All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door. ~ Albert Camus

Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug.

All say, "How hard it is that we have to die"--a strange complaint to come from the mouths of people who have had to live. -- Mark Twain, "Pudd'nhead Wilson's Calendar"

The state of Maine has 62 lighthouses.

"The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would pay for a message sent to nobody in particular?" --David Sarnoff's associates in response to his urgings for investment in the radio in the 1920s.

He who knows not and knows that he knows not is ignorant. Teach him. He who knows not and knows not that he knows not is a fool. Shun him. He who knows and knows not that he knows is asleep. Wake him.

Life is not having been told that the man has just waxed the floor. -- Ogden Nash

Yo momma's so fat, the Doctor caught her eating his psychic paper, thinking it was a burger.

The only shibboleth the West has is science. It is the premise of modernity and it defines itself as a rationality capable of, indeed requiring separation from politics, religion and really, society. Modernisation is to work towards this. ~ Bruno Latour

>Ever heard of .cshrc? That's a city in Bosnia. Right? (Discussion in comp.os.linux.misc on the intuitiveness of commands.)

They can always run stderr through uniq. :-) -- Larry Wall in <199704012331.PAA16535@wall.org>

Do what you will, this world's a fiction and is made up of contradiction. ~ William Blake

"Contrast is wellspring of desire. A double-loop matrix within the eternal continuum." Metaphysical Conclusions of Jacob, All Systems University, Special Collections CY 9030

< asuffield> a workstation is anything you can stick on somebodies desk and con them into using -- in #debian-devel

If we are suffering illness, poverty, or misfortune, we think we shall be satisfied on the day it ceases. But there too, we know it is false; so soon as one has got used to not suffering one wants something else. -- Simone Weil

He also suspected that he was not her idea of the loved one. The saga that followed was not about unconditional love, but about seeking to inhabit an inter-subjective world that is about meeting the other in all the fleshly detail of a mortal relationship. ~ Donna J. Haraway

I never imagined that the Free Software Movement would spawn a watered-down alternative, the Open Source Movement, which would become so well-known that people would ask me questions about 'open source' thinking that I work under that banner. ~ Richard Stallman

[An alien is impersonating Data.] Alien (as Data): What is death? Jean-Luc Picard: Oh, is that all. Data, you're asking probably the most difficult of all questions. Some see it as a changing into an indestructible form, forever unchanging. They believe that the purpose of the entire universe is to then maintain that form in an Earth-like garden which will give delight and pleasure through all eternity. On the other hand there are those who hold to the idea of our blinking into nothingness with all of our experiences and hopes and dreams merely a delusion. Alien (as Data): Which do you believe sir? Jean-Luc Picard: Considering the marvelous complexity of the universe, its clockwork perfection, its balances of this against that... matter, energy, gravitation, time, dimension, I believe that our existence must be more than either of these philosophies. That what we are goes beyond euclidean or other 'practical' measuring systems... and that our existence is part of a reality beyond what we understand now as reality. "Star Trek: The Next Generation: Where Silence Has Lease [2.2], Season 2"

It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs. -- Oxford University Press, Edpress News

"ANYTHING THAT MAKES IT HARDER TO PEE IS ANTISLACK." ~ Sternodox