"O, let no native Londoner imagine that health, and rest, and innocent occupation, interchange of converse sweet and recreative study, can make the country anything better than altogether odious and detestable."
- Charles Lamb, in a letter to Wordsworth, ca. 1830

"There's a seeker born every minute."
- Firesign Theatre

"His intellect was of the shallowest order. It did not reach to a saw or a proverb. His mind was in its original state of white paper. A sucking babe might have posed him."
- Charles Lamb, The South-Sea House, London Magazine, August, 1820

I may be hungry but I sure ain't weird.
- Don Van Vliet aka Captain Beefheart

When playing Russian roulette the fact that the first shot got off safely is little comfort for the next.
- R. Feynman

"I predict that by 2010, 100% of network traffic will be packetized. None of it will be voice because we will be too mad at each other from sending flame e-mails."
- Vint Cerf, 1997

"As the percentage of women in the workforce has increased, the percentage of men in the workforce has actually decreased"
- CNN 7/11/94

"Sound can act as a painkiller. To date we do not have music sufficiently powerful to act as a practical weapon."
- William S. Burroughs

"Tradition is the illusion of permanence"
- Woody Allen

"Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction."
- Pascal

"No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up."
- Lily Tomlin

Do not empower your management to think that they have a choice
- R. Boyle

"Women now have choices. They can be married, not married, have a job, not have a job, be married with children, unmarried with children. Men have the same choice we've always had: work, or prison."
- Tim Allen

"There is no God, and Dirac is his prophet."
- Wolfgang Pauli

Photography "...doesn't take any brains. It takes sensitivity, a finger and two legs"
- Henri Cartier-Bresson

"In the name of the cathode, the anode, and the Holy Grid?" said Pokler.
- Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow

What was it you wanted? Are you talkin' to me?
- Bobby Dylan

There's no success like failure,
And failure's no success at all.
- Bobby Dylan

"Just because you're surrounded by evil doesn't mean you can't make some money from it."
- The Firesign Theatre

"There's no scientific consensus that life is important"
- Professor Farnsworth

"The purpose of diplomacy is to prolong crisis"
- Spock

"We are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody ever tell you any different."
- Kurt Vonnegut

"Are you married or happy?"
- Curly