The challenge of space exploration and particularly of landing men on the moon

represents the greatest challenge which has ever faced the human race. Even
if there were no clear scientific or other arguments for proceeding with this
task, the whole history of our civilization would still impel men toward the
goal. In fact, the assembly of the scientific and military with these human
arguments creates such an overwhelming case that in can be ignored only by
those who are blind to the teachings of history, or who wish to suspend the
development of civilization at its moment of greatest opportunity and drama.
-- Sir Bernard Lovell, 1962, in "The History of Manned Space Flight"
"The simple rights, the civil liberties from generations of struggle must not
be just fine words for patriotic holidays, words we subvert on weekdays, but
living, honored rules of conduct amongst us...I'm glad the American Civil
Liberties Union gets indignant, and I hope this will always be so."
-- Senator Adlai E. Stevenson
Someone will try to honk your nose today.
Writing non-free software is not an ethically legitimate activity,
so if people who do this run into trouble, that's good! All businesses
based on non-free software ought to fail, and the sooner the better.
-- Richard Stallman
"Look! There! Evil!.. pure and simple, total evil from the Eighth Dimension!"
-- Buckaroo Banzai
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.
Absence makes the heart grow fonder -- of somebody else.
... I think I'd better go back to my DESK and toy with a few common
MISAPPREHENSIONS ...
Suffocating together ... would create heroic camaraderie.
-- Khan Noonian Singh, "Space Seed", stardate 3142.8
Just because they are called 'forbidden' transitions does not mean that they
are forbidden. They are less allowed than allowed transitions, if you see
what I mean.
-- From a Part 2 Quantum Mechanics lecture.
Meekness: Uncommon patience in planning a revenge that is worth while.
-- Ambrose Bierce
Lie, n.:
A very poor substitute for the truth, but the only one
discovered to date.
Go away! Stop bothering me with all your "compute this ... compute that"!
I'm taking a VAX-NAP.

logout#
Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner.
Conscience makes egotists of us all.
-- Oscar Wilde
"You can have my Unix system when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers."
-- Cal Keegan
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted.
Justice always prevails ... three times out of seven!
-- Michael J. Wagner
Cats are smarter than dogs. You can't make eight cats pull a sled through
the snow.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
<Ze0> so, how's everything in the world of Quack?
<LordHavoc> just ducky
<Ze0> excellent, fried duck is mighty fine tasty.
The prettiest women are almost always the most boring, and that is why
some people feel there is no God.
-- Woody Allen, "Without Feathers"
This supersedes all previous notices.
Mal: Miss Nandi, I have a confession to make.
Nandi: Maybe I should get the Shepherd.
Mal: Well, I ain't sinned yet. And I'd feel a little more'n awkward if he were here
when I did.
. . .
Nandi: Malcolm, I been waiting for you to kiss me since I showed you my guns.
[Mal kisses Nandi, then draws back for a moment.]
Nandi: You okay with this?
Mal: I'm just waiting to see if I pass out. Long story.

-- Firefly (TV series) - None

This dungeon is owned and operated by Frobozz Magic Co., Ltd.
One day the King decided that he would force all his subjects to tell the
truth. A gallows was erected in front of the city gates. A herald announced,
"Whoever would enter the city must first answer the truth to a question
which will be put to him." Nasrudin was first in line. The captain of the
guard asked him, "Where are you going? Tell the truth -- the alternative
is death by hanging."
"I am going," said Nasrudin, "to be hanged on that gallows."
"I don't believe you."
"Very well, if I have told a lie, then hang me!"
"But that would make it the truth!"
"Exactly," said Nasrudin, "your truth."
But it's real. And if it's real it can be affected ... we may not be able
to break it, but, I'll bet you credits to Navy Beans we can put a dent in it.
-- deSalle, "Catspaw", stardate 3018.2
I am dyslexic of Borg. Prepare to have your ass laminated.
The following statement is not true. The previous statement is true.
Hard reality has a way of cramping your style.
-- Daniel Dennett
Please try to limit the amount of "this room doesn't have any bazingas"
until you are told that those rooms are "punched out." Once punched out,
we have a right to complain about atrocities, missing bazingas, and such.
-- N. Meyrowitz
I selected E5 ... but I didn't hear "Sam the Sham and the Pharoahs"!
So do the noble fall. For they are ever caught in a trap of their own making.
A trap -- walled by duty, and locked by reality. Against the greater force
they must fall -- for, against that force they fight because of duty, because
of obligations. And when the noble fall, the base remain. The base -- whose
only purpose is the corruption of what the noble did protect. Whose only
purpose is to destroy. The noble: who, even when fallen, retain a vestige of
strength. For theirs is a strength born of things other than mere force.
Theirs is a strength supreme... theirs is the strength -- to restore.
-- Gerry Conway, "Thor", #193
Strange things are done to be number one
In selling the computer The Druids were entrepreneurs,
IBM has their strategem And they built a granite box
Which steadily grows acuter, It tracked the moon, warned of monsoons,
And Honeywell competes like Hell, And forecast the equinox
But the story's missing link Their price was right, their future
Is the system old at Stonemenge sold bright,
By the firm of Druids, Inc. The prototype was sold;
From Stonehenge site their bits and byte
Would ship for Celtic gold.
The movers came to crate the frame;
It weighed a million ton!
The traffic folk thought it a joke The man spoke true, and thus to you
(the wagon wheels just spun); A warning from the ages;
"They'll nay sell that," the foreman Your stock will slip if you can't ship
spat, What's in your brochure's pages.
"Just leave the wild weeds grow; See if it sells without the bells
"It's Druid-kind, over-designed, And strings that ring and quiver;
"And belly up they'll go." Druid repute went down the chute
Because they couldn't deliver.
-- Edward C. McManus, "The Computer at Stonehenge"
/*
* Oops. The kernel tried to access some bad page. We'll have to
* terminate things with extreme prejudice.
*/
die_if_kernel("Oops", regs, error_code);
-- From linux/arch/i386/mm/fault.c
<Overfiend> Joy: Hey, I'm an asshole. Assholes emit odious gas.
That's what we do.
<gecko> Hmm... I wonder what else separates Debian from the rest of the
Linux distributions.
<Knghtbrd> gecko - We Don't Suck
<gecko> Knghtbrd: you don't say that when addressing a bunch of people
FROM those distros
<Knghtbrd> gecko - point.
Max told his friend that he'd just as soon not go hiking in the hills.
Said he, "I'm an anti-climb Max."
[So is that punchline.]
Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted;
persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting
to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author
-- Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
<Knghtbrd> m2 - that's a bad sign
Seeing that death, a necessary end,
Will come when it will come.
-- William Shakespeare, "Julius Caesar"
As seen on slashdot about what you can do with your cable modems:
(http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=32387&cid=3495418):

Summary: It's not about how you handle your equipment, it's where
you have permission to stick it.

The post is by "redgekko"

May your Tongue stick to the Roof of your Mouth with the Force of a
Thousand Caramels.
Auction:
A gyp off the old block.
Stayed in bed all morning just to pass the time,
There's something wrong here, there can be no more denying,
One of us is changing, or maybe we just stopped trying,

And it's too late, baby, now, it's too late,

Though we really did try to make it,
Something inside has died and I can't hide and I just can't fake it...

It used to be so easy living here with you,

You were light and breezy and I knew just what to do
Now you look so unhappy and I feel like a fool.

There'll be good times again for me and you,

But we just can't stay together, don't you feel it too?
But I'm glad for what we had and that I once loved you...

But it's too late baby...

It's too late, now darling, it's too late...
-- Carol King, "Tapestry"
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
flannister, n.:
The plastic yoke that holds a six-pack of beer together.
-- "Sniglets", Rich Hall & Friends
senility, n.:
The state of mind of elderly persons with whom one happens to disagree.
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
-- J.P. Donleavy
The more things change, the more they stay insane.
Whoa...I did a 'zcat /vmlinuz > /dev/audio' and I think I heard God...
-- mikecd on #Linux
"There is nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things
we don't know yet."
-Ambrose Bierce
QOTD:
"A child of 5 could understand this! Fetch me a child of 5."
Contains a substantial amount of non-tobacco ingredients.
The Rabbits The Cow
Here is a verse about rabbits The cow is of the bovine ilk;
That doesn't mention their habits. One end is moo, the other, milk.
-- Ogden Nash
<luca> and those that say: fibre cables have a minimum bend radius and
pull tension? bah! *yank*
<Culus> IT'S FIBER YOU FREAKS :P
<luca> culus, you hoser, it's fibre. am I gonna have to come over the
mountains and give you a wedgie?
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
-- Woody Allen
These download files are in Microsoft Word 6.0 format. After
unzipping, these files can be viewed in any text editor, including
all versions of Microsoft Word, WordPad, and Microsoft Word Viewer
-- From Micro$oft
Another dream that failed. There's nothing sadder.
-- Kirk, "This side of Paradise", stardate 3417.3
Subject to change without notice.
An eye in a blue face
Saw an eye in a green face.
"That eye is like this eye"
Said the first eye,
"But in low place,
Not in high place."
Moderation in all things.
-- Publius Terentius Afer [Terence]
"The wages of sin are death; but after they're done taking out taxes,
it's just a tired feeling:"
Linux: the choice of a GNU generation
-- ksh@cis.ufl.edu put this on Tshirts in '93
The important thing to remember about walking on eggs is not to hop.
All Finagle Laws may be bypassed by learning the simple art of doing
without thinking.
brokee, n:
Someone who buys stocks on the advice of a broker.
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than
complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.
But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move
mountains.
-- Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
"Elves and Dragons!" I says to him. "Cabbages and potatoes are better
for you and me."
-- J. R. R. Tolkien
In war, truth is the first casualty.
-- U Thant
"You show me an American who can keep his mouth shut and I'll eat him."
-- Newspaperman from Frank Capra's _Meet_John_Doe_
A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
-- Gore Vidal
Last guys don't finish nice.
-- Stanley Kelley, on the cult of victory at all costs
[While Zoe and Wash are getting ready to assault Niska's Skyplex]
Wash: Grenades?
Zoe: Oh, yes. Thank you, dear. [Turning to Jayne] They won't be expecting it.
Jayne: Right. 'Cause they ain't insane.
. . .
[Book pulls out a rifle.]
Book: This should do.
Zoe: Preacher, don't the Bible have some pretty specific things to say about
killin'?
Book: Quite specific. It is, however, somewhat fuzzier on the subject of kneecaps.
. . .
[Everyone looks up at Jayne, who is suddenly on the balcony, fully armed.]
Jayne: What?
Zoe: Let's go get the cap'n.
[cuts to image of Niska and henchman looking at Mal]
Henchman:Yep, he's dead.

-- Firefly (TV series) - None

"Confound these ancestors.... They've stolen our best ideas!"
-- Ben Jonson
Great American Axiom:
Some is good, more is better, too much is just right.
Hacker's Law:
The belief that enhanced understanding will necessarily stir
a nation to action is one of mankind's oldest illusions.
insecurity, n.:
Finding out that you've mispronounced for years one of your
favorite words.

Realizing halfway through a joke that you're telling it to

the person who told it to you.
A fool and his honey are soon parted.
If you want divine justice, die.
-- Nick Seldon
Fundamentally, there may be no basis for anything.
Most people will listen to your unreasonable demands, if you'll consider
their unacceptable offer.
Never eat more than you can lift.
-- Miss Piggy
Lots of folks confuse bad management with destiny.
-- Frank Hubbard
"With molasses you catch flies, with vinegar you catch nobody."
-- Baltimore City Councilman Dominic DiPietro
Old timer, n.:
One who remembers when charity was a virtue and not an organization.
If you live to the age of a hundred you have it made because very few
people die past the age of a hundred.
-- George Burns
Heard that the next Space Shuttle is supposed to carry several Guernsey cows?
It's gonna be the herd shot 'round the world.
Thus spake the master programmer:
"You can demonstrate a program for a corporate executive, but you
can't make him computer literate."
-- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"
In God we trust; all else we walk through.
O'Propriation:
The inclusion of advertising, packaging, and entertainment
jargon from earlier eras in everyday speech for ironic and/or comic
effect: "Kathleen's Favorite Dead Celebrity party was tons o'fun" or
"Dave really thinks of himself as a zany, nutty, wacky, and madcap
guy, doesn't he?"
-- Douglas Coupland, "Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated
Culture"
Work continues in this area.
-- DEC's SPR-Answering-Automaton
Of ______######course it's the murder weapon. Who would frame someone
with a fake?
Vote anarchist.
Immature artists imitate, mature artists steal.
-- Lionel Trilling
QOTD:
"It's a cold bowl of chili, when love don't work out."
The way to a man's heart is through the left ventricle.
It's no use crying over spilt milk -- it only makes it salty for the cat.
Cold, adj.:
When the politicians walk around with their hands in their own pockets.
Q: What's the big deal about rm, I have been deleting stuff for years? And
never lost anything.. oops!
A: ...
-- From the Frequently Unasked Questions
Not a flying toy.