Reyna d’Assia: The Key to Immortal Consciousness 12. Do not encourage others to imitate you.
"Any news from the President on a successor?" he asked hopefully. "None," Anita replied. "She's having great difficulty finding someone qualified who is willing to accept the post." "Then I stay," said Dr. Fresh. "I'm not good for much, but I can at least make a decision." "Somewhere," he grumphed, "there must be a naive, opportunistic young welp with a masochistic streak who would like to run the most up-and-down bureaucracy in the history of mankind." -- R.L. Forward, "Flight of the Dragonfly"
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING 99. In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can't.
I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. ~ Adlai Stevenson
Wealth - any income that is at least one hundred dollars more a year than the income of one's wife's sister's husband. -- H. L. Mencken
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. ~ Aristotle
"Give me Slack, or give me Apache helicopters, Sidewinder Missiles and nuclear warheads." ~ Rev. Ivan Stang getting all worked up on Hour of Slack radio broadcast
There's a SALE on STRETCH SOCKS down at the "7-11"!!
A society made up of individuals who were all capable of original thought would probably be unendurable. -- H. L. Mencken
Just as most issues are seldom black or white, so are most good solutions seldom black or white. Beware of the solution that requires one side to be totally the loser and the other side to be totally the winner. The reason there are two sides to begin with usually is because neither side has all the facts. Therefore, when the wise mediator effects a compromise, he is not acting from political motivation. Rather, he is acting from a deep sense of respect for the whole truth. -- Stephen R. Schwambach
"A horrible little boy came up to me and said, `You know in your book The Martian Chronicles?' I said, `Yes?' He said, `You know where you talk about Deimos rising in the East?' I said, `Yes?' He said `No.' -- So I hit him." -- attributed to Ray Bradbury
The root problem with conventional currency is all the trust that's required to make it work. The central bank must be trusted not to debase the currency, but the history of fiat currencies is full of breaches of that trust. -- Satoshi Nakamoto; Feb 11, 2009
Spock: Violence in reality is quite different from theory. "Star Trek: The Original Series: The Cloud Minders, Season 3"
The optimist thinks that this is the best of all possible worlds, and the pessimist knows it. -- J. Robert Oppenheimer, "Bulletin of Atomic Scientists"
All over the world, young males and females, schooled in the art of patriarchal thinking, are building an identity on a foundation that sees the will to do violence as the essential way to assert being. ~ bell hooks
I'm so broke I can't even pay attention.
'The Ostrich' The ostrich roams the great Sahara. Its mouth is wide, its neck is narra. It has such long and lofty legs, I'm glad it sits to lay its eggs. -- Ogden Nash
University politics are vicious precisely because the stakes are so small. -- C. P. Snow