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+What I can't stand is the feeling that my brain is leaving me for
+someone more interesting.
+%
+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
+%
+Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien
+a ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien a retrancher.
+(Perfection is apparently not achieved when nothing more can be added,
+but when nothing else can be removed.)
+ -- Antoine de Saint-Exupe'ry, Terres des Hommes
+%
+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
+%
+She was alot like starbucks.
+IE, generic and expensive.
+ -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch3.htm
+%
+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 resturant.
+He was yelling at the waitress because there was a typo in his fortune
+cookie.
+ -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch31.php
+%
+Three little words. (In decending order of importance.)
+I
+love
+you
+ -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/graphics/batch35.php
+%
+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 favourite 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
+%
+"...Yet terrible as UNIX addiction is, there are worse fates. If UNIX
+is the heroin of operating systems, then VMS is barbiturate addiction, the
+Mac is MDMA, and MS-DOS is sniffing glue. (Windows is filling your sinuses
+with lucite and letting it set.) You owe the Oracle a twelve-step program."
+ --The Usenet Oracle
+%
+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 <gYuD3D.A.ayC.nGB39@murphy>
+%
+She was alot like starbucks.
+IE, generic and expensive.
+ -- hugh macleod http://www.gapingvoid.com/batch3.htm
+%
+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/batch8.htm
+%
+Guns Don't Kill People.
+*I* Kill People.
+%
+DIE!
+ -- Maritza Campos http://www.crfh.net/d/20020601.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
+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
+thouroughly that it had to be condemed 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)
+%
+"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
+%
+"The question of whether computers can think is like the question of
+whether submarines can swim."
+ -- Edsgar Dijkstra
+%
+"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.
+%
+"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!"
+%
+"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
+realised 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
+%
+If you wish to strive for peace of soul, then believe; if you wish to
+be a devotee of truth, then inquire.
+ -- Friedrich Nietzsche
+%
+My spelling ability, or rather the lack thereof, is one of the wonders
+of the modern world.
+%
+Personally, I think my choice in the mostest-superlative-computer wars
+has to be the HP-48 series of calculators. They'll run almost
+anything. And if they can't, while I'll just plug a Linux box into
+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
+%
+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 maths
+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
+%
+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
+A child whom we are teaching, a booklet we are writing
+ -- Frederick Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_
+ [Hermann Hesse _Glass Bead Game_]
+%
+Of course, there are ceases where only a rare individual will have the
+vision to perceive a system which governs many people's lives; a
+system which had never before even been recognized as a system; then
+such people often devote their lives to convincing other people that
+the system really is there and that it aught to be exited from.
+ -- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_
+%
+Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept.
+ -- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_]
+%
+[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
+%
+Grimble left his mother in the food store and went to the launderette
+and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like colour television
+only with less plot.
+ -- Clement Freud _Grimble_
+%
+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
+%
+Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired
+signifies in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are
+not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. This world in arms is
+not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers,
+the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a
+way of life at all in any true sense. Under the clouds of war, it is
+humanity hanging on a cross of iron.
+ -- Dwight 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
+discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the
+syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors
+are an abundant source of gain.
+ -- Anatole France
+%
+All bad precedents began as justifiable measures.
+ -- Gaius Julius Caesar in "The Conspiracy of Catiline" by Sallust
+%
+Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
+ -- Aesop
+%
+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
+%
+If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its
+freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it
+values more, it will lose that, too.
+ -- W. Somerset Maugham
+%
+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."
+%
+The sheer ponderousness of the panel's opinion ... refutes its thesis
+far more convincingly than anything I might say. The panel's labored
+effort to smother the Second Amendment by sheer body weight has all
+the grace of a sumo wrestler trying to kill a rattlesnake by sitting
+on it--and is just as likely to succeed.
+ -- Alex Kozinski in Silveira V Lockyer
+%
+ 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, psychadelic patterns --
+requires no fitting, no prescriptions.
+ -- Robert A Heinlein _I Will Fear No Evil_ p470.
+%
+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
+%
+If I had a letter, sealed it in a locked vault and hid the vault
+somewhere in New York. Then told you to read the letter, thats not
+security, thats obscurity. If I made a letter, sealed it in a vault,
+gave you the blueprints of the vault, the combinations of 1000 other
+vaults, access to the best lock smiths in the world, then told you to
+read the letter, and you still can't, thats security.
+ -- Bruce Schneier
+%
+Q: What Can a Thoughtful Man Hope for Mankind on Earth, Given the
+Experience of the Past Million Years?
+A: Nothing.
+ -- Bokonon _The Fourteenth Book of Bokonon_ (Vonnegut _Cats Cradle_)
+%
+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
+%
+Nothing is as inevitable as a mistake whose time has come.
+ -- Tussman's Law
+%
+If it jams, force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
+ -- Lowery's Law
+%
+The solution to a problem changes the problem.
+ -- Peer's Law
+%
+There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved
+by brute strength and ignorance.
+ -- William's Law
+%
+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
+%
+For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing
+continued to happen.
+ -- Douglas Adams
+%
+The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing
+that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot
+possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to
+get at or repair.
+ -- Douglas Adams _Mostly Harmless_
+%
+<Clint> why the hell does kernel-source-2.6.3 depend on xfree86-common?
+<infinity> It... Doesn't?
+<Clint> good point
+%
+"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 behaviour, 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."
+ -- Alfred Bester _The Computer Connection_ p19
+%
+Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves
+exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves
+only the unanimity of the graveyard.
+ -- Justice Roberts in 319 U.S. 624 (1943)
+%
+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
+%
+The game of science is, in principle, without end. He who decides one
+day that scientific statements do not call for any further test, and
+that they can be regarded as finally verified, retires from the game.
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §11
+%
+[A] theory is falsifiable [(and therefore scientific) only] if the
+class of its potential falsifiers is not empty.
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _The Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §21
+%
+I shall require that [a scientific system's] logical form shall be
+such that it can be singled out, by means of emperical tests, in a
+negative sense: it must be possible for an emperical scientific system
+to be refuted by experience.
+ -- Sir Karl Popper _Logic of Scientific Discovery_ §6
+%
+It was said that life was cheap in Ankh-Morpork. This was, of course,
+completely wrong. Life was often very expensive; you could get death
+for free.
+ -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p25
+%
+"The trouble with you, Ibid" he said, "is that you think you're the
+biggest bloody authority on everything"
+ -- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p146
+%
+He was wrong. Nature abhors dimensional abnormalities, and seals them
+neatly away so that they don't upset people. Nature, in fact, abhors a
+lot of things, including vacuums, ships called the Marie Celeste, and
+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
+%
+Cheop's Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
+ -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p242
+%
+An elephant: A mouse built to government specifications.
+ -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p244
+%
+Taxes are not levied for the benefit of the taxed.
+ -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p250
+%
+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
+%
+Do not handicap your children by making their lives easy.
+ -- Robert Heinlein _Time Enough For Love_ p251
+%
+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
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