Quotes, Sundry and Obscure


 
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The camera will never be a threat to the brush and the palette until such time as photographs are allowed to be taken in heaven or hell.
     Edvard Munch
 
  
  It's not an org chart, it's a pegboard -- with lots of square holes.
     Zippy the Wonderslug
 
  
  This is why people rule the world and birds hafta be content to just poop on people sometimes.
     Fruitylips
 
  
  No memory wall?  Ah, excuse me, but the impact may depend on the angle of your trajectory.
     Achim Gratz, Message-ID <caevbvblm.fsf@ite127.inf.tu-dresden.de>
 
  
  There are two kinds of fools -- those who never climb Mt. Fuji, and those who climb it twice.
     Old Japanese proverb
 
  
  Language and OS research lives on in MUDs, of all places.  Here are OO languages with built-in object permanence, sometimes distributed across multiple hosts, with in-process task schedulers and other OS like features, in use on a daily basis, not mouldering in the back issues of some journal.  For some of the programmers using these systems, the MUD code is the only language they know.  Casual throw-away language attempts by hacker students have become far more sophisticated since I left school.
     'Rich', message-id <8ev757$k86@darkstar.ucsc.edu>
 
  
  Just give up.  Use windows.  Use explorer.  Buy an SUV for your daily commute.  Shop at Fry's.  Use PacBell DSL.  Listen to top 40.  It'll all just be so much easier.  YOU WILL BE ASSIMILATED!
     Hoche
 
  
  I learned that love is no excuse for bacteria.
     Frail
 
  
  <fleagirl> i suppose it's not nice to pick on someone for being dumb.
<quark> i got picked on for being smart.  fair game. :)
     ICB conversation, 2001-05-30
 
  
  wow. are you bi-everything, or just bisexual and bipolar?
     Jeff Bean
 
  
  Some day a computer intelligence will arrise that is capable of being aware of the entirety of human thought and expression stored on the web.. and it will be completely useless because no one will be able to get it to stop laughing.
     John L Williams
 
  
  Work!  And be well!
     cobalt ciar
 
  
  For a succesful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled.
     Richard P. Feynman
 
  
  When I was in college, there was an active Objectivist club and an active socialist club.  The Objectivist club gave away their materials; the socialist club sold theirs.
     Kyle Haight
 
  
  You just aren't anybody until you've been attacked by the Scientologists!
     cobalt ciar
 
  
  If they hold me without charge, I'll be neutralized! Aieee!
     Ergazork
 
  
  Randomising letters in the middle of words [has] little or no effect on the ability of skilled readers to understand the text.  This is easy to denmtrasote.  In a pubiltacion of New Scnieitst you could ramdinose all the letetrs, keipeng the first two and last two the same, and reibadailty would hadrly be aftcfeed.  My ansaylis did not come to much beucase the thoery at the time was for shape and senqeuce retigcionon.  Saberi's work sugsegts we may have some pofrweul palrlael prsooscers at work.  The resaon for this is suerly that idnetiyfing coentnt by paarllel prseocsing speeds up regnicoiton.  We only need the first and last two letetrs to spot chganes in meniang.
     Excerpt from a recent article on cognition
     [Note: seems easier to read the *faster* I try to read it. -- TTK]
 
  
  A face that betrays its inner power is beautiful.
     Anonymous
 
  
  No yam node lasts forever.  No yam node remains gone forever.  It is a forest that grows, replenishes, burns, and regrows anew, and has stinky fungus growing on a lot of it, and animals that shit everywhere, and people who leave trash, and now that I think about it maybe it should be clearcut, drilled for oil, and then paved over.
     The Elder Dan
 
  
  It isn't the size of the bladder that matters; it's the size of the cup.
     cobalt ciar
 
  
  Experience proves the inefficacy of a bill of rights on those occasions when its control is most needed.  Repeated violations of these parchment barriers have been committed by overbearing majorities in every State [..] Wherever the real power in a Government lies, there is the danger of oppression.  In our Governments the real power lies in the majority of the Community, and the invasion of private rights is chiefly to be apprehended, not from acts of Government contrary to the sense of its constituents, but from acts in which the Government is the mere instrument of the major number of the Constituents.
     James Madison, Framer of the Constitution of the United States, in a letter to Thomas Jefferson regarding the proposal of a Bill of Rights.
 
  
  I started with thirty-nine tanks. After thirty-eight days of aerial attacks, I had thirty-two [tanks], but in less then twenty minutes against M1A1 [Abrams], I had zero.
     Captured Iraqi battalion commander, 1991
 
  
  Celestial navigation is based on the premise that the Earth is the center of the universe. The premise is wrong, but the navigation works. An incorrect model can be a useful tool.
     Kelvin Throop III
 
  
  "They had music, art and fashion
 They had dinosauric passion
 And I'm sure they'd be enraged and mortified
    That when they're mentioned today
    It is only to say
 Their brains were small and they died."
     Mark Graham
     http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7212 
  
  REJECTED BY 8 DISEASED AMERICAN PIGFUCKERS.
     luuZ, the unhappy moderation bot.
 
  
  Excrement happens -- in spurts!
     Kyna
 
  
  It takes a lot of degeneration before a country falls into dictatorship, but we should avoid these ends by avoiding these beginnings.
     Sandra Day O'Connor
 
  
  He'd pick up an eskimo woman giving birth in a outhouse, and feel ok with that.
     Tangra, 2007-04-30
 
  
  <pef> You can have my bullets when you pry 'em out of your gaping wounds.
     icb conversation, 2007-05-30
 
  
  fie on you, ttk...*1* freakin' quote? you suck
     Deke (aka FruityLips)
 
  
  The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
     Alexis de Tocqueville
 
  
  <manoj> facebook is trying to be the new hip company to be at
<gps> so is *
<gps> where * matches everything except archive.org

     icb conversation, 2007-07-10
 
  
  The only justification for our concepts and systems of concepts is that they serve to represent the complex of our experiences; beyond this they have not legitimacy.
     Albert Einstein
 
  
  <fuz> holy fucking shit.
<fuz> I have just encountered my first PL/SQL funcitons that generate HTML.
<fuz> it's like finding a unicorn! only sitting in a pool of its own urine hunched over a crackpipe.
     icb conversation, 2007-08-13
 
  
  "In a republic, who is 'The Country'?  Is it the government which is for the moment in the saddle?  Why, the government is merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who is not.  Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.  Who, then, is 'The Country'?  Is it the newspaper?  Is it the pulpit?  Why, these are mere parts of the country, not the whole of it; they have not command.  They have only their little share in the command. 
 
In a monarchy, the king and his family are a country; in a republic, it is the common voice of the people.  Each of you, for himself, by himself and on his own responsibility, must speak.  It is a solemn and weighty responsibility, and not lightly to be flung aside at the bullying of pulpit, press, government, or the empty catchphrases of politicians.  Each must for himself alone decide what is right and what is wrong, and which course is patriotic and which is not. 
 
You cannot shirk this and be a man.  To decide it against your convictions is to be an unqualified and inexcusable traitor, both to yourself and to your country.  Let men label you as they may.  If you alone of all the nation shall decide one way, and that way be the right way according to your convictions, you have done your duty by yourself and by your country.  Hold up your head.  You have nothing to be ashamed of."
     Oscar Wilde
 
  
  <qq> if phpmyadmin were a children's toy, which is essentially is, it would be from china and covered in deadly lead paint
     icb conversation, 2007-11-27
 
  
  <colin> India should have known that Arjun was going to have problems; after all, they named it after a reluctant chariot archer who needed Shiva to convince him to fight. :)
     icb conversation, 2007-12-22
 
  
  <qq> Vista is probably slow because it has to check the DRM status of every bit transferred to or from the disk against an XML table provided by the RIAA
     icb conversation, 2008-06-11
 
  
  "Congress should continue paying for [public media] because if they don't, the taxpayers will end up paying for it."
     Richard Guess of Charleston, http://taxingtennessee.blogspot.com/2008/06/congress-should-pay-otherwise-taxpayers.html
 
  
  <ren> I wanna hear obama say "fuck". because it probably sounds inspirational coming out of his mouth
     icb conversation, 2008-11-05
 
  
 
 
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