Favourite Quotes

[CuckFumbustion]

A few music related quotes I've grown to like.

Without music, life would be a mistake.
-Friedrich Nietzsche

“Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is not beauty.
Beauty is not love.
Love is not music.
Music is THE BEST.”
― Frank Zappa

"Written music is just black ants running across white paper and that scales were for fish and if you wanted to be a different fish you had to jump out of the school."
-Captain Beefheart

“If you develop an ear for sounds that are musical it is like developing an ego. You begin to refuse sounds that are not musical and that way cut yourself off from a good deal of experience.”
― John Cage

 

[grokit]

"One day the AIs are going to look back on us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa. An upright ape living in dust with crude language and tools, all set for extinction."

~ Nathan, Ex Machina​

 

[DDave]

Even if people want to vape it just to get high, they should have the right to to. I believe God put this plant on the Earth for the benefit of all mankind ( Meaning both the medical benefits as well as the mental and spiritual). In my opinion, declaring a war on marijuana is saying "Yes, he did put it here, but I think we know a little more than he does". - Author Unknown

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[Nooky72]

 

[Amoreena]

"Why is marijuana against the law? It grows naturally upon our planet. Doesn't the idea of making nature against the law seem to you a bit . . . unnatural?" - Bill Hicks

Edit: I found this while doing a search based on the quote @DDave posted above.

 

[placetime]

"Language is so small, and ridiculously cumbersome, and stupid."
-- Jerry Garcia

 

[CuckFumbustion]

Hustlers of the world, there is one mark you cannot beat: the mark inside. William S. Burroughs

Our national drug is alcohol. We tend to regard the use any other drug with special horror.
William S. Burroughs


Consider the impasse of a one-God universe. He is all-knowing and all-powerful. He can't go anywhere, since He is already everywhere. He can't do anything, since the act of doing presupposes opposition. His universe is irrevocably thermodynamic, having no friction by definition. So, He has to create friction: War, Fear, Sickness, Death, to keep his dying show on the road.

• • lyric from spoken-word recording "A One God Universe," featured on Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales, paraphrased by Burroughs from The Western Lands, p. 113.

“We have a new type of rule now. Not one-man rule, or rule of aristocracy or plutocracy, but of small groups elevated to positions of absolute power by random pressures, and subject to political and economic factors that leave little room for decision. They are representatives of abstract forces who have reached power through surrender of self. The iron-willed dictator is a thing of the past. There will be no more Stalins, no more Hitlers. The rulers of this most insecure of all worlds are rulers by accident, inept, frightened pilots at the controls of a vast machine they cannot understand, calling in experts to tell them which buttons to push.”

― William S. Burroughs, Interzone

 

[DDave]

"Why use up the forests which were centuries in the making and the mines which required ages to lay down, if we can get the equivalent of forest and mineral products in the annual growth of the hemp fields?"
o Henry Ford

 

[farscaper]

vices are tool of control, for a workforce without vices will desire less work.

 

[Nooky72]

 

[Enchantre]

"There's been an offer made for your house" - the realtor

 

[momofthegoons]

 

[grokit]

 

[CuckFumbustion]

Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble.
Joseph Campbell

God is a metaphor for that which transcends all levels of intellectual thought. It's as simple as that.
Joseph Campbell

Life is without meaning. You bring the meaning to it. The meaning of life is whatever you ascribe it to be. Being alive is the meaning.
Joseph Campbell

The privilege of a lifetime is being who you are.
Joseph Campbell

Joseph Campbell and the Power of Myth with Bill Moyers | Star Wars | PBS

May the force be with you. Always....

 

[DDave]

Loving Al Bundy!

"So you think I'm a loser? Just because I have a stinking job that I hate, a family that doesn't respect me, a whole city that curses the day I was born? Well, that may mean loser to you, but let me tell you something. Every morning when I wake up, I know it's not going to get any better until I go back to sleep again. So I get up, have my watered down Tang and still-frozen Pop Tart, get in my car with no upholstery, no gas and six more payments to fight traffic just for the privilege of putting cheap shoes on the cloven hooves of people like you. I'll never play football like I thought I would, I'll never know the touch of a beautiful woman, and I'll never again know the joy of driving without a bag on my head. But I'm not a loser. 'Cause despite it all, me and every other guy who'll never be what he wanted to be, are still out there, being what we don't wanna be, forty hours a week, for life. And the fact that I haven't put a gun to my mouth, you pudding of a woman, makes me a winner!"

Also, may have just won the contest for the longest quote on FC...

 

[grokit]

“Electric power is everywhere, present in unlimited quantities and can drive the world’s machinery without the need of coal, oil, gas or any other fuels.”

~ Nikola Tesla (1856-1943)​

 

[CuckFumbustion]

R. Buckminster Fuller quotes:
The earth is like a spaceship that didn't come with an operating manual.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

“Something hit me very hard once, thinking about what one little man could do. Think of the Queen Mary — the whole ship goes by and then comes the rudder. And there’s a tiny thing at the edge of the rudder called a trimtab. It’s a miniature rudder. Just moving the little trim tab builds a low pressure that pulls the rudder around. Takes almost no effort at all. So I said that the little individual can be a trimtab. Society thinks it’s going right by you, that it’s left you altogether. But if you’re doing dynamic things mentally, the fact is that you can just put your foot out like that and the whole big ship of state is going to go. So I said, call me Trimtab.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

 

[DDave]

R. Buckminster Fuller

Did he have a premonition of the future of the EQ?

Oh, and my quote....

If you don’t build your dream, someone else will hire you to help them build theirs. Dhirubhai Ambani

 

[CuckFumbustion]

Did he have a premonition of the future of the EQ?

Feel free to apply that quote to anything you like. @DDave Same goes with daring to be naive.
Keep asking the naive question, Why not? And you might become renown for a new idea.

Bucky is the most outside the box thinker I've come to respect since I was a teenager. He borrows a lot of geometry from nature in his designs. I could go on....

But here some quotes from another visionary Arthur C. Clarke aka [URL='https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sri_Lankabhimanya']Sri Lankabhimanya Sir Arthur Charles Clarke, CBE, FRAS [/URL]

Most know him from the book 2001: A Space Odyssey which would become the even more famous movie by Stanley Kubrick. Yea THAT MOVIE!

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
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The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.
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Arthur C. Clarke[/URL]

 

[CuckFumbustion]

Ok been 24 hours here. No posts here. So more quotes for you from writer R.A.W aka Robert Anton Wilson

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

Animals outline their territories with their excretions, humans outline their territories by ink excretions on paper.

The totally convinced and the totally stupid have too much in common for the resemblance to be accidental.
Robert Anton Wilson

“Is," "is," "is"—the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment.”(Referring to E-prime.)

 

[DDave]

If advertisers spent the same amount of money on improving their products as they do on advertising then they wouldn't have to advertise them.

Will Rogers

 

[lwien]

"Politics is the art of looking for trouble and finding it...everywhere."
----Groucho Marx

 

[CuckFumbustion]

Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying the wrong remedies.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Please accept my resignation. I don't care to belong to any club that will have me as a member.

From the movie Duck Soup.
Secretary of Labor: The Department of Labor wishes to note that the workers of Freedonia are demanding shorter hours.
Rufus T. Firefly: Very well, we'll give them shorter hours. We'll start by cutting their lunch hour to 20 minutes.

 

[grokit]