Dumb is like gravity; you can try to outrun the closest source, but you will eventually get snagged by another one.
A doctor, an architect, and a computer scientist were arguing about whose profession was the oldest. In the course of their arguments, they got all the way back to the Garden of Eden, whereupon the doctor said, "The medical profession is clearly the oldest, because Eve was made from Adam's rib, as the story goes, and that was a simply incredible surgical feat." The architect did not agree. He said, "But if you look at the Garden itself, in the beginning there was chaos and void, and out of that, the Garden and the world were created. So God must have been an architect." The computer scientist, who had listened to all of this said, "Yes, but where do you think the chaos came from?"
I get insulted by ads telling me I could dress better. The CIA never tells me that, and you know why? Because they can actually see me.
All supposedly 'selfless' acts are entirely selfish. When a man gives to charity, rest assured he values the happiness it brings him more than the money itself. If he did not, he would not give away his money!
-James Halloran
You can embrace the changing winds or not, but ask yourself, are those ties worth keeping?
I may see the glass as half-empty but it makes me happy cuz I know I'm that much closer to being drunk.
I contradict myself? Well, good thing! I contradict myself I own: I am unable to take a lot!
Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack for being wrong, we could never get anything useful done. We think our way along by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as often as the right ones. We get along in life this way.
-Lewis Thomas
The value of the internet was hyptertext. now we have monolithic, must-login sites that disallow outbound links. what will be the revolution now?
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