"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.
+We were at a chinese restaurant.
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 descending order of importance.)
-I
-love
-you
- -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/graphics/batch35.php
+Three little words. (In order of importance.)
+ █████
+ █ ▌ ▞▀▖▌ ▌▛▀▘
+ █ ▌ ▌ ▌▝▞ ▛▀ you
+ █ ▀▀▘▝▀ ▘ ▀▀▘
+ █████ -- hugh macleod "Three Words"
%
N: Why should I believe that?"
B: Because it's a fact."
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
+ -- Matt Zimmerman in <20021120225004.GX14809@mizar.alcor.net>
%
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
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"
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.
-- Woody Allen
%
Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
-signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are
-not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is
-not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers,
-the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a
-way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is
-humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
- -- Dwight Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
+signifies [...] a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those
+who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is not spending
+money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of
+its scientists, the hopes of its children. [...] This is not a way of
+life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it
+is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. [...] [I]s there no other
+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.
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
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
+them to crisp is bad behavior, I have not yet achieved a state of
nirvana.
-- Manoj Srivastava in 87n04pzhmh.fsf@glaurung.internal.golden-gryphon.com
%
-- 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
%
[...] 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
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
%
%
We want 6. 6 is the 1.
-- "The Prisoner (2009 Miniseries)" _Checkmate_
+%
+I've had so much good luck recently I was getting sated with it. It's
+like sugar, good luck. At first it's very sweet, but after a while you
+start to think: any more of this and I shall be sick.
+ -- Adam Roberts _Yellow Blue Tibia_ p301
+%
+I cannot find rest
+Because I am powerless
+To amend a broken world.
+ -- Guy Gavriel Kay _Under Heaven_ p295
+%
+What prison taught me was that some people are born into a life where
+they're going to be subjected to intense life experiences and personal
+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 a conceit.
+ -- OP from 99chan
+%
+Overcast nights are beautiful; the sun, mostly set, a near full moon
+partially risen, light pollution from the city, and the sky delicately
+purpleorangegray, as if it were a livid bruise.
+%
+The terrorist's job is to terrorize the people, to interfere with
+freedom in such a way that disrupts ordinary life and commerce. With
+due respect, it is clear that the above referenced governmental
+agencies are aiding the terrorists' objective.
+ -- Gary Fielder in Gary Fielder vs Janet Napolitano et al.
+%
+[C]haos is found in greatest abundance wherever order is being sought.
+It always defeats order, because it is better organized.
+ -- Terry Pratchett _Interesting Times_ p4
+%
+Your absence has gone through me
+Like thread through a needle.
+Everything I do is stitched with its color.
+ -- W. S. Merwin "Poetry in Motion" p107
+%
+Logs drowse in the pond
+Dreaming of their heroes
+Alligator and crocodile
+ -- Vern Rutsala "Poetry in Motion" p77
+%
+Once, our bodies were bells:
+Simply moving in the wind
+We tolled our names.
+ -- Phillis Levin "Poetry in Motion" p55
+%
+It's brief and bright, dear children; bright and brief.
+Delight's the lightning; the long thunder's grief.
+ -- John Frederick Nims "Poetry in Motion" p31
+%
+I would like to be the air
+that inhabits you for a moment
+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)"
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