"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 order of importance.)
- █████
- █ ▌ ▞▀▖▌ ▌▛▀▘
- █ ▌ ▌ ▌▝▞ ▛▀ you
- █ ▀▀▘▝▀ ▘ ▀▀▘
- █████ -- hugh macleod "Three Words"
-%
-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 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."
-%
"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
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
-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.
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
-realized 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
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 math
-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 color television
only with less plot.
way the world may live?
-- President Dwight D. 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
-%
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
expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without
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
sitting on it---and is just as likely to succeed.
-- Alex Kozinski, Dissenting in Silveira v. Lockyer
(CV-00-00411-WBS p5983-4)
-%
- 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, psychedelic 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
%
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
%
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."
-- 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
[...] 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
-- 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
%
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
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_
-- 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_
-- Grandma Aching in _The Wee Free Men_ by Terry Pratchett p227
%
But if, after all, we are on the wrong track, what then? Only
-dissapointed human hopes, nothing more. And even if we perish, what
+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
%
-- Cser, Jim. Nanotechnology and the Physical Limits of Toastability.
AIR 1:3, June, 1995.
%
-[The] JK-88 [coffee] percolator is capable of acheiving the ultimate
+[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
%
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 propogandizing will budge me; all it will do
+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"
+bound to be OK"
-- Peter K. Klopfer _Seeds of Doubt_ Science 134:177 10 April 2009
%
"What, now?"
-- 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 unthinkabilty
+power, I have always thought, is to ensure the absolute unthinkability
of oneself not being there."
-- Terry Pratchett _Unseen Academicals_ p391
%
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 conceit[ed].
+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
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)
+%
+"Do you think you might be suffering from post-traumatic stress
+disorder?" [...]
+"Who isn't?"
+ -- Walter Jon Williams _This Is Not A Game_ p121
+%
+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
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