Alan: Are you an atheist? Bob: I would say I'm an agnostic, but I don't know whether or not I am. Alan: ... was that a joke? Bob: I don't know!

That's Greg. He spends all of his time talking and none of his time learning. Because he spends no time learning, he doesn't know anything, and because he doesn't know anything, his talk isn't worth anything.

In the study of vocal impersonations, the difference between Patrick Stewart and Sean Connery is continuously variable, and the midpoint between them is Deckard Cain.

Alan: Who would win in a fight between Ironman and Batman? Bob: I don't know, man. Who would win in a fight between a Jabberwocky and a frumious Bandersnatch?

Person asked the world, "What is your purpose?" World did not answer but did echo, "What is your purpose?" Although the poetry was not lost on person, still he would have preferred if it hadn't happened that way since existence is too dumb to be worth putting poetically.

Calculus, the word itself being a portmanteau of the words "calculate" and "ridiculous", is the study of how to get real numbers by dividing zero by zero and multiplying zero by infinity.

Pet peeves include when someone says "45-degree angle" referring to an angle that's clearly not 45 degrees.

Be certain before you get that sex change operation, because if you end up needing two, there's a loss of fidelity, like taking a photocopy of a photocopy.

Today: you can roll downhill, like a rock, or you can roll uphill, unlike a rock.

Of all the people who can coach you, the best coach for you is you. Of all the people you can coach, the person who you are most able to coach is you. Nobody can coach you better then you can coach you. You can't coach anyone else better than you can coach yourself.

Bob: Bob the barber shaves all and only those people who don't shave themselves. Alan: I'm not an actor. I just play one on TV. Bob: I don't know a damn thing about logic and I can prove it.

Person: Universe, I don't owe you anything. I didn't choose to get thrown into here. Universe: Person, I don't owe you anything. I didn't choose to get thrown into this state of being the surroundings of things either.

A lot of psychoses are simultaneously both a sort of pathological detachment from reality and a sort of pathological closeness to reality.

Alan: I think we should oppress people. Bob: I think we should let people flourish. Alan: I agree. Bob: You changed your mind? Alan: No.

Alan: One thing I admire in people is the ability to get through an existential crisis quickly. Bob: One thing I despise in people is when they use a dishonest shortcut in order to achieve something that's effectively the same. Alan: That's not disdain. That's envy.

The game of Submerge: Throw a rock into a pond. Point, and say "I submerged it". Think, just think about that statement for a minute. Try this game with a friend some time.

Catastrophizing is easy. Reading other people catastrophizing is also easy. It's also convincing. It should not be convincing to the point of certainty unless something catastrophic is actually certain. This sounds like a tautology.

"Ad hoc" is a Latin expression meaning "out of the hat", but not in Latin.

In learning writing skills, one must learn about optimizing a certain thing and learn about what that thing is. Perplexing: before long, there's a lengthy process of getting ever closer to fully optimizing something without getting any closer to knowing what that something is.

Black Knight is a better movie than The Dark Knight.