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[Feb. 20th, 2006|05:38 pm] |
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In its world-hating heart, Puritanism admires, as ultimate proof of sincerity, self-destruction -- John Updike |
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[Feb. 5th, 2006|12:48 pm] |
I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes |
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[Jan. 30th, 2006|04:58 pm] |
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"It is one of the maladies of our age to profess a frenzied allegiance to truth in unimportant matters, to refuse consistently to face her where graver issues are at stake." -Janos Arany, poet (1817-1882) |
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[Jan. 4th, 2006|11:32 pm] |
The reason this won't turn into a second Bubble is that the IPO market is gone. Venture investors are driven by exit strategies. The reason they were funding all those laughable startups during the late 90s was that they hoped to sell them to gullible retail investors; they hoped to be laughing all the way to the bank. Now that route is closed. Now the default exit strategy is to get bought, and acquirers are less prone to irrational exuberance than IPO investors. The closest you'll get to Bubble valuations is Rupert Murdoch paying $580 million for Myspace. That's only off by a factor of 10 or so.
-- Paul Graham |
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| Most Offensive Lines In Cinema |
[Sep. 7th, 2005|04:48 pm] |
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"I will put your c***ing wife on the street to be f***ed in the a** by n*****s and Puerto Ricans." -- Robert Prosky in Thief |
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[Sep. 6th, 2005|11:26 pm] |
Mr Shadid lists the mistakes dispassionately, including those well known — the insufficient number of occupying troops, the disbanding of Iraq's security forces — and those less advertised, that the Sadrist uprising began after an American helicopter rammed a sacred Shia flag for fun, or that the resistance in Fallujah began after American troops there massacred 15 unarmed prisoners.
-- review of Night Draws Near in The Economist, September 3rd-9th 2005 |
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[Sep. 5th, 2005|02:41 pm] |
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"The Island begins in one of those clinical environments with plenty of glass but no windows and everyone wandering around in anodyne unisex jump-suits: nothing says futuristic nightmare like the dress-code of a 1970s variety-show dance troupe." -- Mark Steyn |
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[Jun. 23rd, 2005|11:01 pm] |
So here we go raking through those dustbins,
Giving things new names.
-- Aztec Camera, Back On Board |
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[Jun. 22nd, 2005|01:44 pm] |
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The map is not the territory. -- Gregory Bateson |
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[Jun. 21st, 2005|09:44 pm] |
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Once an angry man dragged his father along the ground through his own orchard, "Stop!" cried the groaning old man at last. "Stop! I did not drag my father beyond this tree." -- Gertrude Stein |
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[Jun. 20th, 2005|10:02 pm] |
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I wanted to be a nerd, but I didn't make the math requirement. -- Emo Phillips |
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[Jun. 19th, 2005|08:24 pm] |
"During the process I would frequently fall into a Walter Mitty-like fantasy: when my turn came I would rise to my feet slowly, look around the room and then directly look at the President and say, very quietly and emphatically, 'Mr President, gentlemen, I most definitely do not agree.' But I was removed from my trance when I heard the President's voice saying, 'Mr Cooper, do you agree?' And out would come a 'Yes, Mr President, I agree.'"
-- Chester Cooper on Lyndon Johnson's National Security Committee |
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[Jun. 18th, 2005|10:02 pm] |
If in some cataclysm all of science were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to future generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? Everything is made of atoms.
-- Richard Feynman |
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| Mr James Duffy Lived In Chapelizod |
[Jun. 17th, 2005|08:37 pm] |
He lived at a little distance from his body, regarding his own acts with doubtful side-glances. He had an odd autobiographical habit which led him to compose in his mind from time to time a short sentence about himself containing a subject in the third person and a predicate in the past tense. He never gave alms to beggars and walked firmly, carrying a stout hazel.
-- James Joyce, Dubliners: A Painful Case |
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| How Ken Got Off |
[Jun. 16th, 2005|11:13 am] |
Lionel Mandrake, QC: Mr Dodd, did you, on that day in May 1992, tell your accountant about the £30,000?
Ken Dodd: Well, I took a taxi to Bill Kroger's office, and I'm going up the stairs when I run into a friend of our kid's, Ken Evans. Smashing bloke. Dry cleaner. Died a couple of years later in a parachuting accident. Hang about, maybe that was Dave Evans...
Lionel Mandrake(testily): Mr Dodd, it is of little interest to this court whether the man who was then your accountant's dry cleaner is now or is not now dead!
Ken Dodd: Matters a bit to him, though, eh?! |
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| Not Strictly Accurate |
[Jun. 15th, 2005|01:22 pm] |
America, you have it better than our old continent; you have no ruined castles and no primordial stones. Your soul, your inner life remain untroubled by useless memory and wasted strife.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
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[Jun. 14th, 2005|01:11 pm] |
Quiet music makes people stop talking. It makes people aware that they may be intruding on someone else's experience if they talk loudly. It slows them down, makes them realize they're having an experience which exists in time, has duration, and that therefore they might want to stop shuffling around and sit still for a bit to wait for the experience to unfold.
-- Brian Eno |
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[Jun. 13th, 2005|01:14 pm] |
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If the hangover preceded the binge, drunkenness would be considered a virtue, not a vice. -- Gregory Bateson |
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[Jun. 12th, 2005|11:06 pm] |
There are two sets of futures, the future of desire and the future of fate, and man's reason has never learned to separate them."
-- J. D. Bernal |
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[Jun. 11th, 2005|05:28 pm] |
"in matters of language, democracies prefer obscurity to hard work....Democratic citizens, then, will often have vacillating thoughts, and so language must be loose enough to allow them play. As they never know whether what they say today will fit the facts of tomorrow, they have a taste for abstract terms. An abstract word is like a box with a false bottom; you may put in it what ideas you please and take them out again unobserved."
-- Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy In America |
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