On Life
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+<p>
+"The American story is, really, just enough of us did just enough of the
+right thing at the right moment to push us forward."
+<br> -- Jon Meacham</p>
+
+<p>
+"In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet. We
+spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate. If
+during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate
+with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate."
+<br> -- Gene Roddenberry</p>
+
+<p>
+"Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan not because he hits all the right notes...
+ but because he hits all the right emotions."
+<br>-- Will I Am</p>
+
+<p>
+"Taste your words before you spit them out."
+<br>-- Andy Card</p>
+
<p>
"That which hinders your task is your task."
+<p>
+"Energy without focus is chaos."
+<br>-- Ne-Yo, while judging on World of Dance
+
+<p>
+"Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine."
+<br>-- David Oyelowo
+
+<p>
+"Fast is relative to what you're driving."
+<br>-- Hurley Haywood
+
+<p>
+"I think, however, that there isn't any solution to this problem of education
+other than to realize that the best teaching can be done only when there is
+a direct individual relationship between a student and a good teacher---a
+situation in which the student discusses the ideas, thinks about the things,
+and talks about the things. It's impossible to learn very much by simply
+sitting in a lecture, or even by simply doing problems that are assigned."
+<br>-- Richard Feynman, in his preface to the printed Lectures on Physics
+
+<p>
+"If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed
+on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some
+other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science
+were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure
+it all out again."
+<br>-- Penn Jillette
+
<p>
"For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision."
<br>-- "Thal's Law", which I first heard quoted by Lyle Johnson
intelligent are full of doubt."
<br>-- Bertrand Russell</p>
+<p>
+"The difference between stupid and intelligent people — and this is true
+whether or not they are well-educated — is that intelligent people can
+handle subtlety. They are not baffled by ambiguous or even contradictory
+situations — in fact, they expect them and are apt to become suspicious
+when things seem overly straightforward."
+<br>-- Neal Stephenson, from The Diamond Age</p>
+
<p>
"People love to hear the brag of the local boy, because they want him to be
great, but the foreigner must deny that he has any outstanding virtue -- this
is traded for a worthy price."
<br>-- Orson Scott Card, a realization by an older Columbus in Pastwatch</p>
+<p>
+"Enduring pain to do something good for someone you care about, isn't that
+what life is?"
+<br>-- Dr Eric Foreman, a character on the TV series House
+
<p>
"Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake."
<br>-- Alfred Hitchcock</p>
sacred and virtue safe."
<br>-- John Walter Wayland</p>
+<p>
+"A lady is never unintentionally rude."
+<br>-- Mrs Walter Russell Winfree
+
<p>
"If ever a World Government should come into existence, it had better be a
government designed to be run by crooks rather than a government designed to
<p>
"Ultimately, I consider people to be more important than computers."
<br>-- Theodore Ts'o, in a posting about <a href="http://thunk.org/tytso/blog/2008/12/28/debian-philosophy-and-people/">Debian, Philosophy, and People</a>
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Being awesome is exhausting."
+<br>-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013
+</p>
+
+<p>
+“Most conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of
+a witness.”
+<br>-- Margaret Miller
+</p>
+
+<p>
+"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
+<br>-- Margaret Mead
On Programming
--------------
<p>
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming,
is not worth knowing."
-<br>-- Perlis</p>
+<br>-- Alan Perlis</p>
<p>
"We now have a body of software accessible to everybody on earth so robust
"System administrators pray to Eris, afterwards, very softly, thanking
her for staying away..."
<br>--Kees J Bot, in comp.os.minix, talking about preparing for an upgrade...
+</p>
On Porsches
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since it's really not clear to me that increasing my breast size would
increase my confidence, I didn't bother reading most of it."</p>
+<p>
+"The difference between Open Source and Free Software is that Free Software
+people know there's a difference, and Open Source people try to pretend
+there isn't."</p>
+
Things Said About Me
--------------------
"I was all set to get annoyed, and then I thought,
'No, that's what they pay Bdale for ...'"
<br>--Eric Schwartz</p>
+
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