... 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
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand. -- Gerald Holton If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing on my shoulders. -- Hal Abelson In computer science, we stand on each other's feet. -- Brian K. Reid
... at least I thought I was dancing, 'til somebody stepped on my hand. -- J. B. White
Parkinson's Fifth Law: If there is a way to delay in important decision, the good bureaucracy, public or private, will find it.
Self Test for Paranoia: You know you have it when you can't think of anything that's your own fault.
Different all twisty a of in maze are you, passages little.
User n.: A programmer who will believe anything you tell him.
All syllogisms have three parts, therefore this is not a syllogism.
Q: Somebody just posted that Roman Polanski directed Star Wars. What should I do? A: Post the correct answer at once! We can't have people go on believing that! Very good of you to spot this. You'll probably be the only one to make the correction, so post as soon as you can. No time to lose, so certainly don't wait a day, or check to see if somebody else has made the correction. And it's not good enough to send the message by mail. Since you're the only one who really knows that it was Francis Coppola, you have to inform the whole net right away! -- Brad Templeton, "Emily Postnews Answers Your Questions on Netiquette"
The STAR WARS Song Sung to the tune of "Lola", by the Kinks: I met him in a swamp down in Dagobah Where it bubbles all the time like a giant cabinet soda S-O-D-A soda I saw the little runt sitting there on a log I asked him his name and in a raspy voice he said Yoda Y-O-D-A Yoda, Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo Yoda Well I've been around but I ain't never seen A guy who looks like a Muppet but he's wrinkled and green Oh my Yoda, Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo Yoda Well I'm not dumb but I can't understand How he can raise me in the air just by raising his hand Oh my Yoda, Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo Yoda, Yo-Yo-Yo-Yo Yoda
If you didn't get caught, did you really do it?
Putt's Law: Technology is dominated by two types of people: Those who understand what they do not manage. Those who manage what they do not understand.
Next Friday will not be your lucky day. As a matter of fact, you don't have a lucky day this year.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power. -- Abraham Lincoln
Weinberg's Principle: An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
The answer is that libdialog, the library on which sysinstall depends for these menus, is genuinely evil. It is the unloved, satanic bastard child of multiple parents and torturing users like yourself constitutes the only joy in life it has left. Its source files are all chmod'd 0666 and dire README files warn against trespass by neophyte programmers. It is the 7th gate of Hell. It makes the baby Jesus cry. Were libdialog given anthropomorphic representation, it would be promptly burnt at the stake and its ashes scattered in the desert, to be then doused with holy water from altitude by fire-fighting aircraft. -- Jordan K. Hubbard on the evils of libdialog
Andrea: Unhappy the land that has no heroes. Galileo: No, unhappy the land that _____ needs heroes. -- Bertolt Brecht, "Life of Galileo"
If you can't be good, be careful. If you can't be careful, give me a call.
Give your child mental blocks for Christmas.
BE ALERT!!!! (The world needs more lerts ...)