A "quote" for all occasions..(did I spell that right?)

[MCT]

Dedicated to 'someone special' (you know who you are  )

"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing."

--Abraham Lincoln--

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Dedicated to someone who's really mean...

Storms a c-c-coming and it's gonna be me
Here comes Trouble with a capital "T"  

Cause I'm a mean motherfucking man,
I gotta scream, that's what I am
All the way, a-a-ll the waayyy

-- W.A.S.P.

The song describes you perfectly.  

[MCT]

The song describes you perfectly.  

Sure.............why not?..........it's all about individual perspective anyway...................

btw.........my quote wasn't dedicated to you............

[Eazy E]

A loving dedication to the message board on the internet that is 'the one'  

This one goes out to random....

"of all the message boards on the internet, this is one... "

Learn to read bitch!  

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Learn to read bitch!  

Alright!!  I modified it especially for Sky72 who likes his homies on the Down Low.

This one is dedicated to Reagan:

Men are convinced of your arguments, your sincerity, and the seriousness of your efforts only by your death.  -- Albert Camus


And this one goes out to me and my insane thesis:

For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.  
-- H.L. Mencken

[Doc Emmett Brown]

btw.........my quote wasn't dedicated to you............

I did not assume that.  In all likelihood, given your last dedication to someone special, your dedication was made to a certain Punk on this forum.  I can make one to to you even if you do not make one for me.

btw.........my quote was meant to be light hearted.......... but I guess you did not perceive it that way.

In light of his remarks concerning various ethnic races of the world, this song is dedicated to someone who is, oddly enough, special to me in a painful way.  I understand him more than he'll ever know.

How many times can you put me down
Till in your heart you realise
If you choose to criticise
You choose your enemies

Everything that I say and do
In your eyes is always wrong
Tell me where do I belong
In a sick society

You're no different to me
You're no different
No different to me

Is that blood that's on your hand from your democracy [/b]
-- Ozzy Osbourne.

[MCT]

btw.........my quote wasn't dedicated to you............

I did not assume that.

.............k..............

In all likelihood, given your last dedication to someone special, your dedication was made to a certain Punk on this forum.

In all likelihood, given your above response to me, your inference is incorrect..................

I can make one to to you even if you do not make one for me.

But of course..............!!!!!.........don't let me stop you!!!!!!.......please, feel free to dedicate as many quotes to me as your heart desires...........

btw.........my quote was meant to be light hearted.......... but I guess you did not perceive it that way.

Bad guess..............

Anyway.....................

"I was angry with my friend:
I told my wrath, my wrath did end.
I was angry with my foe;
I told it not, my wrath did grow."

--William Blake--(excerpt from - "A Poison Tree")

[Doc Emmett Brown]

.............k..............

   You have set a new record for highest ratio of dots to alphabet characters.  For this, I reward you with a question.  The physicist, Enrico Fermi, was famously known for quizzing his grad. students with guesstimation questions such as 'How many piano tuners are there in New York?'

How many MCT dots reside in Jarmo's HTGTH hard drives?   Guesstimate, my dear.

In all likelihood, given your above response to me, your inference is incorrect..................

In all likelihood you are taking evasive action behind a wall of words as you are so keen to do.

But of course..............!!!!!.........don't let me stop you!!!!!!.......please, feel free to dedicate as many quotes to me as your heart desires...........

As many as that? That would be an infinity!    To be more precise, it would be a subset of a 'countably many' set with cardinality = Aleph Naught.   Now, if Jarmo could invent a quantum computer in his spare time, then my heart could dedicate a continuum of quotes to you, thereby belonging to the set of 'uncountably many'.  
Just imagine!  The quote thread would exist as a continuum!  

*cough*  You did say we were in Wonderland.

This one goes to a special hookah-smoking caterpillar...er...friend?  

"The time has come," the Walrus said, "To talk of many things: Of shoes--and ships--and sealing-wax-- Of cabbages--and kings-- And why the sea is boiling hot--And whether pigs have wings."
-- Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass

[MCT]

 You have set a new record for highest ratio of dots to alphabet characters.  For this, I reward you with a question.  The physicist, Enrico Fermi, was famously known for quizzing his grad. students with guesstimation questions such as 'How many piano tuners are there in New York?'

How many MCT dots reside in Jarmo's HTGTH hard drives?   Guesstimate, my dear.

Why, all of them darling..............

In all likelihood, given your above response to me, your inference is incorrect..................

In all likelihood you are taking evasive action behind a wall of words as you are so keen to do.

Congratulations Doc.............. .........you've just uncovered one of the key points to effectively defending oneself in matters of written disquisition.......

I should like to point out though, that stating such mundane truths makes you an absolute bore.............. .......do you think I haven't been here before.........?........

You say I am keen on taking evasive action behind a wall of words...............well..........catch me..........

It would certainly beat the hell outta the 'mundane truth game'...................
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"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,
"Half an idea in the profoundest sonnet.
Through all the flimsy things we see at once
As easily as through a Naples bonnet...
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--Edgar Allan Poe--(excerpt from - "An Enigma")

[Doc Emmett Brown]

Why, all of them darling..............

I should have known you'd respond in a liberal artsy way, and completely ignore my fantasies concerning Cantor's musings on infinity  

It would certainly beat the hell outta the 'mundane truth game'...................

Why is truth so mundane to you?  We are truly not at all similar.

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Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture.

A stupid man's report of what a clever man says can never be accurate, because he unconciously translates what he hears into something he can understand.

--Bertrand Russell

[MCT]

Why is truth so mundane to you?  

Truth, in and of itself is not mundane. It's the pretentious presentation of truth at an inopportune time that is.

[MCT]

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

--Norman Vincent Peale--

[Drew]

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." ? Nathaniel Hawthorne

[Doc Emmett Brown]

"No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be the true." ? Nathaniel Hawthorne

I like that, Drew.  But I wonder if Hawthorne would feel the same way if he knew about the Internet.  It can be liberating to wear two faces - and who is to say which is the true face, and which is deception.


'Oh! what a tangled web we weave When first we practise to deceive!'

-- Sir Walter Scott

[Drew]

I like that, Drew.  But I wonder if Hawthorne would feel the same way if he knew about the Internet.  It can be liberating to wear two faces - and who is to say which is the true face, and which is deception.

True, true, indeed Random. I really like the way you think.

[MCT]

"I speak better English than this villain Bush"

--Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf, Iraqi Information Minister--

[Drew]

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein

[MCT]

"Don't switch horsemen mid-apocalypse"

--Anonymous--

[Doc Emmett Brown]

"When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge." - Albert Einstein

Feynman was great at that.  In addition to furthering the field of physics, he found time to learn to play the drums, take art lessons, learn Spanish, experiment with drugs, and frequent the seedy strip clubs of Pasadena  

Most commencement speeches at graduation ceremonies are yawn inducing, but here is a snippet of Feynman's (pardon the long quote, but it's really funny):

One time I sat down in a bath where there was a beautiful girl sitting with a guy who didnt seem to know her.  Right away I began thinking, "Gee! How am I gonna get started talking to this beautiful nude babe?"

I'm trying to figure out what to say, when the guy says to her, "I'm uh, studying massage.  Could I practice on you?"

"Sure", she says.  They get out of the bath and she lies down on the massage table nearby.

I think to myself, "What a nifty line! I can never think of anything like that!"  He starts to rub her big toe.  "I think I feel it", he says.  "I feel a kind of dent - is that the pituitary?"

I blurt out, "You're a helluva long way from the pituitary, man!"

They looked at me, horrified - I had blown my cover - and said, "It's reflexology!"

I closed my eyes and appeared to be meditating.

-- Caltech commencement address, 1974

It's his gift of irreverence that allows him to get away with talking about nude girls in a graduation speech.

[MCT]

I really like this one:

"Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend."

--Albert Camus--