From 143b8796b616e95563d049c91b3989126c7be4c4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thedro Neely Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2021 22:10:26 -0400 Subject: generators/fortune: Add quotes seen last week Fix attributions for a few quotes. --- generators/fortune/quotes.fortune | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 109 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) diff --git a/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune b/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune index 0187238..0026afe 100644 --- a/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune +++ b/generators/fortune/quotes.fortune @@ -910,7 +910,7 @@ There are no solutions. There are only trade-offs. — Thomas Sowell in A Conflict of Visions: Ideological Origins of Political Struggles % -For the love of life, there’s a trade–off. We could loose it all – but we’ll +For the love of life, there’s a trade–off; We could loose it all, but we’ll go down fighting. — David Sylvian and Koji Haijima, For The Love of Life % The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose @@ -2765,7 +2765,7 @@ in a room alone.” — Blaise Pascal, Pensées “The devil is not as black as he is painted.” — Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy % -“Don’t be a shill.” +Don’t be a shill. % Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. — Ambrose Bierce @@ -2982,7 +2982,7 @@ Feudalism is alive and well. % Eristic Dialectics: The Logic of Appearance. % -Turning and turning in the widening gyre +Turning and turning in the widening gyre; The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world. @@ -3013,7 +3013,7 @@ chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will -also laugh afterwards. — Nikolai Gogol, The Nose +also laugh afterwards. — Nikolai Gogol, Dead Souls % Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome. — Charlie Munger @@ -3104,10 +3104,114 @@ Pay to pray. % Distributed is the new centralized. % -And slowly you come to realize... +And slowly, you come to realize; It’s all as it should be. You can only do so much. — David Sylvian and Koji Haijima, For The Love of Life % Content is not king. Context is king. +% +Nothing is true; everything is permitted. +— Alamut, Vladimir Bartol +% +It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of +wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was +the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of +Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had +everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct +to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way – in short, the period +was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities +insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative +degree of comparison only. — Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities +% +Omniscience: A state of possessing all knowledge. +% +“What I want is all of the power and none of the responsibility.” +% +Expansion means complexity; and complexity decay. +% +There are two kinds of pedestrians; the quick and the dead. +— Lord Thomas Rober Dewar +% +Programming is like alchemy. +% +We are all worms. But I do believe I am a glowworm. +— Winston Churchill +% +My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. +— Adlai E. Stevenson +% +Two heads are more numerous than one. +% +Time heals all non—fatal wounds. +% +Today is the first day of the rest of your week. +% +The early worm gets eaten by the bird. +% +Trust the system. +% +Prove that you are human. +% +Jump on the bandwagon! +% +Game the metrics. +% +All drugs come with side effects. +% +“For my friends, everything; for my enemies, the law.” — Óscar R. Benavides +% +In other words, we are left with Plato’s “noble natures,” with the +few of whom it may be true that none “does evil voluntarily.” Yet the +implied and dangerous conclusion, “Everybody wants to do good,” is not +true even in their case. The sad truth of the matter is that most evil is +done by people who never made up their minds to be or do either evil or +good. — Hannah Arendt, The Life of the Mind +% +Justice inclines her scales so that wisdom comes at the price of +suffering. — Aeschylus, Agamemnon +% +If it happens once, it’s a bug. +If it happens twice, it’s a feature. +If it happens more than twice, it’s a design philosophy. +% +Fake it till you make it? +% +God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. How shall we +comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and +mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our +knives: who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to +clean ourselves? What festivals of atonement, what sacred games shall we +have to invent? Is not the greatness of this deed too great for us? Must +we ourselves not become gods simply to appear worthy of it? — Friedrich +Nietzsche +% +Hanlon’s Eraser: Stupidity is criminal. +% +Great minds think alike, though fools seldom differ. +% +Dynamics of Software Acceptance: Worse is better. +% +Authoritarianism: A form of government that rejects pluralism and uses a +strong central power to preserve the political status quo. +% +Why are quotes so popular? +% +Everybody wants to be the leader. +% +Prove that you are human, human. +% +Not everyone is on social media. +% +We are aware of the issue. +% +Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and +deserve to get it good and hard. — H. L. Mencken +% +Life’s most persistent and urgent question is, ‘What are you doing for +others?’ — Martin Luther King, Jr. +% +OSH: Open–source hardware. +% +Your web browser is not supported. -- cgit v1.2.3