Archives for “Quotes”

"The Web has given angry and vitriolic people more of a voice in public discourse. People in the past who have been on the nutty ...

"I was a baker. You can’t just turn up the oven and expect to take the bread out sooner." -- Eric Danielson, NorthTemple.com QA lead, commenting ...

"The first rule of any technology used in a business is that automation applied to an efficient operation will magnify the efficiency. The second is ...

"The game is played on many levels." -- Sean, on revealing that he had just farted on Ryan's seat during a Halo match

"The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of ...

Aimee Teegarden: "Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the US on a world map. Why do you think this is?" Ms. South ...

"I used to think that it wouldn’t be fun to dress a boy, but I’ve realized that it is actually MORE fun than dressing a ...

"I get the feeling that he’s going to give me one of those very stern lectures about something I have not yet learned about life ...

"She does not seem to be growing any less peculiar. I love this age, four, where reason and lunacy spool through kids in equal measure. ...

I went down once into the [particle] accelerator at CERN in Geneva and we were driving around the accelerator ring in an electric golf cart ...

It's hard to beat a relatively cheap, local conference. Last year, I attended with the design team from Pop Art and was suprised at the ...

"It wasn't my fault! Really it wasn't! An old friend came in out of town! The car ran out of gas! I got a flat ...

"I suggested to Nora that we go to the playground. She pumped her fists in the air and yelled, 'SCIENTIFIC!' This is excellent happy-exclamation slang ...

Chris, I bought you a very special bottle of beer to celebrate this special anniversary: Colt 45. My tasting notes: Notes of desperation, with ...

KT: Does Zoe like Lost? Scott: Zoe's likes include eating and sleeping Scott: and wiggling and waving her arms around spastically Scott: She is indifferent at best to ...

"One of my real aspirations... is I wanna see interstellar wars between Care Bears and Klingons." -- Will Wright at SXSW discussing his motivations for making ...

"In case you don't know, the Second Law of Thermodynamics is the popular sequel to the First Law of Thermodynamics, and like most sequels, it ...

Dave, singing: Transformers... More than meets the eye... Christi: Those things are hard! [everyone laughs] Christi: I bought one for my son, and I couldn't figure it out. Justin: ...

"Once again [Bush] chastised critics, saying 'some are condemning a plan before it's even had a chance to work.' By then, of course, you're not ...

"You did a good job wrapping it, that's the only reason I thanked you." -- My 4-year-old neice Leilani, complimenting my present-wrapping abilities.

"You can't say conspiracy without piracy." -- Ryan from Scary-Go-Round

I actually couldn't watch the "rap" all the way through the first three times I attempted to. Gabe had only caught about seven seconds of ...

"The public wants us to have mastered the problem of dealing with asteroids. So being able to have astronauts go out there and sort of ...

"If pig farmers had as much currency with NPR as literary novelists, we would be hearing just as much about the healing power of bacon." -- ...

"Despite the excellent guidance of meaningless blanket statements like 'tough on terror' and 'stay the course,' the military has taken it upon themself to adjust ...