%
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.)
I
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.
(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"
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
+%
+Everyone has to die. And in a hundred years nobody's goling 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
+%
+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
+
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