Again and again. I’m with you.” –Mike Godwin, on the white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, VA on 12 August 2017 (sure, THAT Mike Godwin) “When somebody tells you who they’re, imagine them.” –Maya Angelou “”Don’t recklessly provoke nuclear battle” and ”be clearly opposed to Nazis” are presumably amongst the easiest parts of a President’s job.” –Matt Blaze “You can’t shake the Devil’s hand and say you’re only kidding.” –They Is likely to be Giants “I believe that music is, in actual fact, an unintended facet effect of the language system in the brain.” –Kurt Harland “A Christian writer asked me, ”Don’t you want the President to embody the Sermon on the Mount? Good hand washing is particularly essential between family members in households the place diapers are modified and toddlers want assistance after utilizing the bathroom. Ben Hughes “Dance like you’re utilizing the entropy generated by your movement to create cryptographic keys.” –Vi “If revolution results only in a change of dictatorship, then it is hardly price while.” –Emma Goldman “I’ve long suspected that the central aspect of my job is to try to gauge the weirdness quotient of the real world.” –William Gibson “You perceive actuality when everybody else is operating around confused and angry and upset because they suppose actuality is one thing happening to them, relatively than something they are making every moment with every thought.” –Andrew Hussie Revenge never pays what you assume it’s going to.
Michael Straczynski, on fen challanging his assumptions on the universes he created “If Morrissey says to not eat meat, then I’ll eat meat. That’s how much I hate Morrissey.” –Robert Smith “A lie would not grow to be truth, unsuitable would not turn out to be right, and evil does not develop into good simply because it is accepted by a majority.” –Booker T. Washington “To suffix things -punk now guarantees them a cozy sub-genre status, thereby protecting the established order from whatever real conceptual menace they might otherwise have posed. Punk is sheer conceptual menace, punching up.” –William Gibson “Any know-how, regardless of how primitive, is magic to those that do not perceive it.” –Florence Ambrose “You reside in a world the place an entire working system can match on a wafer skinny piece of plastic smaller than your finger tip. And you may run this on a $5 (or $10) pc that is small enough to give away on the cowl of a magazine. Try to be amazed, excited, and completely satisfied about this.” –Carter Nelson “Charismatic leaders must include a warning label on the forehead, ‘Could also be harmful to your well being.'” –Frank Herbert “When people perceive that the flipside of freedom is duty-then you definately begin asking for freedom from freedom.” –Nolen Gertz “I really feel like I grew a ache mustache right right here.” –Brian Brushwood “That looks protected.” –Jason Murphy “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as arduous as writing a program in the primary place. So if you’re as intelligent as you can be while you write it, how will you ever debug it?” –Brian Kernighan “Conservatism consists of precisely one proposition. There should be in-teams whom the regulation protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds however does not protect.” –Frank Wilhoit “If you happen to ever doubt the usefulness of your efforts, do not forget that a considerable quantity of bushes are planted by squirrels hiding nuts after which forgetting where they put ’em.” –Sargoth “Government taxes individuals based mostly on money. Charity taxes individuals based on kindness.” –Kevin Binswanger “The very first thing a principle does is kill somebody.” –Lord Peter Wimsey “Essentially the most terrifying truth concerning the universe just isn’t that it’s hostile, but that it’s indifferent. But if we are able to come to phrases with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have real that means. However vast the darkness, we should supply our personal light.” –Stanley Kubrick “The Lord of the Rings: A narrative where the social elite coerce a trust-fund kid’s onerous-working gardener into shouldering international dangers. Before it’s over, he has to physically carry his useless employer (and their jewelry assortment) up an active volcano.” –Edward Snowden “When I used to be young and foolish, I believed that there have been a lot of unhealthy ideas out there, however not that many really horrible folks. But it turns out that these horrible individuals not only exist, they run a lot of the world.” –Paul Krugman “Once you see one thing that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it solely after you will have had your technical success. That’s the best way it was with the atomic bomb.” –J.
Jason Murphy “I believe much of the protection of people like Musk (and Trump) is mostly a devotion to the promise of straightforward, magical fixes that absolve us of collectively performing the exhausting work and sacrifice needed to unravel genuinely troublesome problems.” –Matt Blaze “Never try to elucidate something to someone who is emotionally invested of their misunderstanding of the thing.” –Popehat “Always ask your self who advantages from you deciding not to bother.” –Tom Eastman “Trying to stay life perfectly is the other of living.” –Jason Scott “When did you first realize you had been in an alternate reality? For me, it was when the Cubs won the World Series.” –Nathalie Marechal, Ph.d Entrenched interests gonna entrench. Competant individuals who defend high value systems virtually by no means speak with this type of confidence, because it’s virtually by no means warranted.” –Matt Blaze “Make sure they don’t hit the weak level! Nostalgia is stagnation. Don’t forget the stories you love, however don’t allow them to keep you from rising, either.” –Matt “Don’t dance with the safety off.” –Snoozing Goddess “Modern cyberpunk is the newspaper.” –Kalt Null “Those sustaining positions of power will always encourage the liberty to talk about ideas, however by no means to act. Stone “We’re going full 80’s here, fucking lean in.” –Ross Payton “I’ve come to appreciate the usefulness of the vile time period ‘virtue signaling’; it’s employed almost exclusively by people who find themselves incapable of empathy. An efficient red flag for the dangerously narcissistic.” –Matt Blaze “George R.R. Martin shouldn’t be your bitch.” –Neil Gaiman “What did you suppose was going to occur?” –Paul Vixie “If you are EVER at a show with a performer and so they break down, please for the love of all thats holy do not shout ‘FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU.’ Seriously, have some goddamn empathy. I do not care if it’s Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Eminem or Celine Dion. Demand your money again, certain. Any performer who is publicly breaking down on stage goes by a horrific sufficient time as it’s. Don’t make their private fucking tragedy worse by throwing fuel on it. Love your performers. All of them mostly try pretty hard. We aren’t machines. We’re people. Shit occurs. Remember: When you’re at a show, the person you’re watching is an actual individual. Yes, they’re a professional and we’re good at switching modes. But you never know what is going on off that stage, in that individual’s life and coronary heart. Always do not forget that, at each live performance you go to ever.” –Amanda Palmer “I am skeptical that prayers will achieve world peace.” –The Dalai Lama “It is precisely when it seems most truthful that the picture is most diabolical.” –Jean Baudrillard “Many Americans will stay blissfully ignorant, if not aggressively supportive, of even the most excessive rights abuses – except they imagine that they themselves or people who appear to be them will probably be affected, in which case they will turn out to be extremely agitated in defense of the exact same rights that they’re more than pleased to watch be eroded when the victims are other people.” –Glenn Greenwald “Sure, Kill Bill is a violent movie. But it’s a Tarantino movie. You do not go to see Metallica and ask the fuckers to show the music down.” –Quentin Tarantino “Don’t let fear steal your joy.” –Lupa “Give us billionaires an additional hundred years and you may know what true wealth disparity seems like.” –Sean Parker “I constantly break a rule I consider to be not solely faux however pernicious. I do know what I’m doing and why.” –Ursula K. Le Guin “Libraries should be locations of dignity and bountiful doubt, because dignity is hope and doubt is the path to knowledge.” –Phil Shapiro “A company tradition is not defined by these fancy mission statements constructed by expensive consultants; it is outlined by who will get fired for which motive.” –Henry Baker “You don’t incrementally be taught a system. You ultimately unlearn its mandatory lies.” –Dan Kaminsky The medication of data, in an effort to be efficient, had typically to be disguised.
Dov Michaeli, MD, Ph.D “Everything the Communists advised us about communism was a whole and utter lie. Unfortunately, everything the Communists instructed us about capitalism turned out to be true.” –Post-Soviet Russian joke from the nineteen nineties “What Orwell feared had been those that would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no purpose to ban a e book, for there would be nobody who wished to read one. Orwell feared those that would deprive us of data. Huxley feared those that would give us a lot that we can be lowered to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth could be hid from us. Huxley feared the reality would be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we’d grow to be a captive tradition. Huxley feared we might develop into a trivial tradition.” –Neil Postman “Why don’t you make like a tree and slowly develop your maturity within a welcoming and supportive surroundings.” –@doththedoth “Whenever I hear about some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on about the evils of sodomy or whatever, I mentally enter his name in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner quite than later he might be discovered down on his weary and properly-worn outdated knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay nicely over the percentages to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.” –Christopher Hitchens “After each ego dying occasion, the new ego that arises is much less brittle, more resilient. What is going to destroy the sixth iteration of a person, the first iteration could not have survived mere contemplation of. Eventually the capability to let someone be incorrect on the web emerges.” –@chaosprime “What I’m saying is, the planet’s on fucking hearth!” –Bill Nye the Science Guy “When one teaches, two study.” –Robert A. Heinlein “It’s supremely unfair to target people for being ignorant at the present time when the whole training has been constructed to deaden the human intellect as an alternative of stimulate and develop it.” –Earthship Captain “You already know, I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m simply going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.” –Mitch Hedberg “Without deviation from the norm, progress isn’t doable.” –Frank Zappa “They are saying that if you don’t be taught from historical past you might be doomed to repeat it. In addition they say that historical past books are written by the victorious. It follows that given how little the history books talk concerning the preponderance of ignorance, that the idiots have been winning for a really very long time.” –Dildog “Crows roost communally. Crows can describe individual people and inform other crows of their group about threats and pals. Corvids are extremely clever and very social. Birds are dinosaurs. A part of the fun of feeding crows is realizing that, as a direct outcome, real live dinosaurs are going to talk to one another about you personally.” –Kistaro Windrider “Watching how IBM sells stuff and how their merchandise are being bought everywhere in the place is like watching missiles passing over one’s head, from A to B and from B to A. We’ve no management over it because it occurs Up There, however we certain as hell will be hit with blast, heat and radiation.” –Meadow Ellis “I have no empathy.” –Joe Biden “Science usually has been discredited by in style tradition.” –@lpgeffen “My voice was given to me as an instrument of inspiration for my associates, and a tool of torture and destruction to my enemies. An instrument of reality.” –Diamanda Galas “There’s normally nothing you are able to do for buddies who turn out to be ideologized. They’re like zombies, immune to logic, motive, and decency until the ideology passes, after which you will not want to explain what happened to them because they’re going to claim they have been against the ideology all alongside.” –Mojave Phone Booth “Collective good is lifeless. Only capitalist hell that makes somebody a transparent revenue from the exploitation of others exists.” –Munin “We do not have religion; we’ve changed it with science. And science is voodoo.” –T.