第4个回答 2006-08-13
"It probably sounded better in the original German" -Molly Ivins comments on Pat Buchanaan's speech at the last Republican conference
To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance. * Eric Hoffer (1902-83), "The Passionate State of Mind", aph. 215 (1955). *
Anticipation of death is worse than death itself. Inverse: Anticipation of sex is better than sex itself.
A society without religion is like a crazed psychopath without a loaded .45
"Life is pain. Anyone who says differently is selling something." --William Goldman, The Princess Bride
"Live as one already dead." --Japanese saying
At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded - Wittgenstein
"Poi s'accose nel foco che gli affina" - Dante
Law of conservation of confusion : The total amount of confusion in this world remains constant. It just gets shifted around.
For every difficult and complicated question there is an answer that is simple, easily understood, and wrong. H.L. Mencken
"A stand can be made against invasion by an army; no stand can be made against invasion by an idea." --Victor Hugo
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, magic in it. --- Goethe
The problem with instant gratification is that it takes too long...
Oh, the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person; having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but to pour them all out, just as they are, chaff and grain together, knowing that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and then, with the breath of kindness, blow the rest away . --George Eliot
* "Nonsense is nonsense, * * but the history of nonsense * * is a very important science." * * - R' Saul Lieberman z"l *
I live in fear of not being misunderstood.-- Oscar wilde
You can talk MIPS, MFLOPS, feature points and cyclomatic complexity all day long. The only metric that matters is Return on Investment.
Good writers borrow from others. Great writers, they steal.
Television is chewing gum for the eyes. -- Frank Lloyd Wright
Remember, if you want to run with the big dogs, you need to learn how to pee in the tall grass.
A Zen Master walks up to a hot dog vendor and says, "Make me one with
Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change; the courage to change the things I can; and the wisdom to hide the bodies of the people I had to kill because they pissed me off.
Never let your schooling interfere with your education - Mark Twain
"Are you criminally deranged, or simply bad at expressing yourself?"
The only acceptable doctrine of exclusion excludes all who exclude.
Some people never see the light till it shines thru bullet holes. -Bruce Cockburn
It doesn't TAKE all kinds, we just HAVE all kinds
I blame society for anything I've said that you disagree with.
Beware of geeks bearing gifs.
"Collaboration is essential: It allows you to blame someone else"
The human brain is a complex organ with the wonderful power of enabling man to find reasons for continuing to believe whatever it is that he wants to believe. -Voltaire
People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. Lois McMaster Bujold, _Mirror Dance_
Read my MIPs - no new VAXes
I try to keep an open mind, but not so open my brains fall out.
"Always sleep on your stomach !" John Wayne Bobbitt
"If you owe $50 you're a delinquent account. If you owe $50,000 you're a small businessman. If you owe $50 million you're a corporation. If you owe $50 BILLION you're the government." ---Lynne Thompson Whittaker
In spite of the cost of living, it's still popular.
It's vacuumware. As Dennis Ritchie said of X, "Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks"".
Every time that I think I'm wrong, I realize that I was mistaken
You can lead a man to politics, but you can't make him think.
Mere performance is no match for appearance.
If you can keep your head when all around are losing theirs, you're probably the executioner.
In a dictatorship, people suffer without complaining. In a democracy, people complain without suffering.
Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by stupidity.
A witty saying proves nothing.
It's better to burn out than it is to fade away.
Engineers think that equations are an approximation of reality. Physicists think reality is an approximation of the equations. Mathematicians never make the connection.
Nature neither rewards nor punishes actions. There are only consequences.
Men with a low opinion of mankind tend to have a high opinion of each other
Programmers don't sleep - they just park their heads
State run lotteries: think of them as tax breaks for the intelligent - Evan Leibovitch
If you voted for CHANGE... then you better start counting it!
"Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me. Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful . . . that's what matters to me."" Steven P. Jobs CEO of NeXT, Inc.
And there you have several miracles, first among them the wonder of a three-dimensional volume where black squiggles on white paper create worlds. -- Melvin Jules Bukiet, on books--
Sisko: ""What's happening out there?"" Dax: ""Subspace compression."" Sisko: ""Ahh, subspace compression. Dax: "Do you know what that is?" Sisko: "Just a guess here. Technobabble?" --ST:DS9 #2 The Siege
If you have a hammer, find a nail.
On religion - Where is the sea, said the fish, as they swam through it.
Methodology is to method as scientology is to science.
Engineering - How does it work? Science - Why does it work? Management - When will it work? Liberal Arts - Do you want fries with that?
A meeting is an event where the hours are lost, but the minutes are kept.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Edmund Burke
Mob rule isn't any prettier merely beacuse the mob calls iself a government.
Wilson's theory of relativity: If you go back far enough, we're all related.
Definition of leadership: Often in error; never in doubt!
IT IS NOT A PROBLEM OF WHETHER MACHINES THINK, BUT WHETHER MEN DO. - B.F. Skinner
...Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded... Plato, _Phaedrus_
When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that all of the dunces are in confederacy against him - Jonathon Swift
We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas 20 years later. -- Louis Aragon
"He who joyfully marches to music in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would fully suffice." - Albert Einstein
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing - R. Heinlein
There is more to life than increasing its speed
Gravity is irrelevant Friction is irrelevant Mass is irrelevant Inertia is irrelevant Reality is irrelevant Excellent. Solve for k.
It's state of the art. But it doesn't work! That IS the state of the art.
The only ones who fail are those who do not try.
If you really want to know, go build it.
Aim for the impossible and you will achieve the improbable.
You need to spend less time reading research, and a bit more time thinking about what you are reading.
There is truth, but no one knows what it is.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnish'd, not to shine in use! "Ulysses" - Alfred Lord Tennyson
The meaning of life is that it ends.
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept. -
If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate.
God exists because mathematics is consistent, and the devil exists because we can't prove it. H. Weyl
I am not sure what condition the world we are inheriting is really in. I just have a fear of smokestacks, and I don't trust the men who feed their flames. JA
New Years Eve: when the beautiful promise of tomorrow is transformed into the ugly reality of today, and the disgusting miasma of now becomes the rosy nostalgic netherworlds of yesterday.
The NRA's Second Amendment is an empty cereal box in the market place of ideas. -- Charles "Cereal Killer" Schumer 4/5/95
Don't Tread on Me. Live Free or Die.
It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. - David Hume
...it cannot be called ingenuity to kill one's fellow citizens, to betray friends, to be without faith, without mercy, without religion; by these means one can aquire power but not glory. - Nicolo Machiavelli
George Orwell was an optimist: "The Constitution is a radical document... it is the job of the Government to rein in people's rights." -President Bill Clinton
"two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do"
When correctly viewed, everything is lewd. -- Tom Lehrer
"Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance." -Kurt Vonnegut
"the opposite of love is not hate; it is indifference" --Elie Wiesel
"In 1979 a West Country sub-aqua club gained permission to dive in Britain's most inaccessible loch. Happy in the knowledge that they were the first ever people to explore the underwater world of remotest Scotland, they drove 740 miles, climbed 3,000 feet, put on their gear and plunged in to find that it was only four feet deep." - Stephen Pike _The Return Of Heroic Failures_
Death confronts us not unlike the historical battle scene that hangs on the wall of the classroom. It is our task to obscure or quite obliterate the picture by our deeds while we are still in this world. - Kafka
We must embrace the heresy of today, for it is the logic of tomorrow. - George Bernard Shaw.
Remember kids, take care and exercise your cerebral cortex EVERY DAY, or your brain will atrophy and wither away....
"It must be exciting to think that way, but a drag to have to deal with the clinical diagnosis."
"All would be well, All would be heavenly-- If the damned would only stay damned."--Charles Font, 1919
"Those are my principles. If you don't like them, I have others." --G. Marx
"You don't even have a clue as to which clue you're missing." -- Miss Manners
It is terrible to die of thirst in the ocean. Do you have to salt your truth so heavily that it does not even quench thirst any more?"
"Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation." -- George Bernard Shaw
The pursuit of truth is never a wast of time, though it take you far to unknown shores. --
"Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of the pox !" "That, my Lord, depends on whether I embrace your principles or your mistress" John Wilkes to The Earl of Sandwich, Parliament, November 1763
"The blues isn't about feelin' better. It's about makin' other people feel worse." _ "Bleedin' Gums" Murphy
The best time to do nothing is whenever, and as often as you can...
"The only thing the Democrats have to offer is fear itself" -D. Armey(R)
"you commission members have no choice but to stay, no matter what sort of filth is turned loose by witnesses. that can't be easy. you must be very brave. i like to think of you as sort of sewer astronauts." -kurt vonnegut on the attorney general's commission on pornography
Beaten paths are for beaten men
Life is like a river -- there'll be rough patches and smooth patches, and hopefully lots of skinny-dipping babes on the way.
I wish my T.V. had a knob for intelligence, there's one marked "brightness", but it doesn't work. -- Gallagher
Life moves pretty fast, if you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you could miss it. -Ferris Bueller
"Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never give in." - Winston Churchill
"The Universe is but a screen-saver, waiting for God to twitch." - Paul Eric Lagace', 1994
"We are in a society of denial. With products such as 'I Can't Believe Its Not Butter' and 'I can't Believe Its a Girdle' who could think otherwise?" -Marco Weesterweel, PhD
Error in REALITY.SYS. Run BIG_BANG.EXE (Y/N)?
Fiat justitia et pereat mundus (Let justice be done though the world perishes)
"Beer is living proof that God loves us and wants to see us happy." --Benjamin Franklin
Most of American life is driving some where and then driving back wondering why the hell you went." - John Updike
"We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars. - Oscar Wilde
It's not that life is so short, you're just dead a really long time.
"In what distant deeps or skies Burnt the fire of thine eyes? On what wings dare he aspire? What the hand dare seize the fire?" - William Blake 1793(1794)
Success: the maximum utilization of what others can do for you
| "...before I could come to any conclusion it occurred to me that | | my speech or my silence, indeed any action of mine, would be a | | mere futility. What did it matter what anyone knew or ignored? | | What did it matter who was manager? One gets sometimes such a | | flash of insight. The essentials of this affair lay deep under | | the surface, beyond my reach, and beyond my power of meddling." | | -Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness |
"There's a fine line between Saturday night and Sunday morning." -Jimmy Buffett
"Yes, it does kills brain cells - but only the weak ones."
"Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm." -- Emerson
"If all the world's a stage, then who's got my residuals?"
I prefer both my beer and my coffee to be dark and bitter; that way, they fit in so well with the rest of my life.
I've decided that I must be the Messiah; people expect me to work miracles, and when I don't, I get crucified.
"Countries used to be judged on weapons and money. Now it's moving bits"
We hear the sound, and alter our returning
"It's a lot of work to get up in front of a class and make it look like you know everything there is to know about something you know nothing about." Prof. Anonymous
"If you don't stand for something, you'll fall for anything"
Information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth. Truth *must* be absolute; otherwise it is merely opinion.
Can it be that what man regards as evil, God regards as good? ---Liu Chi, Yu-li tzu
While none of the work we do is important, it is important that we do a great deal of it.
"Usenet is essentially Letters to the Editor without the editor. Editors don't appreciate this, for some reason." -- Larry Wall
Good grief! Another increase in the number of things I know nothing about.
"That great garden spider in the node of the world web - all this may occupy and worry the moralist, the artist, and the pious man..." - Nietzsche, The Advantage & Disadvantage of History for Life (1874)
As I have said before, I lack a requisite and fundamental arrogance...
If you are omniscient, prove it.
"To hold a man down, you have to get down on the ground with him." -George W. Carver.
A terrorist is someone who has a bomb, but does not have an air force.
"It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg." ---- Thomas Jefferson
The truth of a proposition has nothing to do with its credibility. And vice versa. ===Ed Redondo ============
"Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world."
Bureaucracy is as wrong as cancer, a turning away from the human evolutionary direction of infinite potentials and differentiation and independent spontaneous action, to the complete parasitism of a virus - William S. Burroughs, "Naked Lunch"
"The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights--that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system." Radio Broadcast: Oct 26, 1939
"A reactionary is a somnabulist walking backward."
Radio Broadcast: Mar 2, 1930
Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)
I'd rather that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober. With freedom we might in the end attain sobriety, but in the other alternative we should eventually lose both freedom and sobriety. W.C. Magee (Archbishop of York): Sermon at Peterborough, 1868.
Ambrose Bierce said that a conservative is a person "enamored of existing evils," while a liberal is one "who wishes to replace them with others."
"No truth will deny its own liberation" --author unknown
The road to misinformation is paved with selective statistics.
Did you know that 83% of all statistical quotes are made up?
"We must watch and pray, that our time may not be spent fruitlessly. When it is right and proper to speak, speak to edify." -- Thomas a Kempis, _Imitation of Christ_, I, 10
History shows again and again, how nature points out the folly of men... -Blue Oyster Cult
The greatest act of patriotism is to criticize one's country when it falters from the path of righteousness and justice.
To get one good idea, one must tolerate 1,000 bad ideas.
In capitalism man exploits man. In communism it's the other way around
"We did not ask you white men to come here. The Great Spirit gave us this country as a home...we do not interfere with you, and again you say, why do you not become civilized? We do not want your civilization! We would live as our fathers did, and their fathers before them."
Crazy Horse (Oglala Lakota)
The Devil may dwell in the fire of Hell, but he works in Redmond, WA.
When societies and cultures go to war, it is individuals who do the dying.
As Bishop Richard Cumberland wrote, "Every idea is the product of a single mind."
Insanity is not a state of mind, it's a way of life
The liberals can understand everything but people who don't understand them. - Lenny Bruce
Liberal: a power worshipper without power. - George Orwell
A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment. - Willis Player
A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. - Rober Frost
Hell hath no fury like a liberal scorned. - Disk Gregory
Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies. - H.L. Mencken
... "I think not," said Descartes; and promptly disappeared. ___ Blue Wave/QWK v2.12
"A true revolution cannot go against religion in its totality. If a revolution succeeds, it does so normally as a cathartic renewal of religion itself." - Aloysius Pieris
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves." -- William Pitt
When I was young my mother use to tell me that there were some ideas that were so stupid they could only be believed by an intellectual. At the time this seemed ridiculous; after all, weren't intellectuals intellectuals because they were smarter than other people? I have since learned better.
Most of the people in the world, as individuals, are decent people.
Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. -- Ambrose Bierce
Striving for perfection is at the heart of all human endevours.
--Morality is only fear masquerading as honour -- Robbie Ganter
The concept of progress acts as a protective mechanism to shield us from the terrors of the future. - DUNE -
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