X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=e9fe2c94637407e0426af5b01e53aecf95ddbe72;hb=1ce8ecd7db4f57de9121d8b6539cbbae8d2c7ed8;hp=4b9871137f019d912a5b6a8082685f970132777b;hpb=37003fc768594b97e60428046a484d6388a17f48;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 4b98711..e9fe2c9 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -804,3 +804,28 @@ 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