From: Don Armstrong <don@donarmstrong.com>
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:34:24 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: update quote.txt
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update quote.txt
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diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
index b7f79bf..3526f80 100644
--- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt
+++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt
@@ -236,7 +236,7 @@ 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 Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_ 
+ -- Frederick Rükert _Wisdom of the Brahmans_ 
  [Hermann Hesse _Glass Bead Game_]
 %
 Of course, there are cases where only a rare individual will have the
@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ 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 _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_
+ -- Douglas R. Hofstadter _Gödel Escher Bach. Eternal Golden Braid_
 %
 Fate and Temperament are two words for one and the same concept.
  -- Novalis [Hermann Hesse _Demian_]
@@ -417,17 +417,17 @@ parking garage.
 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
+ -- 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
+ -- 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
+ -- 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
@@ -528,9 +528,16 @@ 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.
+This record represents our hope and our determination and our goodwill
+in a vast and awesome universe.
+ -- Jimmy Carter on the Voyager Golden Record
+%
 Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they
 have exhausted all other possibilities.
- -œôòó W. Churchill
+ -œôòó W. Churchill
 %
 As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both
 instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly
@@ -598,6 +605,13 @@ up where I needed to be.
  -- Douglas Adams _The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul_
 %
 Mozart tells us what it's like to be human, Beethoven tells us what
-it's like to be Beethoven and Bach tells us what it's like to be the
+it's like to be Beethoven, and Bach tells us what it's like to be the
 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