Matthew d'Alessio

Life

• Earth is a Beginning, Death is a Destination, and Life is a Journey.
• "The meaning of life? That's simple. Try to be happy, try not to hurt other people, and hope to fall in love." -- Mallory Keaton
• "If the human brain were simple enough for us to understand, we would be too simple to understand it."
• So do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will bring worries of its own. Today's trouble is enough for today. - Matthew 6:34
  "Oh my gosh, it's tomorrow!!!!!!" - Matthew d'Alessio
• All the darkness in the whole world can not put out the light of a single candle. -- Billy Graham
• "It is not for you to complete the work, but neither are you free to desist from it." -- Lo Alecha
• The only thing worth dying for is life itself.
• "It's not true that nice guys finish last... Nice guys are winners before the game even starts." -- Walber
• "It is people who live by the rules that are always hoping to get them changed." -- Robert Harbison
• "It's Digital Darwinism -- Some of us are 1's and some of us are 0's" -- George Coates
• "May I ask you," inquired the elevator in its sweetest, most reasonable voice, "if you've considered all the possibilities that down might offer you?"
• Enjoy the weather; Enjoy the summer, Enjoy Life!!!!
• Life's a game. And I'm on today's high scores list!
• "Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness"
• "Life, the Universe, and Everything"

Thought and Thinking

• "Why? I want you to Tell me Why?" -- The Twilight Zone
• "All men naturally desire knowledge." -- Aristotle
• "Opinion says hot and cold, but the reality is atoms and empty space." -- Democritus
• The Truth? Which truth? The truth that you believe, the truth that you want, or the truth that is?
• "There is a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line." -- Levant
• "A man's dreams are an index to his greatness." -- Zadok Rabinwitz
• "True and great love springs out of great knowledge, and where you know little you can love but little or not at all." -- Leonardo da Vinci
• "Wir sind gewvhnt da_ Leute verhvhnen was sie nicht versthehen." (We are aware that people will scoff what they do not understand).
• "Less than fifteen per cent of the people do any original thinking on any subject.... The greatest torture in the world for most people is to think." -- Luther Burbank
• "There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking." -- Alfred Korzybski

God and Religion

• "The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it." -- Albert Einstein
• "My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." -- Albert Einstein
• "Maybe this world is another planet's hell..." -- Aldous Huxley
• "If there is no God, who pops up the next Kleenex?" -- Art Hoppe
• "There is no problem too great a good miracle can't solve..."
• "It may be that our role on this planet is not to worship God but to create him." -- Arthur C. Clarke
• "The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind."

Technology

• "They have Minds and Wills! They have Memory Tracks, You see..." -- The Twighlight Zone
• When asked what it felt like before an Apollo launch: "You're lying on your back...thirty-five stories in the air... on top of six million pounds of parts and fuel.. all submitted by the lowest bidder."
• "90 percent of anything is crap, but the other 10 percent is worth dying for." -- Theodore Sturgeon on Popular Culture and the Internet
• "Contrary to popular belief, UNIX is very user friendly. It's just very selective about who it's friends are."
• There are an infinite number of UNIX commands. I'm certain of this. Much like many people theorize that God is infinite, so do I believe about UNIX!

Geology

• "The primary role of the geologist is to recognise the existence of phenomena before trying to explain them" -- B.M. Keilhau, 1828
• "Most of you probably don't know what dikes and joints are ... at least in the geologic sense." -- Prof. David Pollard
• "Isodopy: It's legal in California." -- Prof. Jonathan Stebbins
• "Imagine we have data..." -- Prof. Steven Gorelick
• "Another major cause of erosion is cows... with nothing to do." -- Prof. Keith Loague
• How to minimize the impact of a volcanic eruption already in progress... ...Run.

Quotes From Things I've Read and Seen

• "When you lose a son, you can always get another. But there is only ONE Maltese Falcon." -- The Maltese Falcon.
• "You must never take it beyond the seal -- that is the price of immortality." -- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• "Porque tu crees que el tiempo cura y las paredes tapan, y no es verdad, no es verdad." -- Bodas de Sangre
• "Un paraguas cerrado es tan elegante come es feo un paraguas abierto" - Niebla
• "The Dream is pleasant. Reality is a nightmare." -- MASH
• "All animals are created equal, but some animals are more equal than others." -- Animal Farm
• "Big Brother is watching you." -- 1984
• "It was a bright cold day in April and the clock was about to strike thirteen."
• "In the beginning, the Universe was created. This made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." -- Douglas Adams
• "You know what your problem is, Winston. You're deranged." -- 1984
• "My GOD, it's full of Stars!" -- 2001
• "What are you doing, Dave" -- 2001
• "From the left its dissolution looks like a major missed opportunity. From the right its dissolution looks like a slaying of the socialist monster in its crib before it could grow to maturity and do any damage." -- John M. Levy, Contemporary Urban Planning. On the dissolution of the National Resource Planning Board, a Depression era government agency charged with making an inventory of the nation's natural resources.
• "...a learned treatise on the entomology of the Pentateuch, including all the insects not mentioned, but probably met with by the Israelites in their passage through the desert; with a monograph on the Ant, as treated by Solomon, showing the harmony of the Book of Proverbs with the results of modern research. You don't mind my fumigating you?" -- Middlemarch by George Elliot

Quotes From My Life

• Conceptual Mack Truck!!!
• "Auditted Finacial Statements are available from the Business Office." -- The Branson School
• The world is not Black & White, its just a very very very dark shade of gray." -- D.F.D.
• "Who's Aviva?"
• He goes through money like it were paper!
• "I wasn't drinking... I just had a few drinks..."
• "Sam, Put the Gun down!" -- Chip Dietrich
• If I didn't blow things up so often, I'd never have anything to fix.
• SAREX...It's just like SEX, but with an AR inbetween!
• "You can't predict the weather in Indiana..." - Security Guard at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, SunRayce97
• Zadok Lives!
• Ahhh! A mosquito bit me!
• Einstein said that one letter, e, equals another letter, multiplied by another letter, multiplied by itself. Well, WHO CARES?!?!
• All this at the flip of a switch? But WAIT there's more! It Slices, It dices, and now you get the Free Ginsu Knife set!....

Random

• "I have reached an age when, if someone tells me to wear socks, I don't have to." -- Albert Einstein
• "Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth." -- Hellman
• "I'm your leader! Don't Follow me!" -- George Coates
• "The Anarchist's cookbook? What is that? Do you read the recipes and then refuse to follow them?" -- Time Magazine
• "Few things are more satisfying than seeing your own children have teenagers of their own." -- Doug Larson
• "Give me the luxuries of life and I will willingly do without the necessities." -- Frank Lloyd Wright
• Stanford Women's Basketball: "It's not a team, it's an army." -- Vanessa Nygaard
• "Space is a concept you just have to believe...in." -- Prof. Dave Barnett
• "St. Peter, on my judgment day, will not ask me about the B-2 or my defense votes. He will ask me about my vote to protect innocent human life..." -- Robert Dornan, Presidential Candidate; When questioned about the apparent contradiction between his unwavering support for unchecked military spending and unwavering opposition to abortion