"1.21 gigawatts!" "All we are is dust in the wind, dude." "BRIDGE OUT! Either stop or really speed up!" "Being human totally sucks most of the time. Video games are the only thing that make life bearable." "I was just thinking of the immortal words of Socrates, who said 'I drank what?'" "Could You Describe The Ruckus, Sir?" "Does Barry Manilow Know That You Raid His Wardrobe?" "Don't Mess With The Bull, Young Man. You'll Get The Horns." "First do it, then do it right, then do it better." "For a bunch of hairless apes, we've actually managed to invent some pretty incredible things." "Goodness is something chosen When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man" "Growing up as a human being on the planet Earth in the twenty-first century was a real kick in the teeth. Existentially speaking." "Help me, Obi-Wan Kenobi. You're my only hope" "I Am The Eyes And Ears Of This Institution, My Friends." "I believe our adventure through time has taken a most serious turn." "I find your lack of faith disturbing." "I fought in the Vim-EMACS wars" "I know the future is scary at times. But there's just no escaping it." "Would you classify that as a design problem, or a launch problem?" "ICE IS NICE! Lazlo, buddy!" "I tried to keep my cool. I tried to remain skeptical. I reminded myself that I was a man of science, even if I did usually get a C in it." "I'd come to see my rig for what it was: an elaborate contraption for deceiving my senses, to allow me to live in a world that didn't exist. Each component of my rig was a bar in a cell where I had willingly imprisoned myself." "If my calculations are correct, when this baby hits 88 miles per hour, you're gonna see some serious sh*t." "If you strike me down I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine." "If you're gonna build a time machine into a car, why not do it with some style?" "Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?" "It Is Now 7:06. You Have Exactly 8 Hours And 54 Minutes To Think About Why You Are Here To Ponder The Error Of Your Ways." "It comes and goes. Some people have it for five seconds. Some their whole lives. He's a receiver now. Everything's coming in. He can't stop it, he can't slow it down, he can't even figure it out. It's like he's in a tunnel with a flashlight. But the light only comes on every once in a while. He gets a glimpse of something, but not enough to know what it is. Just enough to know it's there." "Its funny how the colors of the real world only seem really real when you watch them on a screen" "No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world." "No one in the world gets what they want and that is beautiful." "Oh, he's very popular Ed. The sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, bloods, wastoids, dweebies, dickheads - they all adore him. They think he's a righteous dude." "Oh, you beautiful babes from England, for whom we have traveled through time. Will you go to the prom with us in San Dimas? We will have a most triumphant time." "One person can keep a secret, but not two." "Only in their dreams can men be truly free. 'Twas always thus, and always thus will be." "Be excellent to each other, and party on, dudes." "Roads? Where we're going, we don't need roads." "Screws Fall Out All The Time. The World's An Imperfect Place." "She may not look like much, but she's got it where it counts, kid." "Strange things are afoot at the Circle K." "That the powerful play goes on, and you may contribute a verse." "That's no moon. It's a space station." "The ability to mute my peers was one of my favorite things about attending school online, and I took advantage of it almost daily." "We mustn't dwell. No, not today. We can't. Not on Rex Manning day!" "The difference between science and screwing around is writing it down" "The place is like a museum. It's very beautiful and very cold, and you're not allowed to touch anything." "There's that word again. 'Heavy.' Why are things so heavy in the future? Is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?" "We can destroy what we have written but we cannot unwrite it" "Were All Pretty Bizarre. Some Of Us Are Just Better At Hiding It; That's All." "What happens when you die? Well, we're not completely sure. But the evidence seems to suggest that nothing happens. You're just dead, your brain stops working, and then you're not around to ask annoying questions anymore." "When a man cannot choose he ceases to be a man" "Whenever I saw the sun, I reminded myself that I was looking at a star." "You can choose a ready guide in some celestial voice. If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice." "You don't live in the real world... You're like me. You live inside this illusion." "You don't need to see his identification...These aren't the droids you're looking for." "You'd be amazed how much research you can get done when you have no life whatsoever. Twelve hours a day, seven days a week, is a lot of study time." "You're probably wondering what's going to happen to you. That's easy. The same thing is going to happen to you that has happened to every other human being who has ever lived. You're going to die. We all die. That's just how it is." "You're still here? It's over. Go home. Go." "I'm not writing it down to remember later. I'm writing it down to remember NOW." "Type 'Cookie', You idiot." "Damn the Man! Save the Empire!" "'I want to see more of you around the lab.' 'Fine. I'll gain weight.'" "Ick invented a new virus and we're going to release it in Kent's room." "Now, then, as I so meticulously pointed out, the four most-used passwords are: love, sex, secret, and ...god. So, would your holiness care to change her password?" "It's in that place where I put that thing that time." "Beware: We have no authority over the Clown Room" "You're still here? It's over. Go home." "Pick up a notebook, look at it, make a choice. Your writing will ruin it. It will no longer be a blank slate with endless possibilities. That is life." "Syncing is the new backup. Spread stuff as widely as possible -- that way the nuke won't get it all." "Ideas rot if you don't do something with them. Don't hoard them." "All geeks have a todo.txt file. They use text editors (Word, BBEd, Emacs, Notepad) not Outlook or whathaveyou. JWZ wrote his answers to the questionnaire in his todo.txt Paul Ford has a 27k-line file for this" "Ironically, studies also show that the more a person trusts common sense, the more likely they are to be wrong." "Log off. Go to fridge and open it in hopes of seeing that something new and zany has spontaneously materialized. It hasn't. Go back to computer and log on in hopes that something new and zany has spontaneously materialized. It has." "Depression is just anger with no enthusiasm" "I like it when people remember that I'm here" "Insanity is looking in the mirror and wondering how the picture moves" "Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse! Betelgeuse!" "Last night I played a blank tape at full volume. The mime next door went nuts." "Every pizza is a personal pizza if you try hard and believe in yourself." "Fuckin' Gabe!" "The presence of those seeking the truth is infinitely preferred to the presence of those who think they've found it"