I write science fiction because that is what publishers call my books. Left to myself, I should call them novels. Ursula K. Le Guin, The Language of the Night: Essays on Fantasy and Science Fiction
That could certainly be done, but I don't want to fall into the Forth trap, where every running Forth implementation is really a different language. -- Larry Wall in <199705101952.MAA00756@wall.org>
Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition: 110. Only a fool passes up a business opportunity
Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism. ~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little. It is plain than an ignorant person thinks everything he does know important, and he tells it to everybody. But a well-educated man is not so ready to display his learning; he would have too much to say, and he sees that there is much more to be said, so he holds his peace. -- Jean Jacques Rousseau
He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day.
anastrophe reversing or inverting word order as rhetorical device
The price of any commodity tends to gravitate toward the production cost. If the price is below cost, then production slows down. If the price is above cost, profit can be made by generating and selling more. At the same time, the increased production would increase the difficulty, pushing the cost of generating towards the price. -- Satoshi Nakamoto; Feb 21, 2010
Why, I'd like nothing better than to achieve some bold adventure, worthy of our trip. ~ Aristophanes
Since the Church is to be servant to the poor, it is our fault if that wealth is not channeled to help the poor in our world. -- Cesar Chavez
Yo momma's so fat that when she sat down on a park bench, she caused the Naruto time skip.
For my son, Robert, this is proving to be the high-point of his entire life to date. He has had his pajamas on for two, maybe three days now. He has the sense of joyful independence a 5-year-old child gets when he suddenly realizes that he could be operating an acetylene torch in the coat closet and neither parent [because of the flu] would have the strength to object. He has been foraging for his own food, which means his diet consists entirely of "food" substances which are advertised only on Saturday-morning cartoon shows; substances that are the color of jukebox lights and that, for legal reasons, have their names spelled wrong, as in New Creemy Chok-'n'-Cheez Lumps o' Froot ("part of this complete breakfast"). -- Dave Barry, "Molecular Homicide"
Those who can, do; those who can't, write. Those who can't write work for the Bell Labs Record.
When you're doing hard work, getting rejected, failing, working it outthis is a dumb time to make a situational decision about whether its time for a nap or a day off or a coffee break. Zig Ziglar taught me this twenty years ago. Make your schedule before you start. Dont allow setbacks or blocks or anxiety to push you to say, hey, maybe I should check my e-mail for a while, or you know, I could use a nap. If you do that, the lizard brain will soon be trained to use that escape hatch again and again. -- Seth Godin , Poke the Box
The History of every major Galactic Civilization tends to pass through three distinct and recognizable phases, those of Survival, Inquiry, and Sophistication, otherwise known as the How, Why, and Where phases. For instance, the first phase is characterized by the question "How can we eat?" the second by "Why do we eat?" and the third by "Where shall we have lunch?". -- Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
"I quite agree with you," said the Duchess; "and the moral of that is -- `Be what you would seem to be' -- or, if you'd like it put more simply -- `Never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise.'" -- Lewis Carrol, "Alice in Wonderland"
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. -George Bernard Shaw
There are two ways to slice easily thorugh life; to believe everything or to doubt everything. Both ways save us from thinking. ~ Alfred Korzybski
The Fundamental Truths (11) Every old idea will be proposed again with a different name and a different presentation, regardless of whether it works. (11a) (corollary). It is always possible to add another level of indirection.