Lojban Quotes

#1. How many Lojbanists does it take to change a broken
light-bulb?" goes the old Lojban joke. "Two: one to decide
what to change it into and one to decide what kind of bulb
emits broken light.

Arika Okrent

#2. When one heated exchange (in English) led a commenter to write "Go fuck yourself!" in Lojban, it turned into a lengthy discussion of why he hadn't said what he meant to say, and what the proper Lojban expression for the sentiment might be.

Arika Okrent

#3. There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

Ronnie Van Zant

#4. Hey, kid, you just saved our lives, you know that?"
"Oh, well, it was nothing really ... "
"Was it? Oh well, forget it then

Douglas Adams

#5. It is hard, I submit, to loathe bloodshed, including war, more than I do, but it is still harder to exceed my loathing of the very nature of totalitarian states in which massacre is only an administrative detail.

Vladimir Nabokov

#6. A constant flickering confetti of butterflies showered the town of Darwin. Designer insects, I think of them now: there was something enormously wasteful, extravagant even, about the profusion of patterns and shapes and brilliant colours.

Peter Goldsworthy

#7. I champion the idea of being more conscious. I call it being an active architect of your own life. Building your life like an architect builds a structure.

Hill Harper

#8. What is it about being on a boat that makes everyone behave like a film star?
Julia Flyte

Evelyn Waugh