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
-%
"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
%
-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
-%
[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"
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!"
-%
-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
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 [...] 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
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.
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
get at or repair.
-- Douglas Adams _Mostly Harmless_
%
-"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.
the chuck keys for electric drills.
-- Terry Pratchet _Pyramids_ p166
%
-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
-%
Where I sleep at night, is this important compared to what I read
during the day? What do you think defines me? Where I slept or what I
did all day?
-- Thomas Van Orden of Van Orden v. Perry
%
-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)
-%
"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)
%
-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
-%
Leukocyte... I am your father.
-- R. Stevens http://www.dieselsweeties.com/archive.php?s=1546
%
-S: Make me a sandwich
-B: What? Make it yourself.
-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.
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.
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
%
I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.
-- Peter Watts _Blindsight_ p294
%
-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
-%
I learned really early the difference between knowing the name of
something and knowing something
-- Richard Feynman "What is Science" Phys. Teach. 7(6) 1969
authority myself
-- Albert Einstein
%
-The computer allows you to make mistakes faster than any other
-invention, with the possible exception of handguns and tequila
- -- Mitch Ratcliffe
-%
Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that
you do it.
-- Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
would say: Oh it isn't? Sorry.
-- Terry Pratchett _Soul Music_ p357
%
-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
-%
Love is... a complex sequence of neurochemical reactions that makes
people behave like idiots. It's similar to intoxication, but the
hangover's even worse.
flowcharts; they'll be obvious.
-- Fredrick P. Brooks Jr., The Mythical Man Month
%
-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
-%
After the first battle of Sto Lat, I formulated a policy which has
stood me in good stead in other battles. It is this: if an enemy has
an impregnable stronghold, see he stays there.
them in comfort.
-- Terry Pratchett _The Fifth Elephant_ p111
%
-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"
-%
"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in
a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die from
asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my
"I don't know, I didn't listen."
–- Douglas Adams _The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy_
%
-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
-%
It was a very familiar voice. [...] It was a voice you could have used
to open a bottle of whine.
-- Terry Pratchett _The Last Continent_ p270
%
-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
-%
We must realize that today's Establishment is the New George III.
Whether it will continue to adhere to his tactics, we do not know. If
it does, the redress, honored in tradition, is also revolution.
life is my own. I resign.
-- Patrick McGoohan as Number 6 in "The Prisoner"
%
-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"
-%
Let us chat together a moment, my friend. There are still several
hours until dawn, and I have the whole day to sleep.
-- Count Orlock in _Nosferatu (1922)_
would bend to her wishes." [...] "Reality doesn't indulge wishes."
-- Terry Goodkind _Phantom_ p133
%
-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
-%
All my dreams came true.
I just didn't think them through.
-- a softer world #388
[...] A kiss could change the entire world.
-- Scott Westerfeld _The Killing of Worlds_ p336
%
-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
-%
Rule 30: "A little trust goes a long way. The less you use, the
further you'll go."
-- Howard Tayler _Schlock Mercenary_ March 8th, 2003
of oneself not being there."
-- Terry Pratchett _Unseen Academicals_ p391
%
-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
-%
With one simple pill
we cured unhappiness
and art
We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
-- William Saroyan _My Heart's in the Highlands_
%
-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.
-%
I made a bunch of stickers
to put on rooftops, and in secret tunnels.
"If you are reading this,
who send young men out to die.
-- Harlan Ellison "Basilisk" (_Deathbird Stories_ p73)
%
-"Do you think you might be suffering from post-traumatic stress
-disorder?" [...]
-"Who isn't?"
- -- Walter Jon Williams _This Is Not A Game_ p121
-%
I finally developed
a computer with feelings.
It just doesn't have
seem to smile"
-- John McPhee _Annals of the Former World_ p304
%
-Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubborness, when I know I am right.
+Thanks be to God, that he gave me Stubbornness, when I know I am right.
-- John Adams (Letter to Edmund Jennings, 27 September 1782)
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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