Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window. /Steve Wozniak/ --- The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do. /B. F. Skinner/ --- god i hate jumblesale haha /dan/ --- We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology. /Carl Sagan/ --- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is. /Jan L. A. van de Snepscheut/ --- ...if the knowledge and distinction, of *Geometricall* and *Arithmeticall* proposition bee not well observed, there can noe Justice well be erected. /Robert Recorde/ --- It's been said that 'graphical user interfaces make easy tasks easy, while command line interfaces make difficult tasks possible. /William E. Shotts, Jr (via ~shanx)/ --- Unix is not so much an operating system as an oral history. /Neal Stephenson/ --- It is an easy trick. Take any formula, find a similar form or some material that is plastic, select a suitable analogy, condense the analogy to a metaphor, take the metaphor literally, and you have a scientific philosophy. /Scott Buchanan/ --- One who has adjusted to the wonders of radio and television, but knows nothing of how they work, is all too ready to envisage telepathy without regard to how it could ever be. /W.V.O. Quine, Quiddities/ --- Every determination of the essence of the human being that already presupposes an interpretation of beings without asking about the truth of being, whether knowingly or not, is metaphysical. /Martin Heidegger, "Letter on Humanism"/ --- It is precisely where there is nothing, that we find the usefulness of the wheel. /Lau Tzu, Tao Te Ching/ --- The essence of technology is in a lofty sense ambiguous. Such ambiguity points to the mystery of all revealing, i.e., of truth. /Martin Heidegger/ --- All programs in the future will be written in a way that there is no single point of failure. /Ray Ozzie/ --- ; the hurt was mortal. /quote_bot/ --- Cheer up Hamlet! /"Slings and Arrows" theme song/ --- The Wisdom of the ages is the conservation of possibility. /Scott Buchanan/ --- Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. /Confucius/ --- All programs in the future will be written in a way that there is no single point of failure. There's no one server that can die and take down the service. /Ray Ozzie/ --- wales is from the distant past #fact /karlen/ --- A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors /Saunders Mac Lane/ --- There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses. /Bjarne Stroustrup/ --- You can't get good marks if you're popular. /Forrest Sherman/ --- My dear friends, now and forever, I renounce, have renounced and will go on renouncing copyrights. /Samael Aun Weor/ --- But I may say Dame Fortune has been very kind to me by endowing me with the genius of poetry. /William McGonagall/ --- Consciousness is an illusion constructed by the memes. /Susan Blackmore/ --- If I have seen further than others, it is because I am surrounded by dwarfs. /Murray Gell-Mann/ --- But the bitter truth we critics must face is that, in the grand scheme of things, the average piece of junk is probably more meaningful than our criticism designating it so. /Anton Ego (Ratatouille)/ --- Now a continuum is that which is divisible into parts always capable of subdivision, and a body is that which is every way divisible. A magnitude if divisible one way is a line, if two ways a surface, and if three a body. Beyond these there is no other magnitude, because the three dimensions are all that there are, and that which is divisible in three directions is divisible in all. For, as the Pythagoreans say, the universe and all that is in it is determined by the number three, since beginning and middle and end give the number of the universe, and the number they give is the triad. /Aristotle/ --- There was a guy with a forked beard \ Who said: It is much as I feared \ The cutlery droid \ Was underemployed \ And has stuck all these forks in my beard. /nossidge/ --- It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. /Theodore Roosevelt/ --- Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood. /Daniel Burnham/ --- Worrying is like paying a debt you don't owe. /Mark Twain/ --- The world of ideas is not revealed to us in one stroke; we must both permanently and unceasingly recreate it in our consciousness. /Rene Thom/ --- Enlightenment will thus gradually arise, though folly and caprice will sometimes slip in; it arises as a great good that must save the human race from even the self-seeking expansionary schemes of their rulers... /Immanuel Kant/ --- This is the Unix philosophy: Write programs that do one thing and do it well. Write programs to work together. Write programs to handle text streams, because that is a universal interface. /Doug McIlroy/ --- The notion of "intricate and beautiful complexities" is almost an oxymoron. Unix programmers vie with each other for "simple and beautiful" honors — a point that's implicit in these rules, but is well worth making overt. /Doug McIlroy/ --- adoring admirers have fed Linux goodies into a disheartening state of obesity /Doug McIlroy/ --- The bug was in me :) /um/ --- I'm so glad I live in a world where there are Octobers. / L.M. Montgomery/ --- The difference between science and philosophy is that the scientist learns more and more about less and less until she knows everything about nothing, whereas a philosopher learns less and less about more and more until he knows nothing about everything. /Dorion Sagan/ --- The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out /Voltaire/ --- Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins. Distinctly we see the difference of the colours, but where does the first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity /Herman Melville/ --- Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs /Henry Ford/ --- People who live entirely by the fertility of their imaginations are fascinating, brilliant and often charming; but they should be sat next to at dinner parties, not lived with...I suppose it is impossible to form the habit of inventing people, building them up, tearing them down, and moving them around like paper dolls without doing somewhat the same thing with live ones. /F. Scott Fitzgerald/ --- I want everybody to think alike. But Brecht wanted to do it through Communism, in a way. Russia is doing it under government. It's happening here all by itself without being under a strict government; so if it's working without trying, why can't it work without being Communist? Everybody looks alike and acts alike, and we're getting more and more that way. I think everybody should be a machine. I think everybody should like everybody. /Andy Warhol/ --- Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. /Jamie Zawinski/ --- Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe. /Albert Einstein/ --- I care not for your GUI contrivances! All I need is a magnet and a steady hand! /~jumblesale/ --- Clearly the more sophisticated the technology, the less we have to say. Someday we may gain telepathy, but we will have lost the ability to form statements. /Bruce R. Magee/ --- To learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize. /Voltaire/ --- There is something about a mass market luxury cruise that's unbearably sad. /David Foster Wallace/ --- My schedule for today lists a six-hour self-accusatory depression. /Phillip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep/ --- The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use them. /Phillip K. Dick/ --- Everything in life is just for a while. /Phillip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly/ --- The problem with introspection is that it has no end. /Phillip K. Dick/ --- all the evidence points to YES DEFINITELY /jumblesale/ --- "test fuck" ~karlen /jumblesale/ --- i think i'm just as murderous as all of you /hardmath123/ --- "The baked good was in me :)" /karlen/ /karlen/ --- right, gotta see a man about blood and teenagers /karlen/ --- :D /kc/ --- apparently i am not very quotable /krowbar/ --- best way to attract women: be a ghost /endorphant/ --- haha everyone should always die at end of a story. keeps it tidy /karlen/ --- yeah I am number one for bash /karlen/ --- yeah I am number one for bash /karlen/ --- mate my banter is bottom drawer /jumblesale/ --- haha yes I want q-add to be used more often! /karlen/ --- /1/ --- "I go out a lot and have a laugh and that and I'm always up for doing stuff like that, so this reaction has been brilliant." /jumblesale/ --- like a baby bird, only you are both the bird mom and the bird baby /endorphant/