In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed; they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
-- Orson Welles
Friday, February 29, 2008
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
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It is not easy to see how the more extreme forms of nationalism can long survive when men have seen the Earth in its true perspective as a single small globe against the stars.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
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The POP3 server service depends on the SMTP server service, which failed to start because of the following error:
The operation completed successfully.
-- Windows NT Server v3.51
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
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Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race.
-- Albert Einstein
Monday, February 25, 2008
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To be a persecuted genius, you not only have to be persecuted, you also have to be right.
-- Isaac Asimov
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Saturday, February 23, 2008
Week in Review
Friday, February 22, 2008
Thursday, February 21, 2008
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I can still recall old Mister Barnslow getting out every morning and nailing a fresh load of tadpoles to the old board of his. Then he'd spin it round and round, like a wheel of fortune, and no matter where it stopped he'd yell out, "Tadpoles! Tadpoles is a winner!" We all thought he was crazy. But then we had some growing up to do.
-- Jack Handey
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
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What is wanted is not the will to believe, but the wish to find out, which is the exact opposite.
-- Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, February 19, 2008
Monday, February 18, 2008
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... of course, this probably only happens for tcsh which uses wait4(), which is why I never saw it. Serves people who use that abomination right 8^)
-- Linus Torvalds, about a patch that fixes getrusage for 1.3.26
Sunday, February 17, 2008
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I want to share something with you -- the three little sentences that will get you through life. Number one, "Cover for me." Number two, "Oh, good idea, boss." Number three, "It was like that when I got here."
-- Homer J. Simpson
Saturday, February 16, 2008
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In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
-- Peter Ustinov
Week in Review
Friday, February 15, 2008
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The study of theology, as it stands in Christian churches, is the study of nothing; it is founded on nothing; it rests on no principles; it proceeds by no authorities; it has no data; it can demonstrate nothing; and it admits of no conclusion.
-- Thomas Paine (The Age of Reason, 1794)
Thursday, February 14, 2008
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A man doesn't automatically get my respect. He has to get down in the dirt and beg for it.
-- Jack Handey
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
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Lately, the only thing keeping me from being a serial killer is my distaste for manual labor.
-- Dilbert
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
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The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness.
-- Terry Pratchett (The Light Fantastic)
Monday, February 11, 2008
Quote of the Day
All things dull and ugly, all creatures short and squat;
All things rude and nasty, the Lord God made the lot.
Each little snake that poisons, each little wasp that stings;
He made their brutish venom, He made their horrid wings.
All things sick and cancerous, all evil great and small,
All things foul and dangerous, the Lord God made them all.
Each nasty little hornet, each beastly little squid.
Who made the spiky urchin? Who made the shark? He did.
All things scabbed and ulcerous, all pox both great and small,
Putrid, foul and gangrenous, The Lord God made them all. Amen.
-- Monty Python
Sunday, February 10, 2008
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In the game of chess you can never let your adversary see your pieces.
-- Captain Zapp Brannigan
Saturday, February 09, 2008
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First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint a second time.
-- Honore de Balzac
Week in Review
Friday, February 08, 2008
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This restaurant was advertising breakfast any time. So I ordered french toast in the renaissance.
-- Stephen Wright
Thursday, February 07, 2008
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I bet it's hard to break farmers of the old superstitions like "Tornado got Old Yeller, stay in the cellar."
-- Jack Handey
Wednesday, February 06, 2008
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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, February 05, 2008
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Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
-- Calvin Trillin
Monday, February 04, 2008
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A Democratic victory would not change the world, but it would at least slow the berserk white-trash momentum of the bombs-and-Jesus crowd. Those people have had their way long enough. Not even the Book of Revelations threatens a plague of vengeful yahoos.
-- Hunter Thompson
Sunday, February 03, 2008
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I was in the basement, playing my favorite game, 'Murder In The Dark.'
-- Vyvyan Basterd
Saturday, February 02, 2008
Quote of the Day
What our ancestors would really be thinking, if they were alive today, is: "Why is it so dark in here?"
-- Terry Pratchett (Pyramids)
Week in Review
Friday, February 01, 2008
Quote of the Day
You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.
-- Johann Von Neumann
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