X-Git-Url: https://git.madduck.net/etc/quotes.git/blobdiff_plain/fd2c508997986be53b26f4d2e912148103bc6fe0..eb20b3f595c364d323c09b8b92c691609055ec0c:/.quotes/quotes?ds=sidebyside diff --git a/.quotes/quotes b/.quotes/quotes index 67a2b35..d4f852e 100644 --- a/.quotes/quotes +++ b/.quotes/quotes @@ -280,14 +280,14 @@ darwinism is nothing without enough dead bodies. "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 @@ -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 @@ -1139,7 +1139,7 @@ have you drugged your kids today? 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 % @@ -1951,4 +1951,38 @@ 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 + -- 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.