"I want to have enough space to, I don't know, think thoughts. I mean, I just - I don't know that I'm capable of having an exciting, profound thought every week that's worth a column."

-- David Plotz

#Mean Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Space Quotes

“I had at one point this rather depressing image of some alien culture seeing the death of this planet - coming down in their spaceships and sniffing around; finding all our skeletons sitting around our TV sets and trying to work out why our end came before its time and they come to the conclusion that we amused ourselves to death.”

Source : "Amused to Death" syndicate Radio Premiere, 1992.
“I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear.”
“One, and two, and three, four, five. Keep fighting like this and you will die," Janco sang.”
“I'm 60, and I did 60-year-old women songs. I'm not trying to be the Hip-Hop Queen, although I am the original Hip Hop Queen.”
“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
“What I try to do is factor in how people use computers, what people's problems are, and how these technologies can get applied to those problems. Then I try to direct the various product groups to act on this information.”
“I know that good things will happen for me if I keep working hard.”
“My dad was great. He was very droll, very dry.”

Source : Interview with Paul Fischer, "Dark Horizons", December 2, 2003.

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