Ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you mad.
-- Aldous Huxley
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Tuesday, April 29, 2014
Monday, April 28, 2014
Quote of the Day
Everyone has a purpose in life. Perhaps yours is watching television.
-- David Letterman
Sunday, April 27, 2014
Saturday, April 26, 2014
Quote of the Day
Indoor electric illumination is often referred to as "artificial light." How can it be artificial? The way I look at it is this: If I can read by it, see myself in the mirror, and recognize my friends, it's probably as real as I'm ever going to need it to be.
-- George Carlin
Friday, April 25, 2014
Thursday, April 24, 2014
Quote of the Day
Science has 'explained' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
-- Aldous Huxley
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Quote of the Day
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equpped with 18,000 vaccuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vaccuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1 1/2 tons.
-- Popular Mechanics, March 1949
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Quote of the Day
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)
Monday, April 21, 2014
Quote of the Day
They used dogs. They used probes. They used cardio plate crossoffs. They used teepers. They used bribery. They used stick tites. They used intimidation. They used torment. They used torture. They used finks. They used cops. They used search and seizure. They used fallaron. They used betterment incentives. They used finger prints. They used the bertillion system. They used cunning. They used guile. They used treachery. They used Raoul-Mitgong but he wasn't much help. They used applied physics. They used techniques of criminology. And what the hell, they caught him.
-- Harlan Ellison, "Repent, Harlequin, said the Tick-Tock Man"
Sunday, April 20, 2014
Quote of the Day
The human race is a race of cowards; and I am not only marching in that procession but carrying a banner.
-- Mark Twain
Saturday, April 19, 2014
Quote of the Day
It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.
-- Jacob Bronowski
Friday, April 18, 2014
Quote of the Day
If they ever come up with a swashbuckling School, I think one of the courses should be Laughing, Then Jumping Off Something.
-- Jack Handey
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Quote of the Day
Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth but supreme beauty -- a beauty cold and austere, like that of a sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the gorgeous trapping of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.
-- Bertrand Russell
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Quote of the Day
Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.
-- Alexander Pope
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Quote of the Day
I don't say that we ought to all misbehave, but we ought to look as if we could.
-- Orson Welles
Monday, April 14, 2014
Quote of the Day
People whose concept of ancient history is the first series of Star Trek may be treated with patience, because it's usually not their fault they were reduced to getting their education from school.
-- Terry Pratchett
Sunday, April 13, 2014
Quote of the Day
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
-- J.R.R. Tolkien
Saturday, April 12, 2014
Quote of the Day
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
Week in Review
Friday, April 11, 2014
Quote of the Day
Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.
-- Charles Mingus
Thursday, April 10, 2014
Wednesday, April 09, 2014
Quote of the Day
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
-- Albert Einstein
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Quote of the Day
There is no nonsense so arrant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate government action.
-- Bertrand Russell
Monday, April 07, 2014
Quote of the Day
Certainly, in the topsy-turvy world of heavy rock, having a good solid piece of wood in your hand is often useful.
-- Ian Faith
Sunday, April 06, 2014
Quote of the Day
I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" -- i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing -- or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth.
-- Robert Anton Wilson
Saturday, April 05, 2014
Quote of the Day
If two people love each other, there can be no happy end to it.
-- Ernest Hemingway
Week in Review
Friday, April 04, 2014
Quote of the Day
The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity.
-- Richard Dawkins
Thursday, April 03, 2014
Quote of the Day
How many hors d'oeuvres you are allowed to take off a tray being carried by a waiter at a nice party?
Two, but there are ways around it, depending on the style of the hors d'oeuvre. If they're those little pastry things where you can't tell what's inside, you take one, bite off about two-thirds of it, then say: "This is cheese! I hate cheese!" Then you put the rest of it back on the tray and bite another one and go, "Darn it! Another cheese!" and so on.
-- Dave Barry, "The Stuff of Etiquette"
Wednesday, April 02, 2014
Quote of the Day
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
-- Philip K. Dick
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Quote of the Day
He says gods like to see an atheist around. Gives them something to aim at.
-- Terry Pratchett (Small Gods)
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