Blue Notebook Quotes: Volume 3

The Red Notebooks

			Blue Notebook Quotes
			The Red Notebooks
			Volume III : UVa '94-5
			Compiled by Evan Macbeth

	Fuck 'em if they can't take a joke.
			-? (quoted by Jeff Hawkins)

	Nuke 'em til they glow, then shoot 'em in the dark.
			-Guy at bar, B5, "A Voice in the Wilderness, I"

	Enemies must be killed or transported to some other country.
			-William T. Sherman

	I'd like this game a lot better if we were playing something else.
			-Sandra Slyter

	He was born a pauper to a pawn on a Christmas day when the New York 
	Times said "God is Dead" and the war's begun.
			-Elton John

	Read with a razor blade.
			-David Waldner

	Humans are born information junkies. They're the only animals which 
	have developed methods of storing information outside of themselves.
			-George Pipkin

	He hadn't realized that life speaks with a voice to you, a voice 
	that brings you answers to the questions you continually ask of it,
	had never consciously detected it or recognized its tones until it
	said something it had never said to him before, which was "Yes."
			-Douglas Adams, So Long and Thanks for All the Fish

	Evan, you can bring out the worst in ANYONE.
			-Douglas Macbeth (my father, in all seriousness)

	Democracy institutionalizes uncertainty.
			-Adam Przeworski

	Worrying is an excuse.
			-Scott Macbeth

	If the armed forces are threatened, they may simply sweep their 
	opponents off the board or kick it over and start playing solitaire.
			-Guillermo O'Donnell and Philippe Schmitter on
			 transitional regimes as a game of chess.

	When was the last time you were alive?
			-Paola Sanmiguel

	War, when you are at it, it horrible and dull. It is only when the
	time has passed that you see that its message was divine.
			-Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

	That's the one thing you gotta love about the press. They suck.
	They really suck.
			-Jeff Sgarlotta, former Director of the Pep Band

	You must remember always what side you're on, and fight for it.
			-Abraham, V

	There are only two kinds of people in the world. Me, and everyone
	else.
			-Andrew McCulloch

	Stand up for the stupid and crazy.
			-Walt Whitman

	Pray as if everything depended on God. Work as if everything 
	depends on you.
			-Patricia Levins

	Just do it later. Nike Procrastinators.
			-? (quoted by Tamra Young)

	See, it pays to threaten the Lord.
			-Brian Hunt, after landing on Free Parking

	One country, one constitution, one destiny.
			-Daniel Webster

	There is nothing so powerful as truth, - and often nothing so
	strange.
			-ibid

	Hence, the outcomes of the democratic process are not uncertain.
	They only appear to be uncertain to every participant.
			-Adam Przeworski

	Fear is the beginning of wisdom.
			-W. T. Sherman

	He knew where his flask was.
			-Jim Steinkrauss

	This is Hereford, we welcome the odd.
			-Bill Rowland

	Paradox is the passion of thought.
			-Kierkegaard

	I LITERALLY do not remember what sobriety is like.
			-Peter Tait

	It's time to toss the dice.
			-motto of the Band of the Red Hand (Robert Jordan)

	Style, friend, style.
			-Zaphod Beeblebrox

	What need a man fear, so long as he has friends?
			-Dorothy Dunnett, Scales of Gold

	If in doubt, kill.
			-Col. McQueen, Space: Above and Beyond

	Aristotle, he da MAN!
			-Mary Angione

	"What IS the standard warning for a borderline psychotic?"
	"Watch out for this guy - he's a borderline psychotic."
	"Oh, thanks."
			-EM and Sean Whipkey

	Dad told us to write five articles in a day. If you can do it, 
	then you have a right to get upset at journalists, but if you
	can't, keep your mouth shut.
			-Dan Todd, Christie Todd Whitman's brother

	That which does not kill me can only make me drunker.
			-Matt Weyandt, flasking Newcomb Dining hall

	Accidents happen when two people try to be clever at the same time.
			-Chris Mosely

	Bugs Bunny is a PIMP, he is the Mack Daddy.
			-Peter Tait

	"I bet I got a career option here you haven't even considered."
	"What's that?"
	"Getting in trouble."
			-Sublett and Rydell, Virtual Light

	You don't need to see their identification. These aren't the
	kegs you're looking for. This band can go about its business.
			-Obeer-one Kenobi (Matt Weyandt)

	Remember, guns don't kill people, we do.
			-Hitman to Cosmo, Cold Blooded

	Of course, New Yorkers find a way to handle anything.
			-Rick Leventhal, News 4 New York

	We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough 
	consensus and running code.
			-Internet Engineering Task Force

	Are we creating our own Gods, or will you have them there for us?
			-Brian McAuliffe to JC Connors

	Typically, everbody has about a 40% immediate cull rate - those
	pieces of mail you can delete immediately because of a frivolous
	tag line. What you read of the remainin 60% depends on how much 
	of a life you have. The less of a life, the more mail you read.
			-Douglas Coupland, Microserfs

	Funny how those things you thought would never end turned out to
	be the first to vanish - IBM, the Reagans, Eastern bloc communism.
	As you get older, the bottom line becomes to survive as best you
	can.
			-ibid

	I had a gang war over a fucking Sega Genesis.
			-Jen Crider

	Net people are also, it seems to me, afflicted with a kind of 
	insularity: It's just too much hassle to express your opinion to
	someone without an E-Mail address.
			-Malcolm McMahon

	Information is power, but access is EVERYTHING.
			-EM