Here lies part of my .sigfile collection. See the .sigfile page for any details that aren't obvious.
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* "Malt does more than Milton can, *
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It is difficult to overemphasise how wrong this is.
-- George Bernard Shaw
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I'd explain it, but there's a lot of math. -- Calvin
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S: Can I have a name?
D: Don't you have one? That's sad, not having a name. I used to have
one name, then I had to get another one. If you don't have a name,
what do people call you? I mean, do they just wave and smile or
jingle little silver bells or what?
Secretary and Delirium, from SANDMAN #43 by Neil Gaiman
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Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. "Yes" is the answer.
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Unclear on the Concept, No. 1:
When one arranges a death by poisoning, it is not usually necessary to
boil the water first.
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"We have to distrust each other... | Tennessee Williams [Camino Real 1953]
Its our only defence against betrayal." |
| The three laws of thermodynamics
| Law #1 You can't win
| Law #2 You can't break even
| Law #3 You can't quit the game
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| There is nothing wrong with being a sociopath. Its
| getting caught thats a problem. Be a mad scientist
| Write poetry. Be an artist. Plot world domination.
| Panthers make great pets. Muhahahahahahahahahaha!!
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| "If people knew how hard I worked to get my mastery,
| it wouldn't seem so wonderful after all." - Michelangelo
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| "You know they tried so hard to change my mind
| But I was oh so young and proud and blind..."
| - Horslips
Madness takes its toll; please have exact change.
Above all else - sky.
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"Beware of plumbers who frequently lose assistants in
mysterious drowning accidents" - Harry Hill
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"When an old and distinguished person speaks to you, listen to him
carefully and with respect--but do not believe him." -- Linus Pauling
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|A smile is a curve that can set a lot of things straight. |
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"It's a magical world, Hobbes ol' buddy...
...let's go exploring"
Calvin's final words, on December 31st, 1995
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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 in Technology Review, July 1996]
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|"When they kick out your front door,
| How are you gonna come?
| With your hands upon your head,
| Or on the trigger of your gun?"
| -- The Clash, "Guns of Brixton"
| _London_Calling_ , 1979
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"The first human being who hurled an insult instead of a stone
was the founder of civilization.
--Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)
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Cow Mutilated Cow
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"Wouldn't the sentence 'I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish
and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign' have been clearer
if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and
and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and
and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?"
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Uncle Ed's Rule of Thumb: Never use your thumb for a rule.
You'll either hit it with a hammer or get a splinter in it.
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Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he
is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not
make messes in the house.
-- Lazarus Long, "Time Enough for Love"
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"Every man's conscience is vile and depraved. You cannot depend on it
to be your guide, when it's you who must keep it satisfied." [Bob
Dylan]
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| "I'll tell you this
| No eternal reward will forgive
| us now for wasting the dawn.'
| - The Doors -
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The idea that an arbitrary naive human should be able to properly use
a given tool without training or understanding is even more wrong for
computing than it is for other tools (eg automobiles, airplanes, guns
or power saws).
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"The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as 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."
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"Become the change you wish to see
in the world." --Mohandas Gandhi
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Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional.
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|+| "If anyone disagrees with anything I
|+| say, I am quite prepared not only to
|+| retract it, but also to deny under
|+| oath that I ever said it." --T. Lehrer
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| "If you make people think they are
| thinking, they will love you; if you
| make them think, they will hate you."
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ - Don Marquis
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Better a genial genius than a prodigal prodigy.
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A "No" uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a
"Yes" merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-- Mahatma Ghandi
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"Watch me not care" dilbert 19960219 |
Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, | Do not watch
For you are crunchy and good with ketchup. | this space
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PATRIOTISM A great British writer once said that if he had to choose
between betraying his country and betraying a friend he hoped he would
have the decency to betray his country.
- The Hipcrime Vocab by Chad C. Mulligan
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| You should play the game for fun. The instant you find
| yourself playing for any other reason, you should rack
| it up and go on to something else.
| -- Charles Goren