X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=9f847f277a53793958849ad33c419c505d868128;hb=00f470c625d6dfa0b9591fad7dda380b00710627;hp=426762e5182e24298992dab37749cd5d105dfb31;hpb=9ebdec8215e5dfba6512e3f29d750709ca83a4bb;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 426762e..9f847f2 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -21,83 +21,10 @@ I'd sign up in a hot second for any cellular company whose motto was: "We're less horrible than a root canal with a cold chisel." -- Cory Doctorow % -She was alot like starbucks. -IE, generic and expensive. - -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001376.html -% -Tell me something interesting about yourself. -Lie if you have to. - -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/archives/batch20.php -% -We were at a chinese resturant. -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 -% -Three little words. (In descending order of importance.) -I -love -you - -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/graphics/batch35.php -% -N: Why should I believe that?" -B: Because it's a fact." -N: Fact?" -B: F, A, C, T... fact" -N: So you're saying that I should believe it because it's true. - That's your argument? -B: It IS true. --- "Ploy" http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/Ploy.MPG -% -UF: What's your favorite coffee blend? -PD: Dark Crude with heavy water. You are understandink? "If geiger - counter does not click, the coffee, she is just not thick." -% "There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself." -- Bach % -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> -% -It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong - -- Chris Torek -% -Filing a bug is probably not going to get it fixed any faster. - -- Anthony Towns -% -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 -% -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 -% -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 -% -Guns Don't Kill People. -*I* Kill People. -% -DIE! - -- Maritza Campos http://www.crfh.net/d/20020601.html -% -"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 -% 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 @@ -127,44 +54,10 @@ 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 % -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. -% -"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 -% -THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS - -- Vietnam War Penquin Lighter -http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/clippings/vietnam_there_is_no_gravity.jpg -% -Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. - -- Robert Heinlein -% -If you have the slightest bit of intellectual integrity you cannot -support the government. -- anonymous -% -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) -% -"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 -% [T]he question of whether Machines Can Think, [...] is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim. -- Edsger W. Dijkstra "The threats to computing science" % -"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. -We don't believe this to be a coincidence." - -- Jeremy S. Anderson -% "A one-question geek test. If you get the joke, you're a geek: Seen on a California license plate on a VW Beetle: 'FEATURE'..." -- Joshua D. Wachs - Natural Intelligence, Inc. @@ -178,20 +71,6 @@ they could be used to pass secret messages in semaphore. In fact let's just ban all forms of verbal and non-verbal communication -- let's see those criminals make plans now!" % -"There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user -off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their -REAL earnings to the IRS." - -- The B.O.F.H.. -% -When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I -realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked -Him to forgive me. - -- Emo Philips. -% -"People selling drug paraphernalia ... are as much a part of drug -trafficking as silencers are a part of criminal homicide." - -- John Brown, DEA Chief -% Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark Twain @@ -209,23 +88,6 @@ anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into the serial port and load up the HP-48 VT-100 emulator. -- Jeff Dege, jdege@winternet.com % -Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and -the Ugly). - -- Matt Welsh -% -CNN/Reuters: News reports have filtered out early this morning that US -forces have swooped on an Iraqi Primary School and detained 6th Grade -teacher Mohammed Al-Hazar. Sources indicate that, when arrested, -Al-Hazar was in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square and -a calculator. US President George W Bush argued that this was clear -and overwhelming evidence that Iraq indeed possessed weapons of math -instruction. -% -I'd never hurt another living thing. -But if I did... -It would be you. - -- Chris Bishop http://www.chrisbishop.com/her/archives/her69.html -% Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more precious growing A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting @@ -243,10 +105,6 @@ the system really is there and that it aught to be exited from. Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept. -- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_] % -[Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause".] -I think they misspelled this. Shouldn't it be "Operation Just 'Cause"? - -- TekPolitik http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59669&cid=5664907 -% Grimble left his mother in the food store and went to the launderette and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like color television only with less plot. @@ -257,17 +115,14 @@ sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more. -- Woody Allen % Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired -signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are -not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is -not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, -the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a -way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is -humanity hanging on a cross of iron. - -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953 -% -A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but -won't cross the street to vote in a national election. - -- Bill Vaughan +signifies [...] a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those +who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending +money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of +its scientists, the hopes of its children. [...] This is not a way of +life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it +is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. [...] [I]s there no other +way the world may live? + -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953 % A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over @@ -298,30 +153,13 @@ freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too. -- W. Somerset Maugham % -Sentenced to two years hard labor (for sodomy), Oscar Wilde stood -handcuffed in driving rain waiting for transport to prison. "If this -is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners," he remarked, "she -doesn't deserve to have any." -% -The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion ... refutes its thesis -far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's labored -effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all -the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting -on it--and is just as likely to succeed. - -- Alex Kozinski in Silveira V Lockyer -% - EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN -Don't be teased or humiliated. See their look of surprise when you -step right up to a urinal and use it with a smile. Get Dr. Mary Evers' -EQUAL-NOW Adapter (pat. appld. for) -- purse size, fool proof, -sanitary -- comes in nine lovely, feminine, psychedelic patterns -- -requires no fitting, no prescriptions. - -- Robert A Heinlein _I Will Fear No Evil_ p470. -% -It has always been Debian's philosophy in the past to stick to what -makes sense, regardless of what crack the rest of the universe is -smoking. - -- Andrew Suffield in 20030403211305.GD29698@doc.ic.ac.uk +The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion [...] refutes its +thesis far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's +labored effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight +has all the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by +sitting on it---and is just as likely to succeed. + -- Alex Kozinski, Dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer + (CV-00-00411-WBS p5983-4) % If I had a letter, sealed it in a locked vault and hid the vault somewhere in New York. Then told you to read the letter, thats not @@ -339,15 +177,6 @@ A: Nothing. This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure. -- James Hynes _Publish and Perish_ % -I now know how retro SCOs OSes are. Riotous, riotous stuff. How they -had the ya-yas to declare Linux an infant OS in need of their IP is -beyond me. Upcoming features? PAM. files larger than 2 gigs. NFS over -TCP. The 80's called, they want their features back. - -- Compactable Dave http://www3.sympatico.ca/dcarpeneto/sco.html -% -This message brought to you by weapons of mass destruction related -program activities, and the letter G. -% Identical parts aren't. -- Beach's Law % @@ -380,18 +209,6 @@ possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair. -- Douglas Adams _Mostly Harmless_ % - why the hell does kernel-source-2.6.3 depend on xfree86-common? - It... Doesn't? - good point -% -"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. - 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 -nirvana. - -- Manoj Srivastava in 87n04pzhmh.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com -% "Because," Fee-5 explained patiently, "I was born in the fifth row. Any fool would understand that, but against stupidity the very Gods themselves contend in vain." @@ -418,8 +235,8 @@ 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 -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 % @@ -438,10 +255,6 @@ lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and the chuck keys for electric drills. -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p166 % -Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but -that's not why we do it. - -- Richard Feynman -% Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you. If you don't bet, you can't win. -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p240 @@ -476,9 +289,6 @@ No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free [...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. -- Robert Heinlein _Revolt in 2010_ p54 % -"Facts" are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold -to be "True". -% LEADERSHIP -- A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their @@ -486,22 +296,10 @@ own. -- The HipCrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p256-7) % -"I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the -symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the people -I think of as victims when my guard drops. It's at least possible I'm -even crazier than my fellows, whom I'm tempted to pity. -"There seems only one thing to do, and that's get drunk" - -- Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p390) -% "You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember when you are old." -- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p413) % -If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a -creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn't -have one either? - -- Anonymous Coward http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167556&cid=13970629 -% Information wants to be free to kill again. -- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372 % @@ -512,10 +310,6 @@ won't rise again. 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 @@ -536,8 +330,8 @@ have exhausted all other possibilities. As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware -of change in the air however slight lest we become unwitting victims -of the darkness. +of change in the air -- however slight -- lest we become unwitting +victims of the darkness. -- William O. Douglas % One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back @@ -588,12 +382,6 @@ No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white. -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ % -The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of -the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the -benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any -curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. - -- Adolf Hitler _Mein Kampf_ p403 -% I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be. -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_ @@ -614,7 +402,7 @@ 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 -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_ @@ -711,3 +499,424 @@ J.W. Grant: "Bastard!" Rico: "Yes, Sir. In my case, an accident of birth. But you, Sir, you're a self-made man." -- Henry "Rico" Fardan in "The Professionals" +% +"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in +a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from +asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my +mother told me when I was young." +"Why, what did she tell you?" +"I don't know, I didn't listen." + –- Douglas Adams _The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy_ +% +a friend will help you move +a best friend will help you move bodies +but if you have to move your best friend's body +you're on your own + -- a softer world #242 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=242 +% +It was a very familiar voice. [...] It was a voice you could have used +to open a bottle of whine. + -- Terry Pratchett _The Last Continent_ p270 +% +The carbon footprint of a single human being is enormous. +If you think about it, your honour, +I'm an environmentalist. + -- a softer world #283 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=283 +% +We must realize that today's Establishment is the New George III. +Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If +it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution. + -- William O. Douglas _Points of Rebellion_ +% +"Them as can do has to do for them as can't. And someone has to speak +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 +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 +% +There is no more concentrated form of evil +than apathy. +% +I will not make any deals with you. I've resigned. I will not be +pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My +life is my own. I resign. + -- Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 in "The Prisoner" +% +Where am I? THE VILLAGE. What do you want? INFORMATION. Which side are +you on? THAT WOULD BE TELLING. WE WANT INFORMATION. INFORMATION. +INFORMATION. You won't get it! BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, WE WILL. Who are +you? THE NEW NUMBER 2. Who is Number 1? YOU ARE NUMBER 6. I am not a +number! I am a free man! HAHAHAHAHAHA. + -- Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 with Number 2 in "The Prisoner" +% +Let us chat together a moment, my friend. There are still several +hours until dawn, and I have the whole day to sleep. + -- Count Orlock in _Nosferatu (1922)_ +% +Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far +as society is free to use the results. + -- Richard M Stallman _GNU Manifesto_ +% +"She decided what she wished to happen and then assumed that reality +would bend to her wishes." [...] "Reality doesn't indulge wishes." + -- Terry Goodkind _Phantom_ p133 +% +Judge if you want. +We are all going to die. +I intend to deserve it. + -- a softer world #421 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=421 +% +All my dreams came true. +I just didn't think them through. + -- a softer world #388 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=388 +% +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 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 +% +The smallest quantity of bread that can be sliced and toasted has yet +to be experimentally determined. In the quantum limit we must +necessarily encounter fundamental toast particles which the author +will unflinchingly designate here as "croutons". + -- Cser, Jim. Nanotechnology and the Physical Limits of Toastability. + AIR 1:3, June, 1995. +% +[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 +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 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" + -- Peter K. Klopfer _Seeds of Doubt_ Science 134:177 10 April 2009 +% +"What, now?" +"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 +% +Rule 30: "A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the +further you'll go." + -- Howard Tayler _Schlock Mercenary_ March 8th, 2003 + http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20030308.html +% +There is no form of lead-poisoning which more rapidly and thoroughly +pervades the blood and bones and marrow than that which reaches the +young author through mental contact with type metal. + -- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Tilton 1947 p67) +% +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 +power, I have always thought, is to ensure the absolute unthinkability +of oneself not being there." + -- Terry Pratchett _Unseen Academicals_ p391 +% +listen, what you do in the privacy +of your neighbour's house while they're away +is your own business + -- a softer world #511 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=511 +% +Sometimes I wish I could take back all my mistakes +but then I think +what if my mother could take back hers? + -- a softer world #498 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=498 +% +Clean living is less fun +and you wind up feeling stupid +when you still die. + -- a softer world #489 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=489 +% +If god is always watching over us +who's driving? + -- a softer world #487 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=487 +% +Maybe I did steal your heart +and I am such a perfect criminal +that you never noticed + -- a softer world #481 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=481 +% +Life would be way easier +if I were easier. + -- a softer world #473 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=473 +% +I always thought +violence didn't solve anything +until one day it did. + -- a softer world #470 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=470 +% +With one simple pill +we cured unhappiness +and art + -- a softer world #437 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=437 +% +First you take a drink, +then the drink takes a drink, +then the drink takes you. + -- F. Scott Fitzgerald +% +It can sometimes happen that a scholar, his task completed, discovers +that he has no one to thank. Never mind. He will invent some debts. +Research without indebtedness is suspect, and somebody must always, +somehow, be thanked. + -- Umberto Eco "How to Write an Introduction" +% +Let the victors, when they come, +When the forts of folly fall +Find thy body by the wall! + -- Matthew Arnold +% +unbeingdead isn't beingalive + -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_ +% +nothing except the impossible shall occur + -- e.e. cummings "XLII" _1 x 1_ +% +-tommorow is our permanent address +and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do, +we'll move away still further:into now + -- e.e. cummings "XXXIX" _1 x 1_ +% +in Just- +spring when the world is mud- +luscious the little lame baloonman + +whistles far and wee + -- e.e. cummings "[in Just-]" +% +life's not a paragraph +And death i think is no parenthesis + -- e.e. cummings "Four VII" _is 5_ +% +Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. +We get very little wisdom from success, you know. + -- William Saroyan _My Heart's in the Highlands_ +% +Given that the odds of a miracle are one in one million, and events +which could be a miracle happen every second, the odds of not seeing a +miracle in a month are less than 8 in 100. Clearly miracles are not +all that miraculous. +% +They say when you embark on a journey +of revenge +dig two graves. +They underestimate me. + -- a softer world #560 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=560 +% +I never meant to let you down. +I thought for sure +the attic lock would hold. + -- a softer world #562 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=562 +% +I made a bunch of stickers +to put on rooftops, and in secret tunnels. +"If you are reading this, + then you are awesome" + -- a softer world #569 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=569 +% +I'm sorry about those late night emails. +I only said those things because I was too drunk +to be afraid. + -- a softer world #579 + http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=579 +% +6: If we are one, then we can defeat 2. + -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Schizoid_ +% +2: There is no out. There is only in. + -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" +% +6: I'm human. I have a thousand flaws. I break down. I get up or I +don't get up. I get lost. I make the same mistakes over and over. I +have scars and wounds. Sometimes when I can't bear them anymore, I +drink. You can't fix me. You can't fix any of us. You can't make us +perfect. + -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Checkmate_ +% +We want 6. 6 is the 1. + -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Checkmate_ +% +I've had so much good luck recently I was getting sated with it. It's +like sugar, good luck. At first it's very sweet, but after a while you +start to think: any more of this and I shall be sick. + -- Adam Roberts _Yellow Blue Tibia_ p301 +% +I cannot find rest +Because I am powerless +To amend a broken world. + -- Guy Gavriel Kay _Under Heaven_ p295 +% +What prison taught me was that some people are born into a life where +they're going to be subjected to intense life experiences and personal +tragedy on an almost daily basis. [...] I don't think you get +enlightenment after something like that. I think all anyone really +wants, if they're honest with themselves, is a quiet, easy life +surrounded by people that love them. Anything else is a conceit. + -- OP from 99chan +% +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 +% +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 +% +That's the wonderful thing about crayons. They can take you to more +places than a starship. + -- Guinan "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Rascals (#6.7)" +% +He wore trifocals. There was stratigraphy even in his glasses. + -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p364 +% +"Old hypotheses never really die, they're like dormant volcanoes." + -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p313 +% +"While geologists argue, the rocks just sit there and sometimes they +seem to smile" + -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p304