"It's not a real conflict; it's a scholarly conflict."
Quotes
Interesting things said in my presence
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other categories found with "profoundness": wisdom (6), linguistics (5), stupidity (5), gradschool (4), computers (3)
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[edit] added: 13 January 2009
(16:45:41) kesuari: there's a whole ton of different types of most linguistic things
[edit] added: 26 March 2008
Thatcher: "The funniest quote of the night was:
"Thatcher: ‘Do you want a valium?’
Jonathan: ‘What's that?’
Jonathan: "I have enough quotes of myself under stupidity. Though all my friends seem to think that when I say something that should be under stupidity, I put it under wisdom or profoundness instead."
[edit] added: 18 July 2007
(21:43) Tristan: you realise of course that what you're doing here is filing bugreports for linguistic theories, which are kind of like computer programs
(21:43) Tristan: so the "maintainers" are probably going to call you mad
[edit] added: 11 April 2007
Jonathan: "Maybe they just think that */p/ turned to /b/ in Germanic. But it only went half way."
Derek: "Yeah, that's how they got þorn."
[edit] added: 1 March 2007
Jonathan: "Kazakh isn't that hard—I don't know why all the materials that teach it are so bad."
Ardak: "I think it's because the Soviet system made things unnecessarily complicated."
[edit] added: 28 October 2006
Jonathan: "That's what weekends are for: taking care of stuff that got out of hand during the week."
Rianna: "Yeah, like sobriety."
[edit] added: 2 June 2006
Jonathan: "You know how the saying goes, three Jews in a room, four opinions."
Rianna: "Three Americans in a room, two opinions. I mean, I'd rather be stereotyped as having lots of opinions instead of…not thinking."
[edit] added: 14 March 2005
(06:23:29) Jess: i like anthropology much more for the way it thinks, rather than what it thinks about
[edit] added: 23 November 2004
"Don't confuse your inability to learn the operating system with problems with the operating system itself."
[edit] added: 28 September 2004
Jonathan: "Well, emacs has its advantages..."
Aaron: "Yeah, like it's an operating system. I'd rather use emacs as my OS than Windows."
[edit] added: 28 February 2004
"Yo ho ho and a bottle of peppermint schnapps."
[edit] added: 17 December 2003
Jonathan: "That peppermint ice cream would probably be good with some of those mint hershey's kisses melted and dribbled on top."
Hannah: "Ugh.. ... Mmmm...."
[edit] added: 7 July 2003
(22:54:31) [Vickie]: it always annoyed me that the american school system completely ignored studying english the way they study biology
(22:54:45) [Vickie]: dissect the hell out of it
[edit] added: 4 June 2003
(15:26:28) Kathryn: heh, that's so true
(15:26:36) Kathryn: esp. when it's something i said
(15:26:48) Kathryn: like, everything i say is under stupidity or hormones or both
(15:27:02) [me]: that's going up too
(15:27:19) Kathryn: yeah, under stuipdity and hormones
(15:27:24) Kathryn: put it under profoundness!
(15:27:26) Kathryn: i dare you
[edit] added: 4 June 2003
(15:21:01) Qatharsis: How come a quote is "profoundness" when it's by you, but "stupidity" otherwise?
[edit] added: 6 May 2003
"How do you know what your thesis is about until you have it formulated? That's what's so bad about theses—they're paradoxes."
[edit] added: 30 April 2003
"George Lucas was a starving artist. Now he's fat."
[edit] added: 10 April 2003
"If I sing `We all live in a blue submarine', it's not another song."
[edit] added: unknown
"Eye is in the beauty of the beholder."
[edit] added: unknown
"Have you ever fought an idea, Picard? It has no weapon to destroy, no body to kill!"