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Dreams are never destroyed by circumstances;
dreams are born in the heart and mind
and only there can they ever die;
Because while the difficult takes time
the impossible just takes a little longer.
HURI|NET, Strange and twisted fun since 1995
"We take English for granted but if we explore its paradoxes, we find that quicksand can work slowly, boxing rings are square, and a guinea pig is neither from Guinea nor is it a pig. There is no egg in eggplant, no ham in hamburger, no apple nor pine in pineapple. English muffins weren’t invented in England or French fries in France. Sweetmeats are candies while sweetbreads which aren’t sweet, are meat.”
Victor Lownes
"A wise and frugal government which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall otherwise leave them free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labour the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government."
-Thomas Jefferson, Inauguration Speech, 1801
"Some men see things as they are and say, why; I dream things that never were and say, why not."
- Robert and John Kennedy, adapted from Geoerge Bernard Shaw.
"The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction." - Dr. Samuel Johnson.
We could learn a lot from crayons: some are sharp, some are pretty, some are dull, some have weird names, and all are different colors....but they all exist very nicely in the same box.
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.
M.C. Escher
There is a theory which states if ever anybody discovers exactly
what the universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and
be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable.
There is another theory which states that this has already happened.
Douglas Adams
"You would do well not to imagine profundity," he said. "Anything that seems of momentous occasion should be dwelt upon as though it were of slight note. Conversely, trivialities must be attended to with the greatest of care. Because death is momentous, give it no thought; because victory is important, give it no thought; because the method of achievement and discovery is less momentous than the effect, dwell always upon the method. You will strengthen yourself in this way." -- Jessica Salmonson, "The Swordswoman"
The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Jones's First Law:
Anyone who makes a significant contribution to any field of
endeavor, and stays in that field long enough, becomes an obstruction
to its progress -- in direct proportion to the importance of their
original contribution.
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time
to reform.
-- Mark Twain
... so long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those
who wish to tyrranize will do so; for tyrants are active and ardent,
and will devote themselves in the name of any number of gods, religious
and otherwise, to put shackles upon sleeping men.
-- Voltarine de Cleyre
You cannot kill time without injuring eternity.
I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman
Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant
Church,
nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church.
- Thomas Paine
If you can survive death, you can probably survive anything.
There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the sea is asleep and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song. Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, and somewhere else the tea is getting cold. Come on, Ace, we've got work to do.
-Doctor Who
Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled. -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
If you don't like something, turn it off.
Don't make everyone else turn it
off along with you.
-Alex
Sandell
A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion is very easy to govern. It demands no social reforms. It does not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment. It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain. -- Anatole France
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro..." -- Hunter S. Thompson
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. -- Wittgenstein
In a minimum-phase system there is an inextricable link between frequency response, phase response and transient response, as they are all merely transforms of one another. This combined with minimalization of open-loop errors in output amplifiers and correct compensation for non-linear passive crossover network loading can lead to a significant decrease in system resolution lost. However, this all means jack when you listen to Pink Floyd.
When you try to make an impression, the chances are that is the impression you will make.
No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness. -- Aristotle
"The fundamental purpose animating the Faith of God and His Religion is to
safeguard the interests and promote the unity of the human race, and to foster
the spirit of love and fellowship amongst men. Suffer it not to become a source
of dissension and discord, of hate and enmity."
"Religion is verily the chief instrument for the establishment of order in the
world and of tranquillity amongst it's peoples...The greater the decline of
religion, the more grievous the waywardness of the ungodly. This cannot but
lead in the end to chaos and confusion."
-- Baha'u'llah, a selection from the Baha'i scripture
Good government never depends upon laws, but upon the personal qualities of those who govern. The machinery of government is always subordinate to the will of those who administer that machinery. The most important element of government, therefore, is the method of choosing leaders. -- Frank Herbert, "Children of Dune"
Every Horse has an Infinite Number of Legs (proof by intimidation):
Horses have an even number of legs. Behind they have two legs, and in
front they have fore-legs. This makes six legs, which is certainly an
odd number of legs for a horse. But the only number that is both even
and odd is infinity. Therefore, horses have an infinite number of
legs. Now to show this for the general case, suppose that somewhere,
there is a horse that has a finite number of legs. But that is a horse
of another color, and by the lemma ["All horses are the same color"],
that does not exist.
Imagination is more important than knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
There is only one difference between a tax collector and a taxidermist
--
the taxidermist leaves the hide.
-- Mortimer Caplan
"Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.
This is the
fine point on which all the legal professions of history have based their
job security."
-Frank Herbert
If life is merely a joke, the question still remains: for whose amusement?
"If you have made mistakes... there is always another
chance for you ... you may have a fresh start any moment
you chose, for this thing we call 'failure' is not the
falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford, actress (1893-1979)
Everything below is by me... "A quarter-century of stirring up trouble, and Proud of it!"
