robin's quotes

Do files get embarrassed when they get unzipped?

They both savoured the strange warm glow of being much more ignorant than
ordinary people, who were only ignorant of ordinary things.

— Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

I was in the grocery store. I saw a sign that said "pet supplies". So I
did. Then I went outside and saw a sign that said "compact cars".

— Stephen Wright

Music and cats are the two refuges from the miseries of life.

— Albert Schweitzer

A fish said to two translucent dogs:
"A marble flower is too delicious for the morning sacrifice.
Linger here no longer."
And then it died.

— Joe Robins, '98

This message transmitted on 100% recycled electrons.

Cats are nature's way of helping you detect the people you don't want to know.

If you can't hear me, it's because I'm in parentheses. -- Stephen Wright

"Tomorrow I will seven eagles see, a great comet will appear, and voices
will speak from whirlwinds fortelling monstrous and fearful things --
This Universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government
contract."

— Robert A. Heinlein, "666"

Would you mind not shooting at the thermonuclear weapons?

— Vic "Deak" Deakins, in "Broken Arrow"

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