Dude! Joe's Jottings, Mostly Junk

"We are upping our standards ... so up yours." -- Pat Paulsen

"Well, this is only temporary...unless it works." -- Red Green

"So in conclusion, you can see that there is a place for censors and we only wish that we could tell you where it is." -- Pat Paulsen, Jan 7, 1968

"It's a damn poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word." -- Andrew Jackson

We may not have an equality of talent.
We may not have an equality of experience.
But we may be equal in aspiration.
We can be equal in commitment.
-- Robert Fripp

"Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced" - First Corollary to Clarke's Third Law

"Expectation closes our ears to what is happening in the moment." -- Fripp

"I am a self-taught "composer". This means I was taught to write music by someone who didn't know what they were doing." -- Robert Fripp

Things are not as bad as they seem.
They are worse than that.
They are also better than that.
-- Fripp

"Music is the endless field of loving intelligence which, in its inexpressible benevolence, wishes for us more than we can bear to know." -- Fripp

"I love deadlines. I especially love the giant WHOOOSHing sound they make as they go past." -- Douglas Adams

"The people of England will permit anything, except cruelty to horses and a rise in the price of beer." -- Return of the Musketeers

"A word or several to the earnest, facially hirsute and optically challenged Crim enthusiast - get ready to alienate any woman you formerly thought loved you." -- Fripp, on ProjeKct Four, 1998

On Black Magic -- "Evil Incarnate, Saturday and Sunday at 3:30 on the Fortune Stage! Depraved conjuring, wicked legerdemain...and card tricks." -- thatliardesmond

Discipline enables us to hold ourselves in front of a challenge, or a task.
The work is in meeting the challenge, not acquiring the discipline.
But until we have acquired the discipline, our proper work has not begun.
So, until then, our work is to acquire discipline; in the knowledge that
this is not an end in itself, only the means to an end.
Fripp: July 14, 2001

to account for why i'm far beyond the 10 originally asked for...

"I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short." -- Blaise Pascal

and finally:

"Though it be not written down, yet forget not that I am an ass." -- Much Ado About Nothing