What I can't stand is the feeling that my brain is leaving me for
someone more interesting.
%
-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
-%
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 resturant.
-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 decending order of importance.)
-I
-love
-you
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/graphics/batch35.php
-%
-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 favourite 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>
-%
-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
-%
-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
-thouroughly that it had to be condemed 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
-realised 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 maths
-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 colour television
+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 in the final sense, 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 money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers,
-the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a
-way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is
-humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- -- Dwight 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
+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
+money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of
+its scientists, the hopes of its children. [...] This is not a way of
+life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it
+is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. [...] [I]s there no other
+way the world may live?
+ -- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
%
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
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 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
-%
- 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 --
-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
+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)
%
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
%
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
-%
-"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 behaviour, 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.
-- 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
%
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
%
-Your village called.
-They want their idiot back.
- -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c23.html
-%
-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
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
%
-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.
%
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
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
%
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_
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.
-- 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
+%
+"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_
+%
+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
+%
+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
+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
+%
+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"
+%
+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
+%
+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 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
+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 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
+%
+[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 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 unthinkability
+of oneself not being there."
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Unseen Academicals_ p391
+%
+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
+%
+unbeingdead isn't beingalive
+ -- e.e. cummings "31" _73 Poems_
+%
+nothing except the impossible shall occur
+ -- e.e. cummings "XLII" _1 x 1_
+%
+-tommorow is our permanent address
+and there they'll scarcely find us(if they do,
+we'll move away still further:into now
+ -- e.e. cummings "XXXIX" _1 x 1_
+%
+in Just-
+spring when the world is mud-
+luscious the little lame baloonman
+
+whistles far and wee
+ -- e.e. cummings "[in Just-]"
+%
+life's not a paragraph
+And death i think is no parenthesis
+ -- e.e. cummings "Four VII" _is 5_
+%
+Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
+We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
+ -- William Saroyan _My Heart's in the Highlands_
+%
+I made a bunch of stickers
+to put on rooftops, and in secret tunnels.
+"If you are reading this,
+ then you are awesome"
+ -- a softer world #569
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=569
+%
+6: If we are one, then we can defeat 2.
+ -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Schizoid_
+%
+2: There is no out. There is only in.
+ -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)"
+%
+6: I'm human. I have a thousand flaws. I break down. I get up or I
+don't get up. I get lost. I make the same mistakes over and over. I
+have scars and wounds. Sometimes when I can't bear them anymore, I
+drink. You can't fix me. You can't fix any of us. You can't make us
+perfect.
+ -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Checkmate_
+%
+We want 6. 6 is the 1.
+ -- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Checkmate_
+%
+I've had so much good luck recently I was getting sated with it. It's
+like sugar, good luck. At first it's very sweet, but after a while you
+start to think: any more of this and I shall be sick.
+ -- Adam Roberts _Yellow Blue Tibia_ p301
+%
+I cannot find rest
+Because I am powerless
+To amend a broken world.
+ -- Guy Gavriel Kay _Under Heaven_ p295
+%
+What prison taught me was that some people are born into a life where
+they're going to be subjected to intense life experiences and personal
+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 a conceit.
+ -- OP from 99chan
+%
+Overcast nights are beautiful; the sun, mostly set, a near full moon
+partially risen, light pollution from the city, and the sky delicately
+purpleorangegray, as if it were a livid bruise.
+%
+The terrorist's job is to terrorize the people, to interfere with
+freedom in such a way that disrupts ordinary life and commerce. With
+due respect, it is clear that the above referenced governmental
+agencies are aiding the terrorists' objective.
+ -- Gary Fielder in Gary Fielder vs Janet Napolitano et al.
+%
+[C]haos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought.
+It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Interesting Times_ p4
+%
+Your absence has gone through me
+Like thread through a needle.
+Everything I do is stitched with its color.
+ -- W. S. Merwin "Poetry in Motion" p107
+%
+Logs drowse in the pond
+Dreaming of their heroes
+Alligator and crocodile
+ -- Vern Rutsala "Poetry in Motion" p77
+%
+Once, our bodies were bells:
+Simply moving in the wind
+We tolled our names.
+ -- Phillis Levin "Poetry in Motion" p55
+%
+It's brief and bright, dear children; bright and brief.
+Delight's the lightning; the long thunder's grief.
+ -- John Frederick Nims "Poetry in Motion" p31
+%
+I would like to be the air
+that inhabits you for a moment
+only. I would like to be that unnoticed
+& that necessary.
+ -- Margaret Atwood "Poetry in Motion" p140
+%
+I stared at the mountain rising over me. Empty. It was a pointless
+thing to have done -- climb up it, across it, and down it. Stupid! It
+looked perfect; so clean and untouched, and we had changed nothing.
+[...] I had been on it too long, and it had taken everything.
+ -- Joe Simpson "Touching the Void" p117
+%
+Have you ever noticed: the most vocal superpatriots are the old men
+who send young men out to die.
+ -- Harlan Ellison "Basilisk" (_Deathbird Stories_ p73)
+%
+I finally developed
+a computer with feelings.
+It just doesn't have
+feelings for me.
+ -- a softer world #633
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=633
+%
+Live and learn
+or die and teach by example
+ -- a softer world #625
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=625
+%
+I'm So Meta, Even This Acronym
+-- xkcd http://xkcd.com/917/
+%
+[I]t's true that some of the most terrible things in the world are
+done by people who think, genuinely think, that they're doing it for
+the best, especially if there is some god involved.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Snuff_ p185
+%
+"I always tend to assume there's an infinite amount of money out
+there." "There might as well be, [...] but most of it gets spent on
+pornography, sugar water, and bombs. There is only so much that can be
+scraped together for particle accelerators."
+ -- Neal Stephenson _Anathem_ p262
+%
+"Do you need [...] [t]ools? Stuff?"
+"Our opponent is an alien starship packed with atomic bombs. [...] We
+have a protractor."
+ -- Neal Stephenson _Anathem_ p320
+%
+The whole modern world has divided itself into Conservatives and
+Progressives. The business of Progressives is to go on making
+mistakes. The business of the Conservatives is to prevent the mistakes
+from being corrected.
+ -- G. K. Chesterton "Illustrated London News (1924-04-19)"
+%
+You are educated when you have the ability to listen to almost
+anything without losing your temper or self-confidence.
+ -- Robert Frost
+%
+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
+%
+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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