From 2d3e8382b791e7bb212e68841adfceacc4c27c7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Armstrong Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2007 21:10:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update signature stuff --- signature_stuff/quote.txt | 21 +++++++++++++++------ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 1d07f8d..b7f79bf 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 Rükert _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 _Gödel 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 @@ -530,7 +530,7 @@ B: Okay. % Americans can always be counted on to do the right thing, after they have exhausted all other possibilities. - -– 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 @@ -592,3 +592,12 @@ 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 +% +I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended +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 +universe. + -- Douglas Adams -- 2.39.2