Quote of the day

[hinto]

Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is so far removed from how we ought to live, that he who abandons what is done for what ought to be done, will rather bring about his own ruin than his preservation.
-Niccolò Machiavelli

[elixir]

Anything above 8-bit is bloat.
-Stark

[Dr_Chroot]

^ That one should be a bumper sticker.

[stark]

Rhosey wants to have all relevant data (weather in Urumuqi in Fahrenheit multiplied with the Pi of Celsius, CPU fan speed divided by anus, remaining time in kilograms, the exchange rate of Vietnamese Dong to Hungarian Forint, all unread posts on the #! forums, number of spam in hotmail.com and the whole file tree of his Windows 7 partition) compacted into a bar that is piped through a conky into OSD-notifyd via morsecode, but silenting whenever a song name contains a whitespace, that's Crunchbangy enough for me - machinebacon

This one deserves an Oscar ! ( ok you can insert the asscar joke here ).

[hinto]

Tell me about the lows and the highs
Tell me how to tell the difference between what they tell me is the truth or a lie
Tell me why the ones who have so much make the ones who don't go mad
With the same skin stretched over their white bones and the same jug in their hand. - Drive-By Truckers

[ivanovnegro]

Rhosey wants to have all relevant data (weather in Urumuqi in Fahrenheit multiplied with the Pi of Celsius, CPU fan speed divided by anus, remaining time in kilograms, the exchange rate of Vietnamese Dong to Hungarian Forint, all unread posts on the #! forums, number of spam in hotmail.com and the whole file tree of his Windows 7 partition) compacted into a bar that is piped through a conky into OSD-notifyd via morsecode, but silenting whenever a song name contains a whitespace, that's Crunchbangy enough for me - machinebacon

Oh my dog. Missed that one.

[GekkoP]

To achieve greatness, start where you are, use what you have, do what you can - Arthur Ashe

[rhowaldt]

^ that is brilliant. thank you.

[stark]

Fuck humility.
You can take pride in your accomplishments while at the same time honoring the role others have played in that accomplishment. Think about it: every single thing in your life has been accomplished with the help of others, whether you realized it at the time or not. you are always building upon previous work, you are always "standing on the shoulders of giants" - everything is a remix.
It just depends on how you look at it - rhowaldt

[dkeg]

"Through others, we become ourselves."
- Lev Semyonovich Vygotsky

[rhowaldt]

^^ *blush*
^ that is a good one!

[hinto]

The space pod was resting on the polished floor of an elegant, anonymous hotel suite that might have been in any large city on Earth. He was staring into a living room with a coffee table, a divan, a dozen chairs, a writing desk, various lamps, a half-filled bookcase with some magazines lying on it, and even a bowl of flowers. Van Gogh's Bridge at Arles was hanging on one wall - Wyeth's Christina's World on another. He felt confident that when he pulled open the drawer of that desk, he would find a Gideon Bible inside it...
-Arthur Clarke 2001 A Space Odyssey

[ChefIronBelly]

^ classic really my favorite sci fi author. Your quote is another along with Asimov.

[ChefIronBelly]

Every writer is a frustrated actor who recites his lines in the hidden auditorium of his skull.
- Rod Serling

My 4th favorite sci fi writer who has received more writing awards than anyone but I think is often over looked.

[Dr_Chroot]

I was visiting my Great Aunt who lives a few hours away over the weekend and she had an old embroidery with this on it:

Whoever restrains his words has knowledge,
and he who has a cool spirit is a man of understanding.
Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise;
when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

Made me think; I probably speak before I think too often :)

[simgin]

^ Very nice Dc :)

[Dr_Chroot]

When life gives you lemons, you clone those lemons and make SUPER lemons.

(As found in the Haskell blog post simgin linked to here.)

[ChefIronBelly]

Jump, and you will find out how to unfold your wings as you fall. - Ray Bradbury

[hinto]

^Love Bradbury
“Stuff your eyes with wonder, he said, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.”
― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

[simgin]

^ I love it "Fahrenheit 451"
Masterpiece!