• Haute-ations

    webIt’s sad how whole families are torn apart by simple things, like wild dogs – Jack Handey

    Since the beginning, not one unusual thing has ever happened – The universal law

    You know what they say the modern version of Pascal’s Wager is? Sucking up to as many Transhumanists as possible, just in case one of them turns into God. – Julie from Crystal Nights

    When the axe came into the woods, the trees said: ‘But at least the handle is one of us.’ – Turkish proverb

    The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water – John W. Gardner

    No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible – Voltaire

    Luck is statistics taken personally – Penn Jellete

    Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be. – Kurt Vonnegut

    A good friend will always stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde

    I believe I have found the link between animals and civilized man. It’s us – Konrad Lorenz

    Mr. Chamberlain likes to take weekends in the country. I shall take countries in the weekend — Adolf Hitler (apocryphal?)

    Death is not extinguishing the light; it is putting out the lamp because the dawn has come. — Rabindranath Tagore

    As a startup CEO, I slept like a baby. I woke up every two hours and cried. – Ben Horowitz

    We judge others by their actions, but we judge ourselves by our intentions – Ian Percy

    He uses statistics as a drunkard uses a lamppost: for support, not for illumination – G.K. Chesterton

    How delightful are the pleasures of the imagination! In those delectable moments, the whole world is ours; not a single creature resists us, we devastate the world, we repopulate it with new objects which, in turn, we immolate. The means to every crime is ours, and we employ them all, we multiply the horror a hundredfold. – Marquis de Sade