of stick, till I fell in a faint.
-- The Thousand Nights And One Night (The Tale of Ghānim Ibn Ayyūr)
[v1 p324]
+%
+ 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.
+%
+She was alot like starbucks.
+IE, generic and expensive.
+ -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/Moveable_Type/archives/001376.html
+%
+Guns Don't Kill People.
+*I* Kill People.
+%
+DIE!
+ -- Maritza Campos http://www.crfh.net/d/20020601.html
+%
+"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
+%
+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
+%
+[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
+%
+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."
+%
+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
+%
+<Clint> why the hell does kernel-source-2.6.3 depend on xfree86-common?
+<infinity> It... Doesn't?
+<Clint> good point
+%
+"Facts" are the refuge of people unwilling to reassess what they hold
+to be "True".
+%
+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
+%
+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
+%
+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 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 order of importance.)
+ █████
+ █ ▌ ▞▀▖▌ ▌▛▀▘
+ █ ▌ ▌ ▌▝▞ ▛▀ you
+ █ ▀▀▘▝▀ ▘ ▀▀▘
+ █████ -- hugh macleod "Three Words"
+%
+N: Why should I believe that?"
+B: Because it's a fact."
+N: Fact?"
+B: F, A, C, T... fact"
+N: So you're saying that I should believe it because it's true.
+ That's your argument?
+B: It IS true.
+-- "Ploy" http://www.mediacampaign.org/multimedia/Ploy.MPG
+%
+UF: What's your favorite coffee blend?
+PD: Dark Crude with heavy water. You are understandink? "If geiger
+ counter does not click, the coffee, she is just not thick."
+%
+Quite the contrary; they *love* collateral damage. If they can make
+you miserable enough, maybe you'll stop using email entirely. Once
+enough people do that, then there'll be no legitimate reason left for
+anyone to run an SMTP server, and the spam problem will be solved.
+ -- Craig Dickson in <20020909231134.GA18917@linux700.localnet>
+%
+It seems intuitively obvious to me, which means that it might be wrong
+ -- Chris Torek
+%
+Filing a bug is probably not going to get it fixed any faster.
+ -- Anthony Towns
+%
+Build a fire for a man, an he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on
+fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
+ -- Jules Bean
+%
+Dropping non-free would set us back at least, what, 300 packages? It'd
+take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users will
+be fleeing to SLACKWARE.
+
+And what about SHAREHOLDER VALUE?
+ -- Matt Zimmerman in <20021120225004.GX14809@mizar.alcor.net>
+%
+"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
+%
+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
+%
+Of course Pacman didn't influence us as kids. If it did, we'd be
+running around in darkened rooms, popping pills and listening to
+repetitive music.
+%
+"It's not Hollywood. War is real, war is primarily not about defeat or
+victory, it is about death. I've seen thousands and thousands of dead
+bodies. Do you think I want to have an academic debate on this
+subject?"
+ -- Robert Fisk
+%
+THERE IS NO GRAVITY THE WORLD SUCKS
+ -- Vietnam War Penquin Lighter
+http://gallery.donarmstrong.com/clippings/vietnam_there_is_no_gravity.jpg
+%
+Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.
+ -- Robert Heinlein
+%
+If you have the slightest bit of intellectual integrity you cannot
+support the government. -- anonymous
+%
+Debian's not really about the users or the software at all. It's a
+large flame-generating engine that the cabal uses to heat their coffee
+ -- Andrew Suffield (#debian-devel Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:34 -0500)
+%
+"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
+We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
+ -- Jeremy S. Anderson
+%
+"There's no problem so large it can't be solved by killing the user
+off, deleting their files, closing their account and reporting their
+REAL earnings to the IRS."
+ -- The B.O.F.H..
+%
+When I was a kid I used to pray every night for a new bicycle. Then I
+realized that the Lord doesn't work that way so I stole one and asked
+Him to forgive me.
+ -- Emo Philips.
+%
+"People selling drug paraphernalia ... are as much a part of drug
+trafficking as silencers are a part of criminal homicide."
+ -- John Brown, DEA Chief
+%
+Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and
+the Ugly).
+ -- Matt Welsh
+%
+A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but
+won't cross the street to vote in a national election.
+ -- Bill Vaughan
+%
+I now know how retro SCOs OSes are. Riotous, riotous stuff. How they
+had the ya-yas to declare Linux an infant OS in need of their IP is
+beyond me. Upcoming features? PAM. files larger than 2 gigs. NFS over
+TCP. The 80's called, they want their features back.
+ -- Compactable Dave http://www3.sympatico.ca/dcarpeneto/sco.html
+%
+This message brought to you by weapons of mass destruction related
+program activities, and the letter G.
+%
+Frankly, if ignoring inane opinions and noisy people and not flaming
+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
+%
+"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary.
+ For those who do not, none is possible."
+%
+Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but
+that's not why we do it.
+ -- Richard Feynman
+%
+"I'm a rational being--of a sort--rational enough, at least, to see the
+symptoms of insanity around me. And I'm human, the same as the people
+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)
+%
+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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