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"There is no need for any individual to have a computer in their home."
-- Ken Olsen, 1977
President, Digital Equipment Corp. (DEC)

"Who's the more foolish -- the fool or the fool who follows him?"

-- Obi-Wan Kenobi

"Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning."
-- Rich Cook

"OK, but I'm in charge and I'll get used to being in charge, and it'll be hard to deal with me from now on unless I'm in charge."
-- Bill Gates (in 11th grade)

"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
-- Bill Gates

"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger."
-- Gandalf, Lord of the Rings

"A knife between the ribs will cramp even the subtlest wizard's style."
-- Vlad Taltos, Athyra

Scully: "Look... there... tracks in the sand..."
Mulder: "Looks like a snake."
Scully: "It would take a large python HOURS to consume and WEEKS to digest a human being."
Mulder: "You really do watch the Learning Channel, don't you?"
-- The X-Files (duh!)

Londo Mollari: "My shoes are too tight. Something my father said -- he was... old, very old at the time. I went into his room and he was sitting alone in the dark, crying. So I asked him what was wrong, and he said, 'My shoes are too tight, but it doesn't matter because I have forgotten how to dance.' I never understood what that meant until now. My shoes are too tight, and I have forgotten how to dance."
Vir: "But I don't understand..."
Mollari: "Nor should you."
-- Babylon 5

Jakar: "I have just picked it [an ant] up on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again and it asks another ant 'What was that!' how would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than either of our races -- they are vast, timeless. And if they are aware of us at all, it is as little more than ants, and we have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know. We've tried. And we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot, or be stepped on."
Captain Bad Actor's wife/friend Sakai: "That's it, that's all you know?"
Jakar: "Yes. They are a mystery, and I am both terrified and reassured."
--Babylon 5

Delenn: Do you understand?
Lanier: No. But understanding is not required, only obedience.
-- Babylon 5

G'kar: I can only wait so long.
Ivanova: I thought your patience was infinate.
G'Kar: Since space and time are curved, the infinite sooner or later bends back upon itself, and ends up where it began -- and so have I.
-- Babylon 5

"The Tetsusalga basically transforms from a katana to a falchion, effectively changing its damage from 1-10 to 2-8 and increasing it's [sic] threat range to 18-20. If you have any idea what that means, then you have a problem."
-- Adult Swim (Cartoon Network; April 13, 2004)

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