I've begun worshipping the sun for a number of reasons. First of all, unlike some other gods I could mention, I can see the sun. It's there for me every day. And the things it brings me are quite apparent all the time: heat, light, food, a lovely day. There's no mystery, no one asks for money, I don't have to dress up, and there's no boring pageantry. And interestingly enough, I have found that the prayers I offer to the sun and the prayers I formerly offered to "God" are all answered at about the same 50-percent rate.
-- George Carlin, Brain Droppings
Saturday, March 31, 2007
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Friday, March 30, 2007
Thursday, March 29, 2007
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Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
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I'm not impressed by what college your kid is going to. George Bush went to Yale. The End.
-- Bill Maher
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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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, March 26, 2007
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A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me. I'm afraid of widths.
-- Stephen Wright
Sunday, March 25, 2007
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If you're a horse, and someone gets on you, and falls off, and then gets right back on you, I think you should buck him off right away.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, March 24, 2007
Friday, March 23, 2007
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An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint.
As he designs the first work, frill after frill and embellishment after embellishment occur to him. These get stored away to be used "next time." Sooner or later the first system is finished, and the architect, with firm confidence and a demonstrated mastery of that class of systems, is ready to build a second system.
This second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs. When he does his third and later ones, his prior experiences will confirm each other as to the general characteristics of such systems, and their differences will identify those parts of his experience that are particular and not generalizable.
The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one. The result, as Ovid says, is a "big pile."
-- Frederick Brooks, (The Mythical Man Month)
Thursday, March 22, 2007
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I hope this has taught you kids a lesson: kids never learn.
-- Police Chief Clancy Wiggum
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
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You can't crush ideas by suppressing them. You can only crush them by ignoring them.
-- Ursula K. Le Guin
Tuesday, March 20, 2007
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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
-- Bjarne Stroustrup
Monday, March 19, 2007
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If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.
-- Frank Lloyd Wright
Sunday, March 18, 2007
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Saturday, March 17, 2007
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It's been suggested that if the supernaturalists really had the powers they claim, they'd win the lottery every week. I prefer to point out that they could also win a Nobel Prize for discovering fundamental physical forces hitherto unknown to science. Either way, why are they wasting their talents doing party turns on television?
-- Richard Dawkins
Week in Review
Friday, March 16, 2007
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Don't talk to me about the post-modern age. We're not even in the modern age yet for Christ's sake. There are still 150 million people in America who believe in Genesis.
-- Simon Critchley
Thursday, March 15, 2007
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In the game of chess you can never let your adversary see your pieces.
-- Captain Zapp Brannigan
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
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Facts are meaningless. You can use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
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If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them.
-- Isaac Asimov
Monday, March 12, 2007
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The next time I have meat and mashed potatoes, I think I'll put a very large blob of potatoes on my plate with just a little piece of meat. And if someone asks me why I didn't get more meat, I'll just say, "Oh, you mean this?" and pull out a big piece of meat from inside the blob of potatoes, where I've hidden it. Good magic trick, huh?
-- Jack Handey
Sunday, March 11, 2007
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I believe that professional wrestling is clean and everything else in the world is fixed.
-- Frank Deford
Saturday, March 10, 2007
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They do say, Mrs Miggins, that verbal insults hurt more than physical pain. They are of course wrong, as you will soon discover when I stick this toasting fork in your head.
-- Edmund Blackadder, Esq. (Blackadder the Third)
Week in Review
Friday, March 09, 2007
Thursday, March 08, 2007
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New York now leads the world's great cities in the number of people around whom you shouldn't make a sudden move.
-- David Letterman
Wednesday, March 07, 2007
Tuesday, March 06, 2007
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In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death -- even vegetarians.
-- Spock, "Wolf in the Fold", stardate 3615.4
Monday, March 05, 2007
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Science is like sex: sometimes something useful comes out, but that is not the reason we are doing it
-- Richard P. Feynman
Sunday, March 04, 2007
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I wish I had a kryptonite cross, because then you could keep both Dracula AND Superman away.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, March 03, 2007
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
-- Aldous Huxley
Week in Review
Friday, March 02, 2007
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A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
G is for grep, a clever detective, while
H is for halt, which may seem defective.
I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
J is for join, which nobody uses.
K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
M is for more, from which less was begot, and
N is for nice, which it really is not.
O is for od, which prints out things nice, while
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for true, which does very little.
U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
-- THE ABC'S OF UNIX
Thursday, March 01, 2007
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I remember when I was a kid I used to come home from Sunday School and my mother would get drunk and try to make pancakes.
-- George Carlin
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