X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=d9b6b1b0db4a7080b86fc2466109fbc89f5b3217;hb=c751b5160064126f42930e39121a61201232c3c8;hp=cdd5953b029207314d5a9d89ab6777eb0aa58fdc;hpb=d3d010509e52992c3a34949efe065023d0078735;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index cdd5953..d9b6b1b 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ 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. +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 @@ -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? - -- Matt Zimmerman in -% -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. @@ -312,14 +308,6 @@ 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) -% - 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 @@ -391,7 +379,7 @@ get at or repair. 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 % @@ -421,8 +409,8 @@ 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 % @@ -515,10 +503,6 @@ 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 @@ -617,7 +601,7 @@ 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_ @@ -750,7 +734,7 @@ 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 -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 % @@ -807,7 +791,7 @@ 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 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 @@ -816,7 +800,7 @@ 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, -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 @@ -824,7 +808,7 @@ 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 -bound to be ok" +bound to be OK" -- Peter K. Klopfer _Seeds of Doubt_ Science 134:177 10 April 2009 % "What, now?" @@ -865,7 +849,7 @@ 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 -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 % @@ -1019,7 +1003,7 @@ 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 conceit[ed]. +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 @@ -1087,3 +1071,37 @@ 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