The Internet is like alcohol in some sense. It accentuates what you would do anyway. If you want to be a loner, you can be more alone. If you want to connect, it makes it easier to connect.
- Esther Dyson

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

The best way to compile inaccurate information that no one wants is to make it up.
- Scott Adams

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
- Aristotle

If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
- Isaac Asimov

The thing to remember about freedom is that it's not given, it's taken
- Scott Adams

The hardest thing to learn in life is which bridge to cross and which to burn.
- David Russell

Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.
- Mother Teresa

Poker is like sex, everyone thinks they are good, but only a few know what they are doing
- Random Poker Player

Fairy Tales do not tell our children that Dragons exist, they tell our children that Dragons can be killed
- G. K. Chesterton

The consumption of alcohol, and the assumption of the risks of impaired judgment, is in almost all cases a personal choice and an inherently personal activity
- Supreme Court of Canada

Give a person a fish and you feed him for a day; teach a person to use the Internet and he won't bother you for weeks.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grow on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell
– Sir John Templeton

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
- Bernard Bailey

Estimated amount of glucose used by an adult human brain each day, expressed in M&Ms: 250
- Harper's Index

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.
- Dan Barker

A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.
- Segal's Law

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporarily out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
- Mitch Hedberg

Elections are won by men and women chiefly because most people vote against somebody rather than for somebody.
- Franklin P. Adams

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Dance like it hurts,/ Love like you need money,/ Work when people are watching.
- Scott Adams

I loathe the expression "What makes him tick." It is the American mind, looking for simple and singular solution, that uses the foolish expression. A person not only ticks, he also chimes and strikes the hour, falls and breaks and has to be put together again, and sometimes stops like an electric clock in a thunderstorm.
- James Thurber