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"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
Pride is what we have. Vanity is what others have.
Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.-- Mark Van Doren
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you find the real tinsel underneath.-- Oscar Levant
Music soothes the savage beast. ...unless it's polka.
Today was a really, really great day, on the "aaagh fuck me!" scale.-- Steve VanDevender
'The whole world loves a lover' is an interesting theory, but a very bad legal defense.-- Keith Sullivan
"Nothing in man is more serious than his sense of humor; it is the sign that he wants all the truth."-- Mark Van Doren
"Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except those that sang best."-- Henry Van Dyke
Saying that Java is better just because it works on all platforms is like saying anal sex is better just because it works on all genders
On the sexes:
Brains times Beauty times Availability = Constant.
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
If you put a million monkeys at a million keyboards, one of them will eventually write a Java program.
The rest of them will write Perl programs.
Every time I have to pipe something into awk I get this mental picture of a big fat seagull with stdin connected at the wrong end.-- Arther van der Harg (a.s.r.)
"When solving a kernel panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system."-- Peter van der Linden
You like ice cream. You like ice cream. You love it. You cannot resist ice cream. To resist is hopeless. Your existence is meaningless without ice cream.-- Ice cream van (Invader Zim)
Sometimes before bed, I look in the mirror and wonder just what I'll be doing in ten years. Then I look at the clock and think, 'Probably flossing.'-- April Van Scherpe
The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it without loss, without perversion. No poet ever talks about feelings. Only sentimental people do.-- Mark Van Doren
"Self-improvement is a dangerous form of vanity."-- Alan Watts
The advantage of emotions is that they lead us astray.-- Oscar Wilde
I think having 'Men' and 'Women' signs on bathrooms is a bad idea, because if aliens thought those rooms held standard specimens and went in to record data, they'd get some pretty bizarre examples.-- April Van Scherpe
Man has always sacrificed truth to his vanity, comfort and advantage. He lives by make-believe.-- W. Somerset Maugham
If you think that mental illness interferes with financial success, just look at the average television evangelist.
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.-- Rich Kulawiec
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.-- Mark Twain
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.-- Andy Finkel
On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.-- Virginia Woolf
Um, anyway, what Java is really like is C++ that was neutered in an attempt to reduce its tendency to hump random objects, then took to huffing paint to escape its despair, and eventually did itself in but got raised from the dead.-- Jed Davis
I paint what I eat. -- Chardin
I eat what I paint. -- Courbet
I eat paint. -- Van Gogh
I paint my food. -- Rauschenberg
In order to become the master the politician poses as the servant.-- Charles De Gaulle
If you ever drop your keys into a river of molten lava let 'em go because, man, they're gone.-- Jack Handey
The avalanche has already started. It is too late for the pebbles to vote.-- Ambassador Kosh
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.-- Arthur C. Clarke
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
TP's 3rd Law: Any sufficiently advanced philosophical discourse is indistinguishable from bullshit.
-- TitanPoint
"The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood."-- George Bernard Shaw
Religion is probably, after sex, the second oldest resource which human beings have available to them for blowing their minds.-- Susan Sontag
"The most overlooked advantage to owning a computer is that if they foul up, there's no law against whacking them around a little."-- Porterfield
The commercial availability of software to check spelling, grammar, and style does serve quite well as a form of stupidity tax.-- Amanda Walker
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.-- Thomas Jefferson