User:Jeffq

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Jeff Q as a Dimension

Hi. I'm a completely useless member of society. While awaiting discorporation, I decided I could at least contribute some information to this worthy project. I have a few favorite topics that I add to and watch carefully, but much of my work is simply wandering through Random Pages, fixing formats, correcting typos, clarifying explanations, asking impertinent questions, and doing some modest fact-checking.

Pages I created or unstubbed

Wikipedia

• List of a cappella songs
• List of songs whose title includes geographical names
• List of songs whose title includes personal names
• Milesians (Greek)
• Organic salt
• "Public domain and the Internet" (section of Public domain article)
• The Roches
• User:Jeffq/Images (my image "gallery")
• A bunch of disambiguation pages

Wikiquote

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Economics
• Jacques Ninio
• Gilmore Girls
• Mystery Science Theater 3000
• Paranormal
• Twin Peaks

Pages I frequent

Wikipedia

• List of answer songs
• List of fictional music groups
• List of popular music performers
• List of self referential songs
• List of songs containing covert reference to real musicians
• List of songs containing overt reference to real musicians
• List of song titles phrased as questions
• List of songs whose title appears more than twenty times in the lyrics
• List of sets of unrelated songs with identical titles

Wikiquote

• Babylon 5

To-dos

• The Bobs

Personal quotes

These are my own original quotes. Some of them have no doubt been said in similar ways, but this is how I thought of them. If anyone knows of earlier sources of any of these quotes that are essentially the same phrasing, please tell me so I can stop calling it mine. ☺

Humor

• "If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what does an empty desk signify?"

• Q: How do you drive a programmer crazy?
  • A: GO TO Q.

• "I'm so smart, I even got an A+ on my blood test."

• "Carpe pollo: pluck the chicken."

Life & death

• "In all my life, the only things I've counted on are those controlled by me and those controlled effectively by no one."

• "Anyone who believes that suicide is a coward's choice has never truly faced their own death."

Philosophy

• "It's amazing how many things are impossible before they happen, and inevitable after."

• "A true rationalist cannot state that everything can be explained rationally. The only way this claim could be made would be if everything had already been explained rationally. Any other attempt to claim rationality for "everything" would be based on a faulty, purely-intuitive, inductive argument."

• "When I was young, my brilliance shown like a solar flare. As I've aged, it has waned considerably. Now my illumination is but a soft glow, visible only if one extinguishes the surrounding lights."

• "True self-confidence cannot be lost through the criticism of others, nor can it be gained through their praise."

• "Actions speak louder than words, but only to people who listen."

Religion

• "I can accept no God who would abandon the vast majority of the human race because of their poor choice of birth place and time."

• "It is a demonstrably dangerous myth that religious worship instills morality. It is the consistent practice of ethical behavior, with or without a religious framework, that is the sole indicator of positive morality."

Science

• "Luck is simply another name for data selection."

Truth

• "Just because one side is wrong doesn't mean the other side is right."

• "We don't need much help to see the wonderful truths of the universe, because we want to see them. It's the hard ones that we have to be hit over the head with."

• "If it's not information, it's disinformation."

• "The easiest and most effective way to manipulate someone is to tell them what they want to hear. Few people act on the obvious corollary: when people are telling you what you want to hear, there's a good chance you're being manipulated."