Cutting the Knot/Quotes

Raithe: Have you ever done anything that did not end in violent death?

Caine: Sure, lots of stuff. I just can't think of any right now.

—Blade of Tyshalle, by Matthew Woodring Stover

Drake: "Can you help us please? Our keys are locked in the car.
Tow Truck Guy: "Let me see what I can do." (smashes car window with a hammer)
Drake: "Well we could've done that!"

Tow Truck Guy: "Why didn't ya?"

—Drake and Josh

Solve a man's problems with violence, help him for a day. Teach a man to solve his problems with violence, help him for a lifetime!

—Belkar Bitterleaf, The Order of the Stick

Steve the Avatar: As the key that was stolen is on the corpse of Number 4, we can rightfully conclude that he was the murderer of Number 7.

Robo-Dupre: I should like to criticize your methodology, master, but I cannot fault your efficiency.

—Let's Play Ultima VII Part 2: Serpent Isle, after using Mass Death on all the numbered automatons in the Temple of Logic

Noe: I have been summoned. Ask your...
K'seliss: I don't know if you're human or demon or what, but whatever you are, is having your throat ripped out fatal to you?

Noe: ... Yes.

—Goblins, here.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

—Alan Perlis

Bra'tac: (Contemplating how to destroy a shield generator) First we must rappel several levels down to the core. The we must take our staff weapons and-

Col. O'Neill: (Arms two grenades and tosses them down. The generator explodes.) Grenades.

—Stargate SG-1