'Will [ ] allow us to better understand each other and thus make war undesirable?' is one that pops up whenever we invent a new communication medium.

'Look to my coming on the fifth day. At dawn, look to the east.' 'And look to the west to see our shadows!'

'Sorry, I left out my glass of water from last night.' OH GOD I APPARENTLY LIVE IN A GARBAGE PIT.

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It IS about physics. It ALL is.

If the flyers don't work, we'll switch to the LEAST subtle method of informing a town of the existence of a trebuchet club.

It can take a site a while to figure out that there's a problem with their 'report a bug' form.

I'm pretty sure I've logged more hours in Google Maps over the past decade than in any game.

And it says a lot about you that when your friends jump off a bridge en masse, your first thought is apparently 'my friends are all foolish and I won't be like them' and not 'are my friends ok?'.

A human is a system for converting dust billions of years ago into dust billions of years from now via a roundabout process which involves checking email a lot.

If I click 'no', I've probably given up on everything, so don't bother taking me to the page I was trying to go to. Just drop me on the homepage. Thanks.

I think I could spend hours just stepping on and off of conveyor belts moving at various speeds.

'Yeah, that squid's a total asshole.' [scoot scoot]

NO FATE BUT THE NARRATIVES WE IMPOSE ON LIFE'S RANDOM CHAOS TO DISTRACT OURSELVES FROM OUR EXISTENTIAL PLIGHT

'Broom first, then slippers.' 'How do I know you'll return the broom once you've secured your ticket?' 'I'll leave my little dog as collateral.' 'Great. Pleasure doing business!'

If at first you don't succeed, that's one data point.

For all we know, the odds are in our favor.

Feynman recounted another good one upperclassmen would use on freshmen physics students: When you look at words in a mirror, how come they're reversed left to right but not top to bottom? What's special about the horizontal axis?

Umwelt is the idea that because their senses pick up on different things, different animals in the same ecosystem actually live in very different worlds. Everything about you shapes the world you inhabit--from your ideology to your glasses prescription to your web browser.

You should talk to the girl down the hall; I think you'd like her. Lemme know if you find out why she's ordering all those colored plastic balls.

'How could you possibly think typing 'import skynet' was a good idea?'

The universe is probably littered with the one-planet graves of cultures which made the sensible economic decision that there's no good reason to go into space--each discovered, studied, and remembered by the ones who made the irrational decision.

I really shouldn't abuse that power so heavily.

If you're interested in the subject, Lawrence Lessig's 'Free Culture' is pretty good

No two adjacent circles are the same color.

'Pick you up at eight?' 'Nine. I've got to re-mine the driveway.'

Having a positive attitude is almost tautologically good for your mental health, and extreme stress can hurt your immune system, but that doesn't mean you should feel like shit for feeling like shit.

I'm just trying to explain, please don't be jealous! Man, why are all my relationships ruined by early 90's rappers?