• dogslayeggs@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    "If you ever fall off the Sears Tower, just go real limp, because maybe you’ll look like a dummy and people will try to catch you because, hey, free dummy.”

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      “If trees could scream, would we be so cavalier about cutting them down? We might, if they screamed all the time, for no good reason.”

      -Jack Handy

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        27 days ago

        “Hmm. I wonder. I was thinking of dancing trees. Now I’m wondering what’s next. Screaming trees. Yeah. That’s got to be the answer. Screaming trees.” - private notes by Hans Reiser, filesystem designer and a convicted murderer

        (OK, that’s a fake quote. This one is real:)

        “Trees have their roots pointing up. And if you cut a tree apart, you get a forest. No, I’m not drunk.” - one of my computer science profs, on data structures