Gene Spafford on Technology

May 8th, 2007

Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea - massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.

- Gene Spafford

Jeane J. Kirkpatrick on Politics

May 8th, 2007

I was a woman in a man’s world. I was a Democrat in a Republican administration. I was an intellectual in a world of bureaucrats. I talked differently. This may have made me a bit like an ink blot.

- Jeane J. Kirkpatrick

M. C. Escher on Art

May 7th, 2007

Are you really sure that a floor can’t also be a ceiling?

- M. C. Escher

Andy Warhol on Politics

May 7th, 2007

I met someone on the street who said wasn’t it great that we’re going to have a movie star for president, that it was so Pop, and (laughs) when you think about it like that, it is great, it’s so American.

- Andy Warhol

Bill Watterson on Dreams & Dreaming

May 6th, 2007

I think we dream so we don’t have to be apart so long. If we’re in each other’s dreams, we can play together all night.

- Bill Watterson

George Bernard Shaw on Sports

May 6th, 2007

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

- George Bernard Shaw

Edward W. Howe on Friendship

May 5th, 2007

When a friend is in trouble, don’t annoy him by asking if there is anything you can do. Think up something appropriate and do it.

- Edward W. Howe

John A. Simone, Sr. on Change

May 4th, 2007

If you’re in a bad situation, don’t worry it’ll change. If you’re in a good situation, don’t worry it’ll change.

- John A. Simone, Sr.

Arthur C. Clarke on Science

May 4th, 2007

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

- Arthur C. Clarke

Zora Neale Hurston on Love

May 3rd, 2007

Love makes your soul crawl out from its hiding place.

- Zora Neale Hurston