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allen:
My favorite quote is "Everywhere you go, there you are."

f0dder:
"People demand freedom of speech as compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use." - Kierkegaard-Deozaan (December 04, 2008, 12:18 AM)
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Kierkegaard is, interestingly, an old Danish poet... you know, Denmark as in the Muhammed drawings :huh: (which I do believe fall within freedom of speech, even if it was a bit over the top posting them in the first place... this isn't meant to spawn a political/religious discussion, anyway).

Anyway, a couple of quotes:

* Linux is free only if your time has no value
* "Oh god, did you eat all this acid?" - "That's right, MUSIC!" (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas)
* Sure, I believe in peace... peace through superior firepower
* Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
Those were just a few off top of my head this early saturday morning - there's a lot of enjoyable quotes :)

My favorite quote is "Everywhere you go, there you are."
-allen (December 05, 2008, 10:04 PM)
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Makes me thing of jolly old Diablo - one of the games I certainly never regretted buying :)

nosh:
Some of my favs (sources unverified):


 "He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr

 "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill

 "A modest little person, with much to be modest about." - Winston Churchill

 "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure. "Clarence Darrow

 "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner

 "He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know." - Abraham Lincoln

 "I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it." - Mark Twain

 "He has no enemies, but is intensely disliked by his friends." - Oscar Wilde

 "I feel so miserable without you; it's almost like having you here." - Stephen Bishop

 "I've just learned about his illness. Let's hope it's nothing trivial." - Irvin S. Cobb

 "He has the attention span of a lightning bolt." - Robert Redford

 "They never open their mouths without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." - Thomas Brackett Reed

 "In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily." - Charles, Count Talleyrand

 "Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?" - Mark Twain

 "His mother should have thrown him away and kept the stork." - Mae West

 "Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go." - Oscar Wilde

 "I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it." - Groucho Marx

 "He has Van Gogh's ear for music." - Billy Wilder

iphigenie:
i have a small collection in opera notes, pick one every day for my feeds, to match my moods. Some of my absolute favorites:

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
- Unknown

Life is not lost by dying; life is lost minute by minute, day by dragging day, in all the thousand small uncaring ways.
- Stephen Vincent Benet

Never attribute to malice what can be explained by stupidity. Don't assign to stupidity what might be due to ignorance. And try not to assume your opponent is the ignorant one until you can show it isn't you.
- M.N. Plano

"...when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."
- A.A. Milne, "The House At Pooh Corner"

"But it is vital to remember that information is not knowledge; that knowledge is not wisdom; and that wisdom is not foresight. But information is the first essential step to all of these."
- Arthur C. Clarke

The problems that exist in the world today cannot be solved
by the level of thinking that created them.
- Albert Einstein

Dare to be naive.
-   Buckminster Fuller

Three passions, simple but overwhelmingly strong, have governed my life: the longing for love, the search for knowledge, and unbearable pity for the suffering of mankind.
- Bertrand Russell

Abandon the urge to simplify everything, to look for formulas and easy answers,
and to begin to think multidimensionally, to glory in the mystery and paradoxes of
life, not to be dismayed by the multitude of causes and consequences that are
inherent in each experience -- to appreciate the fact that life is complex.
-   M. Scott Peck

Inventing the future requires giving up control. No one with a compelling purpose and a great vision knows how it will be achieved. One has to be willing to follow an unknown path, allowing the road to take you where it will. Surprise, serendipity, uncertainty and the unexpected are guaranteed on the way to the future.
- George Land

Enjoy the little things, for one day you may look back
and realize they were the big things.
-   Robert Brault

and perhaps a couple lighter ones

"Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job." - Franklin P Jones

Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do with themselves on a rainy Sunday afternoon.
- D. P. Barron

If it weren't for the last minute, nothing would get done.
- Unknown

Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before.
Mae West

Edvard:
Linux is free only if your time has no value-f0dder (December 05, 2008, 11:42 PM)
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An hour spent configuring Linux is an hour EARNED - edvard  ;D (apologies to Ben F.)
Some people, when confronted with a problem, think "I know, I'll use regular expressions." Now they have two problems.
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Thanks for that one, f0dder. I'll use it wisely...

"Confucius did not say all they say Confucius say." - Confucius (or not...)

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