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| | #3636 | | "Just think, with VLSI we can have 100 ENIACS on a chip!"
-- Alan Perlis
| | | #3637 | | "...Local prohibitions cannot block advances in military and commercial
technology... Democratic movements for local restraint can only restrain
the world's democracies, not the world as a whole."
-- K. Eric Drexler
| | | #3638 | | "The rotter who simpers that he sees no difference between a five-dollar bill
and a whip deserves to learn the difference on his own back -- as, I think, he
will."
-- Francisco d'Anconia, in Ayn Rand's _Atlas Shrugged_
| | | #3639 | | "If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and
the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will
lose that, too."
-- W. Somerset Maugham
| | | #3640 | | "Pardon me for breathing, which I never do anyway so I don't know why I bother
to say it, oh God, I'm so depressed. Here's another of those self-satisfied
doors. Life! Don't talk to me about life."
-- Marvin the Paranoid Android
| | | #3641 | | One of the major difficulties Trillian experienced in her relationship with
Zaphod was learning to distinguish between him pretending to be stupid just
to get people off their guard, pretending to be stupid because he couldn't
be bothered to think and wanted someone else to do it for him, pretending
to be so outrageously stupid to hide the fact that he actually didn't understand
hat was going on, and really being genuinely stupid. He was reknowned for
being quite clever and quite clearly was so -- but not all the time, which
obviously worried him, hence the act. He preferred people to be puzzled
rather than contemptuous. This above all appeared to Trillian to be
genuinely stupid, but she could no longer be bothered to argue about.
-- Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
| | | #3642 | | Far back in the mists of ancient time, in the great and glorious days of the
former Galactic Empire, life was wild, rich and largely tax free.
Mighty starships plied their way between exotic suns, seeking adventure and
reward among the furthest reaches of Galactic space. In those days, spirits
were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women
and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures
from Alpha Centauri. And all dared to brave unknown terrors, to do mighty
deeds, to boldly split infinitives that no man had split before -- and thus
was the Empire forged.
-- Douglas Adams, _The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy_
| | | #3643 | | "Gort, klaatu nikto barada."
-- The Day the Earth Stood Still
| | | #3644 | | > From MAILER-DAEMON@Think.COM Thu Mar 2 13:59:11 1989
> Subject: Returned mail: unknown mailer error 255
"Dale, your address no longer functions. Can you fix it at your end?"
-- Bill Wolfe (wtwolfe@hubcap.clemson.edu)
"Bill, Your brain no longer functions. Can you fix it at your end?"
-- Karl A. Nyberg (nyberg@ajpo.sei.cmu.edu)
| | | #3645 | | "Don't drop acid, take it pass-fail!"
-- Bryan Michael Wendt
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