X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=signature_stuff%2Fquote_misc.txt;h=9b3fd14916938b5c38d60647a8f7ac9edd6dabeb;hb=40eef6b168394972fc975bfe856b9352e776f520;hp=e530c763fda62639b8e9a54aa78e860a45440266;hpb=f6162dbe1b1c45671f9fcd05b4e72eb5d4591632;p=lib.git diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote_misc.txt b/signature_stuff/quote_misc.txt index e530c76..9b3fd14 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote_misc.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote_misc.txt @@ -10,3 +10,202 @@ EQUAL-NOW Adapter (pat. appld. for) -- purse size, fool proof, sanitary -- comes in nine lovely, feminine, psychedelic patterns -- requires no fitting, no prescriptions. -- Robert A Heinlein _I Will Fear No Evil_ p470. +% +She was alot like starbucks. +IE, generic and expensive. + -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001376.html +% +Guns Don't Kill People. +*I* Kill People. +% +DIE! + -- Maritza Campos http://www.crfh.net/d/20020601.html +% +"I was thinking seven figures," he said, "but I would have taken a +hundred grand. I'm not a greedy person." [All for a moldy bottle of +tropicana.] + -- Sammi Hadzovic [in Andy Newman's 2003/02/14 NYT article.] + http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/nyregion/14EYEB.html +% +CNN/Reuters: News reports have filtered out early this morning that US +forces have swooped on an Iraqi Primary School and detained 6th Grade +teacher Mohammed Al-Hazar. Sources indicate that, when arrested, +Al-Hazar was in possession of a ruler, a protractor, a set square and +a calculator. US President George W Bush argued that this was clear +and overwhelming evidence that Iraq indeed possessed weapons of math +instruction. +% +I'd never hurt another living thing. +But if I did... +It would be you. + -- Chris Bishop http://www.chrisbishop.com/her/archives/her69.html +% +[Panama, 1989. The U.S. government called it "Operation Just Cause".] +I think they misspelled this. Shouldn't it be "Operation Just 'Cause"? + -- TekPolitik http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59669&cid=5664907 +% +Sentenced to two years hard labor (for sodomy), Oscar Wilde stood +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." +% +It has always been Debian's philosophy in the past to stick to what +makes sense, regardless of what crack the rest of the universe is +smoking. + -- Andrew Suffield in 20030403211305.GD29698@doc.ic.ac.uk +% + why the hell does kernel-source-2.6.3 depend on xfree86-common? + It... Doesn't? + good point +% +"Facts" are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold +to be "True". +% +If you find it impossible to believe that the universe didn't have a +creator, why don't you find it impossible that your creator didn't +have one either? + -- Anonymous Coward http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=167556&cid=13970629 +% +The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of +the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the +benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any +curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation. + -- Adolf Hitler _Mein Kampf_ p403 +% +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 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 order of importance.) + █████ + █ ▌ ▞▀▖▌ ▌▛▀▘ + █ ▌ ▌ ▌▝▞ ▛▀ you + █ ▀▀▘▝▀ ▘ ▀▀▘ + █████ -- hugh macleod "Three Words" +% +N: Why should I believe that?" +B: Because it's a fact." +N: Fact?" +B: F, A, C, T... fact" +N: So you're saying that I should believe it because it's true. + That's your argument? +B: It IS true. +-- "Ploy" http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/Ploy.MPG +% +UF: What's your favorite coffee blend? +PD: Dark Crude with heavy water. You are understandink? "If geiger + counter does not click, the coffee, she is just not thick." +% +Quite the contrary; they *love* collateral damage. If they can make +you miserable enough, maybe you'll stop using email entirely. Once +enough people do that, then there'll be no legitimate reason left for +anyone to run an SMTP server, and the spam problem will be solved. + -- Craig Dickson in <20020909231134.GA18917@linux700.localnet> +% +It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong + -- Chris Torek +% +Filing a bug is probably not going to get it fixed any faster. + -- Anthony Towns +% +Build a fire for a man, an he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on +fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. + -- Jules Bean +% +Dropping non-free would set us back at least, what, 300 packages? It'd +take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users will +be fleeing to SLACKWARE. + +And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE? + -- Matt Zimmerman in <20021120225004.GX14809@mizar.alcor.net> +% +"One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring +them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond +where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot +% +You could say she lived on the edge... Well, maybe not exactly on the edge, +just close enough to watch other people fall off. + -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000309.html +% +Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be +running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to +repetitive music. +% +"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or +victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead +bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this +subject?" + -- Robert Fisk +% +THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS + -- Vietnam War Penquin Lighter +http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/clippings/vietnam_there_is_no_gravity.jpg +% +Never underestimate the power of human stupidity. + -- Robert Heinlein +% +If you have the slightest bit of intellectual integrity you cannot +support the government. -- anonymous +% +Debian's not really about the users or the software at all. It's a +large flame-generating engine that the cabal uses to heat their coffee + -- Andrew Suffield (#debian-devel Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:34 -0500) +% +"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. +We don't believe this to be a coincidence." + -- Jeremy S. Anderson +% +"There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user +off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their +REAL earnings to the IRS." + -- The B.O.F.H.. +% +When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I +realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked +Him to forgive me. + -- Emo Philips. +% +"People selling drug paraphernalia ... are as much a part of drug +trafficking as silencers are a part of criminal homicide." + -- John Brown, DEA Chief +% +Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and +the Ugly). + -- Matt Welsh +% +A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but +won't cross the street to vote in a national election. + -- Bill Vaughan +% +I now know how retro SCOs OSes are. Riotous, riotous stuff. How they +had the ya-yas to declare Linux an infant OS in need of their IP is +beyond me. Upcoming features? PAM. files larger than 2 gigs. NFS over +TCP. The 80's called, they want their features back. + -- Compactable Dave http://www3.sympatico.ca/dcarpeneto/sco.html +% +This message brought to you by weapons of mass destruction related +program activities, and the letter G. +% +Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming +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 +% +"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary. + For those who do not, none is possible." +% +Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but +that's not why we do it. + -- Richard Feynman +% +"I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the +symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the people +I think of as victims when my guard drops. It's at least possible I'm +even crazier than my fellows, whom I'm tempted to pity. +"There seems only one thing to do, and that's get drunk" + -- Chad C. Mulligan (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p390)