As I progressed through the project -- as my shell surpassed 1,000 lines and made its way towards 10,000 -- I was learning of a painful truth about Perl that many others had discovered before me: that it is an undesigned dung heap of a language entirely inappropriate for software in-the-large. -- bryan cantrill
the opposition is attempting to impose this deal without your say, without your consent, and without your vote.
the unfortunate and inevitable concomitant of "bring it on" is "how do you like it now?"
we see what we know until we know who we are, then we see what we feel. -- ernst haas.
there is no unconditional love. there is unconditional need. -- gregory house
It's not house-trained. It probably won't work. Don't try and use this release for anything useful. We have made every effort to ensure that all bits in this package are either 0 or 1. However, these bits may not be in the correct order and proportion. -- mdma readme
Anyone found laughing at the code will be shot at dawn. -- mdma readme
there is a technical term for this: it is called being really really stupid. -- fred whiteside [no, he really is not talking about republican politics and strategies.]
if they respond to spam, sarah palin may look reasonable. -- anon
Before citing any statistic, you should have a clear understanding of what that figure is measuring, who calculated it, and how. -- timothy b. lee [piracy statistics and the importance of journalistic skepticism]
Books are souvenirs that hold ideas. Ideas are free. If no one knows about your idea, you fail. If your idea doesn’t spread, you fail. If your idea spreads but no one wants to own the souvenir edition, you fail. -- seth godin [10 questions for seth godin]
inertia is apparently more powerful than creative intelligence. -- anon
autumn buried -
color of leaves
in afternoon snow.
Every budding dictatorship begins by muzzling the artists, because they're a mouthy lot and they don't line up and salute very easily. Of course, you can always get some tame artists to design the uniforms and flags and the documentary about you, and so forth - the only kind of art you might need - but individual voices must be silenced, because there shall be only One Voice: Our Master's Voice. Maybe that's why Mr. Harper began by shutting down funding for our artists abroad. He didn't like the competition for media space.
We do not support government bailouts of private institutions. Government interference in the markets exacerbates problems in the marketplace and causes the free market to take longer to correct itself. We believe in the free market as the best tool to sustained prosperity and opportunity for all.
true intelligence is incompatible with the fascist impulse. -- spider robinson
it is never the size, it is always the technology! -- eren yigit [10yrs old]
passwords come from down deep. -- jack reacher
please fasten your seatbelts: we are about to encounter contradictions. the subject is love, and things may get bumpy. -- laura kipnis [against love]
We'd also like to take an opportunity to remind you that one query is sufficient and multiple queries regarding the same issue make the Magic Donkey cry. -- flickr help mail
No humans were involved in the creation of this email. -- flickr help mail [good to see that flicker was able to employ enough many typing monkeys to eventually generate this fascinating email. alas the same email did not contain any important lines from shakespeare.]
almost dying changes nothing. dying changes everything -- house
dad is like a rubik's cube. you have to twist and turn him to figure him out. -- eren yigit
only two things you ignore: things that aren't important and things you wish weren't important and wishing never works. -- private investigator [house]
- Canon 5d mk II
- Canon EF 100mm f/2.8 USM Macro
- Canon EF 70-200mm f4.0L IS USM
- Canon EF 16-35mm f/2.8 L II USM
- Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6 L IS USM
Secularists say, "believe whatever nonsense you want, but keep it to yourself and act responsibly". The Brian-sandalistas say, "believe what we want you to believe and act as we say". The psychopaths among them say, "believe what we want you to believe and act as we say or we will kill you".
morning is a portal to misery and school! -- eren yigit
my memory is great but seems to be very short these days. -- emily calkin
excuse me, I've just got to go and unclench my teeth. -- prose [tom duff]
gamma is not a relative on your mother's side -- thom hogan
it is always easier to create deviations from normal color than it is to create normal color from deviated colors. -- thom hogan
you know when you run out of questions, you don't just run out of answers, you run out of hope. -- thirteen [house, m.d.]
i could not find any red tape. -- anonymous sensei [jccc taikai, 2008]
the meat is the whole deal. are you getting the picture? -- terry bisson
when faith stands trial, its appeals must go to the court of reason --austin dacey [secular conscience]
it is the special beauty of faith, that, like the fabled phoenix, it draws its life from the flames that destroy it. It flies as it dies. -- thomas m. disch [the word of god]
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abby: i am good mcgee, but i cannot work miracles. this is impossible. i told you once, i told you a thousand times -
mcgee: there is no substitute for quality source imagery, i know.
I have found the Leica M8 to be unreliable, poorly designed, and to deliver substandard results in most of the situations in which I have used it. I can’t think of any camera--or for that matter any electronic device I have recently used--that so thoroughly fails to live up to its potential and its heritage.
the moon's the same old moon,
the flowers exactly as they were,
yet i've become the thingness
of all the things i see!
bunan (1602-72)
yeah, don't give me any ideas. i am getting too farfetched! -- eren yigit [age 10]
there is no pause button on reality. -- eren yigit [a remarkable observation that gives difficulty to many religious fanatics and republicans]
i love the word "smear"... -- laura calder [french food at home]
The life of a contrarian is inherently frustrating. Whenever you point out the flaws in a particular dogmatic position, there is a tediously-predictable, reflex reaction that you must be a dogmatist, for the opposite extreme. -- david brin [Airline deterioration, the new elite, levees and clkimate deniers]
Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere. -- victor stanger [has science found god?]
I bought it because I'm a sucker for finishing a series. DON'T DO IT. Put the mouse down and walk away. Do NOT check that box. -- from a review of stross's "clan corporate" at amazon [we get reviews]
[...] but I trust my family jewels only to Linux. -- donald knuth [interview with knuth]
hating bit fields in c structs. dat shit nevah werkz -- peter honeyman [tweet]
finding a needle in a haystack isn't hard when every straw is computerized. -- dexter
We need to kick the bishops out of the House of Lords, ban the Police and judiciary from taking donations from religious organizations, and get religion out of politics by any means necessary. -- charlie stross [when is a cult not a cult?]
i do not even know what a square looks like. i operate from a circle. -- dolores pitcher
fear is a frighteningly effective sales pitch. -- arianna huffington [right is wrong]
