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)
+%
+I leave the show floor, but not before a pack of caffeinated Jolt gum
+is thrust at me by a hyperactive girl screaming, "Chew more! Do more!"
+The American will to consume more and produce more personified in a
+stick of gum. I grab it.
+ -- Chad Dickerson
+%
+I never until now realized that the primary job of any emoticon is to
+say "excuse me, that didn't make any sense." ;-P
+ -- Cory Doctorow
+%
+I'd sign up in a hot second for any cellular company whose motto was:
+"We're less horrible than a root canal with a cold chisel."
+ -- Cory Doctorow
+%
+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
+had raised the ante on the supernatural: the Virgin Mary had
+manifested herself to two children, a dog, and a Public Telepresence
+Point.
+ -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p228
+%
+Junkies were all knitted together in a loose global macrame, the
+intercontinental freemasonry of narcotics.
+ -- Bruce Sterling, _Holy Fire_ p257
+%
+America was far better suited to be the World's Movie Star. The
+world's tequila-addled pro-league bowler. The world's acerbic bi-polar
+stand-up comedian. Anything but a somber and tedious nation of
+socially responsible centurions.
+ -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p122
+%
+The attackers hadn't simply robbed the bank. They had carried off
+everything portable, including the security cameras, the carpets, the
+chairs, and the light and plumbing fixtures. The conspirators had
+deliberately punished the bank, for reasons best known to themselves,
+or to their unknown controllers. They had superglued doors and
+shattered windows, severed power and communications cables, poured
+stinking toxins into the wallspaces, and concreted all of the sinks
+and drains. In eight minutes, sixty people had ruined the building so
+thoroughly that it had to be condemned and later demolished.
+ -- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4
+%
+"Ban cryptography! Yes. Let's also ban pencils, pens and paper, since
+criminals can use them to draw plans of the joint they are casing or
+even, god forbid, create one time pads to pass uncrackable codes to
+each other. Ban open spaces since criminals could use them to converse
+with each other out of earshot of the police. Let's ban flags since
+they could be used to pass secret messages in semaphore. In fact let's
+just ban all forms of verbal and non-verbal communication -- let's see
+those criminals make plans now!"
+%
+Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
+society.
+ -- Mark Twain
+%
+My spelling ability, or rather the lack thereof, is one of the wonders
+of the modern world.
+%
+There are two types of people in this world, good and bad. The good
+sleep better, but the bad seem to enjoy the waking hours much more.
+ -- Woody Allen
+%
+Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for
+the people.
+ -- Oscar Wilde
+%
+I don't care how poor and inefficient a little country is; they like
+to run their own business. I know men that would make my wife a
+better husband than I am; but, darn it, I'm not going to give her to
+'em.
+ -- The Best of Will Rogers
+%
+More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads.
+One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness.
+The other, to total extinction.
+Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
+ -- Woody Allen
+%
+"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."
+ -- Alfred Bester _The Computer Connection_ p19
+%
+The beauty of the DRUNKENNESS subprogram was that you could move your
+intoxication level up and down at will, instead of being caught on a
+relentless down escalator to bargain basement philosophy and the
+parking garage.
+ -- Rudy von Bitter _Software_ p124
+%
+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
+%
+An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.
+ -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p244
+%
+There is no such thing as "social gambling." Either you are there to
+cut the other bloke's heart out and eat it--or you're a sucker. If you
+don't like this choice--don't gamble.
+ -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p250
+%
+In all matters of government, the correct answer is usually: "Do
+nothing"
+ -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p428
+%
+No amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free
+[...] You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him.
+ -- Robert Heinlein _Revolt in 2010_ p54
+%
+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
+own.
+ -- The HipCrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
+ (John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p256-7)
+%
+Information wants to be free to kill again.
+ -- Red Robot http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1372
+%
+NASCAR is a Yankee conspiracy to keep you all placated so the South
+won't rise again.
+ -- http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=327
+%
+S: Make me a sandwich
+B: What? Make it yourself.
+S: sudo make me a sandwich
+B: Okay.
+ -- xkcd http://xkcd.com/c149.html
+%
+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.
+%
+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
+%
+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
+%
+The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other
+invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila
+ -- Mitch Ratcliffe
+%
+G: If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?
+EB: Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and
+scatter oneself over a wide area.
+ -- Somewhere in No Man's Land, BA4
+%
+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
+%
+J.W. Grant: "Bastard!"
+Rico: "Yes, Sir. In my case, an accident of birth. But you, Sir,
+you're a self-made man."
+ -- Henry "Rico" Fardan in "The Professionals"
+%
+a friend will help you move
+a best friend will help you move bodies
+but if you have to move your best friend's body
+you're on your own
+ -- a softer world #242
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=242
+%
+The carbon footprint of a single human being is enormous.
+If you think about it, your honour,
+I'm an environmentalist.
+ -- a softer world #283
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=283
+%
+Where am I? THE VILLAGE. What do you want? INFORMATION. Which side are
+you on? THAT WOULD BE TELLING. WE WANT INFORMATION. INFORMATION.
+INFORMATION. You won't get it! BY HOOK OR BY CROOK, WE WILL. Who are
+you? THE NEW NUMBER 2. Who is Number 1? YOU ARE NUMBER 6. I am not a
+number! I am a free man! HAHAHAHAHAHA.
+ -- Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 with Number 2 in "The Prisoner"
+%
+Judge if you want.
+We are all going to die.
+I intend to deserve it.
+ -- a softer world #421
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=421
+%
+Rule 6: "If violence wasn't your last resort, you failed to resort to
+enough of it."
+ -- Howard Tayler _Schlock Mercenary_ March 13th, 2005
+ http://www.schlockmercenary.com/d/20050313.html
+%
+listen, what you do in the privacy
+of your neighbour's house while they're away
+is your own business
+ -- a softer world #511
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=511
+%
+Sometimes I wish I could take back all my mistakes
+but then I think
+what if my mother could take back hers?
+ -- a softer world #498
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=498
+%
+Clean living is less fun
+and you wind up feeling stupid
+when you still die.
+ -- a softer world #489
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=489
+%
+If god is always watching over us
+who's driving?
+ -- a softer world #487
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=487
+%
+Maybe I did steal your heart
+and I am such a perfect criminal
+that you never noticed
+ -- a softer world #481
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=481
+%
+Life would be way easier
+if I were easier.
+ -- a softer world #473
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=473
+%
+I always thought
+violence didn't solve anything
+until one day it did.
+ -- a softer world #470
+ http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=470
+%
+Given that the odds of a miracle are one in one million, and events
+which could be a miracle happen every second, the odds of not seeing a
+miracle in a month are less than 8 in 100. Clearly miracles are not
+all that miraculous.
+%
+"Do you think you might be suffering from post-traumatic stress
+disorder?" [...]
+"Who isn't?"
+ -- Walter Jon Williams _This Is Not A Game_ p121
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