Peter Clemenza: Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
– and improvised, no less!

XML is like violence. If it doesn’t solve your problem, you aren’t using it enough.

“You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocketship underpants don’t help”

– Calvin

“Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.”

(from)

It was always my hope, in writing novels and stories which asked the question “What is reality?”, to someday get an answer. This was the hope of most of my readers, too. Years passed. I wrote over thirty novels and over a hundred stories, and still I could not figure out what was real. One day a girl college student in Canada asked me to define reality for her, for a paper she was writing for her philosophy class. She wanted a one-sentence answer. I thought about it and finally said, “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” That’s all I could come up with. That was back in 1972. Since then I haven’t been able to define reality any more lucidly.

– Philip K. Dick, How to build a universe that doesn’t fall apart in two days

We don’t have to save the world. The world is big enough to look after itself. What we have to be concerned about is whether or not the world we live in will be capable of sustaining us in it.

– Douglas Adams, Speech at The University of California

The rocking horse said..

“When a child loves you for a long, long time, not just to play with, but really loves you, then you’ve become Real.”

The best thing to do when you’re already in a deep hole is to stop digging.

Apparently another edition is coming out, this time the Real Final Directors Actual Cut, or something. Blade Runner: Final Cut. Of course, so many good lines but near the end one that cannot be missed:

“I don’t know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody’s life, my life. All he’d wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die.”

OKay, this is a little gamer-centric so I’ll explain. Black Mage sees something stupid in the world, and then exclaims:

I’d cry, but there aren’t enough tears.

That riff always makes me laugh. Just like Not yours in Fark or seeing lolkitty or Cliche Kitty.

Aside: Star Wars Lego (For PSP) really does rock. Screw you naysayers!

It came up today; it bears repeating:

Cut word lines
Cut music lines
Smash the control images
Smash the control machine.
– William S. Burroughs