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  • Hope and Perservirance
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  • Prayers
  • Knowledge and Wisdom

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    Understanding is a three-edged sword.

    Kosh, B5

    Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

    H. H. Williams

    A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

    Francis Bacon

    It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

    Henry David Thoreau

    Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

    David Starr Jordan

    There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom.

    Francis Bacon

    It should be noted that the seeds of wisdom that are to bear fruit in the intellect are sown less by critical studies and learned monographs than by insights, broad impressions, and flashes of intuition.

    Carl von Clausewitz

    There are many who know many things, yet are lacking in wisdom.

    Democritus

    The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance--it is the illusion of knowledge.

    Daniel J. Boorstin

    To the fool, he who speaks wisdom will sound foolish.

    Euripides

    He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

    Benjamin Franklin

    Men who love wisdom should acquaint themselves with a great many particulars.

    Heraclitus

    Wise living consists perhaps less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible.

    Eric Hoffer

    The wise learn from the experience of others, and the creative know how to make a crumb of experience go a long way.

    Eric Hoffer

    A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

    David Hume

    The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

    Claude Levi-Strauss

    It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing.

    Seneca

    Don't clarify things I already understand. It only confuses me.

    Mary Cook

    It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

    Epictetus

    Wise me talk because they have something to say. Fools talk becuase they have to say something.

    Plato

    The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.

    Dumbledore

    Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    There are two kinds of fool. One says, 'This is old, and therefore good.' And one says 'This is new, and therefore better.'

    John Brunnerm, The Shockwave Rider

    If you think education is expensive, try ignorance

    Derek Bok

    If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be called research!

    Albert Einstein

    Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

    Schopenhauer

    If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts.

    The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.

    Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known

    Carl Sagan

    Westheimer's Discovery: A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save an afternoon in the library

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    A witty saying proves nothing.

    Voltaire

    If you're going through hell keep going!

    Walt Disney

    Boredome is a great motivator.

    Uma Thuman

    Maybe the doc's right. Embrace the moment. In the end, that's all we have. Trouble will come in its own time, it always does. But that's tomorrow. Give me today, and I will be happy.

    Sheridan, B5

    The avalanche has started, it is too late for the pebbles to vote.

    Kosh, B5

    'Who asked you to play God?'
    'Every damn patient who comes through that door, that's who! People come to doctors because they want us to be gods. They want us to make it better .. or make it not so. They want to be healed and they come to me when their prayers aren't enough. Well, if I have to take the responsibility, then I claim the authority too. I did good. And we both know it. And no one is going to take that away.'

    Sinclair and Dr. Franklin, Believers, B5

    You should never hand someone a gun unless you are sure where they will point, and no mistake.

    Sinclair, B5

    The innocent lie because they don't want to be blamed for something they didn't do and the guilty lie because they don't have any other choice.

    Sinclair, B5

    The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the 'best possible' result in each separate instance.

    Thomas Sowell

    The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

    George Bernard Shaw

    Never do today what you can put off till tomorrow if tomorrow might improve the odds.

    Robert Heinlein

    of all the things i've lost, i miss my mind the most

    ozzy osbourne

    All of life can be broken down into moments of transition or moments of revelation. The future is all around us, waiting, in moments of transition, to be born in moments of revelation. No one knows the shape of that future or where it will take us. We know only that it is always born in pain.

    G'Kar, B5

    It taught us that we have to create the future, or others will do it for us. It taught us that we have to care for one another, because if we don't, who will? And that true strength sometimes comes from the most unlikely places. Mostly, though, I think it gave us hope: that there can always be new beginnings... even for people like us.

    Ivanova, B5

    We have so much time, and so little to do! Strike that, reverse it.

    Willy Wonka

    So shines a good deed in a weary world.

    Willy Wonka

    A little nonsense now and then, is relished by the wisest men.

    Willy Wonka

    You should never, never doubt what nobody is sure about.

    Willy Wonka

    Where is fancy bred, in the heart or in the head?

    Willy Wonka

    No, no, don't speak--for some moments in life there are no words.

    Willy Wonka

    All I ask is a tall ship and a star to sail her by.

    Willy Wonka

    We must remember there are many more important things, many more important things . . . off hand, I can't think of what they are, but I'm sure there must be something.

    Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

    If fear is cultivated it will become stronger, if faith is cultivated it will achieve mastery.

    John Paul Jones

    I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way

    John Paul Jones

    But yield who will to their separation,
    My object in living is to unite
    My advocation and my vocation
    As my two eyes make one in sight.
    Only where love and need are one,
    And the work is play for mortal stakes,
    Is the deed ever really done
    For Heaven and the future's sakes.

    Robert Frost, Two Tramps in Mud Time

    It will work in practice, yes. But will it work in theory?

    a french diplomat's comment, recalled by Madeleine Albright

    I am the most miserable man living. If what I feel were equally distributed to the whole human family, there would not be a cheerful face on earth. Whether I shall ever be better I cannot tell; I awfully forbode I shall not. To remain as I am is impossible. I must die or be better.

    Abraham Lincoln

    Pilgrim, how you journey on the road you chose to find out where the winds die and where the stories go

    Enya, Pilgrim

    Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.

    Lewis Carroll

    We shall not cease from exploration
    And the end of all our exploring
    Will be to arrive where we started
    And know the place for the first time.

    T.S.Eliot

    You cannot step twice into the same river, for other waters are continually flowing in.

    Heraclitus

    Your intellect may be confused, but your emotions will never lie to you

    Roger Ebert

    if there's one thing in the world women can respect, it's sneaky, malicious and ruthlessly conniving methods of gaining greater amounts of storage space.

    One of the great things about being a man is that women expect us to act irrationally all the time. The advantages we have are few, and we must seize upon those we do have and exploit them as best we can.

    Happy ever after, exists in moments like our first kisses, our graduations, the feeling of wet sand beneath our toes.

    Jenna Martin

    If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

    Abraham Maslow

    Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.

    Henry David Thoreau

    Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

    Hanlon's Razor

    life, n.: A whim of several billion cells to be you for a while

    Jesus asked them, 'Who do you say that I am?'
    And they answered, 'You are the eschatological manifestation of the ground of our being, the kerygma in which we find the ultimate meaning of our interpersonal relationship.'
    And Jesus said, 'What?'

    Give a man a fish, he owes you one fish.
    Teach a man to fish, you give up your monopoly on fisheries.

    Why should I argue rationally with someone being irrational? I'll just mock them instead.

    If riding in an airplane is flying, then riding in a boat is swimming.

    Give a man fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.

    Time is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once. Space is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen to you.

    Having a choice of masters is not the same as freedom.

    Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men, for the nastiest of reasons, will somehow work for the benefit of us all.

    John Maynard Keynes

    In heaven the police are British, the mechanics are German, the cooks are French, the lovers are Italian and the Swiss organize the place. In hell the police are German, the mechanics are French, the cooks are British, the lovers are Swiss and the Italians organize the place.

    Patriotisim means protecting core values during difficult times, not pasting a flag on your SUV and repealing the Bill of Rights.

    Liberty is blind, but she has sophisticated listening devices.

    I'm writing a book ... I've got the page numbers done.

    If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.

    Stephen Wright

    If knowledge is power, and power is sexy, then why am I still single??

    If it's supposed to move and doesn't, use WD-40. If it moves and it shouldn't, use duct tape.

    How do I set my Laser printer to 'Stun'?

    Talk is cheap - Because supply exceeds demand.

    I think whoever outlawed a weapon system on the basis that it would be scary to its intended victim had possibly missed the point.

    Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way, when you criticize them, you're a mile away and you have their shoes.

    The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program.

    Larry Niven

    Kind of like butter made from a cow rolling in the grass ... well, you know, something like that.

    Alton Brown

    I am a spin-polarized poultry!

    Nukees

    Either that, or start issuing each faculty member an OICW.

    Jonathan Ray

    Significant powers of buricratic foot dragging

    NPR ATC, about certain members of the world bank

    And you can dream, so dream outloud

    Bono

    Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

    Samuel McChord Crothers

    Languages

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    Tempus fugit et nos fugimus in illus.
    -Time Flies and we fly with it.

    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso) Fasti

    Quid me nutrit me destruit
    - What nourishes me also destroys me

    Quid quid latine dictum sit, altum viditur
    - Anything said in Latin sounds profound

    Si Hoc Legere Scis Nimium Eruditionis Habes
    - If you can read this you're overeducated

    I was recently on a tour of Latin America, and the only regret I have was that I didn't study Latin harder in school so I could converse with those people

    Dan Quayle

    Aliquando et insanire iucundum est
    - It is sometimes pleasant even to act like a madman

    Nemo sine vitio est
    - No one is without fault

    Audaces fortuna juvat
    - Fortune favors the bold

    Virgil, Aeneis 10

    Bis repetita placent
    - The things that please are repeated again and again

    Horatius

    Donec eris felix, multos numerabis amicos
    - As long as you are fortunate, you will have many friends

    Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas
    - Fortunate is he who has been able to learn the causes of things.

    Virgil Georgica2,490

    Non omnia possumus omnes
    - We cannot all do everything

    Virgil

    Nunc est bibendum
    - Now it is time to drink.

    Horatius

    Quot capita, tot sensus
    - There are as many opinions as there are heads.

    Terentius

    Si tacuisses philosophus mansisses
    - If you had kept quiet, you would have remained a philosopher.

    Nihil tam absurdum, qhod non dictum sit ab aliquo
    - There is nothin so absurd as not to have been said by a philosopher

    In vino veritas
    - In wine is truth

    Quid agitur de matre mea?
    - What does my mother have to do with it?

    Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
    - May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!

    Involving Me

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    I was wondering if you were still as wigged out as you were a year or so ago when we last spoke. It seems that you are. That is good.

    Gibb Patt

    Where do I change the difficulty in life to novice? This is my first time playing after all... Scratch that. I want tutorial. With narration and pauses until you do things right.

    Andrew Lenharth

    I'm back. alarm had sounded. aparently we got hit by indirect fire somewhere on base. not really fun unless you can feel the shock of the blast, otherwise it's just boring. In fact, I don't even flinch if I feel the blast anymore

    Brian

    hey do you know a Margaret Lloyd?

    Paul

    You always leave a bunch of broken hearted children in your wake when you leave somewhere

    Be careful when meddling in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with catsup

    (ref: Be careful when meddling in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with catsup)
    Oh, and I don't have any ketchup, and don't normally use it, so the chances are lower than for most people

    darthscsi

    i say just embrace the total geek in your self, life's to short to be cool.

    Sharon

    i am now picturing you in necromancer style robes, standing over the metal bones of a computers and calling 'Bring the dead to life!'

    BladesJester

    It turns out people get married before they get divorced

    Eric (the Red)

    i forgot to medicate your inner geek again, didn't i?

    BladesJester

    I never wanted much of a life anyway

    Eric the Red

    Do you have a clock that tells time?

    Andrew Graham

    Three is an odd number...

    Andrew Graham

    and the most satisfying part was writing the punchline: CTRL+C, CTRL+V

    Paul McW

    Navel ... Navel... Naval is something else entirely, generally more maritime, and usually quite a bit more interesting. (although, navels with the right jewelry in them...)

    Paul McW

    being lazy took longer than expected

    Philip

    you graduate students have a different definition of working hard, you work.

    Philip

    When you've had a bad day, do what I do, watch Harry Potter!

    Suz

    awesomeness is unbounded

    Philip

    dude, I think you even have some redeye

    Damon

    is your profile meant to make me feel guilty about not calling you back?

    Crystal

    I just put a rifle stock in the dishwasher

    Paul

    right, as soon as i give andrew my laptop... why do all the computer geeks i know keep pestering me to give them electronics... why do i have more gadgets then them...?

    Sharon

    Holiness is not water soluble.

    me

    being lazy took longer than expected

    Philip

    well, congratulations on your continued freedom to choose when to stop going to school

    Damon

    You are the Higgs field

    Joe

    you're not really old until you stop scheduling vacation

    David

    We weren't sure if you didn't put the hot water out because it wasn't ready or because you thought all the tea was crap. We weren't sure, but no one said, no he wouldn't do that.

    Ellen

    You should get married in the next couple months, then you can get a food processor.

    Ramona

    I don't understand it. Do you have a random counter you test to see if you are going to be helpful? Because sometimes you can be incredibly helpful and the other times really annoying

    Rob

    me: it is not the case that I cannot be God. the red: True.

    The Red

    you are a hard worker and you like babies too! soon you will probably be one of my un-free friends

    Janine

    You don't have unknown scary qualities

    Margaret

    Well, you could be navigating with a coaster

    Paul

    You needed to be saved? That's funny. How did she decide this? She obviously doesn't know you. Last I heard you were still christian? Hasn't changed has it?

    Margaret

    Progress and Inovation

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    Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call 'genius' has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.

    Nathaniel Branden

    The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

    George Bernard Shaw

    Fools ignore complexity; pragmatists suffer it; experts avoid it; geniuses remove it.

    A. Perlis

    Those who speak most of progress measure it by quantity and not by quality.

    George Santayana

    It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

    Oscar Wilde

    Imagination and Reality

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    Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

    Philip K. Dick

    The truly educated man is that rare individual who can separate reality from illusion.

    Imagination is the only weapon in the war against reality

    Jules de Gaultier

    But it is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.

    Herman Melville

    Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.

    Francis Bacon

    Probably the difference between man and the monkeys is that the monkeys are merely bored, while man has boredom plus imagination.

    Lin Yutang

    You can't depend on your judgement when your imagination is out of focus.

    Mark Twain

    Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

    Edgar Allan Poe

    It's kind of fun to do the impossible

    Walt Disney

    It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live...

    Dumbledore

    Thinking

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    Thinking is sometimes injurious to health.

    Aristotle

    To think is to differ.

    Clarence Darrow

    I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

    Albert Einstein

    Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively, and without self-delusion- in the long run, these are the only people who count.

    Robert Heinlein

    The end comes when we no longer talk with ourselves. It is the end of genuine thinking and the beginning of the final loneliness.

    The remarkable thing is that the cessation of the inner dialogue marks also the end of our concern with the world around us. It is as if we noted the world and think about it only when we have to report it to ourselves.

    Eric Hoffer

    A great many people think they are thinking when they are rearranging their prejudices.

    William James

    Reading furnishes the mind only with materials for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

    John Locke

    An idea is not responsible for the people who think it.

    Don Marquis

    The psychologists and the metaphysicians wrangle endlessly over the nature of the thinking process in man, but no matter how violently they differ otherwise they all agree that it has little to do with logic and is not much conditioned by overt facts.

    H.L. Mencken

    The class of those who have the ability to think their own thoughts is separated by an unbridgeable gulf from the class of those who cannot.

    Ludwig von Mises

    There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking.

    Joshua Reynolds

    Most people would sooner die than think; in fact they do so.

    Bertrand Russell

    Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.

    Henri Bergson

    Heresy is only another word for freedom of thought.

    Graham Greene

    A fool hath no dialogue within himself, the first thought carrieth him without the reply of a second.

    Lord Halifax

    Science itself, therefore, may be regarded as a minimal problem, consisting of the completest possible presentment of facts with the least possible expenditure of thought.

    Ernst Mach

    Thought control, like birth control, is best undertaken as long as possible before the fact. Many grown-ups will obstinately persist, if only now and then, in composing small strings of sentences in their heads and achieving at least momentary logic. This probably cannot be prevented, but we have learned how to minimize the consequences by arranging that such grown-ups will be unable to pursue that logic very far. If they were at home in the technology of writing, there's no telling how much social disorder they would cause by thinking things out at length.
    Our schools have chosen to cut this danger off as close to the root as possible, thus taking measures to preclude not only the birth of thought but its conception. They give the pill to even the youngest children, but just to be on the safe side, they give it to everybody else, too, especially all would-be schoolteachers.

    Richard Mitchell

    A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth utters its words. If what the mouth utters is unclear or foolish or mendacious, it must be that the meditations are the same. But the line runs both ways. The words of the mouth will become the meditations of the heart, and the habit of loose talk loosens the fastenings of our understanding.

    Richard Mitchell

    But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

    George Orwell

    If you cannot be the master of your language, you must be its slave. If you cannot examine your thoughts, you have no choice but to think them, however silly they may be.

    Richard Mitchell

    Education rears disciples, imitators, and routinists, not pioneers of new ideas and creative geniuses. The schools are not nurseries of progress and improvement, but conservatories of tradition and unvarying modes of thought.

    Ludwig von Mises

    When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

    Albert Einstein

    The problem with America is stupidity. I'm not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?

    There was never a genius without a tincture of madness.

    Aristotle

    No matter how cynical you become, it's never enough to keep up.

    Lily Tomlin

    'While I'm still confused and uncertain, it's on a much higher plane, d'you see, and at least I know I'm bewildered about the really fundamental and important facts of the universe.' Treatle nodded. 'I hadn't looked at it like that,' he said, 'But you're absolutely right. He's really pushed back the boundaries of ignorance.'

    Terry Pratchett, Equal Rites

    Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, that I may wet my brain and say something clever

    Aristophanes

    Restlessness and discontent are the first necessities of progress.

    Thomas A. Edison

    If you're not confused, you're not paying attention.

    Tom Peters

    The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar.

    Confucius

    Education is like a double-edged sword. It may be turned to dangerous uses if it is not properly handled.

    Wu Ting-Fang

    Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!

    But the business of paradox is to discomfit the mind and force truths into connections that cannot be thought.

    Lore Segal, A Passion for Polishness

    There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line

    Levant

    Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds

    Einstein

    The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

    Frederich Wilhelm Nietzsche

    Love

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    To spare oneself from grief at all costs can be achieved only at the price of total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.

    Erich Fromm

    That's why you should forward root's email to your account, and use logcheck in addition. This valentine's day, I got 11 emails, all from my computer. Most of the messages were logs from the firewall, and they told me the computer would reject anyone but me. Truly made me feel special.

    Anonymous, slashdot

    Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.

    Rainer Maria Rilke

    No man can live happily who regards himself alone, who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another, if thou wishest to live for thyself.

    Seneca

    My girl came to the study and said Help me; I told her I had a time problem which meant: I would die for you but I don't have ten minutes.

    Brenda Hillman, Time Problem

    but in the end it would hold. Because what is built, endures. What is loved, endures.

    Delenn, B5

    Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

    Diane Arbus

    You come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

    Sam Keen

    Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired

    Robert Frost

    Love takes off masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.

    James Baldwin

    To love at all is to be vulnerable.

    C.S. Lewis

    There is no sorrow like a love denied
    Nor any joy like love that has its will.

    The Marriage of Guenevere. Act i. Sc. 3. , Richard Hov

    The saddest thing in the world, is loving someone who used to love you.

    Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

    Charlie Brown

    All love is unrequited, Stephen. All of it.

    Ivanova, B5

    Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.

    Herman Hesse

    Not loving is but a long dying.

    Wu Ti

    Of all sexual aberrations, perhaps the most peculiar is chastity.

    Remy de Gourmont

    When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

    Matt Groening

    The greatest thing you'll ever learn is just to love and be loved in return

    Christian (Ewan Macgregor), Moulin Rouge

    Love starts with a hug, grows with a kiss, and ends with a tear.

    The only alternative to having love or a true calling is to be insane, addicted to some petty need, a tool for some other power, or to be adrift among the stars. Although it must be said: most everyone in love or walking a true path is insane.

    Sometimes pain overcomes
    we walk seperated together
    trying to find peace...
    we search for something ....alone

    But are We?
    Just open your eyes
    And the wonder will find you
    The journey has begun....
    and it only gets better

    For those who are lost in love

    Computers and Geeks

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    Remember, never ask a geek "why"; just nod your head and back away slowly...

    Given infinite time, 100 monkeys could type out the complete works of Shakespeare. Win 98 source code? Eight monkeys, five minutes.

    'One World, One Web, One Program' - Microsoft Promotional Ad
    'Ein Volk, Ein Reich, Ein Fuhrer' - Adolf Hitler

    This is better than real memory, because real memory, at the cost of much effort, learns to remember but not to forget.

    Umberto Eco, Foucaults's Pendulum

    He doesn't help you think but he helps you because you have to think for him. A totally spiritual machine.

    Umberto Eco, Foucaults's Pendulum

    But with him (it? her?) your fingers dream, your mind brushes the keyboard, you are borne on golden pinions, at last you confront the light of critical reason with the happiness of a first encounter.

    Umberto Eco, Foucaults's Pendulum

    The OSI 7 layer network model was of particular interest. The very idea of a model that is of zero use in the real world, but must always crop up in any discussion of networking struck me as being very zen.

    It's like juggling four bars of wet soap with your eyes shut while someone is whacking you with a baseball bat.

    Andrew Morton

    Working on nasty little problems makes you stupid. Good hackers avoid it for the same reason models avoid cheeseburgers.

    Paul Graham

    But hey, the fact that I have better taste than anybody else in the universe is just something I have to live with. It's not easy being me.

    Linus Torvalds

    Yeah, upon retrospect that was totally the wrong phrase to use. I meant something more like logical, rational, linear thought, Vulcan, cold, unfeeling, emotionally detached. That sort of thing.

    Mark Flider

    I think it's funny when CS students assume that all other CS students are exactly like them. I think it's sad that they're probably right.

    Eamon Caddigan

    It is only that real-life problems happen to be completely tirvial in comparison with theoretically possible ones.

    ToMasz Wierzbicki

    I'm a little concerned that my vectorizer does live-code-elimination.

    Eric the Red

    Friends and Loneliness

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    A friend is one who knows us, but loves us anyway.

    Fr. Jerome Cummings

    No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

    Alice Walker

    May friendship, like fine wine, improve as time advances, and may we always have old friends, old wine, and young worries.

    And memories, he knew, were not glass treasures to be kept locked within a box. They were bright ribbons to be hung in the wind.

    Terry Brooks, The Talismans of Shannara

    It takes a great of courage to stand up to your enemy, but a great deal more to stand up to your friends

    Dumbledor

    Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.

    Dumbledore

    Those people determined to spend time with you are the people who care and your real friends. If you have but one of these in your life you're in awesome shape.

    The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson

    Sometimes you do things that you don't want to just because you know it means the world to someone else.

    No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world.

    Aristotle

    Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

    Dag Hammarskjold

    There is no greater sorrow than to recall in misery the time when we were happy.

    Dante

    With some people solitariness is an escape not from others but from themselves. For they see in the eyes of others only a reflection of themselves.

    Eric Hoffer

    It is loneliness that makes the loudest noise. This is true of men as of dogs.

    Eric Hoffer

    Ships that pass in the night, and speak each other in passing, Only a signal shown, and a distant voice in the darkness; So on the ocean of life, we pass and speak one another, Only a look and a voice, then darkness again and a silence.

    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

    Theres nothing terribly wrong with feeling lost, so long as that feeling precedes some plan on your part to actually do something about it. Too often a person grows complacent with their disillusionment, perpetually wearing their 'discomfort' like a favorite shirt.

    Jhonen Vasquez

    Oh, sweet sorrow, the time you borrow, will you be here when i wake up tomorrow?

    Katherine Wolf

    Loneliness the clearest of crystal insight into your own soul, its the fear of one's own self that haunts the lonely.

    Keith Haynie

    Life dies inside a person when there are no others willing to be-friend him. He thus gets filled with emptiness and a non-existent sense of self-worth.

    Mark R. J. Lavoie

    There is no pleasure to me without communication: there is not so much as a sprightly thought comes into my mind that it does not grieve me to have produced alone, and that I have no one to tell it to.

    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

    There is absolutely no point in sitting around and feeling sorry for youself. The great power you have is to let go ... focus on what you have, no that which has been mean or unkindly removed.

    Minnie Driver

    God made everything out of nothing, but the nothingness shows through.

    Paul Valery

    The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.

    Pearl S. Buck

    The body is a house of many windows: there we all sit, showing ourselves and crying on the passers-by to come and love us.

    Robert Louis Stevenson

    To transform the emptiness of loneliness, to the fullness of aloneness. Ah, that is the secret of life.

    Sunita Khosla

    And I look again towards the sky as the raindrops mix with the tears I cry.

    One may have a blazing hearth in one's soul, and yet no one ever comes to sit by it.

    Vincent van Gogh

    Skillful listening is the best remedy for loneliness, loquaciousness, and laryngitis.

    William Arthur Ward

    Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.

    Mother Teresa

    People are lonely because they build walls instead of bridges.

    Joseph F. Newton

    The lonely one offers his hand too quickly to whomever he encounters.

    Friedrich Nietszche

    To be an adult is to be alone.

    Jean Rostand

    Hope and Perservirance

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    Greater than the death of flesh is the death of hope, the death of dreams. Against this peril we can never surrender.

    G'Kar, B5

    A man who suffers before it is necessary, suffers more than is necessary.

    Seneca

    Faith sustains us in the hour when reason tells us that we can not continue, that the whole of our whole lives is without meaning.

    Brother Alwyn Macomber, B5

    Tho' much is taken, much abides; and tho'
    We are not now that strength which in old days
    Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;
    One equal temper of heroic hearts,
    Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will
    To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.

    Ulysses

    'Has your ship struck?' to which Jones answered, 'I have not yet begun to fight.'

    John Paul Jones

    The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy, or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort, that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer answers.

    M. Scott Peck

    In a hundred-mile march, ninety is about the halfway point.

    Judgement

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    The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.

    Dumbledore

    Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.

    Dumbledore

    All who wander are not lost.

    JRR Tolkien

    Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgment.

    Jim Horning

    Good judgment comes from experience, and often experience comes from bad judgment.

    Rita Mae Brown

    Good judgement comes from experiance. Sometimes, experiance comes from bad judgement.

    Christian Slater

    If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.

    Seneca

    Never hate your enemies, it clouds your judgement.

    Sin bravely...We will never have all the facts to make a perfect judgement, but with the aid of basic experience we must leap bravely into the future.

    Russell R McIntyre

    Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

    Sophocles

    Do not condemn the judgement of another because it differs from your own. You may both be wrong.

    Dandemis

    Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself. His counsel may then be useful when your own self-love might impair your judgement.

    Seneca

    The bitch of it is that you probably did the right thing, but you did it in the wrong way, in the inconvenient way. Now you have to pay the penalty for that. I know it stinks, but that's the way it is.

    President Luchenko, B5

    I learned that we all have choices, even when we don't recognize them, and that those choices have consequences, not just for ourselves, but for others. We must assume responsibility for those consequences.

    Sheridan, B5

    When your judgment is impaired, you can't judge how much you're impaired.

    From time to time, you will make mistakes. They're inevitable. Sometimes those mistakes will be...huge. What matters is that you learn from them. There's nothing wrong with falling down, so long as you end up just two inches taller when you pick yourself up off the floor. At times, you may end up far away from home. You may not be sure of where you belong anymore. But home is always there. Because home is not a place. It's wherever your passion takes you. As you continue on your path...you will lose some friends and gain new ones. The process is painful, but often necessary. They will change, and you will change because life is change. From time to time...they must find their own way, and that way may not be yours. Enjoy them for what they are. And remember them for what they were.

    Sheridan, Objects at rest, B5

    Just because there are shades of gray, it doesn't mean we can't tell black from white.

    Prayers

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    A Short Prayer
    Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
    The courage to change the things I cannot accept,
    and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people
    I had to kill today because they pissed me off
    and also,
    help me to be careful of the toes I step on today,
    as they may be connected to the ass that I may have to kiss tomorrow.

    Oh God of peace
    You have taught us that in returning and rest we shall be saved
    In quietness and confidence shall be our strength
    By the might of you spirit
    Lift us we pray to your presence
    Were we may be still and know that you are God

    We praise you oh God for you are without beginning and without end
    You are ruler of all that is seen and unseen
    You made the day to do work of light
    And the night for refreshment of our mind and bodies
    Loving lord and source of all that is good
    Accept our evening sacrafice we pray
    As you have brought us to this night's beginning
    Keep us now in christ and in the end bring us to everlasting life

    The gift of time. The gift of life. The gift of wisdom. The gift of light. For these things we are thankful. For these things we pray.

    G'Kar, B5

    May God stand between you and harm in all the empty places where you must walk.