My wife and I were happy for twenty years. Then we met.
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1097763-my-wife-and-i-were-happy-for-twenty-year-then
Apr 232014
Apr 222014
Apr 212014
The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof.
Apr 202014
The only thing I knew how to do was keep on keeping on like a bird that flew……Tangled up in blue.
Apr 192014
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don’t rule out malice.
A version of this appears in the writings of science fiction author Robert A. Heinlein, but he probably based his on Hanlon or other writings published prior to his. In any case, Heinlein was kidding.
To conflate with Arthur C. Clarke (Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic),
Any sufficiently advanced stupidity is indistinguishable from malice.
Consider Skeptical Zen 101:
Step 1: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Step 2: Never attribute to stupidity that which might be adequately explained by a large set of circumstances you aren’t aware of.
Perhaps whatever it is you observed was not due to stupidity, nor to malice, but to the exercise of a failed sense of humor.
Apr 182014
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
– Arthur C. Clarke
Apr 172014
She’ll let you in her house
If you come knockin’ late at night
Shell let you in her mouth
If the words you say are right
If you pay the price
She’ll let you deep inside
But there’s a secret garden she hides.
– Bruce Springsteen, Secret Garden