What I can't stand is the feeling that my brain is leaving me for
someone more interesting.
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-I leave the show floor, but not before a pack of caffeinated Jolt gum
-is thrust at me by a hyperactive girl screaming, "Chew more! Do more!"
-The American will to consume more and produce more personified in a
-stick of gum. I grab it.
- -- Chad Dickerson
-%
-I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to
-say "excuse me, that didn't make any sense." ;-P
- -- Cory Doctorow
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Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien
a ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien a retrancher.
(Perfection is apparently not achieved when nothing more can be added,
but when nothing else can be removed.)
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupe'ry, Terres des Hommes
%
-I'd sign up in a hot second for any cellular company whose motto was:
-"We're less horrible than a root canal with a cold chisel."
- -- Cory Doctorow
-%
-She was alot like starbucks.
-IE, generic and expensive.
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001376.html
-%
-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
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-Three little words. (In order of importance.)
- █████
- █ ▌ ▞▀▖▌ ▌▛▀▘
- █ ▌ ▌ ▌▝▞ ▛▀ you
- █ ▀▀▘▝▀ ▘ ▀▀▘
- █████ -- hugh macleod "Three Words"
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-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."
-%
"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the
right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."
-- Bach
%
-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 <gYuD3D.A.ayC.nGB39@murphy>
-%
-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
-%
-Guns Don't Kill People.
-*I* Kill People.
-%
-DIE!
- -- Maritza Campos http://www.crfh.net/d/20020601.html
-%
-"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
-%
-Miracles had become relative common-places since the advent of
-entheogens; it now took very unusual circumstances to attract public
-attention to sightings of supernatural entities. The latest miracle
-had raised the ante on the supernatural: the Virgin Mary had
-manifested herself to two children, a dog, and a Public Telepresence
-Point.
- -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p228
-%
-Junkies were all knitted together in a loose global macrame, the
-intercontinental freemasonry of narcotics.
- -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p257
-%
-America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The
-world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic bi-polar
-stand-up comedian. Anything but a somber and tedious nation of
-socially responsible centurions.
- -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p122
-%
-The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off
-everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the
-chairs, and the light and plumbing fixtures. The conspirators had
-deliberately punished the bank, for reasons best known to themselves,
-or to their unknown controllers. They had superglued doors and
-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
-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
-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)
-%
-"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
-%
[T]he question of whether Machines Can Think, [...] is about as
relevant as the question of whether Submarines Can Swim.
-- Edsger W. Dijkstra "The threats to computing science"
%
-"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
-%
"A one-question geek test. If you get the joke, you're a geek: Seen on
a California license plate on a VW Beetle: 'FEATURE'..."
-- Joshua D. Wachs - Natural Intelligence, Inc.
%
-"Ban cryptography! Yes. Let's also ban pencils, pens and paper, since
-criminals can use them to draw plans of the joint they are casing or
-even, god forbid, create one time pads to pass uncrackable codes to
-each other. Ban open spaces since criminals could use them to converse
-with each other out of earshot of the police. Let's ban flags since
-they could be used to pass secret messages in semaphore. In fact let's
-just ban all forms of verbal and non-verbal communication -- let's see
-those criminals make plans now!"
-%
-"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
-%
-Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
-society.
- -- Mark Twain
-%
If you wish to strive for peace of soul, then believe; if you wish to
be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
%
-My spelling ability, or rather the lack thereof, is one of the wonders
-of the modern world.
-%
Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars
has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost
anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into
the serial port and load up the HP-48 VT-100 emulator.
-- Jeff Dege, jdege@winternet.com
%
-Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and
-the Ugly).
- -- Matt Welsh
-%
-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
-%
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
Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept.
-- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_]
%
-[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
-%
Grimble left his mother in the food store and went to the launderette
and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like color television
only with less plot.
-- Clement Freud _Grimble_
%
-There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good
-sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
- -- Woody Allen
-%
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
signifies [...] a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those
who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending
way the world may live?
-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
%
-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
-%
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very
easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over
expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without
Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
-- Aesop
%
-Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for
-the people.
- -- Oscar Wilde
-%
-I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like
-to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a
-better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to
-'em.
- -- The Best of Will Rogers
-%
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its
freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it
values more, it will lose that, too.
-- W. Somerset Maugham
%
-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."
-%
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
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, psychedelic patterns --
-requires no fitting, no prescriptions.
- -- Robert A Heinlein _I Will Fear No Evil_ p470.
-%
-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
%
If I had a letter, sealed it in a locked vault and hid the vault
somewhere in New York. Then told you to read the letter, thats not
This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure.
-- James Hynes _Publish and Perish_
%
-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.
-%
Identical parts aren't.
-- Beach's Law
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by brute strength and ignorance.
-- William's Law
%
-More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads.
-One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness.
-The other, to total extinction.
-Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
- -- Woody Allen
-%
For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing
continued to happen.
-- Douglas Adams
get at or repair.
-- Douglas Adams _Mostly Harmless_
%
-<Clint> why the hell does kernel-source-2.6.3 depend on xfree86-common?
-<infinity> It... Doesn't?
-<Clint> good point
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-"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary.
- For those who do not, none is possible."
-%
-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
-%
-"Because," Fee-5 explained patiently, "I was born in the fifth row.
-Any fool would understand that, but against stupidity the very Gods
-themselves contend in vain."
- -- Alfred Bester _The Computer Connection_ p19
-%
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves
exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves
only the unanimity of the graveyard.
-- Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
%
-The beauty of the DRUNKENNESS subprogram was that you could move your
-intoxication level up and down at will, instead of being caught on a
-relentless down escalator to bargain basement philosophy and the
-parking garage.
- -- Rudy von Bitter _Software_ p124
-%
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.
the chuck keys for electric drills.
-- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p166
%
-Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but
-that's not why we do it.
- -- Richard Feynman
-%
-Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you. If you don't
-bet, you can't win.
- -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p240
-%
Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
-- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p242
%
-An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.
- -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p244
-%
Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
-- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p250
%
-There is no such thing as "social gambling." Either you are there to
-cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it--or you're a sucker. If you
-don't like this choice--don't gamble.
- -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p250
-%
Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
-- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p251
%
-In all matters of government, the correct answer is usually: "Do
-nothing"
- -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p428
-%
Where I sleep at night, is this important compared to what I read
during the day? What do you think defines me? Where I slept or what I
did all day?
-- Thomas Van Orden of Van Orden v. Perry
%
-No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free
-[...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
- -- Robert Heinlein _Revolt in 2010_ p54
-%
-"Facts" are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold
-to be "True".
-%
-LEADERSHIP -- A form of self-preservation exhibited by people with
-autodestructive imaginations in order to ensure that when it comes to
-the crunch it'll be someone else's bones which go crack and not their
-own.
- -- The HipCrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
- (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p256-7)
-%
-"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)
-%
"You have many years to live--do things you will be proud to remember
when you are old."
-- Shinka proverb. (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p413)
%
-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
-%
-Information wants to be free to kill again.
- -- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372
-%
-NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South
-won't rise again.
- -- http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=327
-%
Leukocyte... I am your father.
-- R. Stevens http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1546
%
-S: Make me a sandwich
-B: What? Make it yourself.
-S: sudo make me a sandwich
-B: Okay.
- -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c149.html
-%
We cast this message into the cosmos. [...] We are trying to survive
our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved
the problems we face, to join a community of Galactic Civilizations.
in a vast and awesome universe.
-- Jimmy Carter on the Voyager Golden Record
%
-Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they
-have exhausted all other possibilities.
- -- W. Churchill
+[M]en and nations do behave wisely once they have exhausted all other
+alternatives.
+ -- Abba Ebban
%
As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
wears a ruffled collar or a pleated one.
-- Cyrano de Bergerac
%
-Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune
-to water.
- -- Michael Z. Williamson
-%
-A Democracy lead by politicians and political parties, fails.
-%
We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die
together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to
live together we have to talk.
does not justify the conclusion that all swans are white.
-- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_
%
-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
-%
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended
up where I needed to be.
-- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_
universe.
-- Douglas Adams
%
-PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic
-environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots of
-fussy little bullet-points and flashy dissolves and soundtracks masked
-into the background, to try to convince the audience that the goon
-behind the computer has something significant to say.
- -- Charles Stross _The Jennifer Morgue_ p33
-%
This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic
-- Terry Pratchett
%
I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.
-- Peter Watts _Blindsight_ p294
%
-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
-%
I learned really early the difference between knowing the name of
something and knowing something
-- Richard Feynman "What is Science" Phys. Teach. 7(6) 1969
authority myself
-- Albert Einstein
%
-The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other
-invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila
- -- Mitch Ratcliffe
-%
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that
you do it.
-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
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.
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.
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
"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.
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 1? YOU ARE NUMBER 6. 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)_
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
[...] 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
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
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
-- William Saroyan _My Heart's in the Highlands_
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-Given that the odds of a miracle are one in one million, and events
-which could be a miracle happen every second, the odds of not seeing a
-miracle in a month are less than 8 in 100. Clearly miracles are not
-all that miraculous.
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-They say when you embark on a journey
-of revenge
-dig two graves.
-They underestimate me.
- -- a softer world #560
- http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=560
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-I never meant to let you down.
-I thought for sure
-the attic lock would hold.
- -- a softer world #562
- http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=562
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I made a bunch of stickers
to put on rooftops, and in secret tunnels.
"If you are reading this,
-- a softer world #569
http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=569
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-I'm sorry about those late night emails.
-I only said those things because I was too drunk
-to be afraid.
- -- a softer world #579
- http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=579
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6: If we are one, then we can defeat 2.
-- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Schizoid_
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tragedy on an almost daily basis. [...] I don't think you get
enlightenment after something like that. I think all anyone really
wants, if they're honest with themselves, is a quiet, easy life
-surrounded by people that love them. Anything else is conceit[ed].
+surrounded by people that love them. Anything else is a conceit.
-- OP from 99chan
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Overcast nights are beautiful; the sun, mostly set, a near full moon
who send young men out to die.
-- Harlan Ellison "Basilisk" (_Deathbird Stories_ p73)
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-"Do you think you might be suffering from post-traumatic stress
-disorder?" [...]
-"Who isn't?"
- -- Walter Jon Williams _This Is Not A Game_ p121
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I finally developed
a computer with feelings.
It just doesn't have
You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost
anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
-- Robert Frost
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+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
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+That's the wonderful thing about crayons. They can take you to more
+places than a starship.
+ -- Guinan "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Rascals (#6.7)"
+%
+He wore trifocals. There was stratigraphy even in his glasses.
+ -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p364
+%
+"Old hypotheses never really die, they're like dormant volcanoes."
+ -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p313
+%
+"While geologists argue, the rocks just sit there and sometimes they
+seem to smile"
+ -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p304
+%
+Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubbornness, when I know I am right.
+ -- John Adams (Letter to Edmund Jennings, 27 September 1782)
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