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Quote: This one stands on its own
Fri, 25 Jan 2008

The best thing to do when you're already in a deep hole is to stop digging.

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Quotes: One from Blade Runner (the film)
Mon, 10 Dec 2007

Apparently another edition is coming out, this time the Real Final Directors Actual Cut, or something. Blade Runner: Final Cut. Of course, so many good lines but near the end one that cannot be missed:

"I don't know why he saved my life. Maybe in those last moments he loved life more than he ever had before. Not just his life, anybody's life, my life. All he'd wanted were the same answers the rest of us want. Where did I come from? Where am I going? How long have I got? All I could do was sit there and watch him die."

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Quotes: One from Black Mage
Thu, 04 Oct 2007

OKay, this is a little gamer-centric so I'll explain. Black Mage sees something stupid in the world, and then exclaims:

I'd cry, but there aren't enough tears.

That riff always makes me laugh. Just like Not yours in Fark or seeing lolkitty or Cliche Kitty.

Aside: Star Wars Lego (For PSP) really does rock. Screw you naysayers!

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Quotes: One from ol' Berty
Sun, 06 May 2007

"The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts."

Bertrand Russell

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Quotes: A famous grump
Fri, 03 Nov 2006

There have been many famous grumps in history, though few as quotable as Mr. W. C. Fields.

A man's got to believe in something. I believe I'll have another drink.

- W.C. Fields

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Quotes: One from old man Ben
Thu, 02 Nov 2006

This one is a timeless classic that pops up once in awhile.

They that would trade essential liberty for a little temporary safety deserve neither.

Benjamin Franklin

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Quotes: One about samurai lawyers
Tue, 25 Jul 2006

Theres so much for me to write about, from lazy afternoons on Sauble beach to this or that crazy technical exploit, to something very amazing going on that I'll talk about in just a couple of days - promise! However, when I'm mulling over the idea of having an underwater villain lair defended by those giant Japanese crabs with dolphin commanders and my eyeballs hit this phrase on Slashdot.. I had but no choice to parrot it here:

Lawyers are how you get business done in civil society. They are in many ways even superior to violence, because they can be used to attack vaporous legal constructs that you can't well go out and shoot if you wanted to. They're like samurai: have enough of them, and you can do anything you want. Don't have any, and you're just a peasant.

Words of the wise Kadin2048

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Quote: A quickie from Brian Kernighan
Wed, 03 May 2006

I've been too busy to keep sane or write up blog entries, so please accept this fine nerdy quote in my absence:

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."

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Quotes: From an interview with 'Pres' Eckert
Wed, 15 Feb 2006

Mr. Eckert worked on ENIAC, which was arguably the line between two epochs in computer science. The interview is here

What's the zaniest thing you did while developing ENIAC?

The mouse cage was pretty funny. We knew mice would eat the insulation off the wires, so we got samples of all the wires that were available and put them in a cage with a bunch of mice to see which insulation they did not like. We only used wire that passed the mouse test.

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Quotes: Simply because today is sort-of-palindromic, here's one from Rucker, on Gödel
Mon, 06 Feb 2006

Found this while perusing a friends page that I happened upon through merely following links. Amazing, that. He's into library-arts so I'm sure his jobs will be very difficult over the next few years, fighting with the evil DRM masters.

Although this theorem can be stated and proved in a rigorously mathematical way, what it seems to say is that rational thought can never penetrate to the final ultimate truth ... But, paradoxically, to understand Gödel's proof is to find a sort of liberation. For many logic students, the final breakthrough to full understanding of the Incompleteness Theorem is practically a conversion experience. This is partly a by-product of the potent mystique Gödel's name carries. But, more profoundly, to understand the essentially labyrinthine nature of the castle is, somehow, to be free of it.

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Quote: Contemporarily from Tycho of Penny Arcade
Mon, 30 Jan 2006

We are not business people, if things have gone well for us in this regard it is because our wild thrashings attracted devious minds, the scent of our naivete drawing them in like predators.

A little too familiar if I do say so myself :)

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Quotes: A few from Edmund
Fri, 27 Jan 2006

Just shy of posting too many quotes, I'll risk another; there are and have been many fascinating people.

"The age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators, has succeeded."

"Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little."

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

So many interesting quotes from an interesting fellow, Right Honourable Edmund Burke

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Quote: A pair from Thomas Edison
Wed, 25 Jan 2006

Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.

What you are will show in what you do.

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Quotes: Aldous Huxley
Sat, 21 Jan 2006

After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.

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Quotes: Chilling and cynical.. but only because it might be true?
Thu, 05 Jan 2006

From David Buss:

"On reflection, the dangerous idea may not be that murder historically has been advantageous to the reproductive success of killers; nor that we all house homicidal circuits within our brains; nor even that all of us are lineal descendants of ancestors who murdered. The danger comes from people who refuse to recognize that there are dark sides of human nature that cannot be wished away by attributing them to the modern ills of culture, poverty, pathology, or exposure to media violence. The danger comes from failing to gaze into the mirror and come to grips the capacity for evil in all of us."

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Quotes: From the immortal mouth of Zack Brannigan
Wed, 21 Dec 2005

"If we hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominos will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate."
- Zack Brannigan, Futurama

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Quotes: Words from C. S. Lewis
Sat, 26 Nov 2005

Someday you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

- preface to The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

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Quote: Life is a Mop
Thu, 26 May 2005

I stole this quote from a posting on Slashdot a few hours ago; I will have to find the posting again so I can get the author's nick but for now I will leave it uncredited (sorry!).

Life is like a mop. Sometimes life gets full of dirt and crud and hairballs and things and you gotta clean it out. You gotta stick it in here and rinse it off and start all over again. And sometimes life sticks to the floor so much that a mop, a mop, it's not good enough. You gotta get down there with like a toothbrush, you know, and you gotta really scrub 'cause you gotta get it off. But if that doesn't work, you can't give up. You gotta stand right up. You gotta run to a window and say, "These floors are dirty as hell, and I'm not gonna take it any more!"

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