"never try to explain computers to a layman.
it's easier to explain sex to a virgin."
-- robert heinlein
-
+
(note, however, that virgins tend to know a lot about computers.)
%
"a fundamentalist is someone who hates sin more than he loves virtue."
-- john h. schaar
%
"it is the customary fate of new truths
- to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.
+ to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions."
-- thomas huxley
%
"however jewel-like the good will may be in its own right, there is
*** important disclaimer:
by sending an email to any address, that will eventually cause it to
end up in my inbox without much interaction, you are agreeing that:
-
+
- i am by definition, "the intended recipient"
- all information in the email is mine to do with as i see fit and
make such financial profit, political mileage, or good joke as it
it's a lot better
if you don't have to fake it."
-- seymour cray commenting on virtual memory
-
+
"but virtual memory still gets the job done."
-- gr
%
to eat with knitting needles."
-- miss piggy, on eating chinese food
%
-"a woman does not want the truth; what is truth to women? from the
- beginning, nothing has been more alien, repugnant, and hostile to
- woman than the truth - her great art is the lie, her highest
- concern is mere appearance and beauty."
- -- friedrich nietzsche
-%
"if java had true garbage collection,
most programs would delete themselves upon execution."
-- robert sewell
blur as if all those grains of sand had lost their bearings and were
falling all over each other just trying to get out of the way to make
room for the next moment, or instant, or tick of the clock"
--- mc 900 ft jesus (http://www.theendoftheworld.org/900/spider1.shtml)
+-- mc 900 ft jesus (http://stuff.madduck.net/pub/misc/fun/newmoon.txt)
%
"for her, the dashed lines on the freeway were like grains of sand
slipping, through an hour glass, ticking away the seconds, the
minutes, and the hours of her life. if she got home a few minutes
early on any given afternoon, it gave her a thrill as if she had
stolen a little something back from death."
--- mc 900 ft jesus (http://www.theendoftheworld.org/900/spider1.shtml)
+-- mc 900 ft jesus (http://stuff.madduck.net/pub/misc/fun/newmoon.txt)
%
"health? what good is your health when you're otherwise an idiot?"
-- theodor w. adorno
%
spooning leads to forking
-- seen on a t-shirt by david & goliath
+%
+i don't want to get myself into a hot babe situation.
+ -- jonathan mcdowll, #debian-uk, 6 jul 2009
+%
+no. no musicals. i loathe musicals. i never did have a plan for
+doing one. my cousin made me sit through some fucking musical twice.
+i just hate them. they bore me stiff. i think they’re just horrible.
+even _hair_. and they're always lousy music.
+ -— john lennon, _the lost interviews_ by ray connolly
+%
+"politicians and diapers should be changed often,
+ and for the same reason."
+ -- mark twain
+%
+"a bank is an institution will to lend you money,
+ provided you can prove that you don't need it."
+ -- mark twain
+%
+"alles gackert, aber wer will noch still
+ auf dem nest sitzen und eier zu brüten?"
+ -- friedrich wilhelm nietzsche
+%
+takt ist der auf das benehmen angewandte gute geschmack.
+ -- nicolas de chamfort
+%
+"die ideen, für die wir bereit wären, durchs feuer zu gehen,
+ sind oft nur der grund, das feuer zu legen."
+ -- jeannine luczak
+%
+"as if you could kill time without injuring eternity."
+ -- henry david thoreau
+%
+if a man in a forest speaks his mind freely
+and there is no woman to hear it
+is he still wrong?
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