How about a favorite quote thread?
Perhaps a quote-off among sifters?
Or even quoting other sifters?
(I'm not sure which is the highest ranking comment on the site. The question is whether it is too contextual for the video or the pertaining discussion to be quotable)
Anyway here's a quote I just found on google books. I really like it.
Technology is the knack of so arranging
the world that we do not experience it.
- Max Frisch
Perhaps a quote-off among sifters?
Or even quoting other sifters?
(I'm not sure which is the highest ranking comment on the site. The question is whether it is too contextual for the video or the pertaining discussion to be quotable)
Anyway here's a quote I just found on google books. I really like it.
Technology is the knack of so arranging
the world that we do not experience it.
- Max Frisch
-Oscar Wilde
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-Harry Nilsson
"It is through art, and through art only, that we can realize our perfection; through art and art only that we can shield ourselves from the sordid perils of actual existence."
-Oscar Wilde
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I would like to see more votes on the second-ranking comment. Its pure gold!
you put the lime in the coconut
-Harry Nilsson
bah, nilsson schmilsson...
- Daniel Dennett.
"Eat monkey dick you fucking frog!"
- blankfist
"It is not neccessary to change. Survival is not mandatory." -=- W Edwards Demming
"The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep us out; the brick walls are there to give us a chance to show how badly we want something. The brick walls are there to stop the people who don't want it badly enough. They are there to stop the other people." -=- Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture.
- "The limits of my language mean the limits of my world."
~ Ludwig Wittgenstein
“To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution”
~ Marcus Aurelius
-- Kurt Vonnegut jr., "Cat's Cradle"
Just once I would like to persuade the audience not to wear any article of blue denim. If only they could see themselves in a pair of brown corduroys like mine instead of this awful, boring blue denim. I don't enjoy the sky or sea as much as I used to because of this Levi character. If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim. Then we'd get crucified in the morning.
-- Ian Anderson, of Jethro Tull
- Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick
I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.
- Kurt Vonnegut, Hocus Pocus
What is it, what can it possibly be about blowjobs and golf?
- Martian visitor to Earthling, from Kurt Vonnegut's A Man Without A Country, the great man's last book.
As you might have guessed by now, I have a thing for Vonnegut.
-Steven Seagal
"I like rape."
-Steven Seagal
I'm sure rape likes you too.
"The dust of space
gathers in strange ways."
- rougy
*****
"Do anything, but let it produce joy. Do anything, but let it yield ecstasy."
"...the enemy of man is man."
"The Way is near, but men seek it afar. It is in easy things, but men seek it in difficult things."
- Henry Miller
*****
"The only time I believe in God is when I think of that fat slob. God must be keeping score on bastards like that. Otherwise nothing makes any sense."
- Michener, Sayonara
>> ^blankfist:
"I like rape."
-Steven Seagal
I'm sure rape likes you too.
That seems to point up a significant difference between Europeans and Americans. A European says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with me?" An American says: "I can't understand this, what's wrong with him?"
-- Terry Pratchett
edit: I love Pratchett, so one more:
Give a man a fire and he's warm for the day. But set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life.
-- Terry Pratchett, Discworld
- Joseph Roux
I would kill everyone in this room for a drop of sweet beer.
Homer Simpson
Any man who has $10,000 left when he dies is a failure.
Errol Flynn
You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. You are avenged 1440 times a day.
Ambrose Bierce
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon
- Joe Walsh, "Life's Been Good"
- Kahlil Gibran
'Consider the true picture. Think of myriads of tiny bubbles, very sparsely scattered, rising through a vast black sea. We rule some of the bubbles. Of the waters we know nothing...'
- Niven & Pournelle
'We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal beauty, to which every part and particle is equally related, the eternal ONE. And this deep power in which we exist and whose beatitude is all accessible to us, is not only self-sufficing and perfect in every hour, but the act of seeing and the thing seen, the seer and the spectacle, the subject and the object, are one. We see the world piece by piece, as the sun, the moon, the animal, the tree; but the whole, of which these are shining parts, is the soul.'
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
'If we wish to understand the nature of reality, we have an inner hidden advantage: we are ourselves a little portion of the universe and so carry the answer within us.'
- Jacques Boivin
which is only related to objects
and not to individuals, or life."
(a great man unknown)
Charles Baudelaire
William Makepeace Thackeray
"Remember: today is the tomorrow you were dreading yesterday."
"All of your best choices got you where you are today."
—Steve Martin
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
—Friedrich von Schiller
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
—Lee Iacocca
"This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it." -HAL
"Dave, although you took thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move." -HAL
"Number 5 is alive." -Johnny 5
"There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear."
- Daniel Dennett.
Nietzsche wrote something similar in "Die fröhliche Wissenschaft" (Gay Science):
"The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments."
And since most of the comments before me were written on a computer, I feel obliged to add a quote of Alan Turing:
"We can only see a short distance ahead, but we can see plenty there that needs to be done."
-Groucho Marx
It's 106 miles to Chicago. We've got a full tank of gas, a half pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. Let's roll.
-Elwood Blues
-i don't remember
-Mitch Hedberg