"There are two sides to a Trumpet's personality. There is one side that lives only to lay waste to flutes, clarinets, oboes, bassoons, horns, trombones, tubas, saxes, and percussion, leaving them lying blue and lifeless along the swath of destruction that is a trumpet's fury. Then there is the dark side."

"We grow up hearing that trumpeters blew down the walls of Jericho, that Gabriel's trumpet announces the will of God, and that the largest, and hippest, of all animals, the elephant, has a trunk mostly for trumpeting. These grandiose images shape the classic trumpet persona: brash, impetuous, cocky, cool, in command. Anyone who has ever played in a band knows that if the conductor stops rehearsal because a fight breaks out, if somebody takes your girlfriend, if a tasteless practical joke is pulled, if someone challenges every executive decision no matter how trivial, it's got to be a trumpet player. That's just how we are." - Wynton Marsalis

"I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones." - Albert Einstein

"Everything's better with the C preprocessor." - Keith Amling

"Branch prediction is hot and sexy." - Keith Amling

"So the theoretical parts of dating I get, It's the labs that kill me, so to speak" - Chris Siler (from an IM)

"Here's what I want; here's what I would like. I would like to work with some religious leaders who can remember what religion is all about, which is compassion and tolerance in the face of fear and anger."

Rabbi: "Very inspiring Chief, but all religions as you put it, are not created equal."

Chief: "Maybe you're right Rabbi, but all men are created equal, at least in this country, aren't they? And I think that possibly in this city we have one of our holiest sites, and that is where three houses of worship exist in the same neighborhood, in the same street, same intersection. Now, in one of those houses of worship they teach from the Bible, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, and in that is fulfilled the law and the prophets.' And in the other house of worship, they teach from the Torah, 'What is harmful to yourself do not to your fellow man.' And in the other house they teach from the Koran, 'Do unto all men as you wish them to do unto you.' It's the same teaching: different words; it's the golden rule. That's what connects us all, isn't it? So why can't you go back to your communities and just tell them, we are going to solve these crimes by rules of law and not by passions of the mob. Anybody have a problem with that?" - Chief Mannion from The District

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw (courtesy of BSD fortunes)