Using arch is not a type of masochism, but sometimes it reminds me of masochism a tiny bit. - Benjamin "Mako" Hill

I can assure you that "That thing you spent a couple of years thinking about and building? Yeah, it fucking sucks." isn’t high on my personal list of interesting conversations. - Anthony Towns

Debian is essentially an eclectic anarchy. - Andrew Suffield

Debian is like borg lite. You will be assimilated. Well, you'll be assimilated as soon as we get around to it. - Don Armstrong

I think there's a general problem of Debian people being too polite to reveal their dislike of others - Clint Adams

xkb is almost pure joy. At least, I think it is, if you have inhaled the dust (containing strong drugs giving you hallucinations) whirled up by you walking through big echoing chambers looking for the exit to the maze that is its source. - Tollef Fog Heen

A cabal! A secret society. Sometimes they're naked, and sometimes they go around dressed -- to confuse us. - Monk (tv show)

You don't want to tangle with a dude with a Type 3 Hessian Haircut. If they're not a bass player in a crappy band, then they're usually nerds of the Trench Coat Mafia variety -- very dangerous. They're into Japanese Anime and throwing stars and nunchucks and other ninja/Star Trek shit. They can hack into your computer and steal your identity. Then you're screwed. - Dave Carnie - Skateboard Mag 9

I heartily accept the motto, — "That government is best which governs least"; and I should like to see it acted up to more rapidly and systematically. Carried out, it finally amounts to this, which also I believe, — "That government is best which governs not at all". - Henry David Thoreau Civil Disobedience

Your silence will not protect you. - Audre Lorde

I've recently noticed "as if for the first time" that when people pray they always look "upward" -- i.e. perpendicular to whatever place they're standing -- or kneeling or groveling. I deduce that they conceive of their "god" as topologically isomorphic to a huge donut, about a thousand miles wider than Earth. - Robert Anton Wilson

I believe that the people in power -- not only political power, but also economic and social power -- will not non-violently give up that power to the people. Power is not a material possession that can be given, it is the ability to act. Power must be taken, it is never given. - The Anarchist Cookbook

Fate is for those too weak to determine their own destiny. - Kamran Hamid

Except for Run-DMC and LL Cool J, hip-hop gets a very male-dominated audience. So if you're trying to pick up a man, you might consider going to one of the more backpacky hip-hop shows. Or if you're mad at your man, you might want to consider saying, "I'm going to that El-P show." - Dan the Automator

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. - Aristotle

You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool. - George Orwell

Good intentions are no excuse for making prisoners and hostages of people who have less political clout than you do. - Cat Farmer

Perhaps even these things, one day, will be pleasing to remember. - Virgil

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom. - Albert Einstein

Never seem more learned than the people you are with. Wear your learning like a pocket watch and keep it hidden. Do not pull it out to count the hours, but give the time when you are asked. - Lord Chesterfield

There is no statement so absurd that no philosopher will make it. - Cicero, Marcus Tullius

One can measure the importance of a scientific work by the number of earlier publications rendered superfluous by it. - David Hilbert

Nowadays theologians aren't quite so straightforward as Paley. They don't point to complex living mechanisms and say that they are self-evidently designed by a creator, just like a watch. But there is a tendency to point to them and say 'It is impossible to believe' that such complexity, or such perfection, could have evolved by natural selection. Whenever I read such a remark, I always feel like writing 'Speak for yourself' in the margin. - Richard Dawkins The Selfish Gene

The infinite! No other question has ever moved so profoundly the spirit of man. - David Hilbert

If one were to bring ten of the wisest men in the world together and ask them what was the most stupid thing in existence, they would not be able to discover anything so stupid as astrology. - David Hilbert

If I were to awaken after having slept for a thousand years, my first question would be: Has the Riemann hypothesis been proven? - David Hilbert

A set is a Many that allows itself to be thought of as a One. - Georg Cantor

It does not say in the Bible that all laws of nature are expressible linearly! - Enrico Fermi

So, Nat'ralists observe, a Flea
Hath smaller Fleas that on him prey,
And these have smaller Fleas to bite 'em,
And so proceed ad infinitum - Jonathan Swift

A scientific truth does not triumph by convincing its opponents and making them see the light, but rather because its opponents eventually die and a new generation grows up that is familiar with it. - Maxwell Planck

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith! I will be strong! I believe in my heart that what goes up, up, up must come down, down, down. Amen!' If they did, we would think they were pretty insecure about it. - Dan Barker

If we are going to teach 'creation science' as an alternative to evolution, then we should also teach the stork theory as an alternative to biological reproduction. - Judith Hayes

In science one tries to tell people, in such a way as to be understood by everyone, something that no one ever knew before. But in poetry, it's the exact opposite. - Paul Dirac

That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl. - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchett Good Omens

As soon as any one is near me, his personality disturbs my self-complacency and restricts my freedom. In twenty-four hours I begin to hate the best of men: one because he's too long over his dinner; another because he has a cold and keeps on blowing his nose. I become hostile to people the moment they come close to me. But it has always happened that the more I detest men individually the more ardent becomes my love for humanity. - Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov

Our individuality is all, all, that we have. There are those who barter it for security, those who repress it for what they believe is the betterment of the whole society, but blessed in the twinkle of the morning star is the one who nurtures it and rides it, in grace and love and wit, from peculiar station to peculiar station along life's bittersweet route. - Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume

Claude believed that only smart, attractive people had the right to fuck, and it sincerely hurt him when he discovered evidence to the contrary. - Tom Robbins Jitterbug Perfume

You talk too much, Hugo. Always have. You have to talk to make sure you're alive. - Jean-Paul Sartre Dirty Hands

Con men don't change, they break, shatter -- explosions of matter in cold interstellar space, drift away in cosmic dust, leave the empty body behind. - William Burroughs Naked Lunch

That's always the way with fanatics; they cross themselves at the tavern and throw stones at the temple. - Fyodor Dostoevsky The Brothers Karamazov

Cyberspace. A consensual simulation experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts ... A graphic representation of data extracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding. - William Gibson Neuromancer

Pretty soon, even though it has all been built up from common ingredients, the structure of this extended common sense is quite arcane and elusive. We might call the quality represented by the upper floors of this skyscraper "rare sense"; but it is usually called "science". And some of the ideas and discoveries that have come out of this originally simple and everyday ability defy the ground floor totally. The ideas of relativity and quantum mechanics are anything but commonsensical, in the ground-floor sense of the term! They are outcomes of common sense self-applied, a process that has many unexpected twists and gives rise to some unexpected paradoxes. In short, it sometimes seems that common sense, recursively self-applied, almost undermines itself. - Douglas R. Hofstadter Metamagical Themas

You'll find that the only thing you can do easily is be wrong, and that's hardly worth the effort. - The Phantom Tollbooth

My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre, and that I am therefore excused from saving Universes. - Ford Prefect The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy (by Douglas Adams)

". . .I'll say what I think of you — of you and your respectable society. Why should I be worse than you that I must prolong my existence among you by a lie! Why should this gold upon my body, and the lustre which surrounds my name, only increase my infamy? Have I not worked early and late for ten long years? Have I not woven this dress with sleepless nights? Have I not built up my career step by step, like thousands of my kind? Why should I blush before anyone? I am myself, and through myself I have become what I am." -- Sudermann's Magda

NB: A list of Monty Python sketch titles makes a fairly plausible inode when you're looking at it in gdb. - Val Henson

divot_root: No sKuecrhn efli lpea noirc :d iArtetcetmoprtye 6 /tsob ikni/liln iitn:i t4!2 - my sparc64

If SETI@home works, for example, we'll need libraries for communicating with aliens. Unless of course they are sufficiently advancedthat they already communicate in XML. - Paul Graham

Women are about as likely to cuss as men--don't do a double-take if you cuss in front of a woman. If she's read any of the kernel code (notably arch/sparc/), she's heard of the word "fuck" before. - from HOWTO Encourage Women In Linux

Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye;
And all my soul and all my every part;
And for this sin there is no remedy,
It is so grounded inward in my heart.
Methinks no face so gracious is as mine,
No shape so true, no truth of such account;
And for myself mine own worth do define,
As I all other in all worths surmount.
But when my glass shows me myself indeed,
Beated and chopp`d with tann`d antiquity,
Mine own self-love quite contrary I read;
Self so self-loving were iniquity.
`Tis thee, myself, that for myself I praise,
Painting my age with beauty of thy days.
- William Shakespeare - LXII

But what about the Wonder Woman bracelet? - Ghostface Ice Water

I'll love you forever, 'cause you know me better, for the record, at one time I would've married you in a second, but kill the rekindling dreams and navigate the friendship or else by the time the stress wears out, we'll both be dead and friendless - Aesop Rock 11:35

You gots to chill - EPMD

Lemonade was a popular drink and it still is - Guru DWYCK

The revolution will not give your mouth sex appeal - Gil Scott Heron The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

'Cause you're just a mentirosa, con tu lengua venenosa, today ya tell me somethin' y mañana, otra cosa - Mellow Man Ace Mentirosa

I never lost 'cause I'm the boss, I never will 'cause I'm still the champion, chief one, won't lose until I choose, which I won't 'cause I don't retreat, I'll run you over like a truck and leave you dead in the street - Special Ed I Got It Made

Sticks and stones break your bones, words break your heart - Talib Kweli Love Language

Make me a star, I wanna touch gold, hold me suspended in a dream, merely inches from the screen, deleted passions sacrificed to one electron monster, crucify my little future to the monitor, damn it feels good, turn on, tune in - Aesop Rock Basic Cable

Here ten thousand hackers deep in a movement, thats 20,000 crucial ruby heels clicking in unison - Aesop Rock Water

I don't know about bad taste, but I've got some sick appetites - LoDeck Today

In the end you will submit, it's got to hurt a little bit - New Order Subculture

There's a midget standing tall
And the giant beside him about to fall
...
Don't you know that you are free?
Well at least in your mind if you want to be
- Sly & The Family Stone Stand!

You're so extreme, you're feast or famine
You got one mission, just like a salmon
You said in life, mistakes are many
How come you never admit to any?
- Shawn Colvin I Want It Back

I may not be a man, but you're not one either. - The Donnas It Takes One To Know One

I've got a long list of real good reasons
For all the things I've done
I've got a picture in the back of my mind
Of what I've lost and what I've won
I've survived every situation
Knowing when to freeze and when to run
And regret is just a memory written on my brow
And there's nothing I can do about it now.
- Willie Nelson Nothing I Can Do About It Now

I caught you honkytonkin' with my best friend - George Jones Why Baby Why

Amores como el tuyo se encuentran en la calle - Hector Lavoe Un Amor de la Calle

Caminaba tan orgullosa y de su dolor, nadie sabía - Hector Lavoe Triste y Vacia

No puedo ganar ni perder - Hector Lavoe Ah ah, Oh No

Yo canto con pantalones - Hector Lavoe El Cantante

Lo que me vayan a dar, que me lo den en vida - El Gran Combo Que Me Lo Den En Vida

La cura resulta mas mala que la enfermedad - Frankie Ruiz La Cura

Muchas veces me pongo a contemplar, que yo nunca a nadie le he hecho mal, por qué la vida así me ha de tratar, si lo que busco es la felicidad - Hector Lavoe El Dia de Mi Suerte

Por tu mal comportamiento, te vas arrepentir, muy caro tendrás que pagar todo mi sufrimiento. Llorarás y llorarás, sin nadie que te consuele y así te darás de cuenta que si te engañan, duele - Oscar de Leon Llorarás

Yo soy como el roble palo de fuerza infernal, resisto el azote de la cruel tempestad - Raphy Leavitt Herido

Con tantos conflictos, tanta rebelión, lo bello del mundo, muere sin razón - Raphy Leavitt Destino Humano

Era una ciudad de plástico de esas que no quiero ver
De edificios cancerosos y un corazón de oro ver
Donde en ves de un sol amanece un dolar
Donde nadie ríe donde nadie llora
Con gente de rostros de poliéster
Que escuchan sin oír y miran sin ver
Gente que vendió por comodidad
Su razón de ser y su libertad - Ruben Blades Plastico

Contra el peligro y las desgracias, contra tiempo y difamación, despues de todo, yo solo quedo con demasiado corazón - Willie Colon Demasiado Corazón

Te deseo que tengas mucha suerte, pero solo de la mala - Willie Colon Falta de Consideracion

La costumbre es más fuerte que el amor - La India Costumbres

Ya no hay Izquierdas ni Derechos, solo hay excusas y pretextos
Una retorica maltrecha, para un planeta de ambidiextros. - Ruben Blades Hipocresia

Si no te hablo, será porque no quiero volverme esclavo de mis palabras. Si no te hablo, será porque prefiero ser el dueño de mi silencio. - Jarabe de Palo Dueño de mi Silencio

Quantas chances desperdicei quando o que eu mais queria era provar pra todo o mundo que eu não precisava provar nada pra ninguém - Legião Urbana Quase Sem Querer

É a verdade o que assombra, o descaso que condena, a estupidez o que destroi - Legião Urbana Metal Contra as Nuvens

Nosso suor sagrado é bem mais belo que esse sangue amargo - Legião Urbana Tempo Perdido

Quero que saibas que me lembro, queria até que pudesses me ver, és parte ainda do que me faz forte e, pra ser honesto, só um pouquinho infeliz - Legião Urbana Giz

Sempre precisei de um pouco de atenção, acho que não sei quem sou, só sei do que não gosto - Legião Urbana O Teatro dos Vampiros

Não sei onde estou indo, só sei que não estou perdido - Legião Urbana Só por Hoje

Vamos alimentar o que é maldade, vamos machucar um coração, vamos celebrar nossa bandeira, nosso passado de absurdos gloriosos, tudo o que é gratuito e feio, tudo o que é normal - Legião Urbana Perfeição

Lembro das tardes que passamos juntos, não é sempre, mas eu sei que você está bem agora, é só que este ano, o verão acabou cedo demais - Legião Urbana Love in the Afternoon

Sou um animal sentimental, me apego facilmente a quem desperta meu desejo - Legião Urbana Sereníssima

As possibilidades de felicidade são egoístas meu amor, viver a liberdade, amar de verdade, só se for a dois, só a dois - Cazuza Só Se For A Dois

Enquanto houver burguesia, não vai haver poesia - Cazuza Burguesia

Mentiras sinceras me interessam - Cazuza Maior Abandonado

A desobediência é uma virtude necessária à criatividade - Raul Seixas