From c306d196963b41903e8d4888786a1afdbd8da0c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Armstrong Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2011 22:19:07 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * fix spelling errors --- signature_stuff/quote.txt | 22 +++++++++------------- 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 0ec9fd4..e500fdb 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 @@ -81,10 +81,6 @@ 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 -% 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 @@ -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 % @@ -617,7 +613,7 @@ 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 +746,7 @@ 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 +803,7 @@ 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 +812,7 @@ 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 +820,7 @@ 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?" -- 2.39.5