When I'm gone, boxing will be nothing again. The fans with the cigars and the hats turned down'll be there, but no more housewives and little men in the street and foreign presidents. It's goin' to be back to the fighter who comes to town, smells a flower, visits a hospital, blows a horn and says he's in shape. Old hat. I was the onliest boxer in history people asked questions like a senator. -- Muhammad Ali

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know. -- J. Winter Smith

There IS no God — but if you're any kind of real American, you'll demand that He treat you as an EQUAL.

The foundation of empire is art and science. Remove them or degrade them, and the empire is no more. Empire follows art and not vice versa as Englishmen suppose. ~ William Blake

It seems there's this magician working one of the luxury cruise ships for a few years. He doesn't have to change his routines much as the audiences change over fairly often, and he's got a good life. The only problem is the ship's parrot, who perches in the hall and watches him night after night, year after year. Finally, the parrot figures out how almost every trick works and starts giving it away for the audience. For example, when the magician makes a bouquet of flowers disappear, the parrot squawks "Behind his back! Behind his back!" Well, the magician is really annoyed at this, but there's not much he can do about it as the parrot is a ship's mascot and very popular with the passengers. One night, the ship strikes some floating debris, and sinks without a trace. Almost everyone aboard was lost, except for the magician and the parrot. For three days and nights they just drift, with the magician clinging to one end of a piece of driftwood and the parrot perched on the other end. As the sun rises on the morning of the fourth day, the parrot walks over to the magician's end of the log. With obvious disgust in his voice, he snaps "OK, you win, I give up. Where did you hide the ship?"

After Donald Trump's stretch limousine was stolen and found undamaged a few blocks away; he said, "Nothing was stolen. I had an honest thief."-International Herald Tribune, page 3, March 2, 1992

Zenarchy is for fools who don't understand politics.

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees. ~ Michele de Montaigne

We live in an era of revolution, the revolution of rising expectations. ~ Adlai Stevenson

quit When the quit statement is read, the bc processor is terminated, regardless of where the quit state- ment is found. For example, "if (0 == 1) quit" will cause bc to terminate. (Seen in the manpage for "bc". Note the "if" statement's logic)

Man has no Body distinct from his Soul; for that called Body is a portion of Soul discerned by the five Senses, the chief inlets of Soul in this age. ~ William Blake

The Rabid Dogs of Gallaphron Can be trained to drool At the ring of a bell. Doesn't stop them from biting. Karlos El Greeta-Stirra, "Reflections of Rim-Salt", CY 4389

how nemo got honored in his patria a metadrama in three parts i - solo A bows to the audience stiffly and repeatedly for a minute. ii - duo A and B bow to each other stiffly and repeatedly for a minute. iii - solo B bows to the audience stiffly and repeatedly for a minute. ~ Dick Higgins [NYC, Sept-Oct, 1985]

Hay una categora de gentes que, si no cree, debe menos aparentar que cree. Son todos los atormentadores, todos los opresores y todos los explotadores de la humanidad. Sacerdotes, monarcas, hombres de Estado, hombres de guerra, financistas pblicos y privados, funcionarios de todas las especies, policas, carceleros y verdugos, monopolizadores, capitalistas, empresarios y propietarios, abogados, economistas, polticos de todos los colores, hasta el ltimo comerciante, todos repetirn al unsono estas palabras de Voltaire: "Si Dios no existiese habra que inventario." Porque, comprenderis, es precisa una religin para el pueblo. Es la vlvula de seguridad. Existe, en fin, una categora bastante numerosa de almas honestas, pero dbiles, que, demasiado inteligentes para tomar en serio los dogmas cristianos, los rechazan en detalle, pero no tienen ni el valor, ni la fuerza, ni la resolucin necesarios para rechazarlos totalmente. Dejan a vuestra crtica todos los absurdos particulares de la religin, se burlan de todos los milagros, pero se aferran con desesperacin al absurdo principal, fuente de todos los dems, al milagro que explica y legitima todos los otros milagros: a la existencia de Dios. Su Dios no es el ser vigoroso y potente, el Dios brutalmente positivo de la teologa. Es un ser nebuloso, difano, ilusorio, de tal modo ilusorio que cuando se cree palparle se transforma en Nada; es un milagro, un ignis fatuus que ni calienta ni ilumina. Y, sin embargo, sostienen y creen que si desapareciese, desaparecera todo con l. Son almas inciertas, enfermizas, desorientadas en la civilizacin actual, que no pertenecen ni al presente ni al porvenir, plidos fantasmas eternamente suspendidos entre el cielo y la tierra, y que ocupan entre la poltica burguesa y el socialismo del proletariado absolutamente la misma posicin. No se sienten con fuerza ni para pensar hasta el fin, ni para querer, ni para resolver, y pierden su tiempo y su labor esforzndose siempre por conciliar lo inconciliable. En la vida pblica se llaman socialistas burgueses. Ninguna discusin con ellos ni contra ellos es posible. Estn demasiado enfermos. Mikhail Alexandrovich Bakunin, God and the State

Red Green: Why don't you come up to the highway and help us clean that up just for a little while, eh? Harold Green: Well, yeah, I could do that. I got some spare time. Red Green: All right, Harold. And when you get up there, clean it up as fast as you can. Don't talk to the other guys, eh? Harold Green: How come? Red Green: 'Cause they'll kill you, Harold.

I hope thats not so simple that it gets ignored, because its important. Its such an effective idea that it saves childrens lives every day. All the Sternins did was find the mom with the healthy kids. And then they helped the others in the village notice what she was doing. They gave that mom a spotlight, encouraging her to keep it up and, more important, encouraging others to follow her lead. -- Seth Godin , Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us

'The Cow' The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk -- Ogden Nash

buddhism a metadrama buddhist monk: "peace!" sound of gunfire. ~ Dick Higgins [NYC, Sept-Oct, 1985]

Fighting patents one by one will never eliminate the danger of software patents, any more than swatting mosquitoes will eliminate malaria. ~ Richard Stallman

The mysteries of faith are degraded if they are made into an object of affirmation and negation, when in reality they should be an object of contemplation. -- Simone Weil