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

If Microsoft ever does applications for Linux it means I've won. ~ Linus Torvalds

I would be real nice if average Americans were able to openly communicate with each other; but that rarely happens!! Gender, race, age, religion, etc. all get in the way because human beings only hear and listen to their already perceived biases!!-Cousin Lucky

Originally Posted by cousinlucky I would be real nice if average Americans were able to openly communicate with each other; but that rarely happens!! Gender, race, age, religion, etc. all get in the way because human beings only hear and listen to their already perceived biases!!-Cousin Lucky

Remove averagely complacent from that self(eg "American") quote and I think you're on to something...

"If you have

knowledge

,,, let others light their candles at it" - Sarah Margaret Fuller Ossoli

Albert Schweitzer: "Think occasionally of the suffering of which you spare yourself the sight."

“The status quo sucks.” - George Carlin

“Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience. Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders and millions have been killed because of this obedience. Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war and cruelty. Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves and the grand thieves are running the country. That’s our problem.” - Howard Zinn.

I would have government defend the life and property of all citizens equally; protect all willing exchange; suppress and penalize all fraud, all misrepresentation, all violence, all predatory practices; invoke a common justice under law; and keep the records incidental to these functions. Even this is a bigger assignment than governments, generally, have proven capable of. Let governments do these things and do them well. Leave all else to men in free and creative effort.– Leonard E. Read

There is a natural obstacle to progress in abstract thought, which has often delayed rational inquiry; an erroneous concept or theory may be expressed in terms which embody the error, so that thinking is blocked until the misleading words are discarded from the given context.– Isabel Patterson

Linus Torvalds: "Making Linux GPL’d was definitely the best thing I ever did."

Linus Torvalds: "We all know Linux is great...it does infinite loops in 5 seconds."

Linus Torvalds: "Some people have told me they don’t think a fat penguin really embodies the grace of Linux, which just tells me they have never seen an angry penguin charging at them in excess of 100 mph. They’d be a lot more careful about what they say if they had."

Paul Samuelson: "Good questions outrank easy answers."

Confucius: "Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change."

“Comfort murders the passion of the soul, then walks grinning at the funeral.” ~Kahil Gilbran

Just and moderate governments are every where quiet, every where safe. But oppression raises ferments, and makes men struggle to cast off an uneasy and tyrannical yoke.– John Locke