And it's my opinion, and that's only my opinion, that you are a lunatic.
Just because there are a few hundred other people sharing your lunacy with
you does not make you any saner. Doomed, eh? -- Oleg Kiselev
Saturday, September 30, 2017
Friday, September 29, 2017
Fortune Quote #1885
Lao-Tan asked Confucius: "What do you mean by benevolence and
righteousness?" Confucius said: "To be in one's inmost heart in kindly
sympathy with all things; to love all men and allow no selfish thoughts:
this is the nature of benevolence and righteousness." -- Kwang-tzu
righteousness?" Confucius said: "To be in one's inmost heart in kindly
sympathy with all things; to love all men and allow no selfish thoughts:
this is the nature of benevolence and righteousness." -- Kwang-tzu
Thursday, September 28, 2017
Fortune Quote #1884
"Your stupidity, Allen, is simply not up to par." -- Dave
Mack "Yours is." -- Allen Gwinn, in alt.flame
Mack "Yours is." -- Allen Gwinn, in alt.flame
Wednesday, September 27, 2017
Fortune Quote #1883
The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to
safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to
foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men. Suffer it not to
become a source of dissension and discord, of hate and enmity. --
Baha'u'llah, a selection from the Baha'i scripture
safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to
foster the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men. Suffer it not to
become a source of dissension and discord, of hate and enmity. --
Baha'u'llah, a selection from the Baha'i scripture
Tuesday, September 26, 2017
Monday, September 25, 2017
Fortune Quote #1881
If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward,
then we are a sorry lot indeed. -- Albert Einstein
then we are a sorry lot indeed. -- Albert Einstein
Sunday, September 24, 2017
Fortune Quote #1880
Life is full of concepts that are poorly defined. In fact, there are very
few concepts that aren't. It's hard to think of any in non-technical
fields. -- Daniel Kimberg
few concepts that aren't. It's hard to think of any in non-technical
fields. -- Daniel Kimberg
Saturday, September 23, 2017
Fortune Quote #1879
I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest.
-- Alexandre Dumas (fils)
-- Alexandre Dumas (fils)
Friday, September 22, 2017
Fortune Quote #1878
After one week [visiting Austria] I couldn't wait to go back to the United
States. Everything was much more pleasant in the United States, because of
the mentality of being open-minded, always positive. Everything you want
to do in Europe is just, `No way. No one has ever done it.' They haven't
any more the desire to go out to conquer and achieve--I realized that I had
much more the American spirit. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
States. Everything was much more pleasant in the United States, because of
the mentality of being open-minded, always positive. Everything you want
to do in Europe is just, `No way. No one has ever done it.' They haven't
any more the desire to go out to conquer and achieve--I realized that I had
much more the American spirit. -- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Thursday, September 21, 2017
Wednesday, September 20, 2017
Fortune Quote #1876
"An Academic speculated whether a bather is beautiful if there is none in
the forest to admire her. He hid in the bushes to find out, which
vitiated his premise but made him happy." Moral: Empiricism is more fun
than speculation. -- Sam Weber
the forest to admire her. He hid in the bushes to find out, which
vitiated his premise but made him happy." Moral: Empiricism is more fun
than speculation. -- Sam Weber
Tuesday, September 19, 2017
Fortune Quote #1875
We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient
characteristic of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, "here and
now," without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point
blank. -- Ortega y Gasset
characteristic of life is its coerciveness; it is always urgent, "here and
now," without any possible postponement. Life is fired at us point
blank. -- Ortega y Gasset
Monday, September 18, 2017
Fortune Quote #1874
To undertake a project, as the word's derivation indicates, means to cast
an idea out ahead of oneself so that it gains autonomy and is fulfilled not
only by the efforts of its originator but, indeed, independently of him as
well. -- Czeslaw Milosz
an idea out ahead of oneself so that it gains autonomy and is fulfilled not
only by the efforts of its originator but, indeed, independently of him as
well. -- Czeslaw Milosz
Sunday, September 17, 2017
Fortune Quote #1873
We will be better and braver if we engage and inquire than if we indulge
in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking
to know what we do not know. -- Plato
in the idle fancy that we already know -- or that it is of no use seeking
to know what we do not know. -- Plato
Saturday, September 16, 2017
Fortune Quote #1872
All we are given is possibilities--to make ourselves one thing or
another. -- Ortega y Gasset
another. -- Ortega y Gasset
Friday, September 15, 2017
Fortune Quote #1871
The most important thing in a man is not what he knows, but what he
is. -- Narciso Yepes
is. -- Narciso Yepes
Thursday, September 14, 2017
Fortune Quote #1870
"Indecision is the basis of flexibility" -- button at a Science
Fiction convention.
Fiction convention.
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
Fortune Quote #1869
Its failings notwithstanding, there is much to be said in favor of
journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us
in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar Wilde
journalism in that by giving us the opinion of the uneducated, it keeps us
in touch with the ignorance of the community. -- Oscar Wilde
Tuesday, September 12, 2017
Monday, September 11, 2017
Sunday, September 10, 2017
Fortune Quote #1866
If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably
wrong. -- Norm Schryer
wrong. -- Norm Schryer
Saturday, September 9, 2017
Friday, September 8, 2017
Fortune Quote #1864
The vast majority of successful major crimes against property are
perpetrated by individuals abusing positions of trust. -- Lawrence
Dalzell
perpetrated by individuals abusing positions of trust. -- Lawrence
Dalzell
Thursday, September 7, 2017
Fortune Quote #1863
The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more
expected. -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972
expected. -- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972
Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Fortune Quote #1862
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. --
Bertrand Russell
certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. --
Bertrand Russell
Tuesday, September 5, 2017
Fortune Quote #1861
The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the
sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. -- Richard P.
Feynman
sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment. -- Richard P.
Feynman
Monday, September 4, 2017
Fortune Quote #1860
Once they go up, who cares where they come down? That's not my
department. -- Werner von Braun
department. -- Werner von Braun
Sunday, September 3, 2017
Fortune Quote #1859
The pathology is to want control, not that you ever get it, because of
course you never do. -- Gregory Bateson
course you never do. -- Gregory Bateson
Saturday, September 2, 2017
Fortune Quote #1858
Why waste negative entropy on comments, when you could use the same
entropy to create bugs instead? -- Steve Elias
entropy to create bugs instead? -- Steve Elias
Friday, September 1, 2017
Fortune Quote #1857
It ain't so much the things we don't know that get us in trouble. It's the
things we know that ain't so. -- Artemus Ward, aka Charles Farrar
Brown
things we know that ain't so. -- Artemus Ward, aka Charles Farrar
Brown
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