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"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man."-- Francais Bacon
A leading authority is someone lucky who guessed right.
There's a difference between knowing something and realizing it.
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.
Television: the bland leading the bland.
Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable. As in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If we value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for personal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing a part of our lives?-- Alan Kay (``Computer Software'', Scientific American)
"My dream job? You mean, besides marrying a millionaire and writing porno scripts for laughs? I dunno, maybe be the madam of a brothel? Could be a lot of fun."-- Amanda Firefox
Writing a Haiku
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic-
Of all the truths in the world, humor is the most satisfying and often the healthiest.
To my opinion, most modern poetry is written because people do not want to stand up and fight for what they are writing about.
You don't wanna get laid, man. It leads to kissing and pretty soon you gotta talk to 'em. (Colors)
Seagull Manager: A manager who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps over everything and then leaves.
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.-- Eric Hoffer
I've decided, I'm going to feed every little addiction and silently go mad 'cause right now my writing sucks.-- Zaffel
At the beginning and at the end of love, the two lovers are embarrassed to find themselves alone.-- La Bruyere
There are two ways spreading the light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.-- Edith Wharton
The business of the mind is first and foremost the pure joy of knowing and comprehending, the pure joy of consciousness.-- Anais Nin
"The brotherhood of man is not a mere poet's dream: it is a most depressing and humiliating reality."-- Oscar Wilde
Anybody that wants the presidency so much that he would spend two years campaigning and organizing for it should not be trusted with the office.
"The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug."-- Mark Twain
Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading.-- G. M. Trevelyan
If you're going to be able to look back on something and laugh about it, you might as well laugh about it now.-- Marie Osmond
"Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers."
"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves."-- Claude Adrien Helvetius
In a church bulletin: Barbara remains in the hospital and needs blood donors for more transfusions. She is also having trouble sleeping and requests tapes of Pastor Jack's sermons.
Any member introducing a dog into the Society's premises shall be liable to a fine of one pound. Any animal leading a blind person shall be deemed a cat. (Rule 46, Oxford Union Society, London)
WARNING:
Reading this fortune can affect the dimensionality of your mind, change the curvature of your spine, cause the growth of hair on your palms, and make a difference in the outcome of your favorite war.
"Reality is the leading cause of stress for those in touch with it."-- Jack Wagner
I've just spent a significant portion of my day reading an ethernet terminal server manual, and was vaguely amused to see that they have a feature called Camp-on (allows you to wait on a port until it's no longer being used.) However it got more amusing when I read the configuration example:
strip-record: raw direct_camp_on=always 1-3,8@132.245.6.32/6300
I've seen some drag acts like that...-- Keith Duddy
"I want a chocolate bar infused with nicotine that's got a creamy coffee center... And wrap it in porn." (TheWax.com)
"The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office."-- Robert Frost
"Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy."
Wouldn't the sentence "I want to put a hyphen between the words Fish and And and And and Chips in my Fish-And-Chips sign" have been clearer if quotation marks had been placed before Fish, and between Fish and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and And, and And and and, and and and Chips, as well as after Chips?
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.-- Terry Pratchett
It is better to have loved and lost than to have hated and won.
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.-- Flannery O'Connor
Politics: strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.-- Ambrose Bierce