Quote Page

Here are some of my favourite quotes. I have now added some Portuguese ones.

We confused shopping with creativity
--Douglas Coupland, Generation X

People looking for a helping hand, tend to overlook the one at the end of their arm.
--Afred E. Neuman, MAD

Not knowing it was impossible, he did it.
--J. Rosseau

A Tiger is chasing you and your friend. You have only one chance - Trip your friend
--Found this in a Magic: The Gathering card

I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying
--Woody Allen

But ever the Noldor feared most the treachery of those of their own kin
--J.R.R. Tolkien, Silmarion

Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time
--Steven Wright

We assume that tomorrow is a new world
--Douglas Coupland, Microserfs

Technology does not always equal progress
--Douglas Coupland, Life After God

Fiquei esperando a vontade que sabia que não viria
I sat, waiting for the will I knew would never come
--Fernando Pessoa

Relations are a simply a tedious pack of people who haven't got the remotest knowledge of how to live, nor the smallest instinc about when to die
--Oscar Wilde, The Importance Of Being Earnest

It is awfully hard work doing nothing. However I don't mind hard work where there is no definite object of any kind
--Oscar Wilde, The Importance Of Being Earnest

We must be superior to mankind, superior in strenght, greatness of soul - superior in disdain
--Nietzche, Antichrist

God had given a tail to keep the flies off, but he would rather have no tail and no flies
--George Orwell, Animal Farm

It's easy being philosofical when it's some other cunt with shite, for blood
-- Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting

Irony is the price we paid for the loss of God
-- Douglas Coupland, Generation X

The world seems to be going crazy
-- The Unabomber Manifesto

Noble men don't commit sin
-- Friedrich Nietzsche, Birth Of Tragedy

Some things you have to lose along the way
-- Tindersticks, traveling light

Education is the organized defense by the adults agains youth
-- Found on a German postcard

On the 7th of November 1997, a thousand people around the world took their own lives. They remind us that we chose to live on the 8th of November
-- I'll have to check, I saw it in Bíblia, a portuguese arts fanzine

The only difference between a madman and myself is that I am not mad.
-- Salvador Dali

Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward
-- William E. Davinsen

UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things.
-- Doug Gwyn

vacation, n.: A two-week binge of rest and relaxation so intense that it takes another 50 weeks of your restrained workaday life-style to recuperate.
-- taken from slashdot.org

Later in this talk, I intend to define the universe and give three examples.
-- Larry Wall, inventor of the Perl programming language

It has been my experience that those with no vices have little virtues
-- Abraham Lincon

Maybe a lot of these quotations are not 100% correct. Some have been translated more than once, others were told to me by people, some I may have forgotten exacly the wordings.

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This page was last updated on the 12th February 2000