Albany is the Martinez of Berkeley.

- Paul Nordstrand, in 1980

To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct is for it.

            --Samuel Butler

"I have often had the impression that, to penguins, man is just another penguin - different, less predictable, occasionally violent, but tolerable company when he sits still and minds his own business."

- Bernard Stonehouse

What we need is a rebirth of satire, of dissent, of irreverence, of an uncompromising insistence that phoniness is phony and platitudes are platitudinous.

     --Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

And I have to wonder, is this on the wall in The Daily Show offices? Specifically intentional or no, thanks, you guys.

Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if Labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration.

          --Abraham Lincoln (1861 State of the Union address)

"All you have to do is read Yelp reviews to know how many morons there are."

- Robert A. to me, over a perfectly nice dinner

No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized.

                                     --Will & Ariel Durant

To my extreme mortification, I grow wiser every day.

                                              --Lord Byron

Torture is not particularly complicated or mysterious. A tool of the crudest kind of coercion, it crops up with great predictability whenever a local despot or a foreign occupier lacks the consent needed to rule.... The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system ... that is rejected by large numbers of the people they are ruling.

            --Naomi Klein

With children no longer the universally accepted reason for marriage, marriages are going to have to exist on their own merits.

                    --Eleanor Holmes Norton

A share in two revolutions is living to some purpose.

                                            --Thomas Paine

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.          

--Mark Twain

Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.

    --Bill Gates

Curiosity endows the people who have it with a generosity in argument and a serenity in their own mode of life which springs from their cheerful willingness to let life take the form it will.

Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass on a summer day listening to the murmur of water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is hardly a waste of time.

                                --John Lubbock

It's hard to convince people that you're killing them for their own good.

                          --Molly Ivins

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

                  --Mitch Ratcliffe

"Oh yeah, it's got all kinds of uses. I use it to clean my bar utensils."

-- Jamie Boudreau on vodka

Campaigns to bearproof all garbage containers in wild areas have been difficult because, as one biologist put it, "There is a considerable overlap between the intelligence levels of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists."

    --source unknown

"I didn't touch yo tongs!"

- Jane to Joe, during dinner preparations tonight

You can't turn this into Annie.

-- Adam Engelhart on Sweeney Todd
12/30/2007

The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

"All showings of Helvetica sold out. Jesus. This town."

-- Joseph Gratz, October 2007

"Two of these and you'd fight to defend Madonna's honor."

-- Professor Wondrich on the French 75

"At Best Buy reading about 802.11 draft N routers. Basically it sounds like it peels off your face and replaces it with the internet. Sold!"

- Jason Shellen (via Twitter)
April 5, 2007