%% "I think the plan tonight should be to have a really good time." -Kurt, Kerrville, TX 5.24.98 %% "I'm a petty bureaucrat. Low-paid, but slow-minded." -Japhet, dc 6.6.98 %% "I like living in a place that has character." -Uncle George, on Pennsylvania Dutch Country 6.8.98 %% "I see children as the art of God, with us as the tools." -Mom, Sorrento, Italy 6.21.98 %% "it's funny, you know, I can go for DAYS without salami." -dom, on italian breakfast, Sorrento, Italy 6.21.98 %% "Aw, he hooked us up." -Ben, Capri, Italy 6.22.98 %% "Man, I was fully from Connecticut out there today, at the beach... 'Hi, how ya doin'?'" -Ben, Cinque Terre, Italy 6.27.98 %% "If you don't stand for something, you will fall for anything." -Pietro, Ascoli Piceno, Italy 6.30.98 %% "In Italy, 'bad ass' has no meaning." -Pietro, Ascoli Piceno, Italy 6.30.98 %% "speeding 80 at best on Interstate 80 West through Friend, Nebraska the radio melted, dripping sound omni rock radio, getting down" -dom July 98 %% "Real music from real people." -Paul, Willits 8.2.98 %%"The common man marvels at uncommon things; the wise man marvels at the commonplace." -Confucious %% "Imagination is more important than knowledge." -Albert Einstien %% "Nothing is more unreal than unreal science fiction." -Norman Spinrad %% "If science fiction is the mythology of modern technology, then its myth is tragic." -Ursula K. LeGuin %% "Thinking is the activity I like best, and writing is simply thinking though my fingers." -Issac Asimov %% "It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety." -Issac Asimov %% "Science fiction deals with improbable possiblilities, fantasy with plausible impossiblities." -Miraim Ellen deFord %% "Being right means never having to say you're sorry." -Vernor Vinge %% "Science is made up of things that appear obvious after they are explained." -Frank Herbert %% "A writer is a perpetual notion machine." -David Gerrold %% "As a writer you are free. You are about the freest person that ever was. Your freedom is what you have bought with your solitude, your loneliness. You are in the country where you make up the rules, the laws. You are both the dictator and obedient populace. It is a country nobody has ever explored before. It is up to you to make the maps, to build the cities. Nobody else in the world can do it, or could ever do it, or will ever be able to do it again." -Ursula K. LeGuin %% "Faith strikes me as intellectual laziness." -Robert A. Heinlein %% "Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the twentieth century." -J.G. Ballard %% "'Cynical' is a term invented by optimists to describe realists." -Gregory Benford %% "Science fiction is that branch of literature that deals with human responses to changes in the level of science and technology." -Issac Asimov %% "I have no special talents.
I am only passionately curious." -Albert Einstein, in a letter to Carl Seelig 03.11.52 %% "It is not so important where one settles down... I myself have wandered continually hither and yon -- a stranger everywhere... The ideal of a man such as I am is to be at home anywhere." -Albert Einstein, in a letter to Max Born 03.03.20 %% "pound pound pound
work work work" -dom age 3, at Dad's workbench in NJ %% "I wanna wear a sign, 'I am capable of thanking people on our album.'" -Ken, Swarthmore 3.6.96
%% "Fellas, let's go to Italy." -Ken, Swarthmore 3.8.96 %% "Do tenors count as carry on items?" -Jon, JFK 3.9.96 %% "That's a wrap." -birge 3.11.96 %% "I'm currently digesting things that are currently digesting." -Morgan, after eating three live fishies, and a mussel, Italy 3.12.96 %% Good dinner last night
Only one thing was missing
I need a new heart
-hiaku by Morgan, Italy 3.13.96 %% "It's just like America, except with more garish backpacks." -Morgan, Italy 3.15.96 %% "Hey, Feet, this is your trusty Ken..." - Swarthmore 3.8.96 %% "Ah, for future reference, if any of you are ever planning on spending eight hours on a Saturday, ah, locked in a room with 300 nerds taking a multiple choice test, ah, I just wanna strongly advise against it." -Jove, Swarthmore 4.20.96 %% "Don't go to sleep to dream." -dom, Menlo Park, CA 5.10.97 %% "Willingness is a very attractive feature." -Fischer, NYC 5.26.97 %% "In the future, we'll all have wedgies." -Phil, Swarthmore 5.30.97 %% "I just feel like going around pulling missions." -Rob, Swarthmore 5.30.97 %% "Meat, basically, is pretty good." -Sacker 10.12.97 %% "Country music is like pornography, in like when it gets good, you start calling it 'folk' or 'bluegrass'." -Bill, Ben's roomate, Cambridge 10.15.97 %% "Phil is the only guy I know that's that chilled out about just chilling out." -dom, menlo park, ca 10.23.97 %% "I'm pretty good about talking myself into things... I usually just tell myself something once, and then I believe me." -Phil, Menlo Park 10.29.97 %% "Wait -- I'm just gonna keep eating em til I don't want any more..." -Ben, on pass the Grandmom's cookies!, pv 12.13.97 %% "There were some nice ones to be dropped in on." -Ben, on the waves, pv 12.14.97 %% "Yeah... this is either trash or art." -Justin, The Casa 1.3.98 %% "Don't let your self-consciousness punish others." -recording guy Al, El Grenada, CA 1.11.98 %% "Life's always changing; it's just a matter of degree." -dom, palo alto 3.31.98 %% "It's that whole sliced bread thing that I'm so psyched about, since way back when." -dom, palo alto 4.14.98 %% "Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin to be so quiet?" -Bob Dylan, 'Visions of Johanna' %% "You're dialed." -Wedge, South Lake 4.19.98 %% "I don't speak Starbuckese." -Ruta Maya employee, Austin, Texas 5.18.98 %%
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"What's this, Dom's Parking Lot Jam?" -Todd, HP 8.27.98
"... just your workday segue..." -dom
Come visit!" -Luke, to Rob on his Saturn, Santa Cruz 3.3.99 %% "The hardest thing is to balance the need to tell the truth with making it palatable... 'cause no one wants to hear the truth when they don't want to hear it." -dom, Boulder Creek 4.12.99 %% "Don't mistake questions for thinking!" -Dean, HP 4.12.99 %% "He's rapping too hard..." -Rob Dull, about Dr. Octagon, Phil's 6.4.99 %% "It's easy to regret,
hard to forget." -dom, Nantucket 07/08/99 %% "The pleasure of creating, and also of learning." -Nick, on jamming, SF 1.19.00 %% "no, no, I don't disagree!" -whoisjonfeldman cambridge, ma 03.04.2000 %% "I want 3 months of "I'm madly in love with this person's thinking." - Seymour cambridge, ma 04.29.2000 %% "That's a pretty good quote. I'm glad someone's keeping track..." -Ben, Cambridge 8/7/00 %% "What makes the computer different is that it's a learner's tool." -Seymour Papert 10.10.00, Maine State House %% "We're gonna have all the fun!" -mz 10/27/00 %% "I like contrast; whereas you taste nothing, you taste this crazy thing." -Fernando, 206 11/7/00 %% "Being judged on how well you learn really takes the fun out of it." -Birge, on having class 12.4.00 %% "Click harder!" - dom, to dalbir 08.19.03 %