OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

Pirate talk you say, how about this:

... eat your cereal with fork and do your homework in the dark...

We're supposed to find life hard so we're motivated to improve it. Otherwise we'd all be monkeys flinging faeces at each other.

This quote is true only because Zeitgeist idea is not yet realized properly. Society not want Utopia yet so they want Dystopia.

Originally Posted by Arcane We're supposed to find life hard so we're motivated to improve it. Otherwise we'd all be monkeys flinging faeces at each other. This quote is true only because Zeitgeist idea is not yet realized properly. Society not want Utopia yet so they want Dystopia.

No, it's true because of the many definitions of evolution!

In American schools, the*Genesis creation narrative*was generally taught as the*origin of the universe*and of*life*until*Darwin's scientific theories*became widely accepted. While there was some immediate backlash, organized opposition did not get underway until the*Fundamentalist–Modernist Controversy*broke out following World War I; several states passed laws banning the teaching of evolution while others debated them but did not pass them. The*Scopes Trial*was the result of a challenge to the law in Tennessee. Scopes lost his case, and further states passed laws banning the teaching of evolution.

--Wikipedia

It's like this: you have to look backwards to go forward but you don't have to go backwards to go forward?!.

That's why, no offense to some places and people but they have a church on every block. Some offense, to some places and people that have bars on every block.

Ignorance is bliss!

Originally Posted by jamison20000e That's why, no offense to some places and pepole but they have a church on every black. Some offense, to some places and people that have bars on every block.

I think you may cause a bit more offense than you intended with your little typo there!

Originally Posted by Samsonite2010 I think you may cause a bit more offense than you intended with your little typo there!

True that. Wrong typo, wrong time though the clock keeps ticking...

Originally Posted by Arcane Zeitgeist

AHHH! No! Zeitgeist!! (holds his head and runs in circles, screaming) ZEITGEIIIISSSSTTT!!!!!

Originally Posted by ondoho AHHH! No! Zeitgeist!! (holds his head and runs in circles, screaming) ZEITGEIIIISSSSTTT!!!!!

And what is wrong with Zeitgeist? If you are truly honest with yourself it(movie) makes perfect sense.

“There is an illness against just everything” (Yours truly)

I can be patient. But guess. Yes, I have been with “people”.

“There is too much joy in this world” (Derek Mofat)

“Would you fuel up my car please?”
“I only drive it, I do not do maintenance.”
“Thank You”

Those are all words ever exchanged between an American tourist and me at the gas-station at Frankfurt Airport (Germany), sometime in the 1990s. Non were mine, of course. I was too impressed and still thinking about how to address this woman, long after I had left the gas station, myself.

She was assuming that I understood English. And she was assuming that just any guy who happens to pass there after work, would be happy to fuel her hired car. And she even said “Thank you”, presuming that all is cool...

I had a lousy evening because I could not come up with a good response to her.

« Le progrès, ce n'est pas l'acquisition de biens. C'est l'élévation de l'individu, son émancipation, sa compréhension du monde. Et pour ça il faut du temps pour lire, s'instruire, se consacrer aux autres. »

“Progress is not the acquisition of goods. It is the elevation of the individual, its emancipation, its comprehension of the world. And therefore, there must be time to read, to instruct oneself, to consecrate oneself to the others.” (Christiane Taubira).

It would be a relief to be governed by this woman, but I hope for her that she continues to defy all such encouragement.

The French encyclopaedia « Le Petit Robert » had an entry for “progress” which simply described a situation where you were better afterwards than you had been before. I see now, that Christian Taubira's is bereft of the blemish that progress for one is not forcibly progress for everyone.

Cool. I have progressed again. And with so few technology involved...

Here is a quote on persistence.

“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan Press On! has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
― Calvin Coolidge

Great plan but the kids come to school at their parents mentality not ours!

The middle way is a view of life that avoids the extreme of misguided grasping born of believing there is something we can find, or buy, or cling to that will not change. And it avoids the despair and nihilism born from the mistaken belief that nothing matters, that all is meaningless. Sharon Salzberg

Originally Posted by cynwulf These kind of articles (...) about the disguised voice commands are just smoke and mirrors. Yes, someone with too much time on their hands could shine a laser at the device's microphone or someone could hide a command within some "white noise"... but the "elephant in the living room" here is the spy in your own home, listening, recording and transmitting data to google/amazon/apple, to be stored who knows where and used for who knows what purpose - and not some security or privacy defect in a device which is quite simply, by design, a glaring security/privacy problem in its own right.

Quoteworthy stuff from these very forums.

Technology has never been neutral
Progress is used to justify technology (Diana Filippova)

She's cool and the author of « Technopouvoir. Dépolitiser pour mieux régner » (Techno-Power. Depoliticize to govern more).

“Techno-Power. Its impulsion: gouvern those who place rights and individual liberties above all. Its objective: serve the interests of some at the expense of all.”