Quotes / Citazioni

In English

• "Boole, Leibniz and Goedel worked with logic.
  I work with logic.
  Thus, I'm Boole, Leibniz and Goedel."
  [Anonymous]

• "Going to a technology school has to be a leading form of celibacy"
  [Alex Doonesbury, by G. Trudeau]

• "Leadership is Nature's way of removing morons from the productive flow."
  [Dogbert, by S. Adams]

• "A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems."
  [P. Erdos]

• "Maybe meetings have become a lifeform capable of calling themselves
  and thus reproducing via human hosts."
  [Dilbert, by S. Adams]

• "A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof
  is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
  [D. Adams]

• "Virtue is its own punishment."
  [O. Wilde]

• "Never trust a seven-year-old who shaves"
  [Calvin, by B. Watterson]

• "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong."
  [Voltaire]

• "Military justice is to justice what military music is to music."
  [G. Marx]

• "Kiss a non-smoker, and enjoy the difference."
  [Anti-smoke ad.]

• "You despise me, don't you?" "If I gave you any thought I probably would."
  [Rick Blaine to Ugarte in "Casablanca"]

• "I'm offering you my body, and you're offering me semantics."
  [Caitlin Bree, in "Clerks"]

• "You're a little low on the food chain to be mouthing off, aren't you?"
  [Diego the tiger to Sid the sloth, in "Ice Age"]

• "Gerry, I'm a woman! We don't say what we want! But we reserve the right to get pissed off if we don't get it."
  [Lydia, in "Sliding Doors"]

• "The great advantage of having a reputation for being stupid: People are less suspicious of you. "
  [Tom, in "Four weddings and a funeral"]

• "I do wish we could chat longer, but... I'm having an old friend for dinner."
  [Dr. Hannibal `the cannibal' Lecter, in "The silence of lambs"]

Finally, my favourite one:

• "God, please save me from your followers!"
  [Anonymous]

In italiano

• "Beati gli affamati di giustizia perche' saranno giustiziati."
  [A. Cecchelin]

• "Signori si nasce, ed io, modestamente, lo nacqui."
  [Toto`]

• "Se Dio esiste, spero abbia una scusa valida."
  [D. Pennac, "La fata carabina"]

• "La statistica sta alla teoria della probabilita`
  come l'astrologia sta all'astronomia"
  [C. Monti]

• "A che titolo Nonna Papera cucina il tacchino?"
  [C. Bisio "La sindrome di Quo"]

• Principio di conservazione dell'energia: "Con gnent no se ga` gnent."
  [C. A. Anesi]

• "Il matrimonio e` l'arte di risolvere in due problemi che da solo non avevi."
  [Anonimo]

• "Scritto ai tempi in cui lo ritenevo piu` ridicolo che pericoloso."
  [M. Serra "44 Falsi" (parlando di Silvio Berlusconi)]

• "Lo amo: mi fa ridere."
  [Jessica Rabbit, in "Chi ha incastrato Roger Rabbit?"]

• "Il primo sintomo di un serio disordine mentale e` l'incapacita` di concentrarsi.
  Il primo sintomo di un serio disordine mentale e` l'incapacita` di concentrarsi.
  Il primo sintomo di un serio disordine mentale e` l'incapacita` di concentrarsi. "
  [Figowitz, by B. Rechin and D. Wilder]

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