Lie if you have to.
-- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php
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-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
And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE?
-- Matt Zimmerman in <gYuD3D.A.ayC.nGB39@murphy>
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-She was alot like starbucks.
-IE, generic and expensive.
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch3.htm
-%
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
For those who do not, none is possible."
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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
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-- 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
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-- 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_
-- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227
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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
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-- Cser, Jim. Nanotechnology and the Physical Limits of Toastability.
AIR 1:3, June, 1995.
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-[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
%
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
[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
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"What, now?"
-- 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
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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
+agencies are aiding the terrorists' objective.
+ -- Gary Fielder in Gary Fielder vs Janet Napolitano et al.
+%
+[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