The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
-- Kilgore Trout
Thursday, August 31, 2006
Wednesday, August 30, 2006
Tuesday, August 29, 2006
Monday, August 28, 2006
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Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
-- Frank Zappa
Sunday, August 27, 2006
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Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
-- Rich Kulawiec
Saturday, August 26, 2006
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Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history, dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the air, and whomped the club into the sloping forehead of the first primitive umpire.
What inner force drove this first athlete? Your guess is as good as mine. Better, probably, because you haven't had four beers.
-- Dave Barry, "Sports is a Drag"
Friday, August 25, 2006
Thursday, August 24, 2006
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The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
-- Albert Einstein
Wednesday, August 23, 2006
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Don't mess with the volcano my man, 'cause I will go Pompeii on your... butt.
-- Mr. Furious
Tuesday, August 22, 2006
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It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
-- Douglas Adams
Monday, August 21, 2006
Sunday, August 20, 2006
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You have exactly ten seconds to change that look of disgusting pity into one of enormous respect!
-- Max Bialystock
Saturday, August 19, 2006
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The level of awe that you get by contemplating the modern scientific view of the universe: deep time (by which I mean geological time), deep space, and what you could call deep complexity, living things..... that level of awe is just orders of magnitude greater and more awe-inspiring than the sort of pokey medieval world-view which the church still actually has. I mean, they sort of pay lip-service to the scientific world-view, but if you listen to what they say on Thought For The Day [a religious program on BBC Radio] and things like that, it is medieval. It's a small world, a small universe, with the sky up there, very little advance since that time. So I yield to nobody in my awe for the universe and for life, but I also have a deep desire to understand it, in terms of what makes it work, what makes it tick, and not to take refuge in spurious non-explanations like "I just believe it because I believe it," that sort of thing.
-- Richard Dawkins, interview with Douglas Adams
Week in Review
Friday, August 18, 2006
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echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."
-- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution
Thursday, August 17, 2006
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Science has 'explained' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
-- Aldous Huxley
Wednesday, August 16, 2006
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It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, August 15, 2006
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We've got a blind date with Destiny -- and it looks like she's ordered the lobster.
-- The Shoveler
Monday, August 14, 2006
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Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
-- David Letterman
Sunday, August 13, 2006
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The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
-- Mark Twain
Saturday, August 12, 2006
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There comes a time in the affairs of a man when he has to take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
-- W. C. Fields
Friday, August 11, 2006
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Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time;
Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme.
There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify;
Political ends, as sad remains, will die.
Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you.
-- Yes
Thursday, August 10, 2006
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If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, "I swallowed it. So sue me."
-- Jack Handey
Wednesday, August 09, 2006
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In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson
Tuesday, August 08, 2006
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Unix is hard to learn. The process of learning it is one of multiple small epiphanies. Typically you are just on the verge of inventing some necessary tool or utility when you realize that someone else has already invented it, and built it in, and this explains some odd file or directory or command that you have noticed but never really understood before.
-- Neal Stephenson
Monday, August 07, 2006
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He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
-- Rudyard Kipling
Sunday, August 06, 2006
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The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.
-- Wavy Gravy
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Friday, August 04, 2006
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The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
-- Stanley Kubrick
Thursday, August 03, 2006
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A plumbing system is very much like your electrical system, except that instead of electricity, it has water, and instead of wires, it has pipes, and instead of radios and waffle irons, it has faucets and toilets. So the truth is that your plumbing systems is nothing at all like your electrical system, which is good, because electricity can kill you.
-- Dave Barry
Wednesday, August 02, 2006
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
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