X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=fe038abbf289b5ce4eda2d340cb4e383b017ccb7;hb=95f749d84b3640a5bc1621342a3446cbe97871fe;hp=1e40cebc532ff8b8358dc0c48a6fd52bdafa3440;hpb=8722b29664d13a089b08b4c5330db34c4b3e203a;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 1e40ceb..fe038ab 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -29,16 +29,17 @@ 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 % -Three little words. (In descending order of importance.) -I -love -you - -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/graphics/batch35.php +Three little words. (In order of importance.) + █████ + █ ▌ ▞▀▖▌ ▌▛▀▘ + █ ▌ ▌ ▌▝▞ ▛▀ you + █ ▀▀▘▝▀ ▘ ▀▀▘ + █████ -- hugh macleod "Three Words" % N: Why should I believe that?" B: Because it's a fact." @@ -78,11 +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. @@ -257,13 +254,14 @@ 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 +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 citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election. @@ -389,7 +387,7 @@ 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 % @@ -419,8 +417,8 @@ 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 % @@ -513,10 +511,6 @@ 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 @@ -615,7 +609,7 @@ 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_ @@ -748,7 +742,7 @@ 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 % @@ -805,7 +799,7 @@ 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 @@ -814,7 +808,7 @@ 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 @@ -822,7 +816,7 @@ 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?" @@ -863,7 +857,7 @@ 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 % @@ -1006,3 +1000,116 @@ 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 conceit[ed]. + -- 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