I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. ~ Linus Torvalds announcing Linux in a post dated 25 Aug 91 20:57:08 GMT
- 3 ~ MosheZadka (Talk) 07:29, 20 July 2005 (UTC)
- 4 User:Warrior-Poet 20 July, 2005 8:49 (CST)
- 2 121a0012 02:57, July 21, 2005 (UTC)
- 1 Kalki 23:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC) * 2 Kalki 23:10, 24 August 2005 (UTC)
- 2 InvisibleSun 18:49, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 16:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 1 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
- 1 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
Writing about music is like dancing about architecture — it's a really stupid thing to want to do. ~ Elvis Costello
- 3 Kalki 18:34, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
- 3 InvisibleSun 18:49, 24 August 2007 (UTC)
- 1 Zarbon 16:09, 24 April 2008 (UTC)
- 2.5 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
- 1 allixpeeke (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC) (Dancing about architecture is not stupid, nor is writing about music. Art inspired by art is still art.)
Saying the Bible is not a book about science is like saying a cookbook is not a book about chemistry. ~ Robert J. Marks II
Virtue always meets reward,
But quicker when it wears a sword.
~ Bret Harte
- 4 Zarbon 05:54, 29 May 2008 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 23:48, 20 August 2008 (UTC) with a lean toward 3.
- 2 InvisibleSun 22:20, 24 August 2008 (UTC)
- 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
The craving for a delicate fruit is pleasanter than the fruit itself.
~ Johann Gottfried Herder (DoB)
- 3 Ningauble 17:19, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:09, 25 August 2009 (UTC)
- 2 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
- 1 allixpeeke (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC) (Craving is displeasure. Consumption of something pleasant is pleasant.)
Militant fundamentalism is convulsed in a late-medieval phase of its evolution. We would have to sit through a renaissance and a reformation, and then await an enlightenment. And we're not going to do that. ~ Martin Amis (DoB)
- 2.5 Ningauble 17:19, 23 August 2009 (UTC)
- 2 Kalki 00:09, 25 August 2009 (UTC) but with a lean toward 3, or even 4, if extended for more context.
- 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
With the greatest possible solicitude avoid authorship. Too early or immoderately employed, it makes the head waste and the heart empty; even were there no other worse consequences. A person, who reads only to print, to all probability reads amiss; and he, who sends away through the pen and the press every thought, the moment it occurs to him, will in a short time have sent all away, and will become a mere journeyman of the printing-office, a compositor. ~ Johann Gottfried Herder
The nature of man remains ever the same: in the ten thousandth year of the World he will be born with passions, as he was born with passions in the two thousandth, and ran through his course of follies to a late, imperfect, useless wisdom. We wander in a labyrinth, in which our lives occupy but a span; so that it is to us nearly a matter of indifference, whether there be any entrance or outlet to the intricate path. ~ Johann Gottfried Herder
- 1 ♞☤☮♌︎Kalki ⚚⚓︎⊙☳☶⚡ 23:22, 23 August 2014 (UTC) I downgraded my ranking of this, and don’t expect to go above a 2 with it again. There seem to be many quotes by Martin Amis I would rank above it.
3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 16:52, 23 August 2010 (UTC)
- 3 //Gbern3 (talk) 01:36, 15 August 2013 (UTC)
- 3 (leaning toward 2) allixpeeke (talk) 02:52, 25 August 2014 (UTC)
I'd like to be remembered as someone who kept the comic novel going for another generation or so. I fear the comic novel is in retreat. A joke is by definition politically incorrect — it assumes a butt, and a certain superiority in the teller. The culture won't put up with that for much longer.
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I think enlightenment is incremental, and I see it in my children. I was six-years-old when I met a black person. My father tutored me and said, "We're going to meet two men who have black skin." And on the bus in Swansea on the way there, I accepted this and thought this would be no trouble for me. As it was, I went into the room and burst into tears and pointed at the man and said, "You've got a black face." This wouldn't happen with my children. They've known, they've mingled with black people all their lives. This certainly is not going to occur. And so it goes on in this incremental way. … I think this is the only way it can be achieved. The trouble with proclaiming yourself to be cleansed of atavism is that it's not the case. It's an illusion. It's an illusion that can only be maintained by ideology and executive policing. It is forced consciousness. It's a lie to say, I have no racial feelings. Honesty and slow progress is a better policy, I think.
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Viewed at its grandest, P.C. is an attempt to accelerate evolution. To speak truthfully, while that's still okay, everybody is a racist or has racial prejudices. This is because human beings tend to like the similar, the familiar, the familial. Again, I say, I am a racist. I am not as racist as my parents. My children will not be as racist as I am. Freedom from racial prejudice is what we hope for down the line. Impatient with this hope, this process, P.C. seeks to get things done right now. In a generation or at the snap of a finger, you can simply announce yourself to be purged of these atavisms.
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The arms race is a race between nuclear weapons and ourselves.
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Every writer hopes or boldly assumes that his life is in some sense exemplary, that the particular will turn out to be universal.
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