Quotes From The Cyberworld - I

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quotes: iAt least one way of measuring the freedom of any society is the amount of comedy that is

permitted, and clearly a healthy society permits more satirical comment than a repressive,

so that if comedy is to function in some way as a safety release then it must obviouslydeal with these taboo areas. This is part of the responsibility we accord our licensed jesters, that nothing be excused the searching light of comedy. If anything can survive the probe of humour it is clearly of value, and conversely all groups who claim immunityfrom laughter are claiming special privileges which should not be granted.

-Eric Idle

Remember when your mother told you not to play Dungeons and Dragons? She told youit would make you satanic, so you played it anyway. That's when you found out it makesyou into something much worse: A giant nerd.

-ifilm.comToday's Computer Science lecture will be conducted entirely through the medium of interpretive dance.

-Bob Igo

it's not the mere _power_ to do something which will sell someone on a technology...it'sthe power to do something egregiously stupid on mere whim.

-Andy Ihnatko

Belief is not a voluntary thing. A man believes or disbelieves in spite of himself. Theytell us that to believe is the safe way; but I say, the safe way is to be honest.

-Robert Ingersoll, "Some Reasons Why I Am a Freethinker"

If a man would follow, today, the teachings of the Old Testament, he would be acriminal. If he would follow strictly the teachings of the New, he would be insane.

-Robert Ingersoll

In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments -- there are consequences.

-Robert Ingersoll

The clergy know that I know that they know that they do not know.

-Robert Ingersoll, "Orthodoxy"

Let me explain about Genetic Engineering. That's where you take a cell from a human being and put it into a sheep, in the hope that one day it will go out and buy something.

-Neil Innes



goth clan...it's like a gang, except when it's time for them to jump you, all they do is holdyou down & put too much eyeliner on you

-Inox

I feel like complete sphincter right now

-Inox

I take heart in the fact that your death resulting from you simply forgetting to breathe islikely.

-Inox

I'm the hand up Mona Lisa's skirt.

-Inox

Infantalization, diminution...are you making a point somewhere in this email? It seems tome to just be a bunch of indignant posturing, but then again, I don't have a sp00ky emailaddress yet. Until I get that, & the accompanying Goth Starter Pack, I won't be able todecode the secret language of vampires. You elude me.

-Inox

You have an authentic stupidity that's hard to counterfeit.

-Inox

The major interface feature of Windows Vista is a screen-size cascading menu that isoften 4 or more levels deep and causes such large and rapid visual changes that it is likelyto cause seizures among its epileptic users.

-Interface Hall of Shame

Those who believe in miracles when it comes to matters of the heart may believe thatthere is a perfect mate for each of us waiting to be discovered somewhere in the world.But if this is true, the far greater miracle is the frequency with which the Fates conspire to

place this person within walking distance.

-Introduction to Psychology, Atkinson, Atkinson, Smith, Hillgard

History is composed of the smallest, often undetected mistakes.

-John Irving

The look of a man who's come to see What Might Have Been is full of both bloodshedand nostalgia.

-John Irving



The more clearly one sees this world, the more one is obliged to pretend it does not exist.

-John Irving

This is an old joke. There was a street clown called King of the Mice: he trained rodents,he did horoscopes, he could impersonate Napoleon, he could make dogs fart oncommand. One night he jumped out his window with all his pets in a box. Written on the

box was this: 'Life is serious but art is fun!' I hear his funeral was a party. A street artisthad killed himself. Nobody had supported him but now everybody missed him. Now whowould make the dogs make music and the mice pant? The bear knows this too: It is hardwork and great art to make life not so serious. Prostitutes know this too.

-John Irving

you're either somebody's wife or somebody's whore, or fast on your way to becoming oneor the other.

-John Irving

he would have passed a pleasant life of it, in despite of the Devil and all his works, if his path had not been crossed by a being that causes more perplexity to mortal man thanghosts, goblins, and the whole race of witches put together, and that was -- a woman.

-Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Non sequitur is Latin for "w'uh huh?"

-Chris Isaak

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