From 590477e7ee2efd02e10a3e0ec8f995f28bc65a57 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 21:56:57 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] switch quote.txt to utf-8 --- signature_stuff/quote.txt | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 8774a3f..5c8e947 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going If in their place we find a thing more precious growing A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting A child whom we are teaching, a booklet we are writing - -- Frederick Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_ + -- Frederick Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_ [Hermann Hesse _Glass Bead Game_] % Of course, there are ceases where only a rare individual will have the @@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ vision to perceive a system which governs many people's lives; a system which had never before even been recognized as a system; then such people often devote their lives to convincing other people that the system really is there and that it aught to be exited from. - -- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_ + -- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_ % Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept. -- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_] @@ -417,17 +417,17 @@ parking garage. The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game. - -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §11 + -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §11 % [A] theory is falsifiable [(and therefore scientific) only] if the class of its potential falsifiers is not empty. - -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21 + -- 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 to be refuted by experience. - -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6 + -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6 % It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was, of course, completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death -- 2.39.5