Quotes

A collection of amusing or profound quotes

Quote 136

“Do not bend the spoon, instead realize the truth.”
“the truth?”
“That the spoon effect will be added later by some sort of SGI workstation.”

Quote 152

I think it’s comforting to know that, whenever you need a friend, there’s always some fanatical cult out there somewhere, waiting with open arms.

Quote 169

And God said, “Let there be light” and there was light. “Hmm, pleasant effect” thought God, and flipped it off and on a few times.

Quote 185

I try very hard to say exactly what I mean. I’d appreciate it if you’d bear that in mind and not try to “interpret” my posts to fit your own preconceived notions if I’m posting in a serious thread. Remember: If you throw a strawman into a heated debate, flames are likely to be the result.

— Speaker-to-Minerals, AKA Carl Lyddick

Quote 129

I think I think recursively

— Jacqueline Pitter

Quote 145

“Phnglui mgwlnafth Cthulhu rlyey wghnagl fthagn.”
“In his flat in Bromley, drunk Cthulhu waits knitting? I think a few subtle typos may have crept
into that one.”
“That explains why this shoggoth I summoned is only 3mm tall.”

— Peter da Silva and Peter Gutmann in the scary.devil.monastery

Quote 162

There’s something wrong with the world. I’m becoming a hazy memory.

— Claire Speed (in the SDM)

Quote 178

Wouldn’t the sentence “I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign” have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?

Quote 194

His ignorance is encyclopedic

— Abba Eban

Quote 138

Gimme that ring, ya hairy-footed hobbit varmint! Gimme that ring or I’ll blast ya!

— Yosemite Nazgul

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