Quotes

“Unorthodox? Unorthodox? That’s not unorthodox, no. I thought it was beautiful. But, then, there you go.”

James Marshall Hendrix, to Dick Cavett, on his own arrangement of The Star Spangled Banner, July 7, 1969

Past JC Splash Quotes

A selection of the quotes used on the front page of the JC from time to time:
August 2022: ^^^April 2022: “People get so hung up on specifics. They miss out on seeing the whole thing.” — Miller, Repo Man, 1984.
March 2022: “It makes no difference what men think of war, said the judge. War endures. As well ask men what they think of stone. War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.” — Cormac McCarthy
February 2022: “What people mean by the word technology is stuff that doesn't really work yet” —Danny Hillis
November 2021: “It is almost a metaphysical question who is the servant of whom—at least until it comes time to eat.” — James C. Scott, Against the Grain (2017)
October 2021: “The disgusting stink of a too-loud electric guitar; now that’s my idea of a good time.” — Frank Zappa.
September 2021: “What? You search? You wish to multiply yourself by ten, by a hundred? You seek followers? Seek zeroes!” — Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
August 2021: “I’m tethered to the logic of homo sapiens;
Can’t take my eyes from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith.” — David Bowie, Quicksand, 1971
July 2021: “For honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.” — As You Like It, III, iii
April 2021: “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” — Pablo Picasso
March 2021: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” — Inigo Montoya
March 2021: “My work always tried to unite the truth with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”— Hermann Weyl
December 2020: “Sometimes I doubt your commitment to SparkleMotion” — Kitty Farmer, in Donnie Darko
October 2020: “Space is big. Really big.” — Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
September 2020: “Smokey, this is not ’Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.” — Walter, The Big Lebowski
May 2020: “May God us keep From Single vision & Newtons sleep” — William Blake
Jan 2020: “... the information entropy of a binary random variable that is 0 or 1 with equal probability...”