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@@ -73,12 +73,6 @@ 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
 %
-"...Yet terrible as UNIX addiction is, there are worse fates. If UNIX
-is the heroin of operating systems, then VMS is barbiturate addiction, the
-Mac is MDMA, and MS-DOS is sniffing glue. (Windows is filling your sinuses
-with lucite and letting it set.) You owe the Oracle a twelve-step program."
- --The Usenet Oracle
-%
 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.
@@ -163,9 +157,9 @@ tropicana.]
  -- Sammi Hadzovic [in Andy Newman's 2003/02/14 NYT article.]
  http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/nyregion/14EYEB.html
 %
-"The question of whether computers can think is like the question of
-whether submarines can swim."
- -- Edsgar Dijkstra
+[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."
@@ -497,11 +491,11 @@ symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the poeple
 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)
+ -- 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)
+ -- 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
@@ -528,9 +522,16 @@ 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.
+This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill
+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
+ -- W. Churchill
 %
 As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
 instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
@@ -592,3 +593,45 @@ 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_
+%
+Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what
+it's like to be Beethoven, and Bach tells us what it's like to be the
+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
+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_
+%
+Only one creature could have duplicated the expressions on their
+faces, and that would be a pigeon who has heard not only that Lord
+Nelson has got down off his column but has also been seen buying a
+12-bore repeater and a box of cartridges.
+ -- Terry Pratchet _Mort_
+%
+He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said
+that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He
+was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little
+begun to fascinate him -- as if he had managed to outlive himself, as
+if he were somehow living a posthumous life.
+ -- Paul Auster _City of Glass_
+%
+I really wanted to talk to her.
+I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.
+ -- Peter Watts _Blindsight_ p294