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| Actor Real Name Boris Karloff William Henry Pratt Cary Grant Archibald Leach Edward G. Robinson Emmanual Goldenburg Gene Wilder Gerald Silberman John Wayne Marion Morrison Kirk Douglas Issur Danielovitch Richard Burton Richard Jenkins Jr. Roy Rogers Leonard Slye Woody Allen Allen Stewart Konigsberg | |
| Ed Sullivan will be around as long as someone else has talent. -- Fred Allen | |
| I can't understand why a person will take a year or two to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars. -- Fred Allen | |
| Imitation is the sincerest form of television. -- Fred Allen | |
| It's from Casablanca. I've been waiting all my life to use that line. -- Woody Allen, "Play It Again, Sam" | |
| Notes for a ballet, "The Spell": ... Suddenly Sigmund hears the flutter of wings, and a group of wild swans flies across the moon ... Sigmund is astounded to see that their leader is part swan and part woman -- unfortunately, divided lengthwise. She enchants Sigmund, who is careful not to make any poultry jokes. -- Woody Allen | |
| Television is a medium because anything well done is rare. -- attributed to both Fred Allen and Ernie Kovacs | |
| The human animal differs from the lesser primates in his passion for lists of "Ten Best". -- H. Allen Smith | |
| There's such a thing as too much point on a pencil. -- H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow" | |
| Interferance from the Van Allen Belt. | |
| The FIELD GUIDE to NORTH AMERICAN MALES SPECIES: Cranial Males SUBSPECIES: The Hacker (homo computatis) Courtship & Mating: Due to extreme deprivation, HOMO COMPUTATIS maintains a near perpetual state of sexual readiness. Courtship behavior alternates between awkward shyness and abrupt advances. When he finally mates, he chooses a female engineer with an unblinking stare, a tight mouth, and a complete collection of Campbell's soup-can recipes. Track: Trash cans full of pale green and white perforated paper and old copies of the Allen-Bradley catalog. Comments: Extremely fond of bad puns and jokes that need long explanations. | |
| Regarding astral projection, Woody Allen once wrote, "This is not a bad way to travel, although there is usually a half-hour wait for luggage." | |
| If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss Bank. - Woody Allen | |
| ...And no philosophy, sadly, has all the answers. No matter how assured we may be about certain aspects of our belief, there are always painful inconsistencies, exceptions, and contradictions. This is true in religion as it is in politics, and is self-evident to all except fanatics and the naive. As for the fanatics, whose number is legion in our own time, we might be advised to leave them to heaven. They will not, unfortunately, do us the same courtesy. They attack us and each other, and whatever their protestations to peaceful intent, the bloody record of history makes clear that they are easily disposed to restore to the sword. My own belief in God, then, is just that -- a matter of belief, not knowledge. My respect for Jesus Christ arises from the fact that He seems to have been the most virtuous inhabitant of Planet Earth. But even well-educated Christians are frustated in their thirst for certainty about the beloved figure of Jesus because of the undeniable ambiguity of the scriptural record. Such ambiguity is not apparent to children or fanatics, but every recognized Bible scholar is perfectly aware of it. Some Christians, alas, resort to formal lying to obscure such reality. - Steve Allen, comdeian, from an essay in the book "The Courage of Conviction", edited by Philip Berman | |
| As I argued in "Beloved Son", a book about my son Brian and the subject of religious communes and cults, one result of proper early instruction in the methods of rational thought will be to make sudden mindless conversions -- to anything -- less likely. Brian now realizes this and has, after eleven years, left the sect he was associated with. The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy -- and it does not matter whether that philosophy is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and irrational -- the powers of reason are suprisingly ineffective in changing the believer's mind. - Steve Allen, comdeian, from an essay in the book "The Courage of Conviction", edited by Philip Berman | |
| "To YOU I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition." -- Woody Allen | |
| "Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God -- I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again." -- Woody Allen's character in "Hannah and Her Sisters" | |
| "Not only is God dead, but just try to find a plumber on weekends." --Woody Allen | |
| "It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it." -- Henry Allen | |
| "Oh my! An `inflammatory attitude' in alt.flame? Never heard of such a thing..." -- Allen Gwinn, allen@sulaco.Sigma.COM | |
| "Your stupidity, Allen, is simply not up to par." -- Dave Mack (mack@inco.UUCP) "Yours is." -- Allen Gwinn (allen@sulaco.sigma.com), in alt.flame | |
| "I'm not afraid of dying, I just don't want to be there when it happens." -- Woody Allen | |
| Life is a concentration camp. You're stuck here and there's no way out and you can only rage impotently against your persecutors. -- Woody Allen | |
| The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep. -- Woody Allen | |
| Allen's Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions. | |
| Committee, n.: A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen | |
| I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy. -- Fred Allen [Also attributed to S. Clay Wilson. Ed.] | |
| When I was in school, I cheated on my metaphysics exam: I looked into the soul of the boy sitting next to me. -- Woody Allen | |
| America, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? -- Allen Ginsberg | |
| In California they don't throw their garbage away -- they make it into television shows. -- Woody Allen, "Annie Hall" | |
| The only cultural advantage LA has over NY is that you can make a right turn on a red light. -- Woody Allen | |
| A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing but together can decide that nothing can be done. -- Fred Allen | |
| It is impossible to travel faster than light, and certainly not desirable, as one's hat keeps blowing off. -- Woody Allen | |
| More than any time in history, mankind now faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly. -- Woody Allen, "Side Effects" | |
| You can take all the impact that science considerations have on funding decisions at NASA, put them in the navel of a flea, and have room left over for a caraway seed and Tony Calio's heart. -- F. Allen | |
| Actor: So what do you do for a living? Doris: I work for a company that makes deceptively shallow serving dishes for Chinese restaurants. -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers" | |
| No sooner had Edger Allen Poe Finished his old Raven, then he started his Old Crow. | |
| Science! true daughter of Old Time thou art! Who alterest all things with thy peering eyes. Why preyest thou thus upon the poet's heart, Vulture, whose wings are dull realities? How should he love thee? or how deem thee wise? Who wouldst not leave him in his wandering To seek for treasure in the jewelled skies, Albeit he soared with an undaunted wing? Hast thou not dragged Diana from her car? And driven the Hamadryad from the wood To seek a shelter in some happier star? Hast thou not torn the Naiad from her flood, The Elfin from the green grass, and from me The summer dream beneath the tamarind tree? -- Edgar Allen Poe, "Science, a Sonnet" | |
| All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates. -- Woody Allen | |
| As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" -- probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. -- Woody Allen | |
| Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it. -- Woody Allen | |
| Humorists always sit at the children's table. -- Woody Allen | |
| I am two with nature. -- Woody Allen | |
| I don't want to live on in my work, I want to live on in my apartment. -- Woody Allen | |
| I sold my memoirs of my love life to Parker Brothers -- they're going to make a game out of it. -- Woody Allen | |
| I took a course in speed reading and was able to read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It's about Russia. -- Woody Allen | |
| I was the best I ever had. -- Woody Allen | |
| I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man. -- Fred Allen | |
| I'm going to give my psychoanalyst one more year, then I'm going to Lourdes. -- Woody Allen | |
| I'm not afraid of death -- I just don't want to be there when it happens. -- Woody Allen | |
| If only Dionysus were alive! Where would he eat? -- Woody Allen | |
| If only God would give me some clear sign! Like making a large deposit in my name at a Swiss bank. -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers" | |
| If you want to make God laugh, tell him about your plans. -- Woody Allen | |
| In America today ... we have Woody Allen, whose humor has become so sophisticated that nobody gets it any more except Mia Farrow. All those who think Mia Farrow should go back to making movies where the devil gets her pregnant and Woody Allen should go back to dressing up as a human sperm, please raise your hands. Thank you. -- Dave Barry, "Why Humor is Funny" | |
| It is impossible to experience one's death objectively and still carry a tune. -- Woody Allen | |
| It's not that I'm afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens. -- Woody Allen | |
| Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable. -- Woody Allen, "Annie Hall" | |
| Nietzsche says that we will live the same life, over and over again. God -- I'll have to sit through the Ice Capades again. -- Woody Allen, "Hannah and Her Sisters" | |
| Showing up is 80% of life. -- Woody Allen | |
| What if everything is an illusion and nothing exists? In that case, I definitely overpaid for my carpet. -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers" | |
| What if nothing exists and we're all in somebody's dream? Or what's worse, what if only that fat guy in the third row exists? -- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers" | |
| Brief History Of Linux (#15) Too many hyphens: Traf-O-Data and Micro-soft Bill Gates and Paul Allen attended an exclusive private school in Seattle. In 1968, after raising $3,000 from a yard sale, they gained access to a timeshare computer and became addicted. After depleting their money learning BASIC and playing Solitaire, they convinced a company to give them free computer time in exchange for reporting bugs -- ironically, an early form of Open Source development! The two then founded a small company called Traf-O-Data that collected and analyzed traffic counts for municipalities using a crude device based on the Intel "Pretanium" 8008 CPU. They had some success at first, but ran into problems when they were unable to deliver their much hyped next-generation device called "TrafficX". An engineer is quoted as saying that "Traf-O-Data is the local leader in vaporware", the first documented usage of the term that has come to be synonymous with Bill Gates. Soon thereafter, the two developed their own BASIC interpreter, and sold it to MITS for their new Altair computer. April 4, 1975 is the fateful day that Micro-soft was founded in Albuquerque, NM as a language vendor. | |
| The Socioeconomic Group Formerly Known As "Geeks" Nobody wants to be called a "geek" anymore. The label, once worn proudly by members of the tech community as a symbol of their separation from mainstream society, is now suddenly out of style. It all started last week when some clueless PR firm released a list of the "Top 100 Geeks", including such anti-geeks as Bill Gates, Janet Reno, Paul Allen, and Jeff "One-Click" Bezos. Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal reported that businessmen in South Korea are striving for the "Geek Chic" image by dressing like Bill Gates. Now that the Chief Bloatware Architect has been identified as a "geek", everybody else has bailed ship. Still undecided on a new label, the community now calls itself the S.E.G.K.A.G. (SocioEconomic Group formerly Known As Geeks). "I cannot tolerate belonging to the same subculture as Bill Gates!" explained one former geek. "If that manifestation of evil is called a 'geek', then so be it. I am now officially a nerd." | |
| Dave Mack: "Your stupidity, Allen, is simply not up to par." Allen Gwinn: "Yours is." | |
| It is better for civilization to be going down the drain than to be coming up it. -- Henry Allen | |
| It seemed the world was divided into good and bad people. The good ones slept better... while the bad ones seemed to enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen, "Side Effects" | |
| Man has made his bedlam; let him lie in it. -- Fred Allen | |
| My brain is my second favorite organ. -- Woody Allen | |
| My mind can never know my body, although it has become quite friendly with my legs. -- Woody Allen, on Epistemology | |
| On Monday mornings I am dedicated to the proposition that all men are created jerks. -- H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow" | |
| The last time I saw him he was walking down Lover's Lane holding his own hand. -- Fred Allen | |
| There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen | |
| When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst. -- H. Allen Smith, "Let the Crabgrass Grow" | |
| You're always thinking you're gonna be the one that makes 'em act different. -- Woody Allen, "Manhattan" | |
| Some men are heterosexual, and some are bisexual, and some men don't think about sex at all... they become lawyers. -- Woody Allen | |
| Dying is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying down. -- Woody Allen | |
| I am not afraid of tomorrow, for I have seen yesterday and I love today. -- William Allen White | |
| I don't want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve immortality through not dying. -- Woody Allen | |
| Look, we trade every day out there with hustlers, deal-makers, shysters, con-men. That's the way businesses get started. That's the way this country was built. -- Hubert Allen | |
| There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman? -- Woody Allen | |
| I think a relationship is like a shark. It has to constantly move forward or it dies. Well, what we have on our hands here is a dead shark. -- Woody Allen | |
