I don't know why, but first C programs tend to look a lot worse than first programs in any other language (maybe except for fortran, but then I suspect all fortran programs look like "firsts")
-- Olaf Kirch
Sunday, September 30, 2007
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Saturday, September 29, 2007
Week in Review
Friday, September 28, 2007
Quote of the Day
It doesn't matter what temperature a room is, it's always room temperature.
-- Steven Wright
Thursday, September 27, 2007
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The creed whose legitimacy is most easily challenged is likely to develop the strongest proselytizing impulse. It is doubtful whether a movement which does not profess some preposterous and patently irrational dogma can be possessed of that zealous drive which "must either win men or destroy the world." It is also plausible that those movements with the greatest inner contradiction between profession and practice-that is to say with a strong feeling of guilt-are likely to be the most fervent in imposing their faith on others.
-- Eric Hoffer, The True Believer, 1951, section 88
Wednesday, September 26, 2007
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
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I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another where the best fruit is.
-- Terry Pratchett
Monday, September 24, 2007
Sunday, September 23, 2007
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Contrary to what most people say, the most dangerous animal in the world is not the lion or the tiger or even the elephant. It's a shark riding on an elephant's back, just trampling and eating everything they see.
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, September 22, 2007
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Certainly, in the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful.
-- Ian Faith
Week in Review
Friday, September 21, 2007
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Channeling is just bad ventriloquism. You use another voice, but people can see your lips moving.
-- Penn Jillette
Thursday, September 20, 2007
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I'm going to the backseat of my car with the woman I love, and I won't be back for TEN MINUTES.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
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Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
-- Albert Einstein
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
Monday, September 17, 2007
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If you have trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done.
-- Scott Adams
Sunday, September 16, 2007
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I can't stand cheap people. It makes me real mad when someone says something like, "Hey, when are you going to pay me that $100 you owe me?" or "Do you have that $50 you borrowed?" Man, quit being so cheap!
-- Jack Handey
Saturday, September 15, 2007
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Anyone who imagines that all fruits ripen at the same time as the strawberries, knows nothing about grapes.
-- Philippus Paracelsus
Week in Review
Friday, September 14, 2007
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Most human beings have an almost infinite capacity for taking things for granted.
-- Aldous Huxley
Thursday, September 13, 2007
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We owe it to ourselves as respectable human beings, as thinking human beings, to do what we can to make humanity more rational...Humanists recognize that it is only when people feel free to think for themselves, using reason as their guide, that they are best capable of developing values that succeed in satisfying human needs and serving human interests.
-- Isaac Asimov
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
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You know what's remarkable? That England looks in no way like Southern California.
-- Austin Powers
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
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Like most of life's problems, this one can be solved with bending.
-- Bender Unit 22
Monday, September 10, 2007
Sunday, September 09, 2007
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Philosophers say a great deal about what is absolutely necessary for science, and it is always, so far as one can see, rather naive, and probably wrong.
-- Richard P. Feynman
Saturday, September 08, 2007
Quote of the Day
I've heard 'em all. "I like you as a friend." "I think we should see other people." "I no speak English." "I'm married to the sea." "I don't want to kill you, but I will ..."
-- Homer J. Simpson
Week in Review
Friday, September 07, 2007
Quote of the Day
It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Thursday, September 06, 2007
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I'm a white male, aged 18 to 49. Everyone listens to me! No matter how dumb my suggestions are.
-- Homer J. Simpson
Wednesday, September 05, 2007
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The most important scientific revolutions all include, as their only common feature, the dethronement of human arrogance from one pedestal after another of previous convictions about our centrality in the cosmos.
-- Stephen Jay Gould
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
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Hot on the heels of its magnanimous pardoning of Galileo, the Vatican has now moved with even more lightning speed to recognise the truth of Darwinism.
-- Richard Dawkins
Monday, September 03, 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
Sunday, September 02, 2007
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I wonder if other dogs think poodles are members of a weird religious cult.
-- Rita Rudner
Saturday, September 01, 2007
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Thank God for Savage and Scarborough. Without them, who, besides Rush, OReilly, Buchanan, Novak, Kristol, Roger Ailes, Hannity, Barnes, Hume, Will, the Wall Street Journal, The Washington Times, The New York Post, the Weekly Standard, American Spectator, The New York Sun, all of Fox, most of MSNBC cable, much of CNN, ABC, National Review, Drudge, Andy, Ann Coulter, Bernard Goldberg, etc, etc, would have the guts to take on The liberal media?
-- Eric Alterman
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