love story a metadrama two at a time. "yes?" "no?" "no no?" "yes yes?" grouping and regrouping ~ Dick Higgins [NYC, Sept-Oct, 1985]
I am dyslexic of Borg. Prepare to have your ass laminated.
"... freedom ... is a worship word..." "It is our worship word too." -- Cloud William and Kirk, "The Omega Glory", stardate unknown
EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING 36. The use of a program to prove the 4-color theorem will not change mathematics - it merely demonstrates that the theorem, a challenge for a century, is probably not important to mathematics.
Reporters like Bill Greider from the Washington Post and Him Naughton of the New York Times, for instance, had to file long, detailed, and relatively complex stories every day -- while my own deadline fell every two weeks -- but neither of them ever seemed in a hurry about getting their work done, and from time to time they would try to console me about the terrible pressure I always seemed to be laboring under. Any $100-an-hour psychiatrist could probably explain this problem to me, in thirteen or fourteen sessions, but I don't have time for that. No doubt it has something to do with a deep-seated personality defect, or maybe a kink in whatever blood vessel leads into the pineal gland... On the other hand, it might be something as simple & basically perverse as whatever instinct it is that causes a jackrabbit to wait until the last possible second to dart across the road in front of a speeding car. -- Hunter S. Thompson, "Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail"
William Riker: Sometimes I wonder if he's stacking the deck. Data: I assure you, commander, the cards have been sufficiently randomized. Worf: [surly] I hope so. "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Cause and Effect [5.18], Season 5"
Expelled from individual consciousness by the rush of change, history finds its revenge by stamping the collective unconsciousness with habits and values. -- Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.
"There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." --Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp., 1977
Ferengi Rules Of Acquisition: 226. Don't take your family for granted, only their Latinum
If we could see ourselves as others see us, we would vanish on the spot. ~ Emil Cioran
Contrary to popular belief, the Titanic didn't hit an iceberg. The ship was off course and accidentally ran into Chuck Norris while he was doing the backstroke across the Atlantic.
Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose. -- Carl Jung
Debian is the Jedi operating system: "Always two there are, a master and an apprentice". -- Simon Richter on debian-devel
PEGGY FLEMING is stealing BASKET BALLS to feed the babies in VERMONT.
anastrophe reversing or inverting word order as rhetorical device
warning: the sky really is falling
I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better. ~ Michele de Montaigne
An eagle flies high, it flies higher than a sea gull But the crow wings rapidly from tree to bush to hedge The same can be true of life and of death Sometimes life flies high, sometimes death wings rapidly Sometimes it is spoken That death wings from tree to bush to hedge Sometimes it does not ~ Racter (The Policeman’s Beard is Half Constructed)
People who have what they want are fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it. -- Ogden Nash