“I’m not saying Secretary Paulson is Lex Luthor. I’m just saying $700 billion is exactly enough to build a death ray.
- Tim Siedell

And they’ll raise their hands,
Sayin’ we’ll meet all your demands,
But we’ll shout from the bow your days are numbered.
And like Pharaoh’s tribe,
They’ll be drownded in the tide,
And like Goliath, they’ll be conquered.
- Bob Dylan - When the Ship Comes In

My favorite poet was Aeschylus. He once wrote: “Even in our sleep, pain which cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God.”
- RFK addressing a crowd about the death of MLK, 40 years ago today

Capitalism without bankruptcy, it is said, is like Christianity without hell.
- The Economist

I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
- Barry Goldwater, 1964 Acceptance Speech

I think McCain is going to take South Carolina. People were going to vote for Huckabee until they realized that John is the only one who has the guts to handle the rattlesnakes at the evangelical churches.
- PJ O’Rourke on Real Time with Bill Maher

A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
- Douglas Adams

The start of [Heroes] season 2 is so bad that it retroactively ruins season 1. it’s kinda like Weezer’s 2005 release Make Believe, it’s so bad that it makes you re-evaluate the quality of their previous albums.
- me, commenting on ram’s blog

A 34-company committee couldn’t create a successful ham sandwich, much less a mobile application suite.
- on google’s mobile phone platform

“I had my own blog for a while, but I decided to go back to just pointless, incessant barking.”
- One dog talking to another.

I actually believe that illegal downloading, for a band like us, means that more people hear us. We don’t really make money off our record sales anyway. People have been giving us money lately: “Here’s ten dollars; I shouldn’t have downloaded your music illegally.” It’s funny, really.
- Aaron Dessner, bassist for The National

if it ain’t broken, break it.
- me, describing my office

Republicans sex scandals are getting to be like Iraqi car bombings. By the time you hear about one, there’s been another. Ted Haggard, Mark Foley, Bob Allen, Vitter, Craig… It’s like “Clue” only the answer is always “A Republican… in the washroom… with his cock.”
- Bill Maher

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
- John F. Kennedy

The supposed ‘clash of cultures’ is in reality nothing more than a manifestation of mutual ignorance
- The Aga Khan