20 Star Trek quotes to help you boldly go through the workday

More than 50 years after its first premiere, Star Trek returns with  Star Trek: Discovery on CBS. Stream it live or watch it on-demand on CBS All Access beginning September 24. In honor of the new series, we've compiled a list of our favorite Star Trek quotes.

1. "Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end." — Spock
2. "Highly illogical." — Spock
3. "Live long, and prosper." — Spock
4. "Things are only impossible until they're not." — Captain Jean-Luc Picard
5. "Insufficient facts always invite danger." — Spock
6. "Compassion: that's the one things no machine ever had. Maybe it's the one thing that keeps men ahead of them." — Dr. McCoy
7. "We prefer to help ourselves. We make mistakes, but we're human—and maybe that's the word that best explains us." — Captain James T. Kirk
8. "Improve a mechanical device and you may double productivity. But improve man, you gain a thousandfold." — Khan Noonien Singh
9. "I am pleased to see that we have differences. May we together become greater than the sum of both of us." — Surak 
10. "It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life." — Captain Jean-Luc Picard to Data
11. "I canna' change the laws of physics." — Montgomery "Scotty" Scott
12. "KHAAANNN!" — Captain James T. Kirk 
13. "One man cannot summon the future." —Spock "But one man can change the present!" — Kirk
14. "Change is the essential process of all existence." — Spock
15. "It is the lot of 'man' to strive no matter how content he is." — Spock
16. "Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them." — Spock
17. "Without freedom of choice there is no creativity." — Captain James T. Kirk
18. "You can use logic to justify almost anything. That's its power. And its flaw." - Captain Cathryn Janeway
19. "There is a way out of every box, a solution to every puzzle; it's just a matter of finding it." — Captain Jean-Luc Picard
20. "To boldly go where no man has gone before." — Captain James T. Kirk

What is your favorite Star Trek quote? Let us know in the comments below!

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100 Funny Sayings, Quotes, and Phrases

Enjoy. I hope these may brighten up someone's day!

1. It's true that we don't know what we've got until we lose it, but it's also true that we don't know what we've been missing until it arrives.
2. "The only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd rather not." —Mark Twain
3. The average woman would rather have beauty than brains, because the average man can see better than he can think.
4. "One of the great things about books is sometimes there are some fantastic pictures." —George W. Bush
5. Always remember: you're unique, just like everyone else.
6. The road to success is always under construction.
7. Where there is a "will," there are 500 relatives.
8. Wear short sleeves. Support your right to bare arms!
9. When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane.
10. Join The Army. Visit exotic places, meet strange people, then kill them.
11. I poured spot remover on my dog. Now he's gone.
12. Death is hereditary.
13. When you're right, no one remembers. When you're wrong, no one forgets.
14. Cheer up, the worst is yet to come.
15. If you can't see the bright side of life, polish the dull side.
16. Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
17. I stopped fighting my inner demons, we're on the same side now.
18. Well-behaved women rarely make history.
19. I would never die for my beliefs because I might be wrong.
20. He who laughs last, didn't get it.
21. We live in an age where pizza gets to your home before the police.
22. I'm an excellent housekeeper. Every time I get a divorce, I keep the house.
23. Cheese . . . milk's leap toward immortality.
24. You have a cough? Go home tonight, eat a whole box of Ex-Lax. Tomorrow you'll be afraid to cough.
25. He's so optimistic he'd buy a burial suit with two pairs of pants.
26. Half of the people in the world are below average.
27. I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.
28. A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.
29. It is not my fault that I never learned to accept responsibility!
30. Before marriage, a man yearns for the woman he loves. After marriage, the "Y" becomes silent.
31. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.
32. USA Today has come out with a new survey: Apparently three out of four people make up 75 percent of the population.
33. Constipated people don't give a crap.
34. Why does a slight tax increase cost you $200 and a substantial tax cut save you 30 cents?
35. My wife made me join a bridge club. I jump off next Tuesday.
36. Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
37. A word to the wise ain’t necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
38. Chuck Norris frequently donates blood to the Red Cross. Just never his own.
39. Middle age is when your age starts to show around your middle.
40. Ham and eggs—a day's work for a chicken; a lifetime commitment for a pig.
41. I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.
42. When it comes to thought, some people stop at nothing.
43. You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted, then used against you.
44. If you can’t live without me, why aren’t you dead yet?
45. I’d like to help you out. Which way did you come in?
46. If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten.
47. You couldn't get a clue during the clue-mating season in a field full of horny clues if you smeared your body with clue musk and did the clue mating dance.
48. It is a damned poor mind indeed that can't think of at least two ways of spelling any word.
49. In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: It goes on.
50. Human beings are the only creatures that allow their children to come back home.
51. Horse sense is a good judgment which keeps horses from betting on people.
52. I don't deserve this award, but I have arthritis and I don't deserve that either.
53. Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, age don't matter.
54. Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.
55. Don't tell me the sky is the limit when there are footprints on the moon.
56. The sex was so good that even the neighbors had a cigarette.
57. Why do psychics have to ask you for your name?
58. I don’t suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
59. I get enough exercise pushing my luck.
60. Sometimes I wake up grumpy; other times I let her sleep.
61. I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather . . . not screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car.
62. We are Microsoft. Resistance is futile. You will be assimilated.
63. The more people I meet, the more I like my dog.
64. You’re just jealous because the voices only talk to me.
65. I got a gun for my wife—best trade I’ve ever made.
66. Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
67. To all you virgins, thanks for nothing.
68. Beauty is a light switch away . . .
69. The evening news is where they start by saying “good evening,” and proceed by telling you why it’s not.
70. There are three kinds of people in this world: those who can count and those who can't.
71. When life hands you lemons, make lemonade, find the person that life handed vodka to, and have a party.
72. if Barbie is so popular then why do we buy her friends and boyfriends?
73. God created the world, everything else is made in China.
74. Before you criticize someone, walk a mile in their shoes. That way, you’ll be a mile from them, and you’ll have their shoes.
75. Why do they sterilize the needles for lethal injections?
76. Practice doesn't make perfect. Perfect practice makes perfect.
77. Those who throw dirt only lose ground.
78. You never truly understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.
79. Error. No keyboard. Press F1 to continue.
80. Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
81. Birthdays are good for you. Statistics show that people who have the most live the longest.
82. hey occifer i swear to drunk im not as god as you think i am.
83. This sentence is a lie.
84. Men are like parking stalls. All the good ones are taken and the rest are handicapped!
85. Change is good, but dollars are better.
86. How is it that “fat chance” and “slim chance” mean the same thing?
87. 1492: Native Americans discover Columbus lost at sea.
88. Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry and the world laughs harder.
89. Everyone hates me because I'm paranoid.
90. Solution to two of the world’s problem: feed the homeless to the hungry.
91. You laugh because I’m different, I laugh because I just farted!
92. Whoever said nothing is impossible never tried slamming a revolving door!
93. Silence is golden, but duck tape is silver.
94. When life gives you melons . . . you might be dyslexic.
95. There’s no 'I' in team, but there is in 'win.'
96. Those who criticize our generation seem to forget who raised it!
97. Man who goes to bed with an itchy butt . . . wakes up with a stinky finger!
98. Children in the back seat cause accidents, accidents in the back seat cause children!
99. The only good thing about going bra-less at my age is that it pulls the wrinkles right out of my face.
100. How do you know when you are too drunk to drive? When you swerve to miss a tree . . . and then realize it was your air-freshener.

Does anyone have any tips on how to build a sword adept?

I know with the new SRM Season 9 Neo Tokyo coming out at Origins Game Fair this year I am sure that some one will want to build a Ninjetsu or Street Samurai Sword Adept before too long!

Imagine your character, how does he look? What are his hobbies? Does he prefer a certain kind of sword? Think about how to make him cool and fun. What is different about him from other sword adepts?

One of my Players in my London falling group built an Elf Sword Adept Street Samurai who was a decedent from the Elf's of Gwaniod so I know it can be dune. He had a lot of fun playing him.

I personally see Adepts as the super-specialists of Shadowrun, they can do a couple of things but they do them REALLY well. So my best general advice without helping you build the character is to not be afraid to specialize. You'll probably also want to focus on attributes more than skills I think. Like any primary combatant, you'll want high Reaction and Intuition to avoid getting hit (maybe even more than most) and solid armor and Body to resist it when you do. You'll also want high Strength for damage since your primary weapon will be melee. And you'll want high Agility because, like any melee character in a primarily ranged combat situation, you want to close the distance with your enemies as quickly as possible so the have less chance to ventilate you.

Luckily as an Adept, you also have your powers to help with this. Increase Reflexes is one of my personal favorites, and then you have powers like Magic Armor, Boost/Increase Attribute, Elemental Weapon, and so on. You also have powers like Light Body and similar that give you a bit of extra mobility. Thrown Weapon Mastery (I think that's what it's called) could be a good idea too if you want a secondary focus in thrown weapons, which might not be a bad idea since they also rely on your main stat for damage. Just keep in mind that background counts and the like mess with Adept powers as well as spells, so if you rely on them too much you might end up in hot water if you find yourself in those situations.

Update to add to this: June 4th, 2018; Adept Centering (once you initiate a couple times) is a good way to overcome background counts if you're doing anything physical with adepts. Doesn't work out well for face or technical adepts, but for your sword specialist it should be great.

Another updated thought to add to this: June 5th, 2018; Get the Nodachi from Street Lethal, take Improved Reflexes 3, Improved Ability: Blades, and Critical Strike. If you want to go full meme, take something like the Stag mentor spirit, for an extra 2 dice with Blades.

Here is a non mission street level character If you want basically the same thing, but more pink mohawk and a bit more optimized mechanically, then ignore Str entirely and just grab an Ash Arms Monofilament Chainsaw. You now have a 12P, -8AP weapon that does double damage to barriers, which synergizes with both Critical Strike AND Death Dealer, enabling you to throw around a 28P/-8AP chainsaw strike and do things like saw a hardened bunker in half. OH ya this would be Classic Chainsaw massacre Shadowrun style.

Another build that jumps to mind is a smooth-talking elf that dual wields broadswords with red tassels. His father pressured him into knight errant and encouraged him to forget his passion for action trids, but he always practiced in secret and one day decided to quit knight errant and pursue his own path, to get paid for his real passions.