Archives for “Quotes”
“Because this is the Internet, every argument was spun in a centrifuge instantly and reduced down into two wholly enraged, radically incompatible contingents, as opposed to the natural gradient which human beings actually occupy.” – Tycho from Penny Arcade
“I am fascinated,” I insisted, “That’s the problem. I am suffering from fascination burnout. Of all the things that are fascinating, I have to choose just one or two.” – Neal Stephenson, Anathem
“This has been a long and difficult shoot, fraught by many problems. But the one thing that kept me going, through it all, was the certain knowledge that one day I would drive out the gate of Pinewood and never come back, and that you sorry bastards would still be here.” – James Cameron, on [...]
“I’m not going to voice an opinion, but they’re completely wrong.” – Don Dougherty
Zoe: Mama have some tea. Annie: Thank you! What kind is it? Zoe: Ice cream and chocolate!
“Therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things. Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy. Stop acting like you have a set path, because you don’t. No one does. You shouldn’t be trying to check off the boxes of life; they aren’t real and they were [...]
“Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.” – Pablo Picasso
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.” – Niels Bohr
“If you are not hungry enough to eat an apple, then you are not hungry.” – Emma Fogt, Food Rules: Your Dietary Dos and Don’ts
“Here’s what’s actually happening. The US is the only major industrialised country that does not provide regular healthcare to all its citizens. Instead, they are required to provide for themselves – and 50 million people can’t afford the insurance. As a result, 18,000 US citizens die every year needlessly, because they can’t access the care [...]
“A little library, growing larger every year, is an honourable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries of life.” – Henry Ward Beecher
my appearance on Kevin Smith’s list of the five coolest people I’ve met at the San Diego Comic-Con put me in mind of the time I encountered Kevin Smith. It was round the back of the San Diego Convention Centre, near the loading bay. I was on my way to a panel when a gentleman [...]
There was a brand-new second lieutenant who was very ambitious and wanted to be a general. So one night at the officer’s club the young officer spotted this old general sitting at the bar. So he went up and said, “How do I become a general?” And the old general answered, “Son, you’ve got to [...]
“I suppose we could say that the two games are equally fun, and that there’s room in this world for both, but FUCK THAT. History needs to know which is best, so I’m going to award victory who whichever game’s developer sends me the best picture of the other game’s main character wearing a woman’s [...]
“I don’t care how good you are at programming, finding bugs, whatever. If you’re rude, or if you speak poorly to people who don’t understand your… quirks… you will wind up being shunted to the side. No one wants to work with someone who makes them feel beat down all the time, or someone who [...]
“If Obama was serious about change he would stop saying ‘God bless America’ and instead end every speech with ‘The Spice must flow.’” – Matthew Baldwin
“If you want to know why the rest of the world is scared of Americans, consider the fact that after two terms of disastrous rule by a small-minded ignoramus, 46% of us apparently thought the problem was that he wasn’t quite stupid enough. Palin’s unending emissions of baffling, evasive incoherence should have disqualified her for [...]
Annie: “Ooh, a Sassy Single Moms Group! We should send Sean!” Sean: “I get enough sass from you.”
“I don’t know what the guy said, but I saw his sole.” – President Bush, referring to an Iraqi reporter who threw shoes at him.
“When you read the book, it’s like, ‘Edward Cullen was so beautiful I creamed myself.’ I mean, every line is like that. He’s the most ridiculous person who’s so amazing at everything. I think a lot of actors tried to play that aspect. I just couldn’t do that. And the more I read the script, [...]
”In my movie, Superman doesn’t care about humanity, Batman can’t get it up, and the bad guy wants world peace.” – Zack Snyder, discussing his adaptation of Watchmen
“The absolute worst thing in Matrix III was when Keanu gets to the virtual office of the Big Computer Mind, and he meets, like, a tweedy professor with a white beard. Ugh! At the very least it should have been a fat hacker in a T-shirt, preferably high on pineal extract.” – Rudy Rucker
You all know this story. In the summer of 1950, Enrico Fermi, the Italian-American physicist and atomic pile-builder, went to lunch at Los Alamos National Laboratory and joined some colleagues there and asked them a question. “Where is everybody?” This confused his colleagues, obviously, because they were sitting right there with him, and then he [...]
“I’m also troubled by, not what Senator McCain says, but what members of the party say. And it is permitted to be said such things as, ‘Well, you know that Mr. Obama is a Muslim.’ Well, the correct answer is, he is not a Muslim, he’s a Christian. He’s always been a Christian. But the [...]
