Robin Upton's Recorded Remarks
Why do I publish my personal quotes on the internet? Well, I hope it's not narcissism - I see it as a means of communicating. If you're really interested in what sort of person I am then read through them. My vanity would have me remove a few, but that would be weaken the communication so here's the entire unexpurgated set of my recorded remarks. A few of them you had to be there or know the people involved, but most should still be significant. Enjoy:)
| You've got to be bloody depressed when you can cheer yourself up by reading VIZ. | |
| Erst einwerfen, dann aufgeben. | |
| If I live to get old I'm gonna probably be one cynical old bugger. | |
| Ich will auf keinen Fall vergessen besonders den Respekt zu erwähnen, den mir die Lehrkräfte und Verwaltungsheinis entgegengebracht haben. (In `Bericht Über meinem 2 Semester langen Aufenthalt an der C.A.U.) | |
| Welcome to England! (To the Japanese people, at Tocil Lake) | |
| It's a bullshitocracy, isn't it? | |
| Who called electrons 'minus'? What a cock up! | |
| Does Popeye only love Olive Oyl because she's extra virgin? | |
| The hate of money is the root of all good. | |
| Don't mention the word `philosophy` if you're looking for a job. | |
| I appear on the surface to be a fairly normal guy. | |
| The world would be a better place if people didn't skimp on sleep. | |
| I think one of the worst things you can give a child is dress sense. | |
| This [Maxwell's Law:- Curl(H)-dD/dt=J] says something like:- 'If you tip water down a hill, the amount of water that ends up at the bottom is the same as the amount of water that flowed down the hill.' | |
| He [JMB] says he's having a nice peaceful weekend away from computers.. that's why he's writing this flight simulator. | |
| Coastline schmostline! It's all about mainlining it! | |
| Do you know any 80 year olds who spontaneously use the word `vibe` without being prompted? | |
| That's thirty eight million pounds change. | |
| Well, anything that gets infinity out of ten is not to be dismissed lightly. | |
| If the answer is 'At 200 m.p.h. you have no friends.' what is the question? | |
| Man does not make meaning, man makes illusions and traps for himself. | |
| 'Have you been feeling more confused recently?' (TAM) ... Err, yes, err no! | |
| ... Poohstones … | |
| At this point I think we assume James [JMB] is wending his weary way somewhere. | |
| I think I should take an axe to this chair, because it's not a very good table. | |
| I don't know the guy [JMB], he's just somebody I know. | |
| I always think of the ideal world first and the real world second. | |
| I don't ask where they're from, I just cut their legs off. | |
| I never see anything that I want, that I haven't already got, except in skips. | |
| I mean, you know, one man's geek is another man's idol. | |
| The first material possession I'm going to crave if I become a materialist is a good bed. | |
| What [thing] is evil? - nuclear weapons, pornographic magazines, they can all be used for good. | |
| You don't know the meaning of the word 'ignorance'. | |
| Well we'll have to leave the money aside, seeing as we haven't got any...'(JMB) Well I can just go and print some off - how much do we need? | |
| Right, unstack that carp. | |
| People will always laugh at me, it is one of my gifts. | |
| That is probably not correct English. I mean, my English is dilapidating fast. | |
| Reality is alive and sending gas bills. | |
| I shall keep my eyes skinned for toast buttons | |
| Space has got a grain. It's official. | |
| If I had kids I don't think it'd be fair to bring 'em up here [in UK] without telly, so I'd bring 'em up somewhere else. | |
| As long as you express them in bullshit words, you're allowed to have opinions. | |
| That's what I like - somebody who talks about heuristics for avoiding psychotic heroin addicts. | |
| I think I've just tabbed into a black hole. | |
| I wouldn't say it's wasted time. Maybe it is, but I wouldn't say it is. [About IVL's thesis] | |
| Cynicism is the enemy. | |
| Nobody literally rips my friends apart and gets away with it. | |
| Amar nana jibon ache. | |
| I never believed that what the teachers told me was true. | |
| I think I've just invented Upton's first Law of Tidying - You can't put everything under your bed. | |
| Cut to the crap. | |
| I could have predicted it retrospectively. | |
| Meine Sekretärin mangelt an Ström im Augenblick. | |
| E-mail is a chain as well as a bridge. | |
| We know why the phone's not working. The reason is 'emni'. | |
| There are no tearing hurries in Bangladesh. | |
| Time with friends is never wasted. | |
| I'm a professional amateur, coz you don't get a guarantee but it's cheap. | |
| AOL is the computer equivalent of DDT… very hard to get out of your system. | |
| Being good at something is no substitute for being devoted to it. |