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

The man who says it can't be done shouldn't interrupt the woman doing it! - anon


He who works with his hand is a labourer; he who works with his hands and his head is a craftsman; he who works with his hands, head and heart is an artist.
- St Francis of Assisi


Happiness is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with it.


I hear, and I forget; I see and I remember; I do, and I understand.
- Confucius


No-one can make you feel inferior without your consent.


Asking stupid questions is easier than fixing stupid mistakes.

Thanks CY!!

Those are good!

I just opened a term and got:

This conjunction of an immense military establishment and a large arms
industry is now in the American experience... We must not fail to
comprehend its grave implications... We must guard against the
acquisition of unwarranted influence...by the military-industrial
complex.  The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power
exists and will persist.
		-- Dwight D. Eisenhower, from his farewell address in 1961

from:

echo fortune > ~/.bashrc

...

The Hunting of the Snark
Lewis Carroll
http://literature.org/authors/carrol...hapter-01.html

“The qualifications for president seem to be that one is willing to commit mass murder one minute and hand presidential medals of freedom to other war criminals in the next. One need only apply if one has very loose, flexible, or non-existent morality.”—Author and activist Cindy Sheehan

“Look, if you think any American official is going to tell you the truth, then you’re stupid. Did you hear that? — stupid.”-Arthur Sylvester

Political parties in this country do not lead, but follow, public opinion. They hang upon the applause of the rabble, and succeed or fail in their efforts to administer the affairs of Government in proportion as they interpret the wishes of the rabble. Not alone do parties defer to the wishes of the illiterate, the "great unwashed" majority, but individuals as well, who prefer to ride upon the wave of success as the champions of great wrongs rather than to go into retirement as the champions of just principles. The voice of the Charmer is all too powerful to be successfully resisted.

Republics have always been fruitful of demagogues, Such vermin find the soil of democratic government the most fertile and congenial for their operations, because the audiences to which they speak, the passions to which they appeal, are not always of the most reflective, humane or enlightened. Demagogues are the parasites of republics; and that our country is afflicted with an abnormal number of them is to be expected from the tentative nature of our institutions, the extent of our territory and the heterogeneity of our vast population.-T. Thomas Fortune

Jamison, in your last post on this thread I follow the code you entered, but not

I just opened a term

What do you mean, please?

When I open a terminal or login I set 'fortune' to run from '~/bashrc'.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fortune_%28Unix%29

Good songs by the way, am listing to "The Shadows with Hank Marvin" right now!

Thanks, Jamison, I think I've got it sorted.

Money can't buy class

Life is like a roll of toilet paper; the closer it gets to the end, the faster it goes

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not too sure about the former.

- Albert Einstein

The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like men, but that men will begin to think like computers

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
Sydney J. Harris

Originally Posted by Arcane Since such threads have no necromancy deadline.. You're the m0r0n they built to make me an 1d1ot! Can anyone explain this quote from portal? I will censor it(contains not so polite words) but you can click link or use logic to figure it out.

As a rabid fan of Portal 2, I think I can explain.

The mainframe AI, GLaDOS, wasn't a fan of the scientists who built her, and tried to murder them every time they powered her on. All their attempts to control her failed, including an attempt to give her a conscience. As a last desperate attempt, they built Wheatley, the "intelligence dampening sphere" to keep her from murdering them by making her too stupid to do so.

The idea was that Wheatley would be connected to her mind and generate "an endless stream of terrible ideas." GLaDOS would then be too distracted to come up with good ones, and would no longer be capable of anything as complicated as violence.

It didn't work, partially because GLaDOS was able to ignore Wheatley (just as she had ignored her conscience), and partially because the scientists could easily create artificial intelligence, but *failed* at creating *artificial stupidity*. Wheatley was just dumb enough to break things by accident and never notice it, but wasn't dumb enough to fulfill his intended function.

He was then forgotten about and ended up making sure the human test subjects didn't die in cryogenics, but had no idea what to do in the case of a power failure. Just such a power failure began Portal 2. The events of the game brought him into contact with GLaDOS again, and she was *not* happy to see him.

The more the government is asked to intervene on behalf of some persons and groups at the expense of others, the more difficult it is for anyone to compete in the open market to serve himself by peacefully serving others. No sooner is a special privilege granted by government to a particular person or group than other persons or groups begin fighting to obtain "their fair share."– Paul L. Poirot

From Jamison's last post in this thread

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. Sydney J. Harris

If I was feeling spiteful I would wonder what Oregon Jim (see the Religion thread in this forum) would make of this quote

“Crime is contagious. If the Government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy.” – Justice Louis Brandeis (1856-1941)

Remember, a chip on the shoulder is a sure sign of wood higher up.

--Brigham Young