"I'll keep a lookout for something shiny"

"I'm using a The Wilds"

"You imbeciles are deficient in the cognitive faculties requisite to fully comprehend the truth." -Zinn (Guild Wars)

"Do your best and let the rest take care of itself"--Justy Ueki Tylor, The Irresponsible Captain Tylor

"You shouldn't be asking HOW things are, given that we already know there is something..but rather WHY things are, as opposed to there being nothing."

"Information. That's the real power in this world." -Grandpa Smedry, Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians (pg. 98)

"I know that I'm right because I'm the only person humble enough to admit that I'm not." -Alcatraz Smedry, Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians (pg. 123)

"It has been my experience that most problems in life are caused by a lack of information. Maybe people just don't know the things they need to know. Some ignore the truth; others never understand it." -Alcatraz Smedry, Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians (pg. 222)

"In my experience, I've found it best not to judge what I <i> think</i> I'm seeing until I've had enough time to study and learn. Something that appears to make no sense may, actually, be brilliant." -Alcatraz Smedry, Alcatraz versus the Scrivener's Bones (pg. 139)

"The trouble with being different is that people start defining you by <i>what</i> you are instead of by <i>who</i> you are." -Kaz Smedry, -Alcatraz Smedry, Alcatraz versus the Scrivener's Bones (pg. 193)

"Okay, look. Horses are not more advanced than cars."

"Sure they are"

"Why?"

"Simple. Poop"

""Poop?"

"Yup. Wha do those slobomobiles make? Foul-smelling gas. What do horses make?"

"Poop?"

"Poop. Fertilizaer. You get to go somewhere, and you get a useful by product" -conversation between Alcatraz and Patty, pg. 67

"Humans are funny things. From what I've seen, the more we agree with someone, the more we like listening to them. I've come up with a theory. I call it the macaroni and cheese philosophy of discourse."

"I <i>know</i> what mac and cheese tastes like. Wouldn't it be more useful for me to talk to someone who likes something else? Maybe understanding what other people like about fish sticks could help me understand how they think." -Alcatraz, Alcatraz versus the Knights of Crystallia (pg. 206)

"Authors are the only people who get in trouble if they steal from others and try to hide it but get <i>praised</i> for stealing when they do it in the open." -Alcatraz, Alcatraz versus the Shattered Lenses (pg. 73)

"The more complex the things surrounding your life become--the homes, the vehicles, the things you put in your homes and your vehicles--the more time you must spend on them. And the less time you have for thought and study." -Mallo, Alcatraz versus the Shattered Lenses (pg. 104)

"Sometimes, it's difficult to understand how much change there is all around us. Even language changes, and the same word can mean different things depending on how, where, and when it was said."

"People change too. In fact, they're always changing. We like to pretend that the people we know stay the same, but they change moment by moment as they come to new conclusions, experience new things, think new thoughts. Perhaps, as Heraclitus said, you can never step in the same river twice...but I think a more powerful metaphor would have been this: You can never meet the same person twice." -Alcatraz, Alcatraz versus the Shattered Lenses (pg. 225)

""i work in this field of business (IT) and i know what the issue is...i've done all the troubleshooting and it's nothing you can solve over the phone...i'd like you to escalate the ticket""

""before you ask, i've already unplugged my equipment and let it sit...i plugged it back in and nothing worked...then i released and renewed my ip and that didn't help" it's nothing on my end, as i can connect to a neighbor's wireless internet""

"I, myself, have never worn nipple tassles." -China

"You know the economy's bad when even I pick up a penny."-China

"Peeing is like a thirst quencher in reverse." -China

"I don't know. I've never met all these people you speak of. And neither, I suspect, have you. They only exist in words we hear. It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their eyes and ears." --Zarniwoop, The Restaurant At The End Of The Universe

"Seba had always said that the past could never be changed and only a fool fretted about it, so he tried his best not to dwell on his mistakes and losses. But it was hard." - Palace of the Damned, The Saga of Larten Crepsley

"But we all must make our own mistakes in life. I hope his do not prove too costly, and that he learns from them and grows, as you grew from yours."-Seba from Palace of the Damned, The Saga of Larten Crepsley

"Truth is not a criticsm. I said nothing about him that is not true." -Larten to Evanna from Palace of the Damned, The Saga of Larten Crepsley (p. 197)

"You shouldn't be surprised. You've made mistakes and you'll make more if you live long enough. But you have tried to put them right. If you continue to do that, you'll be able to hold your head up proudly when your hour comes, and I don't believe any higher force will deny you the reward that awaits beyond." -Evanna to Larten from Palace of the Damned, The Saga of Larten Crepsley (p.197)

"A magician wandered along the beach, but no one needed him." -pg. 384 (Life, The Universe, And Everything)

"Zaphod did not want to tangle with them and, deciding that just as discretion was the better part of valor, so was cowardice the better part of discretion, he valiantly hid himself in a closet." -pg. 442 (Life, The Universe, And Everything)

"You gotta let go of that stuff from the past, 'cause it just doesn't matter. The only thing that matters is what you choose to be now." -Po, Kung Fu Panda 2

"What bothers me is seeing the depths people can sink to in order to get what they want...including me. Maybe I'm naive but I'm beginning to realize that mistakes are part of life. It's impossible to always know the exact right thing to do. What's important is how we recover from bad choices." -Marsh, Morpheus Road: The Blood (p. 160)