Do unto others as they wish, but with imagination. ― Marcel Duchamp I'm an idealist. I don't know where I'm going but I'm on my way. - carl sandburg "fun is good" - dr seuss "tell me what it is you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?" - mary oliver "we write to taste life twice, in the moment, and in retrospection." - anais nin "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works. - Oscar Wilde "We're all ignorant, just about different things." - Will Rogers "There is no duty we so much underrate as the duty of being happy. By being happy we sow anonymous benefits upon the world." "If your morals make you dreary, depend on it, they are wrong." "A friend is a gift you give yourself." "It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive." "An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding." - robert louis stevenson i don't know anything about death / except i feel certain that i'll get to try again. Game Over. Continue? I know that's not what happens / in real life. but I know all sorts of things that I don't believe. - asofterworld. "I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it's a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope and that enables you to laugh at life's realities." -Dr. Seuss "I love talking about nothing. It is the only thing I know anything about." - Oscar Wilde Life is one fool thing after another whereas love is two fool things after each other. - Oscar Wilde We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry. --E. B. White It is by riding a bicycle that you learn the contours of a country best, since you have to sweat up the hills and coast down them. Thus you remember them as they actually are, while in a motor car only a high hill impresses you, and you have no such accurate remembrance of country you have driven through as you gain by riding a bicycle. --Ernest Hemingway "I hire people for what they can do, and not for what they can't do." --John Mills, Jr. "One loves people for what they are, not what they aren't." -- corollary by Anderson Mills. "It doesn't get easier you just get faster". - greg lemond The important thing is this: to be able, at any moment, to sacrifice what we are for what we could become. - Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Worry never robs tomorrow of its sorrow, it only saps today of its joy. - Leo Buscaglia The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to talk, mad to be saved, delirious of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars and in the middle you see the blue centerlight pop and everybody goes "Awwww!?" -kerouac, on the road This is not necessarily guaranteed to contribute to the readability of your program. -forrest J cavalier III after expounding on creative ways to use x ? a : b Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of man. -Bertrand Russell To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness. -Bertrand Russell One should respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation and to keep out of prison, but anything that goes beyond this is voluntary submission to an unnecessary tyranny. -Bertrand Russell To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead. -Bertrand Russell Americans need rest, but do not know it. I believe this to be a large part of the explanation of the crime wave in the United States. -Bertrand Russell In action, in desire, we must submit perpetually to the tyranny of outside forces; but in thought, in aspiration, we are free, free from our fellow-men, free from the petty planet on which our bodies impotently crawl, free even, while we live, from the tyranny of death. Let us learn, then, that energy of faith which enables us to live constantly in the vision of the good; and let us descend, in action, into the world of fact, with that vision always before us. -Bertrand Russell For what I have said, whether early or late, I do not claim the kind of truth which theologians claim for their creeds [...] Clarity, above all, has been my aim. -Bertrand Russell The only thing that will redeem mankind is co-operation. -Bertrand Russell What is new in our time is the increased power of the authorities to enforce their prejudices. -Bertrand Russell There is no reason to suppose that only one coherent body of beliefs is possible. -Bertrand Russell No doubt alcohol, tobacco, and so forth, are things that a saint must avoid, but sainthood is also a thing that human beings must avoid. -George Orwell The best is the enemy of the good. - Voltaire being hungover is like winning the lottery, except they pay you in regret! - t-rex from dinosaur comics The purpose of art is to make you love life more than you do now -vonnegut If my brain were my stomach, I'd have really bad gas. -erin parr The world has changed more in the last thirty years than it has since Jesus Christ. -charles peguy "The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests. " -albert jay nock Sociology is a martial art, a means of self-defense. Basically, you use it to defend yourself, without having the right to use it for unfair attacks. -pierre bourdieu, socioligist I don't play hard to get... I play hard to want! -rodney dangerfield I was so poor growing up, if I wasn't born a boy I'd have nothing to play with. -rodney dangerfield A revolution without dancing, is a revolution not worth having! - V for vendetta People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. - V for vendetta "You don't cry over people you don't love." - Unknown To love a person is to learn the song That is in their heart, And to sing it to them When they have forgotten. -Anon "Things that matter most must never be at the mercy of things that matter least." --Van Goethe We are now faced with the fact, friends, that tomorrow is today. We are confronted with the fierce urgency of now. -MLK, jr I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society. When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered. -MLK, jr A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual death. -MLK, jr "Is," "is." "is" -- the idiocy of the word haunts me. If it were abolished, human thought might begin to make sense. I don't know what anything "is"; I only know how it seems to me at this moment. -RAW's _The Historical Illuminatus_ as spoken by Sigismundo Celine Of course I'm crazy, but that doesn't mean I'm wrong. I'm mad but not ill. -RAWilson The border between the Real and the Unreal is not fixed, but just marks the last place where rival gangs of shamans fought each other to a standstill. -RAWilson You are precisely as big as what you love and precisely as small as what you allow to annoy you. -RAWilson How I wish that somewhere there existed an island for those who are wise and of goodwill! In such a place even I would be an ardent patriot. -Albert Einstein I am not only a pacifist but a militant pacifist. I am willing to fight for peace. Nothing will end war unless the people themselves refuse to go to war. - Einstein I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. - Albert Einstein It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. - Albert Einstein Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events. -Albert Einstein You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. -Albert Einstein bits are non-perishable - me My Road is paved with d20s and TRON DVDs and Atari 2600 games. It's lit by the glow of TNG and BSG episodes and the soundtrack is by Vangelis. It's patrolled by Rover and they sell Soylent Green in the rest stop vending machines. The speed limit is 42, but if you flash your Bavarian Illuminati card, you can use the FTL drive to make it to Milliways in time for dinner. -- Wil Wheaton It is one of the most beautiful compensations in life that no man can sincerely try to help another without helping himself. - ralph waldo emerson Now, I am living out my life in my corner, taunting myself with the spiteful and useless consolation that an intelligent man cannot become anything seriously, and it is only the fool who becomes anything. -Dostoyevsky's "Notes From Underground" nothing happens unless first we dream - carl sandburg "I'm not biking to save the world, but because I don't want to contribute to its destruction," - Michael Bluejay i would say that your plan is mostly made of flaws - girl of cat and girl comics even chicks are subject to ENTROPY, man. - t-rex of dinosaur comics email is like a letter-fetishist's crack - Audrey Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened. - Dr. Suess memory is like fiction, or else it's fiction that's like memory. -- murakami Valclav Havel says: "Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense regardless of how it turns out." "I must learn to love the fool in me -- the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool." -- Theodore Rubin "Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show." -Charles Dickens' David Copperfield Be different to be better, not to be different." John Lennon information wants to be free. information also wants to be very expensive -stewart brand I never met a symlink I didn't like -John Chambers. "Okay,..I'll have to talk with myselves. Maybe we can agree something, " -charles stross' accelerando Dance like it hurts. Love like you need money. Work when people are watching. - Dogbert "The administration says the American people want tax cuts. Well, duh. The American people also want drive-through nickel beer night. The American people want to lose weight by eating ice cream. The American people love the Home Shopping Network because it's commercial-free." --Will Durst We act as though comfort and luxury were the chief requirements of life, when all that we need to make us really happy is something to be enthusiastic about. -- Charles Kingsley fail quickly - dan@triand's design philosophy ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Improvement makes strait roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius. You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough. Listen to the fool's reproach! it is a kingly title! Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. Joys impregnate. Sorrows bring forth. A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees if the fool would persist in his folly, he would become wise. --all from william blake, the marriage of heaven and hell ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?" -- orson scott card, Ender's Shadow I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending." -- orson scott card, Ender's Shadow "Please don't disillusion me. I haven't had breakfast yet." -- orson scott card, Children of the Mind Everybody dies. What matters is what you do between now and when it happens to you. --orson scott card, Treasure Box Corporations have neither bodies to kick, nor souls to damn. -- James Madison If you can't vi it, it sucks. -David Ljung Madison "...it's not like I care; I'm not the one with my dick in me." -tucker max Premature optimization is the root of all evil (or at least most of it) in programming." - Donald Knuth Lisp has jokingly been called "the most intelligent way to misuse a computer". I think that description is a great compliment because it transmits the full flavor of liberation: it has assisted a number of our most gifted fellow humans in thinking previously impossible thoughts. - Edsger Dijkstra, CACM, 15:10 Motherfucker, my *balls* have twenty sides. - Tycho @ PA Also, critics are giving *my penis* "Four Stars." - PA The heart has reasons that reason does not understand. ~ Jacques Benigne Bossuel As the most advanced, the strongest, the richest nation in the world, we owe the world leadership. We can't solve the problems by ourselves, but we can show the way, we can rally our allies, even alert our enemies. But we are also the freest nation in the world, so we have no dictator to pull us along. we have an elected president, an elected legislature, elected officials at every governmental level. we must depend on them to understand the state of the world and the nature of the measures that must be taken. --asimov the whole premise of democracy is that it is safe to leave important questions to the court of public opinion--but is it safe to leave them to the court of public ignorance? -- isaac asimov There are still marvelous possibilities inherent in the 2D plane which we have not discovered yet, and maybe we won't ever, because that third dimension draws a man, like a nipple -- tycho @PA "To err is human, to forgive, beyond the scope of the Operating System" -- /usr/bin/fortune I haven't a clue as to how my story will end. But that's all right. When you set out on a journey and night covers the road, you don't conclude that the road has vanished. How else could we discover the stars? --Anonymous I like my terminals like my women: VT100 compatible with Tektronix extensions -- NeedToKnow Every one of these is a (game) that I actively follow and am interested in purchasing, or at least I would, in a universe where polysyllabic words are a form of currency. --tycho@penny-arcade Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines. -- R. Buckminster Fuller "It runs like x, where x is something unsavory" -- Prof. Romas Aleliunas "I think I'd like my uterus better if I could keep bees in it, and shoot them out at people." -- sarah@myvag.net > So, what do *you* do for a living? I sit in a chair, pressing small plastic rectangles with my fingers while peering at many tiny, colored dots. --jimm@io.com 6/9/04 This statement is not grammatically, politically, or factually correct. -- Andrew Tannenbaum, rebutting Ken Brown's "Linux is a leprosy" the air was full of the smell of burning bridges (niven - protector) A successful sysadmin must accept no limits on his laziness. (Peter da Silva) In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. -- Margaret Anderson He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time. --Oscar Wilde You tried your best and you failed miserably. The lesson is 'never try'. --Homer Simpson You'll have to speak up, I'm wearing a towel. --Homer Simpson Will you just leave me alone? it's bad enough you're making me go to your stupid judgment day -- lisa simpson no matter how i moved or where i stood, i seemd plunged dead-set in the middle of the known world -- richard powers in _the_goldbug_variations_ love is patient, love is kind. it does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. it is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. it always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perserveres. - 1 corintians 13:4-7 in this house we obey the laws of thermodynamics! - homer simpson heaven is analog / heaven is digital. i could be incandescent - king missile how to buy and set up a computer: step 1) buy valium -- dave barry I love you, not only for what you are, but for what I am when I am with you. -- Roy Croft -------------below, walt whitman, song of myself------------------ I [...] am not contain'd between my hat and boots I am the mate and companion of people, all just as immortal and fathomless as myself, do not call the tortoise unworthy because she is not something else I am of old and young, of the foolish as much as the wise, Regardless of others, ever regardful of others, Maternal as well as paternal, a child as well as a man, Stuff'd with the stuff that is coarse and stuff'd with the stuff that is fine, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now, Nor any more youth or age than there is now, And will never be any more perfection than there is now, Nor any more heaven or hell than there is now. Trippers and askers surround me, People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation, The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new My dinner, dress, associates, looks, compliments, dues, The real or fancied indifference of some man or woman I love, The sickness of one of my folks or of myself, or ill-doing or loss or lack of money, or depressions or exaltations, Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events; These come to me days and night and go from me again, But they are not the Me myself Apart from the pulling and hauling stands what I am, Stands amused, complacent, compassionating, idle, unitary, Looks down, is erect, or bends an arm on an impalpable certain rest, Looking with side-curved head curious what will come next, Both in and out of the game and watching and wondering at it. Backward I see in my own days where I sweated through fog with linguists and contenders, I have no mockings or arguments, I witness and wait. This hour I tell things in confidence, I might not tell everybody, but I will tell you. I do not trouble my spirit to vindicate itself or be understood, I see that the elementary laws never apologize My foothold is tenon'd and mortis'd in granite, I laugh at what you call dissolution, And I know the amplitude of time. ---------------all of the above, walt whitman, song of myself.-------------- I'm searching for some disbelief that i can still suspend - TMBG The words I'm singing now mean nothing more than meow, to an animal -TMBG No one in the world ever gets what they want and that is beautiful / Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful - TMBG Everything sticks like a broken record / Everything sticks until it goes away / And the truth is we don't know anything. -TMBG Life is a placebo, masquerading as a simile. -TMBG Every jumbled pile of person has a thinking part that wonders what the part that isn't thinking isn't thinking of. -TMBG I find myself haunted by a spooky man named me. -TMBG I'm going to die if you touch me one more time. Well I guess that I'm going to die no matter what. -TMBG I love the world and if I have to sue for custody, I will sue for custody. TMBG If it wasn't for disappointments, I wouldn't have any appointments. -TMBG Filibuster vigilantly. - TMBG Sure as you can't steer a train, you can't change your fate. -TMBG Now it's over I'm dead and I haven't done anything that I want / or I'm still alive and there's nothing I want to do. - TMBG I could never sleep my way to the top, cuz my alarm clock always wakes me right up. - TMBG Well the rain falls down without my help I'm afraid, and my lawn gets wet though I've withheld my consent. - TMBG I am not the only dust my mother raised. - TMBG Flowers die and so will I. - TMBG And I should be allowed to blurt the merest idea if by random whim one occurs to me. - TMBG There's no word in English for my style. - TMBG Have some respect for someone more forgetful than yourself. - TMBG Every seashell has a story to tell if you're listening. - TMBG Television is a medium. Proof: 1) it is not rare. 2) it is not well done. Q.E.D. --bonomi@eecs.nwu.edu Tue Jun 25 01:21:22 CDT 1996 In the shop window, you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barri- cade of Books You Haven't Read, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you. But you know you must never allow yourself to be awed...but then you are attacked by the infantry of Books That If You Had More Than One Life You Would Certainly Also Read But Unfortunately Your Days Are Numbered...you come beneath the towers of the fortress, where other troops are holding out: the Books You've Been Planning to Read For Ages, the Books You've Been Hunting For Years Without Success, the Books Dealing With Something You're Working On At The Moment, the Books You Want To Own So They'll Be Handy Just In Case, the Books You Could Put Aside To Maybe Read This Summer.. --Italo Calvino ---------- Information has become a lot cheaper--to produce, to manipulate, to disseminate. Consequently, virtually anyone can become an information- glutton. We now face the prospect of information obesity. ...straining our attention has become one of our most popular forms of entertainment. the smog thinckens through the insidious blurring of editorial content and commercial messages in "advertorials"... experts are now seeing a whole new manifestation of what they call "culturally induced ADD"...we could be becoming the first society with ADD, [nominated] as the officialy brain syndrome of the information age. one cannot automate spontaneity Books are the opposite of television: they are slow, engaging, inspiring, intellect-arousing, and creativity-spurring. At its most merciful, noise appears as annoying obvious nfjidnqiub and distinct zlpibiurfrh obstacles jdoieiijfqiworjois. More often, though, noise comes cleverly disguised as meaningful information, in the form of wordy, redundant sentences that drag on much too long, that could have said the same type of thing or delivered the same kind of message in fewer words and before you even know what is happening or has happened you've wasted time and effort reading or viewing a bloated stream of information that has distracted your sense of clarity and doesn't ever seem to end. all of the above from _Data_Smog_ by david shenk ---------- "I don't mind going nowhere as long as it's an interesting path." -- Ronald Mabbitt One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say. -- Will Durant Art is either plagiarism or revolution. -- Paul Gauguin It's days like this that I feel deeply unqualified for adulthood. --jwz Hey kids-the past wasn't like a trip to Waikiki: the only sure thing about the past is some ghastly disease, carnage, toil that defies all description, starvation, and boredom of a sort that makes waiting in line at the Department of Motor Vehicles seem like Disneyland on heroin." --douglas copeland http://web.archive.org/web/19970108031014/www.coupland.com/story7.htm Let my machine talk to me / This is my world / And I am the world leader pretend / This is my life And this is my time / I have been given the freedom / To do as I see fit It's high time I've razed the walls / That I've constructed. -REM, WLP Hello my friend, are you visible today? You know I never knew that it could be so strange...strange Hello, I'm sorry, I lost myself I think I thought you were someone else -REM, pop song 89 The stars are the greatest thing you've ever seen And they're there for you For you alone you are the everything -REM, you are the everything These things, they go away, replaced by everyday. -REM, nightswimming "Man is the missing link between apes and human beings. -- Konrad Lorenz, Nobel Laureate "The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." Tacitus "Man cannot pass beyond human subjectivity." - Sartre "No one really becomes a fool until they stop asking questions." - Charles P. Steinmetz "The beginning of health is sleep." - Irish Proverb "An ethical act is one where we refrain from causing harm to others' experience or expectations of happiness." - Dalai Lama, in Ethics for the New Milennium "We are all born mad. Some remain so." - Samuel Beckett "Delay always breeds anger, and to protect a great design is often to ruin it." - Cervantes' Don Quixote "Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand. The whole world is doing things." - George Santayana "It is best to win without fighting." - Sun Tze "In reality, things will be such as people have decided they shall be." - Jean-Paul Sartre "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." - Mahatma Gandhi "A joy that is shared is a joy made double." - Anonymous "The world is a comedy to those that think, a tragedy to those who feel." - Horace Walpole "Pain is inevitable. Suffering is optional." - M. Kathleen Casey "The fool thinks himself to be a wiseman, but the wiseman knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." - The Lion and the Mouse by Aesop Of course, there is always the small flickering of hope that a hot, intelligent, emotionally stable girl will see my site, recognize my value, email me, we'll fall in love, get married, raise a gaggle of children, and live happily ever after. Right. And one day I'll shit marmosets too! -Tucker Max And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning --Isaac Asimov If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster. -- Isaac Asimov Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome. -- Isaac Asimov Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest. --Isaac Asimov To insult someone we call him "bestial." For deliberate cruelty and nature, "human" might be the greater insult. -- Isaac Asimov "In a medium in which a News Piece takes a minute and an "In-Depth" Piece takes two minutes, the Simple will drive out the Complex." -- Frank Mankiewicz Television is chewing gum for the eyes. --frank lloyd wright A vital difference between the professional man and a man of business is that money making to the professional man should, by virtue of his assumption, be incidental; to the business man it is primary. Money has its limitations; while it may buy quantity, there is something beyond it and that is quality. --FLWright An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows! -FLWright Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age. -FLWright Form follows function - that has been misunderstood. Form and function should be one, joined in a spiritual union. -FLWright I have been black and blue in some spot, somewhere, almost all my life from too intimate contacts with my own furniture. -FLWright If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger. -FLW Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you. -FLW The longer I live, the more beautiful life becomes. -FLW The truth is more important than the facts. -FLW There is nothing more uncommon than common sense. -FLW "I am just an advertisement for a version of myself." --David Byrne "this is a random feature." --Underworld McEscher: Good times, great taste, planar tesselations. gotta live on the edge lest you forget that life is a roller coaster and start thinkin' its a kiddie pool the secret of political and priestly power: never realize what kind (or kinds) of idiot you are. the secret of wisdom? discover every kind of idiot you are, *overlooking none*. the one you overlook is the one that will create your major disasters. -RAWilson forms emerge from Chaos, linger awhile, fade away, and are replaced by new forms. this is absolutely all i know. everything else is speculation--that is, acquired prejudices and wild guesses. -"" "[Microsoft's] is a praying-mantis business model: they have sex with you, and then they eat you," says Gary Reback, the well-known Silicon Valley attorney representing a number of Microsoft's competitors... Time is a drug. Too much of it kills you. --pratchett That was the problem with last nights. They were always followed by this mornings. --pratchett "Choose Microsoft. Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting on a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing junk food into yer mouth. Choose rotting away, pissing and shiting yerself in a home, a total embarassment to the selfish brats ye've produced. Choose Microsoft." (apologies to Irvine Welsh) Just be thankful that Microsoft does not manufacture pharmaceuticals. I felt the wind. I wanted to eat the sky, dance a jig, marry the world. I could feel the earth prickling thru the soles of my feet. --nick bantock, the forgetting room (of griffin & sabine fame) "We build confusing systems," said Jim Allchin, senior vice president of Microsoft's personal and business systems group, in his keynote address. "Upgrading hardware and software is way too difficult. The number of calls coming into support lines is ample evidence that we don't do a good enough job." life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans --lennon ...achieved a state of ineffable discontentment and complete twoness with the universe. -theonion ED WILL NOT CORRUPT YOUR PRECIOUS BODILY FLUIDS!! I'm not one of those who think Bill Gates is the devil. I simply suspect that if Microsoft ever met up with the devil, it wouldn't need an interpreter. -- NICHOLAS PETRELEY, Sr. Editor, InfoWorld why would you want to own /dev/null? "ooo! ooo! look! i stole nothing! i'm the thief of nihilism! i'm the new god of zen monks." -- Kevin Lyda, alt.sysadmin.recovery "The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time." -Bertrand Russell if you want to love someone more, act as if you do. --socialpsych textbook do i contradict myself? very well then i contradict myself. (i am large, i contain multitudes.) --walt whitman, Song of Myself. "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." -Douglas Adams "capital letters were always the best way of dealing with things you didn't have a good answer to." -- douglas adams "Web pages are like babies -- creation involves a level of enthusiasm that does not necessarily carry over into maintenance." --Joe Chew Any sufficiently advanced technology is about as reliable as magic. DO NOT ADJUST YOUR MIND. IT IS REALITY THAT IS MALFUNCTIONING. -Robert Anton Wilson ("Reality Is What You Can Get Away With") "The day Microsoft invents something that doesn't suck, it will be a vacuum cleaner" - Anon do you know me? my american express card says simply: perishible vertebrate--don't fuck after date stamped on bottom. "The straightforward and easy path was to join the proprietary software world, signing nondisclosure agreements and promising not to help my fellow hacker.... I could have made money this way, and perhaps had fun programming (if I closed my eyes to how I was treating other people). But I knew that when my career was over, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had made the world ugly." -- Richard Stallman Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind blows out candles and fans fires. -- La Rochefoucauld remember to focus on playing well, not winning. #68:CB) h.p. says, "'War Is Peace, Ignorance Is Strength, Freedom Is Slavery, The Browser Is Part Of The Operating System'" (apologies to orwell) #68:CB) h.p. says, "i think the government should regulate love shack references. they license drivers for cars, they even issue concealed carry licenses for guns.. why should love shack be any different?" "The danger from computers is not that they will eventually get as smart as men, but that we will meanwhile agree to meet them halfway." - Bernard Avishai "When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. And that's my religion." --Abraham Lincoln Gentlemen, you can't fight in here. This is the War Room! --(from dr strangelove) I'm very sorry. Alright! You're sorrier than I am! But I am sorry as well. I am as sorry as you are [...] Don't say that you are more sorry than I am, because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we're both sorry, alright? Alright. --(from dr strangelove) "Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away". -- Philip K. Dick "Esse quam videri." (to be rather than seem) -- N.C. State Motto We are each entitled to our own opinion, but no one is entitled to his own facts. -- Patrick Moynihan There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses. - Bjarne Stroustrup "When I was seven years old, I was once reprimanded by my mother for an act of collective brutality in which I had been involved at school. A group of seven-year-olds had been teasing and tormenting a six-year-old. "It is always so," my mother said. "You do things together which not one of you would think of doing alone." ... Wherever one looks in the world of human organization, collective responsibility brings a lowering of moral standards. The military establishment is an extreme case, an organization which seems to have been expressly designed to make it possible for people to do things together which nobody in his right mind would do alone." -- Freeman Dyson, "Weapons and Hope" Don't theorize about your own romances, friend. Be thrilled, be ecstatic, be desolate, but don't be an expert about you and the people you love and why it happened. With love, the pleasure is in the details, not in the theory. Love has to do with her eyes, the touch of her hand, her voice, her laughter, how it felt to stand next to her and feel her brush against you, how it felt to see her after a long absence. Love isn't a Problem to sit around and discuss. If your heart still longs for her, then you are in love, and her idea about why it didn't work out is something that may give her consolation but it doesn't mean anything to you or me. --Mr. Blue "Unrequited Love is like hitting your head against a wall that isn't there." --Too Much Coffee Man i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens, only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses) --e.e. cummings I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called `brightness', but it doesn't work." -- Gallagher "If we spoke a different language, we would perceive a somewhat different world." -- Wittgenstein "If I have an apple and you have an apple, and we exchange apples, we each still have one apple. But If I have an idea and you have an idea, and we exchange ideas, we each have two ideas." -- George Bernard Shaw Everybody is somebody else's weirdo. -- Dijkstra Q: What kind of drugs are you on? A: Neurotransmitters. You should try them sometime. --Skyflight "The thing I love most about deadlines is the wonderful WHOOSHing sound they make as they go past." - Douglas Adams. May, in spite of all distractions generated by technology, all of you succeed in turning information into knowledge, knowledge into understanding, and understanding into wisdom. -dijkstra "The only purpose for which power can rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant. He cannot rightfully be compelled to do or forbear because it will be better for him to do so, because it will make him happier, because, in the opinions of others, to do so would be wise, or even right. These are good reasons for remonstrating with him, or entreating him, but not for compelling him, or visiting him with any evil in case he do otherwise. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign." -- John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty" What you want, what you're hanging around in the world waiting for, is for something to occur to you. -- Robert Frost Video games represent something of a courtesy landmark because they make it socially acceptable, in a sporting context, to eat Twinkies, never go outdoors, have a terrible complexion, and be able to operate a computer. Video games are also delightful because there is something about a television that fights back which is so perfectly appropriate to our society. -- manners @ http://www.textfiles.com/humor/manners.txt Because the whole problem with modern times is that we've gotten really good at breaking everything into little pieces and scattering them on the floor until nothing works because nothing MEANS anything-it's all just a pile of random pieces. So what we need is to find a new language for talking about WHOLE things. Things that work. -- tex & molly in the afterlife (richard grant) mhat says, "I remember a day when I wasnt bitter about the computer industry." "It is much easier to be critical than to be correct." Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield Disraeli, Speech, Jan. 24, 1860. The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie. -- Lenny Bruce "The past resembles the future as water resembles water" --Ibn Khaldun (1332-1406) All the molecules in your body were formed inside stars. We are the future of ancient stars. -The 1997 Nobel Conference. People and stars are made of the same stuff. -Bill Nye the Science Guy Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923): A tireless French actress, Sarah went through more than 1,000 lovers in her colorful life, many of them famous writers and artists. She once observed, "It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich." Sarah often slept in a rosewood coffin lined with letters from her lovers. --World Sexual Records "Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: This is the ideal life." --Mark Twain "No computer has ever been designed that is ever aware of what it's doing, but most of the time, we aren't either." --Marvin Minsky "My grandfather was a painter ... was looking at me and he said "Harry, there are two kinds of tired, there's good-tired, and there's bad-tired. Ironically enough, bad-tired can be a day that you won. But you won other people's battles, you lived other people's days, other peoples agendas, other people's dreams - and when it was all over there was very little "you" in there, and when you hit the hay at night, somehow you toss and turn, you don't settle easy. Good-tired, ironically enough, can be a day that you lost. But you don't have to tell yourself, because you knew you fought your battles, you chased your dreams, you lived your days, and when you hit the hay at night, you settle easy - you sleep the sleep of the just, and you can say "take me away". Now, Harry, all my life I've painted... God I would've loved to be more successful, but I have painted and I have painted, and I am good-tired, and they can take me away." --from Harry Chapin's Gold Medal collection I am nuts for information-- as are we all, I suspect, most real men and women. I can't get enough of the stuff. When I'm clicking through the hundreds of E-mail messages that await me each morning, sometimes I imagine I'm a mighty information whale, sifting through thousands of tiny (but nutritious!) krill bits. Yum! Whether it's reading the cereal box or scanning the advertisment slide show some genius thought to project on the big screen at the movie theater, my appetite for information is unquenchable. --Joshua Quittner "Do you want me to tell you something really subversive? Love is everything it's cracked up to be. That's why people are so cynical about it. . . . It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for. And the trouble is, if you don't risk anything, you risk even more." -- Erica Jong "We are *all* standing in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." -- Oscar Wilde. "I wish you luck with a capital F." --Elvis Costello "Perl is the Cliff Notes of Unix." "It's no accident that the ductwork shows in shell scripts. Only we call them pipes." --Larry Wall, "Perl, the first postmodern computer language" "What's it all about? After the last line, *what*?" --Henry Miller I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike. -- Emile Henry Gauvreay (next few from irclogs on bash.org) 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? IRC is just multiplayer notepad. i was gonna call 911...but i was downloading a file tetris is so unrealistic i beat the internet | the end guy is hard Who made the world? Who made the swan, and the black bear? Who made the grasshopper? This grasshopper, I mean— the one who has flung herself out of the grass, the one who is eating sugar out of my hand, who is moving her jaws back and forth instead of up and down— who is gazing around with her enormous and complicated eyes. Now she lifts her pale forearms and thoroughly washes her face. Now she snaps her wings open, and floats away. I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life? - Mary Oliver "The Summer Day" It is also said of me that I now and then contradict myself. Yes, I improve wonderfully as time goes on. An optimist is a fellow who believes a housefly is looking for a way to get out. No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched. I drink to make other people interesting. Bad officials are the ones elected by good citizens who do not vote. - 5x george jean nathan