bytehead’s most recent Quotables

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Don't immanentize the eschaton!

Remember that not getting what you want is sometimes a wonderful stroke of luck.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

You can have the project:

Done On Time
Done On Budget
Done Properly
Pick two.

The best way to complain is to make things.

Which is it, is man one of God’s blunders or is God one of man’s?

Theology is never any help; it is searching in a dark cellar at midnight for a black cat that isn’t there. Theologians can persuade themselves of anything.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own; a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms.

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.

All Bibles are man-made.

I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, "If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?" "No," said the priest, "not if you did not know." "Then why," asked the Eskimo earnestly, "did you tell me?"

We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

One man’s magic is another man’s engineering. Supernatural is a null word.

The important thing is not to stop questioning.

My advice for the decade ahead is to consider basic human needs that go back millennia. It was by serving those needs that current technologies such as the cellphone and social networks have been able to succeed.

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

Burn the land and boil the sea.
You can't take the sky from me.

Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size do you?