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I am an administrator (specifically, a "sysop") on Wikiquote, although I've been rather inactive for the past few years. Even so, I endeavor to address any questions or matters that come my way, promptly.

Since I've haven't been keeping up on all the changes to Wikiquote, I invite anyone to boldly correct any errors I may make, without prior notification, although I would appreciate a notice on my talk page after this is done, mostly to help me realize my misunderstanding.

== Articles I created or unstubbed ==

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'''Films'''
* ''[[7 Faces of Dr. Lao]]''
* ''[[The Andromeda Strain (film)|Andromeda Strain]]''
* ''[[Barbarella]]''
* ''[[Better Than Chocolate]]''
* ''[[Conquest of Space]]''
* ''[[Death Rides a Horse]]''
* ''[[Down Periscope]]''
* ''[[The Green Mile|Green Mile]]''
* ''[[Looney Tunes: Back in Action]]''
* ''[[The Man with Two Brains|Man with Two Brains]]''
* ''[[Mulholland Falls]]''
* ''[[Outbreak]]''
* ''[[Pretty Woman]]''
* ''[[Road House]]''
* ''[[The Seventh Seal|Seventh Seal]]''
* ''[[Signs]]''
* ''[[Star Wreck: In the Pirkinning]]''
* ''[[Three Days of the Condor]]''
* ''[[Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?]]''
* ''[[Zorro, The Gay Blade]]''
'''Film stubs'''
* ''[[Clockwise]]''
* ''[[How the Grinch Stole Christmas]]''
* ''[[The Ice Storm]]''
* ''[[Jaws (film)|Jaws]]''
* ''[[The Karate Kid|Karate Kid]]''
* [[Malice (film)|''Malice'' (film)]]
* ''[[Vanilla Sky]]''
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'''TV shows'''
* ''[[Batman (1966)]]''
* ''[[Blackadder]]''
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
* ''[[Gilmore Girls]]''
* ''[[Kingdom Hospital]]''
* ''[[Monk]]''
* ''[[Monkey Dust]]''
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''
* ''[[The Stand (miniseries)]]''
* ''[[Twin Peaks]]''
'''TV stubs'''
* ''[[Absolutely Fabulous]]'' (unstubbed by others)
* ''[[Carnivàle]]'' (unstubbed by others)
* ''[[Crossing Jordan]]''
* ''[[Dead Like Me]]'' (unstubbed by others)
* ''[[The Mary Tyler Moore Show]]''
* ''[[Raines]]''
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'''People'''
* [[The Buggles|Buggles]]
* [[Robert Todd Carroll]]
* [[Will Cuppy]]
* [[Laurell K. Hamilton]]
* [[Peter F. Hamilton]]
* [[Nathaniel Hawthorne]]
* [[Werner Heisenberg]]
* [[Dean Koontz]]
* [[André Malraux]]
* [[Pat Paulsen]]
* [[Sheri S. Tepper]]
* [[David Weber]]
* [[James Woods]]
'''People stubs'''
* [[Piers Anthony]]
* [[Ingmar Bergman]] (unstubbed by others)
* [[Fred Hoyle]]
* [[Tim Johnson]]
* [[Indigo Girls]]
* [[Jacques Ninio]]
* [[Eleanor Holmes Norton]]
* [[James Randi]]
* [[Queen Rania of Jordan]]
* [[Michael A. Stackpole]]
* [[Fred Thompson]]
* [[Brian Vaszily]]
* [[Luigi Zingales]]
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'''Books'''
* <small>(obviously behind on my literary research!)</small>
'''Book stubs'''
* ''[[Starship Troopers]]''
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'''Themes'''
* [[Automation]]
* [[Lyrics]]
'''Theme stubs'''
* [[Astrology]]
* [[Lebanon]]
* [[Psychology]]
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== Articles I frequent ==

* ''[[Babylon 5]]''
* ''[[Blackadder]]''
* ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]''
* ''[[Veronica Mars]]''
* [[List of films]] - [[Television shows]]

== ''To-do''s ==

* Source, source, source!
* Reduce massive copyvios
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': periodic accuracy checks
* ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]'': periodic accuracy checks
* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': periodic accuracy checks
* [[Will Cuppy]]: add quotes from other books
* Cross-check WQ articles with WP to ensure WQ box links are included and working in the latter
* Add, edit policy pages
* [[User:Jeffq/Experiments|Experiments]]
* [[User:Jeffq/Sandbox|My sandbox]]
* [[User:Jeffq/Research|Research]]
* [[User:Jeffq/Near-term|Near-term to-dos]]
* [[User:Jeffq/Essays|Essays]]

== Quotes from non-famous folks and works ==

* Overheard at a primate skeleton exhibit in the [[w:Smithsonian Institution|Smithsonian]] [[w:National Museum of Natural History|Natural History Museum]], mid-August 2005:
*:'''Parent''': How weird, they look almost like us…
*:'''Child''': Geez, that's kinda the idea, Dad!
** ''Swift'', 26 August 2005, "Another Smart Kid", reported by reader David Craig

* Anyone who doubts that man is descended from apes can be persuaded by a visit to the nearest public men's restroom.
** Jeff Q, 4 October 2008

== Quotes from famous folks and works ==

* Those who want information to be free as a matter of principle should create some information and make it free.
** {{cite news
  | author = Nicholas Petreley
  | url = http://www.infoworld.com/articles/op/xml/00/09/04/000904oppetreley.html
  | title = Information doesn't want to be free — people want it to be
  | work = InfoWorld
  | date = 4 September 2000
  | accessdate = 2007-01-02
}}

* ''Le doute n'est pas une condition agréable, mais la certitude est absurde.''
** Doubt is not an agreeable condition, but certainty is absurd.
*** [[Voltaire]], letter to Frederick II of Prussia, 6 April 1767

* The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
** [[George Orwell]], "Notes on Nationalism" (1945 ''Polemic'' essay)

* '''Caesar''': Pardon him, Theodotus; he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
** [[George Bernard Shaw]], ''Caesar and Cleopatra'' (1898)

* Once you've got everybody agreeing with what they know in their hearts ain't true, you've got 'em by the balls.
** Senator Roark (Powers Boothe), ''[[Sin City]]'' (2005)

* And in a place where "U are soooooooo hot!!!" passes for wit, MySpace isn't doing much to elevate the level of social discourse.
** {{cite news
  | author = Dan Tynan
  | url = http://www.pcworld.com/article/127116/article.html?page=0
  | title = The 25 Worst Web Sites
  | work = PC World
  | date = 15 September 2006
  | accessdate = 2012-11-18
}}

* You gave me my first glimpse of a real life. Then you asked me to go on with the false one. No one can endure that.
** Newland Archer ([[w:Daniel Day-Lewis|Daniel Day-Lewis]]), ''[[w:The Age of Innocence (film)|The Age of Innocence]]'' (1993)

* There must be something sillier than arguing with software, but I can't think offhand what it would be.
** Musing of Joel Johnston
** {{cite book
  | author = Robert Heinlein
  | authorlink = Robert Heinlein
  | coauthors = [[Spider Robinson]]
  | title = Variable Star
  | edition = 1st
  | year = 2006
  | month = September
  | publisher = Tom Doherty Associates
  | location = New York
  | id = {{ISBN|0-763-31312-X}}
  | pages = 32
}}

* I do not believe in Belief. But this is an Age of Faith, and there are so many militant creeds that, in self defence, one has to formulate a creed of one's own. Tolerance, good temper and sympathy are no longer enough in a world where ignorance rules, and Science, which ought to have ruled, plays the pimp. '''Tolerance, good temper and sympathy — they are what matter really, and if the human race is not to collapse they must come to the front before long.'''
** [[E. M. Forster]], "What I Believe", ''[[w:The Nation|The Nation]]'', 16 July 1938

* Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we cannot continue, that the whole of our lives is without meaning. ''[…]'' Faith and reason are the shoes on your feet! You can travel further with both than you can with just one.
** Brother Alwyn, "[[w:The Deconstruction of Falling Stars|The Deconstruction of Falling Stars]]", ''[[Babylon 5]]'', 27 October 1997

* A man must be excessively stupid, as well as uncharitable, who believes that there is no virtue but on his own side, and that there are not men as honest as himself who may differ from him in political principles.
** [[Joseph Addison]], ''[[w:The Spectator (1711)|The Spectator]]'', No. 243 (8 December 1711)

* At home, political convictions are a tool for getting things done within your community; on the road, political convictions are a clumsy set of experiential blinders, compelling you to seek evidence for conclusions you've already drawn.  If you really are liberal and enlightened (or conservative and informed) you will stop yammering about politics and learn something about the culture you're visiting.
** {{cite news
  | author = Rolf Potts
  | url = http://travel.news.yahoo.com/b/rolf_potts/rolf_potts10387
  | title = The worst tourists in the world
  | work = Traveling Light
  | publisher = Yahoo! News
  | date = 9 October 2007
  | archiveurl = http://travel.news.yahoo.com/b/rolf_potts/rolf_potts10387
  | archivedate = 2008-07-03
  | accessdate = 2012-11-18
}}

* If DRM ''([[w:digital rights management|digital rights management]])'' is the worst thing you have to deal with in your day-to-day life – if your biggest problem is that you can't make your iTunes songs play on a Zune – then you should take a minute to thank God for giving you such a wonderful life.
** {{cite web
  | author = Daniel Lyons ("Fake Steve Jobs")
  | authorlink = w:Daniel Lyons
  | title = More Thoughts on 'Thoughts on Music'
  | url = http://www.fakesteve.net/2007/02/more-thoughts-on-thoughts-on-music.html
  | work = The Secret Diary of Steve Jobs
  | date = 7 February 2007
  | accessdate = 2012-11-18
}}


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