-Quite the contrary; they *love* collateral damage. If they can make
-you miserable enough, maybe you'll stop using email entirely. Once
-enough people do that, then there'll be no legitimate reason left for
-anyone to run an SMTP server, and the spam problem will be solved.
- -- Craig Dickson in <20020909231134.GA18917@linux700.localnet>
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-It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong
- -- Chris Torek
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-Filing a bug is probably not going to get it fixed any faster.
- -- Anthony Towns
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-Build a fire for a man, an he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on
-fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
- -- Jules Bean
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-Dropping non-free would set us back at least, what, 300 packages? It'd
-take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users will
-be fleeing to SLACKWARE.
-
-And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE?
- -- Matt Zimmerman in <gYuD3D.A.ayC.nGB39@murphy>
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-You could say she lived on the edge... Well, maybe not exactly on the edge,
-just close enough to watch other people fall off.
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000309.html
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-Guns Don't Kill People.
-*I* Kill People.
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-DIE!
- -- Maritza Campos http://www.crfh.net/d/20020601.html
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-"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring
-them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond
-where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot
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-Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of
-entheogens; it now took very unusual circumstances to attract public
-attention to sightings of supernatural entities. The latest miracle
-had raised the ante on the supernatural: the Virgin Mary had
-manifested herself to two children, a dog, and a Public Telepresence
-Point.
- -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p228
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-Junkies were all knitted together in a loose global macrame, the
-intercontinental freemasonry of narcotics.
- -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p257
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-America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The
-world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic bi-polar
-stand-up comedian. Anything but a somber and tedious nation of
-socially responsible centurions.
- -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p122
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-The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off
-everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the
-chairs, and the light and plumbing fixtures. The conspirators had
-deliberately punished the bank, for reasons best known to themselves,
-or to their unknown controllers. They had superglued doors and
-shattered windows, severed power and communications cables, poured
-stinking toxins into the wallspaces, and concreted all of the sinks
-and drains. In eight minutes, sixty people had ruined the building so
-thoroughly that it had to be condemned and later demolished.
- -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4
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-Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be
-running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to
-repetitive music.
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-"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
-victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
-bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this
-subject?"
- -- Robert Fisk
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-THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS
- -- Vietnam War Penquin Lighter
-http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/clippings/vietnam_there_is_no_gravity.jpg
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-Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
- -- Robert Heinlein
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-If you have the slightest bit of intellectual integrity you cannot
-support the government. -- anonymous
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-Debian's not really about the users or the software at all. It's a
-large flame-generating engine that the cabal uses to heat their coffee
- -- Andrew Suffield (#debian-devel Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:34 -0500)
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-"I was thinking seven figures," he said, "but I would have taken a
-hundred grand. I'm not a greedy person." [All for a moldy bottle of
-tropicana.]
- -- Sammi Hadzovic [in Andy Newman's 2003/02/14 NYT article.]
- http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/nyregion/14EYEB.html
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