"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did." -- Mark Twain

"Thinking that the world is here to entertain you leads to boredom and sloth. Thinking that you are here to entertain the world leads to bright clothes, odd graffiti, and amazing grace in running for the bus."

Oh, and can they stop saying "So-and-so lost their battle with cancer" - when someone gets run over, they don't say, "So-and-so lost their battle with oncoming traffic." -- Jane Shaffer

QUOTE from the SF anti-war protest on 1/27: "The Rapture is not an exit strategy"

Ugol's Law states: "If you ever ask 'am I the only one who <insert kink>?' the answer is invariably 'no'."

Imagine a world in which generations of human beings come to believe that certain films were made by God or that specific software was coded by him. Imagine a future in which millions of our descendants murder each other over rival interpretations of Star Wars or Windows 98. Could anything -- anything -- be more ridiculous? And yet, this would be no more ridiculous than the world we are living in.
-Sam Harris, author (1967- )

Yes, I've quit, but still...
"Something that is forgotten in all of this is people like to smoke. It’s enjoyable and there’s not an alternative product."
DAVID ADELMAN, an analyst at Morgan Stanley, on tobacco companies’ success on Wall Street.