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Sayings of Confusion
A book of quotations/sayings attributed to more logical or plausible personalities: | |
The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated. - Elvis Presley
Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it. – Hitler outside Moscow
I think, therefore I am. – HAL (Heuristically programmed ALgorithmic computer)
That which does not kill you makes you stronger.
– Osama Bin Laden
There is no such thing as a free lunch. – Marie Antoinette
There is no justice among men. – OJ Simpson
If I have seen further it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants. – parrot of Long John Silver and Captain Hook
It is better to have loved and lost than to never have loved before. – John Wayne Bobbit
(?) HAL wordplay on IBM?
http://www.urbanleg...ordplay_on_IBM.html
author of 2001, Arthur C Clarke, denies this [FarmerJohn, Jul 03 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
(??) The wisdom of supermodels
http://members.fortunecity.com/eilert2/
These are great as they stand! [madradish, Jul 04 2002, last modified Oct 21 2004]
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Sounds like something the Reader's Digest might come up with. But what an excellent Xmas gift to give to the pretentious and under-educated, as a heavily-veiled insult to their intelligence (if any). Hours of quiet malevolent sniggering as they actually regurgitate quotes from the book Gets my vote. |
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Factoid 1: The name of HAL, the computer in 2001 was derived not from "Heuristic Algorithmic Logarithmic" but by taking the letters preceding those of "IBM".
Factoid 2: Long John Silver's parrot was called Captain Flint.
Thank you. |
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excellent idea! breafast snack for you. |
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however, I disagree with the quote you gave OJ, try this one instead.... |
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"There's a sucker born every minute" -- OJ Simpson |
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Don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes. - Leon from Resident Evil |
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" 'You're in a computer game, Max' Funny as hell, it was the worst thing I could possibly imagine" - Max Payne |
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"It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars." -- [Garrison Keillor] Harry Potter |
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"I did not have sex with that woman" --- Boy George [Bill Clinton]
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"Read my Lips...." --- Mick Jagger [the first George Bush] |
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"One time, at band camp, I stuck a fl.." -- Monica Lewinsky |
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"Things are never so bad they can't be made worse." --- George W. Bush [Humphrey Bogart] |
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"It takes two people to tell the truth; one to say it and one to hear it." -- [Thoreau] Yasser Arafat |
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"Live and let live." - O. J. Simpson
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* "Say what you will about the ten commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them." [H.L. Mencken] ----- Bill Clinton, yet again. |
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* "I'm afraid I can't let you do that, Dave." [HAL 9000] ----- Paul Schaeffer. |
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"Que Sera Sera" ---Marty McFly |
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Factoid 3. Captain Hook never had a parrot.
Nice one sappho. Very subtle.
I'm surprised that nobody's had a go at Bill Gates yet. I thought that it was traditional with this sort of idea. How about...
"Would you really care if one of those dots suddenly stopped moving?" (Orson Welles) |
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re angel's first factoid: to this day, Clarke denies that as a coincidence. And also to this day, nobody believes him. |
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Arthur C Clarke factoid: As a child and young man, he was so mollycoddled that he had to be shown, in 1952 at age 35, how to get a glass of water from the tap (faucet). |
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<pet peeve> You people are misusing the word "factoid" as though it means something like "insignificant or minor fact." A factoid is now and always has been a lie that is widely believed to be true because it was printed, as in a newspaper or periodical. So when you used the word "factoid", you were only correct when you identified the urban legend of the IBM-HAL connection as such. Thanks for listening. Sorry to disturb you. Carry on.</pet peeve> |
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globaltorniquet, 'factoid' originally referred to a small newspaper 'filler' of unknown veracity. I see it commonly used in two different ways, both as 'something that appears to be a fact, but mighn't be' and as a 'small isolated fact'. It isn't a word I would use myself, because it isn't sufficiently precise. |
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gt, I have never heard of the word 'factoid' being used in that manner. I've always known it to mean 'a brief, somewhat interesting fact'. |
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Technology: No Place for Wimps! -- Bill Gates
[Scott Adams] |
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Beware so long as you live, of judging people by appearances. -- Cyrano de Bergerac [La Fontaine] |
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All art is quite useless. -- King of the Philistines [Oscar Wilde] |
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It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing. -- Ian Malcolm [Seneca] |
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Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality. -- Morpheus of "The Matrix" [Jules de Gaultier] |
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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. -- Big Brother, "1984" [Laurence J. Peter] |
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If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else. -- Dirk Gently [Laurence J. Peter] |
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There is no great genius without some touch of madness. -- John Nash [Seneca] |
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Nobody believes the official spokesman... but everybody trusts an unidentified source. -- Deep Throat [Ron Nesen] |
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Hmm. No fishbones until ravens had voted. That means that the auto-boner hadn't struck until that point. Hmm - ravens, I think your secret may be uncovered. |
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I don't recall lists being a no-no in the old days. |
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That wouldn't matter, but it's also a real suggestion underneath the list and the gratuitious pun and penis joke. |
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I'm with ravenswood on this one; the reattribution of statements to more "logical" sources is already happening. You'd have to do something else to distinguish yourself from the merely accidental misattributions that abound. |
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"He who talk much knows little, and he who talks little, knows much." - ANY politician |
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I have always understood "factoid" to mean a statement which is fact-like, but unverified. That would be consistent with its morphology. A small but interesting fact would be a a "factlet". |
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"Never in the course of human history has so much been owed by so many to so few" - Ben S. Bernanke [Winston Churchill] |
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