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I have to remind myself that some birds aren't meant to be caged. Their feathers are just too bright. And when they fly away, the part of you that knows it was a sin to lock them up does rejoice. But still, the place you live in is that much more drab and empty that they're gone. I guess I just miss my friend.
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
(The Italian Job, Michael Caine)
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Quote: And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere out in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth!
The Galaxy Song. Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life
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To fight the bug, we must first understand the bug.
-- Sky Marshal Tehat Meru, Starship Troopers
Show me the money! Show. Me. The money!
-- Rod Tidwell, Jerry Maguire
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You're only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
Michael Caine, The Italian Job.
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I call it a brain - The Croods
I'll be back - Terminator
I'm having what she is having - When harry met Sally
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Badges?
We ain’t got no badges!
We don’t need no badges!
I don’t have to show you any stinking badges!
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Animal Deliveryman: Raul Hernandez?
Raul Hernandez: Yeah.
Animal Deliveryman: Got the delivery here for your next show.
Raul Hernandez: Oh great. What you got?
Animal Deliveryman: Let's see, I got one aardvark, one flamingo, four porcupines, two armadillos, three badgers...
Raul Hernandez: [spoofing "Treasure of the Sierra Madre"] Badgers?... Badgers?... I don't NEED no stinking Badgers!
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“Yeah, they’re dead. They’re all messed up.”
“Curtis, are ya dead?”
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I've been going to this high school for seven and a half years. I'm no dummy. -- Better Off Dead
Mike
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This, from the same scene as the Francis quote in Stripes.
"There was one?"
My brother and I use it whenever we describe gettting into a nonsense conversation.
Full Quote:
Quote: Cruiser : I joined the army 'cause my father and my brother were in the army. I thought I'd better join before I got drafted.
Sergeant Hulka : Son, there ain't no draft no more.
Cruiser : There was one?
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Mongol General: Conan! What is best in life?
Conan: To crush your enemies. See them driven before you. And to hear the lamentations of their women.
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The barbarian chieftain said: “What then are the
greatest things that a man may find in life?” This is the sort of thing you’re supposed to say to maintain steppecred in barbarian circles.
The man on his right thoughtfully drank his cocktail of mare’s milk and snowcat blood, and spoke thus: “The crisp horizon of the steppe, the wind in your hair, a fresh horse under you.”
The man on his left said: “The cry of the white eagle in the heights, the fall of snow in the forest, a true arrow in your bow.”
The chieftain nodded, and said: “Surely it is the sight of your enemy slain, the humiliation of his tribe and the lamentation of his women.”
There was a general murmur of whiskery approval at this outrageous display.
Then the chieftain turned respectfully to his guest, a small figure carefully warming his chilblains by the fire, and said: “But our guest, whose name is legend, must
tell us truly: What is it that a man may call the greatest things in life?”
The guest paused in the middle of another unsuccessful attempt to light up. “What shay?” he said, toothlessly.
“I said: What is it that a man may call the greatest things in life?”
The warriors leaned closer. This should be worth hearing.
The guest thought long and hard and then said, with deliberation: “Hot water, good dentishtry and shoft lavatory paper.”
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
"Common sense is so rare these days, it should be classified as a super power" - Random T-shirt
AntiTwitter: @DalekDave is now a follower!
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The Professor : "Look at this. Look at what they make you give. "
Bourne: 'I swear to God, if I even feel somebody behind me, there is no measure to how fast and how hard I will bring this fight to your doorstep.'
Cronin: "He's making his first mistake."
Nicki: "It's not a mistake. They don't make mistakes. They don't do random. There's always an objective. Always a target."
~ The Bourne Trilogy
Newt: "We'd better get back, 'cause it'll be dark soon, and they mostly come at night... mostly"
Hudson: "Maybe we got 'em demoralized. "
Hudson: Hey Vasquez, have you ever been mistaken for a man?
Vasquez: No. Have you?
Bishop: I'm afraid I have some bad news.
Hudson: Well that's a switch.
Hicks: I wanna introduce you to a personal friend of mine. This is an M41A pulse rifle. Ten millimeter with over-and-under thirty millimeter pump action grenade launcher.
Burke: This is clearly an important species we're dealing with and I don't think that you or I, or anybody, has the right to arbitrarily exterminate them.
Ripley: Wrong.
Vasquez: Yeah, watch us.
~ Aliens
Lt. A.K. Waters: Now cowboy the f*** up!
~ Tears of the Sun
"Don't talk like you're one of them! You're not... even if you'd like to be. To them you're just a freak, like me. They need you right now, but when they don't, they'll cast you out. Like a leper. See, their morals, their "code"... it's a bad joke, dropped at the first sign of trouble. They're only as good as the world allows them to be. I'll show you. When the chips are down, these uh, these "civilized people", they'll eat each other. See, I'm not a monster. I'm just ahead of the curve."
"This is what happens when an unstoppable force meets an immovable object. You truly are incorruptible, aren't you? You won't kill me out of some misplaced sense of self-righteousness, and I won't kill you because you're just too much fun. I think you and I are destined to do this forever."
"I'm a dog chasing cars... I wouldn't know what to do with one if I caught it. I just... do things. I'm just the wrench in the gears. I hate plans."
"Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos."
~ the Joker, The Dark Knight
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"I let him go"
"Mistakes are prevented by Experience. Experience is gained by making mistakes."
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It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses.
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I'm a peacock! You gotta let me fly! ~ The Other Guys
Run, GO! Get to da choppa! ~ Predator
If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball. ~ Dodgeball
You have been weighed, you have been measured, and you have been found wanting. ~ A Knights Tale
These are all fun to use at work...
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One time I told Chris in an email that I was a peacock and he had to let me fly and he wrote back: "peacocks don't fly."
Thanks,
Sean Ewington
CodeProject
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"Sir, the truth is, I talk to God all the time, and, no offense, but He never mentioned you."
-Bob
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I've been taking a break from coding lately, but work beckons. Now I've got a project in front of me on a fairly tight deadline, so every day matters.
I pulled up my project which I managed to work on for a couple of hours yesterday but never got in "the zone"
At least some progress was made.
Now I pull it up, and I know what I wrote was legible, but I don't understand it. I should be able to.
Anyone who has read Douglas Adams knows what I mean when I say "the long dark teatime of the soul" - the Sunday afternoon where nothing ever seems to get any traction, and you're listless - that sort of thing, well it has overcome me now, and it's not even Sunday.
Today is a write off. I don't know what's up with my head today, but it's like I can't focus on anything. I can't afford for this to continue, and it's not like me.
To err is human. Fortune favors the monsters.
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That's the crux with creativity. Whereas non-creative folk can usually zone out and do their job since it's so repetitive... people that have to think need that spark. Energy is not infinite.
There's no real good way to get back in the zone. Best way I figured out over the years was to just start with something small and innocuous. It's like writing a book, even if what you're writing sucks because you're not in the zone, just start. Eventually the ol' noggin should catch up.
Or go dig a ditch for a day and realize that coding is better than doing that. 
Jeremy Falcon
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I just love that dark sense of humor but I think I can improve on it.
If you dig a ditch so deep you can't get out.
Your spade brakes.
Then you realize you forgot something at the top of the ditch.
That would put a smile on my face
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A surfer friend of mine told me once...
If you are on the top of the wave for too long, you either hit the sand or the rocks. If you want to surf all the time, you need to "step down", go back and relax while waiting for the next good wave.
I am pretty bad at it, but when I do realize it and follow the tip, it really works for me.
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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This experience reminds me of the moments I spend playing the piano. When I become intimately familiar with a musical piece, my fingers seem to possess a mind of their own, effortlessly navigating the keys while my thoughts begin to wander. It's as if I inhabit two separate identities: one consumed by the act of playing, and another that sits back and listens, engaging in unrelated musings. In these moments, I often find myself contemplating the peculiarity of this division, only to be abruptly jolted back to reality, realizing that I've momentarily lost track of the next note in the composition. It never fails to amuse me, and I can't help but chuckle at the delightful quirkiness of the situation.
Interestingly, I've experienced a similar phenomenon where I enter a state of deep focus and flow during the middle stages of a project. It's fascinating how inspiration and productivity can strike unexpectedly, defying any specific formula or prediction. In essence, my suggestion would be to embrace the uncertainty of the "zone" and instead focus on establishing a work routine. By diligently working on your project, even during periods when the zone feels distant, you create an environment that hopefully allows for those productive moments to emerge more frequently.
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