The people running things think knowledge is power, and their knowledge
is power. But today, the application of knowledge is power.
-Hugh Brownstone, IMS
Ah, the Virginia Pep Band. Style, substance and attitude in one
saucy package
-Shana Pearlman
Not smart, persistent.
-EDJM
Knowledge is an intangible good such that once it's out there,
anyone can have it for free.
-David Waldner, IR 205
Information diffuses over time.
-ibid
I feel like a mouse in a maze looking for the poison cheese.
-Jennifer Daoust on finding a job.
We aren't anarchists, escapists or anti-American. We simply ask
questions, and when the answers aren't good enough, we try to find our
own.
-David Sherwin, "Generation X-crement" The Declaration
It's a party Marge. It doesn't have to make sense.
-Homer Simpson
My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.
-Bluto Blutarski [John Belushi], Animal House
The aestheticized nature that children today are administered
in mammoth doses is an invention not merely of the theoretical urban dwellers;
it was an invention of stuck-up, overrefined, self-absorbed, taste- and
status-conscious theoretical urban dwellers who learned to gush over the
open sky in the last century in dutiful obedience to the nature-as-art
lessons the mid-Victorians were so keen on.
-Steven Budiansky, U.S. News and World Report, Dec. 2, 1996
What hath God wrought?
-Samuel Morse, 1844. (the first electronic transmission of information)
Hacker Tourism: travel to exotic locations in search of sights
and sensations that only would be of interest to a geek.
-Neal Stephenson
To good times and great cable laying!
-David M. Handley
Monday, not Tuesday.
-Washingon Society officers, on getting stuff done
To clarify means to offend.
-Martin Heidegger
For the Mind and Spirit remains invincible and vigor soon returns.
-Beelzebub, Paradise Lost [Milton]
This is a warped and twisted Hereford College. Co-chairs grubbing
for power, money being spent by the EBC co-chair, a rude and immature principal,
a completely new staff, no respect for tradition. A community whose leaders
prefer self-congratulation to solutions.
-Anonymous, Dec. 1996
There will be much death in just a moment.
-Matt Weyandt on Warcraft
People that are really very wierd can get into sensitive positions
and have a tremendous impact on history.
-Dan Quayle
Drink well, and prosper.
-Kris Kopitzke, parting words to fellow Wahoos, Dec. 1996
China's a pissant place with a lot of people who are dying!
-EDJM, studying for a Modern China final.
A little rudeness and disrespect can elevate a meaningless interaction
to a battle of wills and add drama to an otherwise dull day.
-Calvin [Bill Watterson]
I am more optimistic than you are. I think everything will mend.
On my terms. Or above there will be Angry Judges, and below will be Chaos.
-Nicholas de Fluery, The Unicorn Hunt [Dorothy Dunnett]
Very unrelenting in his character in walking the path marked out
for himself.
-Bishop Henry C. Lay describing William T. Sherman
It's the beginning of a semester. I got a whole new quart of fucker
juice in me!
-Matt Weyandt
Now's the time to look sharp and be smart.
-Doug Macbeth
For when I speak, I speak to the point and when I act in earnest,
I act to the point. If a man minds his own business, I let him alone, but
if he corsses my path, he must get out of the way.
-William Tecumseh Sherman
Being told to do good things, when you can't afford them, is not
doing good things.
-Ed Koch (former mayor of New York)
You ARE a goofus, Mr. President.
-Silvija Ozols, Treasurer of the Washington Society
Good
political rhetoric rarely presents unadorned all that the politician believes
or all that lies behind his difficult choices.
-Dr. Steven Rhoads, The Economists View of the World, showing
a complete misunderstanding of the concept of Good Rehtoric
I tell you, this damn University is making me optimistic at times.
-Ken Whitehurst
I gave you my music
Made your song take wing
and now, how you've repaid me
denied me and betrayed me
he was bound to love you
when he heard you sing
...
you will curse the day you did not do
all that the Phantom asked of you!
-The Phantom of the Opera
Every man that hath possessions or enjoyment of any part of the
dominions of any government doth thereby give his tacit consent,
and is as far forth obliged to obedience to the laws of that government,
during just enjoyment as any one under it.
-John Locke, 2nd Treatise of Government
Beer transcends all.
-EDJM
You're not one of our assets, Evan.
-Silvija Ozols, Treasurer of the Washington Society
No society can surely be flourishing and happy, of which the far
greater part of the members are poor and miserable.
-Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
I don't see how Hobbes is going to make much sense of a pacifist.
-John Anderson, PHIL 161