-- Sammi Hadzovic [in Andy Newman's 2003/02/14 NYT article.]
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/02/14/nyregion/14EYEB.html
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-"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"
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"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
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)
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"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)
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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
S: sudo make me a sandwich
B: Okay.
-- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c149.html
+%
+We cast this message into the cosmos. [...] We are trying to survive
+our time so we may live into yours. We hope some day, having solved
+the problems we face, to join a community of Galactic Civilizations.
+This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill
+in a vast and awesome universe.
+ -- Jimmy Carter on the Voyager Golden Record
+%
+Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they
+have exhausted all other possibilities.
+ -- W. Churchill
+%
+As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
+instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
+unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware
+of change in the air however slight lest we become unwitting victims
+of the darkness.
+ -- William O. Douglas
+%
+One day I put instant coffee in my microwave oven and almost went back
+in time.
+ -- Steven Wright
+%
+To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is
+research.
+ -- Steven Wright
+%
+If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked
+something.
+ -- Steven Wright
+%
+I'm wrong to criticize the valour of your brave men. It's important to
+die for one's country when it means being the subject of a king who
+wears a ruffled collar or a pleated one.
+ -- Cyrano de Bergerac
+%
+Democracy is more dangerous than fire. Fire can't vote itself immune
+to water.
+ -- Michael Z. Williamson
+%
+A Democracy lead by politicians and political parties, fails.
+%
+We have to face the fact that either all of us are going to die
+together or we are going to learn to live together and if we are to
+live together we have to talk.
+ -- Eleanor Roosevelt
+%
+A Bill of Rights that means what the majority wants it to mean is worthless.
+ -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia
+%
+Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you really want to test his
+character, give him power.
+ -- Abraham Lincoln
+%
+When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one
+by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
+ -- Edmund Burke "Thoughts on the Cause of Present Discoontents"
+%
+Herodotus says, "Very few things happen at the right time, and the
+rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct
+these defects".
+ -- Mark Twain _A Horse's Tail_
+%
+No matter how many instances of white swans we may have observed, this
+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_
+%
+Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what
+it's like to be Beethoven, and Bach tells us what it's like to be the
+universe.
+ -- Douglas Adams
+%
+PowerPoint is symptomatic of a certain type of bureaucratic
+environment: one typified by interminable presentations with lots of
+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_
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