The great quote sharing thread

"[The universe was made] by some snot-nose kid in their parent's basement in some alien civilization who's bored and they're more advanced than we are and they have way more computing power than we do, and so they program in enough detail to completely simulate every molecule in this universe and we are here for their entertainment. How else can you explain where things are going on just fine in the world and then all of the sudden there's a complete disruption. Culturally, politically, economically, a complete disruption! I think they throw it in for entertainment, that's what I think." - Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

Very applicable to 2017:



Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You know, there are some words I've known since I was a schoolboy: "With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censured, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." Those words were uttered by Judge Aaron Satie, as wisdom and warning. The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. I fear that today...

For full context, see the Star Trek TNG episode: The Drumhead

 

"Isoja kaloja kannattaa pyytää vaikkei saisikaan." meaning "Big fish are worth fishing even if you don't catch one." - Finnish proverb.

 

"Every account on reddit is a bot except you."

- Some bot on Reddit


Not necessarily inspiring or anything, but the thread it came from is super meta.

 

The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be. - Neale Donald Walsch

 

"Avant, j'étais vieux, vieillard, voire même vénérable. Aujourd'hui je suis retraité."

 

"what's the worse that could happen?"
-a deceased man

 

Forum language is English, please provide a translation before the mods show up and scold you ~

 

"Before, I was old, elder, even venerable. Now, I'm simply retired."

 

"Video my old enemy ! I thought you were dead !"

-Film

 

towards the end would probably be more fitting

 

I guess so

 

"You can trust a publisher as far as you can throw them" -Jim Sterling

 

"I'll show you a God who falls asleep on the job
And how can we win when fools can be kings?
Don't waste your time or time will waste you

No one's gonna take me alive
The time has come to make things right
You and I must fight for our rights
You and I must fight to survive"

"And I've had recurring nightmares
That I was loved for who I am
And missed the opportunity
To be a better man"

-Muse, Knights of Cydonia and Hoodoo (in order), written and sang by Matt Bellamy.

 

"Are you trying to change my gender?" - My friend.

Anything's a quote if you take it out of context.

 

I'm more interested in your reply and how you planned on accomplishing your task

 

Its kinda silly. Anything that anyone said ever is a quote, whether its in context or not.

 

That is literally what a quote is, what someone else once said.