X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=fe038abbf289b5ce4eda2d340cb4e383b017ccb7;hb=95f749d84b3640a5bc1621342a3446cbe97871fe;hp=1f291e1d25845457aa70798d471d2e3dba29147e;hpb=08625ccfb343a834300f063439d765591756ab52;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 1f291e1..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. @@ -303,12 +301,13 @@ 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 +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) % EQUAL RIGHTS FOR WOMEN Don't be teased or humiliated. See their look of surprise when you @@ -388,7 +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 % @@ -418,8 +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 % @@ -512,10 +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 @@ -536,8 +531,8 @@ 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 @@ -614,7 +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_ @@ -736,3 +731,385 @@ 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 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