Thursday, August 21st, 2008
“The World Wide Web is the only thing I know of whose shortened form takes three times longer to say than what it’s short for.”
- Douglas Adams – The Independent on Sunday, 1999
Tags: geekery, Quotes, technology
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
“Just look at this obviously innovative design . . . I am so thrilled just thinking about how I get to touch this.”
– Yuki Kurita, 23, Japanese iPhone G3 purchaser
(via Angie)
Tags: events, funny as hell, products, Quotes, reader submission, technology
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
“Sometimes the best things in life are mean.”
– my friend/enemy (”frenemy”) Heather
Tags: antichrist candidates, evil, funny as hell, infinite evil, Quotes
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Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
“I feel like a refugee from the Island of Dr. Moreau.”
– Brand Hauser (John Cusak), in War, Inc.
Tags: movies, Quotes
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
“Kick ass! If somebody tries to stop the march to democracy we will seek them out and kill them! We must be tougher than hell! This Vietnam stuff…it’s not even close! It is a mindset! We can’t send that message! It’s an excuse to prepare us for the withdrawal! This is a series of moments and this is one of them! Our will is being tested but we are resolute! We have a better way! Stay strong! Stay the course! Kill them! Be confident! Prevail! We are going to wipe them out! We are not blinking! ”
- George W. Bush’s pre-Iraq war pep-talk to U.S. Generals
as recounted in General Ricardo S. Sanchez’s book, Wiser in Battle, seen on Countdown with Keith Olbermann
Tags: books, Quotes, TV
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
“It is no coincidence that in no known language does the phrase ‘As pretty as an airport’ appear.”
– Author Douglas Adams
Tags: Quotes
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Thursday, May 8th, 2008
“I always say, ‘Come to America, go to community college and marry a Kennedy.’ It’s all very simple.”
– Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
(via Susan)
Tags: celebrities, jackassery, politics, Quotes
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