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"A commercial, and in some respects a social, doubt has been started within the last year or two, whether or not it is right to discuss so openly the security or insecurity of locks. Many well-meaning persons suppose that the discussion respecting the means for baffling the supposed safety of locks offers a premium for dishonesty, by showing others how to be dishonest. This is a fallacy. Rogues are very keen in their profession, and already know much more than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery. Rogues knew a good deal about lockpicking long before locksmiths discussed it among themselves, as they have lately done. If a lock -- let it have been made in whatever country, or by whatever maker -- is not so inviolable as it has hitherto been deemed to be, surely it is in the interest of *honest* persons to know this fact, because the *dishonest* are tolerably certain to be the first to apply the knowledge practically; and the spread of knowledge is necessary to give fair play to those who might suffer by ignorance. It cannot be too earnestly urged, that an acquaintance with real facts will, in the end, be better for all parties." (Charles Tomlinson's Rudimentary Treatise on the Construction of Locks, published around 1850)
"The shortest distance between two points is under construction."-- Noelie Alito
"The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are."-- Mark Twain
"Conviction is a luxury for those on the sidelines."
On an American Airlines package of nuts: Instructions: Open package, eat nuts.
Few people are successful unless a lot of other people want them to be.-- Charles Brower
That's what friendship means: sharing the prejudice of experience.-- Charles Bukowski
In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.-- Charles De Gaulle
The value of the Constitution depends on the good will of government itself. If the Supreme Court rules that the Bill of Rights should not interfere with the important business of government (which they have done on at least two occasions), then the Constitution is meaningless.-- John Kormylo
Don’t speak unless you can improve on the silence.
Dante Hicks: Theoretically, people see money on the counter, and no one around, they think they're being watched.
Veronica: Honesty through paranoia. (Clerks)
Sometimes I worry about being a success in a mediocre world.-- Lily Tomlin
"That all men should be brothers is the dream of people who have no brothers."-- Charles Chincholles
If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library?-- Lily Tomlin
To his dog, every man is Napoleon; hence the constant popularity of dogs.-- Aldous Huxley
I personally think we developed language because of our deep need to complain.-- Lily Tomlin
I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.-- Lily Tomlin
I've always wanted to be somebody, but I see now I should have been more specific.-- Lily Tomlin
Common sense: The collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.-- Albert Einstein
I have no problem dealing with reality, but as a lifestyle I find it too confining.-- Lily Tomlin
"An intellectual is a man who says a simple thing in a difficult way; an artist is a man who says a difficult thing in a simple way."-- Charles Bukowski
There's so much plastic in this culture that vinyl leopard skin is becoming an endangered synthetic.-- Lily Tomlin
"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."-- Mark Twain
It will be generally found that those who sneer habitually at human nature and affect to despise it, are among its worst and least pleasant examples.-- Charles Dickens
The next time you feel like downloading 'The Little Engine That Could' into a weapon of mass destruction: Don't.
On two occasions I have been asked, ‘Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?’ I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.-- Charles Babbage
Machine learning, n: Automation of your biases
2, 3, 3, 37 - the prime factorization of the beast.
"They are wrong who say that love is blind. On the contrary, nothing - not even the smallest detail - escapes the eyes; one sees everything in the loved one, notices everything; but melts it all into one flame with the great and simple: �I love you.�"
"We all live in the protection of certain cowardices which we call our principles."-- Mark Twain
Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think only about today.
Charlie Brown: No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get better.-- Charles Schultz
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are software.-- Richard P. Brennan
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.-- Charles Darwin
"Doesn't anyone remember one of the biggest problems the Super Conducting Super Collider project ran into during construction in Texas? It wasn't politics... It was the Mecca of fire ants in all the extremely high-voltage conduits, junctions, transformers, and other high-strength field areas. The ants would eat the insulating compounds off and sit there basking in the emf high they apparently got. Occasionally, an ant would offer itself as sacrifice, prompting some Damn Big Breakers to blow..." -- RISKS
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself."-- Ben Franklin
If we couldn't laugh at things that didn't make sense,
we couldn't react to a lot of the world around us." (Calvin & Hobbes)
Law of Cat Landing:
A cat will always land in the softest place possible; often the mid-section of an unsuspecting, reclining human.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.-- Will Rogers
javalin: Unwieldy spear with poor flight characteristics and excessive weight. Due to its poor ballistics, it is usually used to stab a programming project through the heart until dead.-- Charles Shannon Hendrix
The definition of easy work is work that someone else has to do.
"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."-- C. A. R. Hoare
What goes around usually gets dizzy and falls over.
'It's no longer a question of staying healthy. It's a question of finding a sickness you like.'-- Jackie Mason
"The imposition of stigma is the commonest form of violence used in democratic societies."-- R. A. Pinker
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
-- Larry Wall
In a church bulletin: The eighth-graders will be presenting Shakespeare's Hamlet in the Church basement Friday at 7 PM. The Congregation is invited to attend this tragedy.
The rain it raineth on the just
And also on the unjust fella,
But chiefly on the just, because
The unjust steals the just's umbrella.
"A child does not have to be taught how to be happy or the ways of love. It is fear, hatred, & prejudice that have to be taught. And from the condition of the world we can see that unfortunately there are some very good teachers."-- Javan
Reasonable, adj: Accessible to the infection of our own opinions. Hospitable to persuasion, dissuasion and evasion.-- Ambrose Bierce
"The infliction of cruelty with a good conscience is a delight to moralists -- that is why they invented hell."-- Bertrand Russell
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
If God had meant for us to go around naked we would have been born that way.
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.-- Edsger Dijkstra
"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to be insane in such a useful way that they can't commit you."-- Mark Edwards
Q: Why did the tachyon cross the road?
A: Because it was on the other side.
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
In America you can go on the air and kid the politicians, and the politicians can go on the air and kid the people.-- Groucho Marx
What do people mean when they say the computer went down on them?-- Marilyn Pittman