X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=25fb28a6b320e6031a362d7b128c9537d40cf1df;hb=fd86148ff7ed2bc1001d39593eff10412294f52a;hp=e9fe2c94637407e0426af5b01e53aecf95ddbe72;hpb=1ce8ecd7db4f57de9121d8b6539cbbae8d2c7ed8;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index e9fe2c9..25fb28a 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -793,7 +793,7 @@ I just didn't think them through. You think to yourself, hey, it's a test tube, for God's sake. Pretty soon, though, the rush from a test tube isn't enough. You want to experiment more and more. Then before you know it, you're laying in -the corner of a lab somewhere with a soxilette apparatus in one hand, +the corner of a lab somewhere with a Soxhlet apparatus in one hand, a three neck flask in the other, strung out and begging for grant money. -- Tim Mitchell, 1994 Ig Nobel Chemistry Prize Speech @@ -811,7 +811,7 @@ 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 Boeing 757. -- Charles Stross "Extracts from the Club Diary" in _Toast_ p83-4 -% +% 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 @@ -829,3 +829,22 @@ bound to be ok" "Soon equates to good, later to worse, Uagen Zlepe, scholar. Therefore, immediacy." -- Iain M. Banks _Look to Windward_ p 213 +% +He quite enjoyed the time by himself in the mornings. The day was too +early to have started going really wrong. + -- Terry Pratchet _Only You Can Save Mankind_ p133 +% +Let me bring you up to speed: +We know nothing. +You are now up to speed. + -- Steve Martin as Inspector Clouseau in _The Pink Panther 2_ (2009) +% +A kiss was mysterious and powerful, fragile and invincible. Like any +spark, a kiss might fizzle into nothing or consume an entire forest. +[...] A kiss could change the entire world. + -- Scott Westerfeld _The Killing of Worlds_ p336 +% +Rule 6: "If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to +enough of it." + -- Howard Tayler _Schlock Mercenary_ March 13th, 2005 + http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050313.html