Fortune Quote #1155

Personally, I don't often talk about social good because when I hear other
people talk about social good, that's when I reach for my revolver.
-- Eric Raymond

Fortune Quote #1154

Eric Raymond: I want to live in a world where software doesn't suck.
Richard Stallman: Any software that isn't free sucks. Linus Torvalds: I'm
interested in free beer. Richard Stallman: That's okay, as long as I don't
have to drink it. I don't like beer. --
LinuxWorld Expo panel, 4 March 1999

Fortune Quote #1153

Mere nonexistence is a feeble excuse for declaring a thing unseeable. You
*can* see dragons. You just have to look in the right direction.
-- John Hasler

Fortune Quote #1152

"Bruce McKinney, author of of Hardcore Visual Basic, has announced that
he's fed up with VB and won't be writing a 3rd edition of his book. The
best quote is at the end: 'I don't need a language designed by a focus
group'."

Fortune Quote #1151

"I wonder if this is the first constitution in the history of mankind
where you have to calculate a square root to determine if a motion
passes. :-)" -- Seen on Slashdot

Fortune Quote #1150

In mathematics one must beware of the "red herring principle" according to
which a "red herring" need be neither red, nor a herring.

Fortune Quote #1149

In mathematics it happens quite often that a green apple is not an apple,
and it could be not green: it's a green-apple. -- Igor Belegradek
(on manifolds with boundaries)

Fortune Quote #1148

The creation of a word or a notation for a class of ideas may be, and
often is, a scientific fact of very great importance, because it means
connecting these ideas together in our subsequent thought. --
Hadamard

Fortune Quote #1147

"The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing at the
right time, but also to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting
moment."

Fortune Quote #1146

"If logic prevailed, men would ride sidesaddle."