Twitter Quotes
256 quotes
"New streets should be Twitter friendly and be named with hashtags up front. I’d build a house on #LoversLane."
"We had a whirlwind romance. That’s what happens when you date a tornado. Hold on, I have to stop tweeting for a bit because Kansas keeps calling."
"Tweeting is talking into the abyss, filling a void in your life by avoiding real human contact."
"#ToTheGirls2016 Value yourself, your voice, your body, your opinions, your dreams, your pride, your ego. You have a RIGHT to take up space."
"It is very good that Wikipedia also gives a page to "Internet Meme". Internet memes are arguably the most important subset of memes today"
"Those people who think sexual abuse is a black-or-white, all-or-none category are incapable of clear, logical thought."
"Some states, e.g. "pregnant", are all-or-none, no intermediates. But sexual abuse has shades of grey, from violent buggery to mild touching."
"Haven't read Koran so couldn't quote chapter & verse like I can for Bible. But often say Islam greatest force for evil today"
"With respect to those meanings of "human" that are relevant to the morality of abortion, any fetus is less human than an adult pig."
"I'm told theology is outside my field of expertise. But is theology a "field" at all? Is there anything in "theology" to be expert ABOUT?"
"I hate the neologism "owned" for "scored a victory over". I have no intention of owning anyone, and nobody will ever own me."
"Don't ask God to cure cancer & world poverty. He's too busy finding you a parking space & fixing the weather for your barbecue."
"All the world's Muslims have fewer Nobel Prizes than Trinity College, Cambridge. They did great things in the Middle Ages, though."
"Saw a down-and-out in Seattle last night. His sign said not "I need food" or "I need a job" but "I need a fat bitch". What could this mean?"
"Bin Laden has won, in airports of the world every day. I had a little jar of honey, now thrown away by rule-bound dundridges. STUPID waste."
"If we ever talk to aliens, their civilisation will be far more advanced than ours (because of distances involved). They won't be religious!"
"I've seen a dog & bitch indulging in full 69. Males of many species including Drosophila lick female genitals before copulation."
"Who (apart from the pig) is damaged by bacon?"
"Suggest always put Islamic "scholar" in quotes, to avoid insulting true scholars. True scholars have read more than one book."
"Mild paedophilia is bad. Violent paedophilia is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of mild paedophilia, go away and learn how to think. Date rape is bad. Stranger rape at knifepoint is worse. If you think that's an endorsement of date rape, go away and learn how to think."
"Abort it and try again. It would be immoral to bring it into the world if you have the choice."
"Eugenics was not inspired by Darwin's natural selection but by ancient agricultural ARTIFICIAL selection. Eugenics is UNnatural selection."
"University is about confronting new ideas, unfamiliar, un-"safe". If you want to be "safe" you are not worthy of a university education."
"Islam needs a feminist revolution. It will be hard. What can we do to help?"
"You know you've won the argument when the only counter argument they can find is that you are white or male or old."
"Don't call him "clock boy" since he never made a clock. Hoax Boy, having hoaxed his way into the White House, now wants $15M in addition!"
"National pride has evil consequences. Prefer pride in humanity. German pride gave us Hitler, American pride gave us Trump, British pride gave us Brexit. If you must have pride, be proud that Homo sapiens could produce a Darwin, Shakespeare, Mandela, Einstein, Beethoven."
"When I tweet on politics, even if I merely post a url, I get many replies like “Stick to science. Politics is not your field.” Which field, then, does qualify one to hold a political opinion? Are scientists specifically disqualified from thinking & caring about the world?"
"Science is not a social construct. Science’s truths were true before there were societies; will still be true after all philosophers are dead; were true before any philosophers were born; were true before there were any minds, even trilobite or dinosaur minds, to notice them."
"The buzz words of the campus—diversity, inclusion, microaggression, power differential, white privilege, group safety—have become the buzz words in public life. Already confusing on campus, they become noxious off campus."
"Supreme Court rules that a woman is legally defined as . . . a woman. Congratulations. And “The concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man”. Yes, the science was settled in the Precambrian. Nice that the law has finally caught up."
"“Everything changes when we give ourselves permission to be more selective in what we choose to do.”"
"“Every time we check email, we're checking somebody else's agenda.”"
"“Say no to many good things so you can say yes to a few great things.”"
"“When we push back effectively, it shows people that our time is valuable. It distinguishes the professional from the amateur.”"
"“Saying no is its own leadership capability. It is not just a peripheral skill.”"
"“By abolishing any chance of being bored we have also lost the time we used to have to think and process.”"
"“Discern more; do less.”"
"“You can do a few things superbly well, or a lot of things averagely well.”"
"“Very successful people are absurdly selective.”"
"“Effort and results do not share a linear relationship.”"
"“There is value in NOT doing a thing.”"
"“So many smart people get snared in the death grip of the nonessential.”"
"“There are only two forces in the world that simplify organizations: one is failure, the other is leadership.”"
"“Making hard trade-offs is where leadership is tested.”"
"People will plateau at exactly the same level that their selectivity plateaus."
"“If you are too busy to think then you are too busy.”"
"There's no such thing as sexism against men. That's because sexism is prejudice + power. Men are the dominant gender with power in society."
"Not a coincidence it's always men and boys committing mass shootings. The pattern is connected to ideas of toxic masculinity in our culture."
"When giving advice, do so kindly. Do it sincerely with patience. Don't do it to show that you are more intelligent or better than others."
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