The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!' - Patrick Henry (1736-1799) in his famous 'The War Inevitable' speech, March, 1775
Thoughts on Programming, Number 31: When everything has been seen to work, all integrated, you have four more months work to do. -Charles Portman International Computers Limited
School's out! School's out! Teacher let the monkeys out! One was jailed! One prevailed! Both asked God: 'How have I failed?' --traditional grad school chant
People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false; a gift confers no rights. --Nietzsche--
@prowler I will stop our robots. I apologize, I will start doing real blogs with good content. Can you please forgive me I promise I'll stop and I won't make our code or bots available to anybody. Can you please remove me from your watch list. I will play by the rules and I am truly sorry. I will post only blogs with good content and add to the community instead of tearing it down and I won't sell for offer anyone our comment bot. Can you give me one more chance. I have many medical bills and only started this to pay for my wife of 20 years doctor visits and chemo. That is the truth please have mercy on me and my accounts I'll immediately stop if I don't you can flag me again. I am a man of my word so I will certainly stop and I won't sell nor share our bot code. I will also report anyone I see doing this to you if you give me an email to contact you @prowler
There should be a psychology of feet. For do we not make decisions with our legs, and walk about on our brains? What do you mean, `No, not really,?' -from 'The Notebooks of Mauve Bib--Outtakes, Bloopers, and Unconvincing Maxims,' Edited by the Princess Serutan.
Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to steal customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks. --H. L. Mencken--
The Third Corollary to Murphy's Law: If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
Pipo was born with few complications, but then the doctor accidently dropped the infant on her head provoking her drunken father to drag the physician outside where he would beat him to death with a live ocelot.
They're an insidious bunch, your killer pianos. Had one get loose on me back in '62. It slipped out of the cables while we were lowering it out of its twelfth story apartment, and crushed six innocents in an insane bid for freedom.
The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. --Quentin Crisp--
I found this seance to pass the most stringent tests of credulity, with the minor exception of a phonograph, which was found under Madame Reynaud's dress.
The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. - Senator Hubert Humphrey
Thoughts on Programming, Number 8: To detect errors, the programmer must have a conniving mind, one that delights in uncovering flaws where beauty and perfection were once thought to lie. -The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg
Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. --Beverly Jones--
It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites. --Henry Miller--
Thoughts on Programming, Number 13: In some terminal systems ... the user can keep his program from being pushed down in the priority stack by fiddling with the shift key while he is thinking. -The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg
Lousy stinking radicals,' he opines,figure the law is there for you to hide behind... Well, the law isn't there for you to hide behind, it's there for us to hide behind... the good and law-abiding people of this great city-state.' His fists are like twin sledgehammers dealing out pure and righteous justice... You're either with us or against us, vermin... That's what freedom's all about.' His roach-sense floods the room... ping! ping! ping! And detects the presence of a heavily unarmed malcontent...Taste boot, scum...'
The trouble with New York is that it has no nationality at all. It is simply a sort of free port -- a place where the raw materials of civilization are received, sorted out, and sent further on. --H. L. Mencken--
The Fourth Corollary to Murphy's Law: If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop.
Ho! Ha-ha! Guard! Turn! Parry! Dodge! Spin! Ha! Thrust!
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A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel. --Robert Frost--
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You look like a man with the minimum daily requirement of intelligence. Where can I find a book on self-confidence?
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Get a life!
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The battle, Sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, Sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable; and let it come! I repeat, Sir, let it come!' - Patrick Henry (1736-1799) in his famous 'The War Inevitable' speech, March, 1775
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Advanced Systems News Letter The nail that sticks up gets hammered down. --Anonymous
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He's not Santa Claus...He doesn't LOOK like Santa Claus!
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If law school is so hard to get through....how come there are so many lawyers? --Calvin Trillin--
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Thoughts on Programming, Number 31: When everything has been seen to work, all integrated, you have four more months work to do. -Charles Portman International Computers Limited
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That's so deep, I'm getting the bends.... If you want me, I'll be in the decompression chamber.
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To a warmed, darkened, slightly crispy slice of bread.
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Formal courtesy between husband and wife is even more important than it is between strangers.
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School's out! School's out! Teacher let the monkeys out! One was jailed! One prevailed! Both asked God: 'How have I failed?' --traditional grad school chant
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When there are two conflicting versions of the story, the wise course is to believe the one in which people appear at their worst. --H. Allen Smith--
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First Law of Bridge: It's always the partner's fault.
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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false; a gift confers no rights. --Nietzsche--
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The Sixth Corollary to Murphy's Law: Whenever you start out to do something, something else must be done first.
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Cannon's Cogent Comment: The leak in the roof is never in the same location as the drip.
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Bombeck's Rule of Medicine: Never go to a doctor whose office plants have died.
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They pelted us with rocks and garbage!
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@prowler I will stop our robots. I apologize, I will start doing real blogs with good content. Can you please forgive me I promise I'll stop and I won't make our code or bots available to anybody. Can you please remove me from your watch list. I will play by the rules and I am truly sorry. I will post only blogs with good content and add to the community instead of tearing it down and I won't sell for offer anyone our comment bot. Can you give me one more chance. I have many medical bills and only started this to pay for my wife of 20 years doctor visits and chemo. That is the truth please have mercy on me and my accounts I'll immediately stop if I don't you can flag me again. I am a man of my word so I will certainly stop and I won't sell nor share our bot code. I will also report anyone I see doing this to you if you give me an email to contact you @prowler
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A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. --George Bernard Shaw--
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Spontaneous combustion! What a stroke of luck!
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To me it is like a mountain.. a vast BOWL of PUS!
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Why is that ridiculous toy on your head?
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Fire's 'appen, Colonel. Fings's burn...
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How much for the little girl? Your women -- how much for the women?
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Thoughts on Programming, Number 47: The computer 'Doth make fools of us all'. -The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg
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There should be a psychology of feet. For do we not make decisions with our legs, and walk about on our brains? What do you mean, `No, not really,?' -from 'The Notebooks of Mauve Bib--Outtakes, Bloopers, and Unconvincing Maxims,' Edited by the Princess Serutan.
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Hey Dad, you crossed my line of death!
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Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug.
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Cavanaugh's Postulate: All kookies are not in a jar.
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If I could get my membership fee back, I'd resign from the human race. --Fred Allen--
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Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you. If you don't bet, you can't win.
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Of learned men, the clergy show the lowest development of professional ethics. Any pastor is free to steal customers from the divines of rival sects, and to denounce the divines themselves as theological quacks. --H. L. Mencken--
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Firestone's Law of Forecasting: Chicken Little only has to be right once.
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The Third Corollary to Murphy's Law: If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.
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All Lord Julius demands is total and complete obedience and more money every time we pay him. He's being quite reasonable, really...
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I haven't time to go chasing after him! There's violence to be done!
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On the whole, human beings want to be good, but not too good and not quite all the time. --George Orwell--
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Doctors are just the same as lawyers; the only difference is that lawyers merely rob you, whereas doctors rob you and kill you too. --Anton Chekhov--
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Yes, he raised quite a few eyebrows.
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What I gained by being in France was learning to be better satisfied with my own country. --Samual Johnson--
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Hey, Max -- Wake up! You're missing all the fun!
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Beardsley's Warning to Lawyers: Beware of and eschew pompous prolixity.
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Don't be stupid. Be a smarty. Come and join the Nazi Party.
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Mind you, I can't say much for the volume's condition. I mean, there's a hole in the jacket and the spine appears to be damaged.
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Horowitz's First Law of the Admirality: A collision at sea can ruin your entire day.
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Where do we keep all our chainsaws, mom?
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Pipo was born with few complications, but then the doctor accidently dropped the infant on her head provoking her drunken father to drag the physician outside where he would beat him to death with a live ocelot.
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They're an insidious bunch, your killer pianos. Had one get loose on me back in '62. It slipped out of the cables while we were lowering it out of its twelfth story apartment, and crushed six innocents in an insane bid for freedom.
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You can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a sword at you!
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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another. --Quentin Crisp--
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What was that?
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Go into the street and give one man a lecture on morality and another a dollar, and see which will respect you most. --Samuel Johnson--
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We learn from history that we do not learn from history. --G. F. Wilhelm Hegel--
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So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence. --Bertrand Russell--
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Laws of Programming: #7 - The documented interfaces between standard software modules will have undocumented quirks
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I found this seance to pass the most stringent tests of credulity, with the minor exception of a phonograph, which was found under Madame Reynaud's dress.
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More pie, Admiral?
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Now it's time to say goodbye. Please get off my property. Until next year! I suggest you don't dawdle -- the hounds will be released in 10 minutes.
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Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess. --Oscar Wilde--
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Oh, right away, sport, right away, you know! I 'aven't 'ad it for weeks!
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The right of citizens to bear arms is just one guarantee against arbitrary government, one more safeguard against the tyranny which now appears remote in America, but which historically has proved to be always possible. - Senator Hubert Humphrey
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Mahr's Law of Restrained Involvement: Don't get any on you.
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We interviewers are more than a match for the likes of you, Two-Sheds!
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I don't know what you want here, but I think you should know that I've killed a LOT of old people in my time, and I'm not above doing it again.
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I don't know what you want here, but I think you should know that I've killed a LOT of old people in my time, and I'm not above doing it again.
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You know what I wish? I wish all the scum of the Earth had one throat and I had my hands about it.
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How many men you got 'ere, Colonel?
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Thoughts on Programming, Number 8: To detect errors, the programmer must have a conniving mind, one that delights in uncovering flaws where beauty and perfection were once thought to lie. -The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg
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Fallibility: Fallible men design fallible computers. A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do.
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Romance, like the rabbit at the dog track, is the elusive, fake, and never attained reward which, for the benefit and amusement of our masters, keeps us running and thinking in safe circles. --Beverly Jones--
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I'll have you all executed!
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You can tell me; I'm a doctor.
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I don't know, Babs, but I do know this. Your uvula's on the fritz.
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OK, like don't get excited, man. It's 'cause I'm short, I know.
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A woman is not property. Husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld.
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It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars and hypocrites. --Henry Miller--
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You're just the sort of person I imagined marrying, when I was little... ..except, y'know, not green... ...and without all the patches of fungus.
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Disperse you Rebels - Damn you, throw down your Arms and disperse. -- Maj. John Pitcairn, Lexington, MA, April 19, 1775
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Don't fight it - It's bigger than both of us. In your case that verges on the incredible.
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Sin lies only in hurting other people unnecessarily. All other 'sins' are invented nonsense. (Hurting yourself is not sinful - just stupid.)
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Boren's Laws of the Bureaucracy: 1) When in doubt, mumble. 2) When in trouble, delegate. 3) When in charge, ponder.
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Take my Worf, please.
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He was a thief, and a terrorist, but on the other hand he had a tremendous singing voice.
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Thoughts on Programming, Number 13: In some terminal systems ... the user can keep his program from being pushed down in the priority stack by fiddling with the shift key while he is thinking. -The Psychology of Computer Programming, Gerald M. Weinberg
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Lousy stinking radicals,' he opines,
figure the law is there for you to hide behind... Well, the law isn't there for you to hide behind, it's there for us to hide behind... the good and law-abiding people of this great city-state.' His fists are like twin sledgehammers dealing out pure and righteous justice...You're either with us or against us, vermin... That's what freedom's all about.' His roach-sense floods the room... ping! ping! ping! And detects the presence of a heavily unarmed malcontent...
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That's the fact, Jack!
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Yes, well, that's just the sort of blinkered philistine pig-ignorance I've come to expect from you non-creative garbage.
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The photographer is like the cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. --George Bernard Shaw--
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The trouble with New York is that it has no nationality at all. It is simply a sort of free port -- a place where the raw materials of civilization are received, sorted out, and sent further on. --H. L. Mencken--
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Flint Paper is insane. I really respect that.
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Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. --H. L. Mencken--
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The Billings Phenomenon: The conclusions of most good operations research studies are obvious.
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The Fourth Corollary to Murphy's Law: If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop.
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Help! Help! I'm being repressed!
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The Golden Rule: Whoever has the gold makes the rules.
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A Sunday School is a prison in which children so penance for the evil conscience of their parents. -- H. L. Mencken --
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Admiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves. --Ambrose Bierce--
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If Christ were here now there is one thing he would not be -- A Christian. --Mark Twain--
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