% I declare war on gender! Ladies and gentlemen, it's all shit! :me % Violence should be the last solution, applied judiciously, and only with the greatest reluctance, instead of the first solution, applied indiscriminately, with seemingly great abandon. Of course, when you have a hammer as big as the US Military, everything must start to look a whole lot like a nail... :me % I will not accede to faith in a hateful, wrathful, divine Tyrant of a god, even on the supposition that I'll be punished if I don't, for the humiliation of making obeisance to a deity so unworthy of worship seems like the punishment to surpass all others. :me % Average choices yield average results. :my summary of Paul Graham's "Hackers and Painters" % Major W. G. Barker, DSO, MC, and the officers under his command, present their compliments to Captains Brumowski, Ritter von Fiala, Havratil, and the pilots under their command, and request the pleasure of a meeting in the air. In order to save Captains Brumowski, Ritter von Fiala, Havratil, and the gentlemen of their party the inconvenience of searching for them, Major Barker and his officers will bomb Godega Aerodrome at 10 a.m. daily, weather permitting, for the next fortnight. :Leaflets dropped over the Austrian lines in Italy by 139 Squadron in mid-1918 % O God, if I knew how you wish to be worshipped I would so worship you; but I do not know. :Zayd ibn Amr % Tell the truth and run. :Yugoslav proverb % Iraq is destroyed, Afghanistan is destroyed, the Gaza Strip is destroyed and soon Beirut will be destroyed for the umpteenth time, and hundreds of billions of dollars are being invested solely in the vain war against the side that always loses and therefore has nothing more to lose. :Yossi Sarid % Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger; anger leads to hate; hate leads to suffering. :Yoda % Try not! Do, or do not. There is no "try". :Yoda % There's nowt so queer as folk. :Yorkshire saying % We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth and to assimilate it from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself; it never cheapens or debases him who reaches for it but ennobles and honors him. :Yaqub ibn Ishaq al-Kindi % The theme of this novel can be summarized in three lines. Life is a story. You can choose your story. And a story with an imaginative overlay is the better story. :Yann Martel, on his novel _Life of Pi_ % I know what you want. You want a story that won't surprise you. That will confirm what you already know. That won't make you see higher or further or differently. You want a flat story. An immobile story. You want dry, yeastless factuality. :Yann Martel, as Pi % I have nothing to say of my working life, only that a tie is a noose, and inverted though it is, it will hang a man nonetheless if he's not careful. :Yann Martel, as Pi % I love Canada....It is a great country much too cold for good sense, inhabited by compassionate, intelligent people with bad hairdos. :Yann Martel, as Pi % To choose doubt as a philosophy of life is akin to choosing immobility as a means of transportation. :Yann Martel, as Pi % In Capitalism, man takes advantage of man. In Communism, it's the other way around. :Yakov Smirnoff % Diplomacy is the art of saying "nice doggy" until you can find a rock. :Wynn Catlin % It's round the world I've traveled / it's round the world I've roamed / but I've yet to see an outlaw / drive a family from its home. :Woody Guthrie, "Pretty Boy Floyd" % The pastry guys are always the most intense. Must be all the sugar. :Wolfgang Puck % Last time I checked, the murder of 6000+ civilians here in America was a pretty shitty thing. Why is it okay when it happens in another country? :Wil Wheaton % Personal pride does not end with noble blood. It leads people to a fond value of their persons, especially if they have any pretence to shape or beauty. Some are so taken with themselves it would seem that nothing else deserved their attention. Their folly would diminish if they could spare but half the time to think of God, that they spend in washing, perfuming, painting and dressing their bodies. In these things they are precise and very artificial and spare no cost. But what aggravates the evil is that the pride of one might comfortably supply the needs of ten. Gross impiety it is that a nation's pride should be maintained in the face of its poor. :William Penn % But almost invariably, often when I'm about to throw in the towel and tell the editor I can't write the column this month because I died, my fellow man provides me with something so surpassingly stupid that it makes me wonder if maybe God should have rethought the whole "I can do this in seven days" thing. Like maybe an extra afternoon working on the humans might have been well-advised. :William W. Bedsworth % To thine own self be true, then to no man can you be false. :William Shakespeare % Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving. :William Shakespeare (Othello) % As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances, there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air, however slight, lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness. :William O. Douglas, US Supreme Court Justice % Necessity is the plea of every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. :William Pitt (1756-1806); speech on the India Bill, 18 November 1783 % Probably a crab would be filled with a sense of personal outrage if it could hear us classify it without ado or apology as a crustacean, and thus dispose of it. "I am no such thing," it would say: "I am MYSELF, MYSELF alone." :William James % Force destroys enemies; and the best that can be said of prudence is that it keeps what we already have in safety. But non-resistance, when successful, turns enemies into friends; and charity regenerates its objects. :William James % Always be ready to speak your mind, and a base man will avoid you. :William Blake % You can't say that civilization don't advance, for in every war they kill you in a new way. :Will Rogers % As for you who stand today on the threshold of life, with a long horizon open before you for a long career of usefulness to your native land, if you will permit me, after a long life, I shall remind you that already many problems rise before you: problems of race division, problems of creed differences, problems of economic conflict, problems of national duty and national aspiration. Let me tell you that for the solution of these problems you have a safe guide, an unfailing light if you remember that faith is better than doubt and love is better than hate. Banish hate and doubt from your life. Let your souls be ever open to the promptings of faith and the gentle influence of brotherly love. Be adamant against the haughty, be gentle and kind to the weak. Let your aim and purpose, in good report or ill, in victory or defeat, be so to live, so to strive, so to serve as to do your part to raise even higher the standard of life and living. :Sir Wilfrid Laurier % I wonder why we listen to poets when nobody gives a fuck... :Wilco, `Ashes of American Flags' % At my local Barnes and Noble, there is a huge wall of Java books just waiting to tip over and crush me one day. And one day it will. At the rate things are going, one day that bookcase will be tall enough to crush us all. It might even loop the world several times, crushing previous editions of the same Java books over and over again. :why the lucky stiff % Whenever you use a method, you'll always be given something back. You can ignore it or use it. If you can learn to use the answers that methods give you back, then you will *dominate*. :why the lucky stiff % Despite the surge of power you feel upon learning Ruby, resist the urge to trip others or slap them in the bald head. DO NOT LORD YOUR RUBYNESS OVER OTHERS! :why the lucky stiff % In the life of every man above the rank of moron, there are times when the urge to go mildly gay in exclusively masculine company becomes too strong to be withstood. :W. Heath Robinson, "How to be a Perfect Husband" % Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are easy to annoy and have the root password. :wes mills % In the garage / I feel safe / No one cares about my ways. / In the garage / Where I belong / No one hears me sing this song. :Weezer % You can't cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even break or smarten up a chump. :W.C. Fields % Many people think that there is a category of food called "gourmet" food. It's hard to say exactly what that is. Apparently, the only thing so-called "gourmet" foods have in common is high price. The only distinction it makes sense to make is between well-prepared food and poorly prepared food. There is good roast duckling a l'orange and there is bad roast duckling a l'orange. There are good hamburgers and french fries, and there are bad hamburgers and french fries. :Wayne Gisslen % Whether you work in a fancy French restaurant, a fast-food restaurant, a college cafeteria, or a catering house, you can do your job well or you can do it not so well. The choice is yours. :Wayne Gisslen % High quality doesn't necessarily mean high price. It costs no more to cook green beans properly than to overcook them. But in order to produce quality food, you must *want* to. :Wayne Gisslen % We are all diminished when any one of us is demeaned. :Warren Blumenfield % To all, to each, a fair good-night, and pleasing dreams, and slumbers light. :Sir Walter Scott % There will be no peace. Fight back, then, with such courage as you have And every unchivalrous dodge you know of, Clear in your conscience on this: Their cause, if they had one, is nothing to them now; They hate for hate's sake. :W.H. Auden % You need courage, but not to drop bombs. What you need courage for is to not drop bombs. :Vyacheslav Izmailov, former Soviet battalion commander % You need courage not to drop bombs. Otherwise, your war will be endless. :Vyacheslav Izmailov, former Soviet battalion commander % The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while Nature cures the disease. :Voltaire % It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong. :Voltaire % Programmer: A person who solves a problem you didn't know you had in a way you don't understand. :from The Voice % One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well. :Virginia Woolf % It is far more difficult to murder a phantom than a reality. :Virginia Woolf % If you do not tell the truth about yourself, you cannot tell it about other people. :Virginia Woolf % If you hear a voice within you say "you cannot paint", then by all means paint, and that voice will be silenced. :Vincent Van Gogh % Heterosexuals of this repressed sort (I specifically exclude enlightened heterosexuals) generally have such tight asses that absolutely nothing can get in or out; that is why we normally say that they are full of shit. :Vincent Manis % Port 25 filters are tools of slumlord ISPs that prefer to spend money on routers than on handling the network abuse of their customers. Port 25 filters are akin to Plexiglass windows in tenements to deal with vandalism instead of the more expensive and difficult work of prevent bad tenents and dealing with the few that slip through the "know your customer" step required in many businesses. :Vernon Schryver % In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music -- all with love. In other words, create a magic world. :Valerie Solanas % We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. :US Declaration of Independence % An intellectual always lives as a spy in enemy country. :Ursula LeGuin % To light a candle is to cast a shadow. :Ursula K. LeGuin "A Wizard of Earthsea", 1975 % St Peter: Let's check the Book of Bad Things and see if you made any other transgressions. We already know about Windows NT. I hope for your sake you've done nothing worse. Erwin: Okay. St Peter: Let's see. You hacked into the NSA central computer last year. You modified pictures of the President of the United States. You nearly started a border war between two African countries. Erwin: Oh..um... St Peter: It looks like NT was your greatest sin. There's hope for you. :User Friendly % Mike: I swear, you must think you're some kind of god. Pitr: God, root, what is difference? :User Friendly % The danger to political dissent is acute where the Government attempts to act under so vague a concept as the power to protect 'domestic security.' Given the difficulty of defining the domestic security interest, the danger of abuse in acting to protect that interest becomes apparent. :United States Supreme Court % Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to pull out your submachinegun and blow them away -- that is the question. :Uncle Albert Stolwyczinki % An American soldier in a hospital explained how he was wounded: He said, "I was told that the way to tell a hostile Vietnamese from a friendly Vietnamese was to shout 'To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' If he shoots, he's unfriendly. So I saw this dude and yelled 'To hell with Ho Chi Minh!' and he yelled back, 'To hell with President Johnson!' We were shaking hands when a truck hit us." :Tuli Kupferburg, "1,001 Ways to Beat the Draft" % I guess the bottom line is I'm spoiled. Linux has spoiled me. And it annoys me to watch others reboot machines and reinstall their OS's and fork out loads of cash (piracy is not an acceptable way to obtain software IMO) when my machine has not crashed once in the entire year it's been sitting on my desktop and easily does everything they need it to do. I want them to be spoiled too. :Tracy Reed % I'd much rather be mistaken as a lesbian by a bigot than be mistaken as a bigot by a lesbian. :Tovah Hollander % A proper sauté pan should cause serious head injury if brought down hard against someone's skull. If you have any doubts about which will dent -- the victim's head or your pan -- then throw that pan right in the trash. :Tony Bourdain % "You mean, if you allow the master to be uncivil, to treat you any old way he likes, and to insult your dignity, then he may deem you fit to hear his view of things?" "Quite the contrary. You must defend your integrity, assuming you have integrity to defend. But you must defend it nobly, not by imitating his own low behavior. If you are gentle where he is rough, if you are polite where he is uncouth, then he will recognize you as potentially worthy. If he does not, then he is not a master, after all, and you may feel free to kick his ass." :Tom Robbins, "Jitterbug Perfume" % I spent most of my childhood being terrified by the question 'Am I normal?'. I'm relieved now that I know for sure that I am not. :Tom Limoncelli % I always wanted to be someone, but now I think I should have been a wee bit more specific. :Tom Betz (http://www.pobox.com/~tbetz) % One of the things which is often forgotten in discussion of intellectual property is that ideas are not things; one cannot hold an idea in one's hand, and there is no reproduction cost for ideas. :Todd Showalter % Anyone who slaps a 'this page is best viewed with Browser X' label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network. :Tim Berners-Lee % There is, I believe, a great power you have over a user when you write software which interfaces then with the rest of the world. I believe that this power comes with a responsibility - a responsibility to be an impartial sense organ for the person, to provide an unbiased view of the world. :Tim Berners-Lee % The power of the Web is in its universality. Access by everyone regardless of disability is an essential aspect. :Tim Berners-Lee % Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design. :Tim Berners-Lee % Anyone who has lost track of time when using a computer knows the propensity to dream, the urge to make dreams come true and the tendency to miss lunch. :Tim Berners-Lee % What's wrong with the world then, is that it doesn't ask -- and make it possible -- for people to raise and contribute the best that is in them. :Tillie Olsen % He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself. :Thomas Paine % He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. :Thomas Jefferson % My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war -- and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair. :Thomas Jefferson % When the government fears the people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. :Thomas Jefferson % Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God. :Thomas Jefferson % I fear for my country when I reflect that there is a just God. :Thomas Jefferson % I have recently been examining all the known superstitions of the world, and do not find in our particular superstition (Christianity) one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. :Thomas Jefferson % The clergy believe that any portion of power confided to me, will be exerted in opposition to their schemes. And they believe rightly: for I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny known to the mind of man. :Thomas Jefferson % Shake off all fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God, because, if there be one, He must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blind faith. :Thomas Jefferson % The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to keep and bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government. :Thomas Jefferson % That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. :Thomas Jefferson % Dissent is the highest form of patriotism. :Thomas Jefferson % The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no God. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg. :Thomas Jefferson % Let us, then, fellow citizens, unite with one heart and one mind. Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled, we have yet gained little if we counternance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of a bitter and bloody persecutions. :Thomas Jefferson % The late rebellion in Massachusetts has given more alarm than I think it should have done. Calculate that one rebellion in 13 states in the course of 11 years, is but one for each state in a century and a half. No country should be so long without one. :Thomas Jefferson % In matters of principle, stand like a rock; in matters of taste, swim with the current. :Thomas Jefferson % No, my friend, the way to have good and safe government, is not to trust it all to one, but to divide it among the many, distributing to every one exactly the functions he is competent to. It is by dividing and subdividing these republics from the national one down through all its subordinations, until it ends in the administration of every man's farm by himself; by placing under every one what his own eye may superintend, that all will be done for the best. :Thomas Jefferson % When a man assumes a public trust, he should consider himself as public property. :Thomas Jefferson % Had he and I but met By some old ancient inn, We should have sat us down to wet Right many a nipperkin! But ranged as infantry, And staring face to face, I shot at him as he at me, And killed him in his place. I shot him dead because -- Because he was my foe, Just so: my foe of course he was; That's clear enough; although He thought he'd 'list, perhaps, Off-hand-like -- just as I -- Was out of work -- had sold his traps No other reason why. Yes; quaint and curious war is! You shoot a fellow down You'd treat, if met where any bar is Or help to half-a-crown. :Thomas Hardy % There is no expedient to which man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking. :Thomas Edison % Gentlemen, it is a fact that every philosopher of eminence for the last two centuries has either been murdered, or, at the least, been very near it, insomuch that if a man calls himself a philosopher, and never had his life attempted, rest assured there is nothing in him; and against Locke's philosophy in particular, I think it is an unanswerable objection (if we needed any) that, although he carried his throat about him in this world for seventy-two years, no man ever condescended to cut it. :Thomas de Quincey, 'Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts' % Hence in the last resort all that man knows of God is to know that he does not know him, since he knows that what God is surpasses all that we can understand of him. :St. Thomas Aquinas % Everyone's got to face down the demons / Maybe today / You could put the past away / :Third Eye Blind, "Jumper" % Shell scripts don't require salaries and don't complain about yesterdays coffee. You should pay more attention to the creative possibilities of shell scripts, especially in relation to human resources. :thinkgeek % One of the most unpardonable sins, in the eyes of most people, is for a man to go about unlabeled. The world regards such a person as the police do an unmuzzled dog, not under proper control. :T. H. Huxley (Evolution and Ethics, 1893) % Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat. :Theodore Roosevelt % To announce that there should be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American people. :Theodore Roosevelt % Not long ago, I was talking to a friend of mine about militancy. Since I've been labeled as "militant" from time to time, I thought long and hard about what it meant. Here's what I found. In a society that says to you at every turn "You are nothing," it is militant to say "No. I am something." This is the foundation of resistance; perhaps resistance in its simplest form, and is the beginning of affirming your life. I will be thinking of this, as I walk down Peachtree on Sunday, surrounded by 50,000+ of my sisters and brothers: that simply standing in the sun and being who I am is my act of resistance, and my act of joy. :Terrance Heath % My experience of living with people of different religions, origins and cultures taught me that one will never be at peace with the other if one is at war with oneself. :Tariq Ramadan % Mastering others requires force; Mastering the self needs strength. :Tao Te Ching % When the Tao is present in the universe The horses haul manure. When the Tao is absent in the universe War horses are bred outside of the city. :Tao Te Ching % In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. :Tao Te Ching % Magnify the small, increase the few. Reward bitterness with care. See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things. :Tao Te Ching % I have three treasures which I hold and keep. The first is mercy; the second, economy; The third is daring not to be ahead of others. From mercy comes courage; from economy, generousity; From humility, leadership. Nowadays, men shun mercy, but try to be brave; They abandon economy, but try to be generous; They do not believe in humility, but always try to be first. :Tao Te Ching % A good soldier is not violent. A good fighter is not angry. A good winner is not vengeful; A good employer is humble. This is known as the Virtue of not striving; This is known as the ability to deal with people. :Tao Te Ching % There is a saying among soldiers: I dare not make the first move, but would rather play the guest; I dare not advance an inch, but would rather withdraw a foot. :Tao Te Ching % The Tao of heaven is to take from those who have too much and give to those who do not have enough. Man's way is different. He takes from those who do not have enough and gives to those who already have too much. What man has more than enough and gives it to the world? Only the man of Tao. Therefore the sage works without recognition. He achieves what has to be done without dwelling on it. He does not try to show his knowledge. :Tao Te Ching % Truthful words are not beautiful. Beautiful words are not truthful. Good men do not argue. Those who argue are not good. Those who know are not learned. The learned do not know. :Tao Te Ching % Armies are tools of violence; They cause men to hate and fear. The sage will not join them. His purpose is creation; Their purpose is destruction. Weapons are tools of violence, Not of the sage; He uses them only when there is no choice, And then calmly, and with tact, For he finds no beauty in them. Whoever finds beauty in weapons Delights in the slaughter of men; And who delights in slaughter Cannot content himself with peace. So slaughters must be mourned And conquest celebrated with a funeral. :Tao Te Ching % Weapons are the tools of fear; a decent man will avoid them except in the direst necessity and, if compelled, will use them only with the utmost restraint. Peace is his highest value. If the peace has been shattered, how can he be content? His enemies are not demons, but human beings like himself. He doesn't wish them personal harm. Nor does he rejoice in victory. How could he rejoice in victory and delight in the slaughter of men? :Tao Te Ching % The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had my life to live again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. :Tallulah Bankhead % "The best thing for being sad," replied Merlin, beginning to puff and blow, "is to learn something. That's the only thing that never fails. You may grow old and trembling in your anatomies, you may lie awake at night listening to the disorder of your veins, you may miss your only love, you may see the world about you devastated by evil lunatics, or know your honor trampled in the sewers of baser minds. There is only one thing for it then -- to learn. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn." :T.H. White, "The Once and Future King" % The primary purpose of a liberal education is to make one's mind a pleasant place in which to spend one's time. :Sydney J. Harris % Millions long for immortality who do not know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon. :Susan Ertz % Avoid strength. Attack weakness. :Sun Tzu % If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. :Sun Tzu % To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. :Sun Tzu % Victorious warriors win first and then go to war, while defeated warriors go to war first and then seek to win. :Sun Tzu % The general who is skilled in defense hides in the most secret recesses of the earth; he who is skilled in attack flashes forth from the topmost heights of heaven. Thus on the one hand we have ability to protect ourselves; on the other, a victory that is complete. :Sun Tzu % Those skilled in war bring the enemy to the field of battle; they are not brought there by him. :Sun Tzu % To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. :Sun Tzu % Strategy without tactics is the slowest route to victory. Tactics without strategy is the noise before defeat. :Sun Tzu % If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve. If we do not wish to fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need do is to throw something odd and unaccountable in his way. :Sun Tzu % There are roads which must not be followed, armies which must be not attacked, towns which must be besieged, positions which must not be contested, commands of the sovereign which must not be obeyed. :Sun Tzu % If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight, even though the ruler forbid it; if fighting will not result in victory, then you must not fight, even at the ruler's bidding. :Sun Tzu % I'll tell you one type of person I don't respect: someone who thinks they know better what I want than I do. :Steve Dyer % Being a model means wearing clothes and not eating. I'd rather eat and take off my clothes. :Stef % NRE is a lot like cocaine. Feels great while you're on it, makes you feel very special and talented, and you become highly annoying to those who aren't on it. :Stef % When wise men disapprove, that's bad; when fools applaud, that's worse. :Spanish proverb % For more than a thousand generations the geeks were the guardians of peace and justice on the internet. Before the dark times. Before dot-com. :Spammy quotes archive (http://www.lambic.co.uk/spam/quotes.php) % The supreme paradox of all thought is its attempt to discover something that thought cannot think. :Soren Kierkegaard % To speak much is one thing; to speak well, another. :Sophocles % What you cannot enforce, do not command. :Sophocles % To him who is in fear, everything rustles. :Sophocles % The good befriend themselves. :Sophocles % It is a painful thing to look at your own trouble and know that you yourself and no one else has made it. :Sophocles % It is no weakness for the wisest man to learn when he is wrong. :Sophocles % As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take the course he will. He will be sure to repent. :Socrates % My advice to you is to get married. If you find a good wife, you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher. :Socrates % True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. :Socrates % Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults. :Socrates % A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. :Sir Winston Churchill % A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. :Sir Winston Churchill % However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results. :Sir Winston Churchill % The Americans will always do the right thing -- after they've exhausted all the alternatives. :Sir Winston Churchill % If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce. :Sir Winston Churchill % Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened. :Sir Winston Churchill % There is nothing so pleasing as to be shot at by ones enemy without result. :Sir Winston Churchill % To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day. :Sir Winston Churchill % The price of greatness is responsibility. :Sir Winston Churchill % The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. :Sir Winston Churchill % The power of the Executive to cast a man in prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government, whether Nazi or Communist. :Sir Winston Churchill % A sword by itself rules nothing. It only comes alive in skilled hands. :Sir Te (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) % I get sick sometimes, not because of drink or any other cause, except that I am forced to listen to the ranting of my honourable opponent. :Sir John A. MacDonald % Normal is what cuts off your sixth finger and tail. :Siobhan % Tanks are easily identified, easily engaged, much-feared targets which attract all the fire on the battlefield. When all is said and done, a tank is a small steel box crammed with inflammable or explosive substances which is easily converted into a mobile crematorium for its highly skilled crew. :Brigadier Shelford Bidwell % Trouble no man about their religion -- respect them in their views and demand that they respect yours. :Shawnee Proverb % I believe completely in the supernatural. I see evidence of it in everyday life, which other people often don't see. :Shane MacGowan % "Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next. :sharkey % Who am I? Why am I here? Where is the chocolate? :shaldannon % It is a fool's prerogative to utter truths that no one else will speak. :Shakespeare "A Midsummer Night's Dream" % Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of wreaking vengeance. :Seneca % Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. :Seneca % I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. :Seneca % If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to him. :Seneca % It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is the common right of humanity. :Seneca % It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. :Seneca % It is pleasant at times to play the madman. :Seneca % It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. :Seneca % Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony. :Seneca % Wealth is the slave of a wise man; the master of a fool. :Seneca % The best ideas are common property. :Seneca % There is no great genius without some touch of madness. :Seneca % If you don't have time to do it right, will you have time to do it again? :Scott W. Munro, Sgt. % A GUI is to a command-line as a TV is to a book. :Scott Hess % Nemo Me Impune Lacessit. (No One Shall Touch Me with Impunity.) :Scottish Motto % We're all in the same boat chaps! But why do we always have to do the fucking rowing? :SCHNews % By the time people reach adulthood, however, it is not just the culture that is limiting them to half their potential. It is also their own readiness to look at themselves through the androcentric and gender-polarizing lenses that they have internalized from the culture and thereby to see every possibility that is consistent with those lenses as normal and natural for the self and every possibility that is inconsistent with those lenses as alien and problematic for the self. In other words, they are limited by their encultured readiness to constantly ask, "Does this possible way of being or behaving adequately match my culture's conception of a real man or a real woman?" and to answer the question with, "If not, I'll reject it out of hand. If so, I'll consider exploring it further." :Sandra Lipsitz Bem, _The Lenses of Gender_ % Read over your compositions, and whenever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. :Samuel Johnson % What is written without effort is read without pleasure. :Samuel Johnson % Your manuscript is both good and original, but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. :Samuel Johnson % Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. :Samuel Johnson % Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price. :Samuel Johnson % I am not an alternative choice. Pepsi is an alternative choice. :saint benton % Pray to God, but continue rowing towards the shore. :Russian proverb % Doveriai no proveriai. (Trust but verify.) :Russian proverb % If you rush, you just make people laugh. :Russian proverb % I've walked through the countryside of Maine in the snow and seen branches bent to the ground under the weight of it because of Usenet, I've been in a room with fifty people screaming the chorus of "March of Cambreadth" at a Heather Alexander concert in Seattle because of Usenet, I've written some of the best damn stuff I've ever written in my life because of Usenet, I started writing because of Usenet, I understand my life and my purpose and my center because of Usenet, and you know 80% of what Usenet has given me has fuck all to do with computers and everything to do with people. :Russ Allbery % Living in the Limelight / The universal dream / For those who wish to seem. / Those who wish to be / Must put aside the alienation, / Get on with the fascination, / The real relation, / The underlying theme. :Rush, "Limelight" % Language is a tailor's shop where nothing fits. :Rumi % Why, when God's earth is so wide, have you fallen asleep in a prison? :Rumi % No one accuses the gunner of maudlin affection for anything except his beasts and his weapons. He serves at least three jealous gods -- his horse and all its sadlery and harness; his gun, whose least detail of efficiency is more important than men's lives; and, when these have been attended to, the never-ending mystery of his art commands him. :Rudyard Kipling % Jesus changed water into wine; Christians tend to turn it back into water. :Rudolf Brancovsky % In the future days which we seek to make secure, we look forward for a world founded upon the four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way - everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from what you want - which, translated into world terms, means economic understandings which will secure to every nation a healthy peaceful life for its inhabitants - everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear - which, translated into world terms, means a world-wide reduction of armaments to such a point and in such a thorough fashion, that no nation will be in a position to commit an act of aggression against any neighbor - anywhere in the world. :Roosevelt % Next time you decide to enter into a battle of wits with someone, be sure to come armed. :Ronin % The code done yesterday should be as good as you could make it yesterday. The fact that you know more today, and are more capable today, is good news about today, not bad news about yesterday. :Ron Jeffries % What excuses stand in your way? How can you eliminate them? :Roger von Oech % City people talk of "escape" when they talk of country living. To me a cow is reality. Escape is homogenized, pasteurized milk, delivered to the back door in a disposable carton. :Roderick L. Haig-Brown % The mass media is supported and sustained by commercial entities. And corn flakes and Shakespeare are simply not kissing cousins. Leonard Bernstein and living bras are incompatible. And you cannot sustain adult, probing, meaningful drama when the proceedings are interrupted every twelve minutes by a dozen dancing rabbits with toilet paper. :Rod Serling % If homosexuality is a disease, let's all call in queer to work! 'Hello, can't work today. Still queer.' :Robin Tyler % No distance of place or lapse of time can lessen the friendship of those who are thoroughly persuaded of each other's worth. :Robert Southey % Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian. :Robert Orben % How many wilderness areas do we need? How many Brahms symphonies do we need? :Robert Marshall % The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One's right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections. :Robert Jackson, US Supreme Court Justice % When any government . . . undertakes to say to its subjects, 'This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know,' the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. :Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On..." % Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything - you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. :Robert A. Heinlein, "If This Goes On..." % The more you love, the more you can love-and the more intensely you love. Nor is there any limit on how many you can love. If a person had time enough, he could love all of that majority who are decent and just. :Robert Heinlein (Lazarus Long) % Money is truthful. If a man speaks of his honor, make him pay cash. :Robert Heinlein (Lazarus Long) % When in danger / or in doubt run in circles / scream and shout. :Robert Heinlein (The Notebooks of Lazarus Long) % Yield to temptation; it may not pass your way again. :Robert Heinlein % God is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnibenevolent -- it says so right here on the label. If you have a mind capable of believing all three of these attributes simultaneously, I have a wonderful bargain for you. No checks, please. Cash and in small bills. :Robert Heinlein % A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. :Robert Frost % I am many things, and it seems artificial to rank them. At dinner time, I'm hungry first. :Rob Bernardo % Publishers often refer to prohibited copying as "piracy". In this way, they imply that illegal copying is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnapping and murdering the people on them. If you don't believe that illegal copying is just like kidnaping and murder, you might prefer not to use the word "piracy" to describe it. Neutral terms such as "prohibited copying" or "unauthorized copying" are available for use instead. Some of us might even prefer to use a positive term such as "sharing information with your neighbor". :RMS % The right to criticize, or even ridicule, any religion or religion in general is part of human rights. No religion or church is entitled to suppress criticism--not Islam, not the Church of Scientology, not even the Church of Emacs. :RMS % Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer (not advised) are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are software. :Richard P. Brennan % We will print no letters to the editor. We will give no space to opposing points of view. They are wrong. The Underground Grammarian is at war and will give the enemy nothing but battle. :Richard Mitchell, `The Underground Grammarian' % Given (the spread of the ILOVEYOU virus), I must concede that the average computer user is a lot like the FOX cartoon character Homer Simpson. :Richard F. Forno % It was pretty surreal watching the budget get rammed through the other night. In my lifetime I've never really witnessed the NDP accomplish anything. Even the idea of them accomplishing anything seemed almost too absurd to contemplate. I always though that believing in the NDP was like believing in fairies or goblins. Not so apparently. Canada now has an NDP budget. :Rick Mercer % The church of Jesus Christ needs to be as inclusive as the arms of our Lord himself. :Rev. Norman Kansfield % Committing murder will endanger your freedom and, possibly, your very life. In turn, this is not indulgence... it is masochism on the layaway plan. :Rev. Matt G. Paradise % The most noble, pure, and true love of mankind is the love of oneself. *I* want to be free! *I* hope to be happy! *I* want to appreciate all the beauties of the world. But my freedom is secured *only* when all the people I see and meet look at the world with joy-filled eyes. And *only* then can I eat my fill with pure enjoyment when I have the secure knowledge that other people, too, can eat their fill as I do. And for that reason it is a question of *my own contentment*, only of *my own self*, when I rebel against every danger which threatens my freedom and my happiness. :Ret Marut % I shall not say anything about Philosophy, but that, seeing as it has been cultivated for many centuries by the best minds that have ever lived, and that nevertheless no single thing is to be found in it which is not the subject of dispute, I had not enough presumption to fare better there than other men had done. And also, considering how many conflicting opinions there may be regarding the self-same matter, all supported by learned people, while there can never be more than one which is true, I esteemed as well-nigh false all that only went as far as being probable. :Rene Descartes % No website with MY name on it is going to use tables goddammit! Tables are for eating, not for layout! :Raymond A. van der Woning % Nothing atonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing. :Ralph Waldo Emerson % Who is the bigger fool? The fool, or the fool who follows him? :Raleel % A law is not "non-discriminatory" simply because it pursues a pressing objective or impairs equality rights as little as possible. Much less is it "non-discriminatory" because it reflects an international consensus as to the appropriate limits on equality rights. :R. Roy McMurtry, C.J.O., writing for the Court of appeals for Ontario in Halpern et al. v. Attorney General of Canada et al. (10 June 2003) % Do not ascribe purity to yourselves. God knows best who is righteous. :Qu'ran (53:32) % God changes not what is in a people until they change what is in themselves. :Qu'ran (13:11) % The bad is never the same as the good, even if you are impressed by the abundance of the bad. :Qu'ran (5:100) % Behold! In the creation of the heavens and the earth, the continuous alternation of night and day, the ships which sail the seas carrying what is of use to men, and the rain which God sends down from the sky thereby reviving the dead earth and dispersing all kinds of beasts in it; in the movement of the winds, and the obedient clouds between heaven and earth, there are signs indeed for a people who are wise. :Qu'ran (2:164) % It is a bad plan that admits of no modifications. :Publius Syrus % Build a better mouse trap and the IP lawyers will beat a path to your door. :pspeed % The centralist system is all very well as regards size, simplicity, and construction: it lacks but one thing -- the individual no longer belongs to himself in such a system, he cannot feel his worth, his life, and no account is taken of him at all. :Proudhon % In order that the deputy represent his constituents, it is necessary that he represent all the ideas which have united to elect him. But, with the electoral system, the deputy, the would-be legislator sent by the citizens to reconcile all ideas and all interests in the name of the People, always represents just one idea, one interest. The rest is excluded without pity. For who makes law in the elections? Who decides the choice of deputies? The majority, half plus one of the votes. From this it follows that half less one of the electors is not represented or is so in spite of itself, that of all the opinions that divide the citizens, one only, insofar as the deputy has an opinion, arrives at the legislature, and finally that the law, which should be the expression of the will of the People, is only the expression of half of the People. :Proudhon, "An anarchist's view of democracy" % To be GOVERNED is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so. To be GOVERNED is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorized, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the general interest, to be place[d] under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolized, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonored. That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality." :Proudhon, "General Idea of the Revolution in the Nineteenth Century" % Dead homophobes don't bash. :Propagandhi % Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken. :Principia Discordia % Where two are fighting, a third one wins. :Polish proverb % A tyrant is always trying to start some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader. :Plato % What evil shall I do today? :Pitr, User Friendly % Rights can never be given, rights can only be taken. :Piotr Kropotkin % O Lord, help my words to be gracious and tender today -- tomorrow, I may have to eat them. :Pierre Trudeau % ...The Kennett regime as can be expected has vowed to take the matter all the way up to the high court. The government seems to have an unlimited pool of taxpayers money to take cases to the high court. :Philip McCrory % Modern marketing is surprisingly close to stalking. :Peter Seebach % Hypocrisy is the most corrosive substance on earth; it can eat through the patina of a nation's ideals faster than rust can go through the floor of an old Buick. :Peter Scowen % Being a Bob or a Sysadmin is a lot like being a Cop or a Warrior. That coalescence of metaphors isn't an accident. We, the clueful, (or relatively so in my case) have to watch each other's backs, as a wave of the hand to Darwin, and his uncompromising selective processes. We don't want to be a next meal, so we congregate and support one another in a tribal fashion. :Peter R. Schmitt % Security through obscurity, the name for hiding your bugs instead of fixing them, is little security indeed. :perlsec(1) manpage % The Perl motto is "There's more than one way to do it." Divining how many more is left as an exercise to the reader. :perl(1) manpage % I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said--"Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desart . . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked them, the heart that fed; And on the pedestal, these words appear: My name is Ozymandius, King of Kings, Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away." :Percy Bysshe Shelley, 'Ozymandius' % I have noticed that as soon as you have soldiers the story is called history. :Paula Gunn Allen % The concept of a "Personal God" interfering with natural events, or being "an independent cause of natural events," makes God a natural object beside others, an object among others, a being among beings, maybe the highest, but nevertheless a being. This indeed is not only the destruction of the physical system but even more the destruction of any meaningful idea of God. :Paul Tillich % The manly attitude towards sports seems to be little more than a recipe for creating bad marriages, social misfits, moral degenerates, sadists, latent rapists, and just plain louts. :Paul Theroux % It would be hard to find a place where things suck more than in corporate IT departments. You would not believe the amount of money companies spend on software, and the crap they get in return. :Paul Graham % The government spying on people doesn't literally make programmers write worse code. It just leads eventually to a world in which bad ideas will win. And because this is so important to hackers, they're especially sensitive to it. They can sense totalitarianism approaching from a distance, as animals can sense an approaching thunderstorm. :Paul Graham % Selling web based software through ISPs is like selling sushi through vending machines. :Paul Graham % Don't waste your time worrying about patent infringement. You're probably violating a patent every time you tie your shoelaces. :Paul Graham % If you're worried that your current job is rotting your brain, it probably is. :Paul Graham % The sterility of offices is supposed to suggest efficiency, but suggesting efficiency is not the same thing as actually being efficient. The atmosphere of the average office is to productivity what flames painted on the side of a car are to speed. :Paul Graham % Working on nasty little problems makes you stupid. Good hackers avoid it for the same reason models avoid cheeseburgers. :Paul Graham % The analogy to the Reformation is even more exact if we consider the school system, from eduational toys and Head Start up through the universities. This system is manned by the biggest horde of monks since the time of Henry VIII. It is the biggest national industry in the country. I have heard the estimate that 40% of the national product is in the Knowledge Business. It is mostly hocus-pocus. Yet the belief of parents in this institution is quite delusional and school diplomas are in fact the only entry to licensing and hiring in every kind of job. :Paul Goodman % A mathematician is a machine for turning coffee into theorems. :Paul Erdos % It's the wood that should fear your hand, not the other way around. No wonder you can't do it -- you acquiesce to defeat before you even begin. :Pai Mei (in Kill Bill Vol 2) % No drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the sources of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed, and love of power. :P.J. O'Rourke % Crazy / but that's how it goes / Millions of people / living as foes / Maybe / it's not too late / To learn how to love / And forget how to hate :Ozzy Osbourne, `Crazy Train' % Freedom isn't for the asking, it's for the taking. :"Outguy" % If someone asks you 'Do you believe?' and you do not answer 'In what?' then you have written a blank check on your brain, and it shall surely come back marked 'insufficient funds'. :Orson Scott Card, at a "Secular Humanist Revival Meeting," 1966 % Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. :Oscar Wilde % Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong. :Oscar Wilde % The most important thing in life is to live! ...most people exist; that is all. :Oscar Wilde % Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months. :Oscar Wilde % I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simply beasts. I would sooner have fifty unnatural vices than one unnatural virtue. :Oscar Wilde % There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all. :Oscar Wilde % Obedience. A religion of slaves. A religion of intellectual death. I like it. Don't ask questions, don't think, obey the Word of the Lord -- as it has been conveniently brought to you by a man in a Rolls with a heavy Rolex on his wrist. I like that job! Where can I sign up? :Oleg Kiselev % A masterful retreat is itself a victory. :N. V. Peale % All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. :Noam Chomsky % Propaganda is to a democracy what the bludgeon is to a totalitarian state. :Noam Chomsky % If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. :Noam Chomsky % I'm just a girl / Oh, little ol' me, / Well, don't let me out of your sight. :No Doubt % It's the Information Superhighway, and precious few decided to get a driver's license. :Niko Mikkanen % Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build bridges even when there are no rivers. :Nikita Khrushchev % Contempt, rather than celebration, is the proper response to advertising and the system that makes it possible. :Neil Postman % The whole purpose of a fucking university is not so that you can come and be just like everyone else. I'm not equal to you people, never will be, don't want to be. I don't want to be anyone's sister, I don't want your activities, all I want is a decent place to live where I can be Sarah Jane Johnson, and not be equalized... by a mob...of little powderpuff terrorists...who just can't stand differentness because they're too stupid to understand it! What goes on in your heads? Haven't you ever seen the diversity of...of nature? Stop laughing. Look, you think this is funny? The next time you do this, someone is going to get hurt very badly. :Neal Stephenson, "The Big U" % Its a shame people are judged on the basis of their color. Me? I'm in favor of judging people on the basis of their flavor -- I think everyone would be much happier if this were the norm. :Neal Rauhauser % "Beauty" is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West it is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact. :Naomi Wolf % The beauty myth is not about women at all. It is about men's institutions and institutional power. :Naomi Wolf % The qualities that a given period calls beautiful in women are merely symbols of the female behaviour that that period considers desirable: The beauty myth is always actually prescribing behavior and not appearance. :Naomi Wolf % Perhaps it is time to realize that all cultures codify maleness and femaleness within sexual symbolism and that we can create a new world in which those categories need not be fixed or oppressive, but neither do they need to be dismissed or devalued. :Naomi Wolf % Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment. :Mullah Nasrudin % Do not attach yourself to any particular creed exclusively, so that you may disbelieve all the rest; otherwise you will lose much good, nay, you will fail to recognize the real truth of the matter. God, the omnipresent and omnipotent, is not limited by any one creed, for He says, "Wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah." (Q2:115) Everyone praises what he believes; his god is his own creature, and in praising it he praises himself. Consequently he blames the beliefs of others, which he would not do if he were just, but his dislike is based on ignorance. :Muid ad-Din ibn al-Arabi (1165-1240 CE) % The best jihad is the one who strives against his own self for Allah, The Mighty and Majestic. :Muhammed (pbuh) % And the band played on / as the helicopters whirred / Drunk on the lawn / in a nuclear dawn / my senses finally blurred. :Moxy Fruvous % Screw him. He's clue-proof. Let someone with the mother instinct deal with the spoiled, stupid child. I'm not getting paid to do it, and I'm damned if I'll let some asshole insult me while I try to help him, for free. :Morely Dotes, wrt his dealings with a clue-impaired mail admin % O Lord, bless this, Thy hand grenade; that with it Thou mayest blow Thine enemies to tiny bits, in Thy mercy. :Monty Python (Armaments 4:16) % No such thing as bad student, only bad teacher. Teacher say -- student do. :Mr. Miyagi % Walk on road -- walk right side, safe. Walk left side, safe. Walk middle, sooner or later, get squish just like grape. :Mr. Miyagi % Belt mean no need rope to hold up pants. :Mr. Miyagi % If they exist, sooner or later there will be disastrous consequences. They can fall into the hands of terrorists. It is not enough to safeguard them -- they must be abolished. :Mikhail Gorbachev, on Weapons of Mass Destruction % I am hired because I know what I am doing, not because I will do whatever I am told is a good idea. This might cost me bonuses, raises, promotions, and may even label me as "undesirable" by places I don't want to work at anyway, but I don't care. I will not compromise my own principles and judgement without putting up a fight. Of course, I won't always win, and I will sometimes be forced to do things I don't agree with, but if I am my objections will be known, and if I am shown to be right and problems later develop, I will shout "I told you so!" repeatedly, laugh hysterically, and do a small dance or jig as appropriate to my heritage. :Mike Sphar, "The Abigail Oath" % A: Because the response should come after the question. Q: Why is top-posting so annoying? :Mike Andrews % All music jars when the soul's out of tune. :Miguel de Cervantes % Blessed be those happy ages that were strangers to the dreadful fury of these devilish instruments of artillery, whose inventor I am satisfied is now in Hell, receiving the reward of his cursed invention, which is the cause that very often a cowardly base hand takes away the life of the bravest gentleman. :Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote % The proof of a knowable thing is made to either the senses or the intellect, but as regards the knowledge of God there can be neither a demonstration from sensory perception, since He is incorporeal, nor from the intellect, since He lacks any form known to us. :Meister Eckhart % The state calls its own violence `law', but that of the individual, `crime'. :Max Stirner % I want to solve problems I meet in the daily life by using computers, so I need to write programs. By using Ruby, I want to concentrate the things I do, not the magical rules of the language, like starting with public void something something something to say, "print hello world." :Matz % ...computers don't mind if I must make effort to communicate with them or if it is easy to communicate with them. They don't care if I put the numbers of instruction byte sequences in a file and feed it to them to run, or if a very high level language generated the instructions. The computers don't care. We humans care about the effort we pay. Often people, especially computer engineers, focus on the machines. They think, "By doing this, the machine will run faster. By doing this, the machine will run more effectively. By doing this, the machine will something something something." They are focusing on machines. But in fact we need to focus on humans, on how humans care about doing programming or operating the application of the machines. We are the masters. They are the slaves. :Matz % Returning violence for violence only multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness, only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that. :Martin Luther King, Jr. % Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred. We must ever conduct our struggle on the high plane of dignity and discipline. :Martin Luther King, Jr. % Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows... We must pursue peaceful ends through peaceful means. :Martin Luther King, Jr. % If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the host of heaven and earth will pause to say; here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. :Martin Luther King, Jr. % Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. :Martin Luther King, Jr. % For years, we have been talking about war and peace. But now, no longer can we just talk about it. It is no longer a choice between violence and nonviolence; it's nonviolence or nonexistence. :Martin Luther King, Jr. % The world is more and more of a neighborhood. But is it any more of a brotherhood? If we don't learn to live together as brothers and sisters, we shall perish together as fools. :Martin Luther King, Jr. % Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul. :Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) (Inscription beneath his bust in the Hall of Fame) % The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them. :Mark Twain % If a person offends you and you are in doubt as to whether it was intentional or not, do not resort to extreme measures. Simply watch your chance and hit him with a brick. :Mark Twain, "Advice to Youth" speech, 1882 % It is a time when one's spirit is subdued and sad, one knows not why; when the past seems a storm-swept desolation, life a vanity and a burden, and the future but a way to death. :Mark Twain % Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. :Mark Twain % The most outrageous lies that can be invented will find believers if a person only tells them with all his might. :Mark Twain % Look, I know exactly what I am, but there just aren't words in this language I can use to describe myself to you, so I'm sorry. :Maria Sanchez % I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion. :Margaret Mead % ***WARNING: You are currently using an unregistered evaluation copy of your life. Register now for the full-featured version and cheat codes! :Margaret Alia Denny % The enemy advances, we retreat; the enemy camps, we harass; the enemy tires, we attack; the enemy retreats, we pursue. :Mao Zedong % They are few and they fight for money; we are many and we fight for life! :Slogan shouted by the Mapuche % You're a group of Christian-based, conservative organizations with several million dollars to spend. Do you: feed the hungry? Clothe the poor? Don't be so naive! You blow the millions on a series of slickly-worded, logic-bending ads espousing a widely-discredited theory that one can be 'cured' of homosexuality through counseling and prayer. :MAD Magazine (#337, p. 32) % It seems odd to me, that as a homosexual and therefore a societal minority who should be uncomforable with my sexuality (according to these people), I am, in fact, more comfortable than some of the reigning heterosexuals. :Luxmen Aloysius % It is very little to me to have the right to vote, to own property, etcetera, if I may not keep my body, and its uses, in my absolute right. :Lucy Stone % It is time that Christians are judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ. :Lucretia Mott % What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damn fools said would happen has come to pass. :Lord Melbourne % Their's not to make reply, Their's not to reason why, Their's but to do or die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd; Storm'd at with shot and shell, Boldly they rode and well, Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. :Lord Alfred Tennyson, "Charge of the Light Brigade" % Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the certainty of corruption by authority. :Lord Acton % We could all benefit from a society that respects difference, encourages healthy consensual sexuality, promotes social equality, and celebrates diversity. :Liz Highleyman % I feel that people should write software, release it, and if someone uses it in a way you don't like, you should kick their ass. Not go and get a lawyer kick their ass, but physically track them down and fight, even to death. This is the method of software licensing called Fighting Source, it has been successful for several products recently, but I don't know their names because I'd get my ass beat for mentioning them. :linuxonceleron (trisomy21.dhs.org) % Basically, I want people to know that when they use binary-only modules, it's THEIR problem. I want people to know that in their bones, and I want it shouted out from the rooftops. I want people to wake up in a cold sweat every once in a while if they use binary-only modules. :Linus Torvalds % Once you realize that documentation should be laughed at, peed upon, put on fire, and just ridiculed in general, THEN, and only then, have you reached the level where you can safely read it and try to use it to actually implement a driver. :Linus Torvalds % People who disagree with me are by definition crazy. Until I change my mind, when they can suddenly become upstanding citizens. :Linus Torvalds % Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. :Lin Yutang % When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. :Lin-Chi % Like most things, I am nothing. It's the same for this sword. All of it is simply a state of mind. :Li Mu Bai (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) % Real sharpness comes without effort. :Li Mu Bai (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) % No growth...without assistance. No action...without reaction. No desire...without restraint. Now give yourself up, and find yourself again. :Li Mu Bai (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) % There is a lesson here for you. :Li Mu Bai (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon) % War is hell. Next question, please. :NBC's Linda Vester on NATO's PR % We are now bound to explain why the whole process of technological development has become increasingly coercive, totalitarian, and -- in its direct human expression -- compulsive and grimly irrational, indeed downright hostile to more spontaneous manifestations of life that cannot be fed into the machine. :Lewis Mumford % Politics is the skilled use of blunt objects. :Lester B. Pearson % Whoever you may be -- Frenchman, Russian, Pole, Englishman, Irishman, or Bohemian -- understand that all your real human interests, whatever they may be -- agricultural, industrial, commercial, or scientific -- as well as your pleasures and joys, in no way run counter to the interests of other peoples or States, and that you are united with the folk of other lands by mutual cooperation, by interchange of services, by the joy of wide brotherly intercourse, and by the interchange not merely of goods but also of thoughts and feelings. :Leo Tolstoy % You do not know my aches, but you know your own and they are in the same places. This is what makes us a community. We have a lot of aches in common. :Laura Creighton % What is the sound of Perl? Is it not the sound of a wall that people have stopped banging their heads against? :Larry Wall % If someone stinks, view it as a reason to help them, not a reason to avoid them. :Larry Wall % The three principal virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience, and Hubris. :Larry Wall % It's a joyless existence, being smushed. :Larry Wall % The social dynamics of the net are a direct consequence of the fact that nobody has yet developed a Remote Strangulation Protocol. :Larry Wall % The computer should be doing the hard work. That's what it's paid to do, after all. :Larry Wall % I know Wikipedia is very cool. A lot of people do not think so, but of course they are wrong. :Larry Sanger % Remember we have every right to be in the world exactly as we are. :Lani Ka'ahumanu % Clothes are bandages for sick bodies. :Kupferberger % It does not matter how slowly you go, as long as you do not stop. :K'ung-fu'-Tse ("Confucius") % Great One is dignified but not proud; Petty One is proud but not dignified. :K'ung-fu'-Tse ("Confucius") % Great One is easy to serve but hard to please; Petty One is hard to serve but easy to please. :K'ung-fu'-Tse ("Confucius") % Great One is completely at ease; Petty One is always on edge. :K'ung-fu'-Tse ("Confucius") % Great One reaches complete understanding of the main issues; Petty One reaches complete understanding of the minute details. :K'ung-fu'-Tse ("Confucius") % Great One is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds. :K'ung-fu'-Tse ("Confucius") % I am not convinced that anything worthwhile comes from reading teen magazines, worrying about fashion, or trying to be cool. :Kirrily "Skud" Robert % PID USER PRI NI SIZE RSS SHARE STAT LIB %CPU %MEM TIME COMMAND 17345 sharkey 14 0 136 40 20 R 0 49.6 0.0 873:48 less 14364 sharkey 10 0 124 40 20 R 0 48.2 0.0 873:52 less "Sharkey, can I ask you a stupid question?" :Kirrily "Skud" Robert % Gentleness is not weakness; violence is not strength. :King Arthur % What the fuck is this country coming to?!? First, we're accused of brown-humping each other, and then we get kicked to the fucking curb for having a smoke! You know, there was a time when a man could fuck his friend, AND enjoy a goddamn toke, and nobody said shit! :Kevin Smith (writing as "Jay") % Those silly RFCs are all that separate us from the animals! :Kevin Rodgers % Everybody wants to do a good job, and they work much better if they feel they are doing good work. If you deliberately downgrade quality, your team might go faster at first, but soon the demoralization of producing crap will overwhelm any gains you temporarily made from not testing, or not reviewing, or not sticking to standards. :Kent Beck % Everybody likes doing a good job. Of the four project development variables -- scope, cost, time, and quality -- quality isn't really a free variable. The only possible values are "excellent" and "insanely excellent", depending on whether lives are at stake or not. Otherwise you don't enjoy your work, you don't work well, and the project goes down the drain. :Kent Beck % How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die. :Kent Beck % Every hand's a winner, and every hand's a loser. :Kenny Rogers, "The Gambler" % I think you need to hold a small memorial service for your data. It has gone to the big bit-bucket in the sky and will never be seen again. :Ken Murray % I say, if striving to be a better, kinder, wiser person isn't enough for God then to hell with him. :kc2dpt % ...to exclude from one's love any entire group of human beings because of class, age, or race or religion, is surely to be poorer -- deeply and systematically poorer. :Kate Millet % The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. :Karl Marx % All I know is that I am not a Marxist. :Karl Marx % The next time someone asks you, "Hey, howdja get to be a homosexual anyway?" tell them, "Homosexuals are chosen first on talent, then interview, then the swimsuit and evening gown competition pretty much gets rid of the rest of them." :Karen Williams % Humankind cannot bear very much reality. :Karen Armstrong % The religion of compassion is followed only by a minority; most religious people are content with decorous worship in synagogue, church, temple and mosque. :Karen Armstrong % A religion which looks askance upon half the human race and which regards every involuntary motion of mind, heart and body as a symptom of a fatal concupiscence can only alienate men and women from their condition. :Karen Armstrong % A God who is in some mysterious way a person and who takes an active part in human history lays himself open to criticism. It is all too easy to make this "God" a larger-than-life tyrant or judge and make "him" fulfill our expectations. We can turn "God" into a Republican or a socialist, a racist or a revolutionary according to our own personal views. The danger of this has led some to see a personal God as an unreligious idea, because it simply embeds us in our own prejudice and makes our human ideas absolute. :Karen Armstrong % This image of the divine Tyrant imposing an alien law on his unwilling human servants has to go. Terrorizing the populace into civic obedience with threats is no longer acceptable or even practicable. :Karen Armstrong % We have seen that Jews, Christians, and Muslims have developed remarkably similar ideas of God, which also resemble other conceptions of the Absolute. When people try to find an ultimate meaning and value in human life, their minds seem to go in a certain direction. They have not been coerced to do this; it is something that seems natural to humanity. :Karen Armstrong % Atheism is no longer the painfully acquired ideology of a few intellectual pioneers but a prevailing mood. In the past it was always produced by a particular idea of God, but now it seems to have lost its inbuilt relationship to theism and become an automatic response to the experience of living in a secularized society. Like the crowd of amused people surrounding Nietzsche's madman, many are unmoved by the prospect of life without God. Others find his absence a positive relief. Those of us who have had a difficult time with religion in the past find it liberating to be rid of the God who terrorized our childhood. It is wonderful not to have a vengeful deity, who threatens us with eternal damnation if we do not abide by his rules. We have a new intellectual freedom and can boldly follow up our own ideas without pussyfooting around difficult articles of faith, feeling all the while a sinking loss of integrity. We imagine that the hideous deity we have experienced is the authentic God of Jews, Christians, and Muslims and do not always realize that it is merely an unfortunate aberration. :Karen Armstrong % A personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs, fears, and desires. We can assume that he loves what we love and hates what we hate, endorsing our prejudices instead of compelling us to transcend them. When he seems to prevent a catastrophe or seems even to desire a tragedy, he can seem callous and cruel. A facile belief that a disaster is the will of God can make us accept things that are fundamentally unacceptable. The very fact that, as a person, God has a gender is also limiting: it means that the sexuality of half the human race is sacralized at the expense of the female and can lead to a neurotic and inadequate imbalance in human sexual mores. A personal God can be dangerous, therefore. Instead of pulling us beyond our limitations, "he" can encourage us to remain complacently within them; "he" can make us as cruel, callous, self-satisfied and partial as "he" seems to be. Instead of inspiring the compassion that should characterize all advanced religion, "he" can encourage us to judge, condemn, and marginalize. It seems, therefore, that the idea of a personal God can only be a stage in our religious development. The world religions all seem to have recognized this danger and have sought to transcend the personal conception of supreme reality. :Karen Armstrong % Since the eleventh century, Muslim philosophers had come to the conclusion that reason -- which was quite indispensable for such studies as medicine or science -- was quite inadequate when it came to the study of God. To rely on reason alone was like attempting to eat soup with a fork. :Karen Armstrong % Once the Bible begins to be interpreted literally instead of symbolically, the idea of its God becomes impossible. To imagine a deity who is literally responsible for everything that happens on earth involves impossible contradictions. The "God" of the Bible ceases to be a symbol of a transcendent reality and becomes a cruel and despotic tyrant. :Karen Armstrong % ...And if I claim to be a wise man, it surely means that I don't know. :Kansas % I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers. :Kahlil Gibran % Some people, when confronted with a problem, think: "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems. :jwz % Difficile est saturnam non scribere. (It is difficult not to write satire.) :Juvenal % The attempt to silence a man is the greatest honour you can bestow on him. It means that you recognise his superiority to yourself. :Joseph Sobran, UPS % It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. :Joseph Joubert % An excuse is the mark of a moral coward. :Joseph Cimino % Governor Simcoe has done a great deal for this province. He has changed the name of every place in it. :Joseph Brant, Six Nations Chief % When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy against him. :Jonathan Swift % A soldier is a yahoo hired to kill in cold blood as many of his own species, who have never offended him, as possibly he can. :Jonathan Swift % It is not the weapon of the weak against the strong but the rage of the angry against the defenceless and innocent. It is an evil means to an evil end. :Chief Rabbi Sir Jonathan Sacks, on terrorism % Be liberal in what you accept and conservative in what you send. :Jon Postel % One must ask whether it is not preferable to permit the expression and allow the criminal or civil law to deal with the individual who publishes obscene, defamatory or hateful messages rather than prevent speech before it can be expressed. Otherwise, individuals may be putting themselves in the positions of courts to determine what is obscene and what is acceptable. :John Sopinka, SCOC Justice, speaking at UWaterloo, 26 Nov 1994 % It is by no means enough that an officer be capable... He should be a gentleman of liberal education, refined manners, punctilious courtesy, and the nicest sense of personal honor... No meritorious act of a subordinate should escape his attention, even if the reward be only one word of approval. Conversely, he should not be blind to a single fault in any subordinate. :John Paul Jones, 1775 % The whole documentation is not unreasonably transportable in a student's briefcase. :John Lions, commenting on a printout of the UNIX Level 6 source code % Do not worship, revere, or be afraid of any person, group, space, or reality. An investigator, an explorer, has no room for such baggage. :John Lilly % The quality of debate in the House is deplorable. You watch today and count how many read from prepared texts. :John Diefenbaker, May 1971 % It's absurd to give giant conglomerates the right to speak for artists. Music companies are to artists what wolves are to sheep. If they could hire lobbyists, wolves would no doubt enact stringent legislation to to protect the rights of sheep to be controlled and devoured by them. :jonkatz % Just say no to thugs. The ones who lock up innocent drug users come to mind. :John Gilmore % The Internet treats censorship just like any other glitch: it routes around it. :John Gilmore (EFF) % An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher. The society that scorns excellence in plumbing because plumbing is a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy. Neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. :John Gardner % We are all humans, we all know pain; it is not asking for superhuman empathy to expect people to recognize the fact of another's pain and to require them to act accordingly. To refuse to acknowledge someone else's pain, to react with exasperation and annoyance at an encounter with obvious distress is to abscond from our common humanity. :John Fisher % Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable. :John F. Kennedy % If not us, who? If not now, when? :John F. Kennedy % If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. :John F. Kennedy (inaugural address, 1961) % In the dark days and darker nights when England stood alone -- and most men save Englishmen despaired of England's life -- he mobilized the English language and sent it into battle. :John F. Kennedy, on Winston Churchill's skill at rhetoric % What the hell, reality is a nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there. :John Barth % Self-knowledge is always bad news. :John Barth % We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest. :John Adams % Against the machinations of your enemies you can take defense, but against the stupidity of fools, the very gods themselves fight in vain. :Johann C.F. Von Schiller % Why was it, he thought ... that if one chose one love, it seemed to invalidate all others, even if you felt them still? Why did the age-old arrangement of society, two by two in an endless procession, force one to be so ruthless? :Joanna Trollope, "The Best of Friends" % My hands are small, I know, But they're not yours; they are my own. :Jewel % If I have told you earthly things, and ye believe not, how shall ye believe, if I tell you of heavenly things? :Jesus of Nazareth (John 3:12) % Judge not, and ye shall not be judged; condemn not, and ye shall not be condemned; forgive, and ye shall be forgiven. :Jesus of Nazareth (Luke 6:37) % Take heed, and beware of covetousness; for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he posesseth. :Jesus of Nazareth (Luke 12:15) % Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth -- this defileth a man. :Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 15:11) % But be ye not called teacher; for one is your Teacher, even Christ, and all ye are brethren; And call no man your father upon the earth, for one is your Father, even he who is in heaven. Neither be ye called masters; for one is your Master, even Christ. :Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 23:8-10) % Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies; bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust. :Jesus of Nazareth (Matthew 5:43-45) % It's your life, and you don't owe a soul the least explanation or justification. If someone has a problem with what you choose for yourself, just be real clear in your mind that it's *their* problem, not yours. :Jess Anderson % It serves the oppressors' aims, not ours, when any of us *ask* for what we have every right to *demand* from this society. :Jess Anderson % You don't vote people rights; they *have* rights. :Jess Anderson % Therapy is expensive. Popping bubble wrap is cheap. You choose. :Jennifer Puddicombe % Last Will and Testament: Being of sound mind, I spent all my money. :Jennifer Puddicombe % As a professor, I have very little power. I'm not an MP, and I can't pass laws. I'm not a policeman, and I can't enforce the law. My only power is the power of my ideas. :Jeffrey Shallit % I don't think teenagers need to see two guys kissing on a weekly basis. :"Dawson's Creek" actor Kerr Smith Certainly not. Given the current queer-clue level among the general population, they need to see it far more often than that. :Jed Davis % Semper Monemus Sed Non Audiunt, Ergo Lartus. (We always warn them, but they never listen; so we LART them.) :Jean-Croix % We the unrewarded, are tired of doing the impossible for the ungrateful, while surrounded by the thoughtless doing the unmentionable. :Jealousy % Splitting the world into "us" and "them" is the root of conflict. It doesn't matter if the lines used are religious, ethnic, or based on sexual orientation. Peace comes from a vision of all people sharing in a common humanity and embracing diversity. Christian and atheist, gay and straight, we are all human beings. :Jayne Kulikauskas % The reverse side also has a reverse side. :Japanese proverb % Humans can write music, start wars, build cities, create art, fall in love, dream of colonizing the solar system, but they cannot write bug-free COBOL. :James Martin % Usability rules the Web. Simply stated, if the customer can't find a product, then he or she will not buy it. :Jakob Nielsen % Usability has grown dramatically in importance for web-based companies because of an inversion in the relationship between user experience and the ability to separate customers from their money. In the old world that is populated by most computer companies, customers would pay for a product first and only later take it home and discover that it was difficult to use. By the time you discover that you need a two-inch-thick book to figure out how to format chapter headings, your check has already been deposited in the Bank of Redmond. The situation is the reverse on the Web. Users experience a site's usability from the very first moment they consider doing business with a company. Users need to navigate a site and find the products before they get to the stage where they make a decision to spend money. :Jakob Nielsen % To forget all the rules and act naturally is a reward akin to heaven! :Jake Coughlin % I'd rather drive the .html file to your house on a floppy disk than run IIS. :Jacob Steenhagen % If I had wanted your website to make noise I would have licked my finger and rubbed it across the monitor. :istartedi % Most of the people have lost all confidence. I, however, speak loud and look big. :Isaac Brock, July 1812 % No iron can stab the heart with such force as a full stop put just at the right place. :Isaac Babel % Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent. :Isaac Asimov % There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death. :Isaac Asimov % Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is. :Isaac Asimov % The army under my command has now invaded your country.... Many of your fathers fought for the freedom and independence we now enjoy. Being children, therefore, of the same family with us, the arrival of an army of friends must be hailed by you with a cordial welcome....If, contrary to your own interest and the just expectation of my country, you should take part in the approaching contest, you will be considered and treated as enemies and the horrors and calamities of war will stalk before you. :BGen William Hull, Governor of Michigan "Appeal to the Inhabitants of Canada", 13 July 1812 Our enemies have indeed said that they can subdue the country by a proclamation, but it is our part to prove to them that they are sadly mistaken, that the population is determinedly hostile, and that the few who might be otherwise inclined will find it to their safety to be faithful. :MGen Isaac Brock, Commander-in-Chief and Lieutenant Governor of Upper Canada, 27 July 1812 % If you want to know what the Lord thinks about money, just look at the people He gives it to. :Irish Saying % The Gods watch over slumbering children, stray animals, and kender. :Irda saying % There's more than one answer to these questions / pointing me in a crooked line / and the less I seek my source for some definitive / the closer I am to fine. :Indigo Girls % We are making maximum effort to find a political solution and hope we will succeed. All other ways lead to tragedy and to nowhere. :Igor Ivanov, Russian foreign minister, referring to the Kosovo crisis % The single men's hostel I stayed at in Calgary in 1980 didn't feed you and I didn't eat that week. Even the Don Jail has central heating, three meals a day, and a semi private bedroom. Jail was preferable to many of the single men's hostels I have stayed at. We care more about our criminals than we do our homeless. It's pretty frightening to learn how unwanted you are when you're homeless. :Ian Chovil (www.chovil.com) % Every government is run by liars, and nothing they say should be believed. :I.F. Stone % Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people. :Hyman Rickover % Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats. :Howard Aiken % They've been writing the script and directing their action. But we can interrupt their show at any point. We can break character and start acting out our own plots. I think you'll find it easier to perform acts of resistance than you think. I have a hunch you're a natural. :Holly Hughes % Democracy is the art of running the circus from the monkey cage. :H.L. Mencken % Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard. :H.L. Mencken % There comes a time when every man feels the urge to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and start slitting throats. :H.L. Mencken % Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under. :H.L. Mencken % Discussing money before caring for the sick lacks propriety. :Hippocrates % Life is short, and the Art long; crisis fleeting; experience perilous, and decision difficult. :Hippocrates % Ekam Sataha Vipraha Bahudha Vadanti. (The truth is One, but different Sages call it by Different Names.) :Hindu saying % Talk not of wasted affection; affection never was wasted. :Henry Wadsworth Longfellow % There are so many hammocks to catch you if you fall, so many laws to keep you from experience. All these cities I have been in the last few weeks make me fully understand the cozy, stifling state in which most people pass through life. I don't want to pass through life like a smooth plane ride. All you do is get to breathe and copulate and finally die. I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks. People will walk by and say, "Look at that drooling idiot. What a basket case." I will turn and say to them, "It is you who are the basket case. For every moment you hated your job, cursed your wife and sold yourself to a dream that you didn't even conceive. For the times your soul screamed yes and you said no. For all of that. For your self-torture, I see the glowing eyes of the sun! The air talks to me! I am at all times!" And maybe, the passers by will drop a coin into my cup. :Henry Rollins % If you really have a lot on your mind, and you really want to do something with yourself...[then] Hating someone is giving them too much; just leave them alone. It's like when someone wants to hand you a big pile of horseshit--you don't have to take it. :Henry Rollins % You want some art? Come and get it. :Henry Rollins % The more you own, the more it owns you. :Henry Rollins % I think about the meaning of pain. Pain is personal. It really belongs to the one feeling it. Probably the only thing that is your own. I like mine. :Henry Rollins % If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and hitting your car into a tree. If you really hate your parents, out earn them, out live them and know more. :Henry Rollins % It is only when we forget our learning, do we begin to know. What does education often do? It makes a straight-cut ditch of a free, meandering brook. :Henry David Thoreau % From hard, coarse, insensible men with whom I have no sympathy, I go to commune with the rocks, whose hearts are comparatively soft. :Henry David Thoreau % Beware of all enterprises that require new clothes. :Henry David Thoreau % The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. :Henry David Thoreau % Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it. :Henry David Thoreau % Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. :Henry David Thoreau % Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something. :Henry David Thoreau % Civilization has fallen out of touch with night. With lights, we drive the holiness and the beauty of night back to the forests and the seas; the little villages, the crossroads even, will have none of it. Are modern folk, perhaps, afraid of night? Do they fear the vast serenity, the mystery of infinite space, the austerity of stars? :Henry Beston % Where they start by burning books, they will end up burning people. :Heinrich Heine % If you have half a mind to join, that's all you'll need. :Hash House Harriers % The fact is that more people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, THAT my friends, is true perversion. :Harvey Milk % When the government puts its imprimatur on a particular religion it conveys a message of exclusion to all those who do not adhere to the favored beliefs. A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some. :Harry A. Blackmun, SCUSA Justice, writing in Lee v. Weisman (90-1014), 505 U.S. 577 (1992) % I think there should be enough tolerance in our community for all Queer People, even the stereotypical gay person as John so eloquently put it. Every once in a while we should remember that tolerance starts with oneself and not with the person standing next to you. And last but certainly not least, can't we just all get along! :Hans D. Daetwyler % Manas ki jat sabhe ekhi pechanbo. (All of mankind is but one.) :Guru Gobind Singh Ji % One St. Patrick's Day. 364 Practice Days. :Guinness Ad % I don't think that the issue is either interpersonal skills or altruism. Het folks are soaking in het privilege and few of them have worked on it much. :Gwendolyn Dean % The whole point of institutionalized oppression is that oppression operates by habit rather than by conscious intent. In addition, members of the oppressor group are conditioned to be blind and deaf to all manifestations of oppression except the most egregious. That's how it operates so efficiently. :Gwendolyn Dean % I would not slave for beggar's pay; likewise, gold and jewels, but I would slave to learn the way to sink your Ship Of Fools! :Grateful Dead % Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. :Goethe % There is enough stuff in me to make both a gentleman and a rogue. :Goethe % To use a method is to compare the realm of mind to a stool. The true thinker walks freely. :Godfried Bomans % There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well-prepared to meet the enemy. :George Washington % Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim. :George Santayana % People sleep peaceably in their beds at night because rough men are willing to do violence on their behalf. :George Orwell % We are all capable of believing things which we know to be untrue, and then, when we are finally proved wrong, impudently twisting the facts so as to show that we were right. Intellectually, it is possible to carry on this process for an indefinite time: the only check on it is that sooner or later a false belief bumps up against solid reality, usually on a battlefield. :George Orwell % If we give you a rifle / will you fight for the Lord? But you can't kill the Devil / with a gun or a sword. :"The George Fox Song" % You need the computing power of a Pentium, 16 MB RAM, and a 1 GB Harddisk to run Win95. It took the computing power of 3 Commodore 64s to fly to the Moon. Something is wrong here, and it wasn't the Apollo. :George Crissman % Where are we going? And what's with this hand basket? :George Carlin % That language is an instrument of human reason, and not merely a medium for the expression of thought, is a truth generally admitted. :George Boole % The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. :George Bernard Shaw % Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. :George Bernard Shaw % I never thought much of the courage of a lion-tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people. :George Bernard Shaw % The fact that a believer may be happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunk is happier than a sober man. :George Bernard Shaw % The thanks of the infantry, in my opinion, must be treasured more by every artilleryman than all decorations and citations. :Col Georg Bruchmuller % For many a man so hard is of his herte, He may nat wepe al-thogh him sore smerte. Therefore, in stede of weping and preyeres, Men moot yeve silver to the povre freres. :Geoffrey Chaucer, "Canterbury Tales" % "Sir, Sir! I've deleted all my files!" "Yes, my child? ...Pray tell me how." "I wanted to delete directories fred1 and fred2 but I typed rm -rf fred * when I should have typed rm -rf fred* !" "Ah ha, and what have you learnt?" "To beware of powerful filename globbing facilities that my shell provides for my careful use." "Yes, my child, you have learnt a painful lesson. Now you must learn how to recover files from one of the many, multiply redundant backup tapes you have carefully written every evening ever since you were granted a powerful personal workstation." "Master, I'm eager to learn!" :Geoff. Lane % There is many a boy here today who looks on war as all glory, but boys, it is all hell. :General William T. Sherman % People should not call themselves pro-life if they are only anti-abortion and yet feel no twinge of conscience over the unfair application of capital punishment or wars fought for dubious motives. A true pro-life position cares just as passionately for the born as the un-born and views war as a last resort when all other options are exhausted. :Gary Vance % Be the change you want to see in the world. :Gandhi % Reporter: "Mr. Gandhi, what do you think of Western Civilization?" Gandhi: "I think it would be a good idea." :Gandhi % I object to violence because, when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent. :Gandhi % We are fighting for justice, we will not harm anyone. :Gandhi % If we take care of the means, we are bound to reach the end sooner or later. :Gandhi % I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ. :Gandhi % You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul. :Gandhi % What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy? :Gandhi % It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. :Gandhi % Some who live deserve death, and some who die deserve life -- can you give it to them? Then be not to eager to deal out death in judgement, for even the very wise cannot see all ends. :Gandalf, in _Lord Of The Rings_ % I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. :Galileo Galilei % This world is the will to power - and nothing besides! And you yourselves are also this will to power - and nothing besides! :Friedrich Nietzsche % Almost two thousand years, and no new God! :Friedrich Nietzsche % To be able to take one's own enemies, accidents, and misdeeds seriously for long - that is the sign of strong and rich natures.... :Friedrich Nietzsche % Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful. :Friedrich Nietzsche % The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by the exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures. :Frederick P. Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" % Brooks' Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. :Frederick P. Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" % The architect of a system, like the architect of a building, is the user's agent. It is his job to bring professional and technical knowledge to bear in the unalloyed interest of the user, as opposed to the interests of the salesman, the fabricator, etc. :Frederick P. Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" % The programmer at wit's end for lack of space can often do best by disentangling himself from his code, rearing back, and contemplating his data. Representation *is* the essence of programming. :Frederick P. Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" % The hardest single part of building a software system is deciding precisely what to build. No other part of the conceptual work is so difficult as establishing the detailed technical requirements, including all the interfaces to people, to machines, and to other software systems. No other part of the work so cripples the resulting system if done wrong. No other part is more difficult to rectify later. :Frederick P. Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" % ...the most important function that software builders do for their clients is the iterative extraction and refinement of the product requirements. For the truth is, the clients do not know what they want. They usually do not know what questions must be answered, and they almost never have thought of the problem in the detail that must be specified. :Frederick P. Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month" % One of my favorite philosophical tenets is that people will agree with you only if they already agree with you. You do not change people's minds. :Frank Zappa % When the Brits bombed, the Germans ducked. When the Germans bombed, the Brits ducked. When the Yanks bombed, everybody ducked. :Frank Watson % An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board -- and a wrecking bar at the site. :Frank Lloyd Wright % He who will not apply new remedies must expect old evils. :Francis Bacon % Karlson's Theorem of Snack Food Packages: For all P, where P is a package of snack food, P is a SINGLE-SERVING package of snack food. :from the fortune(6) file % Drink Canada Dry! You might not succeed, but you'll have fun trying. :from the fortune(6) file % The Tao is like a glob pattern: used but never used up. It is like the extern void: filled with infinite possibilities. It is masked but always present. I don't know who built to it. It came before the first kernel. :from the fortune(6) file % The US Government has just decided to bomb (re: kill) some people they have never met in an attempt to 'combat terrorism'. So who are the terrorists now? Do you ever wonder what effect it might have if the US military decided to drop food on these people's heads instead of bombs...? :FNB Edmonton % Q: Who do you consider to be the outstanding Allied Generals of WW 2? A: This is a hard question, there are so many that it would be an injustice to just name a few, and leave others out that I consider to be just as good. I always wondered why nobody ever asked, "What are the names of some great privates?" They were out there too, they were even up front fighting the enemy. :1st Sgt Kilroy, 2nd Armored Division % Hard pressed on my right, my center is yielding, impossible to maneuver. Situation excellent, I am attacking. :Ferdinand Foch (at the Battle of the Marne) % With a long range weapon or suicide bomber A wicked mind is a weapon of mass destruction Whether your soar-away Sun or BBC 1 Misinformation is a weapon of mass destruction You could 'a caucasian or a poor asian Racism is a weapon of mass destruction Whether inflation or globalisation Fear is a weapon of mass destruction Whether Haliburton, Enron or anyone Greed is a weapon of mass destruction We need to find courage, overcome Inaction is a weapon of mass destruction :Faithless % Rights management is the first step to censorship. It's an idea that is fundamentally opposite to principles of information freedom. :Evan Prodromou % The idea of developing software that INHIBITS the owner of the software from doing things they want to do is just ridiculous. I don't want software on my computer doing the dirty work of Sony Entertainment. I don't think I should have to run it, I don't think I should have to package it, and damn straight I'm not going to write it. "Are my leg shackles not large and heavy enough for you, sir? Shall I put more locks on them? I'll get right on that, sir." Jeez louise. :Evan Prodromou % The day is for honest men, the night is for thieves. :Euripidies % Do Not Obey Any Instructions! :Esther Stocker % Damage to the open-source community would matter, because we are both today's principal source of innovation in software and the guardians and maintainers of the open Internet. Our autonomy is everyone's bulwark against government and corporate control of the digital media that are increasingly central in political, commercial, and personal communications. Our creative energy is what perpetually renews and finds ever more exciting uses for computers and networks. The vigor of our culture today will translate into more possibilities for everyone tomorrow. :ESR & Rob Landley, `OSI Position Paper on the SCO-vs.-IBM Complaint' % The fun factor started a virtuous circle early in Unix's history. People liked Unix, so they built more programs for it that made it nicer to use. Today people build entire, production-quality open-source Unix systems as a hobby. To understand how remarkable this is, ask yourself when you last heard of anybody cloning OS/360 or VAX VMS or Microsoft Windows for fun. :ESR % Debugging dominates development time, and getting a working system out the door is usually less a result of brilliant design than it is of managing not to trip over your own feet too many times. :ESR % One must not judge everyone in the world by his qualities as a soldier: otherwise we should have no civilization. :Erwin Rommel % What difference does it make if you have two tanks to my one, when you spread them out and let me smash them in detail? :Erwin Rommel % Be an example to your men in your duty and in private life. Never spare yourself, and let the troops see that you don't in your endurance of fatigue and privation. Always be tactful and well-mannered, and teach your subordinates to be the same. Avoid excessive sharpness or harshness of voice, which usually indicates the man who has shortcomings of his own to hide. :Erwin Rommel % Mortal danger is an effective antidote for fixed ideas. :Erwin Rommel % Shoot, coward; you'll only kill a man. :Reputed last words of Ernesto `Che' Guevara % Gentlemen, we have no money. We shall have to use our brains. :Ernest Rutherford % They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern warfare there is nothing sweet or fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. :Ernest Hemingway % Smith's Second Law: Object code is the ultimate documentation; you can't bullshit the processor. :Eric Smith % Dulce bellum inexpertis. (War is sweet to those who haven't tasted it.) :Erasmus % When I get a little money, I buy books. If any is left, I buy food and clothes. :Erasmus % In the country of the blind the one eyed man is king. :Erasmus % Most people who need to be shot need to be shot soon and a lot. Very few people need to be shot later or just a little. :The Epopt % We must not make a pretense of doing philosophy, but really do it; for what we need is not the semblance of health, but real health. :Epicurus % Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? :Epicurus % To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete. :Epictetus % No man is free who is not master of himself. :Epictetus % Before I came here I was confused about this subject. Having listened to your lecture I am still confused, but on a higher level. :Enrico Fermi % Better to die on your feet than live on your knees! :Emiliano Zapata % The fog of war is thicker without a plan. :Elizabeth Sullivan % To avoid criticism do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. :Elbert Hubbard % Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. :Elbert Hubbard % A friend is someone who knows all about you and still likes you. :Elbert Hubbard % What is truth? I don't know, and I'm sorry I brought it up. :Edward Abbey % The tools we use have a profound (and devious) influence on our thinking habits, and therefore, on our thinking abilities. :Edsger W. Dijkstra % Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. :Edsger W. Dijkstra % The art of programming is the art of organizing complexity. :Edsger W. Dijkstra % Program testing can be used to show the presence of bugs, but never to show their absence! :Edsger W. Dijkstra % Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. :Edsger W. Dijkstra % The problems of the real world are primarily those you are left with when you refuse to apply their effective solutions. :Edsger W. Dijkstra % The competent programmer is fully aware of the limited size of his own skull. He therefore approaches his task with full humility, and avoids clever tricks like the plague. :Edsger W. Dijkstra % A living dog is better than a dead lion. :Ecclesiastes 9:4 % One over banana is never zero. :E. Wang % To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle any human being can fight and never stop fighting. :e.e. cummings % Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children....This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from an iron cross. :Dwight Eisenhower % The first thing to be said about music is that if it sounds good, it is good. :Duke Ellington % In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move. :Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" % UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because that would also stop you from doing clever things. :Doug Gwyn % I'm not paid to be normal. :Doc Nickel % ...stop thinking that bits are like really lightweight atoms. You are never going to prevent us from copying the bits we want. :Doc Searls and David Weinberger, http://www.worldofends.com/ % But when you close your eyes / do you like what you see / inside your mind? :Dishwalla % Beggars get handouts before philosophers because people have some idea of what it's like to be blind and lame. :Diogenes % Discourse on virtue and they pass by in droves; whistle and dance the shimmy, and you've got an audience. :Diogenes % Of what use is a philosopher who doesn't hurt anybody's feelings? :Diogenes % When I saw a child drinking from his hand, I threw away my cup. :Diogenes % Alexander: I am Alexander the Great. Diogenes: I am Diogenes, the dog. Alexander: The dog? Diogenes: I nuzzle the kind, bark at the greedy, and bite louts. Alexander: What can I do for you? Diogenes: Only stand out of my light. :Discourse between Alexander the Great and Diogenes the Cynic on their first meeting % A certain shepherd oppressed the sheep with cruel laws. 1. Sheep will be shorn and wool confiscated. 2. Sheep with poor wool yields will be slaughtered. 3. Sheep may not speak except to say BAAA. The sheep became unmanageable so the shepherd was replaced. The new shepherd gave his flock a new Charter of Freedoms. 1. Citizens have the right to be freed of wool. 2. Citizens lacking wool will be posthumously honoured. 3. Citizens have absolute freedom of speech. And all the sheep together voiced a loyal BAAA. :"Dingo", Aussie Anarchist Pub % A man is not a great man because he is a warrior and kills other men; but because he hurts not any living being he in truth is called a great man. :The Dhammapada % You can turn a car into a boat if you have enough duct tape, but why not just get a boat in the first place? :D.G. Devin % We're through being cool! Eliminate the ninnies and the twits! :Devo % If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. :Derek Bok % We implore you to use your bible like a lamppost. Not for support of narrow, self-serving goals and ideas, but as a light to shine God's love on all of his creations. :Dennis and Diana Stimson % Full auto weapons and ammo are much too expensive to use on spammers. The standard wooden mallet is legal in all 50 states and requires no permit. :Deil "The Jackal" Bland % In our society, too, we take it for granted that we should be strangers to each other -- strangers who work together, and "deal" with each other, by the media of authority and money-exchange. We miss, hardly aware of our loss, the qualities of social warmth, of fraternal rivalry and cooperation -- we miss these satisfactions and the strength they would give us. :David Thoreau Wieck, "Essentials of Anarchism" % We take it for granted that a small number of people, more or less talented, shall make -- one would hardly say "create" -- under the usual consumption-oriented conditions of the market, our "works of art", our "entertainment", while the rest of us are spectators. :David Thoreau Wieck, "Essentials of Anarchism" % If Microsoft made your letter box, all some one would have to do is write "Burn the house down" on a piece of paper and post it through the door, and your house would go up in flames. :David Ruck % The good news is the White House is giving George W Bush intelligence briefings. You know, some of these jokes just write themselves. :David Letterman % Military necessity will be our constant cry in answer to criticism, but it will never erase from our minds the simple truth that we, of all civilized nations, though hesitating to use poison gas, did not hesitate to employ the most destructive weapon of all times indiscriminately against men, women and children. What a precedent for the future we have furnished to other nations even less concerned than we with scruples or ideals! ...Surely we cannot be proud of what we have done. If we state our inner thoughts honestly, we are ashamed of it. :David Lawrence % It says something about our tremendous investment in patriarchy that we elect few females to Congress and none to our pantheon. :David Elkins % The sexism that pervades conservative religion would result in multimillion-dollar lawsuits in any other societal institution. :David Elkins % I believe in God, but not in a God who crushes the spirit of little girls and grooms little boys to become sexist. I cannot believe in a God who tells women they must bow in submission to a man. I cannot believe in a God who condemns assertive women but approves violent men. I cannot believe in a God so threatened in his own masculinity that he cannot even hear the voice of the feminine if it dares question his authority. :David Elkins % When we repress the feminine--whether in ourselves, in our religion, or in our society--we do damage to the soul. :David Elkins % Are you the police? . . . . No ma'am, we're sysadmins. :Dave Lugo % MORNING, n. In a perfect world, the part where you roll over and snuggle a little closer to your love muffin(s) and then drift back to sleep, with perhaps a little groggy playtime thrown in. More often it's what keeps coffee bean farmers in business. :Darren % eat Depends: cook | eat-out. But eat-out is non-free so that's out. And cook Recommends: clean-pans. :dark, #debian % There is a frozen sea within us. Philosophy is an axe. Everything you believe is questionable. How deeply have you questioned it? The uncritical acceptance of beliefs handed down by parents, teachers, politicians, and religious leaders is dangerous. Many of these beliefs are simply false. Some of them are lies designed to control you. Even when what has been handed down is true, it is not your truth. To merely accept anything without questioning it is to be somebody else's puppet, a second-hand person. ...That is what philosophy is: the art of questioning everything. :Daniel Kolak / Raymond Martin % Nobody dislikes war more than warriors. :Daniel James, Jr. % Socially, it is quite difficult to exclude males from linguistic references because so rare is this occurrence that listeners assume that any speaker who refers to males as she/woman is mentally disturbed. :Dale Spender % He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal. :Colonel Ardant du Picq % If you aren't up to a little magic occasionally, you shouldn't waste time trying to cook. :Colette % I personally would not have given them an e-mail address to order a pizza. E-mailing pizza tends to smear the toppings and sauce all over my input ports. :clifto % ...my memory plays tricks. Just a few minutes ago it pointed at my shirt button, and when I looked down it flicked my nose. :clifto % I am sorry for anyone who has not been an anarchist at twenty. :Clemenceau % If you have ever been called defiant, incorrigible, forward, cunning, insurgent, unruly, rebellious, you're on the right track.... If you have never been called these things, there is yet time. :Clarissa Pinkola Estes, 'Women who run with the wolves' % This address is a stenographic report of a talk made to the prisoners in the Chicago jail. Some of my good friends have insisted that while my theories are true, I should not have given them to the inmates of a jail. Realizing the force of the suggestion that the truth should not be spoken to all people, I have caused these remarks to be printed on rather good paper and in a somewhat expensive form. In this way the truth does not become cheap and vulgar, and is only placed before those whose intelligence and affluence will prevent their being influenced by it. :Clarence Darrow % Nihil tam absurde dici potest, quod non dicatur ab aliquo pilosophorum. (There is nothing so absurd, that some philosopher has not said it.) :Cicero % The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. :Cicero % Salus populi est suprema lex. (The welfare of the people is the ultimate law.) :Cicero % There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after all, a limit to retribution and punishment. :Cicero % The more laws, the less justice. :Cicero % Careless individuals are dangerous to themselves and others with any sort of gun, and also around motor vehicles, boats, aircraft, power tools, matches, propane stoves and lanterns, machinery of all kinds, and electricity. They should be studiously avoided. :Chuck Hawks % How do I know that loving life is not a delusion? How do I know that in hating death I am not like a man who, having left home in his youth, has forgotten the way back? :Chuang Tzu % Hunting and gathering are basic instincts that can be satisfied with a weapon or a charge card. Either way, something dies and you eat it. :Chris Phillipo % The only difference between someone who claims they are God and someone who claims they speak for God is that the