%
She was alot like starbucks.
IE, generic and expensive.
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch3.htm
+ -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001376.html
%
Tell me something interesting about yourself.
Lie if you have to.
We were at a chinese resturant.
He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune
cookie.
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch31.php
+ -- 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."
%
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.
%
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/batch8.htm
+ -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/000309.html
%
Guns Don't Kill People.
*I* Kill People.
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
-- 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."
-- 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.
If in their place we find a thing more precious growing
A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting
A child whom we are teaching, a booklet we are writing
- -- Frederick Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_
+ -- Frederick Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_
[Hermann Hesse _Glass Bead Game_]
%
-Of course, there are ceases where only a rare individual will have the
+Of course, there are cases where only a rare individual will have the
vision to perceive a system which governs many people's lives; a
system which had never before even been recognized as a system; then
such people often devote their lives to convincing other people that
the system really is there and that it aught to be exited from.
- -- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_
+ -- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_
%
Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept.
-- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_]
-- 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_
%
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.
%
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_ §11
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §11
%
[A] theory is falsifiable [(and therefore scientific) only] if the
class of its potential falsifiers is not empty.
- -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21
+ -- 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
to be refuted by experience.
- -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
%
It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was, of course,
completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death
%
"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.
+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
+%
+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.
+ -- William O. Douglas
+%
+One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back
+in time.
+ -- Steven Wright
+%
+To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
+research.
+ -- Steven Wright
+%
+If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
+something.
+ -- Steven Wright
+%
+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.
+ -- Eleanor Roosevelt
+%
+A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
+ -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
+%
+Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test his
+character, give him power.
+ -- Abraham Lincoln
+%
+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 Discontents"
+%
+Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the
+rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct
+these defects".
+ -- Mark Twain _A Horse's Tail_
+%
+No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this
+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_
+%
+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
+%
+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
+%
+Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle
+is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to
+fool.
+ -- Richard Feynman "What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific
+ Culture in Modern Society"; 1964
+%
+To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an
+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
+%
+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_
+%
+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
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