add berlioz quotes

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@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ Tell me something interesting about yourself.
 Lie if you have to.
  -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php
 %
 Lie if you have to.
  -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php
 %

-We were at a chinese resturant.
+We were at a chinese restaurant.

 He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune
 cookie.
  -- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html
 He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune
 cookie.
  -- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html


@@ -79,11 +79,7 @@ take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users will
 be fleeing to SLACKWARE.
 
 And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE? 
 be fleeing to SLACKWARE.
 
 And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE? 

- -- Matt Zimmerman in <gYuD3D.A.ayC.nGB39@murphy>
-%
-She was alot like starbucks.
-IE, generic and expensive.
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch3.htm
+ -- Matt Zimmerman in <20021120225004.GX14809@mizar.alcor.net>

 %
 You could say she lived on the edge... Well, maybe not exactly on the edge,
 just close enough to watch other people fall off.
 %
 You could say she lived on the edge... Well, maybe not exactly on the edge,
 just close enough to watch other people fall off.


@@ -391,7 +387,7 @@ get at or repair.
  For those who do not, none is possible."
 %
 Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming
  For those who do not, none is possible."
 %
 Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming

-them to crisp is bad behaviour, I have not yet achieved a state of
+them to crisp is bad behavior, I have not yet achieved a state of

 nirvana.
  -- Manoj Srivastava in 87n04pzhmh.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com
 %
 nirvana.
  -- Manoj Srivastava in 87n04pzhmh.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com
 %


@@ -421,8 +417,8 @@ class of its potential falsifiers is not empty.
  -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21
 %
 I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be
  -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21
 %
 I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be

-such that it can be singled out, by means of emperical tests, in a
-negative sense: it must be possible for an emperical scientific system
+such that it can be singled out, by means of empirical tests, in a
+negative sense: it must be possible for an empirical scientific system

 to be refuted by experience.
  -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
 %
 to be refuted by experience.
  -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
 %


@@ -515,10 +511,6 @@ won't rise again.
 Leukocyte... I am your father.
  -- R. Stevens http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1546
 %
 Leukocyte... I am your father.
  -- R. Stevens http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1546
 %

-Your village called.
-They want their idiot back.
- -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c23.html
-%

 S: Make me a sandwich
 B: What? Make it yourself.
 S: sudo make me a sandwich
 S: Make me a sandwich
 B: What? Make it yourself.
 S: sudo make me a sandwich


@@ -617,7 +609,7 @@ This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic
  -- Terry Pratchett
 %
 Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or
  -- Terry Pratchett
 %
 Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or

-derring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But
+daring-do. Some achieved immortality by amassing great wealth. But

 the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer
 to achieve immortality by not dying.
  -- Terry Pratchet _The Color of Magic_
 the captain had long ago decided that he would, on the whole, prefer
 to achieve immortality by not dying.
  -- Terry Pratchet _The Color of Magic_


@@ -750,7 +742,7 @@ up for them as have no voices."
  -- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227
 %
 But if, after all, we are on the wrong track, what then? Only
  -- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227
 %
 But if, after all, we are on the wrong track, what then? Only

-dissapointed human hopes, nothing more. And even if we perish, what
+disappointed human hopes, nothing more. And even if we perish, what

 will it matter in the endless cycles of eternity?
  -- Fridtjof Nansen _Farthest North_ p152
 %
 will it matter in the endless cycles of eternity?
  -- Fridtjof Nansen _Farthest North_ p152
 %


@@ -807,7 +799,7 @@ will unflinchingly designate here as "croutons".
  -- Cser, Jim. Nanotechnology and the Physical Limits of Toastability.
     AIR 1:3, June, 1995.
 %
  -- Cser, Jim. Nanotechnology and the Physical Limits of Toastability.
     AIR 1:3, June, 1995.
 %

-[The] JK-88 [coffee] percolator is capable of acheiving the ultimate
+[The] JK-88 [coffee] percolator is capable of achieving the ultimate

 balance of aroma and density, aftertaste and emollience, pentosans and
 tannins. The next step is to reduce the cost of the HPLC-E technology
 to the point where it can be manufactured for less than the cost of a
 balance of aroma and density, aftertaste and emollience, pentosans and
 tannins. The next step is to reduce the cost of the HPLC-E technology
 to the point where it can be manufactured for less than the cost of a


@@ -816,7 +808,7 @@ Boeing 757.
 %
 Something the junk advertisers don't seem to understand: we live in an
 information super-saturated world. If I don't want to buy something,
 %
 Something the junk advertisers don't seem to understand: we live in an
 information super-saturated world. If I don't want to buy something,

-no amount of shouting or propogandizing will budge me; all it will do
+no amount of shouting or propagandizing will budge me; all it will do

 is get me annoyed. On the other hand, if I have a need for your
 product, I can seek it out in an eyeblink.
  -- Charles Stross "Toast: A Con Report" in _Toast_ p136
 is get me annoyed. On the other hand, if I have a need for your
 product, I can seek it out in an eyeblink.
  -- Charles Stross "Toast: A Con Report" in _Toast_ p136


@@ -824,7 +816,7 @@ product, I can seek it out in an eyeblink.
 [On a trip back from collecting grass seeds in tropical bird stomachs
 and being thought by the customs agents to be transporting Marijuana.]
 "Anyone so square as to tell you they are transporting grass seeds is
 [On a trip back from collecting grass seeds in tropical bird stomachs
 and being thought by the customs agents to be transporting Marijuana.]
 "Anyone so square as to tell you they are transporting grass seeds is

-bound to be ok"
+bound to be OK"

  -- Peter K. Klopfer _Seeds of Doubt_ Science 134:177 10 April 2009
 %
 "What, now?"
  -- Peter K. Klopfer _Seeds of Doubt_ Science 134:177 10 April 2009
 %
 "What, now?"


@@ -865,7 +857,7 @@ It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men.
  -- Frederick Douglass
 %
 "That is why I am still tyrant of [Ankh-Morpork]. The way to retain
  -- Frederick Douglass
 %
 "That is why I am still tyrant of [Ankh-Morpork]. The way to retain

-power, I have always thought, is to ensure the absolute unthinkabilty
+power, I have always thought, is to ensure the absolute unthinkability

 of oneself not being there."
  -- Terry Pratchett _Unseen Academicals_ p391
 %
 of oneself not being there."
  -- Terry Pratchett _Unseen Academicals_ p391
 %


@@ -1025,7 +1017,7 @@ surrounded by people that love them. Anything else is conceit[ed].
 Overcast nights are beautiful; the sun, mostly set, a near full moon
 partially risen, light pollution from the city, and the sky delicately
 purpleorangegray, as if it were a livid bruise.
 Overcast nights are beautiful; the sun, mostly set, a near full moon
 partially risen, light pollution from the city, and the sky delicately
 purpleorangegray, as if it were a livid bruise.

-% 
+%

 The terrorist's job is to terrorize the people, to interfere with
 freedom in such a way that disrupts ordinary life and commerce. With
 due respect, it is clear that the above referenced governmental
 The terrorist's job is to terrorize the people, to interfere with
 freedom in such a way that disrupts ordinary life and commerce. With
 due respect, it is clear that the above referenced governmental


@@ -1035,3 +1027,89 @@ agencies are aiding the terrorists' objective.
 [C]haos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought.
 It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
  -- Terry Pratchett _Interesting Times_ p4
 [C]haos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought.
 It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
  -- Terry Pratchett _Interesting Times_ p4

+%
+Your absence has gone through me
+Like thread through a needle.
+Everything I do is stitched with its color.
+ -- W. S. Merwin "Poetry in Motion" p107
+%
+Logs drowse in the pond
+Dreaming of their heroes
+Alligator and crocodile
+ -- Vern Rutsala "Poetry in Motion" p77
+%
+Once, our bodies were bells:
+Simply moving in the wind
+We tolled our names.
+ -- Phillis Levin "Poetry in Motion" p55
+%
+It's brief and bright, dear children; bright and brief.
+Delight's the lightning; the long thunder's grief.
+ -- John Frederick Nims "Poetry in Motion" p31
+%
+I would like to be the air
+that inhabits you for a moment
+only. I would like to be that unnoticed
+& that necessary.
+ -- Margaret Atwood "Poetry in Motion" p140
+%
+I stared at the mountain rising over me. Empty. It was a pointless
+thing to have done -- climb up it, across it, and down it. Stupid! It
+looked perfect; so clean and untouched, and we had changed nothing.
+[...] I had been on it too long, and it had taken everything.
+ -- Joe Simpson "Touching the Void" p117
+%
+Have you ever noticed: the most vocal superpatriots are the old men
+who send young men out to die.
+ -- Harlan Ellison "Basilisk" (_Deathbird Stories_ p73)
+%
+"Do you think you might be suffering from post-traumatic stress
+disorder?" [...]
+"Who isn't?"
+ -- Walter Jon Williams _This Is Not A Game_ p121
+%
+I finally developed
+a computer with feelings.
+It just doesn't have
+feelings for me.
+ -- a softer world #633
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=633
+%
+Live and learn
+or die and teach by example
+ -- a softer world #625
+    http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=625
+%
+I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym
+-- xkcd http://xkcd.com/917/
+%
+[I]t's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are
+done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for
+the best, especially if there is some god involved.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Snuff_ p185
+%
+"I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out
+there." "There might as well be, [...] but most of it gets spent on
+pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be
+scraped together for particle accelerators."
+ -- Neal Stephenson _Anathem_ p262
+%
+"Do you need [...] [t]ools? Stuff?"
+"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. [...] We
+have a protractor."
+ -- Neal Stephenson _Anathem_ p320
+%
+The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and
+Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making
+mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes
+from being corrected.
+ -- G. K. Chesterton "Illustrated London News (1924-04-19)"
+%
+You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost
+anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
+ -- Robert Frost
+%
+Le temps est un grand maître, dit-on; le malheur est qu'il soit un
+maître inhumain qui tue ses élèves.
+Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
+ -- Hector Berlioz