cookie.
-- hugh http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000321.html
%
-Three little words. (In decending order of importance.)
+Three little words. (In descending order of importance.)
I
love
you
B: It IS true.
-- "Ploy" http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/Ploy.MPG
%
-UF: What's your favourite coffee blend?
+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."
%
shattered windows, severed power and communications cables, poured
stinking toxins into the wallspaces, and concreted all of the sinks
and drains. In eight minutes, sixty people had ruined the building so
-thouroughly that it had to be condemed and later demolished.
+thoroughly that it had to be condemned and later demolished.
-- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4
%
Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be
-- The B.O.F.H..
%
When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I
-realised that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked
+realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked
Him to forgive me.
-- Emo Philips.
%
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 maths
+and overwhelming evidence that Iraq indeed possessed weapons of math
instruction.
%
I'd never hurt another living thing.
-- TekPolitik http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=59669&cid=5664907
%
Grimble left his mother in the food store and went to the launderette
-and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like colour television
+and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like color television
only with less plot.
-- Clement Freud _Grimble_
%
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
step right up to a urinal and use it with a smile. Get Dr. Mary Evers'
EQUAL-NOW Adapter (pat. appld. for) -- purse size, fool proof,
-sanitary -- comes in nine lovely, feminine, psychadelic patterns --
+sanitary -- comes in nine lovely, feminine, psychedelic patterns --
requires no fitting, no prescriptions.
-- Robert A Heinlein _I Will Fear No Evil_ p470.
%
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
something.
-- Steven Wright
%
-I'm wrong to criticize the valour of your brave men. It's important to
+I'm wrong to criticize the valor of your brave men. It's important to
die for one's country when it means being the subject of a king who
wears a ruffled collar or a pleated one.
-- Cyrano de Bergerac
%
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one
by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
- -- Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discoontents"
+ -- Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discontents"
%
Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the
rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct
I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.
-- Peter Watts _Blindsight_ p294
%
-Everyone has to die. And in a hundred years nobody's goling to inquire
+Everyone has to die. And in a hundred years nobody's going to inquire
just how most people died. The best thing is to do it in the way that
strikes your fancy most.
-- Kenzaburō Ōe _Silent Cry_ p5
You could say to the Universe this is not /fair/. And the Universe
would say: Oh it isn't? Sorry.
-- Terry Pratchett _Soul Music_ p357
-
+%
+G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?
+EB: Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and
+scatter oneself over a wide area.
+ -- Somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4
+%
+Love is... a complex sequence of neurochemical reactions that makes
+people behave like idiots. It's similar to intoxication, but the
+hangover's even worse.
+ -- J. Jacques _Questionable Content_ #1039
+ http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1039
+%
+Who is thinking this?
+I am.
+ -- Greg Egan _Diaspora_ p38
+%
+I have no use for "before and after" pictures.
+I can't remember starting, and I'm never done.
+ -- a softer world #221
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=221
+%
+Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue
+to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your
+flowcharts; they'll be obvious.
+ -- Fredrick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man Month
+%
+Religion is religion, however you wrap it, and like Quell says, a
+preoccupation with the next world clearly signals an inability to cope
+credibly with this one.
+ -- Richard K. Morgan "Broken Angels" p65
+%
+After the first battle of Sto Lat, I formulated a policy which has
+stood me in good stead in other battles. It is this: if an enemy has
+an impregnable stronghold, see he stays there.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Jingo_ p265
+%
+Vimes hated and despised the privileges of rank, but they had this to
+be said for them: At least they meant that you could hate and despise
+them in comfort.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _The Fifth Elephant_ p111
+%
+J.W. Grant: "Bastard!"
+Rico: "Yes, Sir. In my case, an accident of birth. But you, Sir,
+you're a self-made man."
+ -- Henry "Rico" Fardan in "The Professionals"
+%
+"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in
+a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from
+asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my
+mother told me when I was young."
+"Why, what did she tell you?"
+"I don't know, I didn't listen."
+ –- Douglas Adams _The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy_
+%
+a friend will help you move
+a best friend will help you move bodies
+but if you have to move your best friend's body
+you're on your own
+ -- a softer world #242
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=242
+%
+It was a very familiar voice. [...] It was a voice you could have used
+to open a bottle of whine.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _The Last Continent_ p270
+%
+The carbon footprint of a single human being is enormous.
+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
+dissapointed 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 One? YOU ARE NUMBER SIX. 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 acheiving 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 propogandizing 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 unthinkabilty
+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
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