User:Jeffq

Hi. I'm a mostly useless member of society. While awaiting discorporation, I decided I could at least contribute some information to this worthy project. I have a few favorite topics that I add to and watch carefully, but much of my work is simply wandering through Random Pages, fixing formats, correcting typos, clarifying explanations, asking impertinent questions, and doing some modest fact-checking.

WikiThanks for the wikiquote tv shows split and the custom TOC, all in one edit (http://en.wikiquote.org/w/index.php?title=Television_shows&diff=33400&oldid=33370). — Jeandré, 2005-01-09t09:24z

Contents

1 Pages I created or unstubbed 1.1 Wikipedia 1.2 Wikiquote 1.3 Wiktionary 2 Pages I frequent 2.1 Wikipedia 2.2 Wikiquote 3 To-dos 4 Personal quotes 4.1 Humor 4.2 Life & death 4.3 Philosophy 4.4 Politics and government 4.5 Religion 4.6 Science 4.7 Truth

Pages I created or unstubbed

Wikipedia

• Bonnie Bramlett
• Container Security Initiative
• List of a cappella songs
• List of songs whose title includes dates and times
• List of songs whose title includes geographical names
• List of songs whose title includes personal names
• Looney Tunes: Back In Action
• Milesians (Greek)
• Organic salt
• Pattie Boyd
• "Public domain and the Internet" (section of Public domain article)
• The Power
• The Roches
• User:Jeffq/Images (my image "gallery")
• A bunch of disambiguation pages
• Templates: Rotten Tomatoes

Wikiquote

• Films: Barbarella - Better Than Chocolate - Down Periscope - Green Mile - Looney Tunes: Back in Action - Man with Two Brains - Pretty Woman - Signs - Three Days of the Condor - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Zorro the Gay Blade
  • Film stubs: Absolutely Fabulous - How the Grinch Stole Christmas - Jaws

• TV shows: Batman (1966) - Blackadder - Buffy the Vampire Slayer - Gilmore Girls - Monk - Mystery Science Theater 3000 - The Stand (miniseries) - Twin Peaks
  • TV stubs: Carnivàle - Dead Like Me

• People: Will Cuppy - Laurell K. Hamilton - Peter F. Hamilton - Dean R. Koontz - David Weber - Werner Heisenberg
  • People stubs: Piers Anthony - Fred Hoyle - Indigo Girls - Jacques Ninio - Ingmar Bergman

• Books: (obviously behind on my literary research!)
  • Book stubs: Starship Troopers

• Templates: Internet Theatre Database title; Rotten Tomatoes; TV Tome id and title
  • Borrowed from Wikipedia: IMDb title and name

Wiktionary

• edutainment
• has-been
• YBP (years before present)

Pages I frequent

Wikipedia

• List of answer songs
• List of fictional music groups
• List of popular music performers
• List of self referential songs
• List of songs containing covert reference to real musicians
• List of songs containing overt reference to real musicians
• List of song titles phrased as questions
• List of songs whose title appears more than twenty times in the lyrics
• List of sets of unrelated songs with identical titles

Wikiquote

• Babylon 5
• Blackadder

To-dos

• The Bobs: expand
• My sandbox: stuff I'm playing with at the moment

Personal quotes

These are my own original quotes. Some of them have no doubt been said in similar ways, but this is how I thought of them. If anyone knows of earlier sources of any of these quotes that are essentially the same phrasing, please tell me so I can stop calling it mine. ☺

Humor

• "If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what does an empty desk signify?"

• Q: How do you drive a programmer crazy?
  • A: GO TO Q.

• "I'm so smart, I even got an A+ on my blood test."

• "Carpe pollo: pluck the chicken."

Life & death

• "In all my life, the only things I've counted on are those controlled by me and those controlled effectively by no one."

• "Anyone who believes that suicide is a coward's choice has never truly faced their own death."

Philosophy

• "It's amazing how many things are impossible before they happen, and inevitable after."

• "A true rationalist cannot state that everything can be explained rationally. The only way this claim could be made would be if everything had already been explained rationally. Any other attempt to claim rationality for "everything" would be based on a faulty, purely-intuitive, inductive argument."

• "When I was young, my brilliance shown like a solar flare. As I've aged, it has waned considerably. Now my illumination is but a soft glow, visible only if one extinguishes the surrounding lights."

• "True self-confidence cannot be lost through the criticism of others, nor can it be gained through their praise."

• "Actions speak louder than words, but only to people who listen."

Politics and government

• "You can't escape Federal justice by crossing state lines, but you can do it by taking up residence in the U.S. Capitol."

Religion

• "I can accept no God who would abandon the vast majority of the human race because of their poor choice of birth place and time."

• "It is a demonstrably dangerous myth that religious worship instills morality. It is the consistent practice of ethical behavior, with or without a religious framework, that is the sole indicator of positive morality."

• "Religion is the commerce of faith. Just as any society has a plethora of enterpreneurs ready to market a new product or service, no age or culture has ever lacked in people who claim to have knowledge of or contact with supernatural beings. As with business, most new religions fail in short order, especially those that promise things they can't deliver, like imminent apocalypses. But out of the competition of faiths, some acquire enough customers to become strong competitors or even monopolies within their territories. And the most powerful religions, like monopolies, inevitably go from fierce competitors for new consumers to fierce protectors of their base customer population, until newer and fiercer enterprises dislodge them from their thrones. All successful religions find that, just like businesses, money and property are critical components of success. One of the few differences between religion and commerce is that it usually takes centuries or even millenia for the weaknesses of the mega-religions to become fatal. Business is much more efficient in weeding out the failure of ideas."

Science

• "Luck is simply another name for data selection."

• "Science doesn't have all the answers. It only has all the answers known to be true."

Truth

• "Just because one side is wrong doesn't mean the other side is right."

• "We don't need much help to see the wonderful truths of the universe, because we want to see them. It's the hard ones that we have to be hit over the head with."

• "If it's not information, it's disinformation."

• "The easiest and most effective way to manipulate someone is to tell them what they want to hear. Few people act on the obvious corollary: when people are telling you what you want to hear, there's a good chance you're being manipulated."