Quote Junkie: Thus do we refute entropy

The Real World: Venus vs. Mars is running a post from my archives today about clutter and compatibility ... stop by and leave your two cents, won't you?





Meanwhile, back at the ranch ...

Quote junkie strikes again! I'm in a Spider Robinson kind of mood. If you’ve been to Callahan’s Place, you’ll probably recognize some of these. If you’ve never been to Callahan’s … I’m sorry.

Shared pain is lessened, shared joy increased, thus do we refute Entropy.

Never attribute to malice, that which can be reasonably explained by stupidity.

A beginning is the end of something, always.

Anger is just fear dressed in drag.

… in love, never settle … value yourself first and this will help you to value others … life is short, so enjoy it to the fullest … everyone in the world is different, and that’s ok ...

Sometimes I think I must have a Guardian Idiot. A little invisible spirit just behind my shoulder, looking out for me ... only he's an imbecile.

"Rupture" occurs when you think you are in the middle of a conversation with someone...and suddenly discover that you've merely been making noises at each other, that there is a previously unsuspected chasm between you.

...one of the secret masters of the world: A librarian. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

And I repeat: if there is anything that can divert the land of my birth from its current stampede into the Stone Age, it is the widespread dissemination of the thoughts and perceptions that Robert Heinlein has been selling as entertainment since 1939.

Science fiction is the only genre I've discovered that assumes there's going to be a future.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

The delusion that one's sexual pattern is The Only Right Way To Be is probably the single most common sexual-psychosis syndrome of this era, and it is virtually almost always the victim's fault. You cannot acquire this delusion by observing reality.

This is what it is to be human: to see the essential existential futility of all action, all striving -- and to act, to strive. This is what it is to be human: to reach forever beyond your grasp. This is what it is to be human: to live forever or die trying. This is what it is to be human: to perpetually ask the unanswerable questions, in the hope that the asking of them will somehow hasten the day when they will be answered. This is what it is to be human: to strive in the face of the certainty of failure. This is what it is to be human: to persist.

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increase - thus do we refute entropy.

Just as there are Laws of Conservation of Matter and Energy, so there are in fact Laws of Conservation of Pain and Joy. Neither can ever be created or destroyed.
But one can be converted into the other.