* Fix people typo

[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
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--- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt
+++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
@@ -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."
@@ -493,15 +487,15 @@ own.
     (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 poeple
+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)
+ -- 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
@@ -636,4 +630,26 @@ 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_
+ -- 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
+%
+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