Notes from Jackson

Started on Omninerd a long time ago. Took a leave of absence, and now I am back.

Quotes

Bertrand Russell

This does not, of course, prove that his conclusion is false; it proves only that he has given no valid reason for supposing it true

The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.

George Oscar Bluth, Jr.

I hear the jury’s still out on science.

I’m an ideas man, Michael. I think I proved that with [beep] mountain.

Scott Adams

No engineer looks at a television remote control without wondering what it would take to turn it into a stun gun. No engineer can take a shower without wondering if some sort of Teflon coating would make showering unnecessary. To the engineer, the world is a toy box full of suboptimized and feature-poor toys.

Steven Wright

Save the whales. Collect the whole set.

Stephen Colbert

Reality has a well known liberal bias.

Voltaire

Now, now, my good man, this is no time for making enemies (on his deathbed when asked by a priest to renounce Satan)