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Anonymous

The most expensive parts of a building are the mistakes.

- from Ken Follett's novel Pillars of the Earth

wikerprints (#1094741) on slashdot

We as a society of consumers have become so jaded by the way the rest of corporate America approaches profitability in a free-market system that we do get confused when a company doesn't believe that the easiest way to make money is to rape us for every last penny they can lie, cheat, and steal from us.

Anonymous

It's like the button in that show Lost. Except you have to push it every 108 seconds, and the code is different every time.

-- on being the parent to a two year old

Anonymous

Why would you have fries when you could have bacon fries?

Matthew Baldwin

If I'd known, in advance, that the TV show Lost would feature a bunch of people on a tropical island populated with temperate foliage, I never would have put it in my Netflix queue.

Marge Jetton, 101 years old

Life is 90 percent attitude, 10 percent circumstances.

Scientific American, May 1857

We believe that no particular use is made of the fluid petroleum, from the `tar springs’ of California, except as a lotion for bruises and rheumatic affections.  It has a pungent odor, and although it can be made to burn with a pretty good light, its smell is offensive. [...] If the offensive odor could be removed, a valuable and profitable business might be carried on in manufacturing burning fluid from it.

Anonymous

The possibility of burnt bacon is a risk we all face.  Eternal vigilance is the price of great bacon.

Brian Unger

These days, the Washington Beltway has more real agents of sleaze than Hollywood has really sleazy agents. 

--- On political propaganda about “Hollywood values”

Robert Greene

This term here is garbage. We're never going to know anything about this term so we garbagize it. But notice that this is fairly decent junk. But only with a piece of wild ingenuity.