Some famous quotes optimized for TASing purposes. Feel free to improve them or provide more.
1. You can TAS anything, but not everything.
—David Allen
2. Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is no frame left to take away.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
3. The richest man is not he who has the most frames, but he who needs the least.
—Unknown Author
4. You never miss a shot you take.
—Wayne Gretzky
5. Courage is not the absence of frame war, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than frame war.
—Ambrose Redmoon
6. You must be the glitch you wish to see in the game.
—Gandhi
7. When hungry, record your TAS; when tired, close your emulator. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean.
—Lin-Chi
8. The third-rate mind is only happy when it is tasing with Famtasia. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is tasing with Bizhawk. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is tasing.
—A. A. Milne
9. To the man who only has a wall, everything he encounters begins to look like a walljump.
—Abraham Maslow
10. We are what we repeatedly do; frame-advancing, then, is not an act but a habit.
—Aristotle
11. A wise man gets more use from his rerecords than a fool from his bot.
—Baltasar Gracian
12. Do not seek to follow in the route of the men of old; seek the glitch they sought.
—Basho
13. Watch your game choices; they become the forum threads.
Watch your forum threads; they become the places to post WIPs.
Watch your WIPs; they become the precious files.
Watch your precious files; they become the Workbench stuff.
Watch your Workbench stuff; it will become Gruefood.
—Lao-Tze
14. Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their savestates closer together.
—Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
15. What we plan, or what we search in the RAM, or what we record is, in the end, of little consequence. The only consequence is what we do with the desynch.
—John Ruskin
16. The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new RAM addresses but seeing new values in them.
—Marcel Proust
17. TAS like you don’t need to get published, take damage like you’ve never been hurt, and encode like no one’s watching.
—Unknown Author
18. Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether it desynchs or not.
—Virgil Garnett Thomson
19. Even if you’re tasing the right game, you’ll get run over if you just sit there.
—Will Rogers
20. People often say that publications won't last. Well, neither does bathing – that’s why we recommend it daily.
—Zig Ziglar
21. Before I was an expert player I had six theories about optimizing runs; now I have six obsoleted runs and no theories.
—John Wilmot
22. What the world needs is more geniuses with Gens, there are so few of us left.
—Oscar Levant
23. Always jump over your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
—Oscar Wilde
24. I’ve gone into hundreds of item slots, and have been corrupted into thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was 3!!"##"!!"!"!#"LLFLLSSLLDF3.14...
—THE END
25. When you go into Workbench you are putting your TAS into the hands of people who weren’t smart enough to get out of judge duty.
—Norm Crosby
26. Those who believe in team runs, raise my rerecord count.
—Kurt Vonnegut
27. Just the fact that some lag frames were removed does not imply that all that are removed are lag frames. They removed lag frames in Ducktales, they removed lag frames in Ducktales 2, they removed lag frames in Darkwing Duck. But they also optimized boss fights.
—Carl Sagan
28. My glitches extend to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the glitches.
—Jean Rostand
29. Sometimes I worry about being a success in a game world.
—Lily Tomlin
30. I quit therapy because my analyst was trying to obsolete my runs behind my back.
—Richard Lewis
31. We’ve heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the complete TAS of Dune II; now, thanks to the Internet, we know that is not true.
—Robert Wilensky
32. If there are no stupid RNGs, then what kind of RNGs do stupid people manipulate? Do they get smart just in time to manipulate RNGs?
—Scott Adams
33. If the lessons of frame wars teach us anything it is that nobody learns the lessons that frame wars teach us.
—Anon
34. When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become expert taser. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
—Clarence Darrow
35. Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own TAS. Laughing at someone else’s can shorten it.
—Cullen Hightower
36. There are many who dare not begin the movie from a savestate for fear of what the TASVideoAgent will say.
—Cyril Connolly
37. There are so many scan lines on television. Does that cause scan lines on the streets?
—Dick Cavett
38. All TASes are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
—H. L. Mencken
39. I don’t mind what the admins do, as long as they don’t do it on the front page and frighten the newbies.
—Victor Hugo
40. I took a speed running course and ran Rush'n Attack in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
—Woody Allen
41. The person who frame-advances too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of Gruefood.
—Albert Einstein
42. Believe those who are seeking the optimal input. Doubt those who find it.
—André Gide
43. It is the mark of an educated judge to be able to be entertained by a run without accepting it.
—Aristotle
44. I’d rather live with a good Gruefood than a bad Star.
—Aryeh Frimer
45. We TAS something every day, and lots of times it’s that what we TASed the day before.
—Bill Vaughan
46. I have made this TAS longer than usual because I lack the time to make it shorter.
—Blaise Pascal
47. Don’t ever wrestle with a judge. You’ll both get dirty, but the judge will enjoy it.
—Cale Yarborough
48. A taser is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously.
—Charles F. Kettering
49. Asking a working taser what he thinks about your WIP is like asking a lamppost how it feels about dogs.
—Christopher Hampton
50. Better to TAS for yourself and have no public, than to TAS for the public and have no self.
—Cyril Connolly
51. Never be afraid to check the Workbench on April, after all, you could be missing out on the joke submission of the century.
—Dame Edna Everage
52. I am patient with loading screens but not with sloppy gameplay.
—Edith Sitwell
54. The cure for boredom is TASing. There is no cure for TASing.
—Ellen Parr
55. Advice is what we ask for when we already know the WIP was accidentally deleted but wish we didn’t.
—Erica Jong
56. Some people like my advice so much that they frame-advance the wallzip instead of botting it.
—Gordon R. Dickson
57. The trouble with Rat Race is that even if you win, it is still a bad game choice.
—Lily Tomlin
58. Never ascribe to emulator failure, that which can be explained by an in-game glitch.
—Napoleon (Hanlon’s Razor)
59. TAS was given to gamer to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
—Oscar Wilde
60. When a taser can no longer save a frame, it is time for frames to save him.
—Thomas Szasz
