fix Dijkstra quote and stand on Zanzibar underbars

[lib.git] / signature_stuff / quote.txt

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@@ -163,9 +163,9 @@ 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."
@@ -497,11 +497,11 @@ symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the poeple
 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
@@ -615,3 +615,25 @@ fussy little bullet-points and flashy dissolves and soundtracks masked
 into the background, to try to convince the audience that the goon
 behind the computer has something significant to say.
  -- Charles Stross _The Jennifer Morgue_ p33
+%
+This isn't life in the fast lane, it's life in the oncoming traffic
+ -- Terry Pratchett
+%
+Some pirates achieved immortality by great deeds of cruelty or
+derring-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_
+%
+Only one creature could have duplicated the expressions on their
+faces, and that would be a pigeon who has heard not only that Lord
+Nelson has got down off his column but has also been seen buying a
+12-bore repeater and a box of cartridges.
+ -- Terry Pratchet _Mort_
+%
+He no longer wished to be dead. At the same time, it cannot be said
+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_