% Programming is one of the most difficult branches of applied mathematics; the poorer mathematicians had better remain pure mathematicians. -- Prof. Dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra (June 1975) % The tools we use have a profound (and devious!) influence on our thinking habits, and, therefore, on our thinking abilities. -- Prof. Dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra (June 1975) % It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Prof. Dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra (June 1975) % The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence. -- Prof. Dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra (June 1975) % The problems of business administration in general and data base management in particular are much too difficult for people that think in IBMerese, compounded with sloppy English. -- Prof. Dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra (June 1975) % About the use of language: it is impossible to sharpen a pencil with a blunt axe. It is equally vain to try to do it with ten blunt axes instead. -- Prof. Dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra (June 1975) % Besides a mathematical inclination, an exceptionally good mastery of one's native tongue is the most vital asset of a competant programmer. -- Prof. Dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra (June 1975) % In the good old days physicists repeated each other's experiments, just to be sure. Today they stick to FORTRAN, so that they can share each other's programs, bugs included. -- Prof. Dr. Edsger W. Dijkstra (June 1975) % "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." -- Albert Einstein % "If a tree falls on your head in a forest, and nobody hears it, it still hurts!" -- Paul Buchman % "Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell." -- Edward Abbey % "That's true, you know. It's just truth. You can't have opinions about truth." -- Peter Schickele % "I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady." -Eliza Doolittle (Pygmalion, G. B. Shaw) % "The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary." -- James Nicoll % The difficulty, my friends, is not in avoiding death, but in avoiding evil; for evil runs faster than death. I am old and move slowly, and the slower runner has overtaken me, and my accusers are keen and quick, and the faster runner, who is evil, has overtaken them. And now I depart hence condemned by you to suffer the penalty of death, and they too go their ways condemned by the truth to suffer the penalty of wickedness. -- Socrates, from Plato's Republic % "In my opinion such a thing is impossible for many years...People...have been talking about a 3000 mile high-angle rocket shot from one continent to another, carrying an atomic bomb and so directed as to be a precise weapon... I think we can leave that out of our thinking." Dr Vannevar Bush Testimony to Senate Committee, 1945 % "Landing and moving around on the moon offers so many serious problems for human beings that it may take science another 200 years to lick them." Science Digest, August 1948 % "I must confess that my imagination, in spite of spurring, refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and foundering at sea." H. G. Wells Anticipations, 1901 % "The energy produced by the breaking down of the atom is a very poor kind of thing. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformations of these atoms is talking moonshine." Sir Ernest Rutherford, circa 1930 % "The popular mind often pictures gigantic flying machines speeding across the Atlantic and carrying innumerable passengers...Even if a machine could get across with one or two passengers the expense would be prohibitive...Another popular fallacy is to expect enormous speed...The resistance of the air in- creases as the square of the speed and the work as the cube...It is clear that with our present devices there is no hope of competing for racing speed with either our locomotives or our automobiles." William H. Pickering US astronomer, circa 1910 % "Nobody now fears that a Japanese fleet could deal an unexpected blow at our Pacific possessions...Radio makes surprise impossible." Josephus Daniels former US Secretary of the Navy, 1922 % "The day of the battleship has not passed, and it is highly unlikely that an airplane, or a fleet of them, could ever successfully sink a fleet of navy vessels under battle conditions." Franklin D. Roosevelt US Assistant Secretary of the Navy, 1922 % "As for sinking a ship with a bomb is concerned, you just can't do it." Rear Admiral Clark Woodward, USN, 1939 % "Tora! Tora! Tora!" Japanese naval aviator, 7th December 1941 % "That Professor Goddard and his 'chair' in Clark College and the counten- ancing of the Smithsonian Institution does not know the relation of action and reaction and of the need to have something better than a vacuum against which to react - to say that would be absurd. Of course he only seems to lack the knowledge ladled out daily in high schools..." the New York Times, 13 January 1920 % "Security for Unix is like Multitasking for MS-DOS" -- Kevin Lockwood % "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh only 1 1/2 tons. " - Popular Mechanics, March 1949 % "I think there is a world market for about five computers." - Remark attributed to Thomas J. Watson (Chairman of the Board of International Business Machines), 1943 % "There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." -- Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society Convention, 1977 % The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. (the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam) % Language without meaning is meaningless. - Roman Jakobson. % Stability in language is synonymous with rigor mortis. -Ernest Weekley % "No matter how eloquently a dog may bark, he cannot tell you that his parents were poor but honest." -Bertrand Russell % "Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." -- Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal % "Observe that for the programmer, as for the chef, the urgency of the patron may govern the scheduled completion of the task, but it cannot govern the actual completion. An omelette, promised in two minutes, may appear to be progressing nicely. But when it has not set in two minutes, the customer has two choices -- wait or eat it raw. Software customers have had the same choices." -- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr, _The Mythical Man-Month_ % Theorem: Every horse has an infinite number of legs Horses have an even number of legs. Behind they have two legs, and in front they have fore legs. This makes six legs, which is certainly an odd number of legs for a horse. The only number that is both odd and even is infinity. Therefore, horses have an infinite number of legs. - From "On the Nature of Mathematical Proofs", Joel Cohen % "In a Russian tragedy, everybody dies. In a Russian comedy, everybody dies too. But they die happy." - Barry Farber, quoted in the Journal of Petroleum Technology % "Star Wars is adolescent nonsense; Close Encounters is obscurantist drivel; Star Trek can turn your brains to puree of bat guano; and the greatest science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who! And I'll take you all on, one-by-one or all in a bunch to back it up!" -- Harlan Ellison, a while back % "Seeing a rotten picture for the special effects is like eating a tough steak for the smothered onions..." -- Isaac Asimov % "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 from Joe's Garage % "Art is moral passion married to entertainment. Moral passion without entertainment is propaganda, and entertainment without moral passion is television." --Rita Mae Brown % "Preach the Gospel always. If necessary, use words." -- St. Francis of Assisi % "A cynic is a person searching for an honest man, with a stolen lantern." -- Edgar A. Shoaff % "If one can, in a given moment when one is having a sandwich, be perfectly happy and content in the sandwich nature of one's sandwich, without feeling a desire for a five-course meal with a fine wine, then saying that the sandwich is 'less valuable' than the five-course meal with a fine wine seems strange to me. There's nothing inherently less valuable about being a sandwich; there is merit in sandwichness. A five-course meal with a fine wine makes a /lousy/ sandwich." -- Heather Anne Nicoll (in alt.polyamory) % "Keep your stinking capitalism out of my gift economy, and stop insisting that I'm for sale." -- Heather Anne Nicoll (in alt.polyamory) % "Go not to the biologists for counsel, for they will speak only of mice and squirrels." -- umar (in alt.polyamory) % "Commitment is not a barrier to freedom. Commitment is the *exercise* of freedom, the act of making a choice or decision and meaning it. The one without the other is meaningless." -- Michael Rosen % "To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." -- Theodore Roosevelt % "While there is a chance of the world getting through its troubles, I hold that a reasonable man has to behave as though he were sure of it. If at the end your cheerfulness is not justified, at any rate you will have been cheerful." -- H.G. Wells % "May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." -- George Carlin % Everything is okay in the end. If it's not okay, then it's not the end. -- unknown % Don't be afraid to give some of yourself away ... it will all grow back. -- Ashleigh Brilliant % The shortest distance between two points is under construction. -- Noelie Altito % "It is bad luck to be superstitious." -- Andrew W. Mathis % No great thing is created suddenly --Epictetus % Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, and judgement difficult. -- Hippocrates -- % "The secret of success is this; there is no secret of success." -- Hubbard % Trivial pursuit - The culmination of man's never ending search for a lack of purpose. - B.C. - % I am firm, you are obstinate, he is pigheaded. -- Bertrand Russell % I am independent; you are eccentric; he is nuts. -- Ana Dorfstad, The Pattern of Infinity % I am cautious; you are afraid; he is paranoid. % Alf: You're weird, you're weird - trust me. (25-5-88) % Duncan to alf: How kind of you to recognise me as a human. (1988) % Eric Young: The book still knows who it is, from its point of view. (disputing in a database lecture, 1988) % Kat : Did somebody say psychopath? (6-9-88) % Kat : I believe you know what you're doing. Alf : That's interesting - I don't! (29-09-88) % Roger: I think people who put in boring fortunes should be shot. (7-9-88) % Rowena: How could you say something like that? Timbo: Read my lips. (27-05-88) % Timbo: If I was going to misspell something, I could do it ten times better than Tony can. (07-06-88) % Timbo: `Stranger in a Strange Land', and `Strange Woman in a Strange Land', and `Strange Woman In My Bed And Who Is She?' % Timbo: I think I'll become a Muslim. Andy: Why? Timbo: It's more romantic. (30-05-88) % Timbo: I could be a Buddhist monk and dress like a Muslim! Tom: That would fool them! (30-05-88) % Tom: Hey! Who's using my machine? ... I'm using my machine. (25-7-88) % "If we want our programs to run fast we can put our machine in the 'fridge." -- Paul Bailes, in a Functional Programming lecture, 1988 % "No-one really wants to write systems in Turing Machines." -- Paul Bailes, in a Functional Programming lecture, 1988 % "The man who gave black leather and studs an intellectual image." -- Kathy Hanson of Paul Darrow at Confederation 1988 % "It recently occurred to me that in B7 'special effects' is used in the sense of 'Special Olympics.'" -- Dana Shilling (on the Lysator Blake's 7 mailing list, Thu, 28 Sep 2000) % "BRW is two metres tall." - Werner Huser (27-4-90) % "Ignore everything I say." -- Matt (11-10-90) % "Make note of that for future reference." -- Roman (11-10-90) % "Robi - electricity doesn't travel through the air." -- Matt (19-2-91) % "Krist has disappeared into his box of cornflakes." -- Alex (6-6-91) % "I am going to send for a nice European infection... and put it in Pete's teacup." -- Krist (23-7-91) % Krist: What has James done now? Kathryn: He hasn't done anything. That's the problem. Richard: That's usually the problem! (23-1-92) % Krist: Have you seen my ruler? Robi: You mean this one that says 'Krist' on it? It's mine - I've changed my name. (22-6-92) % Richard: I've had another inspiration, Roman! Roman: You should start writing music. (2-7-92) % Robi: Where's your tie? Kon: I burned my bra and my tie. (6-7-92) % "That won't make any difference - if you *breathe* wrongly it will affect bacchus." - Richard (20-7-92) % "Prolog is easy, it's programming in Prolog that's..." - Roman (6-8-92) % Richard: James, elucidate. Matt: I think you'd better explain what elucidate means. (16-11-92) % "Oh god, I've been digitized at 200 by 100!" -- Johnathan Burns, on the title sequence for 1st season Blake's 7 (9-8-92) % "Arrrgh! ...I'm not frightened, I just lost my bacon." -- Kathryn A, at "Fast Eddy's", the morning after the 24-hour SF marathon (18-2-90) % My favorite kill move is to befriend the opponent and have him die of old age. - dbn AT wyvern.UUCP (Daniel B. Nissman) in rec.martial-arts % Go not to Usenet for advice, for they will say both 'No' and 'Yes' and 'Try Another Newsgroup' -- from the .sig of Tim Illingworth % ---------------- bbrown AT willamette.edu (Brian W. Brown) --------------- Old Computer People never die, they just go to bits, lose their memory, and cache in their chips. Old Mathematicians never die, they just disintegrate. ------------ Walt Disney didn't die. He's in suspended animation ------------ % If you don't know how to do something, you don't know how to do it with a computer. -- dkw AT cs.brandeis.edu (David Wittenberg) in comp.risks % Doppler Effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly. -- from the .sig of Nic Mayer % "Take not pride in the inability to spell or punctuate, lest ye be mocked." -- from the .sig of jimhill % A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing on Usenet and in e-mail? -- from the .sig of Ric Werme % straczynskied - adj. To be inspired towards simultaneous and profound curiosity, anticipation, awe, dread, and somber reflection through the skillful use of misdirection, foreshadowing, mental torture, and other literary devices leading to disturbed sleep, frightening nightmares, hallucinations, compulsive behavior, and general obsession. (M195722 AT sl1001.mdc.com (Dan Dassow) in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5) % "I am grey, I stand between the Purple and the Green. We are grey, we stand between the repeats and October." -- lmaddox AT ppg01.sc.hp.com (Leo Maddox TIG) in rec.arts.sf.tv.babylon5, September 1995 % People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs. (from the .sig of AM.Hall AT unsw.edu.au (Mark Hall)) % "One World, One Web, One Program" - Microsoft Promotional Ad "Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer" - Ado (from the .sig of Planetes on slashdot.org) % According to another member of my User Group, Bill Gates is supposed to have said, many years ago, that "64K of RAM should be enough for anyone." (Kathryn634 AT aol.com on the Blake's 7 mailing list) % "We have just recently started watching X files. Too soon to say if we'll become X-Philes but we are intrigued to find out what all that truth is doing out there when it should be at home doing the washing up like everyone else." -- Steve Playford (3/11/1995) % In a scene shot but not screened in the Babylon 5 pilot episode, Dr Kyle and Lt. Cdr. Takashima are talking about what's been happening , and he says: "I have looked upon the face of a Vorlon, and nothing's the same anymore." (From: e3307976 AT student.uq.edu.au (Robert Whyte)) % "Ahhh... beautiful. I will miss all of this... when it is gone" "I *really* hate it when he does that" - A shot but un-screened scene with Kosh and Garibaldi from Midnight on the Firing Line (Babylon 5) % From: lhenderson AT linkline.com (Lori Henderson) Subject: Re: Thanks to... Date: Thu, 31 Oct 1996 16:48:57 +0000 >> >> Dear Earthforce, >> >> Hate you, hate the Alliance, taking B4..... >> >> --The One >Dear Earthdome, > >Hate you, hate Earthforce, taking B5. -- Capt. John Sheridan > % Earlier form, from a decades prior; "Once is accident, twice is co-incidence, three times is enemy action." ---- Auric Goldfinger % "It was the Dawn of the Third Age of Science Fiction, ten years after The Next Generation. The Babylon Project was a dream given form. Its goal: to create a program showing how humans and aliens work out their differences. It's a show about diplomats, hustlers, entrepreneurs and wanderers. Humans watching in the millions, wrapped up in a plot five years long ... all alone in the night. It's our last, best hope for good Science Fiction Drama. -- This is the story of the last of the Great Science Fiction Programs. The year is 1994. The name of the program is Babylon 5." -- Leon Poladian Wed, 29 May 1996 % "Listen to me, Paramount. Your time has come and gone. It's our turn now!" -- adapted from G'Kar to Londo in Babylon 5:"Midnight on the Firing Line" -- Leon Poladian Wed, 29 May 1996 % UNIX is like a Vorlon. It is incredibly powerful, gives terse, cryptic answers and has a lot of things going on in the background. (s343791 AT student.uq.edu.au (Robert Whyte) 2 Jun 1996) % "We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty. I mean, what is the point of spending night after night endlessly arguing over the existence of Droshalla if some know-it-all somewhere posts and gives you his telephone number..." -- Vroomfondel, the on Purple Drazi Circuit. (by "S'cott" 12 Dec 1996) % +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | WARNING | | The reader assumes all risk and danger incidental to the game of USENET, | | whether occurring prior to, during, or subsequent to the actual reading of | | this article, including specifically (but not exclusively) the danger of | | being injured by hurled insults and sarcasm, and agrees that participating | | posters are not liable for injuries resulting from such causes. | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | David P. Mikkelson Digital Equipment Corporation Culver City, CA USA | +-----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ % "This is not a moral issue, it is a business issue." -- fc AT turing.duq.edu (Fred Cohen) on Tapping Phones, in comp.risks % for.eign aid ['fo.r-*n 'a-d], n.: The transfer of money from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries. (seen by fabrice AT sj.ate.slb.com (Fabrice Le Metayer) on soc.culture.thai) % Cool Math Limerick: ((12 + 144 + 20 + (3 * 4^1/2)) / 7) + (5 * 11) = 9^2 +0 Or for those who have trouble with the poem: A Dozen, a Gross and a Score, plus three times the square root of four, divided by seven, plus five times eleven, equals nine squared and not a bit more. (from a friend of jp56+ AT andrew.cmu.edu (Jody R. Prival)) % Twice five syllables Plus seven can't say much but That's Haiku for you. (Haiku (from dt AT yenta.alb.nm.us)) % haiku's inventor must have had seven fingers on his middle hand (From: bdelvecc AT wc.novell.com (Brian Del Vecchio)) % The Government just announced today the creation of the Neutron Bomb II. Similar to the Neutron Bomb, the Neutron Bomb II not only kills people and leaves buildings standing, but also does a little light housekeeping. (From: bevans%gauss.unm.edu AT ariel.unm.edu (Mathemagician)) % Q: How many ancient Greek mathematicians does it take to replace a light-bulb? A: Infinitely many! The first does half the job, the next a quarter, the third does one-eighth etc. (From: george AT sbcs.sunysb.edu) % From the X-windows xwud(1) man-page... This is a crude version of a more advanced utility that has never been written. % Q: How many Zen masters does it take to screw in a light bulb? A: None. The Universe spins the bulb, and the Zen master merely stays out of the way. (From: C3S AT cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Mike Scullin)) % Spoonerism: Having wrubble with your turds. (From: MA8081 AT primea.dundee.ac.uk (Dave Elsworth)) % Sector not found on Brain A. Brain A is not a system brain. Abort, Retry, Sleep? -- found by RER7691 AT TNTECH.EDU (DEATH ANGEL) % If they outlaw Guns, can we use Swords? -- found by RER7691 AT TNTECH.EDU (DEATH ANGEL) % He who lives by the Sword... Has high insurance premiums. -- found by RER7691 AT TNTECH.EDU (DEATH ANGEL) % --------- if you cut here, you'll probably destroy your monitor ---------- % Now I lay me down to sleep; Leave a message at the beep. If I die before I wake, Remember to erase the tape. (From: ark AT research.att.com) % Subject: An excerpt from Tehran University catalogue: ENGL 323: English Literature This course will concentrate on critical analysis of various works from Britain, Canada and the United States. Knowledge of the English language is not required but experience with plastic explosives is recommended. This course is not open to students who have martyred themselves in previous offerings from this department. (From: dre AT myrias.UUCP (Duane Eitzen)) % "Another factor that should be pointed out here is that I'm not terribly interested in neurotic fears of circuses." David McKinnon in rec.arts.drwho % "Ah my son - blessed are they who both sendeth and receiveth mail and news from unices immeasurable. for it is said that the number of unices are as the stars in the heavens, and foolish is the man who chooseth but one." -- Richard Lindner % "We think, therefore, you are." -Motto of the Reality Engineers % "I'm just going to kill myself." -- anyone whose terminal is hung up with no response % "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from double talk." -- Glorian of the Knowledge. % "Information is not power. If information was power, then librarians would be the most powerful people on the planet!" - Science Fiction author Bruce Sterling. % There's a big difference between suspending my disbelief and watching it writhe in agony as it swings from the nearest tree branch. -- from the sig of Steph % "Before you can think outside the box, you first have to know what's *inside* the box." -- Michael Shermer % Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana...The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are. -- Matt Lauer on NBC's Today show, August 22 % A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. -- from the .sig of CrudPuppy on slashdot.org % "No doubt I have already bored you all with my rant that if it were up to me, Organized Crime would be repsonsible for the distribution of books and publishers for the distribution of narcotics. Then people would mutter "books, books" at you as you walked down the street, whereas the heroin and coke would always have been mailed back to their origins after three weeks of sitting around in the basement without having been unpacked." -- executrix, on LiveJournal % Who lives down in deepest, darkest Africa? % Who lives down in deepest, darkest Africa? Who's the one that brought the jungle fame? Who's the king of animals in Africa? Kimba the White Lion is his name! When we're all in trouble and we're in a fight who's the one who just won't turn and run? Who believes in doing good and doing right? Kimba the White Lion is the one! % All that is gold does not glitter Not all those who wander are lost The old that is strong does not wither Deep roots are not reached by the frost From the ashes a fire shall be woken A light from the shadows shall spring Renewed shall be blade that was broken The crownless again shall be King! % Three rings for Elven Kings under the sky, Seven for Dwarf Lords in their halls of stone, Nine rings for mortal men, doomed to die, One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie. One ring to rule them all, One ring to find them, One ring to bring them all And in the darkness bind them, In the land of Mordor where the shadows lie. % Speech can be silver, and silence be gold What is forgotten can never be told What is remembered resides in the head But no-one can quicken the tongues of the dead. -- Jenny Hayward & Marie Logan, Key % So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell Blue skies from pain Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? (Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here) % Did they get you to trade Your heros for ghosts? Hot ashes for trees? Hot air for a cool breeze? Cold comfort for change? Did you exchange A walk-on part in a war For a lead role in a cage? (Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here) % Like the ripple on the water Sends a message to the shore So I know forever after I will miss you, more and more. It won't be easy (no) It won't be easy without you (no no) (Justin Hayward, Theme from Star Cops) % Reach across the stars Let them know you're with me Reach across the stars Send out the word Let them know what can be Send out the word I'll remember you (Justin Hayward, Theme from Star Cops) % In the shelter of the moonlight In the shadow of the sun In the silence that's eternal Days are passing, one by one (Justin Hayward, Theme from Star Cops) % I'm searching for the anger Consider it a gift Open up the window Come betray me with a kiss You have won if nothing else Rope enough to hang yourself But what is that to us? (David Batteu, Darrell Brown, Kevin Dukes - Beyond the Call) % Go beyond the Call of Love And beyond the Dreams of Man I have seen where Glory falls At the touch of Mercy's hand (David Batteu, Darrell Brown, Kevin Dukes - Beyond the Call) % I'm an alien I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York I'm an alien I'm a legal alien I'm an Englishman in New York (Sting - Englishman In New York) % If, "manners maketh man" as someone said Then he's the hero of the day It takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile Be yourself no matter what they say (Sting - Englishman In New York) % Modesty, propriety can lead to notoriety You could end up as the only one Gentleness, sobriety are rare in this society At night a candle's brighter than the sun (Sting - Englishman In New York) % Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run (Sting - Englishman In New York) % When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe Than ours, a friend to man, to whom thou sayst "Beauty is truth, truth beauty," - that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. -- Keats (1820) % Tick, tock, the clock of eternity Marks out the moments, one by one Unlock the time, temporarily Today was meant for everyone To see the shining of the Son... % Can't seem to discover what's wrong, what's right In a world of grey there is no black or white Wars are fought - all men are brothers Love is preached but it's just for others I'm tired of living in a world that's just pretend. -- Linda Rich % People who say they care but really don't People who claim to love and then they won't Can't they see, can't they realize Don't they know they're living lies I'm tired of living in a world that's just pretend. -- Linda Rich % "Nobody expects the Psi Corps Inquisition! Amongst our weaponry are such diverse elements as: fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Corps, and nice black uniforms." --If Bester were British (from the .sig of Angel Trinkle ) % "I think that (one of) TNG's problems is that it considers lacking action, humor and character interplay to be interchangable with cerebral (just like it often considers civility and lack of conflict interchangable with friendship)." - Atsushi Kanamori on rec.arts.startrek, 7 July 1991 % "I'll believe Avon treated men and women equally the day I see him kiss a man, tell him he's beautiful when he's angry, kill him and then gloat over it." -- Sue Clerc % "Sometimes a majority simply means that all the fools are on one side." -- Kerr Avon (a quote that never happened, from the Blake's 7 mailing list) % "We're travellers," said the Doctor. "Chronically itinerant, you might say." (a quote that never happened, by K.J.A.) % "There it is again, Blake." "There is what?" "That funny feeling that somebody's taking down everything I say." "It's called an 'ego'." (a quote that never happened, by Leah Rosenthal ) % "What do you MEAN Vila spent the treasure room on his on-line bill!??" --Blake (a quote that never happened, by Leah Rosenthal ) % TARRANT: "Face it, Avon...I'm better, faster, stronger, younger, fresher, cleaner, manlier, brighter, happier and bigger than you!" AVON: "I suffer prettier." TARRANT: "Damn it! You have me there." (a quote that never happened, by Leah Rosenthal ) % I ONLY BRAKE SO I CAN LEAP ONTO OTHER FORMS OF TRANSPORTATION (bumper sticker for Jim Ellison's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % I BRAKE FOR HALLUCINATORY ANIMALS (bumper sticker for Jim Ellison's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % SENTINELS DO IT 5 TIMES BETTER (bumper sticker for Jim Ellison's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % "Cascade: See it. Live it. Hold it hostage." (bumper sticker for Jim Ellison's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % "Welcome to Cascade. Now, put the gun DOWN!" (bumper sticker for Jim Ellison's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % "Support your local anthropologist. PLEASE! I need my couch back." (bumper sticker for Jim Ellison's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % "The Cascade PD: Because it absolutely, positively couldn't happen anywhere else." (bumper sticker for Simon Banks's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % "Warning: Professional Hostage at Wheel. Please Check Trunk." (bumper sticker for Blair Sandburg's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % "Anthropologists are required to do it with everyone." (bumper sticker for Blair Sandburg's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % "I'm short. You won't have to wear high-heels." (bumper sticker for Blair Sandburg's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % "Only someone who looks THIS good could dress THIS badly." (bumper sticker for Blair Sandburg's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % "Driver protected by Pissed-Off-Sentinel-Security system." (bumper sticker for Blair Sandburg's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % "Welcome to Cascade. Please don't hurt me." (bumper sticker for Blair Sandburg's car) proposed by Auntie Hill % "Glad you came prepared," *like a Boy Scout from the Dark Side*, he thought sourly. -- Angel, about Avon ("Thicker Than Water" by Ellynne G) % "Beats me," Oz shrugged. "What would Giles say if he were here?" "You're asking me?" Buffy said. "Willow is the backup Giles. There is no backup for the Willow-Giles." ("Hybrid" by Mistral) % She was stunned. "Someone should know. In case I fail." "That's simple enough. Don't fail." -- Willow and Avon ("Hybrid" by Mistral) %