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"Before you go and criticize the younger generation, just remember who raised them."
Never underestimate the falseness of a generalisation.
Domestication is the enemy of romance.
Procrastination will rule one day, OK?
In Taiwan, the translation of the Pepsi slogan "Come alive with the Pepsi Generation" came out as "Pepsi will bring your ancestors back from the dead."
"The generation of random numbers is too important to be left to chance."-- Robert R. Coveyou
There are people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.
Machine learning, n: Automation of your biases
The skin of civilization is only 7 meals thick
"Patriotism is an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles."-- George Jean Nathan
2, 3, 3, 37 - the prime factorization of the beast.
2+2=5-ism: Caving in to a target marketing strategy aimed at oneself after holding out for a long period of time. "Oh, all right, I'll buy your stupid cola. Now leave me alone."-- Douglas Coupland ('Generation X')
Subduction leads to orogeny!
America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.-- Georges Clemenceau (1 December 1945)
Sleep deprivation is fun -- you see such pretty colors.
355/113 -- Not the famous irrational number PI, but an incredible simulation.
"We are the flaming, exploding, CGI-movie saturated MTV generation after all. If it isn't bright pink and green, naked, on fire and computer animated, I just yawn and walk away." (Someone on Slashdot)
Rule of Defactualization: Information deteriorates upward through bureaucracies.
Proof by intimidation: 'Trivial'.
Selfish, adj.: Devoid of consideration for the selfishness of others.-- Ambrose Bierce
Fanfiction is just fixing things in post-post-production
Ad: Vacation special: Have your home exterminated. Get rid of aunts.
The revolution will NOT be televised.
"Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about."-- Tori Amos
"Men are more apt to be mistaken in their generalizations than in their particular observations."-- Machiavelli
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much when your lips are moving.
"Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell."
Nothing is better than Sex.
Masturbation is better than nothing.
Therefore, Masturbation is better than Sex.
Lies, damned lies and user documentation.
"To many, total abstinence is easier than perfect moderation."-- St. Augustine
Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.-- Ambrose Bierce
"Many a man's reputation would not know his character if they met on the street."
"Why do they lock gas station bathrooms? Are they afraid someone will clean them?"
Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.-- H. G. Wells
Sometimes you have more perspective than the situation, sometimes the situation has more perspective than you.
Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
"Exhilaration is that feeling you get just after a great idea hits you, and just before you realize what's wrong with it."
A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest man a century.
The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.-- Henry David Thoreau
It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.-- Edsger Dijkstra
Basing any to-be-correct life philosophy on one tiny alteration of your current life philosophy, that needed replacement as you've decided, is just bound to be a mistake.
"Conviction is a luxury for those on the sidelines."
Emacs is a good operating system, but I prefer Unix.
"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."-- Edmund Burke
There has been opposition to every innovation in the history of man, with the possible exception of the sword.-- Benjamin Dana
Insanity, a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.-- R. D. Lang
The biggest communication problem is we do not listen to understand.
We listen to reply.
Headline: Never Withhold Herpes Infection from Loved One
Love is like pi: natural, irrational and very important.-- Lisa Hoffman
Interpretation is the revenge of the intellect upon art.-- Susan Sontag
On applause: They named it Ovation from the Latin ovis, a sheep.-- Plutarch
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.-- H. L. Mencken
Rational, adj: Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.-- Ambrose Bierce
If men could get pregnant, abortion would be a sacrament.
"Don't apply a Star Trek solution to a Babylon 5 problem."
Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.-- Liz Smith
Arnold's First Law of Documentation
If it should exist, it doesn't.
Arnold's Second Law of Documentation
If it does exist, it's out of date.
Arnold's Third Law of Documentation
Only useless documentation transcends the first two laws.
"I have learnt silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet strange, I am ungrateful to these teachers."-- Kahlil Gibran
Christianity poisoned Eros, but Eros did not die, it merely degenerated into a vice.-- Friedrich Nietzsche
Reconsider, v: To seek a justification for a decision already made.-- Ambrose Bierce
"There comes a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide."-- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"You can't depend on your judgment when your imagination is out of focus."-- Mark Twain
Newton's Fourth Law: Every action has an equal and opposite satisfaction.
"People often say that motivation doesn’t last. Well, neither does bathing.. that’s why we recommend it daily."
You do not understand hate. You do not hate *something*, you are full of hate or not full of hate. Generally, if you are not full of hate you are dumb. Generally, if you are full of hate you are also dumb. Generally, you are dumb.
Punctuation is important. There is a world of semantic difference between "Damn straight." and "Damn, straight."
When you don't have an education, you've got to use your brain.
"You can tell the ideals of a nation by its advertisements."-- Norman Douglas
Pedaeration, n: Achieving the perfect body heat by having one leg under the sheet and one hanging off the edge of the bed.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
"Did I love her? I thought so. But from my new vantage point I realize that love is nothing more than a messy conglomoration of need, desperation, fear of death, insecurity about penis size, and the self-involved, ego-driven need to college other people's hearts." (Human Nature)
The definition of easy work is work that someone else has to do.
I don't have an attitude problem. You have a perception problem.
"There are very few personal problems that cannot be resolved by application of suitable quantities of duct tape."
"Five exclamation marks, the sure sign of an insane mind."-- Terry Pratchett
"What are our schools for if not indoctrination against Communism?"-- Richard Nixon
Organized Religion is like Organized Crime; it preys on peoples' weakness, generates huge profits for its operators, and is almost impossible to eradicate.-- Mike Hermann
Cashtration, n.: The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period.
Language and its absurd conjunctions;
Constellations and crustaceans rhyme.
As long as the general population is passive, apathetic, diverted to consumerism or hatred of the vulnerable, then the powerful can do as they please, and those who survive will be left to contemplate the outcome.-- Noam Chomsky
The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but living, honored rules of conduct amongst us... I'm glad the American Civil Liberties Union gets indignant, and I hope this will always be so.-- Adlai Stevenson
"Documentation is the castor oil of programming. Managers know it must be good because the programmers hate it so much."