Quotes, 2012
Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:11 pm
"Fuck you if this isn't the future you want. Be the hoverboard!"
"I am a terribly biased person. If someone offers me something free, but their spelling and grammar in the offer is incorrect, I instinctively want to refuse."
"You do not read difficult books to enjoy them, you read them to push yourself away from complacency. Dr. Seuss must give way in time to Charles Dickens or Chuck Palahniuk, or you will never progress."
"I see no reason why engineers should be less fallible to hokum and outlandish claims than any others, particularly when it falls outside their field."
"I've had my episodes of fanaticism, but like love I can never sustain hatred at any intensity for a prolonged period...at best, I will maintain a stark negativity and indifference until at last the whole grudge passes from memory, if it ever does."
"I would I had an empty page, to pour out my heart upon it; to wrap in words vain and bereft ambitions, and friendships lost to neglect, and all the weight of ennui that builds from things left unspoken, undone, unrealized. To recount small sins and small penances, and common dramas and tragedies of vulgar people who all dance together toward ultimate destruction, engulfed in petty things. Yet it would be incomplete, without an audience, and perhaps 'tis better not to unload on those who carry their own burdens, but to set the page in the fire, and with a blank sheet, try again."
"I was always glad when someone reminded me that Nazis were human. That meant they could bleed."
"I can't imagine reading this book normally. It isn't made to go down one page and then move on to the next. This is one for bibliomancy, to be read a sentence at a time at random, to sip and sample and conjure dark things with."
"No, we won't be going to the sky today."
"That's illegal, unethical, and amoral. Wow. The big three."
"I love to read about the lives of serious magicians and occult figures. Illusionists and scholars may keep quietly to themselves and sink into oblivion once people stop reading their books, but really serious occultists tend to live exciting lives involving sex, drugs, lawsuits, shifting fortunes, poverty, mental illness, name changes, surprise offspring, betrayal, and sudden changes of venue to different countries just ahead of the law."
"I generally avoid menses in my fiction."
"Humanity is a race of detectives and murderers...no other species experiences such an instinctual curiosity in how one of their members came to die, nor goes to such lengths to try and cover it up."
"You can read every word of his fiction a hundred times, and still not know the man. Real life has a way of being darker, cheaper, and more sordid than the pulp in your paperbacks. That typewriter between your soul and his, it's a gift."
"Lifetime Original Movies are actually a preview of Hell. If I had a choice right now between spending an eternity of physical torture or the spiritual malaise from watching stories about women talking and trying to come to terms with profoundingly Biblical sex, bring on the flames and pitchforks."
"I like a restaurant where I can order the same thing every time and always be surprised."
"Every human being has a mandate: Don't Be A Dick."
"You are not required to complete the task, yet you are not free to withdraw from it."
"They're lovely books. Feel the weight of this one. You could kill a man with it, if you had the mind."
"Each author pursues their own permutation of the same literary DNA of the shared mythology, but the stories are a random cross-sampling from across the Mythos spectrum, separated in setting, style, and tone."
"America never stopped being great. It was only the people that grew small and mean."
"I don't trust any management technique whose effect cannot be quantified."
"Never miss me before I'm gone."
"There is no idea so sacred as to be beyond question."
"What could be sexier than a woman reading a book?"
"We teach children that persistence is a virtue. That determination will see you through all things. That if you just hold out long enough, in the face of all adversity, against all opposition, you will push through to the other side and overcome all resistance - and even if you die, you died doing the right thing. What we don't always teach children is that it is not always the right thing. Some ...views are wrong, some ideas should not be fought for, and it becomes not even a matter of compromise, but realizing and admitting: this thing I have fought so long for, spoken so much for, worked so hard to see done or continued...is not worth it. Perhaps it was never worth it. How much harder a lesson is that to teach a child, much less a grown man or woman?"
"Science allows for flying spaghetti monsters, but has yet to record a rain of meatballs it cannot explain without them."
"Ignorance is not the same as innocence, nor is it any protection against the world."
"Metric shit-ton" is now an official unit of measurement. It is equivalent to the average number of people required to produce one metric ton (1,000 kilograms) of shit in a 24 hour period. Current estimates place the metric shit-ton at 1,034 people. That is a metric shit-ton of people.
"John Galt is a bad engineer."
"We accept that there are people on this earth you cannot reason with. But we can try. We have to try. Because if we wrap ourselves up in being right and everyone else is wrong, we're no better than they are. Being reasonable means having the courage to admit you may be wrong, and willing to entertain other ideas, even if you end up disagreeing with them."
"I'm sorry, my brain went off on a tangent about orcs. What were you saying?"
"In a hundred years, only scholars will read Playboy - and for the articles, fiction, and interviews they published. In five hundred years, if any Playboys have not crumbled to dust, they will be of interest only to archaeologists - who, unable to decipher the archaic script, will be forced to guess at meanings based on the surviving pictures."
"I am a terribly biased person. If someone offers me something free, but their spelling and grammar in the offer is incorrect, I instinctively want to refuse."
"You do not read difficult books to enjoy them, you read them to push yourself away from complacency. Dr. Seuss must give way in time to Charles Dickens or Chuck Palahniuk, or you will never progress."
"I see no reason why engineers should be less fallible to hokum and outlandish claims than any others, particularly when it falls outside their field."
"I've had my episodes of fanaticism, but like love I can never sustain hatred at any intensity for a prolonged period...at best, I will maintain a stark negativity and indifference until at last the whole grudge passes from memory, if it ever does."
"I would I had an empty page, to pour out my heart upon it; to wrap in words vain and bereft ambitions, and friendships lost to neglect, and all the weight of ennui that builds from things left unspoken, undone, unrealized. To recount small sins and small penances, and common dramas and tragedies of vulgar people who all dance together toward ultimate destruction, engulfed in petty things. Yet it would be incomplete, without an audience, and perhaps 'tis better not to unload on those who carry their own burdens, but to set the page in the fire, and with a blank sheet, try again."
"I was always glad when someone reminded me that Nazis were human. That meant they could bleed."
"I can't imagine reading this book normally. It isn't made to go down one page and then move on to the next. This is one for bibliomancy, to be read a sentence at a time at random, to sip and sample and conjure dark things with."
"No, we won't be going to the sky today."
"That's illegal, unethical, and amoral. Wow. The big three."
"I love to read about the lives of serious magicians and occult figures. Illusionists and scholars may keep quietly to themselves and sink into oblivion once people stop reading their books, but really serious occultists tend to live exciting lives involving sex, drugs, lawsuits, shifting fortunes, poverty, mental illness, name changes, surprise offspring, betrayal, and sudden changes of venue to different countries just ahead of the law."
"I generally avoid menses in my fiction."
"Humanity is a race of detectives and murderers...no other species experiences such an instinctual curiosity in how one of their members came to die, nor goes to such lengths to try and cover it up."
"You can read every word of his fiction a hundred times, and still not know the man. Real life has a way of being darker, cheaper, and more sordid than the pulp in your paperbacks. That typewriter between your soul and his, it's a gift."
"Lifetime Original Movies are actually a preview of Hell. If I had a choice right now between spending an eternity of physical torture or the spiritual malaise from watching stories about women talking and trying to come to terms with profoundingly Biblical sex, bring on the flames and pitchforks."
"I like a restaurant where I can order the same thing every time and always be surprised."
"Every human being has a mandate: Don't Be A Dick."
"You are not required to complete the task, yet you are not free to withdraw from it."
"They're lovely books. Feel the weight of this one. You could kill a man with it, if you had the mind."
"Each author pursues their own permutation of the same literary DNA of the shared mythology, but the stories are a random cross-sampling from across the Mythos spectrum, separated in setting, style, and tone."
"America never stopped being great. It was only the people that grew small and mean."
"I don't trust any management technique whose effect cannot be quantified."
"Never miss me before I'm gone."
"There is no idea so sacred as to be beyond question."
"What could be sexier than a woman reading a book?"
"We teach children that persistence is a virtue. That determination will see you through all things. That if you just hold out long enough, in the face of all adversity, against all opposition, you will push through to the other side and overcome all resistance - and even if you die, you died doing the right thing. What we don't always teach children is that it is not always the right thing. Some ...views are wrong, some ideas should not be fought for, and it becomes not even a matter of compromise, but realizing and admitting: this thing I have fought so long for, spoken so much for, worked so hard to see done or continued...is not worth it. Perhaps it was never worth it. How much harder a lesson is that to teach a child, much less a grown man or woman?"
"Science allows for flying spaghetti monsters, but has yet to record a rain of meatballs it cannot explain without them."
"Ignorance is not the same as innocence, nor is it any protection against the world."
"Metric shit-ton" is now an official unit of measurement. It is equivalent to the average number of people required to produce one metric ton (1,000 kilograms) of shit in a 24 hour period. Current estimates place the metric shit-ton at 1,034 people. That is a metric shit-ton of people.
"John Galt is a bad engineer."
"We accept that there are people on this earth you cannot reason with. But we can try. We have to try. Because if we wrap ourselves up in being right and everyone else is wrong, we're no better than they are. Being reasonable means having the courage to admit you may be wrong, and willing to entertain other ideas, even if you end up disagreeing with them."
"I'm sorry, my brain went off on a tangent about orcs. What were you saying?"
"In a hundred years, only scholars will read Playboy - and for the articles, fiction, and interviews they published. In five hundred years, if any Playboys have not crumbled to dust, they will be of interest only to archaeologists - who, unable to decipher the archaic script, will be forced to guess at meanings based on the surviving pictures."
