I'll be moving to Redwood City, CA in a week, so forgive me if I don't get a regular post out every day between now and then.  As a substitute offering, some items from my (offline) quotesfile:

"It appears to be a quite general principle that, whenever there is a randomized way of doing something, then there is a nonrandomized way that delivers better performance but requires more thought."
       -- E. T. Jaynes

"When you're young, you look at television and think, There's a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that's not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly what they want. That's a far more depressing thought. Conspiracy is optimistic! You can shoot the bastards!"
        -- Steve Jobs

"Saving a drowning child is no more a moral duty than understanding a syllogism is a logical one."
        -- Sam Harris, The End of Faith

"I often have to arrange talks years in advance. If I am asked for a title, I suggest “The Current Crisis in the Middle East.” It has yet to fail."
        -- Noam Chomsky

"We don't do science for the general public. We do it for each other. Good day."
        -- Renato Dalbecco, complete text of interview with H F Judson

"Most witches don't believe in gods. They know that the gods exist, of course. They even deal with them occasionally. But they don't believe in them. They know them too well. It would be like believing in the postman."
        -- Terry Pratchett, Witches Abroad

"He didn't reject the idea so much as not react to it and watch as it floated away."
        -- David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest

"People can't predict how long they will be happy with recently acquired objects, how long their marriages will last, how their new jobs will turn out, yet it's subatomic particles that they cite as "limits of prediction." They're ignoring a mammoth standing in front of them in favor of matter even a microscope would not allow them to see."
        -- Nassim Taleb, The Black Swan

"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away."
        -- Philip K. Dick

"How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
        -- Abraham Lincoln

"Faced with the choice of changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof."
        -- John Kenneth Galbraith

"I'd rather live with a good question than a bad answer."
        -- Aryeh Frimer

"It ain't a true crisis of faith unless things could just as easily go either way."
        -- bunnyThor

"My best test for a libertarian so far is to ask what needs to be done to protect ancient sequoias.  If you say you need to buy them, you pass."
        -- Rafal Smigrodzki

"Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial."
        -- Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science

"Some people know better, and they still make the mistake. That's when ignorance becomes stupidity."
        -- Aaron McBride

"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
        -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. Intelligence is not trying."
        -- Unknown

"Altruistic behavior: An act done without any intent for personal gain in any form. Altruism requires that there is no want for material, physical, spiritual, or egoistic gain."
        -- Glossary of Zen

"The primary thing when you take a sword in your hands is your intention to cut the enemy, whatever the means. Whenever you parry, hit, spring, strike or touch the enemy's cutting sword, you must cut the enemy in the same movement. It is essential to attain this. If you think only of hitting, springing, striking or touching the enemy, you will not be able actually to cut him. More than anything, you must be thinking of carrying your movement through to cutting him."
        -- Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

"You can win with a long weapon, and yet you can also win with a short weapon. In short, the Way of the Ichi school is the spirit of winning, whatever the weapon and whatever its size."
        -- Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

If you're seeing this, it means that I've moved, but that my Internet access isn't set up yet.  I've set up quotes to be posted automatically for the next few days.  Don't be surprised if I don't respond to comments!

"Perfection is our goal. Excellence will be tolerated."
        -- J. Yahl

"Morality is objective within a given frame of reference."
        -- Gordon Worley

"If there were a verb meaning "to believe falsely," it would not have any significant first person, present indicative."
        -- Ludwig Wittgenstein

"It takes 50 years for your parents to mature enough that they see you as an independent person."
        -- Ralph Lewis

"Gnostic: Knowledge that is so pure that it cannot be explained or proven wrong."
        -- Glossary of Zen

"I haven't been wrong since 1961, when I thought I made a mistake."
        -- Bob Hudson

"Sometimes I envy that groundless confidence."
        -- Vandread

"I remember when I first learned the word 'omniscient'. I thought that was a reasonable goal to aim for."
        -- Samantha Atkins

"Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess."
        -- Ben Goertzel

"People don't buy three-eighths-inch drill bits. People buy three-eighths-inch holes."
        -- Michael Porter

"I feel more like I do now than I did a while ago."
        -- Arifel

"Know thyself, because in the end there's no one else."
        -- Living Colour, Solace of You

"Student motivation? I'm gonna start hooking you all up to electrodes."
        -- Kevin Giffhorn

"A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral."
        -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery

"Like a lot of people in the computer industry, Keith Malinowski had spent his whole life being the smartest person in the room, and like most of his fellows the experience left him with a rather high opinion of his opinions."
        -- Rick Cook, The Wizardry Quested

"The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to."
         -- George Bernard Shaw

"Beware `we should...', extend a hand to `how do I...'"
        -- Alan Cox

"I assign higher credibility to an institution if liberals accuse it of being conservative and conservatives accuse it of being liberal."
        -- Alex F. Bokov

"An open mind is a great place for other people to dump their garbage."
        -- Rev. Rock, Church of the Subgenius

"A world ought to have a few genuine good guys, and not just a spectrum of people running from bad to worse."
        -- Glen Cook, A Shadow of All Night Falling

"You couldn't get a clue during the clue mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance."
        -- Edward Flaherty

"We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there."
        -- Dana Gould

"Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come."
        -- Matt Groening

"Things do get better, all the time, maybe just not as fast as I'd like. I do what I can. Don't ask me to hate, too."
        -- Michael Wiik

"Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been far too long."
        -- Gene Cernan

"Man, you're no smarter than me. You're just a fancier kind of stupid."
        -- Spider Robinson, Distraction

"Each problem that I solved became a rule which served afterwards to solve other problems."
        -- Rene Descartes, Discours de la Methode

"Faith is Hope given too much credit."
        -- Matt Tuozzo

"Your Highness, I have no need of this hypothesis."
        -- Pierre-Simon Laplace, to Napoleon, explaining why his works on celestial mechanics made no mention of God.