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When all is said and done, generally more is said than |
done. |
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The very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common. Instead of
altering their views to fit the facts, they alter the facts to fit their
views ... which can be very uncomfortable if you happen to be one of the
facts that needs altering.
-- Doctor Who, "Face of Evil"
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of
the human mind to correlate all its contents. H.P. Lovecraft
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| "One who is not wise himself cannot be well
| advised" --Machiavelli, The Prince, sec XXIII
|
| "It was a piece of subtle refinement that God
| learnt Greek when he wanted to be a writer -
| and that he did not learn it better"
| Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil (Maxims 121)
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| "...All we had were Zeros and Ones -- And
| sometimes we didn't even have Ones."
+--------------+ - Dilbert, by Scott Adams
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"Who asked you to play God?"
"Every damn patient that comes through the door, they come to me
because they want me to be God. They want to be healed and they
come to me when their prayers aren't enough.
If I have to take the responsibility, I claim the authority too."
Doctor Franklin - Babylon 5
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| "All the world will be your enemy, and when"
| "they catch you, they will kill you, Prince"
| "with a thousand enemies."
| --"Watership Down"...Richard Adams
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! "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over
! any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent
! harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not
! a sufficient warrant." -- John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty" 1859
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When walking on thin ice you might as well dance
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Psychedelic drugs have been shown to cause paranoia, |
confusion, and total loss of reality -- in [people] |
who have never taken them." - Timothy Leary |
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`When any government, or any church for that matter, 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 --"
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| Did you know that the word "pizza"
| is a mathematical formula? It is
| the volume of a circular pizza of
| radius "z" and thickness "a".
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"Any smoothly functioning technology will be
indistinguishable from a rigged demo." Isaac Asimov
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"Where were you last night?" "That's so long ago, I don't remember."
"Will I see you tonight?" "I never make plans that far ahead."
-- Yvonne and Rick Blaine in ``Casablanca''
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/ \ "If you are hit by a rubber dart, you
| | are hit by a rubber dart. Role-play
| | accordingly."
| | -- Rules for _Die You Commie Bastard!_,
\_____________________________/ an MIT Assassins' Guild game
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One-Shot Case Study, n.:
The scientific equivalent of the four-leaf clover, from which it
is concluded all clovers possess four leaves and are sometimes green.
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"Bother," said Pooh, "Eeyore, ready two photon torpedoes and lock
phasers on the Heffalump, Piglet, meet me in transporter room three"
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I'm the evil in your bloodstream, / I'm the rash upon your skin,
And you made a big mistake all right / The day you let me in.
You can fly to the other side of the world, / You know you'll only find
I've reserved the seat behind you. / We can talk about old times...
---Marillion, "Uninvited Guest" (_Season's End_)
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The Feynman problem solving Algorithm
1) Write down the problem
2) Think real hard
3) Write down the answer
Murray Gell-mann in the NY Times
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/ \ "The cat's been in the box for over
| | 20 years. Nobody's feeding it. The
| | cat is dead."
| | -- Grant, on Schroedinger's Cat
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! "The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over
! any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent
! harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not
! a sufficient warrant." -- John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty" 1859
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| "The plural of anecdote is not data."
| -- Roger Brinner, quoted in Bruce
| Little's "Amazing Facts", _The
| Globe and Mail_
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"I have often said, and oftener think, that this world is a comedy for
those who think, and a tragedy for those who feel." - Horace Walpole, 1769
"Education is a process in which one loses one's fear
of what one does not know" Steven A. Rosenberg, Surgeon/Scientist
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"There's really only one sure-fire piece of general advice:
handle it with grace, skill . . . and a sense of humor or perspective,
as the circumstances demand."
--
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history
that man can never learn anything from history."
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
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"Men will give their lives for an idea if it's large enough and
not exactly clear to them" - Moses Moses.
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| Work like you don't need the money.
| Love like you've never been hurt.
| And dance like nobody is watching.
| --S Clark & R Leigh
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"Cuius testiculos habes, habeas cardia et cerebellum." -
"When you have their full attention in your grip,
their hearts and minds will follow."
Terry Pratchett
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It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.
-- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
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! Estne volumen in toga, an solum tibi libt me videre? !
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"It was wrong once, redemption won't make it right."
-- Chow Yun Fat, "Full Contact"
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^|\bye|| % This is the way the file ends, not with a \bang but a \bye.|
Donald E. Knuth, TeXbook.TeX line 18979
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| There are two rules for ultimate
| success in life:
|
| 1. Never tell everything you know.
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|___| You bought a mask: I put it on: you never thought to ask me if I wear
| | | it when you're gone. The Sisters of Mercy: When You Don't See Me.
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"No man knows how bad he is till he has tried very hard to be good."
~C.S. Lewis
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"There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a
vacuum."
-- Arthur C. Clarke
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'People imagine that they can reach one another. In reality they only
pass each other by.' -Franz Schubert
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"Anything that gets rid of people is okay with me." -- Dogbert