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- The trouble about trying to make yourself stupider than you really are is that you very often succeed.
- C. S. Lewis (1898 - 1963)
- Give a man a fish, and you'll feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll buy a funny hat. Talk to a hungry man about fish, and you're a consultant.
- Scott Adams (1957 - ), Dogbert; Dilbert cartoons
- I had an epiphany a few years ago where I was out at a celebrity party and it suddenly dawned on me that I had yet to meet a celebrity who is as smart and interesting as any of my friends.
- Moby, quoted on CNN.com, March 2005
- I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- I know a lot about cars. I can look at a car's headlights and tell you exactly which way it's coming.
- Mitch Hedberg (1968 - 2005)
- If you think something is boring, try doing it for two minutes. If you still think it's boring, try it for four. If you still think it's boring, try it for eight, then sixteen, then thirty-two, and so on and so forth. Soon enough you'll find that it's really not boring at all.
- John Cage (1912 - 1992)
- I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826), to Archibald Stuart, 1791
- In journalism, there has always been a tension between getting it first and getting it right.
- Ellen Goodman (1941 - )
- Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922 - 2007)
- Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
- Randy K. Milholland, Something Positive Comic, 07-03-05
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