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"We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are."-- Anais Nin
"Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together."-- Anais Nin
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.-- Anais Nin
Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.-- Anatole France
Fanaticism consists of redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.-- George Santayana
Skepticism, like chastity, should not be relinquished too readily.-- George Santayana
"Psychoanalysis is confession without absolution."
And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.-- Anais Nin
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.-- Anais Nin
The good critic is he who narrates the adventures of his soul among masterpieces.-- Anatole France
“How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.”-- Anais Nin
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
Heller's Law: The first myth of management is that it exists.
The business of the mind is first and foremost the pure joy of knowing and comprehending, the pure joy of consciousness.-- Anais Nin
"To call war the soil of courage and virtue is like calling debauchery the soil of love."-- George Santayana
There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of man, with the possible exception of the sword.-- Benjamin Dana
Seagull Manager: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything and then leaves.
Never underestimate the human capacity for cognitive dissonance.
"Men have fiendishly conceived a heaven only to find it insipid, and a hell only to find it ridiculous."-- George Santayana
"It's been reported that John Bobbitt's porno movie grossed over 10 million. I'm not sure whether that's dollars or people."-- Conan O'Brien
Drink Canada Dry! You might not succeed, but it is fun trying.
"The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about."-- George Santayana
"Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated."-- George Santayana
"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards."-- Anatole France
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.-- Anais Nin
A winning formula can be obliterated simply by the change to an ingorant new manager.
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
Take my word for it, the silliest woman can manage a clever man, but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.-- Kipling
Dessert is probably the most important stage of the meal, since it will be the last thing your guests remember before they pass out all over the table.-- The Anarchist Cookbook
Proof by omission: The reader may easily supply the details. The other 253 cases are analogous.
All good work is done in defiance of management.-- Bob Woodward
Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure.-- Karl Kraus
Q: What's tiny and yellow and very, very, dangerous?
A: A canary with the super-user password.
Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage and those who manage what they do not understand.
Sign in a Nairobi restaurant:
"Customers who find our waitresses rude ought to see the manager."
"Whoever named it necking was a poor judge of anatomy."-- Groucho Marx
If you think that mental illness interferes with financial success, just look at the average television evangelist.
Cashtration, n.: The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
"Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much."
If all the salmon caught in Canada in one year were laid end to end across the Sahara Desert, the smell would be absolutely awful.
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
The experience of programming Windows vs the experience of programming NeXTStep is like going to the dentist and having a root canal without anaesthetic vs going to the dentist and having your gums cleaned with some nitrous oxide thrown in for the entertainment side of things.-- Bill Bumgarner
"Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States."-- J. Bartlett Brebner
Nana is now 99, in a nursing home, healthy, and still as sharp as a tack (not the best situation when you're surrounded by the demented, but she makes do).
-- Steve Dyer
Ah, then she'd have no problem relating to Usenet...-- David Preston
What is an anarchist? One who, choosing, accepts the responsibility of choice.-- Ursula K. Le Guin
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."-- Winston Churchill
Thinking is not a panacea, but to paraphrase Gandhi, maybe it would be a good idea to try some.-- Jess Anderson
Godwin's Rule of Nazi Analogies:
As a USENET discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.
"If we do happen to step on a mine, Sir, what do we do?"
"Normal procedure, Lieutenant, is to jump 200 feet in the air and scatter oneself over a wide area."
"Jacob Sullum has produced a thoughtful, sane, and logical analysis of our drug laws. Is that even legal?"-- Dave Barry
"Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short."-- Peter C. Newman
Another flaw in the human character is that everybody wants to build and nobody wants to do maintenance.-- Kurt Vonnegut Jr
"Confronted with the choice, the American people would choose the policeman's truncheon over the anarchist's bomb.-- Spiro T. Agnew
"Mystical explanations are considered deep. The truth is that they are not even superficial."-- Friedrich Nietzsche
We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs.-- Mike Andrews (a.s.r.)
"Crash programs fail because they are based on the theory that, with nine women pregnant, you can get a baby a month."-- Wernher von Braun
"Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others."-- Edward Abbey
NASA doesn't have any live weapons; we can only drop management paperwork on those who peeve us--but with a B-52 we can drop a lot of it!-- Mary Shafer
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so sure of themselves but wiser people are full of doubts.-- Bertrand Russell
He's come up with half of the algorithms used in the 20th century, but wouldn't actually recognize an actual computer if you dropped it on him.-- Jason Riek (about Dana Scott)
"Television has lifted the manufacture of banality out of the sphere of handicraft and placed it in that of a major industry."-- Nathalie Sarraute
One of the main causes of trouble in the world is dogmatic and fanatical belief in some doctrine for which there is no adequate evidence.-- Bertrand Russell
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.-- Fred Brooks
And if I may conjecture a further objection,
love is nothing to do with destined perfection,
The connection is strengthened,
The affection simply grows over time,
Like a flower
or a mushroom
or a guinea pig
or a vine
or a sponge
or bigotry
...or a banana
And love is made more powerful
by the ongoing drama of shared experience,
and the synergy of a kind of symbiotic empathy, or... something-- Tim Minchin (If I Didn't Have You)