From ee961b4db25410ea57f27ac6112009b2a634a454 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Don Armstrong Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 22:33:20 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] * Fix people typo --- signature_stuff/quote.txt | 20 +++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 19 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index 3c71901..4fb46db 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -487,7 +487,7 @@ own. (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 poeple +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" @@ -635,3 +635,21 @@ if he were somehow living a posthumous life. I really wanted to talk to her. I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit. -- Peter Watts _Blindsight_ p294 +% +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 +% +Science is a way of trying not to fool yourself. The first principle +is that you must not fool yourself, and you are the easiest person to +fool. + -- Richard Feynman "What is and What Should be the Role of Scientific + Culture in Modern Society"; 1964 +% +To punish me for my contempt of authority, Fate has made me an +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 -- 2.39.2