X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/quotes.git/blobdiff_plain/5a45a99442f6813d0086343384d976a425a7922f..998583980b6785867b94f5d6f3176801e38b9aec:/.quotes/quotes diff --git a/.quotes/quotes b/.quotes/quotes index b3c2bdf..9783465 100644 --- a/.quotes/quotes +++ b/.quotes/quotes @@ -7,17 +7,17 @@ please return the productby airmail to our administration section and inform the time, place.and store of this purchase for our improvement.We shall give you a satisfactory reply.Thanks for your patronage and welcome your comments. - -- http://www.engrish.com + -- http://www.engrish.com % "life moves pretty fast. if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." - -- ferris bueller + -- ferris bueller % drink canada dry! you might not succeed, but it *is* fun trying. % "emacs sucks, literally, not an insult, just a comment that it's large enough to have a noticeable gravitational pull..." - -- mercury on #debian-devel + -- mercury on #debian-devel % if you find a spelling mistake in the above, you get to keep it. % @@ -25,12 +25,12 @@ beauty, brains, availability, personality; pick any two. % "the duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman." - -- honoré de balzac + -- honoré de balzac % "das internet wurde konzipiert, um einem atomschlag standzuhalten. leider hatte kein militärstratege mit der deutschen telekom gerechnet..." - -- attila radnai + -- attila radnai % "next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those @@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ beauty, brains, availability, personality; pick any two. convince himself that the war is just, and will thank god for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception." - -- mark twain + -- mark twain % in seattle, washington, it is illegal to carry a concealed weapon that is over six feet in length. @@ -48,7 +48,7 @@ when everything is coming your way, you're in the wrong lane. % "the question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim." - -- edsgar w. dijkstra + -- edsgar w. dijkstra % the early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese in the trap. @@ -61,34 +61,34 @@ plan to be spontaneous tomorrow. % fitter, healthier, more productive like a pig, in a cage, on antibiotics - -- radiohead + -- radiohead % "you know you're a hopeless geek when you misspell 'date' as 'data'" - -- branden robinson + -- branden robinson % "if a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted at a very last resort, and the access of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report." - -- + -- % "i like .net for the same reason i like gentoo. it keeps all the people with no clue from writing c code, which is much harder for me to identify and eliminate from my systems. in the same way that gentoo gives those people a place to be that isn't in debian" - -- andrew suffield + -- andrew suffield % "all i know is that i'm being sued for unfair business practices by micro$oft. hello pot? it's kettle on line two." - -- michael robertson + -- michael robertson % "if you are going to run a rinky-dink distro made by a couple of volunteers, why not run a rinky-dink distro made by a lot of volunteers?" - -- jaldhar h. vyas + -- jaldhar h. vyas % /.ing an issue is like asking an infinite number of monkeys for advice - -- in #debian-devel + -- in #debian-devel % if you are walking on thin ice, you might as well dance! % @@ -100,7 +100,7 @@ colours proudly! % "i might disagree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." - -- voltaire + -- voltaire % EARTH smog | bricks @@ -111,44 +111,44 @@ soda water | tequila "to me, vi is zen. to use vi is to practice zen. every command is a koan. profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. you discover truth everytime you use it." - -- reddy ät lion.austin.ibm.com + -- reddy ät lion.austin.ibm.com % "distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason." - -- lord chesterfield + -- lord chesterfield % "the only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % god is real, unless declared integer. (dedicated to gabriel gómez) % "common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen." - -- albert einstein + -- albert einstein % "what's your conceptual continuity? -- well, it should be easy to see: the crux of the bisquit is the apopstrophe!" - -- frank zappa + -- frank zappa % http://lavender.cime.net/~ricky/badgers.txt % "even a stopped clock gives the right time twice a day." - -- orbital + -- orbital % "i worked myself up from nothing to a state of extreme poverty." - -- groucho marx + -- groucho marx % "how do you feel about women's rights?" "i like either side of them." - -- groucho marx + -- groucho marx % "they that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - -- benjamin franklin + -- benjamin franklin % dies ist eine manuell generierte email. sie beinhaltet tippfehler und ist auch ohne großbuchstaben gültig. @@ -156,21 +156,21 @@ tippfehler und ist auch ohne großbuchstaben gültig. mulutlitithtrhreeaadededd s siigngnatatuurere % "eine schlechte sache erregt, eine gute verträgt viel kritik." - -- charles tschopp + -- charles tschopp % "zwei monologe, die sich gegenseitig immer und immer wieder störend unterbrechen, nennt man eine diskussion." - -- charles tschopp + -- charles tschopp % "man kann die menschen nur von ihren eigenen meinungen überzeugen." - -- charles tschopp + -- charles tschopp % "now, bring me that horizon." - -- captain jack sparrow + -- captain jack sparrow % "no survivors? then where do the stories come from I wonder?" - -- captain jack sparrow + -- captain jack sparrow % DISCLAIMER: this entire message is privileged communication, intended for the sole use of its recipients only. If you read it even though @@ -178,156 +178,156 @@ you know you aren't supposed to, you're a poopy-head. % "if you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. now put the foundations under them." - -- henry david thoreau + -- henry david thoreau % "the difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has it's limits." - -- albert einstein + -- albert einstein % "reife des mannes, das ist es, den ernst wiedergefunden zu haben, den man hatte als kind beim spiel." - -- friedrich nietzsche + -- friedrich nietzsche % "america may be unique in being a country which has leapt from barbarism to decadence without touching civilization." - -- john o'hara + -- john o'hara % "getting a scsi chain working is perfectly simple if you remember that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the scsi chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black* candles." - -- anthony deboer + -- anthony deboer % "the worst part of being old is remembering when you was young." - -- alvin straight (the straight story) + -- alvin straight (the straight story) % "a warm bed in a house sounds a mite better than eating a hot dog on a stick with an old geezer traveling on a lawn mower." - -- alvin straight (the straight story) + -- alvin straight (the straight story) % "women, when they are not in love, have all the cold blood of an experienced attorney." - -- honoré de balzac + -- honoré de balzac % "although occasionally there is something to be said for solitude." - -- special agent dale cooper + -- special agent dale cooper % "sometimes the urge to do bad is nearly overpowering" - -- ben horne + -- ben horne % "one should never allow one's mind and one's foot to wander at the same time." - -- edward perkins (yes, the librarian) + -- edward perkins (yes, the librarian) % "being shot is not as bad as i always thought it might be. as long as you can keep the fear from your mind." - -- special agent dale cooper + -- special agent dale cooper % "arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "twenty-four hour room-service must be one of the premiere achievements of modern civilization." - -- special agent dale cooper + -- special agent dale cooper % logik ist analsadismus: gedanken werden gewaltsam durch einen engen gang gepreßt. - -- frei nach lacan + -- frei nach lacan % "if ever somethin' don't feel right to you, remember what pancho said to the cisco kid... `let's win, before we are dancing at the end of a rope, without music.'" - -- sailor + -- sailor % "stab it and steer" - -- sailor + -- sailor % "wer schmetterlinge lachen hört, der weiss wie wolken schmecken." - -- freiherr friedrich von hardenberg + -- freiherr friedrich von hardenberg % one has to multiply thoughts to the point where there aren't enough policemen to control them. - -- stanislaw jerzey lec + -- stanislaw jerzey lec % until lions have their historians, tales of the hunt shall always glorify the hunter. - -- african proverb + -- african proverb % darwinism is nothing without enough dead bodies. % "montag, why do you burn books?" "it's a job like any other, pay is good and there is a lot of variety." - -- ray bradbury (f451) + -- ray bradbury (f451) % "the wonderful thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from." - -- grace hopper + -- grace hopper % "politics is the entertainment branch of industry." - -- frank zappa + -- frank zappa % "sometimes we sit and read other people's interpretations of our lyrics and think, 'hey, that's pretty good.' if we liked it, we would keep our mouths shut and just accept the credit as if it was what we meant all along." - -- john lennon + -- john lennon % "never try to explain computers to a layman. it's easier to explain sex to a virgin." - -- robert heinlein - + -- 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 + -- john h. schaar % "it is the customary fate of new truths - to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions. - -- thomas huxley + 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 a morally significant difference between rescuing someone from a burning building and dropping him from a twelfth-storey window while trying to rescue him." - -- thomas nagel + -- thomas nagel % "life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans." - -- john lennon + -- john lennon % (on the statement print "42 monkeys"+"1 snake") btw, both perl and python get this wrong. perl gives 43 and python gives "42 monkeys1 snake", when the answer is clearly "41 monkeys and 1 fat snake". - -- jim fulton + -- jim fulton % "anyone who is capable of getting themselves made president should on no account be allowed to do the job" - -- douglas adams + -- douglas adams % "if one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % all information contained in the above is false, for reasons of military security. % "i must get out of these wet clothes and into a dry martini." - -- alexander woolcott + -- alexander woolcott % "i love deadlines. i like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - -- douglas adams + -- douglas adams % normaliser unix c'est comme pasteuriser le camembert. % "science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." - -- albert einstein + -- albert einstein % there are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don't. @@ -338,52 +338,52 @@ why do they sterilise the needle for lethal injections? % "sobald man über niveau spricht ist man längst darüber hinweg." - -- thomas krafft + -- thomas krafft % will kill for oil! % "heuristic is computer science jargon for 'doesn't actually work.'" - -- charlie reiman + -- charlie reiman % if voting could really change things, it would be illegal. - -- revolution books, new york + -- revolution books, new york % fighting for peace is like screwing for virginity. - -- the irish times, washington dc + -- the irish times, washington dc % "der glaube an den kausalnexus ist der aberglaube" - -- wittgenstein + -- wittgenstein % "... alle sätze der logik sagen aber dasselbe. nämlich nichts." - -- wittgenstein + -- wittgenstein % "... (ethik und ästhetik sind eins.)" - -- wittgenstein + -- wittgenstein % "wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen." - -- wittgenstein + -- wittgenstein % in the beginning was the word, and the word was content-type: text/plain % "it is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong." - -- voltaire + -- voltaire % "when in doubt, parenthesize. at the very least it will let some poor schmuck bounce on the % key in vi." - -- larry wall + -- larry wall % infinite loop: see 'loop, infinite'. loop, infinite: see 'infinite loop'. % "the only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % seen on an advertising for an elaborate swiss men's watch: "almost as complicated as a woman. except it's on time" % "i doubt larry wall ever uses strict." - -- frederick heckel + -- frederick heckel % eleventh law of acoustics: in a minimum-phase system there is an inextricable link between @@ -423,7 +423,7 @@ it is ok to let your mind go blank, but please turn off the sound. % "we are like shop windows in which we are continually arranging, concealing or illuminating the supposed qualities other ascribe to us - -- in order to deceive ourselves." + -- in order to deceive ourselves." - friedrich nietzsche % the english take english for granted. @@ -435,24 +435,24 @@ we find that quicksand can work slowly. "a scientist once wrote that all truth passes through three stages: first it is ridiculed, then violently opposed and eventually, accepted as self-evident." - -- schopenhauer + -- schopenhauer % "president thieu says he'll quit if he doesn't get more than 50% of the vote. in a democracy, that's not called quitting." - -- the washington post + -- the washington post % "not the truth in whose possession any man is, or thinks he is, but the honest effort he has made to find out the truth, is what constitutes the worth of man." - -- gotthold lessing + -- gotthold lessing % "if confronted with a choice between all the truth in god's right hand and the ever live struggle for truth, coupled with eternal error, in god's left, i would choose the left." - -- gotthold lessing + -- gotthold lessing % "lessing was a heretics' heretic" - -- walter kaufmann + -- walter kaufmann % before he died, rabbi zusya said: "in the world to come they will not ask me, 'why were you not moses?' they will ask me, 'why were you not @@ -460,104 +460,104 @@ zusya?'" % "alles sollte so einfach, wie möglich gemacht sein, aber nicht einfacher." - -- albert einstein + -- albert einstein % "ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?" - -- robert browning + -- robert browning % "if you can dream it, you can do it" - -- walt disney + -- walt disney % "the unexamined life is not worth living" - -- platon + -- platon % officer, arrest that man! he's whistling a copyrighted song. % "the truth is rarely pure and never simple. modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility!" - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "all women become like their mothers. that is their tragedy. no man does. that's his." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "if i am occasionally a little overdressed, i make up for it by being always immensely over-educated." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "i never travel without my diary. one should always have something sensational to read on the train." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "i never go without my dinner. no one ever does, except vegetarians and people like that." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "in all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. in all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "hesitation of any kind is a sign of mental decay in the young, of physical weakness in the old." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "i am not in favour of long engagements. they give people the opportunity of finding out each other's character before marriage, which i think is never advisable." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "i dislike arguments of any kind. they are always vulgar, and often convincing." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "i can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. there is something unfair about its use. it is hitting below the intellect." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "i like wagner's music better than anybody's. it is so loud that one can talk the whole time without other people hearing what one says." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "most people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. to have ruined one's self over poetry is an honour." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "a cigarette is the perfect type of pleasure. it is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "never trust a woman who wears mauve, whatever her age may be, or a woman over thirty-five who is fond of pink ribbons. it always means they have a history." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "moderation is a fatal thing. enough is as bad as a meal. more than enough is as good as a feast." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "i hate vulgar realism in literature. the man who could call a spade a spade should be compelled to use one. it is the only thing he is fit for." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "one should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "if a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "to get back my youth i would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % stupidity management for the superuser is a user space issue in unix systems. - -- alan cox + -- alan cox % a: no. q: should i include quotations after my reply? @@ -682,17 +682,17 @@ weapon, n.: % "all unser übel kommt daher, daß wir nicht allein sein können." - -- schopenhauer + -- schopenhauer % "we are trapped in the belly of this horrible machine, and the machine is bleeding to death." - -- godspeed you black emperor! + -- godspeed you black emperor! % love your enemies; they'll go crazy trying to figure out what you're up to. % "violence is the last refuge of the incompetent" - -- isaac asimov + -- isaac asimov % the security, stability and reliability of a computer system is reciprocally proportional to @@ -701,28 +701,28 @@ the amount of vacuity between the ears of the admin. "a man who does not realise that he is half an animal is only half a man." - -- thornton wilder + -- thornton wilder % who's general failure, and why's he reading my disk? % "be the change you want to see in the world" - -- mahatma gandhi + -- mahatma gandhi % "i have smoked pot. it is a stupid business, like masturbation." - -- thomas pynchon + -- thomas pynchon % "every day is long. 86400 doesn't fit in a short." % "computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - -- edsgar w. dijkstra + -- edsgar w. dijkstra % "we all know linux is great... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds." - -- linus torvalds + -- linus torvalds % a qui sait comprendre, peu de mots suffisent. - -- intelligenti pauca + -- intelligenti pauca % the reason the mainstream is thought of as a stream is because it is so shallow. @@ -747,20 +747,20 @@ perl -e 'print "The earth is a disk!\n" if ( "earth" == "flat" );' % whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - -- mahatma gandhi + -- mahatma gandhi % i welcome your constructive criticism and corrections. % "if they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers." - -- thomas pynchon + -- thomas pynchon % "out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made." - -- imanuel kant + -- imanuel kant % "it is impossible to foresee the consequences of being clever." - -- cristopher strachey + -- cristopher strachey % for years, we have thought that a million monkeys typing at a million typewriters would eventually produce the complete works of shakespeare. @@ -775,192 +775,192 @@ you can dare to be yourself % beware of bugs in the above code; i have only proved it correct, not tried it. - -- donald e. knuth + -- donald e. knuth % i must confess, I was born at a very early age. - -- groucho marx + -- groucho marx % military intelligence is a contradiction in terms. - -- groucho marx + -- groucho marx % time wounds all heels. - -- groucho marx + -- groucho marx % it is better to have loft and lost than to never have loft at all. - -- groucho marx + -- groucho marx % a woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke. - -- groucho marx + -- groucho marx % one morning i shot an elephant in my pyjamas. how he got into my pyjamas i'll never know. - -- groucho marx + -- groucho marx % what do you mean, it's not packaged in debian? % "self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of christianity." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "no woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. it looks so calculating." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "the well-bred contradict other people. the wise contradict themselves." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "a man's very highest moment is, i have no doubt at all, when he kneels in the dust, and beats his breast, and tells all the sins of his life." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "alas, i am dying beyond my means." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "crying is the refuge of plain women but the ruin of pretty ones." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "she is absolutely inadmissible into society. many a woman has a past, but I am told that she has at least a dozen, and that they all fit." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "the public is wonderfully tolerant. it forgives everything except genius." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "frank harris has been received in all the great houses -- once!" - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "i sometimes think that god in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "the husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "imagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love's tragedies." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "the intellect is not a serious thing, and never has been. it is an instrument on which one plays, that is all." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "a kiss may ruin a human life." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. it is like a bric-à-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "the liar at any rate recognises that recreation, not instruction, is the aim of conversation, and is a far more civilised being than the blockhead who loudly expresses his disbelief in a story which is told simply for the amusement of the company." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "literature always anticipates life. it does not copy it, but moulds it to its purpose. the nineteenth century, as we know it, is largely an invention of balzac." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "when a woman marries again it is because she detested her first husband. when a man marries again it is because he adored his first wife. women try their luck; men risk theirs." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "my experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "women love us for our defects. if we have enough of them, they will forgive us everything, even our gigantic intellects." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "it is only the modern that ever becomes old-fashioned." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "of course the music is a great difficulty. you see, if one plays good music, people don't listen, and if one plays bad music people don't talk." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "no work of art ever puts forward views. views belong to people who are not artists." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "the condition of perfection is idleness. the aim of perfection is youth." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "the sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure, nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "men always want to be a woman's first love. women have a more subtle instinct: what they like is to be a man's last romance." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "nothing can cure the soul but the senses, just as nothing can cure the senses but the soul." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "never speak disrespectfully of society. only people who can't get into it do that." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "to have the reputation of possessing the most perfect social tact, talk to every woman as if you loved her, and to every man as if he bored you." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "one should never trust a woman who tells her real age. if she tells that, she will tell anything." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "vulgarity is simply the conduct of other people." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attraction of others." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "the strength of women comes from the fact that psychology cannot explain us. men can be analyzed, women merely adored." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "i've got a bike, you can ride it if you like, it's got a basket. a bell that rings, and things to make it look good. i'd give it to you if i could, but i borrowed it." - -- syd barrett, 1967 + -- syd barrett, 1967 % this space intentionally left blank. % @@ -969,7 +969,7 @@ this space intentionally left occupied. *** 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 @@ -980,17 +980,17 @@ end up in my inbox without much interaction, you are agreeing that: % "an intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting than sex." - -- edgar wallace + -- edgar wallace % "oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive. but my how we improve the score, as we practice more and more." - -- sir walter scott + -- sir walter scott % "you grabbed my hand and we fell into it, like a daydream - or a fever." - -- godspeed you black emperor! + -- godspeed you black emperor! % there is no place like ~ % @@ -1004,20 +1004,20 @@ sed -e '/^[when][coders]/!d' \ "welcome to american airlines, sir. here's your avocado - remember to keep it turned on and with you at all times. please turn your luggage over to the armadillos for rootling." - -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/armadillos.txt + -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/armadillos.txt % "security here. yes, ma'am. yes. groucho glasses. yes, we're on it. c'mon, guys. somebody gave an aardvark a nose-cut: somebody who can't deal with deconstructionist humor. code blue." - -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/armadillos.txt + -- http://azure.humbug.org.au/~aj/armadillos.txt % man muss noch chaos in sich haben um einen tanzenden stern zu gebähren. - -- friedrich nietzsche + -- friedrich nietzsche % die wahrheit ist selten auf seiten der wahrscheinlichkeit. - -- heinrich v. kleist + -- heinrich v. kleist % it has been said that there are only two businesses that refer to customers as users: @@ -1025,14 +1025,14 @@ illegal drug trade and the computer industry. % "there are two major products that come out of berkeley: lsd and unix." one caused me an addiction - -- fyodor + -- fyodor % "there are two major products that come out of berkeley: lsd and unix. we don't believe this to be a coincidence." - -- jeremy s. anderson + -- jeremy s. anderson % "sailing is, after all, a kind of grace, a kind of magic." - -- phil berman + -- phil berman % a c programmer asked whether computers have buddha's nature. as the answer, the master did "rm -rf" on the programmer's home @@ -1042,16 +1042,16 @@ someday we'll find it the rainbow connection the lovers, the dreamers, and me! - -- kermit + -- kermit % i wish this wish not to be granted! - -- achilles (hofstadter's geb) + -- achilles (hofstadter's geb) % kermit: why are there so many songs about rainbows? fozzy: that's part of what rainbows do. % "nullum magnum ingenium sine mixtura dementiae fuit." - -- seneca + -- seneca % it may look like i'm just sitting here doing nothing. but i'm really actively waiting @@ -1073,7 +1073,7 @@ the micro$oft hoover: finally, a product that's supposed to suck! (a)bort, (r)etry, (p)retend this never happened % "there's someone in my head but it's not me." - -- pink floyd, the dark side of the moon, 1972 + -- pink floyd, the dark side of the moon, 1972 % the reason that every major university maintains a department of mathematics @@ -1081,10 +1081,10 @@ is that it's cheaper than institutionalizing all those people. % "in just seven days, i can make you a man!" - -- the rocky horror picture show + -- the rocky horror picture show % tempt not a desperate man. - -- william shakespeare + -- william shakespeare % in africa some of the native tribes have a custom of beating the ground with clubs and uttering spine chilling cries. anthropologists @@ -1092,19 +1092,19 @@ call this a form of primitive self-expression. in america they call it golf. % obviously i was either onto something, or on something. - -- larry wall on the creation of perl + -- larry wall on the creation of perl % if god had meant for us to be naked, we would have been born that way. % fashions have done more harm than revolutions. - -- victor hugo + -- victor hugo % kill ugly radio - -- frank zappa + -- frank zappa % "time flies like an arrow. fruit flies like a banana." - -- groucho marx + -- groucho marx % it's as bad as you think, and they are out to get you. % @@ -1117,31 +1117,31 @@ consciousness: that annoying time between naps. have you drugged your kids today? % "a compliment is like a kiss through a veil." - -- victor hugo + -- victor hugo % "si tu veux construire un bateau, il ne faut pas réunir des hommes pour aller chercher le bois et les outils et les préparer à se répartir les différents travaux. Il faut plutôt leur donner l'envie, la passion de la mer infinie." - -- antoine de saint-exupéry + -- antoine de saint-exupéry % "and the sea isn't green and i love the queen and what exactly is a dream? and what exactly is a joke?" - -- syd barrett + -- syd barrett % "driving with a destination is like having sex to have children" - -- backwater wayne miller + -- backwater wayne miller % "memory is like an orgasm. it's a lot better if you don't have to fake it." - -- seymour cray commenting on virtual memory - + -- seymour cray commenting on virtual memory + "but virtual memory still gets the job done." - -- gr + -- gr % hi! i'm a .signature virus! copy me into your ~/.signature to help me spread! @@ -1153,50 +1153,50 @@ Escape Meta Alt Control Shift "it is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - -- aristoteles + -- aristoteles % "it would be truly surprising if sound were not capable of suggesting colour, if colours could not give the idea of the melody, if sound and colour were not adequate to express ideas." - -- claude debussy + -- claude debussy % "you raise the blade, you make the change you rearrange me till i'm sane. you lock the door, and throw away the key, there's someone in my head but it's not me." - -- pink floyd, 1972 + -- pink floyd, 1972 % "in any hierarchy, each individual rises to his own level of incompetence, and then remains there." - -- murphy (after dr. laurence j. peter) + -- murphy (after dr. laurence j. peter) % "gilmour's guitar sounds good whether you've got a bottle of cider in your hand or a keyboard and a mouse." - -- prof. bruce maxwell + -- prof. bruce maxwell % "and if the cloud bursts, thunder in your ear you shout and no one seems to hear and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes i'll see you on the dark side of the moon." - -- pink floyd, 1972 + -- pink floyd, 1972 % "and no one sings me lullabies, and no one makes me close my eyes, and so i throw the windows wide, and call to you across the sky" - -- pink floyd, 1971 + -- pink floyd, 1971 % "friendships last when each friend thinks he has a slight superiority over the other." - -- honoré de balzac + -- honoré de balzac % "the only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % heisenberg may have been here. % @@ -1207,32 +1207,32 @@ therefore, a cat has nine tails. "when I was a boy I was told that anybody could become president. now i'm beginning to believe it." - -- clarence darrow + -- clarence darrow % "even if you persuade me, you won't persuade me." - -- aristophanes + -- aristophanes % "a mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems." - -- paul erdös + -- paul erdös % "my father, a good man, told me: 'never lose your ignorance; you cannot replace it.'" - -- erich maria remarque + -- erich maria remarque % "syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon." - -- epigrams in programming + -- epigrams in programming % "imagine if every thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. this happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." - -- jeff raskin + -- jeff raskin % "god is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh." - -- voltaire + -- voltaire % "no problem is so formidable that you can't just walk away from it." - -- c. schulz + -- c. schulz % may the bluebird of happiness twiddle your bits. % @@ -1240,34 +1240,34 @@ may the bluebird of happiness twiddle your bits. we elect a six-pack of presidents. each one serves until they screw up, at which point they rotate." - -- dennis miller + -- dennis miller % there's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to. % "i wish there was a knob on the tv to turn up the intelligence. there's a knob called 'brightness', but it doesn't seem to work." - -- gallagher + -- gallagher % "in the stage of grand illusion you walked into my life out of my dreams." - -- david bowie + -- david bowie % "it usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. - -- mark twain + -- mark twain % "if beethoven's seventh symphony is not by some means abridged, it will soon fall into disuse." - -- philip hale, boston music critic, 1837 + -- philip hale, boston music critic, 1837 % don't hate yourself in the morning -- sleep till noon. % never underestimate the power of human stupidity. % "mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images." - -- jean cocteau + -- jean cocteau % all of you that believe in telekinetics, raise my hand! % @@ -1275,35 +1275,35 @@ all of you that believe in telekinetics, raise my hand! of active paranoiac thought, it will be possible to systematise confusion and contribute to the total discrediting of the world of reality." - -- salvador dali + -- salvador dali % i'd rather be riding a high speed tractor with a beer on my lap, and a six pack of girls next to me. % "women who want to be equal to men lack ambition." - -- timothy leary + -- timothy leary % "no, 'eureka' is greek for 'this bath is too hot.'" - -- dr. who + -- dr. who % "the human brain is like an enormous fish -- it is flat and slimy and has gills through which it can see." - -- monty python + -- monty python % the only real advantage to punk music is that nobody can whistle it. % "this week dragged past me so slowly; the days fell on their knees..." - -- david bowie + -- david bowie % "when faced with a new problem, the wise algorithmist will first attempt to classify it as np-complete. this will avoid many tears and tantrums as algorithm after algorithm fails." - -- g. niruta + -- g. niruta % i'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous. % @@ -1346,11 +1346,11 @@ our existence of its rich ambiguity. % "... doch warum sollte nicht jeder einzelne aus seinem leben ein kunstwerk machen koennen?" - -- michel foucault + -- michel foucault % "there are more things in heaven and earth, horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - -- hamlet + -- hamlet % because light travels faster than sound, some people appear to be intelligent, @@ -1362,19 +1362,19 @@ until you hear them speak. "for art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication." - -- friedrich nietzsche + -- friedrich nietzsche % "with sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. however, this is not necessarily a good idea. it is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead." - -- rfc 1925 + -- rfc 1925 % echo Prpv a\'rfg cnf har cvcr | tr Pacfghnrvp Cnpstuaeic % "common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen" - -- albert einstein + -- albert einstein % the unix philosophy basically involves giving you enough rope to hang yourself. @@ -1388,14 +1388,14 @@ the uncertainty principle: death by slow starvation. the old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat." - -- leon trotsky, 1937 + -- leon trotsky, 1937 % if god is perfect, why did he create discontinuous functions? % "a woman is like your shadow; follow her, she flies; fly from her, she follows." - -- sébastien-roch-nicolas chamfort + -- sébastien-roch-nicolas chamfort % philosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems. % @@ -1403,26 +1403,26 @@ quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur. % "prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion." - -- william blake + -- william blake % people with narrow minds usually have broad tongues. % "good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example. - -- la rouchefoucauld + -- la rouchefoucauld % "love is a grave mental disease." - -- platon + -- platon % "marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly." - -- voltaire + -- voltaire % "this sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't." - -- douglas hofstadter + -- douglas hofstadter % "once ... in the wilds of afghanistan, i lost my corkscrew, and we were forced to live on nothing but food and water for days." - -- w. c. fields, "my little chickadee" + -- w. c. fields, "my little chickadee" % the only difference between a car salesman and a computer salesman is that the car salesman knows he's lying. @@ -1432,86 +1432,86 @@ gentoo: the performance placebo. apt-get source --compile gentoo % military justice is to justice what military music is to music. - -- groucho marx + -- groucho marx % it is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt. % "i like young girls. their stories are shorter." - -- tom mcguane + -- tom mcguane % "let me take you down, 'cause i'm going to strawberry fields. nothing is real and nothing to get hungabout. strawberry fields forever." - -- the beatles + -- the beatles % "picture yourself in a boat on a river with tangerine trees and marmelade skies..." - -- the beatles + -- the beatles % "everyone smiles as you drift past the flower that grows so incredibly high." - -- the beatles + -- the beatles % "it always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account hofstadter's law." - -- douglas hofstadter + -- douglas hofstadter % an egg has the shortest sex-life of all: if gets laid once; it gets eaten once. it also has to come in a box with 11 others, and the only person who will sit on its face is its mother. % be careful of reading health books -- you might die of a misprint. - -- mark twain + -- mark twain % half a bee, philosophically, must ipso facto half not be. but half the bee has got to be, vis-a-vis its entity. you see? but can a bee be said to be or not to be an entire bee, when half the bee is not a bee, due to some ancient injury? - -- monty python + -- monty python % "if you stew apples like cranberries, they taste more like prunes than rhubarb does." - -- groucho marx + -- groucho marx % "in diving to the bottom of pleasure we bring up more gravel than pearls." - -- honoré de balzac + -- honoré de balzac % "it is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time." - -- honoré de balzac + -- honoré de balzac % "when women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us credit for nothing, not even our virtues." - -- honoré de balzac + -- honoré de balzac % "i think, therefore i'm single" - -- lizz winstead + -- lizz winstead % "a woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat." - -- oscar wilde + -- oscar wilde % "the greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." - -- verbal kint (the usual suspects) + -- verbal kint (the usual suspects) % "the problem with america is stupidity. i'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?" - -- seen on irc + -- seen on irc % "work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do. play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do." - -- mark twain + -- mark twain % "those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." - -- groucho marx + -- groucho marx % murphy's law is recursive. washing your car to make it rain doesn't work. @@ -1528,11 +1528,11 @@ washing your car to make it rain doesn't work. "i don't think so," said rene descartes. just then, he vanished. % god is dead. - -- nietzsche + -- nietzsche nietzsche is dead. - -- god + -- god nietzsche is god. - -- dead + -- dead % "they redundantly repeated themselves over and over, incessantly without end and ad infinitum" @@ -1745,7 +1745,7 @@ windows v.i.s.t.a.: viruses, infections, spyware, trojans and adware "es ist gut, eine sache doppelt auszudrücken und ihr einen rechten und linken fuß zu geben. auf einem bein kann die wahrheit zwar stehen; mit zweien aber wird sie gehen und herumkommen." - -- friedrich nietzsche + -- friedrich nietzsche % a common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof @@ -1820,14 +1820,14 @@ some companies call their prototypes "releases", that's all. 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 @@ -1869,7 +1869,7 @@ a farmer is a man outstanding in his field. and agree to my disclaimer of all warranties, express or implied, as well as disclaimers of all liability, direct, indirect, consequential or incidental, that may arise from the installation - of this brick into your building." -- seen on irc + of this brick into your building." -- seen on irc % "academia is really just a way to help those with high volumes of nothing to say to social status." @@ -1949,3 +1949,66 @@ uʍop ǝpısdn sı ɹoʇıuoɯ ɹnoʎ % 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 mcdowell, #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 um 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? +% +sent from my private jet. +% +for four-fifths of our history, +our planet was populated by pond scum. + -- j.w. schopf +% +i find television very educating. +every time somebody turns on the set, +I go into the other room and read a book. + -- groucho marx +% +anybody can sympathise with the sufferings of a friend, but it +requires a very fine nature to sympathise with a friend's success. + -- oscar wilde +% +to you i'm an atheist; to god, i'm the loyal opposition. + -- woody allen +% +suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of congress. +But I repeat myself. + -- mark twain +% +too many have dispensed with generosity in order to practice charity. + -- albert camus +% +Q: what's the difference between America and a yoghurt? +A: leave one standing for hundreds of years and it develops a culture.