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Just as the strength of the Internet is chaos,
so the strength of our liberty depends upon the chaos and cacophony
of the unfettered speech the First Amendment protects.
-- ACLU v Reno
Nothing great in politics, poetry, or the arts has ever
been achieved by anyone without a melancholic temperament.
--Aristotle
Creative individuals are more at home with complexity and apparent
disorder than other people are. . .The creative individual, in
his generalized
preference for apparent disorder, turns to the dimly realized life
of the
unconscious, and is likely to have more than the usual amount of
respect
for the forces of the irrational in himself and in others.
--Frank Barron
God invented marijuana
about 3 min. before the platypus.
- Jason Bennett
To search for truth, one has to be drunk with imagination.
--Leonard Bernstein
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak.
Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
- Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble on the truth,
but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if
nothing had happened. - Winston Churchill
I said, hey, listen to me, stay sane inside insanity
-Columbia, Rocky Horror Picture Show
If one had to worry about one's actions in
respect of other people's ideas, one might
as well be buried alive in an antheap or
married to an ambitious violinist. Whether
that man is the prime minister, modifying
his opinions to catch votes, or a bourgeois
in terror lest some harmless act should be
misunderstood and outrage some petty
convention, that man is an inferior man and
I do not want to have anything to do
with him any more than I want to eat canned
salmon.
Aleister Crowley
Those Romans who perpetrated the rape of
the Sabines, for example, did not work
themselves up for the deed by screening Debbie
Does Dallas, and the monkish
types who burned a million or so witches
in the Middle Ages had almost certainly
not come across Boobs and Buns or related
periodicals.
Barbara Ehrenreich
As far as the laws of mathematics
refer to reality, they are not certain;
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-Albert Einstein:
Only two things are infinite,
the universe and human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein:
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex,
and more violent.
It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in
the opposite direction.
-Albert Einstein
Gravitation can not be held responsible for people falling in love.
-Albert
Einstein
This is
the way the world ends...
This is the way the world ends...
This is the way the world ends...
Not with a Bang, but a Whimper
-T.S. Eliot
The first rule of tinkering is to save all the parts.
- Paul Erlich
Nothing can convince me that reality
is nothing more than that which we call a game.
--Hermann Hesse
Cowardly men choose the most cowardly as their leaders,
so that they won't have to show courage; and they choose
the stupidest among the stupid, so that everyone can have
the feeling that he's a little better the leader.
--Adolf Hitler
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million
typewriters,
and Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare.
-- Blair Houghton
Any idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea
at all.
- Elbert Hubbard
There is no slavery but ignorance.
Liberty
is the child of intelligence.
-Robert G. Ingersoll
Shakespeare is
the happy hunting ground
of all minds that have lost their balance.
-(Ulysses) James Joyce
reality leaves a lot to the imagination...
- John Lennon
Describing the Internet as the Network of Networks
is like calling the Space Shuttle 'a thing that flies'.
-- John Lester
Curiosity killed the cat, but where human beings are concerned,
the only thing a healthy curiosity can kill is ignorance.
- Harry Lorayne
Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen
bring a little in;
the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates....
-Dr.
A. Lawrence Lowell
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief
in the occurrence of the improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
Madness is tonic and invigorating. It
makes the sane more sane. The only ones
who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller
To reign is worth ambition though in hell:
Better to reign in hell than serve in heav'n.
---John Milton, Paradise Lost
"Now are thoughts thou shalt not banish -
Now are visions ne'er to vanish -
From thy spirits shall they pass
No more - like dew-drops from the grass
- Edgar Allen Poe, Spirits of the Dead
We love because we love freely knowing
That if we love not, to utter Depths shall
We fall.
-Raphael explaining the love of the Angels
for the Lord
The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena,
whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood....
Who knows the great enthusiasms, the great devotions;
who spends himself in a worthy cause;
who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement,
and...... if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly,
so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls
who know neither victory nor defeat.
- Theodore Roosevelt
"philosophers have argued for centuries about how many angels can
dance
on the head of a pin, but materialists have known all along that
it depends on
whether they are jitterbugging or dancing cheek to cheek."
- Tom Robbins
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never
experienced.
--Ned Rorem
Excellent wretch! Perdition catch my
soul
But do I love thee! and when I love thee not,
Chaos is come again.
--Othello Act 3, scene 3
It is silliness to live when to live is torment,
and then have we a prescription to die,
when death is our physician.
-Roderigo in Shakespeare's
Othello
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
- George Bernard Shaw
...the neurotic has problems,
the psychotic has solutions.
-Thomas Szasz
Old age hath yet his honor and his toil;
Death closes all: but someday ere the end,
Some work of noble note, may yet be done,
Not unbecoming men that strove with Gods.
The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks;
The long day wanes; the slow moon climbs; the deep
Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends,
'Tis not too late to seek a newer world.
Push off, and sitting well in order smite
The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds
To sail beyond
the sunset, and the bath
Of all the western stars, until I die.
- "Ulyssess," Tenyson
Running Windows on a Pentium is like having a brand new Porsche
but only be able to drive backwards with the hand-brake on.
-- Usenet
If a thousand people say something foolish, it's still foolish.
Truth is never dependent upon consensus of opinion.
-Unknown
An expert is a person who can take something
you already know and make it sound confusing.
-Unknown
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
-Unknown
You know what that fellow said ... In Italy, for thirty years under
the
Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed - they produced
Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland
they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace,
and
what did that produce ...? The cuckoo clock. So long, Holly.
- Unknown
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