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-- Shakespear quote ThinkGeek T-Shirt slogan (Don't get it? If you don't know how to read regular expressions highlight with your mouse: to be or not to be. I think it's cool)

I say that the earth is extinguished, though I never saw it lit.

-- Clov, "Endgame" (by Samuel Beckett)

One is interested that beings made for suffering should suffer well.

-- Edmund Burke

Beauty in distress is much the most affecting beauty.

-- Edmund Burke

He who desires, but acts not breeds pestilence.

-- William Blake

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.

-- Lily Tomlin

Of the great tyrannies in learning, the tyranny of the timetable is undoubtedly the worst.

-- Vice-Chancellor, The University of Queensland

An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys.

-- Van Roy

Being right too soon is socially unacceptable.

-- Unknown

Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

-- Erica Jong

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good persons to do nothing.

-- Edmund Burke

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulder of giants.

-- 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. Reed

Technology is a way of organizing the universe so that man doesn't have to experience it.

-- Max Frisch

After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box.

-- Italian proverb

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

-- Oscar Wilde

"The Wright Bothers weren't the first to fly.
They were just the first not to crash."

-- Unknown

If I'd known how old I was going to get, I'd have taken better care of myself.

-- George Meany

Being average is being the best of the worst, or the worst of the best.

-- Unknown

Beware of Programmers who carry screwdrivers.

-- Leonard Brandwein

Politeness, n. The most acceptable hypocrisy.

-- Ambrose Bierce

Documentation is the castor oil of programming; the managers know it must be good because programmers hate it so much.

-- Weinberg

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from.

-- Andy Tanenbaum

Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.

-- Joseph Campbell

Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competent programmer.

-- Edsger W. Dijkstra

Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.

-- Eric Hoffer

"I can't face the world in the morning. I must have coffee before I can speak."

-- Joseph Cotton in Shadow of a Doubt

Tell me and I forget.
Show me and I remember.
Let me do and I understand.

-- Confucius

Oxymorons: student athlete, military intelligence, military justice, mercy killing, pollution-free.

-- (Various sages over the ages)

Among economists, the real world is often a special case.

-- Horngren

After all, it is only the mediocre who are always at their best.

-- Jean Giraudoux

Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.

-- Fred Allen

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.

-- John Gilmore

The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

-- James Baldwin

I know you believe you understand what you think I said.
But I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

-- Anonymous

You're the dumbest, smartest person I have ever seen!

-- Will Smith, "I, Robot" (Submitted by Chloe)

When I was your age, I wanted to be an astronaut too, *Melvin*. And then my ship imploded in the vacuum of space. The lesson here is that dreams inevitably lead to hideous implosions.

-- Miss Bitters, "Invader Zim"

Student #1: If we go over there, we'd be near you.
Student #2: That wouldn't be cool.
Student #3: Do you see our dilemma?

-- "Invader Zim"

Video games develop eye-hand coordination and make kids into better human beings.

-- Professor Membrane, "Invader Zim"

This is no game, this is my life!

-- Dib Membrane, "Invader Zim"

Go to the bathroom and roll around in the toilet until you smell better.

-- Ms. Bitters, "Invader Zim"

I will rule you all with an iron fist. You! Obey the fist!

-- Zim, "Invader Zim"

You like ice cream, you like ice cream, you love it, you cannot resist ice cream, to resist is hopeless, your existence is meaningless without ice cream!

-- Unknown Man, "Invader Zim"