Bartlett's Quotes

Some of Ronnie's Favorite Quotes (probably not in Bartlett's)

"Life is short but Baseball is shorter"

- Sadaharu Oh, World's all-time home run champion

"Make no appointments and you'll have no disappointments"

- Swami Satchitananda, that funny little guy that was at Woodstock

"A man that ain't willin' to cheat for a poke don't want it bad enough"

- Augustus McRae in "Lonesome Dove" by Larry McMurtry

"You know why I call him Ozone Man ?" the president said. "This guy is so far out in the environmental extreme, we'll be up to our neck in owls and outta work for every American. He is way out, far out, man."

- George Herbert Walker Bush at a midday campaign rally in Michigan, October 29, 1992

"Before Gutenberg, language was freeze-stored in huge, expensive immovable-type manuscripts. These Iluminated Main Frames were located in the palaces of Pope, Bishop, King or Duke and guarded by socially-alienated nerds with security clearances who understood the arcane programmer language called Latin."

- From "The New Literacy : Electronic Language" by Dr. Timothy Leary

"By 2000, every human being over the age of five will be wearing cybergear and will require a constant flow of info-realities, digital data stored and accessed in hyper-text, open-architected repositories. Think of these as mountain ranges of archives, oceans of digital libraries, jungles of digitized images."

- From "The Virtual Realities of Timothy Leary", Upside April 1990

"And no matter how spacey and hallucinatory it may sound, we come to two unquestionable facts: the average American now spends seven hours a day peering through the window into the electronosphere, and 600,000 kids used their power gloves to stick their hands through that window last Christmas."

- From "The Virtual Realities of Timothy Leary", Upside April 1990

"Some Silicon Valley high-tech companies are like the Soviet Union under Brezhnev - still working on the centralized heavy industry model. With little concern for the individual home consumer. In many ways, Silicon Valley reminds me of a digital Detroit."

- From "The Virtual Realities of Timothy Leary", Upside April 1990

"Wish I knew everyone's nickname, all their slang and all their sayings. Every way to show affection, how to dress to fit the occasion .. Wish we all waved .. All waved .. All waved .. I wish we all! Wish we all! Wish we all waved .. "

- Jane's Addiction

"Verum est ... quod superius est sicut quod inferius et quod inferius est sicut quod superius, ad perpetrando miracula rei unius."
The truth is that what is above is like what is below and what is below is like what is above, to accomplish the miracles of the one thing.

- Hermes Trismegistus*

"Evidently he mainly liked to preach, fuck and play the guitar, preferences that are hardly unique in the annals of dipshit gurus."

- Larry McMurtry writing on David Koresh in "The New Republic" 7 Jun 1993

"So we bleed her just enough to try and provide for the less fortunate, but not enough to kill her. She's also a ravenous, myopic, and messy bird who would gobble up all the resources and crap all over the environment if left to her own devices. So we try and pen her up and limit her plate. And she responds by giving us smaller eggs. Now the goose is anemic. What to do, what to do?"

- Tim Ruckle on Capitalism as the goose that lays the golden egg

"We can't afford as a society to protect pedophiles and criminals today just to keep alive the far-fetched notion that some future tyrant will be brought down by guerrillas wearing bandoleers and pocket protectors and sending PGP-encrypted messages to each other across cyberspace."

- Stewart A. Baker, Chief Counsel for the National Security Agency

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*Cf. de Selby: "Footnotes are loved by academics, not because they are necessary, but because they are intimations of infinity: prose commenting on prose adumbrates mind contemplating mind and opens an exuberance of mirrors." Golden Hours, I, 33.