X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=e03259db4636f1817d883bd2754cb4458e985f95;hb=b998e65f1d042ec21649d334079a9dc15156ebe9;hp=4b9871137f019d912a5b6a8082685f970132777b;hpb=37003fc768594b97e60428046a484d6388a17f48;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 4b98711..e03259d 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 @@ -804,3 +804,184 @@ 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 acheiving 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 propogandizing 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 unthinkabilty +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