The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed.
William Gibson
Whatever happens to musicians will happen to all of us.
Bruce Sterling
We are paid to write software that works well and is free of error.
«Ceux qui peuvent vous faire croire à des absurdités, peuvent vous faire commettre des atrocités» / “Anyone who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.”
Voltaire, 1765
I love the freedom of bodysurfing where it’s just me and a pair of fins. I don’t have to hang onto a boogie board or stand up on a surfboard. I love being surrounded and embraced by the water as opposed to sort of standing on top of it. I find the embrace of the ocean very relaxing and soothing and nurturing for me.
Mark Cunningham
We cannot accept former President Trump’s claim that a President has unbounded authority to commit crimes that would neutralize the most fundamental check on executive power — the recognition and implementation of election results. Nor can we sanction his apparent contention that the Executive has carte blanche to violate the rights of individual citizens to vote and to have their votes count.
From United States Court of Appeals for The District of Columbia Circuit: No. 1:23-cr-00257-1
In keeping silent about evil, in burying it so deep within us that no sign of it appears on the surface, we are implanting it, and it will rise up a thousand fold in the future. When we neither punish nor reproach evildoers, we are not simply protecting their trivial old age, we are thereby ripping the foundations of justice from beneath new generations.
Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce. And when you get through kickin' ass and celebratin' the sheer joy of a good fight, be sure to tell those who come after how much fun it was.
Molly Ivins
“But where does it stop? Who can we shoot? I don’t aim to starve to death before I kill the man that’s starving me.” ... “Maybe there’s nobody to shoot. Maybe the thing isn’t men at all. Maybe like you said, the property’s doing it.”
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath 1939
A podcast is defined as one or more men expressing their opinions on a subject, or, not a subject.
Them bats is smart, they use radar.
I'm not optimistic about many things, but I think I could break out of prison.
Wherever you go, there you are.
TRUMP DON'T SURF
Sticker seen in San Clemente, California, 2018
Drawing is disruptive. You're producing when you're expected to consume.
Molly Crabapple, creator of Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School
Comics are words and pictures. You can make anything with words and pictures.
Harvey Pekar
Buildings of any sort are just lean-tos and that's all
Brave Combo, Nothing is Permanent
At a cardiac arrest, the first procedure is to take your own pulse.
Samuel Shem, The House of God; The Fat Man's Laws, number 3
AAAFRNRA (Anything, Anywhere, Anytime, For No Reason At All)
Frank Zappa
Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST.
Frank Zappa
But it doesn’t matter what message you think you are sending, because no one will receive it. No one is listening. The system is set up so that every choice other than ‘R’ or ‘D’ boils down to “I defer to the judgement of my fellow citizens.” It’s easy to argue that our system shouldn’t work like that. It’s impossible to argue it doesn’t work like that.
Clay Shirky, There’s No Such Thing As A Protest Vote
It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.
Upton Sinclair
Earthers cannot look upon a thing but wonder who it belongs to, eh?
Anderson Dawes, The Expanse, S02E07
Well, it feels like I am (sentient), kid, but I’m really just a bunch of ROM. It’s one of them, ah, philosophical questions, I guess... but I ain’t likely to write you no poem, if you follow me. Your AI, it just might. But it ain’t no way human."
Dixie Flatline, from Neuromancer, by William Gibson
What do we got on the spacecraft that's good?
Gene Kranz, from the film Apollo 13
No individual, partnership, or corporation, claiming or possessing the frontage or tidal lands of a harbor, bay, inlet, estuary, or other navigable water in this State, shall be permitted to exclude the right of way to such water whenever it is required for any public purpose, nor to destroy or obstruct the free navigation of such water; and the Legislature shall enact such laws as will give the most liberal construction to this provision, so that access to the navigable waters of this State shall be always attainable for the people thereof.
California Constitution, Article X, Section 4 (added 8 June 1976)
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale
Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus'
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