X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote.txt;h=fe038abbf289b5ce4eda2d340cb4e383b017ccb7;hb=95f749d84b3640a5bc1621342a3446cbe97871fe;hp=768b709b2b202bb12aea36da8ee98b197e1cd214;hpb=223d6af054222b0c8303d27a8a1114e646a6a61c;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 768b709..fe038ab 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. @@ -391,7 +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 % @@ -421,8 +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 % @@ -515,10 +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 @@ -617,7 +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_ @@ -750,7 +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 % @@ -807,7 +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 @@ -816,7 +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 @@ -824,7 +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?" @@ -865,7 +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 % @@ -1090,3 +1082,34 @@ or die and teach by example % 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