entombed in the shrine of zeroes and ones

"I'm the most orthodox Bayesian in the world."
        —Alan Dershowitz

Just saw AVATAR.  Probably my all-time favorite movie about Ewoks who tame and ride dragons.
                — Rob Neyer

I read the last few hundred pages [of Neal Stephenson's Anathem] while in bed with a fever, and I don't know if the ending was the book or the fever.
        — Adam Thornton

Nix: So if I wanted to get really *fast* at wiiing (damn horrible made-up words that don't fit English)...
Steve VanDevender: You took a noun and added "-ing" to it to make a verb.  What's more English than that?

"I say, follow your dreams!  Even if they're about a giant spider with your father's head and he keeps stealing your penis."

        — Dean Venture

I had this quote in my .signature some time ago:

[Ronald Reagan's] presidency always reminded me of a remark made by a woman to Heywood Broun following Secretariat's victory in the Triple Crown.  After the trauma of Vietnam and Watergate, she said, Secretariat had "restored her faith in humanity."  I like to think Reagan was the Secretariat of the eighties.
        — G. B. Trudeau

Braggadocio, in the 100% American [man] — "we won the war," "it is our duty to lead the world," and so on — is probably no more than a protective mechanism erected to conceal an inescapable sense of inferiority.

        - H. L. Mencken, 1923

Via William Gibson:

Q: How many Bush administration officials does it take to change a light bulb?

A: None.  There's nothing wrong with that light bulb.  There is no need to change anything.  We made the right decision and nothing has happened to change our minds.  People who criticize this light bulb now, just because it doesn't work anymore, supported us when we first screwed it in, and when these flip-floppers insist on saying that it is burned out, they are merely giving aid and encouragement to the Forces of Darkness.

        -- John Cleese

"Look, you can't trust any politician farther than you can throw them. But I'm short and a vegan, so you can throw me pretty far -- way further than anyone else. I'm Dennis Kucinich and I want to be your new, portable president."

-- calebbullen (here)

"Arrogant is holding your dick with four fingers. Pretentious is pissing on three of them."