"We're less horrible than a root canal with a cold chisel."
-- Cory Doctorow
%
-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."
-%
"There's nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the
right keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself."
-- Bach
%
-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>
-%
-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
-%
-"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
-%
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
thoroughly that it had to be condemned and later demolished.
-- Bruce Sterling, _Distraction_ p4
%
-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)
-%
[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."
- -- Jeremy S. Anderson
-%
"A one-question geek test. If you get the joke, you're a geek: Seen on
a California license plate on a VW Beetle: 'FEATURE'..."
-- Joshua D. Wachs - Natural Intelligence, Inc.
just ban all forms of verbal and non-verbal communication -- let's see
those criminals make plans now!"
%
-"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
-%
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on
society.
-- Mark Twain
the serial port and load up the HP-48 VT-100 emulator.
-- Jeff Dege, jdege@winternet.com
%
-Unix, MS-DOS, and Windows NT (also known as the Good, the Bad, and
-the Ugly).
- -- Matt Welsh
-%
Our days are precious, but we gladly see them going
If in their place we find a thing more precious growing
A rare, exotic plant, our gardener's heart delighting
way the world may live?
-- President Dwight D. Eisenhower, April 16, 1953
%
-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
-%
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very
easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over
expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without
This can't be happening to me. I've got tenure.
-- James Hynes _Publish and Perish_
%
-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.
-%
Identical parts aren't.
-- Beach's Law
%
get at or repair.
-- Douglas Adams _Mostly Harmless_
%
-"For those who understand, no explanation is necessary.
- For those who do not, none is possible."
-%
-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
-%
"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."
the chuck keys for electric drills.
-- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p166
%
-Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but
-that's not why we do it.
- -- Richard Feynman
-%
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
-- The HipCrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
(John Brunner _Stand On Zanzibar_ p256-7)
%
-"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)
-%
"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)
That's the wonderful thing about crayons. They can take you to more
places than a starship.
-- Guinan "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Rascals (#6.7)"
+%
+He wore trifocals. There was stratigraphy even in his glasses.
+ -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p364
+%
+"Old hypotheses never really die, they're like dormant volcanoes."
+ -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p313
+%
+"While geologists argue, the rocks just sit there and sometimes they
+seem to smile"
+ -- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p304
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)
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