A superior pilot uses his superior judgment to avoid having to exercise his superior skill.

mister_borogove quoting a pilot's maxim [http://jwz.livejournal.com/1096593.html]

Actually, good friends tell good friends when they think they're fucking up. [...] The
problem arises when the friends can't figure out which one is fucking up, and get annoyed
with each other.
[http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=32966&cid=3559854]
An Eye for an Eye will make the whole world blind.
Gandhi
Share your knowledge. It's a way to achieve immortality.
Dalai Lama
Eventually, I decided that thinking was not getting me very far and it was time to try
building.
Rob Pike, ``The Text Editor sam''
Any view of things that is not strange is false.
Neil Gaiman, Sandman
"It's better to be lucky than smart, but it's easier to be smart twice than lucky twice."
Seen by Henry Spencer on a button at the World Science Fiction Convention
[http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=HL2t45.F7v%40spsystems.net&oe=UTF8&output=gplain]
I tell you: one must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing star!
Nietzsche
Only the dead have seen the end of war.
Plato
There's nothing wrong with shooting, just as long as the right people get shot.
Harry Callahan

"The resonable man adapts himself to the world; the unresonable on persists in
trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the
unreasonable man." --George Bernard Shaw
I'm a plan9 user, you can't get more unreasonable than that
DrSkwid [AKA maht http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=81944&cid=7191856 ]
Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words [and] a
paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no
unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. This requires not that the writer
make all his sentences short, or that he avoid all detail and treat his subjects only in
outline, but that every word tell.
Elements of Style, William Strunk, Jr. - 1918
Information is not knowledge
Knowledge is not wisdom
Wisdom is not truth
Truth is not beauty
Beauty is not love
Love is not music
Music is the best.

Frank Zappa
If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad,
your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU
DESERVE IT.
Frank Zappa
Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because
everyone else is asleep.
Catherine O'Hara
Loyalty to a person and whatever they say or do, that's the opposite of real loyalty, which
is loyalty based on inquiry, and telling someone what you really think and feel--your best
estimation of the truth instead of what they want to hear.
Paul O'Neill, US ex-Secretary of the Treasury
thank christ they don't 'design' knives
Boyd
[http://www.insultant.net/blog/20040111condone37archive.html#107400754939425120]

I can imagine a planet where everyone lives in peace and there are no weapons, and then
I imagine the looks on their faces as we invade their puny planet
22:29 [maht] > so 9fans is like war poetry from the trenches of world war 1
I am a citizen, not of Athens, or Greece, but of the world.
Socrates (5th Century B.C.)
Reality is what refuses to go away when I stop believing in it.
Philip K. Dick
Violence is the last resort of the incompetent.
Isaac Asimov. "Bridle and Saddle" (aka "The Mayors", in Foundation), 1942
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Isaac Asimov
Alles Grosse und Gescheite existiert in der Minoritaet. Es ist nie daran zu denken, dass
die Vernunft populaer werde. Leidenschaft und Gefuehle moegen populaer werden, aber
die Vernunft wird immer nur im Besitze einzelner Vorzueglicher sein.
["Every big and clever exists in the minority. You will never think of getting it majority.
Passion and feelings can get popular, but sanity will only be the proper of some people.]
Johnann Wolfgang von Goethe [Quoted by 20h in reference to Utah2000]
They who can give up essential liberty for temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor
safety.
Benjamin Franklin
The Great Man ... is colder, harder, less hesitating, and without respect and without the
fear of "opinion"; he lacks the virtues that accompany respect and "respectability", and
altogether everything that is the "virtue of the herd". If he cannot lead, he goes alone. ...
He knows he is incommunicable: he finds it tasteless to be familiar. ... When not speaking
to himself, he wears a mask. There is a solitude within him that is inaccessible to praise
or blame.
Friedrich Nietzche, The Will to Power
Man is condemned to be free. Condemned, because he did not create himself, yet, [he] is

free; because, once thrown into the world, he is responsible for everything he does.
Jean Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
The existentialist does not believe in the power of passion. He will never agree that a
sweeping passion is a ravaging torrent which fatally leads a man to certain acts and is
therefor an excuse. He thinks that man is responsible for his passion.
Jean Paul Sartre, Existentialism is a Humanism
Well, the bells out in the church tower chime Burning clues into this heart of mine
Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and the memories Offer signs that it's over... it's over
Jeff Buckley, Grace - Last Goodbye
I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
L. Frank Baum (from THE WIZARD OF OZ)
The future is always scary to those who cling to the past.
Tim O'Reilly
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is
only by this meeting that a new world is born.
Anis Nin
Your friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you.
Elbert Hubbard
The more we love our friends, the less we flatter them; it is by excusing nothing that pure
love shows itself.
Moliere (1622-1672)
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Walk
beside me and be my friend.
Albert Camus
Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of joy you must have somebody to
divide it with.
Mark Twain

We really don't have enemies. It's just that some of our best friends are trying to kill us.
Unknown
Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art.... It has no survival value; rather it is
one of those things that give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis
True friends stab you in the front.
Oscar Wilde
The tender friendships one gives up, on parting, leave their bite on the heart, but also a
curious feeling of a treasure somewhere buried.
Antoine de Saint-Exupry, Southern Mail,
A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future, the key to
sanity in a totally insane world.
Lois Wyse
A friend can tell you things you don't want to tell yourself.
Frances Ward Weller
The future is here. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson
If you don't know where you are going, every road will get you nowhere.
Henry Kissinger
Monsieur l'abb, I detest what you write, but I would give my life to make it possible for
you to continue to write.
Voltaire [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire]
The only freedom which counts is the freedom to do what some other people think to be
wrong. There is no point in demanding freedom to do that which all will applaud. All the
so-called liberties or rights are things which have to be asserted against others who claim
that if such things are to be allowed their own rights are infringed or their own liberties

threatened. This is always true, even when we speak of the freedom to worship, of the
right of free speech or association, or of public assembly. If we are to allow freedoms at
all there will constantly be complaints that either the liberty itself or the way in which it
is exercised is being abused, and, if it is a genuine freedom, these complaints will often
be justified. There is no way of having a free society in which there is not abuse. Abuse is
the very hallmark of liberty.
Lord Chief Justice Halisham
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
Alan Perlis, http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
So long as the people do not care to exercise their freedom, those who wish to tyrannize
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.
Voltaire
Him that I love, I wish to be free -- even from me.
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Distrust those in whom the desire to punish is strong
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Similar statements have been made by Nietzsche, and
attributed to Dostoevsky) [http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/JohannWolfgangvon_Goethe]
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is nothing worse than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Standards are the beginning of doom.
Nietzsche
It is an old observation that the best writers sometimes disregard the rules of rhetoric.
When they do so, however, the reader will usually find in the sentence some

compensating merit, attained at the cost of the violation. Unless he is certain of doing as
well, he will probably do best to follow the rules. After he has learned, by their guidance,
to write plain English adequate for everyday uses, let him look, for the secrets of style, to
the study of the masters of literature.
Elements of Style, William Strunk, Jr. - 1918

Mas vale solo que mal acompa~ado

Quien dice "mas vale solo ke mal acompa~ado" es porke nunca a estado solo

Si estas mal acompa~ado estas mas solo ke nunca -- Lanas

Committees do harm merely by existing.

Freeman Dyson
3. goth People who wish to be an individual by conforming to a subculture. see also
irony.
Goth: "I *am* more unique than you, more interesting than you. And I'm
*different*, because I conform to a subculture."

[http://goth.urbanup.com/178444]
There is an entirely leisure class located at both ends of the economic spectrum
Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien ajouter, mais quand
il n'y a plus rien retrancher.
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing
left to take away.
Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery, Wind, Sand and Stars
If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to
hear.
George Orwell
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
George Orwell
During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.
George Orwell

To keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who sought to
keep out crows by shutting his park gate.
John Milton
Some people have very sensitive corns, and the only way to live with them is to step on
those corns until they are used to it.
Wolfgang Pauli
To err is human, but to really screw things up requires a design committee of bureaucrats.
Henry Spencer
It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
Thomas Sowell
If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it
is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively
possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself
into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its
peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses
the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without
lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.
That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and
mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been
peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire,
expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in
which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or
exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.
- Thomas Jefferson

Religion is an insult to human dignity. Without it you'd have good people doing good
things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, it takes
religion.
Stephen Weinberg
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying
to adapt the world to himself. All progress, therefore, depends upon the unreasonable
man.
George Bernard Shaw

Ekke, Ekke, Ekke, Ekke, Ptang, Zoo boing!

I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with
anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble.
[When asked a question to which he didn't know the answer and after he firmly said so
and the questioner persisted: 'But what is your gut feeling?'
http://www.simonyi.ox.ac.uk/dawkins/WorldOfDawkinsarchive/Dawkins/Work/Articles/2000-09-24gpeace_vandals.shtml]
The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.
Horace Walpope
How do you have a just society when genetics is unjust?
James Watson
The chief cause of problems is solutions.
Eric Sevareid
To be empty of a fixed identity allows one to enter fully into the shifting, poignant,
beautiful and tragic contingencies of the world.
Stephen Batchelor, "Verses from the Center"
Above all, dont fear difficult moments. The best comes from them.
Nobel Laureate Rita Levi Montalcini, on the occasion of her 100th birthday
As a rule of thumb, anything particularly ridiculous in an otherwise reasonable context is
probably due to a law.
TheWama - http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/8kz6z/#c09mc23
Sufficiently advanced political correctness is indistinguishable from sarcasm.
Eric Naggum
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell

No monumental evil act in the history of mankind has been committed by anyone who
thought of themselves as evil on the contrary, the worse the (objective) evil, the
more the perpetrator was completely convinced of the goodness of himself and of his
purification.
Eric Naggum
... there is a special place of torment reserved for those have been neutral in life. Their sin
is regarded so grave that they are not even allowed into hell, only its vestibule, separated
from hell by the river Archeron. For their sin of indecision and vacillation, Dante devised
an appropriate and awful torment: they were condemned to rush for ever behind a banner
"which whirls with aimless speed as though it would never take a stand, while also being
stung by swarms of persuing hornets".
Deliver Us From Evil, William Shawcross, pp. 32-33. ISBN 0-7475-4844-7 (quoted in
9fans by Boyd Roberts)
Of course drugs need to be controlled, just as alcohol, tobacco, firearms, prescription
drugs, food additives and indeed UN bureaucrats with massive budgets need to be
controlled.
Matthew Engel [http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/486fb0d8-7ca3-11de-a7bf00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=a712eb94-dc2b-11da-890d-0000779e2340,print=yes.html]
I was struck by the similarities between the anti-drug movement and crack addicts. Both
live in fear of ill-defined phantoms. They also tend to have short attention spans, be
committed to repeating past mistakes and have a seeming inability to admit responsibility
for the problems they create.
Tom Feiling
Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
Hanlon's razor
I divide my officers into four classes; the clever, the lazy, the industrious, and the stupid.
Each officer possesses at least two of these qualities. Those who are clever and
industrious are fitted for the highest staff appointments. Use can be made of those who
are stupid and lazy. The man who is clever and lazy however is for the very highest
command; he has the temperament and nerves to deal with all situations. But whoever is
stupid and industrious is a menace and must be removed immediately!
German General Kurt von Hammerstein-Equord in Truppenfhrung
Fanaticism consists in redoubling your efforts when you have forgotten your aim.
Santayana

Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot
understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but
honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Albert Einstein
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life
spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great
ones.
La Rochefoucauld
When you start off by telling those who disagree with you that they are not merely in
error but in sin, how much of a dialogue do you expect?
Thomas Sowell
They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
The opposite of courage is not cowardice, it's conformity.
John Perry Barlow
For every 10 people who are clipping at the branches of evil, you're lucky to find 1 who's
hacking at the roots.
Thoreau
You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.
Jeannette Rankin
Reject your sense of injury and the injury itself disappears.
Marcus Aurelius

What is best in life?

Conan: To crush your enemies, see them driven before you, and to hear the

lamentation of their women.

The noblest way of taking revenge on others is by refusing to become like them.
Marcus Aurelius
The ultimate result of shielding men from the results of folly is to fill the world with
fools.
Herbert Spencer (1820-1903), State Tampering with Money and Banks (1891)
You must deffend people you disagree with, it is how you find out what your principles
really are.
Penn Jillette
I never submitted the whole system of my opinions to the creed of any party of men
whatever, in religion, in philosophy, in politics or in anything else, where I was capable
of thinking for myself. Such an addiction is the last degradation of a free and moral agent.
If I could not go to Heaven but with a party, I would not go there at all.
Thomas Jefferson
The man who fears suffering is already suffering from what he fears.
Michel de Montaigne
Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness
of others.
Oscar Wilde
To be free is nothing, to become free is everything.
Hegel
The greatest thing about a city is the unexpected encounter.
Eric Kuhne
The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George F. Will
There are only two people who can tell you the truth about yourself - an enemy who has

lost his temper and a friend who loves you dearly.

- Antisthenes, Greek philosopher of Athens, disciple of Socrates (445365bc)

Security is mostly a superstition. [...] Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than
outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing.
Helen Keller