Favorite Quotes

"You are Holmes, the meddler." My friend smiled.
"Holmes, the busybody!" His smile broadened.
"Holmes, the Scotland Yard Jack-in-office!"
Holmes chuckled heartily.
- Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of the Speckled Band

[Geordi and Data are discussing Data's attempts to train Spot.]
Data: I suppose I must accept that possibility. It may be that Spot lacks the intelligence necessary to learn the appropriate responses to my commands.
[Spot looks up at Data and meows.]
Data: Mmm?
[Spot meows again.]
Data: Ah.
[Data takes a ball of yarn from his cabinet and lets Spot begin to play with it.]
Geordi La Forge: I don't know about Spot, but your training is coming along just fine. Let's go.
- Star Trek the Next Generation, Episode:Force of Nature

"Eliminate all other factors, and the
one which remains must be the truth."
- Sherlock Holmes - The Sign of the Four

Adde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
Translation: "Add little to little and there will be a big pile"
— Ovid.

"Before turning to those moral and mental aspects of the
matter which present the greatest difficulties, let the
inquirer begin by mastering more elementary problems."
- Sherlock Holmes: "A Study in Scarlet" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"Criminals are a superstitious cowardly lot. So my
disguise must be able to strike terror into their
hearts! I must be a creature of the night, black,
terrible... A... A... A bat! That's it. It's an
omen... I shall become a BAT!"
- Batman #1