was a joint work between Pratchett and Neil Gaiman. :P

[Nicole Lambeth]

10. I stand corrected!

And I should have known better, being huge fans of both authors. :blush:

[KamaAina]

12. I may have been a little hasty to jump down the throat

of one who clearly appreciates good literature.

I do so enjoy out-nerding people, though. :P

Sorry...

[Nicole Lambeth]

19. nah - you be fine...

And you win this round of the nerd-off, too. Next time, Kama, NEXT TIME!!!

[Inchworm]

9. "Animal Control protects people from animals

The Humane Society protects animals from people"

No idea where I read it and can't find it, but it is one of my favorites.

:hi:

[PaddyBlueEyes]

11. This is a good one

"Is Milwaukee near a lake or something....There are an awful lot of sailors around"

MccTaTas circa 1989....

[mcctatas]

13. DTM!!!

bull milker!

[pokerfan]

14. several

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.
--Alfred Korzybski

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

--Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)




Faint heart never won fair lady

-- English proverb (16th century)




The Constitution is not an instrument for the government to restrain the people, it is an instrument for the people to restrain the government — lest it come to dominate our lives and interests.
-- Patrick Henry

My goal is simple. It is a complete understanding of the universe, why it is as it is and why it exists at all.
-- Stephen Hawking

[Nicole Lambeth]

21. wow -

you squeezed in quotes from Bertrand Russell and Stephen Hawking? I think we may have found the King of the Nerds, folks. B-)

[pokerfan]

29. Pretty much

Collecting quotes is a geek hobby of mine.

"If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants."
-- Sir Isaac Newton

"If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders."
-- Hal Abelson

"In computer science, we stand on each other's feet."
-- Brian K. Reid

[SalmonChantedEvening]

15. Semi-random ok?

I went for a favorite Pratchett quote. :)

The duke had a mind that ticked like a clock and, like a clock, it regularly went cuckoo. -- Wyrd Sisters

[mcctatas]

16. some of my favorite from Christopher Moore

"Nobody's perfect. Well, there was this one guy, but we killed him....""
— Christopher Moore (Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal)

"Blessed are the dumbfucks."
— Christopher Moore (Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal)

"The Emperor decided to make a proclamation to his troops about the importance of compassion in the face of the rising tide of heinous fuckery and political weaselocity in the nearby kingdom of the United States."
— Christopher Moore (A Dirty Job)

"This is a bawdy tale. Herein you will find gratuitous shagging, murder, spanking, maiming, treason, and heretofore unexplored heights of vulgarity and profanity, as well as non-traditional gramar, split infinitives, and the odd wank."
— Christopher Moore (Fool: A Novel)

[Nicole Lambeth]

20. I think I found some new favorites.

"Blessed are the dumbfucks." Genius! :rofl:

[Doc_Technical]

17. Procrastination

fools you into thinking you succeed merely by not failing.

[dana_b]

18. "We figured that since they weren't busy serving and protecting the community,

which our tax dollars pay for, then they should at least be well fed. So we sent them 300 Krispy Kreme donuts."

- Tom Morello (guitarist for Rage Against the Machine), on the 300 off-duty police officers that protested their show in Worcester, MA on November 30, 1999.

[Skittles]

22. OK

The heaviest object in the world is the
body of the woman you have ceased to love.
-- Marquis de Lac de Clapiers Vauvenargues

[UrbScotty]

23. "I want to change the world, not help people adjust to it."

Millie Jeffrey, Michigan Progressive Activist

[AllenVanAllen]

24. old wisdom

“Fear is the path to the dark side.
Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate.
Hate leads to suffering.”



- Master Yoda

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

26. Star Trek episode "The Trouble with Tribbles"

Generic Asshole Bureaucrat: "Captain Kirk, I consider your security measures a disgrace! In my opinion, you have taken this entire very important project far too lightly."
Kirk: "On the contrary, sir, I think of this project as very important. It is you I take lightly."

[Bertha Venation]

27. Reality is something you rise above. -- Liza Minelli

[Justyce]

28. "Wish in one hand, shit in the other, and see which one fills up first." --Unknown.

;)

[kentauros]

30. Eddie Izzard

From WikiQuote:

On Pavlov's cats
Day One: Rang bell, cat fucked off. (Oh dear)
Day Two: Rang bell, cat went and answered door.
Day Three: Rang bell, cat said he had eaten earlier. (cheeky bugger)
Day Four: Went to ring bell, but cat had stolen batteries.
Final Day, Day Five: Went and rang bell with new batteries, but cat put his paw on bell so it only made a thunk noise. Then cat rang his own bell.
I ate food.


She said, "Spell 'ant'", and I wrote out the entire alphabet. She said, "That doesn't spell 'ant'", and I said, "It's in there somewhere! There's the 'A', there's the 'N', there's the 'T' – the rest are silent!"

On Star Trek
Then they'd beam down to an oval of gravel with 6 big rocks in the back … every week. "Oh Captain, strong déjà-vu here."