Quotes megathread

[cubinator]

"Shoot for the Moon. If you miss, you'll end up co-orbiting the Sun alongside Earth, living out your days alone in the void within sight of the lush, welcoming home you left behind." -Randall Munroe

 

[legoclone09]

1 minute ago, cubinator said:

"Shoot for the Moon. If you miss, you'll end up co-orbiting the Sun alongside Earth, living out your days alone in the void within sight of the lush, welcoming home you left behind." -Randall Munroe

 

That was deep.

Thanks Randall! I'll be sure to correct the kindergarten classes now.

[CAKE99]

"Ban EVERYONE!" Me on the Tachyon (a game) IRC chat

Here's the IRC chat, (I'm RaumKuchen, jrb0001 is a admin, (I think)):

[23:57] == RaumKuchen has joined #TachyonGame
[23:57] <HONK> hoi
[23:57] <RaumKuchen> HONK
[23:57] <HONK> !HONK
[23:57] <HONK> ban him
[23:57] <HONK> he's honking
[23:57] <jrb0001> ban yourself
[23:57] <RaumKuchen> HONK
[23:57] <HONK> noooo
[23:57] <RaumKuchen> I have a compromise
[23:58] <RaumKuchen> Ban EVERYONE!
[23:58] <HONK> kek
[23:58] <HONK> kok*
[23:58] <RaumKuchen> LITERALLY everyone
[23:58] <HONK> even bot?
[23:58] <HONK> and jerb?
[23:58] <RaumKuchen> yep
[23:58] <HONK> and lexus?
[23:58] <HONK> lexi*
[23:59] <RaumKuchen> "Ban EVERYONE!" RaumKuchen 8/7/2016

 

BTW that Kerbal emoji wasn't in the IRC chat, it just did that from the plain-text emoji I posted.

Edited August 7, 2016 by CAKE99

[MaxxQ]

English is the result of Norman men at arms trying to get dates with Saxon barmaids and is as legitimate as any other outcome of that activity. - H. Beam Piper

English doesn't borrow from other languages.  It forces them into a dark alley and goes through their pockets. - Unknown

America and England - two cultures separated by a common language. - Attributed to Churchill, or maybe Mark Twain... I've seen both

I'm not the world's most masculine man, but I know what I am and I'm glad I'm a man, and so is Lola - Ray Davies, The Kinks, Lola

[cubinator]

On 8/6/2016 at 9:12 PM, cubinator said:

"Shoot for the Moon. If you miss, you'll end up co-orbiting the Sun alongside Earth, living out your days alone in the void within sight of the lush, welcoming home you left behind." -Randall Munroe

 

Also, here's my own variation of the quote:

"Shoot for the Moon. If you reach the stars, you were going too damn fast!"

[TheSaint]

"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects." 
- Robert A. Heinlein

[p1t1o]

Ooh ooh! this one!

"Gentlemen, you can't fight in here, this is the War Room!"

- Peter Sellers/Stanley Kubrick, Dr. Strangelove.

[Wraith977]

On 8/7/2016 at 0:18 AM, kiwi1960 said:

(A civil war General at the height of battle.... Stands up, raises his sword... and says.....)

"Attack, my soldiers... they couldn't hit the side of a b........."

 

"What? Men dodging this way for single bullets? What will you do when they open fire along the whole line? I am ashamed of you. They couldn't hit an elephant at this distance…"
-  US general John Sedgwick's last words before being killed by a sniper.

 

My own personal favorite->

"To the strongest!" - Alexander the Great

[LordFerret]

"He's dead, Jim." - Dr. Leonard McCoy, Star Trek

[ZentroCatson]

The difference between a man and a monkey is, that a man uses tools.

^ My father often uses this quote, especially if things get stuck somewhere.

[Pixel of Life]

"Remember, kids - the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down."

- Adam Savage

[Xorth Tanovar]

"There will come a time when it isn't 'They're spying on me through my phone' anymore. Eventually, it will be 'My phone is spying on me'." - Phillip K Dick

 

Remember this next time you (or your kids) are playing Pokemon Go.

[StrandedonEarth]

"Come on and get one in the yarbles! If you got any yarbles..."

-A Clockwork Orange

[Robotengineer]

“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs." - John Rogers

[TotallyNotHuman]

Give a man a fish and he eats for a day. Give two men a fish and one will kill the other for the fish. ~unknown

Edited August 13, 2016 by TotallyNotHuman_

[insert_name]

If you put it off till the last minute it only takes a minute.

[hugix]

Do not believe everything that is on the internet
~Abraham Lincoln


Make a man a fire and he's warm for the night. set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life. 

[StrandedonEarth]

Common sense doesn't grow in everybody's garden - Unknown

[TotallyNotHuman]

"There's no problem that can't be solved by the proper application of MOAR BOOSTERS." - Jebediah Kerman

[r4pt0r]

Look well into thyself; there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look.

-Marcus Aurelius

 

 

[Green Baron]

 

"A big misfortune of the 20th century was that communism wasn't tried out on rats and mice beforehand"

Stanislaw Lem

 

[adsii1970]

"I love deadlines. I love that swooshing sound they make as they fly by..." Dave Berry

[Andem]

[Robotengineer]

"If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong." Richard Feynman 

[Jeb1969]

"Failure is not an option"- Eugene "Gene" Kranz

"Invention, my dear friends is 93% perspiration, 6% electricity, 4% evaporation, and 2% Butterscotch Ripple"- Gene Wilder from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)

"A spirit with a vision, is a dream with a mission"- Geddy Lee