+"The American story is, really, just enough of us did just enough of the
+right thing at the right moment to push us forward."
+
-- Jon Meacham
+"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."
+
-- Gene Roddenberry
+"Bob Dylan is Bob Dylan not because he hits all the right notes...
+ but because he hits all the right emotions."
+
-- Will I Am
+"Taste your words before you spit them out."
+
-- Andy Card
"That which hinders your task is your task." +
+"Energy without focus is chaos."
+
-- Ne-Yo, while judging on World of Dance
+
"Find the audience, be excellent, and you will be fine."
-- David Oyelowo
@@ -27,6 +52,14 @@ 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."
-- Richard Feynman, in his preface to the printed Lectures on Physics
+
+"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."
+
-- Penn Jillette
+
"For every vision, there is an equal and opposite revision."
-- "Thal's Law", which I first heard quoted by Lyle Johnson
@@ -46,6 +79,10 @@ commit resources, or nothing new will ever be created."
"Fools live to regret their words, wise men to regret their silence."
-- Will Henry
+
+"Have more than you show, speak less than you know."
+
-- William Shakespeare
+
"Kids are more nimble than wise..."
-- Nancy Gibbs, in a Time opinion piece
@@ -183,6 +220,11 @@ is what will endear him to the locals."
is traded for a worthy price."
-- Orson Scott Card, a realization by an older Columbus in Pastwatch
+"Enduring pain to do something good for someone you care about, isn't that
+what life is?"
+
-- Dr Eric Foreman, a character on the TV series House
+
"Some films are slices of life, mine are slices of cake."
-- Alfred Hitchcock
+"A lady is never unintentionally rude."
+
-- Mrs Walter Russell Winfree
+
"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
@@ -319,6 +365,16 @@ he'll be warm for the rest of his life."
-- Robert D. Garbee, 18 May 2013
+âMost conversations are simply monologues delivered in the presence of
+a witness.â
+
-- Margaret Miller
+
+"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world; indeed, it's the only thing that ever has."
+
-- Margaret Mead
+
On Programming
--------------
@@ -330,7 +386,7 @@ to do a complete Debian desktop install!"
"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming,
is not worth knowing."
-
-- Perlis
"We now have a body of software accessible to everybody on earth so robust @@ -420,6 +476,11 @@ Things I've Said 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."
++"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."
+ Things Said About Me -------------------- @@ -427,3 +488,4 @@ Things Said About Me "I was all set to get annoyed, and then I thought, 'No, that's what they pay Bdale for ...'"