Saw this as a tagline and found it amusing:

"Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me the hell alone."

"The thing about opinions is you don't have to know anything to have one." - Andre Agassi

"We were both like, 'Yes, yes!' on the outside, and I think we were both on the inside like, 'I don't know?'" - Britney Spears' ex-husband, on their 48 hour marriage

(I'd better provide a link, in case you think I'm making that up: We married and then 'all hell broke loose:' Britney ex)

"The only thing that helps me maintain my slender grip on reality is the friendship I share with my singing potatoes." - Red Dwarf's "Holly"

This is one of my all-time favorite quotes/exhanges. It's from a Star Trek film (I'm not a Trekkie or a Trekker, but I've been watching Star Trek since I was a little child, when it was on the first time, and one of my earliest memories is of sitting on the floor in my pyjamas watching Mr. Spock on telelvision). The concept pretty much sums up one of my greatest beliefs:

Spock: You must have faith.
Savvik: Faith?
Spock: That the universe will unfold as it should.

The other thing I really, really, truly believe is that we get back what we give out and that we reap what we sow. Maybe not immediately, maybe not in ways that we even realize, but I truly believe it happens. This is a nearly universal concept in the religions and philosophies of the world, so I figure it resonates with an awful lot of people. It certainly does with me.

And now I have that Savage Garden song stuck in my head....

I believe in Karma what you give is what you get returned
I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned
I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side
I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye...

I reinstalled ICQ after ages of not having it. I like the lastest version. It's got some cool features. The coolest I've found so far is that I can send an SMS message via ICQ. I HATE having to type via the keypad on my phone, so I hardly ever send SMS messages, but hey, if I can type...

I think you prolly need to know my mobile number if you want to SMS me via ICQ, but if you have my ICQ number and you want to try, feel free. And, hey, if you have my ICQ number, you can ask for the mobile number if you really want it. The people on my ICQ list are all trusted by be so I know you're not going to call me up and telemarket or anything.

And speaking of mobile phones, I changed my ringtone (oooooohhh). I used to have Walzing Matilda, but I got really tired of it. So I had a look and changed it to the opening bars of Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, the chamber music (or is it a concerto?) by Mozart. You know the one. It goes... dum da dum da dum da dum da dum...

Saw this in a forum and found it amusing. Naturally, it was a political discussion:

Person A: Blind faith leads to too much trouble down the road.

Person B:Right. This from a guy who still believes in "Weapons of Mass Destruction"!

These have already been added to the random quote generator thingy. One of these days I'll get Andrew to write me a little script that will spew out the quotes all in one big page so people can read them all in one go if they want to. It is a 25Kb text file, though, so it's an awful lot of quotes.

Anyway, both of these are by Picasso, an artist whose work I appreciate but don't really like all that much for various reasons (yes, it's possible to appreciate things you don't like, and if you don't believe that, just go study art for a few years and you'll eventually be able to do it because theyll drill it into your head, heh).

"Every child is an artist, the problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." - Pablo Picasso

"My mother said to me, 'If you become a soldier, you'll be a general; if you become a monk, you'll end up as the pope.' Instead, I became a painter and wound up as Picasso." - Pablo Picasso