Quotable Quotes

[lashto]

Never ever listen to any advice from anyone. Except this one.
Eugene Ionesco

 

[Robin L]

Proverbs for Paranoids:

3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow.

"This is the b-side of our platter, sports fans, and I'm singing for you just covered in sequins."
Vivian Stanshall, "Canyons of Your Mind"

"I know you know what you know but you should know by now that you're not me."
Neil Innes, "Piggy in the MIddle"

 

[jeroboam]

I oink therefore I ham - me

 

[Wes]

Poetry can disclose the misuse of language by holders of power, it can attack dangerous archetypes employed to oppress, and it can expose the flimsiness of shabby made-up mythologies. - Gary Snyder, What Poetry did in China, A Place in Space

 

[Boris Badinov]

“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds, and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.”

― George Best


“I spend a lot of money on booze, birds, and audio. The rest I just squander.”

--- Dasdoing

 

[Blumlein 88]

Proverbs for Paranoids:
3. If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow.

You could dig lots of lines out of Gravity's Rainbow to quote. Even today it is an odd book. I'd sort of like for some streaming service to try and make it about a 24 part weekly series out of it. I don't know who would be best to do it or how it would work out, but it might be interesting.

 

[Jim Matthews]

“The future is already here – it's just not evenly distributed.

The Economist, December 4, 2003”

― William Gibson

 

[Robin L]

You could dig lots of lines out of Gravity's Rainbow to quote. Even today it is an odd book. I'd sort of like for some streaming service to try and make it about a 24 part weekly series out of it. I don't know who would be best to do it or how it would work out, but it might be interesting.

I'm in the midst [page 344] of my umteenth re-read. Tchitcherine is about to hear the Aqyn's Song, the song about the Kirghiz Light.

A favorite passage from The Crying of Lot 49:

"Whenever I put the headset on now," he'd continued, "I really do understand what I find there. When those kids sing about 'She loves you,' yeah well, you know, she does, she's any number of people, all over the world, back through time, different colors, sizes, ages, shapes, distances from death, but she loves. And the 'you' is everybody. And herself. Oedipa, the human voice, you know, it's a flipping miracle." His eyes brimming, reflecting the color of beer.

 

[BolusOfDoom]

- David L. Goodstein, States of Matter

 

[mhardy6647]

I talk about Boltzmann and his sad demise in the glycobiology course I teach.
I was taught that his suicide stemmed from his inability to calculate omega (i.e., the degeneracy) in S = k*ln(omega).
I don't know that for a fact, though.

On the other hand, the founding fathers (mostly men, due to the times) of immunology (e.g., Michael Heidelberger and Elvin Kabat) often raised antibodies using themselves as 'guinea pigs', and lived to ripe old age. I met Kabat, late in his life, when he was still working two jobs (at the NIH and at Columbia University) -- an amazing and inspiring man.

 

[Kal Rubinson]

I met Kabat, late in his life, when he was still working two jobs (at the NIH and at Columbia University) -- an amazing and inspiring man.

I met Heidelberger late in his life when he was an adjunct at NYU (and still actively playing the clarinet). He hosted the liveliest discussions at his table at the faculty dining room. As a junior faculty member in the 1970's, I always tried to get a seat there.

 

[somebodyelse]

"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
- Robert J. Hanlon

"...but don't rule out malice." Odd how that part gets left out so often.

 

[mhardy6647]

I met Heidelberger late in his life when he was an adjunct at NYU (and still actively playing the clarinet). He hosted the liveliest discussions at his table at the faculty dining room. As a junior faculty member in the 1970's, I always tried to get a seat there.

That is outstanding! He lived to be 100, if memory serves (103, per Wikipedia).
Those immunologists of old had it goin' on.

 

[boswell]

Never eat more than you can lift. "Miss Piggy"

 

[boswell]

"Life is what happens to you when you are busy making other plans." John Lennon.

 

[Wes]

"The unexamined life is not worth thinking about."

 

[Robin L]

"Think twice before you think."

 

[Harmonie]

Did we have this one ?

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe.”
― Albert Einstein

... and so many more ... That guy is a ... genius

https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/9810.Albert_Einstein

 

[Robin L]

"Civilization is a great idea, I wish somebody would try it."
[Source? Charlie Parker and Ghandi, among others]

 

[MediumRare]

You can have it good, fast, and cheap, but you have to pick any two.