| Quoting the Unquotable: Easing the Soul |
| "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. Love is the law. Love under will." -Aleister Crowley --- "Life sucks." "So does a blowjob, but you don't complain about THAT." --- "OK. Life's a bitch." "So am I. Now shut the fuck up." --- "Alright. What about 'Life's a bitch, and then you die'?" "Not me. I plan to live forever. So far, so good." --- "Fine. Life's a bitch, and then she has puppies. Happy?" "Nice doggy." --- "Life is Hell. Enjoy the Barbecue." -Matt Groening, Life is Hell --- "Life is short and hard, like a body-building elf." -The Bloodhound Gang --- "If the shoe fits, wear it." -old saying "Unless it's ugly." -rebuttal --- "Love conquers all." -old saying "Except Russia. Nothing conquers Russia." -rebuttal --- Chess: a mating ritual |
| Occam's Razor: Plurality should not be posited without necessity. Translation: The simplest answer is usually the best one. --- "I think, therefore I am." -Rene Descartes Dave's Rebuttal: Therefore, stupidity doesn't exist. --- Murphy's Law: If anything can go wrong, it will. Murphy's First Corollary: Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's Second Corollary: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious. O'Toole's Commentary: Murphy was an optimist. --- Finagle's First Law: If an experiment works, something has gone wrong. Finagle's Second Law: No matter what the experiment's resul?s, there will be someone eager to: a) misinterpret it, b) fake it, or c) believe it supports his own pet theory. Finagle's Third Law: In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all need of checking, is the mistake. Finagle's Fourth Law: Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse |