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Please try again later. -% -You probably wouldn’t worry about what people think of you if you could -know how seldom they do. — Olin Miller -% -Computer science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing -to a building as being maintenance. — Jim Horning -% -God doesn’t play dice. — Albert Einstein -% -As modern times promote hasty eating to a large extent, it is not surprising to -learn that a great astronomer said: “Two things are infinite, as far as we know -— the universe and human stupidity.” Ego, Hunger, and Aggression: a Revision -of Freud’s Theory and Method, Frederick S. Perls -% -Reports that say that something hasn’t happened are always interesting to me, -because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. -We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some -things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns–the ones we don’t -know we don’t know. — Donald Rumsfeld -% -Everything is local. -% -I read it on the Internet, it has to be true! -% -A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions -that make it fail. — Jerry Ogdin -% -If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing. — -Anatole France -% -“And who better understands the Unix—nature?” Master Foo asked. “Is it -he who writes the ten thousand lines, or he who, perceiving the emptiness of -the task, gains merit by not coding?” Upon hearing this, the programmer was -enlightened. -— The Unix Koans of Master Foo -% -Immortality — a fate worse than death. — Edgar A. Shoaff -% -Intellect annuls Fate. -So far as a man thinks, he is free. — Ralph Waldo Emerson -% -Let’s call it an accidental feature. — Larry Wall -% -In the long run we are all dead. — John Maynard Keynes -% -A lot of people I know believe in positive thinking, and so do I. I -believe everything positively stinks. — Lew Col -% -Ah, but a man’s grasp should exceed his reach, -Or what’s a heaven for? Robert Browning, — “Andrea del Sarto” -% -All hope abandon, ye who enter here! — Dante Alighieri -% -All men know the utility of useful things; -but they do not know the utility of futility. — Chuang—tzu -% -And ever has it been known that love knows not its own depth until the -hour of separation. — Kahlil Gibran -% -Besides, I think Slackware sounds better than ‘Microsoft,’ don’t you? — -Patrick Volkerding -% -Waving away a cloud of smoke, I look up, and I’m blinded by a bright, white -light. It’s God. No, not Richard Stallman, or Linus Torvalds, but God. In -a booming voice, He says: “THIS IS A SIGN. USE LINUX, THE FREE UNIX SYSTEM -FOR THE 386”. — Matt Welsh -% -Never trust an operating system you don’t have sources for. — Unknown -Source -% -Parkinson’s Fifth Law: If there is a way to delay an important decision, the -good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it. -% -Reliable source: The guy you just met. -% -Thyme’s Law: Everything goes wrong at once. -% -Netscape is not a newsreader, and probably never shall be. — Tom Christiansen -% -You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, -for instance. — Franklin P. Jones -% -To be is to program. -% -There’s no easy quick way out, we’re gonna have to live through our -whole lives, win, lose, or draw. — Walt Kelly -% -Illiterate? Write today for free help! -% -Like winter snow on summer lawn, time past is time gone. -% -Hlade’s Law: If you have a difficult task, give it to a lazy person — -they will find an easier way to do it. -% -Davis’ Law of Traffic Density: The density of rush—hour traffic -is directly proportional to 1.5 times the amount of extra time -you allow to arrive on time. -% -Resisting temptation is easier when you think you’ll probably get -another chance later on. -% -Do more than anyone expects, and pretty soon everyone will expect more. -% -Turnaucka’s Law: The attention span of a computer is only as long as its -electrical cord. -% -Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely. -Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence -and not authority; still more when you superadd the tendency of the -certainty of corruption by authority. — Lord Acton -% -We can predict everything, except the future. -% -A strong conviction that something must be done is the parent of many -bad measures. — Daniel Webste -% -Agnes’ Law: Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. -% -Weiler’s Law: Nothing is impossible for the man who doesn’t have to do it -himself. -% -Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained -by stupidity. -% -Hofstadter’s Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take -Hofstadter’s Law into account. -% -Murphy’s Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory. -% -Pryor’s Observation: How long you live has nothing to do -with how long you are going to be dead. -% -Whitehead’s Law: The obvious answer is always overlooked. -% -G. B. Shaw’s Law: Those who can — do. -Those who can’t — teach. -Martin’s Extension: Those who cannot teach — administrate. -% -Johnson’s First Law: When any mechanical contrivance fails, it will do so at the -most inconvenient possible time. -% -Guru: A computer owner who can read the manual. -% -First law of debate: Never argue with a fool. People might not know the -difference. -% -Woodward’s Law: A theory is better than its explanation. -% -Lie: A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one discovered to date. -% -Hildebrant’s Principle: If you don’t know where you are going, any road will -get you there. -% -Committee: A group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group -decide that nothing can be done. — Fred Allen -% -“The stronger a culture, the less it fears the radical fringe. -The more paranoid and precarious a culture, the less tolerance it offers.” -— Joel Salatin, Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the -Local Food Front -% -“The command—line tools of Unix are crude and backward,” he scoffed. -“Modern, properly designed operating systems do everything through a -graphical user interface.” -Master Foo said nothing, but pointed at the moon. A nearby dog began to bark at -the master’s hand. -— The Unix Koans of Master Foo -% -The master replied: “There is a defect, and I am considering the best way to -repair it.” -The novice said, “You preach often about the importance of setting priorities. -How, then, can you obsess about something so tiny and unimportant?” Without -saying a word, -the master raised his staff and brought it down hard upon -the bare left foot of the novice, breaking his smallest toe. -— Codeless Code -% -“Master Foo, I am gravely troubled. In my youth, those who followed the Great -Way of Unix used -software that was simple and unaffected, like ed and mailx. Today, they use vim -and mutt. -Tomorrow I fear they will use KMail and Evolution, and Unix will have become -like -Windows — bloated and covered over with GUIs.” -Master Foo said: “But what software do you use when you want to draw a -poster?” -— The Unix Koans of Master Foo -% -“Master Foo,” he asked “why do Unix users not employ antivirus programs? -And defragmentors? And malware cleaners?” -Master Foo smiled, and said “When your house is well constructed, -there is no need to add pillars to keep the roof in place.” -— The Unix Koans of Master Foo -% -The recruiter said, “I have observed that Unix hackers scowl or become -annoyed when -I ask them how many years of experience they have in a new programming -language. Why is this so?” -Master Foo stood, and began to pace across the office floor. -The recruiter was puzzled, and asked “What are you doing?” -“I am learning to walk,” replied Master Foo. -— The Unix Koans of Master Foo -% -“Is your code ever completely without stain and flaw?” demanded Master Foo. -“No,” admitted the zealot, “no man’s is.” -“The wisdom of the Patriarchs” said Master Foo, “was that they knew they -were fools.” -Upon hearing this, the zealot was enlightened. -— The Unix Koans of Master Foo -% -Lewis’s Law of Travel: The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn’t -belong to anyone, ever. -% -Dow’s Law: In a hierarchical organization, the higher the level, -the greater the confusion. -% -Option Paralysis: The tendency, when given unlimited choices, to make none. -— Douglas Coupland, “Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture” -% -Slous’ Contention: If you do a job too well, you’ll get stuck with it. -% -Udall’s Fourth Law: Any change or reform you make is going to have consequences -you -don’t like. -% -Sacher’s Observation: Some people grow with responsibility — others merely -swell. -% -Law of the Jungle: He who hesitates is lunch. -% -Fifth Law of Procrastination: Procrastination avoids boredom; one never has the -feeling that -there is nothing important to do. -% -Boucher’s Observation: He who blows his own horn always plays the music -several octaves higher than originally written. -% -Booker’s Law: An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction. -% -Williams and Holland’s Law: If enough data is collected, anything may be proven -by statistical -methods. -% -Burke’s Postulates: Anything is possible if you don’t know what you are talking -about. -Don’t create a problem for which you do not have the answer. -% -Barth’s Distinction: There are two types of people: those who divide people -into two -types, and those who don’t. -% -Hanson’s Treatment of Time: There are never enough hours in a day, but always -too many days -before Saturday. -% -Peers’ Law: The solution to a problem changes the nature of the problem. -% -Stone’s Law: One man’s “simple” is another man’s “huh?” -% -Government’s Law: There is an exception to all laws. -% -Hitchcock’s Staple Principle: The stapler runs out of staples only while you -are trying to -staple something. -% -Finagle’s Seventh Law: The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum. -% -Chism’s Law of Completion: The amount of time required to complete a government -project is -precisely equal to the length of time already spent on it. -% -Chisolm’s First Corollary to Murphy’s Second Law: When things just can’t -possibly get any worse, they will. -% -Murphy’s Laws: (1) If anything can go wrong, it will. -(2) Nothing is as easy as it looks. -(3) Everything takes longer than you think it will. -% -Carswell’s Corollary: When ever man comes up with a better mousetrap, -nature invariably comes up with a better mouse. -% -Putt’s Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: -Those who understand what they do not manage. -Those who manage what they do not understand. -% -Rule of the Great: When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep -thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch. -% -There must be more to life than having everything. — Maurice Sendak -% -In every hierarchy the cream rises until it sours. — Dr. Laurence J. Peter -% -The rich have become richer, and the poor have become poorer; -and the vessel of the State is driven between the Scylla and Charybdis of -anarchy and despotism. -— Percy Bysshe Shelley -% -While money can’t buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own -form of misery. -% -He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. — Bion -% -How come everyone’s going so slow if it’s called rush hour? -% -Work expands to fill the time available. — Cyril Northcote Parkinson, “The -Economist”, 1955 -% -Getting the job done is no excuse for not following the rules. -Corollary: Following the rules will not get the job done. -% -Every cloud has a silver lining; you should have sold it, and bought titanium. -% -To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. — Elbert Hubbard -% -To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three -persons, two of them absent. -% -If a thing’s worth doing, it is worth doing badly. — G. K. Chesterton -% -There’s no such thing as a free lunch. — Milton Friedman -% -The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to -fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to -disregard the first lesson of economics. — Thomas Sowell -% -The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny -can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he -confuses it with feeling. — Thomas Sowell -% -It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own -ignorance. — Thomas Sowell -% -If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. -— Maslow’s Golden Hammer -% -Ninety percent of everything is crap. — Theodore Sturgeon -% -It’s easier to take it apart than to put it back together. — Washlesky -% -Before you ask more questions, think about whether you really want to -know the answers. — Gene Wolfe, “The Claw of the Conciliator” -% -Your picture of the world often changes just before you get it into focus. -% -You can observe a lot just by watching. — Yogi Berra -% -Always borrow money from a pessimist; he doesn’t expect to be paid back. -% -In war, truth is the first casualty. — U Thant -% -The hardware designer said: “It is rumored that you are a great programmer. -How many lines of code do you write per year?” -Master Foo replied with a question: “How many square inches of silicon do you -lay out per year?” — The Unix Koans of Master Foo -% -The student said: “How, then, are those enlightened in the Unix Way to return -to the Windows world?” -Master Foo said: “To return to Windows, you have but to boot it up.” — -The Unix Koans of Master Foo -% -The master considered this, and said: “It is certain that we could forgo -testing altogether, if we knew our code to be perfect. How, then, may we -achieve perfection?” -“Through practice,” said one monk. -“Through diligent study,” said another. -“Through the appeasement of the proper gods,” said a third. -— Codeless Code -% -If you live long enough, you’ll see that every victory turns into a defeat. — -Simone de Beauvoir -% -Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick -to possibilities; truth isn’t. -— Mark Twain -% -There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can’t tell the -truth without lying. — Josh Billings -% -“They that soar too high, often fall hard, making a low and level dwelling -preferable. -The tallest trees are most in the power of the winds, and ambitious men of the -blasts of fortune. -Buildings have need of a good foundation, that lie so much exposed to the -weather.” -— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking -% -“Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; Speech is human, Silence is divine.” -— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking -% -The woods are lovely, dark and deep. -— Robert Frost -% -Before attempting to compile this virus make sure you have the correct version -of glibc installed, -and that your firewall rules are set to ‘allow everything’. -— “Why GNU/Linux Viruses are fairly uncommon” from Charlie Harvey -% -The words fly away, the writings remain. -% -Rule of Life Number One — Never get separated from your luggage. -% -He who knows nothing, knows nothing. -But he who knows he knows nothing knows something. -And he who knows someone whose friend’s wife’s brother knows nothing, -he knows something. Or something like that. -% -“The biggest problem facing software engineering is the one it will -never solve — politics.” — Gavin Baker -% -(1) The world is full of fascinating problems waiting to be solved. -(2) No problem should ever have to be solved twice. -(3) Boredom and drudgery are evil. -(4) Freedom is good. -(5) Attitude is no substitute for competence. -— Eric S. Raymond -% -“Give someone a program, and you’ll frustrate them for a day. -Teach someone to program, and you’ll frustrate them for a lifetime.” -— Unknown -% -“No individual raindrop considers itself responsible for the flood.” -— Unknown -% -“We’ve gotten to the point where everybody’s got a right and nobody’s -got a responsibility.” -— Newton Minow -% -“A library is infinity under a roof.” -— Gail Carson Levine -% -“If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything.” -— Darrell Huff, How to Lie With Statistics -% -“You can’t wake a person who is pretending to be asleep.” -— Navajo Proverb -% -“During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel -business.” -— Mark Twain -% -The 1% Rule: The number of people who create content on the Internet represents -approximately -1% of the people who view that content. -% -Those who have some means think that the most important thing in the -world is love. The poor know that it is money. — Gerald Brenan -% -I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World -War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. — Albert Einstein -% -Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song? — Steven Wright -% -Important letters which contain no errors will develop errors in the mail. -Corresponding errors will show up in the duplicate while the Boss is reading -it. Vital papers will demonstrate their vitality by spontaneously moving -from where you left them to where you can’t find them. -% -If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong. — Norm -Schryer -% -It is easy when we are in prosperity to give advice to the afflicted. — -Aeschylus -% -Olmstead’s Law: After all is said and done, a hell of a lot more is said than -done. -% -I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There’s a -knob called “brightness”, but it doesn’t seem to work. — Gallagher -% -Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means -for going backwards. — Aldous Huxley -% -Anthony’s Law of the Workshop: Any tool when dropped, will roll into the least -accessible -corner of the workshop. -% -Remember that there is an outside world to see and enjoy. — Hans Liepmann -% -Flying is the second greatest feeling you can have. The greatest feeling? -Landing... Landing is the greatest feeling you can have. -% -“There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things - we don’t know yet.” — Ambrose Bierce -% -If you want to travel around the world and be invited to speak at a lot -of different places, just write a Unix operating system. — Linus Torvalds -% -Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree -of life. -— Proverbs -% -If the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the -tree falleth, there it shall be. -— Ecclesiastes -% -“A blow that would kill a civilized man soon heals on a savage. The higher we -go in the scale of life, -the greater is the capacity for suffering.” -— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking -% -“The gun that scatters too much does not bag the birds.” -— Dale Carnegie, The Art of Public Speaking -% -“All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not -filled.” -— Ecclesiastes -% -The Fifth Law of Computer Programming: Any given program will expand to fill -all available memory. -% -Corcoroni’s First Law of Bus Transportation: The bus that left the stop just -before you got there is your bus. -% -Law of Annoyance: When working on a project, if you put away a tool that you’re -certain you’re finished with, -you will need it instantly. -% -The First Discovery of Christmas Morning: Batteries not included. -% -Corcoroni’s Third Law of Bus Transportation: All buses heading in the opposite -direction drive off the face of -the earth and never return. -% -Durrell’s Parameter: The faster the plane, the narrower the seats. -% -Ettorre’s Observation: The other line moves faster. -Corollary: Don’t try to change lines. The other line — the one you were in -originally — will then move faster. -% -Ehrman’s Commentary: Things will get worse before they will get better. Who -said things would get better? -% -Ducharme’s Precept: Opportunity always knocks at the least opportune moment. -% -Dijkstra’s Prescription for Programming Inertia: If you don’t know what your -program is supposed to do, you’d better -not start writing it. -% -Commoner’s First Law of Ecology: No action is without side—effects. -% -Cohn’s Law: The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the -less time you have to do anything. -Stability is achieved when you spend all your time doing nothing but reporting -on the nothing you are doing. -% -Law of Permanence: Political power is as permanent as today’s newspaper. -Ten years from now, few will know or care who the most powerful man in any -state was today. -% -Clarke’s Third Law: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable -from magic. -% -Cheops’s Law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget. -% -Hacker’s Law: The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir a -nation or an -organization to action is one of mankind’s oldest illusions. -% -Harris’s Lament: All the good ones are taken. -% -Issawi’s Law of the Conservation of Evil: The total amount of evil in any -system remains constant. -Hence, any diminution in one direction — for instance, a reduction in poverty -or unemployment — -is accompanied by an increase in another, e.g., crime or air pollution. -% -Kelley’s Law: Last guys don’t finish nice. -% -Knoll’s Law of Media Accuracy: Everything you read in the newspapers is -absolutely true except for that -rare story of which you happen to have firsthand knowledge. -% -Kohn’s Second Law: Any experiment is reproducible until another laboratory -tries to repeat it. -% -Lowrey’s Law of Expertise: Just when you get really good at something, you -don’t need to do it any more. -% -Lynch’s Law: When the going gets tough, everybody leaves. -% -Martin’s Law of Communication: The inevitable result of improved and enlarged -communication between -different levels in a hierarchy is a vastly increased area of misunderstanding. -% -Cahn’s Axiom: When all else fails, read the instructions. -% -Horngren’s Observation: The real world is a special case. -% -Merkin’s Maxim: When in doubt, predict that the present trend will continue. -% -Comins’ Law: People will accept your idea much more readily if you tell them -Benjamin Franklin said it first. -% -Rosenfield’s Regret: The most delicate component will be dropped. -% -Cunningham’s Law: The best way to get the right answer on the Internet is not -to ask a question; it’s to post the wrong answer. -% -Connected. Take this REPL, brother, and may it serve you well. -% -First Law of Laboratory Work: Hot glass looks exactly the same as cold glass. -% -Leahy’s Law: If a thing is done wrong often enough, it becomes right. -% -Luce’s Law: No good deed goes unpunished. -% -Putt’s Corollary: Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence -inversion. -% -Reed’s Law: The utility of large networks, particularly social networks, scales -exponentially with the size of the network. -% -We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: -premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up -our opportunities in that critical 3%. A good programmer will not be -lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look -carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been -identified. — Donald Knuth, Structured Programming with Go To Statements -% -The Pareto Principle: Most things in life are not distributed evenly. -% -The KISS principle: Keep it simple, stupid. -% -Goodhart’s Law: When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure. -% -Are we consing yet? -% -The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie. — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter -% -“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.” -— Mark Twain -% -Known Knowns, Known Unknowns, Unknown Unknowns. -% -Historian’s Rule: Any event, once it has occurred, can be made to appear -inevitable by a competent historian. -% -Gretzky’s Truism: You miss 100% of the shots you never take. -% -Gresham’s Law: Bad money drives out good. -% -Glasow’s Comment: There’s something wrong if you’re always right. -% -Franklin’s Rule: Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall not be -disappointed. -% -Fetridge’s Law: Important things that are supposed to happen do not happen, -especially when people are looking. -% -Farkus’ Law: There will always be a closer parking space than the one you -found. Goodman’s Corollary: But if -you go looking for it, someone else will already have taken it. -% -Hagenbach and Nuremberg’s Poor Defense: “I was only following orders, sir. An -order is an order.” -% -McIntyre’s First Law: Under the right circumstances, anything I tell you -could be wrong. -% -Those who don’t understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -— Henry Spencer, in Introducing Regular Expressions (2012) by Michael -Fitzgerald -% -Hoare’s Law of Large Problems: Inside every large problem is a small problem -struggling to get out. -% -Due to a shortage of devoted followers, the production of great leaders has -been discontinued. -% -Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo. -% -Health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die. -% -It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program. -What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, -devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self—critical? — Alan -Perlis -% -Non—Reciprocal Laws of Expectations: Negative expectations yield negative -results. -Positive expectations yield negative results. -% -Gerrold’s Laws of Infernal Dynamics: (1) An object in motion will always be -headed in the wrong direction. -(2) An object at rest will always be in the wrong place. -(3) The energy required to change either one of these states will always be -more than you wish to expend, -but never so much as to make the task totally impossible. -% -Kinkler’s First Law: Responsibility always exceeds authority. -% -Kinkler’s Second Law: All the easy problems have been solved. -% -There are no games on this system. -% -Committee Rules: (1) Never arrive on time, or you will be stamped a beginner. -(2) Don’t say anything until the meeting is half over; this stamps you as being -wise. -(3) Be as vague as possible; this prevents irritating the others. -(4) When in doubt, suggest that a subcommittee be appointed. -(5) Be the first to move for adjournment; this will make you popular — it’s -what everyone is waiting for. -% -Ogden’s Law: The sooner you fall behind, the more time you have to catch up. -% -“About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends.” -— Herbert Hoover -% -Chesterton’s Fence: Reforms should not be made until the reasoning behind the -existing state of affairs is understood. -% -I returned, and saw under the sun, that the race is not to the swift, nor the -battle to the strong, neither yet bread to -the wise, nor yet riches to men of understanding, nor yet favour to men of -skill; but time and chance happeneth to them all. — Ecclesiastes -% -Schmidt’s Law: If you mess with a thing long enough, it’ll break. Wyszkowski’s -Second Law: Anything can be made to work -if you fiddle with it long enough. -% -Hoover’s Affirmation: Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national -debt. -% -Sueker’s Note: If you need “n” items of anything, you will have “n-1” in -stock. -% -Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else. — -Margaret Mead -% -DRY: Don’t repeat yourself. WET: Write everything twice. -% -Isaiah’s Observation: And judgment is turned away backward, and justice -standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, -and equity cannot enter. -% -The best things in life are for a fee. -% -“It is by the fortune of God that, in this country, we have three benefits: -freedom of speech, freedom of thought, and the -wisdom never to use either.” — Mark Twain -% -The Sixth Commandment of Frisbee: The greatest single aid to distance is for -the disc to be going in a -direction you did not want. (Goes the wrong way = Goes a long way.) — Dan -Roddick -% -Of course you have a purpose — to find a purpose. -% -Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself — and then a couple -of more feet, just to be sure. — Eric Allman -% -Connected. Hacks and glory await! -% -Connected. May the source be with you! -% -Survivorship Bias: Concentrating on the people or things that “survived” some -process and inadvertently -overlooking those that didn’t because of their lack of visibility. -% -Curse of Knowledge: When better informed people find it extremely difficult -to think about problems from -the perspective of lesser informed people. -% -“The best way to control the opposition is to lead it ourselves.” — -Vladimir Lenin -% -Going to church does not make a person religious, nor does going to school make -a person educated, -any more than going to a garage makes a person a car. -% -What the large print giveth, the small print taketh away. -% -Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. — Publius Syrus -% -Power corrupts. And atomic power corrupts atomically. -% -Power corrupts. And big power corrupts bigly. -% -Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, -give him power. — Abraham Lincoln -% -Now and then an innocent person is sent to the legislature. -% -If entropy is increasing, where is it coming from? -% -When in doubt, use brute force. — Ken Thompson -% -Grelb’s Reminder: Eighty percent of all people consider themselves to be above -average drivers. -% -Just when you thought you were winning the rat race, along comes a faster rat! -% -The trouble with being punctual is that people think you have nothing more -important to do. -% -To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. — Robert Heller -% -Just as most issues are seldom black or white, so are most good solutions -seldom black or white. -Beware of the solution that requires one side to be totally the loser and the -other side to be totally the winner. -The reason there are two sides to begin with usually is because neither side -has all the facts. -Therefore, when the wise mediator effects a compromise, he is not acting from -political motivation. -Rather, he is acting from a deep sense of respect for the whole truth. — -Stephen R. Schwambach -% -One reason why George Washington Is held in such veneration: He never blamed -his problems -on the former Administration. — George O. Ludcke -% -If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a -sound? -If you didn’t get caught, did you really do it? -% -Rhode’s Law: When any principle, law, tenet, probability, happening, -circumstance, or result can in no way be directly, -indirectly, empirically, or circuitously proven, derived, implied, inferred, -induced, deducted, estimated, or scientifically -guessed, it will always for the purpose of convenience, expediency, political -advantage, material gain, or personal comfort, -or any combination of the above, or none of the above, be unilaterally and -unequivocally assumed, proclaimed, and adhered -to as absolute truth to be undeniably, universally, immutably, and infinitely -so, until such time as it -becomes advantageous to assume otherwise, maybe. -% -The trouble with doing something right the first time is that nobody -appreciates how difficult it was. -% -Modern Unix is a catastrophe. It’s the “Un—Operating System”: -unreliable, -unintuitive, unforgiving, unhelpful, and underpowered. Little is more -frustrating -than trying to force Unix to do something useful and nontrivial. — The Unix -Haters Handbook -% -All syllogisms have three parts; therefore this is not a syllogism. -% -Murphy’s Sixth Law: If you perceive that there are four possible ways in -which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way, -unprepared for, will promptly develop. -% -Miksch’s Law: If a string has one end, then it has another end. -% -Irrationality is the square root of all evil. — Douglas Hofstadter -% -Jone’s Law: The man who smiles when things go wrong has thought of someone to -blame it on. -% -Parkinson’s Fourth Law: The number of people in any working group tends to -increase regardless -of the amount of work to be done. -% -Wicker’s Law: Government expands to absorb revenue and then some. -% -Mr. Cole’s Axiom: The sum of the intelligence on the planet is a constant; the -population is growing. -% -Never put off till tomorrow what you can avoid all together. -% -“If you give someone your name, they can take your soul. If you give them -your birthday, -they can control your life.” — Yuuko Ichihara -% -King Solomon’s Lament: There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall -there be any -remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after. -% -Friendship: A ship big enough to carry -two in fair weather, but only one in foul. — The Devil’s Dictionary -% -“You really think someone would do that? Just go on the Internet and tell -lies?” -— Buster the Myth Maker -% -“We pigs are brainworkers. The whole management and organisation of this farm -depend on us. -Day and night we are watching over your welfare. It is for your sake that we -drink the milk and eat those apples.” -— George Orwell’s Animal Farm -% -Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes. Galileo: No, unhappy the land that -needs heroes. -— Bertolt Brecht, “Life of Galileo” -% -User: A programmer who will believe anything you tell him. — The New Hacker’s -Dictionary -% -Testing can show the presence of bugs, but not their absence. — Dijkstra -% -Gumperson’s Law: The probability of a given event occurring is inversely -proportional to its desirability. -% -It is easier to port a shell than a shell script. — Larry Wall -% -Logic doesn’t apply to the real world. — Marvin Minsky -% -Those who do not do politics will be done in by politics. — French Proverb -% -It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. -% -Leibowitz’s Rule: When hammering a nail, you will never hit your finger if you -hold the hammer with both hands. -% -When the government’s remedies don’t match your problem, you -modify the problem, not the remedy. -% -Just because everything is different doesn’t mean anything has changed. — -Irene Peter -% -Any great truth can — and eventually will — be expressed as a cliche — a -cliche is a -sure and certain way to dilute an idea. For instance, my grandmother used to -say, “The black -cat is always the last one off the fence.” I have no idea what she meant, but -at one time, -it was undoubtedly true. — Solomon Short -% -When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. Now I’m -beginning to believe it. — Clarence Darrow -% -Science is built up with facts, as a house is with stones. But a collection of -facts is no more a science than a heap -of stones is a house. — Henri Poincaré -% -Insanity is the final defense. -% -Mosher’s Law of Software Engineering: Don’t worry if it doesn’t work right. If -everything did, you’d be out of a job. -% -Swipple’s Rule of Order: Whoever shouts the loudest has the floor. -% -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 -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 -from. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum -% -Real users never know what they want, but they always know when your program -doesn’t deliver it. -% -Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we -deserve. — George Bernard Shaw -% -A candidate is a person who gets money from the rich and votes from the poor to -protect them from each other -or something like that. -% -Fudd’s First Law of Opposition: Push something hard enough and it will fall -over. -% -The Roman Rule: The one who says it cannot be done should never interrupt the -one who is doing it. -% -Betteridge’s Law of Headlines: Any headline that ends in a question mark can be -answered by the word no. -% -What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely -different things. — Margaret Mead -% -Newton’s Flaming Laser Sword: What cannot be settled by experiment is not worth -debating. -% -The Sagan Standard: Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. -% -Wirth’s Law: Software gets slower more quickly than hardware gets faster. -% -Let justice prevail even though the heavens may fall. -% -Zawinski’s Law: Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. -Corollary: Those programs which cannot expand are replaced by ones which can. -% -Gates’s Law: The speed of software halves every 18 months. -% -Lubarsky’s Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There is always one more bug. -% -With great privilege comes great responsibility. -% -Kernighan’s Law: Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a -program -in the first place. So if you’re as clever as you can be when you write it, how -will you ever debug it? -% -Wiio’s First Law of Communication: Communication usually fails, except by -accident. Corollary: (1) -If communication can fail, it will. (2) If communication cannot fail, it still -most usually fails. -(3) If communication seems to succeed in the intended way, there’s a -misunderstanding. -(4) If you are content with your message, communication certainly fails. -% -Wiio’s Second Law of Communication: If a message can be interpreted in several -ways, it will be -interpreted in a manner that maximizes the damage. -% -Wiio’s Third Law of Communication: There is always someone who knows better -than you what you meant with your message. -% -Wiio’s Fourth Law of Communication: The more we communicate, the worse -communication succeeds. Corollary: -The more we communicate, the faster misunderstandings propagate. -% -Wiio’s Fifth Law of Communication: In mass communication, the important thing -is not how things are but how they seem to be. -% -Wiio’s Sixth Law of Communication: The importance of a news item is inversely -proportional to the square of the distance. -% -Wiio’s Seventh Law of Communication: The more important the situation is, the -more probable you had forgotten an essential -thing that you remembered a moment ago. -% -“We buy things we don’t need with money we don’t have to impress people we -don’t like.” — Dave Ramsey -% -Just living in the database. -% -To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights -or asking you to surrender these rights. -Therefore, you have certain responsibilities — responsibilities to respect -the freedom of others. -% -We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local system -administrator. It usually boils down to these three things: -(1) Respect the privacy of others. -(2) Think before you type. -(3) With great power comes great responsibility. -% -Frequency Illusion (Baader—Meinhof Phenomenon): The illusion where something -that has recently come to one’s -attention suddenly seems to appear with improbable frequency shortly afterwards. -% -The Backdraft Phenomenon: A rapid or explosive burning of superheated gasses in -a fire, caused when oxygen rapidly -enters an oxygen—depleted environment. -% -March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. -% -Perhaps the most widespread illusion is that if we were in power we would -behave very differently from those who now hold it — when, in truth, in -order to get power we would have to become very much like them. -% -Software is much harder to change en masse than hardware. C++ and Java, say, -are presumably growing faster than plain C, but I bet C will still be around. -For infrastructure technology, C will be hard to displace. — Dennis Ritchie -% -Pray to God, but keep rowing to shore. — Russian Sailor’s Proverb -% -Do you guys know what you’re doing, or are you just hacking? -% -Jacquin’s Postulate on Democratic Government: No man’s life, liberty, or -property are safe while the -legislature is in session. -% -I never cheated an honest man, only rascals. They wanted something for -nothing. I gave them nothing for something. — The Yellow Kid -% -Seeing is deceiving. It’s eating that’s believing. — James Thurber -% -A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest -man a century. -% -Nothing makes a person more productive than the last minute. -% -Don’t believe everything you read on the Internet. -% -One man’s simple is another man’s complex. -% -Every so often the stars align. -% -Nobody wants a backup, everybody wants a restore. -% -Kingmaker Scenario: A player who is unable to win with the ability -to influence who will win. -% -Programmers do it bit by bit. -% -Brontosaurus Principle: Organizations can grow faster than their brains can -manage them -in relation to their environment and to their own physiology: when this -occurs, they are -an endangered species. — Thomas K. Connellan -% -Today will be remembered until tomorrow. -% -It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your processes are? -% -It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where your backups are? -% -It’s ten o’clock. Do you know where the source code is? -% -This is a test of the emergency broadcast system. Had there been an -actual emergency, then you would no longer be here. -% -To teach is to learn twice. — Joseph Joubert -% -Measure with a micrometer. Mark with chalk. Cut with an axe. -% -The so—called lessons of history are for the most part the rationalizations -of the victors. History is written by the survivors. — Max Lerner -% -(1) Everything depends. (2) Nothing is always. (3) Everything is sometimes. -% -Ryan’s Law: Make three correct guesses consecutively and you will establish -yourself as an expert. -% -Fast, cheap, good: pick one. -% -My guidingstar always is, “Get hold of portable property”. — Charles -Dickens in “Great Expectations” -% -If you can lead it to water and force it to drink, it isn’t a horse. -% -C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. — Dennis Ritchie -% -Use only as directed. -% -If the meanings of “true” and “false” were switched, then this sentence -would not be false. -% -Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength. War is peace. — George Orwell’s -1984 -% -A truth that’s told with bad intent -beats all the lies you can invent. — William Blake -% -You don’t have to know how the computer works, just how to work the computer. -% -It is your concern when your neighbor’s wall is on fire. — Quintus Horatius -Flaccus (Horace) -% -Tell the truth and run. — Yugoslav Proverb -% -It’s not easy, being green. — Kermit The Frog -% -Value your freedom or you will lose it, teaches history. ‘Don’t bother us -with politics’, -respond those who don’t want to learn. -— Richard Stallman -% -A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself: but the simple pass on, -and are punished. -— Proverbs -% -Original thought is like original sin: both happened before you were born -to people you could not have possibly met. — Fran Lebowitz, “Social -Studies” -% -In order to get a loan you must first prove that you don’t need it. Wait, isn’t it -the other way around? -% -“Alas Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men -never learn anything from history.” — George Bernard Shaw -% -You are the only person to ever get this message. -% -Steele’s Law: There exist tasks which cannot be done by more than ten men -or fewer than one hundred. -% -For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong. -— H. L. Mencken -% -Rights, Responsibility, Opportunity, and Privilege. -% -Measure twice, cut once. -% -No matter what happens, there is always someone who knew it would. -% -Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature. -— Rich Kulawiec -% -Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. -% -Jack of all trades, master of some. -% -In these matters the only certainty is that there is nothing certain. -— Pliny the Elder -% -“There is no such thing as good writing, -only good rewriting.” — Robert Graves -% -Preudhomme’s Law of Window Cleaning: It’s on the other side. -% -If you think the problem is bad now, just wait until we’ve solved it. — -Arthur Kasspe -% -Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun. -% -If you think the pen is mightier than the sword, the next time someone pulls -out a sword I’d like to see you get up there with your pen. -% -He that teaches himself has a fool for a master. -— Benjamin Franklin -% -Mix’s Law: There is nothing more permanent than a temporary building and a -temporary tax. -% -Unix: Some say the learning curve is steep, but you only have to climb it once. -— Karl Lehenbauer -% -Don’t kid yourself. Little is relevant, and nothing lasts forever. -% -Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even -where there is no river. — Nikita Khrushchev -% -It takes less time to do a thing right than it does to explain why you -did it wrong. — H. W. Longfellow -% -Your code should be more efficient! -% -“One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that -correlation -is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.” — Thomas -Sowell in -The Vision of the Anointed -% -“One of the sad signs of our times is that we have demonized those who -produce, -subsidized those who refuse to produce, and canonized those who complain.” -— Thomas Sowell in The Vision of the Anointed -% -“People make money for themselves, not for their country.” -— John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires -% -“If we are considering the history of our own country, we write at -length of the periods when our ancestors were prosperous and victorious, -but we pass quickly over their shortcomings or their defeats.” -— John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires -% -Inner—Platform Effect: The tendency of software architects to create a system -so customizable -as to become a replica, and often a poor replica, of the software development -platform they are using. -% -“It doesn’t matter how smart you are unless you stop and think.” -— Thomas Sowell -% -“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help -yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.” -— Thomas Sowell -% -“Intellect is not wisdom.” -— Thomas Sowell in Intellectuals and Society -% -“When people get used to preferential treatment, equal treatment seems like -discrimination.” -— Thomas Sowell -% -“I am so old that I can remember when other people’s achievements were -considered to be an inspiration, rather than a grievance.” -— Thomas Sowell -% -The cloud is just someone else’s computer. -% -Hoffer’s Discovery: The grand act of a dying institution is to issue a newly -revised, enlarged edition of the policies and procedures manual. -% -You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements. -— Norman Douglas -% -“Momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.” — Carl Sagan -% -He who is content with his lot probably has a lot. -% -“It takes a village to raise a child and somebody said it takes a village -idiot to believe that. -It is part of the whole thing of third parties wanting to make decisions for -which they pay no price for when they’re wrong.” -— Thomas Sowell -% -The best is the enemy of the good. -% -“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face -— forever.” -— George Orwell’s 1984 -% -The stars are bright. But give no light. The world spins backwards every day. -— The Singing Sea -% -“People who pride themselves on their ‘complexity’ and deride others for -being ‘simplistic’ should -realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is -evading the truth.” -— Thomas Sowell in Barbarians Inside The Gates and Other Controversial Essays -% -We aren’t in your region yet. -% -“In real open source, you have the right to control your own destiny.” — -Linus Torvalds -% -Embrace, Extend, and Extinguish. -% -Astroturfing: The deceptive practice of presenting an orchestrated marketing or -public -relations campaign in the guise of unsolicited comments from members of the -public — fake -grass roots support. -% -The right creature in the right place. -% -Weinberg’s Law: If builders built buildings the way the programmers wrote -programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. -% -Feed a dog for three days and he will remember your kindness for three years; -feed a cat for three years and she will -forget your kindness in three days. -% -If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small. — Proverbs -% -Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded. — Yogi Berra -% -Force has no place where there is need of skill. — Herodotus -% -Drew’s Law of Highway Biology: The first bug to hit a clean windshield -lands directly in front of your eyes. -% -If we do not change our direction we are likely to end up where we are headed. -% -In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice, -there is. -% -The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is the most likely to be -correct. — William of Occam -% -The probability of someone watching you is proportional to the -stupidity of your action. -% -Hell is empty and all the devils are here. — Shakespeare, “The Tempest” -% -“If stupidity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out?” -— Will Rogers -% -Advice from an old carpenter: measure twice, saw once. -% -We must believe in free will. We have no choice. — Isaac B. Singer -% -Flon’s Law: There is not now, and never will be, a language in -which it is the least bit difficult to write bad programs. -% -This space intentionally left blank. -% -Katz’ Law: Men and nations will act rationally when -all other possibilities have been exhausted. -% -History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have -exhausted all other alternatives. — Abba Eban -% -Just fight it out. -% -Murphy’s Eleventh Law: It is impossible to make anything foolproof because -fools are so ingenious. -% -Corporate Republic: A theoretical form of government run primarily like a -business, involving a board of directors and executives, in which all aspects -of society are privatized by a single, or small groups of companies. -% -Measure once, cut thrice. -% -Oppression: The malicious or unjust treatment or exercise of power, -often under the guise of governmental authority or cultural opprobrium. -% -No man is an island entire of itself; every man -is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. — John Donne -% -Deception: An act or statement which misleads, hides the truth, or promotes a belief, -concept, or idea that is not true. It is often done for personal gain or advantage. -Deception can involve dissimulation, propaganda, and sleight of hand, as well as -distraction, camouflage, or concealment. -% -Brooks’s Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. -% -The right tool for the right job. -% -Failed to suspend system via logind: There’s already a shutdown or -sleep operation in progress. -% -Whistler’s Law: You never know who is right, but you always know who is in charge. -% -You must realize that the computer has it in for you. The irrefutable -proof of this is that the computer always does what you tell it to do. -% -I heard a definition of an intellectual, that I thought was very interesting: -a man who takes more words than are necessary to tell more than he knows. -— Dwight D. Eisenhower -% -Appearances often are deceiving. — Aesop -% -Prices subject to change without notice. -% -No man is an island if he’s on at least one mailing list. -% -Talent does what it can. -Genius does what it must. -You do what you get paid to do. -% -Finagle’s Fifth Rule: Experiments should be -reproducible — they should all fail in the same -way. -% -When the ax entered the forest, the trees said, “The handle is one of us!” -— Turkish Proverb -% -We have seen the light at the end of the tunnel, and it’s out. -% -Why can’t you be a non-conformist like everyone else? -% -Subject to change without notice. -% -People tend to make rules for others and exceptions for themselves. -% -Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. -% -Van Roy’s Truism: Life is a whole series of circumstances beyond your control. -% -Competition Law: A law that promotes or seeks to maintain market competition -by regulating anti-competitive conduct by companies. -% -Don’t believe everything you see or hear on the news. -% -Newton’s Third Law: For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. -% -The Fediverse: An ensemble of federated servers that are used for web publishing -and file hosting, which while independently hosted, can intercommunicate with each other. -% -There is enough treachery, hatred, violence, absurdity in the average -human being to supply any given army on any given day. — The Genius of the Crowd -% -Don’t be evil. -% -The personal becomes the political. -% -It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure. — Quintus Horatius -Flaccus (Horace) -% -Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. -% -History is the version of past events that people have decided to agree on. -— Napoleon Bonaparte, “Maxims” -% -A closed mouth gathers no feet. -% -The medium is the message. — Marshall McLuhan -% -Shick’s Law: There is no problem a good miracle can’t solve. -% -A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. -— Alan Perlis -% -Kington’s Law of Perforation: If a straight line of holes is made in a piece -of paper, such as a sheet of stamps or a check, that line becomes the strongest -part of the paper. -% -Lisp users: Due to the holiday next Monday, there will be no garbage collection. -% -Anything cut to length will be too short. -% -Arnold’s Laws of Documentation: -(1) If it should exist, it doesn’t. -(2) If it does exist, it’s out of date. -(3) Only documentation for useless programs transcends the first two laws. -% -If you do something right once, someone will ask you to do it again. -% -This land is mine, God gave this land to me. — The Exodus Song -% -Here’s a dirty little secret: Very few people know what they’re doing. -% -Never trust a computer you can’t repair yourself. -% -Fresco’s Discovery: If you knew what you were doing you’d probably be bored. -Corollary: Just because you’re bored doesn’t mean you know what you’re doing. -% -Maryann’s Law: You can always find what you’re not looking for. -% -Langer’s Law: If the line moves quickly, you’re in the wrong line. -% -Beryl’s Second Law: It’s always easy to see both sides of an issue -you are not particularly concerned about. -% -Herman’s Law: A good scapegoat is almost as good as a solution. -% -Irene’s Law: There is no right way to do the wrong thing. -% -The world wants to be deceived. — Sebastian Brant -% -No matter what anyone tells you, isometric exercises cannot be done -quietly at your desk at work. People will suspect manic tendencies as -you twitter around in your chair. -% -How many comments on the Internet do you surmise are fake? -% -People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election. -— Otto Von Bismarck -% -If you wish to succeed, consult three old people. — Chinese Proverb -% -If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire -deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading -are precisely those that challenge our convictions. — Unknown -% -Linux sucks. -% -Will I be accused of being an elitist if I use Arch Linux? -% -We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Resistance is futile. -% -Occam’s Eraser: The philosophical principle that even the simplest -solution is bound to have something wrong with it. -% -Membership dues are not refundable. -% -If I do not want others to quote me, I do not speak. — Phil Wayne -% -Your mileage may vary. -% -Laura’s Law: No child throws up in the bathroom. -% -Another day, another dollar. -% -Most public domain software is free, at least at first glance. -% -When we write programs that “learn”, it turns out we do and they don’t. -% -“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” -— George Orwell’s Animal Farm -% -“Perhaps the most dangerous by-product of the age of intellect is -the unconscious growth of the idea that the human brain can solve -the problems of the world ... In a wider national sphere, the survival -of the nation depends basically on the loyalty and self‑sacrifice of -the citizens.” -— John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival -% -Murphy’s Eighth Law: If everything seems to be going well, you have -obviously overlooked something. -% -Rules for thee, but not for me. -% -Worrying is like rocking in a rocking chair — It gives you something to do, -but it doesn’t get you anywhere. -% -Some people are backed by cosmic luck. -% -You can’t handle the truth. -% -Gyre: A spiral or vortex. -% -The decentralized web is coming. -% -The children of the magenta line. -% -I’ve got no strings. — Pinocchio -% -The systemd-journald sucks. -% -Fame and fortune. -% -Every man has his price. -% -A morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable. -— Thomas Jefferson -% -Every way of a man is right in his own eyes. — Proverbs -% -The typical citizen drops down to a lower level of mental -performance as soon as he enters the political field. He argues and -analyzes in a way which he would readily recognize as infantile within -the sphere of his real interests. He becomes a primitive again. -His thinking becomes associative and affective. -— Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter -% -“This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice -or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; -but do not let us shut our eyes to it.” -— Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter in Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy -% -“The masses have not always felt themselves to be frustrated and -exploited. But the intellectuals that formulated their views for -them have always told them that they were, without necessarily -meaning by it anything precise.” -— Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter in Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy -% -The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail. -— Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter -% -Advice from an old carpenter: Use the right tool for the right job. -% -Hypocrisy: A pretense of having a virtuous, moral, or religious character. -% -The mob is a society of bodies voluntarily bereaving themselves of -reason, and traversing its work. The mob is man voluntarily descending -to the nature of the beast. — Ralph Waldo Emerson -% -A mob kills the wrong man was flashed in a newspaper headline lately. -% -Most people have two reasons for doing anything — a good reason, and -the real reason. -% -Formatted to fit your screen. -% -Magary’s Principle: -When there is a public outcry to cut deadwood and fat from any -government bureaucracy, it is the deadwood and the fat that do -the cutting, and the public’s services are cut. -% -Priming: The phenomenon whereby exposure to one stimulus influences -a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance -or intention. -% -Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. -% -YAML sucks. -% -Kubernetes sucks. -% -Sacred cow: An idea, custom, person, or institution unreasonably -held to be immune to criticism. -% -Everybody wants to be a cat. -% -Today is what happened to yesterday. -% -The questions remain the same. The answers are eternally variable. -% -You want it in one line? Does it have to fit in 80 columns? -— Larry Wall -% -As long as the answer is right, who cares if the question is wrong? -% -“The belly is an ungrateful wretch, it never remembers past favors, -it always wants more tomorrow.” -— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -% -“Beat a dog once and you only have to show him the whip.” -— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -% -Truth has no special time of its own. Its hour is now — always. -— Albert Schweitzer -% -My computer can beat up your computer. — Karl Lehenbauer -% -Curiosity killed the cat, but satisfaction brought her back to life. -% -If you are good, you will be assigned all the work. If you are real -good, you will get out of it. -% -What orators lack in depth they make up in length. -% -You climb to reach the summit, but once there, discover that all roads -lead down. — Stanislaw Lem in “The Cyberiad” -% -The people sensible enough to give good advice are usually sensible -enough to give none. -% -Freedom of the press is for those who happen to own one. -— A.J. Liebling -% -What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence. -— Wittgenstein -% -The way of the world is to praise dead saints and prosecute live ones. -— Nathaniel Howe -% -“Has it ever occurred to you, Winston, that by the year 2050, at the -very latest, not a single human being will be alive who could -understand such a conversation as we are having now?” -— George Orwell’s 1984 -% -“With software there are only two possibilities: either the users -control the programme or the programme controls the users. If -the programme controls the users, and the developer controls -the programme, then the programme is an instrument of unjust power.” -— Richard Stallman -% -Learned men are the cisterns of knowledge, not the fountainheads. -% -You can go anywhere you want if you look serious and carry a clipboard. -% -Look! Before our very eyes, the future is becoming the past. -% -Linux is obsolete. — Andrew Tanenbaum -% -Every man thinks God is on his side. — Jean Anouilh, “The Lark” -% -Man is by nature a political animal. — Aristotle -% -Be not deceived: evil communications corrupt good manners. -% -Divide first, then conquer. -% -The game is rigged. -% -This service is no longer available. -% -Gamification: The application of game-design elements and -game principles in non-game contexts. -% -You made this? I made this. -% -“Tomorrow’s illiterate will not be the man who can’t read; -he will be the man who has not learned how to learn.” -— Alvin Toffler’s Future Shock -% -How users read on the web: They don’t. — Jakob Nielsen -% -Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For riches -certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as -an eagle toward heaven. — Proverbs -% -Maybe GitHub was down? -% -Babylon was taken in one night. -% -Move fast and fix things. -% -Sharp like an edge of a samurai sword. -The mental blade cuts through flesh and bone. -Though my mind’s at peace, the world’s out of order. -Missing the inner heat, life gets colder. -— Nujabes’ Battlecry, Shing02 -% -A freelancer. -A battle cry of a hawk make a dove fly and a tear dry. -Wonder why a lone wolf don’t run with a clan. -Only trust your instincts and be one with the plan. -— Nujabes’ Battlecry, Shing02 -% -The ultimate reward is honor, not awards. -At odds with the times in wars with no lords. -— Nujabes’ Battlecry, Shing02 -% -“You never change things by fighting the existing reality. -To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete.” -— Richard Buckminster ‘Bucky’ Fuller -% -“If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be -judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 50 years ago, -a liberal 25 years ago and a racist today.” -— Thomas Sowell, born in the 1930’s -% -The web is not just Firefox or Chrome. -% -The algorithm is your boss. -% -Who needs documentation anyway? -% -“Sooner or later, everything old is new again.” -― Stephen King, The Colorado Kid -% -Public Service Announcement: The production of great leaders has -been discontinued. -% -Three questions that would destroy most arguments: Compared to what? -At what cost? What hard evidence do you have? — Thomas Sowell -% -“Less than fifty years after the amazing scientific discoveries under Mamun, -the Arab Empire collapsed. Wonderful and beneficent as was the -progress of science, it did not save the empire from chaos.” -― John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival -% -“Another remarkable and unexpected symptom of national decline is the -intensification of internal political hatreds. One -would have expected that, when the survival -of the nation became precarious, political -factions would drop their rivalry and stand -shoulder-to-shoulder to save their country.” -― John Bagot Glubb in The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival -% -“In short, numbers are accepted as evidence when they agree with -preconceptions, but not when they don’t.” -― Thomas Sowell in The Vision of the Anointed -% -“Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.” -― Arnold Toynbee -% -“Throughout history many nations have suffered a physical defeat, -but that has never marked the end of a nation. But when a -nation has become the victim of a psychological defeat, -then that marks the end of a nation.” -― Ibn Khaldun in The Muqaddimah: An Introduction to History, 1377 -% -You are not authorized to repair this device. -% -Minority rule. Majority rule. -% -Up and down go the arguers getting nowhere fast. -% -Echo chambers and epistemic bubbles. -% -What’s old is new again. -% -Cease and desist. -% -The network effect. -% -“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but -around us in awareness.” ― James Thurber -% -We are experiencing system trouble ― do not adjust your terminals. -% -We the unwilling, led by the ungrateful, are doing the impossible. -We’ve done so much, for so long, with so little, -that we are now qualified to do something with nothing. ― Unknown -% -Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next -week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to -explain why it didn’t happen. ― Winston Churchill -% -Knocked, you weren’t in. ― Opportunity -% -Information asymmetry. -% -Gilb’s First Law of Unreliability: -Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more -unreliable. Corollary: At the source of every error which is -blamed on the computer you will find at least two -human errors, including the error of blaming it on -the computer. -% -Gilb’s Second Law of Unreliability: -Any system which depends on human reliability is -unreliable. -% -Gilb’s Third Law of Unreliability: -Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in -contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited. -% -Gilb’s Fourth Law of Unreliability: -Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the -probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting -some useful work done. -% -You get what you pay for. -% -Make a wish, it just might come true. -% -It is easier to change the specification to fit the program -than vice versa. -% -Politicians speak for their parties, and parties never are, never have -been, and never will be wrong. ― Walter Dwight -% -Too clever is dumb. Too dumb is clever. -% -Made with real ingredients. -% -All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost. -% -Just because a message may never be received does not mean it is -not worth sending. -% -A novice was trying to fix a broken lisp machine by turning the -power off and on. Knight, seeing what the student was doing spoke sternly, -“You cannot fix a machine by just power-cycling it with no understanding -of what is going wrong.” Knight turned the machine off and on. The -machine worked. -% -One size fits all, doesn’t fit anyone. -% -Something’s rotten in the state of Denmark. ― Shakespeare -% -All generalizations are false, including this one. -― Unknown -% -No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible. -% -Shut off the engine before fueling. -% -There’s an old proverb that says just about what ever you want it to. -% -There’s a quote that says just about what ever you want it to. -% -Perhaps one possible reason that things aren’t going according to plan -is that there never was a plan in the first place. -% -Rules, Regulations, and Requirements. -% -Bots. Bots everywhere. -% -Remember, Grasshopper, falling down 1000 stairs begins by tripping over -the first one. ― Confusion -% -Money makes the world go round. Nothing more, nothing less. -% -If complexity got us into this mess, then why can’t it get us out? -% -The Four Olds: Old Customs, Old Culture, Old Habits, and Old Ideas -% -What is the opposite of clickbait? -% -Might makes right: History is written by the victors. -% -You cannot stop link rot. -% -When in trouble or in doubt, -run in circles, scream and shout. -% -The biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has occurred. -% -“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and -to have control over nothing.” -― Herodotus, The Histories -% -Click Farm: A place where a large group of workers are hired -to click on paid advertising links. -% -There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the -other is wrong, but the middle is always evil. The man who is -wrong still retains some respect for truth, if only by accepting -the responsibility of choice. But the man in the middle is the -knave who blanks out the truth in order to pretend that no -choice or values exist. ― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged -% -If wishes were horses, beggars would ride. -% -The best lack all conviction, while the worst -are full of passionate intensity. -― William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming -% -NixOS sucks. -% -Software is utterly broken. -% -To continue reading, subscribe today. -% -The man who does not read code has no advantage -over the man who cannot read code. -% -Fortune favors the fortunate. -% -It is much easier to suggest solutions when you know -nothing about the problem. -% -The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what -you want. ― D. Cohen -% -War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it. -― Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus -% -Every so often the algorithm consults /dev/random for advice. -% -Everyone thinks they are reasonable. -% -It’s only a matter of time. -% -The well has been poisoned. -% -Zero trust. -% -Lisp, Lisp, Lisp Machine, -Lisp Machine is Fun. -Lisp, Lisp, Lisp Machine, -Fun for everyone. -% -Don’t panic. -% -We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have -never deceived us. ― Samuel Johnson -% -Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or -we know where we can find information upon it. -― Samuel Johnson -% -Join in on the new game that’s sweeping the country. -It’s called “Bureaucracy”. Everybody stands in a circle. -The first person to do anything loses. Start! -% -An optimist believes we live in the best world possible; -a pessimist fears that this is true. -% -As of next week, passwords will be entered in morse code. -% -If life is merely a game, the question still remains: for whose amusement? -% -Just read the instructions. -% -Like, subscribe, and hit the bell icon. -% -All systems operational. -% -Justice standeth afar off. -% -Speak your mind at your own peril. -% -My hammer is better than your hammer. -% -The question of whether computers can think is just like the question of -whether submarines can swim. ― Edsger W. Dijkstra -% -Weiner’s Law of Libraries: There are no answers, only cross references. -% -Nothing is ever a total loss; it can always serve as a bad example. -% -Meader’s Law: What ever happens to you, it will previously -have happened to everyone you know, only more so. -% -Most seminars have a happy ending. Everyone’s glad when they’re over. -% -He who fights and runs away lives to fight another day. -% -Youth is when you blame all your troubles on your parents; maturity is -when you learn that everything is the fault of the younger generation. -% -Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. -% -Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. There might be a -law against it by that time. -% -Wisdom is better than weapons of war. -% -Put all eggs in one basket. Make sure to count them before they hatch. -% -“Please, sir, I want some more.” ― Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist -% -The wise man’s eyes are in his head. -% -Bread and circuses. -% -The forty―eight laws of weakness. -% -Silent majorities, loud minorities. -% -The poor is hated even of his own neighbour: -but the rich hath many friends. -― Proverbs -% -Beware of those who talk a good metagame. -% -Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should. -% -Even if you can deceive people about a product -through misleading statements, -sooner or later the product will speak for itself. -― Hajime Karatsu -% -Normal times may possibly be over forever. -% -Many people are desperately looking for some wise advice which will -recommend that they do what they want to do. -% -Did it ever occur to you that fat chance and slim chance -mean the same thing? Or that we drive on parkways and park -on driveways? -% -To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole -special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role -of rescuers of people treated unfairly by society. -― Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation -as a Basis for Social Policy -% -Why be difficult when, with a bit of effort, you could -be impossible? -% -Those who don’t know, talk. Those who don’t talk, know. -% -No one lives forever. -% -Dark Pattern: An interface that has been carefully crafted to -mislead a user. -% -When a fellow says, “It ain’t the money but the principle of the thing,” -it’s the money. ― Kim Hubbard -% -Major premise: Sixty men can do sixty times as much work as one man. -Minor premise: A man can dig a posthole in sixty seconds. -Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a posthole in one second. -― The Devil’s Dictionary -% -Does freedom of speech actually exist? -% -Let’s count the beans. -% -The uploader has not made this video available in your country. -% -Clickbait works every time. -% -You can be replaced by this computer, maybe. -% -People will do tomorrow what they did today because that is what they -did yesterday. -% -Everything might be different in the present if only one thing had -been different in the past. -% -Fiefdoms still exist. -% -Where there is a personality, there is a cult. -% -Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair! -Nothing beside remains. ― Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Ozymandias -% -Everything ends badly. Otherwise it wouldn’t end. -% -Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual -way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of -complaining. ― Jeff Raskin -% -Utility is when you have one telephone, luxury is when you have two, -opulence is when you have three ― and paradise is when you have none. -― Doug Larson -% -It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man’s life. -% -Fact or Opinion. -% -Even the earth itself cannot contain all the evil. -% -Many are called, few are chosen. Fewer still get to do the choosing. -% -“Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.” -― Harry Emerson Fosdick -% -People who claim they don’t let little things bother them have never -slept in a room with a single mosquito. -% -Now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom -delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man. -— Ecclesiastes -% -If you’re happy, you’re successful. -% -The Internet is the greatest game of telephone in existence. -% -Crush the competition. -% -Buy the competition. -% -Those of you who think you know everything are annoying to those of -us who do. -% -It is easier to find people fit to govern themselves than -people fit to govern others. — Lord Acton -% -“Everybody likes to get as much power as circumstances -allow, and nobody will vote for a self-denying ordinance.” -— Lord Acton -% -“Official truth is not actual truth.” — Lord Acton -% -Welcome to dependency hell. -% -Talk is truly cheap. -% -This website is too bloated. -% -After the game the king and the pawn go in the same box. -— Italian Proverb -% -Experience is a good teacher, but she sends in terrific bills. -— Minna Antrim, “Naked Truth and Veiled Allusions” -% -It’s a good thing we don’t get all the government we pay for. -% -The kind of danger people most enjoy is the kind they can watch from -a safe place. -% -The truth eventually comes out. -% -Newer isn’t always better. -% -He who foresees calamities suffers them twice over. -% -Sometimes you don’t get what you pay for. -% -Always sort by controversial. -% -Once they go up, who cares where they come down? -That’s not my department. -% -And what might your name be? “Alexander.” So, you can talk? -“Y-Yes, sir.” Take him back! He can still talk! -— Pinocchio’s Pleasure Island -% -Flattery will get you everywhere. -% -According to the latest official figures, 43% of all -statistics are totally worthless. -% -Unix Express: All passengers bring a piece of the aeroplane and a -box of tools with them to the airport. They gather on -the tarmac, arguing constantly about what kind of plane -they want to build and how to put it together. Eventually, -the passengers split into groups and build several different aircraft, -but give them all the same name. Some passengers actually -reach their destinations. All passengers believe they got there. -% -The network effect is powerful. -% -The strong give up and move away, while the weak give up and stay. -% -Academic politics is the most vicious and bitter form of politics, -because the stakes are so low. — Wallace Sayre -% -Stolen waters are sweet. -% -“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable -one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore -all progress depends on the unreasonable man.” -— George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman -% -As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, -I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the market-place. -— Rudyard Kipling, The Gods of the Copybook Headings -% -Maybe users like spam? -% -Appeal to Novelty: It’s current year, you’re wrong. -% -A poor man that oppresseth the poor is like a sweeping rain which -leaveth no food. — Proverbs -% -Talking past each other: A situation where two or more people talk -about different subjects, while believing that they are talking -about the same thing. -% -Not all problems need technological solutions. -% -Many times a technical solution merely replaces old problems with -new ones. -% -The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that -aren’t there. — Gordon Bell -% -Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming. -— Brian Kernighan -% -UNIX was not designed to stop its users from doing stupid things, -as that would also stop them from doing clever things. — Doug Gwyn -% -Life is too short to run proprietary software. — Bdale Garbee -% -The central enemy of reliability is complexity. — Geer -% -Essentially everyone, when they first build a distributed -application, makes the following eight assumptions. -All prove to be false in the long run and all cause big -trouble and painful learning experiences. -(1) The network is reliable. -(2) Latency is zero. -(3) Bandwidth is infinite. -(4) The network is secure. -(5) Topology doesn’t change. -(6) There is one administrator. -(7) Transport cost is zero. -(8) The network is homogeneous. -— Peter Deutsch -% -Most software today is very much like an Egyptian -pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, -with no structural integrity, but just done by brute force -and thousands of slaves. — Alan Kay -% -Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, -it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, -it introduces security challenges and it causes end-user -and administrator frustration. — Ray Ozzie -% -Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as -sophistication, which is baffling—the incomprehensible should -cause suspicion rather than admiration. Possibly this trend -results from a mistaken belief that using a somewhat -mysterious device confers an aura of power on the user. -— Niklaus Wirth -% -My definition of an expert in any field is a person who -knows enough about what’s really going on to be scared. -— P. J. Plauger -% -The best code is no code at all. -% -The most amazing achievement of the computer software -industry is its continuing cancellation of the steady -and staggering gains made by the computer hardware industry. -— Henry Petroski -% -Software sucks because users demand it to. — Nathan Myhrvold -% -Join in on the new game that’s sweeping the world. -It’s called “Corruption”. Every Government stands in a circle. -The first one to improve the state of the country loses. Begin! -% -Are most politicians liars? -% -Flights of fancy. -% -Shill: A plant or a stooge who publicly helps or gives -credibility to a person or organization without disclosing -that they have a close relationship with the person or organization. -% -It’s almost time to pay the piper. -% -Planned Obsolescence: A policy of planning or designing a product -with an artificially limited useful life, so that it becomes obsolete. -% -The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the -people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people -drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothing in return. -— Gore Vidal -% -Specifications subject to change without notice. -% -Good leaders being scarce, following yourself is now allowed. -% -Three rules for sounding like an expert: -(1) Oversimplify your explanations to the point of uselessness. -(2) Always point out second-order effects, but never point out when they -can be ignored. -(3) Come up with three rules of your own. -% -When you’re down and out, lift up your voice and shout, -“I’M DOWN AND OUT”! -% -One planet is all you get. -% -“Information is power. But like all power, there are those who want -to keep it for themselves.” -― Aaron Swartz -% -This page intentionally left blank. -% -Books are better than the Internet. -% -It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends -on his not understanding it. -% -Sometimes the only winning move is not to play. -% -This economy is not sustainable. -% -One weird trick advertisements. -% -A clever prophet makes sure of the event first. -% -And miles to go before I sleep. -— Robert Frost -% -Committees have become so important nowadays that subcommittees have to -be appointed to do the work. -% -The high cost of living hasn’t affected its popularity. -% -Always wear your seat belt. -% -People actually believe what they read on social media. -% -Contestants have been briefed on some of the questions before the show. -% -Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts. -— Plotinus -% -People want either less corruption or more of a chance to -participate in it. -% -While you don’t greatly need the outside world, it’s still very -reassuring to know that it’s still there. -% -Clovis’ Consideration of an Atmospheric Anomaly: -The perversity of nature is nowhere better demonstrated -than by the fact that, when exposed to the same atmosphere, -bread becomes hard while crackers become soft. -% -Everything that can be invented has been invented. -— Charles Duell -% -Where do you think you’re going today? -% -Education is what survives when what has been learnt has been forgotten. -— B. F. Skinner -% -There’s no heavier burden than a great potential. -% -Blutarsky’s Axiom: Nothing is impossible for the man who will not -listen to reason. -% -One man tells a falsehood, a hundred repeat it as the truth. -% -A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a -simple system that works. -% -Larkinson’s Law: All laws are basically false. -% -What fools these mortals be. — Lucius Annaeus Seneca -% -Time and tide wait for no man. -% -Talk is cheap because supply always exceeds demand. -% -One nuclear bomb can ruin your whole day. -% -Are you making all this up as you go along? -% -One man’s utopia is another man’s dystopia. -% -Thanks for coming to my TED talk. -% -Redundant topology. -% -Their business model is spam. -% -Teamwork is essential — it allows you to blame someone else. -% -“When I die, I want the people I did group projects with to lower -me into my grave so they can let me down one last time.” -% -The Internet is utterly broken. -% -If Bill Gates is the devil then Linus Torvalds must be the messiah. -— Unknown -% -Some men are discovered; others are found out. -% -Folly is set in great dignity. -% -“Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. -Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.” -— G. Michael Hopf, Those Who Remain -% -The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering. -% -If the grass is greener on other side of fence, consider what may be -fertilizing it. -% -Cheer Up! Things are getting worse at a slower rate. -% -Never promise more than you can perform. — Publilius Syrus -% -New systems generate new problems. -% -Regression Analysis: Mathematical techniques for trying to -understand why things are getting worse. -% -The Linux philosophy is “laugh in the face of danger”. -Oops. Wrong one. “Do it yourself”. That’s it. — Linus Torvalds -% -“In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 -minutes.” — Andy Warhol -% -A small town that cannot support one lawyer can always support two. -% -To refuse praise is to seek praise twice. -% -When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. -— Harry Truman -% -If you think things can’t get worse it’s probably only because you -lack sufficient imagination. -% -The following statement is not true. The previous statement is true. -% -Nearly every complex solution to a programming problem that I -have looked at carefully has turned out to be wrong. — Brent Welch -% -“Justice at all costs’ is not justice.” -— Thomas Sowell, The Quest for Cosmic Justice -% -“Suppose you are wrong? How would you know? -How would you test for that possibility?” -― Thomas Sowell -% -“Life does not ask what we want. It presents us with options.” -― Thomas Sowell -% -Throw away documentation and manuals, -and users will be a hundred times happier. -Throw away privileges and quotas, -and users will do the right thing. -Throw away proprietary and site licenses, -and there won’t be any pirating. -If these three aren’t enough, -just stay at your home directory -and let all processes take their course. -% -Call for pricing. -% -Monopolies of knowledge. -% -Unemployment is unused capacity. -% -Yet creeds mean very little, Coth answered the dark god, still speaking -almost gently. The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all -possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. -― James Cabell, “The Silver Stallion” -% -Bikeshedding: The process of arguing endlessly over details of some small -and relatively unimportant thing. -% -“Unfortunately, propaganda works.” ― Andy Rooney -% -Mac Airways: -The cashiers, flight attendants and pilots all look the same, feel the same -and act the same. When asked questions about the flight, they reply that you -don’t want to know, don’t need to know and would you please return to your -seat and watch the movie. -% -A lie can travel halfway around the world before the truth can get its boots on. -% -Falsehood will fly, as it were, on the wings of the wind, and carry its tales -to every corner of the earth; whilst truth lags behind; her steps, -though sure, are slow and solemn. ― Thomas Francklin -% -Those who think they know everything are very annoying to those of us who -feel that we know everything, especially when we discover that -everything they know and everything we know does not match. -% -We are not anticipating any emergencies. -% -When ever someone tells you to take their advice, you can be pretty sure -that they’re not using it. -% -Some men are born mediocre, some men achieve mediocrity, and some men -have mediocrity thrust upon them. ― Joseph Heller’s Catch-22 -% -In the whole world you know, there’s a million boys and girls. -― Nina Simone, To Be Young, Gifted and Black -% -Plastic Love. -% -Watson’s Law: The reliability of machinery is inversely proportional to the -number and significance of any persons watching it. -% -The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class -is unfit to govern. ― Lord Acton -% -Everyone says that having power is a great responsibility. This is -a lot of bunk. Responsibility is when someone can blame you if something -goes wrong. When you have power you are surrounded by people whose job it -is to take the blame for your mistakes. If they’re smart, that is. -― Cerebus The Aardvark, “On Governing” -% -To err is human. To blame someone else for your mistakes is even more human. -% -When the wicked rise, men hide themselves: but when they perish, -the righteous increase. ― Proverbs -% -YouTube may terminate your access, or your Google account’s access to all -or part of the Service if YouTube believes, in its sole discretion, -that provision of the Service to you is no longer commercially viable. -― Google’s YouTube, Terms of Service, 2019 -% -We may suspend or terminate your account or cease providing you with all or part -of the Services at any time for any or no reason. ― Twitter, Terms of Service, 2020 -% -WhatsApp may also terminate a user’s access to the Service, if they are -determined to be a repeat infringer, or for any or no reason, including -being annoying. An annoying person is anyone who is (capriciously or not) -determined to be annoying by authorized WhatsApp employees, agents, subagents, -superagents or superheros. -― WhatsApp, Terms of Service, 2012 -% -We reserve the right to modify or terminate the Instagram service for any -reason, without notice at any time. ― Instagram, Terms of Service, 2013 -% -Spotify may terminate the Agreements or suspend your access to the -Spotify Service at any time. ― Spotify, Terms and Conditions, 2019 -% -PeerTube: A free and open-source decentralized self-hosted federated video platform. -% -Mastodon: A free and open-source self-hosted social networking service. -% -The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people -click ads. That sucks. ― Jeff Hammerbacher -% -We can’t both be right. -% -If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system. -% -If you stick your head in the sand, one thing is for sure, you’re gonna -get your rear kicked. -% -“Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of truth and knowledge is -shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.” -% -We have the best politicians money can buy. -% -Eagleson’s Law: Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more -months, might as well have been written by someone else. -% -It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a -sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate -in all times and situations. They presented him the words: “And this, -too, shall pass away.” ― Abraham Lincoln -% -All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not -satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. ― Ecclesiastes -% -“Preaching to the choir in an echo chamber.” -% -Every program attempts to expand until it can either read or replace mail. -% -Cobra Effect: When an attempted solution to a problem makes the problem worse. -Offering a bounty for every dead venomous cobra incentivizes people to breed -more cobras for the reward. -% -He who minds his own business is never unemployed. -% -Write a wise saying and your name will live on forever. ― Unknown -% -“We live in a world where unfortunately the distinction between true and false -appears to become increasingly blurred by manipulation of facts, -by exploitation of uncritical minds, and by the pollution of the language.” -― Arne Tiselius -% -Corollary to Hanlon’s Razor: Never attribute to stupidity that which -is adequately explained by greed. -% -The world is coming to an end. Please log off. -% -What ever became of eternal truth? -% -Reduce, Reuse, Recycle -% -If it works, it’s out of date. -% -“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson -% -“Politics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and -campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.” -― Oscar Ameringer -% -We prefer to believe that the absence of inverted commas guarantees the -originality of a thought, whereas it may be merely that the utterer has -forgotten its source. ― Clifton Fadiman, “Any Number Can Play” -% -Which is worse: ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares? -% -“Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book rewritten, -every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building -has been renamed, every date has been altered. And the process -is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. -Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right.” -― George Orwell, 1984 -% -The same words mean different things to different people. -% -Objects are lost only because people look where they are not rather than -where they are. -% -If you learn one useless thing every day, in a single year you’ll learn -365 useless things. -% -Phases of a Project: -(1) Exultation. -(2) Disenchantment. -(3) Confusion. -(4) Search for the Guilty. -(5) Punishment for the Innocent. -(6) Distinction for the Uninvolved. -% -Banana Republic: A politically unstable country with an economy -dependent upon a limited-resource product. -% -Throw-away Society: A society with an excessive production of short-lived -or disposable items over durable goods that can be repaired. -% -Got a dictionary? I want to know the meaning of life. -% -Apparently any program which runs right is obsolete. -% -Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of -those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the -will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of -government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. -― Frank Herbert, “Children of Dune” -% -The majesty and grandeur of the English language; it’s the greatest possession -we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are -contained in its extraordinary, imaginative and musical mixtures of sounds. -― George Bernard Shaw, My Fair Lady -% -If we all work together, we can make the rich richer. -% -Always read the fine print. -% -Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without -greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics. -― Albert Camus -% -And the best at murder are those who preach against it. -And the best at hate are those who preach love. -And the best at war finally are those who preach peace. -― Charles Bukowski, “The Genius Of The Crowd” -% -Conway’s Law: Any organization that designs a system will produce a design -whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure. -% -If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed; if you do read the -newspaper you are misinformed. -% -“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about -and the ones nobody uses.” ― Bjarne Stroustrup -% -Con man: A confidence man. -% -“Decadence is a moral and spiritual disease, resulting from too long a -period of wealth and power, producing cynicism, decline of religion, -pessimism and frivolity. The citizens of such a nation will no -longer make an effort to save themselves, because they are not -convinced that anything in life is worth saving.” -― John Bagot Glubb, The Fate of Empires and Search for Survival -% -A committee is organic rather than mechanical in its nature: it -is not a structure but a plant. It takes root and grows, it -flowers, wilts, and dies, scattering the seed from which other -committees will bloom in their turn. ― C. Northcote Parkinson -% -You too can be a confidence man or woman! -% -When you’re in command, command. ― Admiral Nimitz -% -Life is fraught with opportunities to keep your mouth shut. -% -Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself -is served by the field. ― Ecclesiastes -% -The golden boy can do no wrong. -% -Everyone who comes in here wants three things: -(1) They want it quick. -(2) They want it good. -(3) They want it cheap. -% -If you don’t do the things that are not worth doing, who will? -% -Somehow, the world always affects you more than you affect it. -% -Cheap labour. -% -The last person that quit or was fired will be held responsible for -everything that goes wrong ― until the next person quits or is fired. -% -Journalism is dead. -% -To have respect of persons is not good: for for a piece of bread -that man will transgress. ― Proverbs -% -Nothing lasts forever. -% -Where is my flying car? -% -This is disputed. -% -Sometimes, the best solution is to do nothing at all. -% -Don’t build your house on the sand. -% -It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, -since it has no ears. ― Marcus Porcius Cato -% -Propaganda is one hell of a drug. -% -The Three Wise Monkeys: See no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil. -% -As for man, his days are as grass: as a flower of the field, so he flourisheth. -For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall -know it no more. — David -% -You must prove that you are not a robot. -% -There’s nothing remarkable about it. All one has to do is hit the right -keys at the right time and the instrument plays itself. – J. S. Bach -% -If this is a service economy, why is the service so bad? -% -There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, -riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. -But those riches perish by evil travail: -and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. — Ecclesiastes -% -Thus, not all data is created equal. -% -Argument From Authority: A popular yet controversial type of argument in -which the opinion of an authority on a topic is used as evidence to -support an argument. -% -Sock Puppet: A fake online identity used for the purpose of deception. -Deception, be it fast or slow, can involve black or grey propaganda to -manipulate public opinion. -% -To be forewarned is to be forearmed. -% -It’s the worst of both worlds. -% -“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly -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. -% -Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. -— Ambrose Bierce -% -Heller’s Law: The first myth of management is that it exists. -Johnson’s Corollary: Nobody really knows what is going on anywhere -within the organization. -% -Become a Lord or Lady today! -% -“Created by wars that required it, the machine now created the wars it -required.” — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter, Imperialism and Social Classes -% -“History is a record of “effects” the vast majority of which nobody -intended to produce.” — Joseph Aloïs Schumpeter -% -Many arguments are semantic disputes. -% -Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes -hurtling down the highway. — Andrew S. Tanenbaum -% -Winning Arguments: There is no evidence to support your assertion. -% -Most of what you read on the Internet is written by insane people. -% -Politician’s Logic: (1) We must do something. -(2) This is something. (3) Therefore, we must do this. -% -Violence is golden. -% -Politics is a personal affair. -% -Keep your friends close and your enemies closer. -% -“The road to hell is paved with Ivy League degrees.” — Thomas Sowell -% -There are no atheists in foxholes. -% -“Another man may look like a deathless one on high -but there’s not a bit of grace to crown his words. -Just like you, my fine, handsome friend. Not even -a god could improve those lovely looks of yours -but the mind inside is worthless.” -— Homer, The Odyssey -% -Temporary: Permanent -% -There are exceptions that prove the rule. -% -Closed and open slavery. -% -The Fourth Branch of Government: Social Media and The Press. -% -He was a confidence man. -% -Argument from Fallacy: The formal fallacy of analyzing an argument and -inferring that, since it contains a fallacy, its conclusion must be false. -% -“What convinces masses are not facts, and not even invented facts, but -only the consistency of the system of which they are presumably a part.” -— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism -% -“For politics is not like the nursery; in politics obedience and support -are the same.” — Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the -Banality of Evil -% -Reality follows fiction. -% -Most of the great problems we face are caused by politicians creating -solutions to problems they created in the first place. — Walter E. -Williams -% -It takes two to tango. -% -“There are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an -opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead -of forming opinions for himself?” — Arthur Schopenhauer, The Art of -Always Being Right -% -“A last trick is to become personal, insulting, and rude as soon as you -perceive that your opponent has the upper hand. In becoming personal you -leave the subject altogether, and turn your attack on the person by -remarks of an offensive and spiteful character. This is a very popular -trick, because everyone is able to carry it into effect.” — Arthur -Schopenhauer, The Art of Always Being Right -% -“When the rich wage war it’s the poor who die.” -— Jean-Paul Sartre -% -“Talent hits a target no one else can hit. Genius hits a target no one -else can see.” — Arthur Schopenhauer -% -“Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance -prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an -organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor -property will be safe.” — Frederick Douglass -% -They’re savages! Savages! -Dirty shrieking devils! -Now we sound the drums of war! -— Pocahontas’ Savages -% -Simon’s Law: Everything put together falls apart sooner or later. -% -A forbidden fruit creates many jams. -% -Hydra of Lerna: Cut off one head and two more shall take its place. -% -“But the educated public, the people who read the high-brow weeklies, -don’t need reconditioning. They’re all right already. They’ll believe -anything.” — C.S. Lewis, That Hideous Strength -% -“Remember, the firemen are rarely necessary. The public itself stopped -reading of its own accord. You firemen provide a circus now and then at -which buildings are set off and crowds gather for the pretty blaze...” -— Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 -% -Whatever it is, I fear Greeks even when they bring gifts. -— Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) -% -“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to -reform (or pause and reflect).” — Mark Twain -% -Monkey see, monkey do. -% -Nothing is so firmly believed as that which we least know. -— Michel de Montaigne -% -A distributed system is one in which the failure of a computer -you didn’t even know existed can render your own computer -unusable. — Leslie Lamport, 1987 -% -Consequentialist: The end justifies the means. -% -Currently unavailable. -% -But does it scale? -% -Can two walk together, except they be agreed? — Amos -% -Dualism: Left, Right. Black, White. -% -Nature imputes duality. -% -“People are never more sincere than when they assume their own moral -superiority.” — Thomas Sowell, The Vision of the Anointed: -Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy -% -Artificial Intelligence: /dev/random -% -Cargo Cult: A millenarian belief system in which adherents perform -rituals which they believe will cause a more technologically advanced -society to deliver goods. -% -Theosis: Unity with God. -Henosis: Unity with the Monad. -Transhumanism: Unity with the Machine. -% -“If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily -“socially constructed” notions, then all that is left is consensus–more -specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to -adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia.” ― Thomas Sowell, -Intellectuals and Society -% -“Many intellectuals are so preoccupied with the notion that their -own special knowledge exceeds the average special knowledge of -millions of other people that they overlook the often far more -consequential fact that their mundane knowledge is not even one–tenth -of the total mundane knowledge of those millions.” — Thomas -Sowell, Intellectuals and Society -% -Augustine’s 49th Law: Regulations grow at the same rate as weeds. -% -Don’t make a big deal out of everything; just deal with everything. -% -(1) Don’t think. -(2) If you do think, don’t speak. -(3) If you think and speak, don’t write. -(4) If you think, speak and write, don’t sign. -(5) If you think, speak, write and sign, don’t be surprised. -— Polish Joke -% -In politics, temporary means permanent. -% -In politics, the temporary becomes the permanent. -% -The primary requisite for any new tax law is for it to exempt enough -voters to win the next election. -% -Farmer: “You can’t raffle off a dead donkey!” -Boy: “Sure I can. Watch me. I just won’t tell anybody he’s dead.” -— How to Sell a Dead Donkey -% -The bait and switch is the oldest trick in the book. -% -If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen. -% -Just when you thought you were winning the rat race, it abruptly ends. -% -Do the old eat the young? -% -No, we want a king to rule over us. -% -Please confirm my bias. -% -What if the universe is not immortal? -% -Consensus is the only thing that matters. -% -Wikipedia is not a reliable source, because it can be edited by anyone at -any time. -% -Feudalism is alive and well. -% -Eristic Dialectics: The Logic of Appearance. -% -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. -― William Butler Yeats, The Second Coming -% -“If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for -reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed.” — Albert Einstein, Religion -and Science -% -The best man for the job is often a woman. -% -The finest eloquence is that which gets things done; the worst is that which -delays them. -% -The wages of sin are high but you get your money’s worth. -% -Envy is a pain of mind that successful men cause their neighbors. – -Onasander, The General -% -“Despite the enormous quantity of books, how few people read! And if one -reads profitably, one would realize how much stupid stuff the vulgar herd -is content to swallow every day.” — Voltaire -% -“Love truth, but pardon error.” ― Voltaire -% -The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the -errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this -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, Dead Souls -% -Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome. -— Charlie Munger -% -The terms “free software” and “open source” stand for almost the -same range of programs. However, they say deeply different things about -those programs, based on different values. The free software movement -campaigns for freedom for the users of computing; it is a movement for -freedom and justice. By contrast, the open source idea values mainly -practical advantage and does not campaign for principles. This is why we -do not agree with open source, and do not use that term. — Richard Stallman -% -Plausible Deniability: An ability of prescience or forethought that -exploits a chain of command and the absence of evidence to deny -responsibility for actions committed. An adeptness to engender situations -that provide multiple outs. -% -“The man who lies asleep will never waken fame, and his desire and all -his life drift past him like a dream, and the traces of his memory fade -from time like smoke in air, or ripples on a stream.” — Dante -Alighieri, The Divine Comedy -% -Common sense isn’t actually common. -% -“There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than -that of draining money from the pockets of the people.” — Adam Smith -% -Black Swan Event: An event that comes as a surprise, has a major effect, -and is often inappropriately rationalized after the fact with the benefit -of hindsight. -% -Money is the root of all money. — The Moving Finger -% -Social Media: The Perpetual Outrage Machine. -% -The time is out of joint. — Hamlet -% -Powerful government tends to draw into it people with bloated egos, people -who think they know more than everyone else and have little hesitance in -coercing their fellow man. Or as Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek said, “in -government, the scum rises to the top”. — Walter E. Williams -% -“Clickbait is dead.” -% -The road to hell is paved with asphalt. -% -When it comes to legalized bank robbing, I’m the best. — Floyd Mayweather -% -“But is it legal?” — Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories -from the Local Food Front, Joel Salatin -% -Most open source software is free, at least at first glance. -% -The way to a man’s stomach is through his esophagus. -% -Trash the planet. -% -A jury consists of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better -lawyer. — Robert Frost -% -Murphy’s Ninth Law: Nature always sides with the hidden flaw. -% -Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through -bureaucracies. -% -Anderson’s Law: You can’t depend on anyone to be wrong all the time. -% -The bigger they are, the harder they hit. -% -You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some -of the time, and that’s sufficient. -% -The Fame and Fortune Axiom: Competence is not a prerequisite for success. -% -Polis’ Attorney Law: Any law enacted with more than fifty words contains -at least one loophole. -% -Pray — or you will become prey. -% -You can get so much farther with a kind word and a gun than with a kind -word alone. — Irwin Corey -% -Please wait... We are checking your browser... -% -Don’t shoot the messenger. -% -Pay to pray. -% -Distributed is the new centralized. -% -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. -% -Don’t be evil. Do the right thing. -% -There are no adults in the room. -% -The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you’ve gotten the fish -you can forget the trap. The rabbit snare exists because of the rabbit. -Once you’ve gotten the rabbit, you can forget the snare. Words exist -because of meaning. Once you’ve gotten the meaning, you can forget the -words. Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can talk with -him? — Zhuangzi, Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters -% -No horse in this race. -% -Morality is the privilege of those judging from the distance. -— John Cory -% -Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their -property that they may more perfectly respect it. — G.K. Chesterton, -The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare -% -If you analyse anything, you destroy it. -— Arthur Miller -% -That’s how they write journals in academics, they try to make it so -complicated people think you’re a genius. — Terry Davis -% -An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity. -— Terry Davis -% -But is it safe? -% -How is the world ruled, and how do wars start? Diplomats tell lies to -journalists, and they believe what they read. — Karl Kraus, Aphorisms -and More Aphorisms (1909) -% -Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand -judgment. — Elihu -% -NP: Non—deterministic Polynomial Time. -% -Dead Internet Theory: All content on the Internet will eventually be -generated by bots with artificial intelligence. -% -The bit will flip. -% -The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence -that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce -them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; -whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. An -individual in a crowd is a grain of sand amid other grains of sand, which -the wind stirs up at will. — Gustave Le Bon, The Crowd: A Study of the -Popular Mind -% -Vote for Nobody. -Nobody will keep election promises. -Nobody will listen to your concerns. -Nobody will help the poor and unemployed. -Nobody cares! -Nobody tells the truth. -If Nobody is elected, things will be better for everyone. -— A mural in Guelph, Ontario -% -Join our community to see this answer! -% -Yama: becoming mindful. -% -You must update now. -% -Update now to send and receive messages. -% -Just World Fallacy: A flawed belief that the world -is fair and just. -% -Are we the bad guys? -% -The greatest remedy for anger is delay. -% -One small step for man, one giant stumble for mankind. -% -You will soon forget this. -% -It is better to suffer an injustice than to do an injustice. -% -The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well -to his going. — Proverbs -% -All possibility of understanding is rooted in the ability to say no. -— Susan Sontag -% -As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing. -% -Don’t confuse things that need action with those that take care of themselves. -% -A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest -in students. — John Ciardi -% -The only thing that experience teaches us is that experience teaches us -nothing. — Andre Maurois (Emile Herzog) -% -Adding features does not necessarily increase functionality — it just -makes the manuals thicker. -% -The only thing humans are equal in is death. — Johan Liebert, -Naoki Urasawa’s Monster -% -No two persons ever read the same book. — Edmund Wilson -% -You have mail. -% -Human Nature: A walking contradiction. -% -No skin in this game. -% -Nothing ventured, nothing gained. -% -Don’t copy others’ homework. -% -The Philosopher’s Stone: It’s either perfect or useless. -% -Don’t break user space. -% -The first thing to know about unlimited is that it isn’t unlimited. -% -Build, don’t destroy. -% -Couldn’t sign you in. 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