wes’s most recent Quotables

If love is the answer, could you rephrase the question?

I do not find in orthodox Christianity one redeeming feature.

Villager: We have found a witch, may we burn her?
Crowd: Burn her!
Sir Bedevere: But how do you know she's a witch?
Peasant 3: Well, she turned me into a newt!
Sir Bedevere: A newt?
Peasant 3: ... I got better.

The whole of life is just like watching a film. Only it's as though you always get in ten minutes after the big picture has started, and no-one will tell you the plot, so you have to work it out all yourself from the clues.

Never judge a book by its movie.

Try not. Do... or do not. There is no try.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Did you ever notice that life seems to follow certain patterns? Like I noticed that every year around this time, I hear Christmas music.

Mr and Mrs Dursley, of number four, Privet Drive, were proud to say that they were perfectly normal, thank you very much.

The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.

Religion is about turning untested belief into unshakable truth through the power of institutions and the passage of time.

A learning experience is one of those things that say, "You know that thing you just did? Don't do that."

Here’s to the crazy ones. [...] They’re not fond of rules and have no respect for the status-quo. You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify, or vilify them but you can't ignore them because they change things. They push the human race forward and while some may see them as crazy, we see genius. Because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world are the ones who do.

Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing.

The cake is a lie.

Not in cruelty
Not in wrath
The reaper came today
An angel visited
this grey path
And took the cube away.

Because I could not stop for Death,
He kindly stopped for me;
The cube had food and maybe ammo.
And immortality.

Speaking of curiosity, you're curious about what happens after you die, right? Guess what? I know! You're going to find out first-hand before I can finish telling you, though, so I won't bother. I'll give you a hint: you're going to want to pack as much living as you possibly can into the next couple of minutes.

Please note that we have added a consequence for failure. Any contact with the chamber floor will result in an 'unsatisfactory' mark on your official testing record, followed by death. Good luck.

Remember, the Aperture Science 'Bring Your Daughter to Work Day' is the perfect time to have her tested.