* add vimes quote

[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

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@@ -218,7 +218,7 @@ 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 maths 
+and overwhelming evidence that Iraq indeed possessed weapons of math 
 instruction.
 %
 I'd never hurt another living thing.
@@ -636,7 +636,7 @@ 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
+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
@@ -681,3 +681,29 @@ hangover's even worse.
 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 priviledges 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
+