"You ask why we give our Ships' Computers normal Emotions? Do you really want a Warship Incapable of Loyalty? Or of love?" The Unshattered Allegiance, High Guard Frigate Artificial Intelligence Rights Activist, C.Y. 7309

Young men want to be faithful and are not; old men want to be faithless and cannot. -- Oscar Wilde

La Biblia, que es un libro muy interesante y a veces muy profundo cuando se lo considera como una de las ms antiguas manifestaciones de la sabidura y de la fantasa humanas que han llegado hasta nosotros, expresa esta verdad de una manera muy ingenua en su mito del pecado original. Jehov, que de todos los buenos dioses que han sido adorados por los hombres es ciertamente el ms envidioso, el ms vanidoso, el ms feroz, el ms injusto, el ms sanguinario, el ms dspota y el ms enemigo de la dignidad y de la libertad humanas, que cre a Adn y a Eva por no s qu capricho (sin duda para engaar su hasto que deba de ser terrible en su eternamente egosta soledad, para procurarse nuevos esclavos), haba puesto generosamente a su disposicin toda la Tierra, con todos sus frutos y todos los animales, y no haba puesto a ese goce completo ms que un lmite. Les haba prohibido expresamente que tocaran los frutos del rbol de la ciencia. Quera que el hombre, privado de toda conciencia de s mismo, permaneciese un eterno animal, siempre de cuatro patas ante el Dios eterno, su creador su amo. Pero he aqu que llega Satans, el eterno rebelde, el primer librepensador y el emancipador de los mundos. Avergenza al hombre de su ignorancia de su obediencia animales; lo emancipa e imprime sobre su frente el sello de la libertad y de la humanidad, impulsndolo a desobedecer y a comer del fruto de la ciencia. Se sabe lo dems. El buen Dios, cuya ciencia innata constituye una de las facultades divinas, habra debido advertir lo que sucedera; sin embargo, se enfureci terrible y ridculamente: maldijo a Satans, al hombre y al mundo creados por l, hirindose, por decirlo as, en su propia creacin, como hacen los nios cuando se encolerizan; y no contento con alcanzar a nuestros antepasados en el presente, los maldijo en todas las generaciones del porvenir, inocentes del crimen cometido por aquellos. (...) Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, God and the State

Yo momma's like a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup, there's no wrong way to eat her.

Give me chastity and continence, but not just now. -- St. Augustine

...the Despot is Master only as long as he is the strongest, and as soon as he can be driven out he cannot protest against violence. The uprising that ends by strangling or dethroning a Sultan is as Lawful an act as those by which he disposed, the day before, of the lives and goods of his Subjects. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite. ~ William Blake

Eggnog is a traditional holiday drink invented by the English. Many people wonder where the word "eggnog" comes from. The first syllable comes from the English word "egg", meaning "egg". I don't know where the "nog" comes from. To make eggnog, you'll need rum, whiskey, wine gin and, if they are in season, eggs...

Mt. Kilimanjaro, the breathtaking backdrop for the Serena Lodge. Swim in the lovely pool while you drink it all in.

You cannot see the wood for the trees. -- John Heywood

Agile: 1. an attribute of any team, no matter how dysfunctional; 2. [see SCRUM]

"I'll tell you what I know, then," he decided. "The pin I'm wearing means I'm a member of the IA. That's Inamorati Anonymous. An inamorato is somebody in love. That's the worst addiction of all." "Somebody is about to fall in love," Oedipa said, "you go sit with them, or something?" "Right. The whole idea is to get where you don't need it. I was lucky. I kicked it young. But there are sixty-year-old men, believe it or not, and women even older, who might wake up in the night screaming." "You hold meetings, then, like the AA?" "No, of course not. You get a phone number, an answering service you can call. Nobody knows anybody else's name; just the number in case it gets so bad you can't handle it alone. We're isolates, Arnold. Meetings would destroy the whole point of it." -- Thomas Pynchon, "The Crying of Lot 49"

It is possible to become discouraged about the injustice we see everywhere. But God did not promise us that the world would be humane and just. He gives us the gift of life and allows us to choose the way we will use our limited time on earth. It is an awesome opportunity. -- Cesar Chavez

I lay in that cave for half a day, unconscious. When my boss Leo found out, he docked me four hours pay.

couic! a metadrama enters in a suit of medieval armor. trips. falls. ~ Dick Higgins [NYC, Sept-Oct, 1985]

Thus, we see that one of the obvious origins of human disagreement lies in the use of noises for words. ~ Alfred Korzybski

When we try to drill and practice someone into subservient obedience, were stamping out the artist that lives within. -- Seth Godin , Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?

```"Honk if you are against noise pollution! "```

Honk if you are against noise pollution!

"How should I know if it works? That's what beta testers are for. I only coded it." (Attributed to Linus Torvalds, somewhere in a posting)