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Interests

• Computers
• Linux and other Open Source Projects.
• Programming
• American History
• Politics
• The Colbert Report and The Daily Show.
• Cooking
• Video Games.
• Music.
• Literature.
• Science Fiction

Subscribed Podcasts

• Cranky Geeks 35
• Diggnation
• DL.tv 110
• FLOSS Weekly
• Inside the Net/Net@Nite 3
• KFI the Tech Guy 299
• The Daily Giz Wiz 195
• Security Now 64
• This Week in Tech
• This Week in Media 29
• What's New Now
• Windows Weekly

Watch List

• Macbeth
• Philadelphia Convention
• Tree and Leaf
• The Hugo Winners
• The Hugo Winners Volume Two
• That Hell-Bound Train
• The Star
• Deindustrialization
• Demographic transition
• American Civil War
• Plymouth Colony
• Mexican-American War

Quote Project

I will attempt to compile the greatest quotes of all time. Why? I don't know.

Quotes:

• "Bad men have many ways, good men but one."

• "[The] median characteristic... is the point of excellence"

• "Characteristics develop from corresponding activities"

• • Aristotle

• "Writing, to me, is simply thinking through my fingers."

• "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

• "Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right."

• "Creationists make it sound like a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night."

• • Issac Asimov

• "Prisons are built with stones of Law, Brothels with bricks of Religion"

• "The weak in courage is strong in cunning"

• "Truth can never be told so as to be understood, and not believ'd"

• • William Blake

• "At last men came to set me free,
  I ask'd not why, and reck'd not where...
  I learn'd to love despair
  And thus when they apear'd at last,
  And all my bonds aside were cast,
  These heavy walls to me had grown
  A hermitage - and all my own.
  And half I felt as they were come
  To tear me from a second home.
  With spiders I had friendship made,
  And watched them in their sullen trad,
  Had seen the mice by moonlight play,
  And why should I feel less than they?
  We are all inmates of one place...
  In quiet we had learn'd to dwell -
  My very chains and I grew friends,
  So much a long communion tends
  To make us what we are: - even I
  Regain'd my freedom with a sigh."

• • Lord Byron

• "Divide and Conquer."

• • Julius Caesar

• "The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell."

• "There is no teacher but the enemy."

• "Perhaps it's impossible to wear an identity without becoming what you pretend to be."

• "Only one rabbi dared to expect of us such a perfect balance that we could preserve the law and still forgive the deviation. So, of course, we killed him."

• "Ignorance and deception can’t save anybody. Knowing saves them"

• "I speak to everyone in the language they understand. That isn’t being slick. It’s being clear"

• "The strangest thing about humans is the way they pair up, males and females. Constantly at war with each other, never content to leave each other alone. They never seem to grasp the idea that males and females are separate species with completely different needs and desires, forced to come together only to reproduce."

• "Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong."

• "I choose to live in a universe that has some hope in it."

• "Changing the world is good for those who want their names in books. But being happy, that is for those who write their names in the lives of others, and hold the hearts of others as the treasure most dear."

• "Life is a suicide mission."

• "Isn't that what it means to be civilized? That you can wait to get what you want?"

• • Orson Scott Card

• "An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last."

• "It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government, except all the other that have been tried."

• • Winston Churchill

• "I believe all God's creatures have a soul...except bears--bears are godless killing machines!"

• "Anyone can read the news to you. I promise to feel the news at you."

• "Foreign newspapers: if they've got nothing to hide, how come they don't print them in English?"

• "Giving a fly glasses is like giving a bear nunchucks."

• "It's what Lincoln would have watched [The Colbert Report]."

• "The best way to change the system is to wait until it changes."

• • Stephen Colbert

• "With my cross-bow I shot the ALBATROSS."

• • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• "The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a 'mouse'. There is no evidence that people want to use these things."

• "I get NO SPAM!"

• "Microsoft is dead in the water."

• "Ya I actually have a Playstation 360."

• "My kids may play Grand Theft Auto, but that doesn't mean they're gonna go out and steal cars, but if they ever did become car thieves, they'd be damn good at it!"

• • John C. Dvorak

• "The journey of a thousand miles begins with but a single step."

• • Confucius

• "I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."

• • Thomas Edison

• "Imagination is more important than knowledge."

• "Science without religion is lame. Religion without science is blind."

• "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the the universe."

• • Albert Einstein

• "Never mistake motion for action."

• • Ernest Hemingway

• "[When] men live without a common power to keep them all in awe, they are in that condition which is called war"

• "When a covenant is made, then to break it is unjust and the definition of injustice is no other than the not performance of covenant."

• "Every man ought to endeavor peace, as far as he has hope of attaining it."

• • Thomas Hobbes

• "The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do."

• "He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it easier to do it a second time."

• "A mind always employed is always happy."

• "Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself."

• "Whenever you do a thing, though it can never be known but to yourself, ask yourself how you would act were all the world looking at you, and act accordingly."

• • Thomas Jefferson

• "Rational beings alone have the faculty of acting according to the conception of laws, that is, according to principles, i.e., have a will... the will is nothing but practical reason..."

• "Act's rightness lie in motive"

• • Immanuel Kant

• "Much I have travell'd in the realms of gold,
  and many goodly states and kingdoms seen.
  Round many western islands have I been
  Which bards in fealty to Apollo hold."

• "Beauty is truth, truth beauty,- that is all
  Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know."

• • John Keats

• "Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays."

• "The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins."

• "Truth is subjectivity."

• "It is one thing to stand on one leg and try to prove God, yet quite another to kneel on one knee and thank Him."

• "Faith is the objective uncertainty"

• "The existing individual who chooses to pursue the objective way enters upon the entire approximation-process by which it is proposed to bring God to light objectively. But this is in all eternity impossible..."

• • Soren Kierkegaard

• "I don't know every answer to every question, I can't, I couldn't possibly, no one could. Anyone who says they do is expanding the truth. However, I know that, combined, our brains can solve any problem."

• "Don't whine, Don't moan, Don't yelp. Just Call For Help!"

• "If the problem's acute, you must reboot!"

• • Leo Laporte

• "As a nation, we began by declaring that "all men are created equal." We now practically read it "all men are created equal, except negroes." When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read "all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and catholics." When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretence of loving liberty — to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be take pure, and without the base alloy of hypocracy"

• "If I am capable of grasping God objectively, I do not believe, but precisely because I cannot do this I must believe."

• "A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other."

• "My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it, and if I could save it by freeing all the slaves I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone I would also do that."

• "...all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever free..."

• "I have always thought that all men should be free; but if any should be slaves, it should be first those who desire it for themselves, and secondly, those who desire it for others. When I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally."

• "...no man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."

• "we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain — that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom — and that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth."

• • Abraham Lincoln

• "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied"

• • John Stuart Mill

• "Never interrupt your enemy when he's making a mistake."

• • Napoleon

• "You want, if possible - and there is no more foolish "if possible" - 'to abolish suffering'"

• "There are altogether no moral facts"

• • Friedrich Nietzsche

• "Always do more than is required of you"

• • George S. Patton, Jr.

• "And on the pedestal these words appear:
  'My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings:
  Look upon my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'
  Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
  Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
  The lone and level sands stretch far away."

• • Percy Bysshe Shelley

• "Action is eloquence."

• "In time we hate that which we often fear."

• "It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after."

• "We know what we are, but not what we may be."

• "When we are born, we cry, that we are come
  To this great stage of fools."

• "Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none."

• "Frailty, thy name is woman!"

• "Brevity is the soul of wit."

• "The devil hath power
  To assume a pleasing shape."

• "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so."

• "Though this be madness, yet there is method in 't."

• "O, woe is me,
  To have seen what I have seen, see what I see!"

• "Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
  The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
  Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
  And by opposing end them? To die: To sleep..."

• "Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice."

• "Have more than thou showest; Speak less than thou knowest."

• "This above all: to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day; Thou canst not then be false to any man."

• • William Shakespeare

• "What you do is not honest. What you do is partisan hackery. You have a responsibility to the public discourse, and you fail miserably."

• "The Internet is just a world passing around notes in a classroom."

• • Jon Stewart

• "Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder."

• "To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace."

• • George Washington