This is a short list of concise sayings distilled from my writings, both from articles on this site and from my many Usenet posts. If this were the 19th century, these would be called "quotations", but I think "bumperstickers" is a reasonable translation into modern language.

Some may think listing one's own quotations is rather egotistical. I think this view has a certain amount of merit ... but I decided to do it anyway. It's just that I've noticed people have begun using my quotations as signature lines in blogs and Usenet postings, so I decided to make a collection of them, conveniently grouped in one place.

• In science, evidence means everything, reputation means nothing. The greatest amount of scientific eminence is trumped by the smallest amount of scientific evidence.
• Poetry builds a great truth out of many small lies. Politics builds a great lie out of many small truths.
• In my opinion, the greatest single failure of American education is that students come away unable to distinguish between a symbol and the thing the symbol stands for.
• With each passing year, because of advances in computer technology, there are more things, each more sophisticated, that we aren't allowed to do any more.
• Windows isn't supposed to make sense, it's supposed to make money.
• A person who won't think has no advantage over one who can't think.
• When you read the history of the human family, it slowly comes to you that all the world's oceans once fell as tears.
• I am opposed to the present system of capital punishment, not because I like murderers, but because I don't want to become one.
• Religion is designed for stupid people. Science is designed for stupid people who are embarrassed by their stupidity, who want to do something about it.
• It is only a small simplification to say that clinical psychology is meant for people who are too smart for religion but not smart enough for science.
• The fundamental political idea of modern times is the presumed moral superiority of centralized control.
• Her imagination began writing checks that her intellect couldn't cash.
• Did you know you can't steer a boat that isn't moving? Just like a life.