-- Sven's favourite quotes. THPXRF http://www.guckes.net/quotes/collection http://www.guckes.net/quotes/collection.txt Sven Guckes Latest change: Sat Aug 07 03:56:28 CEST 2021 -- =========================================================== === NEW =========================================================== -- 2021-08-22 the biggest communication problem: we do not listen to understand. we listen to reply. -- 2021-08-19 "Niemand ausser einem Toten darf die Wahrheit sagen." --Mark Twain https://rickrozoff.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/mark-twain-only-dead-men-dare-tell-the-whole-truth-about-war/ In 1905 he wrote a “War Prayer,” a bitterly powerful fragment of concentrated satire. Hear what Mr. [Albert Bigelow] Paine says about it: To Dan Beard, who dropped in to see him, Clemens read the ‘War Prayer,’ stating that he had read it to his daughter Jean, and others, who had told him he must not print it, for it would be regarded as sacrilege. ‘Still you are going to publish it, are you not?’ Clemens, pacing up and down the room in his dressing-gown and slippers, shook his head. ‘No,’ he said. ‘I have told the whole truth in that, and only dead men can tell the truth in this world. It can be published after I am dead.’ -- 2021-08-07 "Es gibt eine ideale Welt der Lüge, in der alles wahr ist." --Stanislaw Jerzy Lec -- 2021-07-08 "If you don't read the newspaper, you're uninformed. If you (do) read the newspaper, you're mis-informed." ― Mark Twain -- 2021-06-20 "Es muss sich alles ändern, damit es bleiben kann, wie es ist" --Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa -- 2021-06-07 "Wähle nie ein hohes Tier zum Scherz" -- 2021-06-06 Pohl's Law is either "No one is ever ready for anything" or "Nothing is so good that somebody, somewhere will not hate it". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_Pohl -- 2021-06-06 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMg_JkcOpqo Hilarious Signs Ever At The Local Gas Station 2021-04´5-27 8:58min psychic von cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. tradition is peer pressure from the dead. my wife said i don't listen to her.. or something like that. i used to think i was indecisive.. but now i'm not so sure. just sold my homing pigeon on ebay.. for the 22nd time. becoming a vegetarian is a big missed steak. the first five days after a weekend are the hardest. all those who believe in psychokinesis.. raise my hand. cant decide if i want to go off the grid or off the rails. astronauts use linux because cannot open windows in space. tried to grab the fog.. i mist. do UK web sites use biscuits instead of cookies? if two wrongs dont make a right.. try three! finish has closed its borders. noone can cross the finnish line. dont give up on your dreams! keep sleeping! flat earthers have nothing to fear but sphere itself. i call my horse MAYO and sometimes MAYO neighs. i am friends with 25 letters of the alphabet.. i dont know Y. geology rocks.. but it's geography where it's at. if a cow cant make milk.. is it an udder failure or a milk dud? why did the capacitator kiss the diode? he could not resistor. upholsters never die.. they just recover. in a world where you be anything.. be kind! dogs cannot operate MRI scanners.. but cats can. procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday the three unwritten rules of business: 1.. 2.. 3.. you are the SHE to my nanigangs. when i was on the computer i could not find ESC and i lost CTRL. haikus are easy but they do not make any sense refriderator what i if told you you read the top line wrong. -- 2021-06-04 "a backup withput a tested restore is NOT a backup" -- 2021-06-02 "Die Grenzen zwischen natürlichen und künstlichen Sprachen sind natürlich künstlich." -- 2021-06-02 "Es ist besser, ein einziges kleines Licht anzuzünden, als die Dunkelheit zu verfluchen." (Kung Fu Tse, ca 500 BC) -- 2021-05-30 Gary Delaney: "i went to see an acupuncturist.. when i came home my voodoo doll was dead." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1HO6wMGJL8 Whenever the maths teacher said show your working out I’d just smile and kiss my guns. I used to make crystal balls for a living but I couldn’t see any future in it. People who shoplift the dictionary have certainly got a way with words. How good is my speech therapist? It’s hard to say. There’s two types of people who don’t like Easter. Type 1 People on diets and Type 2 Diabetics. It must’ve been even more annoying being crucified at the start of a 4 day weekend. If dolphins are so clever, why haven’t they discovered fire? I’ve invested all my money in a perfume factory, my financial adviser warned me not to, but I think it makes scents. Why do you never see female mimes? I think there must be glass ceiling. -- 2021-05-29 "egal, was mann macht.. mann macht es falsch!" --me -- 2021-05-26 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klaatu_barada_nikto -- 2021-05-25 "planlos geht der plan los" -- 2021-05-23 "the above proposition is occasionally useful." Russell+Whitehead "Principia Mathematica" *110.643 -- 2021-05-21 "Expectations are undiscovered disappointments" -- 2021-05-06 "Der kommt oft am weitesten, der nicht weiß, wohin er geht" (Oliver Cromwell) -- 2021-04-16 "Wenn sie dir liniertes Papier geben, dann schreib quer dazu." ―Juan Ramón Jiménez (Nobelpreis für Literatur 1956) https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juan_Ram%C3%B3n_Jim%C3%A9nez -- 2021-04-05 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Henry_Channing "To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common — this is my symphony." --William Henry Channing -- 2021-03-23 "Why are people from Norway so good at editing files in Linux?" "Their ancestors are vi-kings." -- 2021-03-19 "I will always be on the side of those who have nothing and who are not even allowed to enjoy the nothing they have in peace." --Federico Garcia Lorca -- 2021-03-16 "there are no invisible computers - only hidden ones" -- 2021-03-14 "Poor countries are not 'under-developed', they are over-exploited." --Michael Parenti -- 2021-03-10 BitCoin+BlockChain: "Blockchain solves problems, they say. the only problem with Blockchain is, though, that we haven't found the problems it can solve." "Now that we have the solution.. where are the problems?" --Sven Guckes 2021-03-10 -- 2021-02-23 Zitate von Erich Kästner "Was auch immer geschieht: Nie dürft Ihr so tief sinken, von dem Kakao, durch den man Euch zieht, auch noch zu trinken!" --Erich Kästner "Wird's besser? Wird's schlimmer? fragt man alljährlich. Seien wir ehrlich: Leben ist immer lebensgefährlich!" "Wie gesagt, das Leben muss noch vor dem Tode erledigt werden." "Es gibt nichts Gutes, außer man tut es." "An allem Unfug, der passiert, sind nicht etwa nur die schuld, die ihn tun, sondern auch die, die ihn nicht verhindern." "Wie ihr's euch träumt wird Deutschland nicht erwachen denn ihr seid dumm und seid nicht auserwählt Der Tag wird kommen, da man sich erzählt: Mit diesen Leuten war kein Staat zu machen." Erich Kästner: "Marschliedchen" (1932) Epigramm #3: Elegie conditionalis Wenn nur das Vergängliche verginge, nur das Sterbliche und das Geringe, nur der Kummer, der uns quält, nur die Liebe, die uns fehlt, nur der Mensch, das Millimetermaß der Dinge,- wenn nur das Vergängliche verginge, bliebe das zurück, was zählt. Kennst Du das Land, wo die Kanonen blühn? Du kennst es nicht? Du wirst es kennenlernen! Dort stehn die Prokuristen stolz und kühn in den Büros, als wären es Kasernen. Vergiß in keinem Falle, auc dann nicht, wenn vieles mißlingt Die Gescheiten werden nicht alle! (So unwahrscheinlich das klingt.) Fürchte dich nicht vor den Dummen, die nichts wissen. Fürchte dich vor den Schlauen, die nichts fühlen. Wer was zu sagen hat, hat keine Eile. Er lässt sich Zeit und sagt's in einer Zeile. Freunde, nur Mut! Lächelt und sprecht: Die Menschen sind gut, bloß die Leut sind schlecht So haben sie mit dem Kopf und dem Mund den Fortschritt der Menschheit geschaffen. doch bei Lichte betrachtet sind sie im Grund noch immer die alten Affen. aus "Entwicklung der Menschheit" “Warum muß es immer so gemacht werden, wie es früher gemacht wurde? Wenn das konsequent geschähen wäre, säßen wir heute noch auf den Bäumen!” Bücher: "Emil und die Detektive" "Das fliegende Klassenzimmer" "Das doppelte Lottchen" "Als ich ein kleiner Junge war" "Über das Verbrennen von Büchern" "Drei Männer im Schnee" "Das Blaue Buch: Geheimes Kriegstagebuch 1941-1945." Erich Kästner *1899-02-23 +1974-07-29 -- 2021-02-10 "The perfect dictatorship would have the appearance of democracy, a prison without walls in which the prisoners would not dream of escape. A system of slavery where, through consumption and entertainment, slaves would love their servitude." --Aldous Huxley In the foreword to the second edition of "Brave New World": "A really efficient totalitarian state would be one in which the all-powerful executive of political bosses and their army of managers control a population of slaves who do not have to be coerced, because they love their servitude." see also: https://www.metabunk.org/threads/a-false-quote-attributed-to-aldous-huxley.6761/ -- 2021-02-10 "Früher war alles besser. Sogar die Zukunft." -- Karl Valentin -- 2020-12-19 "we must believe in free will. we have no choice." -- 2020-12-19 "wäre es nicht schön, wenn Europa mehr Immigranten aufnehmen könnte als das Mittelmeer?" -- 2020-12-05 "Vergebung ist leicher zu erlangen, als eine Genehmigung." "it is better to ask for forgiveness than for permission." -- 2020-12-05 "I'm giving up drinking until Christmas." "I'm giving up. drinking until Christmas." punctuation matters! -- 2020-12-05 "You eat sausages your whole life but you refuse vaccine because you don’t know what’s in it." -- 2020-11-25 "Fachkräftemangel ist wie Ferrarimangel. Man hätte gerne einen für unter 1000€ - aber man findet keinen." -- 2020-11-24 it's either "nothing is working - why are the adnmins good for?" or it is "everything is working.. why do we need those admins?" -- 2020-11-23 "can i solve this problem.. pyrotechnically?" "can -- 2020-11-16 ""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 -- 2020-11-14 Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. -- 2020-11-14 "von der wiege bis zur bahre.. formulare, formulare!" -- 2020-11-12 Welcher Käse lockt Bären an? - Der Come on Bear. -- 2020-11-12 "PIRATEN weinen nicht. PIRATEN heulen Rum." -- 2020-10-13 „In der Pandemie muss jeder mal Abstriche machen.“ -- 2020-10-13 "Wir gehen uns nachher Ferngläser kaufen..." "Und dann?" "Dann sehen wir weiter!" -- 2020-09-13 "Adding car lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity." — Lewis Mumford, 1955 -- 2020-09-05 Unbefugten ist der Zutritt zur Zukunft verboten. -- 2020-08-22 "Wer glaubt, Humor bestehe darin, sich über andere lustig zu machen, hat Humor nicht verstanden. Um komisch zu sein, muß man sich vor allem selbst zur Disposition stellen." --Victor von Bülow aka Loriot (12. November 1923 - 22. August 2011) -- "Scheiße!" "Du musst das positiv sehen!" "Schöne Scheiße!" -- 2020-02-16 "An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field." -- Niels Bohr -- 2020-02-16 in a world where you can be anything.. be nice! -- nerd speak Mit einer Blockchain/Linux wär das nicht passiert! Read the friendly/fucking manual Wenn es nichts kostet, bist du nicht der Kunde, sondern das Produkt. lem sitzt vor dem Rechner. (pebkac) Eine unverschlüsselte E-Mail ist nicht sicherer als eine Postkarte. Kein Backup, kein Mitleid. Linux ist nur ein Kernel. Es heißt Leuchte, nicht Lampe. Es gibt Schriften, Schriftfamilien, Schriftklassifikationen und Schriftschnitte. Aber KEINE SCHRIFTARTEN!!11! Haben Sie es schon mit Ausschalten und Wieder-Anschalten versucht? Have you tried turning it off and on again? HTML ist keine Programmiersprache. -- “A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation.” --Gustavo Petro -- "This is Linux country/land. On silent nights you can hear the Windows machines reboot" -- "on the internet of things, nobody knows you're a fridge" -- "i asked God for a bike. but then i know God does not work that way. so i stole a bike.. and asked God for forgiveness." -- Keiner von uns kommt lebend hier raus. Also hört auf, euch wie ein Andenken zu behandeln. Esst leckeres Essen. Spaziert in der Sonne. Springt ins Meer. Sagt die Wahrheit und tragt euer Herz auf der Zunge. Seid albern. Seid freundlich. Seid komisch. Dafür ist Zeit! --Anthony Hopkins -- Dr. Christian Lübbers @drluebbers 2018-08-28: "I have a dream that medicine will one day not be judged by popularity but by the level of its evidence." -- "ümläütö sönd öbörböwörtöt" -- From what we get, we make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. --Artur Ashe -- die vier reiter der informationsapokalypse.. kinderdrogenpornoentführungsterroristen. -- Humor ist der Knopf, der verhindert, daß einem der Kragen platzt. --Ringelnatz -- "No matter where you go, there you are." --Buckaroo Banzai https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Buckaroo_Banzai_Across_the_8th_Dimension -- nur die harten kommen in dengarten und die härteren bekommen die gärtnerin -- #rmll2018 2018-07-08 "it is getting harder every day to become younger." @Aime38 :) -- "ich verschenke, was ich weiss, und verkaufe, was ich kann." wissen vs erfahrung -- "In War: Resolution, In Defeat: Defiance, In Victory: Magnanimity, In Peace: Good Will." -- Winton Churchill -- "Man muss immer Partei ergreifen. Neutralität hilft dem Unterdrücker, niemals dem Opfer. Stillschweigen bestärkt den Peiniger, niemals den Gepeinigten." Elie Wiesel, Holocaust-Überlebender -- getretetner Quark wird breit, nicht stark. -- OH: "Schlaf ist eine Koffeinmangelerkrankung" #EH18 -- ich hatte Werner Koch mal gefragt, warum GNUpg so viele optionen haette, und zwar in dem sinne "kann man da nicht was einsparen?" aber er meinte dann (paraphrasiert): "ich fand es schon immer cool, dass mein programm mehr optionen hat als mutt." hehe ;) -- The 6 Stages of Debugging: (1) That can't happen. (2) That shouldn't happen. (3) Hmmm, weird. (4) Why does that happen? (5) Oh, I see. (6) How did that ever work? -- Motto für Berlin: "Wir verhandeln nicht mit Touristen" -- "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." --Edsger Dijkstra -- ein sysadmin schläft nie... er root. -- Lerne Programmieren, damit Du nicht programmiert wirst. -- "Why don't poor people just buy more money!?!?" -- "do not invest more than you can afford to lose" -- PRIVACY "your communication is as safe as your correspondant" "Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead." Ben Franklin. -- because constructive criticism is better than false flattery. -- "One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple." --Jack Kerouac "The Dharma Bums" -- "When UX doesn’t consider all users, shouldn’t it be known as ‘Some User Experience’ or... SUX? #a11y" https://twitter.com/thebillygregory/status/552466012713783297 —-Billy Gregory -- each new user uncovers a new class of bugs. -- "Der Ziellose erleidet sein Schicksal - der Zielbewusste gestaltet es." --Immanuel Kant -- "a smile is just a frown - turned upside down" The Undisputed Truth: "Smiling Faces" -- "Steter Hopfen ölt den Stein" -- "Denk dir mal eine Zahl aus." "17" "Gibt's schon." -- "Haben Sie Hobbys?" "Ich habe Laster. Sind wie Hobbys, nur in cool." -- Use of proper grammar and punctuation is the difference between a sentence that’s well written and a sentence that’s, well, written. -- https://twitter.com/Roh_Stoff/status/912707328817991680 Roh Stoff @Roh_Stoff Sep 26 Wie gehst du mit sensiblen Daten um? "Ich höre Ihnen zu, mach Kakao und decke Sie nachts zu!" -- "Wer nix zu verbergen hat muss seine Identität nicht verschleiern." -- meine nachbarn hören gute musik - ob sie wollen, oder nicht. -- "Eine Lüge ist bereits dreimal um die Welt gelaufen, bevor sich die Wahrheit die Schuhe anzieht" --Mark Twain (1835-1910) -- rule #0: dont act in a way that requires us to create a new rule. -- "NEWS": rich people paying rich people to tell middleclass people to blame poor people. -- wer nichts zu verbergen hat, hat bereits alles verloren -- "When it gets down to having to use violence, then you are playing the system's game. The establishment will irritate you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight. Because once they've got you violent, then they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humor." --John Lennon -- "Datenspeicherung - nur solange der Vorrat reicht." -- "Highway to Hell" vs "Stairway to Heaven" -- wer hat uns verraten? metadaten! (sticker von netzpolitik.org) -- good fences make good neighbors -- Edward Snowden @Snowden Sep 19 https://twitter.com/Snowden/status/910179285603901442 "jWe live in a moment when officials are applauded for lying and indicted for speaking the truth." -- "The report of my death has been greatly exaggerated." -- "haben sie hobbys?" "nein.. ich habe laster. sind wie hobbys..nur cooler." -- https://twitter.com/ErnstvAll/status/906774937528098816 Deutsche Grammatik Heute: Ortsabhängige Artikel Beim Bäcker Der Weizen - Das Korn Beim Wirt Das Weizen - Der Korn -- https://twitter.com/calvinb/status/907794337492332544 Calvin Bottoms @calvinb Sep 13 This Fibonacci joke is as bad as the last two you heard combined. -- wer nicht wählt, wird trotzdem regiert. nicht wählen ist *nicht* neutral. -- Farbod Saraf @farbodsaraf 3 Dec 2016 https://twitter.com/farbodsaraf/status/805082957048401920 Language of a strong manager: 1 I am proud of you. 2 I trust our team. 3 what do you think? 4 how can I help? 5 I was wrong, I am sorry. -- https://twitter.com/AurelGergey/status/858222256253796352 "Du bezahlst nicht die 10 Minuten, die ich brauche. Du bezahlst die 10 Jahre, die ich brauchte, um es in 10 Minuten zu machen." --Haeme Ulrich -- "Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay to greatness." --Oscar Wilde -- https://twitter.com/EuRo4242 Es gibt immer genau drei Optionen: Ändern, verlassen oder ertragen. Jammern ist keine Option. -- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annamarie_Doherr#Dokumentation_der_Frage_an_Walter_Ulbricht 1961-06-15: Annamarie Doherr: "Ich möchte eine Zusatzfrage stellen. Doherr, Frankfurter Rundschau. Herr Vorsitzender, bedeutet die Bildung einer freien Stadt Ihrer Meinung nach, dass die Staatsgrenze am Brandenburger Tor errichtet wird? Und sind Sie entschlossen, dieser Tatsache mit allen Konsequenzen Rechnung zu tragen?" Walter Ulbricht: "Ich verstehe Ihre Frage so, dass es Menschen in Westdeutschland gibt, die wünschen, dass wir die Bauarbeiter der Hauptstadt der DDR mobilisieren, um eine Mauer aufzurichten, ja? Ääh, mir ist nicht bekannt, dass [eine] solche Absicht besteht, da sich die Bauarbeiter in der Hauptstadt hauptsächlich mit Wohnungsbau beschäftigen und ihre Arbeitskraft dafür voll ausgenutzt wird, voll eingesetzt wird. Niemand hat die Absicht, eine Mauer zu errichten." -- "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." by Mark Twain? -> https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:History -- banksy @thereaIbanksy 2017-07-31 https://twitter.com/thereaIbanksy/status/892062460819247104 "Birds born in cages think freedom is a crime." -- democracy: three wolves and a lamb decide what's for dinner. -- GRAMMAR! "That didn't work as expected." "That didn't work, as expected." -- "stell dir vor es ist cyberwar - und keiner logt sich ein." --Sven Guckes 2017-07-07 -- "There once was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. That time was called 'the Dark Ages'." -- Richard Lederer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Lederer -- "I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done." -- Lucille Ball, 1947. -- My girlfriend asked why I carry a gun around the house? I looked her dead in the eye and said: "the motherfucking decepticons". She laughed, I laughed, the toaster laughed, I shot the toaster.. it was a good time. -- "verschluesseln sie ihre daten - bevor es jemand anderes tut" -- Working in IT: when everything works -> why are we paying you? when nothing works -> why are we paying you? "Because do you know how to fix them when they eventually break, or can you afford my consultation fee to call me back in?”" -- "Eine Lebensversicherung ist das Geld, das man bekommt, wenn man einen tödlichen Unfall überlebt." -- "drahtlos? ratlos." "kabel ist das beste wlan" "Wer Funk kennt, nimmt Kabel." -- Vegetarier sollten nicht speckulieren. -- "Wir töten auf der Basis von Metadaten." - The Johns Hopkins Foreign Affairs Symposium 2014-04-01 http://www.nybooks.com/daily/2014/05/10/we-kill-people-based-metadata/ -- es gibt nur zwei arten von admins: jene, die schonmal den falschen server durchgestartet haben und jene, denen das noch passieren wird. -- während die diktatur schläft wacht die diktatur auf. -- https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick "The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death — however mutable man may be able to make them — our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfillment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." Interviewed by Eric Nordern, Playboy (September 1968); later published in Stanley Kubrick: Interviews (2001) https://f4.bcbits.com/img/a1760781686_10.jpg -- Sie dürfen nicht alles glauben, was sie denken. (Heinz Ehrhardt) -- "Sie war betrunken, also ist sie selber schuld. Er war betrunken, als kann er nichts dafür." *grr* Warnt nicht eure Töchter. Erzieht Eure Söhne! -- Wer A sagt, muß nicht B sagen. Er kann auch erkennen, daß A falsch war. - Bertolt Brecht -- Denn die einen sind im Dunkeln und die andern sind im Licht und man siehet die im Lichte die im Dunkeln sieht man nicht. - Bertolt Brecht, Dreigroschenoper -- Ja, mach nur einen Plan sei nur ein großes Licht und mach dann noch 'nen zweiten Plan gehn tun sie beide nicht. - Bertolt Brecht, Dreigroschenoper -- Berliner Klopsgeschichte . Ick sitz an' Tisch und esse Klops uff eenmal klopts. Ick kieke, staune, wundre mir, Uff eenmal jeht se uff, die Tür! Nanu, denk ick, ick denk nanu, Jetz is se uff, erst war se zu. Ick jehe raus und kieke Und wer steht draußn? Icke! . (Entnommen aus: Ewald Harndt, "Französisch im Berliner Jargon", Verlag Das Neue Berlin, 1990) -- A wonderful bird is the Pelican. His beak can hold more than his belly can. He can hold in his beak Enough food for a week! But I'll be darned if I know how the hellican? -- "Hoffen und harren hält manchen zum Narren." -- "Es war mir eine Lehre Sie kennenzulernen." -- "You misspelled ‘Bangkok’" - "Oh sorry, that was a Thaipo" -- "Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age. Privacy is not secrecy. A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know. Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world." "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto" (1993) by Eric Hughes -- "your password must contain a capital letter, a lowercase letter, a digit, a symbol, an inspiring message, a spell, a gang sign, a hieroglyph, and the blood of a virgin." -- Truth + God = Life. => Truth = Life - God. -- The worst about #censorship is ██████████████████████████████ -- https://twitter.com/anachorete/status/315411183521894401 +1 @DasLiedVomHass Lehrer: Was könnt ihr weder sehen noch fühlen aber braucht es dennoch zum Leben? Schüler 1990: Luft Schüler 2013: WLAN -- die welt... "gott hat es mir geborgt" :-) -- Berlin ist eine Reise wert Belrin ist eine leise Welt X-) -- the three big Rs: "Restart, Reboot, Reinstall" the *four* big Rs: "Retry, Restart, Reboot, Reinstall" -- "a sheep, a drum, and a snake fall down a cliff... *baa-dumm-tsss*" -- http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odeandie_Freude Freude, schöner Götterfunken 1. Freude, schöner Götterfunken, Tochter aus Elysium! Wir betreten feuer trunken, Himmlische, Dein Heiligtum. Deine Zauber binden wieder, was die Mode streng geteilt, alle Menschen werden Brüder, wo Dein sanfter Flügel weilt. Seid umschlungen, Millionen! Diesen Kuss der ganzen Welt! Brüder, überm Sternenzelt muss ein lieber Vater wohnen, Brüder, überm Sternenzelt muss ein lieber Vater wohnen! 2. Wem der große Wurf gelungen, eines Freundes Freund zu sein, wer ein holdes Weib errungen, mische seinen Jubel ein! Ja, wer auch nur eine Seele sein nennt auf dem Erdenrund! Und wer's nie gekonnt, der stehle weinend sich aus diesem Bund! Was den großen Ring bewohnet, huldige der Sympathie. |: Zu den Sternen leitet sie, wo der Unbekannte thronet. :| 3. Freude heißt die starke Feder in der ewigen Natur; Freude, Freude treibt die Räder, in der großen Weltenuhr. Blumen lockt sie aus den Keimen, Sonnen aus dem Firmament, Sphären rollt sie in den Räumen, die des Sehers Rohr nicht kennt. Froh wie seine Sonnen fliegen durch des Himmels prächtigen Plan, laufet Brüder, eure Bahn, freudig wie ein Held zum Siegen! 4. Freude sprudelt in Pokalen; in der Traube goldnem Blut trinken Sanftmut Kannibalen, die Verzweiflung Heldenmut. - Brüder, fliegt von euren Sitzen, wenn der volle Römer kreist; lasst den Schaum zum Himmel spritzen: -- Code, code, code your way Gently down the screen Commit early, commit often And life is but a dream! #Git #humour #GNUVerbatim via Shakthi Kannan on 2017-01-22 on facebook -- "hab letztens nen chemie-witz erzählt... keine reaktion!" -- SPRÜCHE REDEWENDUNGEN "y u no .." -> why dont you do X? "die nachfolgenden X verzögern sich wegen Y" "Für die einen ist es ein X, für die anderen der/die/das größte Y der Welt." "Friede den Hütten! Krieg den Palästen!" -- über den Brocken: "Viele Steine, Müde Beine, Aussicht Keine" --Heinrich Heine (1824) -- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berliner_Mauer 18:57h Schabowski: "Privatreisen nach dem Ausland können ohne Vorliegen von Voraussetzungen [Reiseanlässe und Verwandtschaftsverhältnisse] beantragt werden. Die Genehmigungen werden kurzfristig erteilt. Die zuständigen Abteilungen Pass- und Meldewesen der VPKÄ -- der Volkspolizeikreisämter -- in der DDR sind angewiesen, Visa zur ständigen Ausreise unverzüglich zu erteilen, ohne dass dafür noch geltende Voraussetzungen für eine ständige Ausreise vorliegen müssen. Ständige Ausreisen können über alle Grenzübergangsstellen der DDR zur BRD erfolgen […]" Brinkmann: "Wann tritt das in Kraft?" Schabowski: "Das tritt nach meiner Kenntnis … ist das sofort, unverzüglich." -- 2016-12-10 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights "All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights." . "Alle Menschen sind frei und gleich an Würde und Rechten geboren. Sie sind mit Vernunft und Gewissen begabt und sollen einander im Geist der Brüderlichkeit begegnen." . -> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Declaration_of_Human_Rights -- "merry crisis - and a happy new fear" -- "becoming a vegetarian is a big missed steak" -- methusalix: "du kennst mich doch, ich habe nix gegen fremde. einige meiner besten freunde sind fremde. ab diese fremden da sind nicht von hier." -- "ein echter pirat weint nicht. ein echter pirat heult RUM." -- "Solange du dein LAN-Kabel in unseren Switch steckst, wird geroutet was in die Table kommt" -- Tuttle: "...well, that's a pipe of a different color." "Listen, this old system of yours could be on fire and I couldn't even turn on the kitchen tap without filling out a 27b/6... Bloody paperwork." -- Simon Leung-Chester 2016-11-21 I love the comment: First they came for the Porn Sites, and I did not speak out— Because I didn’t watch Porn. Then they came for the Torrent Sites, and I did not speak out— Because I didn’t torrent. Then they came for the Bitcoin Sites, and I did not speak out— Because I didn’t pay with bitcoin. Then they came for me for using VPN and there was no one left to speak for me. -- "was ist der unterschied zwischen einem Comedian und einem Kabarettisten? der eines macht wegen dem geld - und der andere wegen des geldes." -- "an opinion without 3.14 is just an onion." -- Hacker knacken, Gamer zocken. 2016-11-20 -- "Alle Verallgemeinerungen sind falsch!" -- "Alkohol ist nicht die Antwort, aber man vergisst wenigstens die Frage" -- "Ein von einem Akademiker geschmiertes Brötchen ist wissenschaftlich belegt!" -- "Wenn ein unordentlicher Schreibtisch einen unordentlichen Geist repräsentiert, was sagt dann ein leerer Schreibtisch aus über den Menschen, der ihn benutzt?" -- "there is a fine line between fishing.. and standing on the shore, looking like an idiot." -- "vor den congressen - nach den congressen - passwörter ändern nicht vergessen" -- "wer keine fehler macht, macht was falsch" -- "mountains aren't just funny.. they're hill areas!" -- "Machen ist wie wollen, nur krasser." -- how many potential Einsteins were never discovered because they were forced to priotize their economic needs over their creative capabilities? -- remember: "a space is a space is a space is a space!" -- https://twitter.com/peterglaser/status/780523830947250176 "Wieviele CDs du auch immer hast, Gottlieb Daimler hat Mercedes." -- "A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece." Ludwig Ehrhardt -- "Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Angers leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." --YODA -- https://twitter.com/peterglaser/status/764109382233776128 Peter Glaser @peterglaser Aug 12 "Wir wollen nicht spalten - wir wollen versöhnen, vertöchtern, veronkeln, vertanten, verneffen und vernichten. #Appelbaum #Assange" -- http://www.tfes.org/ The Flat Earth Society has members all around the globe -- "Das Glück der Erkennenden mehrt die Schönheit der Welt und macht alles, was da ist, sonniger; die Erkenntnis legt ihre Schönheit nicht nur um die Dinge, sondern, auf die Dauer, in die Dinge; – möge die zukünftige Menschheit für diesen Satz ihr Zeugnis abgeben!" Friedrich Nietzsche, "Morgenröte", viertes Buch: "Erkenntnis und Schönheit" -- "Es kann nicht die Aufgabe eines Politikers sein, die öffentliche Meinung abzuklopfen und dann das Populäre zu tun. Aufgabe des Politikers ist es, das Richtige zu tun und es populär zu machen." --Walter Scheel (1919-2016) -- "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them." --Albert Einstein -- "That didn't work as expected." "That didn't work, as expected." -- worry is a misuse of imagination -- "Hast Du Zaziki im Essen, kannst Du Flirten vergessen." Satz des Pitagyros -- https://twitter.com/choreosa/status/762243680476524544 "Seitdem ich letzte Woche beim Rasenmähen einen Veganer überfahren habe, brauche ich nicht mehr zu düngen." -- on the Statue of Liberty: "Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" -- https://twitter.com/geekintheblond/status/481329840780759040 "Wie ist denn das Wetter bei euch?" "Caps Lock." "Hä?" "Na ja, Shift ohne Ende!" Warum ich es schwer habe. -- "Ist noch gebratenes λ?" "Nein - das φ ist noch fast ρ." -- "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." -- Winston S. Churchill -- yes, english can be weird. it can be understood through tough thorough thought, though. -- BGHSt 2, 197 (202), "Mängel im Wissen sind zu einem gewissen Grade behebbar." -- if you have a pool then you might as well fill it with water, right? think about it! o_O (1) nobody has done it before. (2) we havent done it yet. (3) we must have a law first! (4) imagine if everyone was doing it. (5) only business must do it. (6) this needs to be taxable. if you can create a business and pay taxes then you might take all the water you need - even if someone's home burns to the ground. -- Wer Waffen sät, erntet Flüchtlinge. -- Religion ist, wenn man trotzdem stirbt (Jürgen Becker) "religion is when you die, anyway." -- To make your own Holy water, boil the Hell out of it. :P -- "For what it's worth: it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of, and if you find you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over again." --F. Scott Fitzgerald -- "Hacker Ethic": * be safe * not damage anything * not damage anyone, either physically, mentally or emotionally * be funny, at least to most of the people who experience it -- "You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means" - --Inigo Montoya in "Princess Bride" -- die arbeiterklasse hat keine arbeit, die mittelschicht hat keine mittel, und die herrschende klasse hat keine klasse. --Gonzalo Ernesto Caceres -- "In today's world five times more time and money is being invested in drugs for male virility and silicone implants for women, than in the cure of Alzheimer's disease .. In a few years to come we'll have grammas with large breasts and grandpas with hard penis, but they won't remember what they're for. Just take a moment and think about your priorities. It is a pity that diseases such as Alzheimer are so forgotten." Brazilian Oncologist Drauzio Varella, Nobel Prize for Medicine. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drauzio_Varella -- "Frauen, die denken, sind genauso furchtbar wie Männer, die sich schminken." Gräfin Orsina in "Emilia Galotti" von Gotthold Ephraim Lessing -- "The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts, while the stupid ones are full of confidence." --Charles Bukowski -- "No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come." --Victor Hugo -- Wer will, dass ihm die anderen sagen, was sie wissen, der muss ihnen sagen, was er selbst weiß. Das beste Mittel, Informationen zu erhalten, ist Informationen zu geben. --Niccolò Machiavelli -- when exposing a crime is treated as committing a crime then you are rules by criminals. -- same-sex marriage is not gay priviledge, it's equal rights. priviledge would be something like gay people not paying taxes - like churches don't. -- "alles Zweifelhafte muss angezweifelt werden." --Wau Holland -- "You aren't remembered for doing what is expected of you." --Atul Chitnis -- when you have more than what you need - build a longe table, not a higher fence. -- "Die Herrschenden werden aufhören zu herrschen, wenn die Kriechenden aufhören zu kriechen." -- Friedrich Schiller -- "Was nützt die Freiheit des Denkens, wenn sie nicht zur Freiheit des Handelns führt." -- Jonathan Swift -- "Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted." -- William B Cameron -- "i'd rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that cannot be questioned." -- Richard Feynman -- "It is far better to be alone than to be in bad company." -- George Washington -- "you can't recycle wasted time." -- "i'm a social vegan. i avoid meet." -- you dont see faith healers workling in clinics for the same reason you dont see psychics winning the lottery. -- 2016-04-30 richard albrecht: "linuxtage: linuxer erzählen sich gegenseitig wie toll linux ist" -- https://books.google.at/books?id=vQWbBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA121&lpg=PA121&dq=das+wesen+der+mathematik+liegt+in+der+freiheit%22&source=bl&ots=_CWnvra6GH&sig=pRcr6qzT9TT_rjwFKbWII_ZG7nI&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiZ7OmzocXMAhUEXhQKHTXCCekQ6AEIXDAJ#v=onepage&q=das%20wesen%20der%20mathematik%20liegt%20in%20der%20freiheit%22&f=false "Es ist, wie ich glaube, nicht nötig, in diesen Grundsätzen irgendeine Gefahr für die Wissenschaft zu befürchten, wie dies von vielen geschieht; .. Dagegen scheint mir aber jede überflüssige Einengung des mathematischen Forschungstreibens eine viel größere Gefahr mit sich zu bringen und eine umso größere als dafür aus dem Wesen der Wissenschaft wirklich keinerlei Rechtfertigung gezogen werden kann; denn das Wesen der Mathematik liegt gerade in ihrer Freiheit." --Georg Cantor -- "urheberrecht?" "urheber hat *immer* recht!" ;) -- "What information consumes is rather obvious: it consumes the attention of its recipients. Hence a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention, and a need to allocate that attention efficiently among the overabundance of information sources that might consume it." ―Herbert Simon Source/Notes: "Computers, Communications and the Public Interest", pages 40-41, Martin Greenberger, ed., The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. -- if you dont like $foo then just look away - just like you do with corruption, war, poverty, environmental destruction and homelessness. -- 2016-04-17 "$HOME is where the bandwidth is!" -- ""Once the rockets are up who cares where they come down, 'That's not my department', says Wernher von Braun."" Tom Lehrer -- "There's a reason you separate military and the police. One fights the enemies of the state, the other serves and protects the people. When the military becomes both, then the enemies of the state tend to become the people." Commander William Adama in "Battle Star Galactica" -- "Soylent Green is people!" -- WarGames CPE1704TKS Defcon NORAD WOPR http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/quotes "Joshua: Hello. A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?" -- MEPHISTOPHELES: Ich bin der Geist, der stets verneint! Und das mit Recht; denn alles, was entsteht, Ist wert, daß es zugrunde geht; Drum besser wär's, daß nichts entstünde. So ist denn alles, was ihr Sünde, Zerstörung, kurz, das Böse nennt, Mein eigentliches Element. -- not all girls are made of sugar and spice and everything nice. Some girls are made of adventure, fine beer, brains and no fear. -- FOR SALE: Parachute. Used once. Never opened. Slightly Stained. -- if tetris has taught me anything, it's that error pile up and accomplishments disappear. -- [2016-04-08] der post-digitale sechskampf: runterladen, ausfuellen, ausdrucken, einscannen, faxen - und anrufen, um auf den eingang des fax hinzuweisen. -- "It's better to be judged by 12, than carried by six" -- "hyphenated". "non-hyphenated." the irony. -- "lichtung": manche meinen lechts und rinks kann man nicht velwechsern werch ein illtum --Ernst Jandl -- "We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living." --Richard Buckminster Fuller (12 July 1895 – 1 July 1983) -- not my circus, not my monkeys (polish proverb) not my circuit, not my mosfet (electronic engineers) -- "je gehetzter, desto esel." -- "i always thought everyone was against war, until i found out that there are some who do not have to attend." "ich dachte immer, jeder Mensch sei gegen Krieg, bis ich herausfand, dass es welche gibt, die nicht hingehen müssen." --Erich Maria Remarque (1898-1970) -- "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?" "That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat. "I don't much care where-" said Alice. "Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat. "-so long as I get SOMEWHERE," Alice added as an explanation. "Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough." (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Chapter 6) -- a user interface is like a joke: if you have to explain it then it's not that good. (Palle Riismoeller) -- ".. und ein MEGAbyte, liebe kinder, das ist ein tausendvierundzwanzigstel eines GIGAbytes.." -- Staring Girl: I once knew a girl who would just stand there and stare. At anyone or anything, she seemed not to care. She'd stare at the ground, She'd stare at the sky. She'd stare at you for hours, and you'd never know why. But after winning the local staring contest, she finally gave her eyes a well-deserved rest. -- "Books are no more threatened by Kindles than stairs are by elevators." --Stephen Fry -- wer das rauchen aufgibt, langweilt sich an der bushaltestelle - und muss nach dem sex *reden*. -- "I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel." --Maya Angelou -- https://twitter.com/jan_mayen/status/597146619004514304 https://twitter.com/jan_mayen/status/597146572963602433 Wir produzieren Sicherheit damit ihr alle sicher seid! Füllen Frieden ab in Fässern und wollen damit die Welt verbessern. Und wenn der erste Schuß dann kracht und alles liegt in Asche. Dann werden die Fässer aufgemacht und jeder kriegt 'ne Flache. -- "Duschen Sie nach dem Sex?" - "Ja, klar." "Dann sollten Sie dringend mal wieder ficken!!!!" -- "Ihre EDV-Kenntnisse?" "Ich kann mich im Umgang mit MS Office beherrschen." "Sie meinen, Sie beherrschen den Umgang mit MS Office?" "Nein." -- "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live." --John Woods --Martin Golding -- Two atoms are walking down the street. One says, "Wait, I think I lost an electron." The other says, "Are you sure?" The first one says, "Yeah, I’m positive." -- 2016-02-01 11:41 Rhonda f4m8: hysterical raisins 2016-02-01 11:42 * Rhonda . o O ( historical reasons ) -- "den 10:ten July 1770: nichts"; "den 19:ten July 1770: gar nichts erlebt. Auch schön." --Wolfgang "Wolferl" Amadeus Mozart http://www.literaturkritik.de/public/rezension.php?rez_id=9233&ausgabe=200604 -- "It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple." Meyer's Law -- "Everyone is normal until you get to know them." Dave Sim, Cerebus: Women -- "what is the difference between USA and USB?" "One connects you to all your devices and acesses your data - and the other one is a hardware standard." -- zeige einem schlauen menschen ein fehler - und er wird sich bedanken. zeige einem dummen menschen ein fehler - und er wird dich beleidigen. [Laotse 553 v.Chr.] -- sei wie du bist. irgendwann kommt es ja doch heraus.. -- "The freelance writer is a man who is paid per piece or per word or perhaps." -- Robert Benchley "Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." -- Benjamin Franklin "Write what should not be forgotten." -- Isabel Allende -- "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it..." "I can resist everything but temptation." --Oscar Wilde -- 1995: Every object in your home has a clock & it is blinking 12:00 2025: Every object in your home has a IP address & the password is Admin -- Vernünftig ist wie tot, nur früher. -- traurigsein ist wie schokolade: es ist nicht gut, damit zu lange allein zu sein. https://twitter.com/McHeidy/status/687234745030213632 -- for those who understand no explanation is needed for those who dont understand no explanation is possible. -- CLOUD = Collect Lots Of User Data -- "Wie kann ich wissen, was ich denke, bevor ich höre, was ich sage?" -- Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970) -- * The best way to predict the future is to invent it. * Alan Kay (1971) at a 1971 meeting of PARC http://www.smalltalk.org/alankay.html ("no route to host") -- hacker vs nerds: die einen sind verplant - und die anderen zu verPLANT -- "character" is how you treat those who can do nothing for you. -- We can design a system that's proof against accident and stupidity; but we CAN'T design one that's proof against deliberate malice. -- a spaceship designer in Arthur C. Clarke's "2001: A Space Odyssey" -- schwarzer humor ist wir ein paar beine... hat nicht jeder! :-P -- "There can be no faith in government if our highest offices are excused from scrutiny - they should be setting the example of transparency." --Edward Snowden -- "If one would give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest man, I would find something in them to have him hanged." Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu et de Fronsac -- "Der meiste Schaden, den der Computer potenziell zur Folge haben könnte, hängt weniger davon ab, was der Computer tatsächlich kann oder nicht kann, als vielmehr von den Eigenschaften, die das Publikum dem Computer zuschreibt." --Joseph Weizenbaum (1976) -- "there is no cloud. just other people's computers." -- Hacker finden kreative Lösungen für interessante Probleme. -- In den ersten Lebensjahren eines Kindes bringen ihm die Eltern Gehen und Sprechen bei, in den späteren verlangen sie dann, dass es stillsitzt und den Mund hält. (Johann Nepomuk Nestroy, 1801-1862) -- [2015-11-10] (1) sharing is caring. -> teachers care. (2) people without questions dont care. -> enforced teaching is a waste of time. (3) people who give their own work's money to obtain more experience are motivated. (4) people who have questions are motivated. i love sharing my knowledge with people who are motivated. i take my time talking to people about the goals before each session (workshop, personal coaching). i try to give them as many answers as possible, and will look up info to answer questions which i do not yet have ready myself. i will always refer people to people whom i think can give a better answer. my aim will always be to make the computer a more effective tool and to take out TIME from repetitive tasks. freeing TIME is the main goal. and if the total sum of time saved exceeds my own life span then i have lived. :-) -- die ersten 50 jahre der kindheit sind immer die schwersten. -- unfavourable truths: "UNlimited is an UNtruth." (data storage, bandwidth) "whatever is technologically possible, will be done. even when it contradicts ethics, moral, or law." "You are not remembered for doing what is expected of you" -- 9.Nov.1989: Peter Brinkmann: "Wann tritt das in Kraft?" Günter Schabowski (1929-2015): "Das tritt nach meiner Kenntnis.. ist das sofort, unverzüglich." -- Art.1 des Grundgesetzes: Die Würde des Menschen ist unantastbar. Sie zu achten und zu schützen ist Verpflichtung aller staatlichen Gewalt. -- "waiting is the longest time" -- i asked the librarian about te book on Pavlov's dog and Schroedinger's cat. she said the name rings a bell - but she wasnt sure whether it was there or not. -- "every single one of us has been a victim of NSA's spying. all human beings who use the internet are victims of it. and the victims deserved to know what has happened to them." -- Julian Assange -- dass man erwachsen geworden ist, merkt man daran, dass die monster unterm bett in den briefkasten umgezogen sind. -- wichtiger als der richtige weg ist die richtige richtung -- "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete." --Buckminster Fuller -- "The most important thing I've accomplished, other than building the compiler, is training young people. They come to me, you know, and say, 'Do you think we can do this?' I say, "Try it." And I back 'em up. They need that. I keep track of them as they get older and I stir 'em up at intervals so they don't forget to take chances." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper (1906-1992) -- "caution: this maschine has no brain. use your own!" -- "Der Zeit ihre Kunst, der Kunst ihre Freiheit" der Wahlspruch der Secession https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiener_Secessionsgeb%C3%A4ude -- Please, don't tell me what to do to, just show me what you did. https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/dont-tell-me-what-to-do-974fbfe7900 -- "Remember, good code is like a good joke: It needs no explanation." -- "All right then," said the savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. "Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat, the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen tomorrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence. "I claim them all," said the Savage at last. ["Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley] -- Im Glück nicht jubeln und im Sturm nicht zagen, Das Unvermeidliche mit Würde tragen, Das Rechte tun, am Schönen sich erfreuen, Das Leben lieben und den Tod nicht scheuen Und fest an Gott und bessre Zukunft glauben Heißt leben, heißt dem Tod sein Bittres rauben. -- Adolf Friedrich Carl Streckfuß (1779-1844) deutscher Schriftsteller, Übersetzer und Jurist https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Streckfuß -- i dont know how to act my age - i have never been this old before. -- 2015-09-10 im realraum.at: der 3d drucker druckt.. geräusche wie bei einem computer-spiel.. "das hat irgendwas beruhigendes.." "das geht vorbei." --equinox -- "Every sufficiently documented bug is a feature." -- "wenn kriege durch lügen begonnen werden können, dann können sie auch von der wahrheit beendet werden." --Julian Assange -- "people who feel safer with a gun than with guaranted medial insurance don't have yet a fully adult concept of scary." --William Gibson -- "i refuse to be a member of a club that would have me as a member." --Groucho Marx -- "In der internationalen Politik geht es nie um Demokratie oder Menschenrechte. Es geht um die Interessen von Staaten. Merken Sie sich das, egal, was man Ihnen im Geschichtsunterricht erzählt." -- Egon Bahr (Heidelberg, 2013-12-04) (1922-03-18 -- 2015-08-20) -- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/B%C3%BCcherverbrennung#Heinrich-Heine-Zitat "Das war ein Vorspiel nur, dort wo man Bücher verbrennt, verbrennt man auch am Ende Menschen." --Heinrich Heine -- everyone you meet is fighting a battle you know nothing about. be kind. always. -- ich will kopien data von ihren kopien copy meiner daten! laws #datenkopiegesetze #datacopylaws -- "Da steh ich nun, ich armer Tor, und bin so klug als wie zuvor." --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Werk: Faust) -- you must unlearn what you have learned. --Yoda -- Star light, star bright - first star I see tonight - wish i may, wish i might have this wish i wish tonight. -- "Wer von seinem Tag nicht zwei Drittel für sich selbst hat, ist ein Sklave." --Friedrich Nietzsche -- : "True horror/terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country." --Kurt Vonnegut -- "A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man." --Joseph Campbell in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces" -- Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -- David Hume (1776, paraphrasing Epicurus c. 300 BC) -- "mwiba wa kuji choma, huambiwi pole" ~ "when you prick yourself intentionally, no one says sorry" -- "The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality." --Dante Alighieri -- speak the truth - even when your voice shakes sprich die wahrheit - auch wenn denien stimme zittert -- Note to experienced users: Please don't encourage anti-support behavior. Don't try to answer questions from users who don't provide the necessary information. Guessing what they did is an incredible waste of time. (DJB) -- "yes, english can be weird. it can be understood through tough thorough thought, though." :) -- die piratenpartei ist so basisdemokratisch - da muss man sich nach *unten* durchschlafen! -- "In zweifelhaften Fällen entscheide man sich für das Richtige." --Karl Kraus -- mein gott gewinnt im hundert-meteer-lauf - dein gott loest sich in coca-cola auf. -- das leben ist zu kurz für schlechtes leben. --me -- Arguing that you don‘t care about the right to privacy because you have nothing to hide is no different than saying you don‘t care about free speech because you have nothing to say. --Edward Snowden -- "A person dies three times: The day he dies. The day the last person who knew him dies. The day his name is spoken for the last time." -- "Leave nothing but footprints. Take nothing but pictures. Kill nothing but time" – John Kay -- "Jede Person hat das Recht auf Achtung ihres Privat- und Familienlebens, ihrer Wohnung und ihrer Korrespondenz" (Art. 8 EMRK) -- Elwood: It's 106 miles to Chicago, we got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark... and we're wearing sunglasses. Jake: Hit it. -- "Im Wein ist die Wahrheit, im Bier die Freundschaft und im Wasser sind die Bakterien" ;-) 2015-05-13 09:43 lionping -- "wer fertig ist hat sich seine ziele nicht hoch genug gesteckt" --Peter Buzanits 2015-05-07 im Harvest -- we love the machine but hate the factory -- freedom isnt free for everyone -- government should protect people and regulate corporations - not the other way round. -- there is no cloud.. there are only data centers of others. -- Es sprach der Scheich zum Emir: Komm, zahl'n wir und dann geh'n wir. .. Der Emir sprach zum Scheich: Zahl'n ma später, geh'n ma gleich. .. Da sprach der Abdul Hamid Das Tischtuch neh'ma a' mit. -- "Auf einer Skala von 1 bis 10, wieviel Nerd steckt in dir?" - "3.1415926535897" . "mein passwort sind die letzten sieben stellen von \Pi." -- https://twitter.com/alphabetismus/status/468393923011149824 Jedes Mal, wenn man mir sagt, ich wäre nicht gesellschaftsfähig, werfe ich einen Blick auf die Gesellschaft, und bin überaus erleichtert. -- There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. --Ernest Hemingway -- »Let’s talk about how we can use technology to improve people’s physical lives.« --Ilya Zhitomirskiy in Berlin June 2011 -- There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator. (Maria in the film "Metropolis") -- https://twitter.com/wiretapped/status/586959442647855104 Leif Ryge @wiretapped 2015-04-11 reminder: the terms "deep web" & "dark web" should be used to describe paywalls, facebook apps, & any site with arbitrary login requirements -- "This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot." -- The difference between patriotism and nationalism is that the patriot is proud of his country for what it does, and the nationalist is proud of his country no matter what it does; the first attitude creates a feeling of responsibility, but the second a feeling of blind arrogance that leads to war. --Sydney J. Harris (1917-1986) -- "They did not know it was impossible so they did it" --Mark Twain -- je mehr sie über sich wissen - desto leichter kriegen sie dich. http://www.bigbrotherawards.at/2000/img/animat-atk.gif -- FEAR = Forget Everything And Run FEAR = Face Everything And Rise -- "Freiheit stirbt mit Sicherheit." --Kurt Tucholsky (1890-1935) -> http://www.sudelblog.de/?p=394 -- geheimnisse sind heilig, denn wissen ist macht. -- "niemand hat das recht nur zu gehorchen". --Hannah Arendt -- Sprueche: "weisser mann bringen unruhe in konfigurationsdatei" "Ich bleib stark wie Quark!" -- Privacy is not about having something to hide, it is about having the *right* to control what you want to share and what you want to keep to yourself. -> control over copies of your personal data. -- A computer would deserve to be called intelligent if it could deceive a human into believing that it was human. --Alan Turing -- No, I'm not interested in developing a powerful brain. All I'm after is just a mediocre brain, something like the President of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. --Alan Turing -- Es war einmal ein Kaiser, der war vom Schreien ganz heiser. Da sprach zu ihm ein Weiser: Majestät sprechen besser etwas leiser! -- "i always though that the idea of education was to think for yourself.." http://eusters.soup.io/post/509983003/Image -- "You must never be fearful about what you are doing when it is right." –- Rosa Parks -- freedom of opinion? freedom of onion! -- PARA NOI-JAHR -- "every feature you cannot turn off is a bug" -- funny words: Bißgurke -- we never really grow up - we just learn how to behave in public. -- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? -- rage.. rage.. against the dying of the light --Dylan Thomas: "Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night" -- wenn ich den See seh, brauch ich kein Meer mehr -- There's probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy life. -- "Ich bin IMMER muede. Ausser wenn ich schlafe, da geht's" -- "You need Power only when you want to do something harmful otherwise Love is enough to get everything done." --Charles Chaplin -- Whatever crumbles your cookie! Whatever floats your boat! Whatever peels your banana! -- KEEP CALM and ENCRYPT YOUR EMAILS read the constitution - not my emails! -- vorwärts dein schritt - aufwärts dein blick! -- "der papa kann nicht kochen und bauen gleichzeitig - er ist ja keine frau." --Melanie [2014-11-07] erfinderin des snickers broetchen. -- Erziehung lohnt sich nicht. Kinder machen ihren Eltern doch sowieso alles nach! --Karl Kraus -- im walde sitzt ein auerhahn der schaut mich ganz schön sauer an aber das ist mir jetzt egal, weil ich jetzt penne und zwar mit seiner auerhenne -- doubt has killed more dreams than failure ever will. -- No amount of violence can solve a math problem. -- are we using crypto because they might be after us - or because they *are*? ;) -- "You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build up a new model that makes the existing model obsolete" --R. Buckminster Fuller -- Worry is a total waste of time. It doesnt change anything. All it does is steal your time and keeps you busy doing nothing. -- we make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. --Sir Winston Churchill -- just when i discovered the meaning of life they changed it. -- Man muss das Unmögliche versuchen, um das Mögliche zu erreichen. -- Deal with the world you have. Work for the world you want. Prepare for the world you fear. ~ Jayson E Street 2014 -- Alles ist vergänglich - nur der Kuhschwanz der bleibt länglich -- Was liegt am Strand und ist schwer zu verstehen? Eine Nuschel. Was hoppelt über die Wiese und brennt? Ein Kaminchen. -- Nick Selby @nselby 2013-10-03 Pro Tip: The message, "Password contains invalid characters" means your Becurity team, architects and IT people need to be fired. -- "The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door." --G.K. Chesterton -- "The right to be let alone is indeed the beginning of all freedom." --William Douglas -- Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: You understand it better, but it dies in the process. -- Nationalism teaches you to take pride in shit you haven't done - and to hate people you haven't met. -- "Choose a job you love, and you'll never have to work again for the rest of your life." -- mathematics is art where the medium is "proof". -- Any theory that cannot be shared in everyday conversation cannot be used to educate the public. By bell hooks (via riseabovethemadness) -- when a person kills a person then it's murder. when a government kills a persons then it is a "human rights violation". -- "The future is here, it's just not evenly distributed yet." --William Gibson What futures have you seen that are here, but unrecognized? http://www.ted.com/conversations/69/william_gibson_said_the_futur.html -- "Das Wesen der Mathematik liegt in ihrer Freiheit." --Georg Cantor -- Jede Geschichte hat vier Seiten: Deine Seite, Ihre Seite, die Wahrheit - und das, was wirklich passiert ist. -- "Yesterday upon the stair I met a man who wasn't there. He wasn't there again today -- I think he's from the CIA." -- "I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies: 1. Anything that is in the world when you're born is normal and ordinary . and is just a natural part of the way the world works. 2. Anything that's invented between when you're fifteen and thirty-five is new . and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it. 3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things." --Douglas Adams -- I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in. --George McGovern -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Ring . Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky, . Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone, . Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die, . One for the Dark Lord on his dark throne . In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. . One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, . One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them . In the Land of Mordor where the Shadows lie. -- If you're sad - you're living in the past. If you're afraid - you're living in the future. If you're calm - you're living in the present. -- "Our culture has accepted two huge lies. The first is that if you disagree with someone's lifestyle, you must fear or hate them. The second is that to love someone means you agree with everything they believe or do. Both are nonsense. You don't have to compromise convictions to be compassionate." - Rick Warren -- Fear does not prevent death - it prevents life. --Naguib Mahfouz -- To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom. The freedom to criticize ideas, any ideas - even if they are sincerely held beliefs - is one of the fundamental freedoms of society. A law which attempts to say you can criticize and ridicule ideas as long as they are not religious ideas is a very peculiar law indeed. --Rowan Atkinson -- If you want to build a ship, do not drum up people to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- if you can solve your problem, then what is the NEED of worrying? if you can NOT solve your problem, then what is the USE of worrying? -- "Freedom is not ours by inheritance. It must be fought for and defended constantly by each generation, for it comes only once to a people. Those who have known freedom and then lost it have never known it again." ... -- It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue. --Stephen Fry -- What is the difference between Mechanical Engineers and Civil Engineers? Mechanical Engineers build weapons. Civil Engineers build targets. -- "You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." --Ray Bradbury -- "Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you're there. It doesn't matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that's like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime." --Ray Bradbury (Fahrenheit 451) -- if students get a sound education in history, social effects, and psychological biases they may grow to be adults who use technology rathern than be used by it. --Neil Postman -- the issue is not the size of government. the real issue is who the government is working for. --Robert Reich -- either you have a question which needs data or a dataset which needs questioning. -- All that is needed for the forces of evil to succeed is for enough good men to remain silent. see: http://tartarus.org/martin/essays/burkequote2.html -- Democracy is 51% of the people taking away the rights of the other 49%. --Thomas Jefferson -- the standard you walk by is the standard you accept. -- the first casualty when war comes is truth. --Hiram Johnson (1866-1945) -- Make sure you have finished speaking before your audience has finished listening. --Dorothy Sarnoff -- Calories only exist if you count them. -- I can't understand why people are afraid of new ideas. I'm afraid of old ones. --John Cage -- "Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny. In this war, we know, books are weapons." --Franklin Rosemont http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklin_Rosemont -- it's impossible - said Pride. it's risky - said Experience. it's pointless - said Reason. "give it a try" whispered the heart. -- Most people die at 25 and aren't buried until they're 75. --Benjamin Franklin -- holding on to anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die. --Buddha -- that's one of the remarkable things in life: it's never so bad that it cannot get worse. --Calvin (Bill Watterson) -- "Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." --Mark Twain -- das formulieren intelligenter saetze ist schwierig. schon ein einziger buchstabendreher kann den ganzen satz urinieren. -- the most important things in life are not "things". -- But there never seems to be enough time To do the things you want to do Once you find them Jim Croce "Time in a Bottle: -- "Wo Unrecht zu Recht wird, wird Widerstand zur Pflicht". --Bertolt Brecht -- "it's 106 miles to chicago. we've got a full tank of gas, half a pack of cigarettes, it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses. hit it!" -- "When plunder becomes a way of life for a group of men living together in Society, they create for themselves in the course of time a legal system that authorizes it and a moral code that glorifies it." --Clause Frederic Bastiat https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fr%C3%A9d%C3%A9ric_Bastiat -- "Wer Sicherheit der Freiheit vorzieht, ist zu Recht ein Sklave." --Aristoteles -- I don't want to live in a world where everything that I say, everything I do, everyone I talk to, every expression of creativity or love or friendship is recorded. And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build, and it's not something I'm willing to live under. --Edward Snowden http://mondoweiss.net/2013/07/i-dont-want-to-live-in-a-world-where-every-expression-of-creativity-or-love-or-friendship-is-recorded-full-transcript-of-snowdens-latest-interview.html -- the paste, presence, and future walked into a bar.. it was tense. -- "Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency... Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real." --General Douglas MacArthur, 1957 -- "Once a government resorts to terror against its own population to get what it wants, it must keep using terror against its own population to get what it wants. A government that terrorizes its own people can never stop. If such a government ever lets the fear subside and rational thought return to the populace, that government is finished." --Michael Rivero -- Drones don't kill people, people with drones kill people. -- ".. die Strenge der Beweise (die nur mit Mitteln der /Logik/, nicht mit denen einer wie auch immer gereigneten und verfeinerten Anschauung zu fuehren sind --- und schon gar nicht mit den drei traditionsreichsten "Beweis"-Mitteln: Ueberredung, Einschuechterung und Bestechung), ..." --Harro Heuser - Lehrbuch der Analysis, Teil 1 -- "O, wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world, That has such people in't!" --William Shakespeare, The Tempest -- Nichts ist besser als gar nichts. --Herbert Achternbusch -- Drug (n): any substance that, when injected into a rat, produces a journal article. -- All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and, therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words "Ich bin ein Berliner!" --John F. Kennedy (1963-06-26) -- Let's kiss under the ancient trees And whisper secrets in the breeze, silently sitting by the bay Just you and me - and NSA. -- In God we trust, all others we monitor. -- Wenn die Regierung das Volk fürchtet, herrscht Freiheit. Wenn das Volk die Regierung fürchtet, herrscht Tyrannei. --Thomas Jefferson (1734-1826), dritter Präsident der USA -- "Was ist der Überfall auf eine Bank gegen die Gründung einer Bank? Bankraub ist eine Unternehmung von Dilettanten. Wahre Profis gründen eine Bank." --Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht (1898-1956) -- "Ich sehe in naher Zukunft eine Krise heraufziehen. In Friedenszeiten schlägt die Geldmacht Beute aus der Nation, und in Zeiten der Feindseligkeiten konspiriert sie gegen sie. Sie ist despotischer als eine Monarchie, unverschämter als eine Autokratie, selbstsüchtiger als eine Bürokratie. Sie verleumdet all jene als Volksfeinde, die ihre Methode in Frage stellen und Licht auf ihre Verbrechen werfen. Eine Zeit der Korruption an höchsten Stellen wird folgen, und die Geldmacht des Landes wird danach streben, ihre Herrschaft zu verlängern, bis der Reichtum in den Händen von wenigen angehäuft und die Republik vernichtet ist." --Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865), 16. US-Präsident, am 21.11.1864 -- lieber staendig uebernaechtig als staendig ueberwacht. -- "Man gebe mir sechs Zeilen, geschrieben von dem redlichsten Menschen, und ich werde darin etwas finden, um ihn aufhängen zu lassen." Armand-Jean I. du Plessis de Richelieu, genannt Kardinal Richelieu -- Eisenhower's Farewell Address to the Nation http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/ike.htm . In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. . We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes. We should take nothing for granted. Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together. -- Wehret den Anfängen! Als sie die Kommunisten holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Kommunist. Als sie die Sozialdemokraten holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Sozialdemokrat. Als sie die Gewerkschafter holten, habe ich geschwiegen; ich war ja kein Gewerkschafter. Als sie mich holten, gab es keinen mehr, der protestieren konnte. . First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out because I was not a communist; Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out because I was not a socialist; Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out because I was not a trade unionist; Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak out. . --Martin Niemöller (1892-1984) deutscher Theologe und Widerstandskämpfer gegen den Nationalsozialismus -- In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act. --George Orwell -- "Wo aber Gefahr ist, wächst das Rettende auch". "But where danger lies, there also grows that which saves." -- Goals are beyond computers. Computers are Tools! -- "Ti Kwan Leep" aka "Boot To The Head" by The Frantics http://dmdb.org/lyrics/boot.to.the.head.html Teacher: Who disturbs our meditation, as a pebble disturbs the stillness of the pond? Teacher: Ti Kwan Leep is not a path to a door, but a road leading forever towards the horizon. Ed Gruberman: Yeah yeah yeah, patience. How long will that take? Teacher: No, um...Ti Kwan Leep is the wine of purity, not the vinegar . of hostility. Meditate upon this truth with us. Aaaaoooommm... Teacher: You are lucky, Ed Gruberman. Few novices experience so much of Ti Kwan Leep so soon. Teacher: You gain wisdom, child. -- there are so many scientists in hell already that it is probably airconditioned by now. -- Geschwindigkeit ist keine Hetzerei! -- Zusammenkommen ist ein Anfang, Zusammenbleiben ist ein Fortschritt, Zusammenarbeiten ist ein Erfolg. --Henry Ford -- I'm sure we all agree that we ought to love one another, and I know there are people in the world who do not love their fellow human beings -- and I hate people like that! --Tom Lehrer -- hardware wird schneller langsam als software schnell wird. -- Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist. --Pablo Picasso -- it's not okay anymore to not understand how the internet works. -- Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. --Andrew Tanenbaum (1981) -- with enough of us, around the world, we'll not just send a string message opposing the privatization of knowledge - we'll make it a thing of the past. --Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) -- in the end, we will not remember the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. --Martin Luther King -- Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them. --Dalai Lama Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. --Dalai Lama -- what you can't open, you don't own If you can't open it, you don't own it -- if it's important to you, you will find a way. if it's not, you will find an excuse. -- a fool with a tool is still a fool. . you can give people a chest of tools, and you can tell them about experience - but you cannot give them the experience they have to experience it themselves. -- "Wer will // daß die Welt // so bleibt // wie sie ist // der will nicht // daß sie bleibt" -- Erich Fried "those who want the world to remain as it is do not want the world to remain (at all)" -- Erich Fried -- The future offers little hope that mechanical slaves will offer a rest from thinking --Norbert Wiener -- Lust&Laune statt Law&Order! -- 7 Rules of Life 1. Make peace with your past so it won't screw up the present. 2. What others think of you is none of your business. 3. Time heals almost everything; give it time! 4. Don't compare your life to others and don't judge them. . You have no idea what their journey is all about. 5. Stop thinking too much. It's alright not to know all the answers. . They will come to you when you least expect it. 6. No one is in charge of your happiness, except you. 7. Smile. You dont own all the problems in the world. -- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. -- George Bernard Shaw -- Verbringe nicht die Zeit mit der Suche nach einem Hindernis. Vielleicht ist keins da." --Franz Kafka -- alcohol is not the answer - it simply makes you forget the question. -- Die größte Kunst ist, den Kindern alles, was sie tun oder lernen sollen, zum Spiel zu machen. -- John Locke, Philosoph (1632-1704) -- http://www.wurstball.de/86357/ i dont understand why when we destroy something created by man "vandalism", but when we destroy something created by nature, we call it "progress". --Ed Bigley Jr -- wicked Poems: "father heard his children scream - so he threw them in the stream. saying as he drowned the third: children should be *seen*, not heard!" when grandmama fell off the boat - and wouldn't swim nor wouldn't float.. Mathilda just stood by - and smiled! i almost could have slapped the child! -- http://t.co/TDBl6ce3 #Usability wants us to die rich. #UX wants us to die happy. Hassenzahl and Roto, from "the Being and Doing" article -- Gentlemen we have no money, therefore we must think. -- Ernest Rutherford -- die sechs wunder des sozialismus: (1) es gibt keine arbeitslosigkeit, aber niemand arbeitet. (2) keiner arbeitet, aber jeder erhaelt lohn. (3) aller erhalten lohn, aber damit kann man nichts kaufen. (4) man kann nichts kaufen, aber jeder besitzt alles. (5) jeder besitzt alles, aber alle sind unzufrieden. (6) alle sind unzufrieden, aber alle stimmen bei den wahlen fuer das system. -- Im Kaffeehaus sitzen Leute, die allein sein wollen. dafuer aber Gesellschaft brauchen. --Alfred Polgar -- Artificial Intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. -- was ist nun der unterschied zwischen einem comedian und einem kabarettisten? der comedian macht es wegen dem geld - und der kabarettist wegen des geldes. -- Ich mag mich nicht gern mit der Kirche auseinandersetzen; es hat ja keinen Sinn, mit einer Anschauungsweise zu diskutieren, die sich strafrechtlich hat schützen lassen. -- Kurt Tucholsky (?) -- Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see. -- when you say YES to others - make sure you're not saying NO to yourself. --Paulo Coelho -- was ist der unterschied zwischen kostenlos und umsonst? ich bin kostenlos zur schule gegangen - und du umsonst. -- "The planet does not need more 'successful' people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kinds. It needs people to live well in their places. It needs people with moral courage willing to join the struggle to make the world habitable and humane and these qualities have little to do with 'success' as our culture is the set." --Dalai Lama -- Everything that irritates us about others, can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. --Carl Jung -- Journalism is printing what someone else does not want printed. Everything else is public relations. --George Orwell -- If you wind up with a boring, miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher, your priest, or some guy on TV telling you how to do your shit, then YOU DESERVE IT. --Frank Zappa -- repect existence or expect resistance! -- Don't explain. Your friends do not need it, and your enemies will not believe you. -- Paulo Coelho -- You don't stop doing things because you get old. You get old because you stop doing things. --Rosamunde Pilcher http://j.mp/hIysWp -- There are two rules for success: 1. never tell everything you know. --Roger H. Lincoln -- I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question. --Harun Yahya -- "Es ist so unerhört lächerlich, dass alle die Länder, die von sich behaupteten, sie seien die freiesten Länder, in Wahrheit ihren Bewohnern die geringste Freiheit gewähren und sie das ganze Leben hindurch unter Vormundschaft halten. Verdächtig ist jedes Land, wo soviel von Freiheit geredet wird, die angeblich innerhalb seiner Grenzen zu finden sei. Und wenn ich bei einer Einfahrt in den Hafen eines großen Landes eine Riesenstatue der Freiheit sehe, so braucht mir niemand zu erzählen, was hinter der Statue los ist. Wo man so laut schreien muß: Wir sind ein Volk von freien Menschen!, da will man nur die Tatsache verdecken, dass die Freiheit vor die Hunde gegangen ist oder dass sie von Hunderttausenden von Gesetzen, Verordnungen, Verfügungen, Anweisungen, Regelungen und Polizeiknüppeln so abgenagt worden ist, dass nur noch das Geschrei, das Fanfarengeschmetter und die Freiheitsgöttinnen übriggeblieben sind." -- B. Traven, "Das Totenschiff" -- you can lead a horse to water - but you cannot make it drink. -- "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be." --Douglas Adams -- "I have as yet to determine which is more frightening, the possibility that there may be other life in the universe or the possibility that we are entirely alone." (Bill Watterson) -- Abraham fragt Bebraham: "Kann ich mal dein Zebra ham?" Sagt Bebraham zu Abraham: "warum willst Du mein Zebra ham?" Sagt Abraham zu Bebraham: "weil Arafat mein Fahrrad hat" -- There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who divide the world into two kinds of people, and those who don't. -- i think the problem with people is that they are so stupid that they dont know how stupid they are. http://sfm.soup.io/post/237960641/Bild -- stop complaining - and do something about it! -- Before you talk, listen. Before you act, think. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. -- Ernest Hemingway -- Expectation is the root of all heartache. --Shakespeare -- We live in the era of smart phones - and stupid people. -- The Internet is for PORN.. and free speech, scientific information, innovation, journalism, and democracy.. and CATS! -- "Die glücklichen Sklaven sind die erbittertsten Feinde der Freiheit." --Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -- Wenn Frauen die Welt regieren würden gäbe es keine Kriege. Nur ein paar eifersüchtige Länder die nicht miteinander reden. -- nicht gemeckert ist gelobt genug. ehre ist zwang genug. (ere is dwang genoch) -- Once you have found the right drugs, you do not see the problem with drugs any more. -- A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of fools. --Douglas Adams . There's no system foolproof enough to defeat a sufficiently great fool. --Edward Teller -- What i hear - I forget. What I see - I remember. What I do - I understand. Tell me - and I'll forget. Teach me - and I'll remember. Involve me - and I'll learn. -- "Institutions will try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution." -- Clay Shirky -- "People run from rain but sit in bathtubs full of water." -- Charles Bukowski -- waere die welt eine bank, haettet ihr sie laengst gerettet! (GreenPeace) -- everybody talks about leaving a better planet for the children. why nobody tried to leave better children to the planet? -- if you're not outraged, you're not paying attention. -- People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. -- Søren Kierkegaard -- Do not regret getting older... it's a privilege denied to many. -- Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074958/quotes Network (1976) Howard Beale: I don't have to tell you things are bad. Everybody knows things are bad. It's a depression. Everybody's out of work or scared of losing their job. The dollar buys a nickel's worth, banks are going bust, shopkeepers keep a gun under the counter. Punks are running wild in the street and there's nobody anywhere who seems to know what to do, and there's no end to it. We know the air is unfit to breathe and our food is unfit to eat, and we sit watching our TV's while some local newscaster tells us that today we had fifteen homicides and sixty-three violent crimes, as if that's the way it's supposed to be. We know things are bad - worse than bad. They're crazy. It's like everything everywhere is going crazy, so we don't go out anymore. We sit in the house, and slowly the world we are living in is getting smaller, and all we say is, 'Please, at least leave us alone in our living rooms. Let me have my toaster and my TV and my steel-belted radials and I won't say anything. Just leave us alone.' Well, I'm not gonna leave you alone. I want you to get mad! I don't want you to protest. I don't want you to riot - I don't want you to write to your congressman because I wouldn't know what to tell you to write. I don't know what to do about the depression and the inflation and the Russians and the crime in the street. All I know is that first you've got to get mad. You've got to say, 'I'm a HUMAN BEING, God damn it! My life has VALUE!' So I want you to get up now. I want all of you to get up out of your chairs. I want you to get up right now and go to the window. Open it, and stick your head out, and yell, 'I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!' I want you to get up right now, sit up, go to your windows, open them and stick your head out and yell - 'I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Things have got to change. But first, you've gotta get mad!... You've got to say, 'I'm as mad as hell, and I'm not going to take this anymore!' Then we'll figure out what to do about the depression and the inflation and the oil crisis. But first get up out of your chairs, open the window, stick your head out, and yell, and say it: "I'M AS MAD AS HELL, AND I'M NOT GOING TO TAKE THIS ANYMORE!" -- http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032553/quotes The Great Dictator (1940): I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible; Jew, Gentile, black man, white. We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery. We don't want to hate and despise one another. In this world there is room for everyone, and the good earth is rich and can provide for everyone. The way of life can be free and beautiful, but we have lost the way. Greed has poisoned men's souls, has barricaded the world with hate, has goose-stepped us into misery and bloodshed. We have developed speed, but we have shut ourselves in. Machinery that gives abundance has left us in want. Our knowledge has made us cynical; our cleverness, hard and unkind. We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity. More than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. The airplane and the radio have brought us closer together. The very nature of these inventions cries out for the goodness in men; cries out for universal brotherhood; for the unity of us all. . Even now my voice is reaching millions throughout the world, millions of despairing men, women, and little children, victims of a system that makes men torture and imprison innocent people. To those who can hear me, I say, do not despair. . The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed, the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish. Soldiers! Don't give yourselves to brutes, men who despise you, enslave you; who regiment your lives, tell you what to do, what to think and what to feel! Who drill you, diet you, treat you like cattle, use you as cannon fodder. Don't give yourselves to these unnatural men - machine men with machine minds and machine hearts! You are not machines, you are not cattle, you are men! You have the love of humanity in your hearts! You don't hate! Only the unloved hate; the unloved and the unnatural. Soldiers! Don't fight for slavery! Fight for liberty! . In the seventeenth chapter of St. Luke, it is written that the kingdom of God is within man, not one man nor a group of men, but in all men! In you! . You, the people, have the power, the power to create machines, the power to create happiness! You, the people, have the power to make this life free and beautiful, to make this life a wonderful adventure. . Then in the name of democracy, let us use that power. Let us all unite. Let us fight for a new world, a decent world that will give men a chance to work, that will give youth a future and old age a security. By the promise of these things, brutes have risen to power. But they lie! They do not fulfill that promise. They never will! Dictators free themselves but they enslave the people. Now let us fight to fulfill that promise. Let us fight to free the world! To do away with national barriers! To do away with greed, with hate and intolerance! Let us fight for a world of reason, a world where science and progress will lead to all men's happiness. Soldiers, in the name of democracy, let us all unite! . Hannah, can you hear me? Wherever you are, look up Hannah! The clouds are lifting! The sun is breaking through! We are coming out of the darkness into the light! We are coming into a new world; a kindlier world, where men will rise above their hate, their greed, and brutality. Look up, Hannah! The soul of man has been given wings and at last he is beginning to fly. He is flying into the rainbow! Into the light of hope, into the future! The glorious future, that belongs to you, to me and to all of us. . Look up, Hannah. Look up! ----------------------------------------------------- "Es tut mir leid, aber ich möchte nun mal kein Herrscher der Welt sein, denn das liegt mir nicht. Ich möchte weder herrschen, noch irgendwen erobern, sondern jedem Menschen helfen, wo immer ich kann. Den Juden, den Heiden, den Farbigen, den Weißen. Jeder Mensch sollte dem anderen helfen, nur so verbessern wir die Welt. Wir sollten am Glück des Anderen teilhaben und nicht einander verabscheuen. Hass und Verachtung bringen uns niemals näher. Auf dieser Welt ist Platz genug für jeden, und Mutter Erde ist reich genug, um jeden von uns satt zu machen. . Das Leben kann ja so erfreulich und wunderbar sein. Wir müssen es nur wieder zu leben lernen. Die Habgier hat das Gute im Menschen verschüttet und Missgunst hat die Seelen vergiftet und uns im Paradeschritt zu Verderb und Blutschuld geführt. Wir haben die Geschwindigkeit entwickelt aber innerlich sind wir stehen geblieben. Wir lassen Maschinen für uns arbeiten und sie denken auch für uns. Die Klugheit hat uns hochmütig werden lassen, und unser Wissen kalt und hart. Wir sprechen zu viel und fühlen zu wenig. Aber zuerst kommt die Menschlichkeit und dann erst die Maschinen. Vor Klugheit und Wissen kommt Toleranz und Güte. Ohne Menschlichkeit und Nächstenliebe ist unser Dasein nicht lebenswert. . Aeroplane und Radio haben uns einander näher gebracht. Diese Erfindungen haben eine Brücke geschlagen, von Mensch zu Mensch. Die erfordern eine allumfassende Brüderlichkeit, damit wir alle Eins werden. Millionen Menschen auf der Welt können im Augenblick meine Stimme hören. Millionen verzweifelter Menschen, Opfer eines Systems, das es sich zur Aufgabe gemacht hat Unschuldige zu quälen, und in Ketten zu legen. Allen denen die mich jetzt hören, rufe ich zu : Ihr dürft nicht verzagen! Auch das bittere Leid, das über uns gekommen ist, ist vergänglich. Die Männer, die heute die Menschlichkeit mit Füssen treten, werden nicht immer da sein. Ihre Grausamkeit stirbt mit ihnen, und auch ihr Hass. Die Freiheit, die sie den Menschen genommen haben, wird ihnen dann zurückgegeben werden. Auch wenn es Blut und Tränen kostet, für die Freiheit ist kein Opfer zu groß. . Soldaten, vertraut euch nicht Barbaren an! Unmenschen, die euch verachten, und denen euer Leben nichts wert ist. Ihr seid für sie nur Sklaven. Ihr habt das zu tun, das zu glauben, das zu fühlen. Ihr werdet gedrillt, gefüttert, wie Vieh behandelt, und seid nichts weiter als Kanonenfutter. Ihr seid viel zu schade für diese verehrten Subjekte. Diese Maschinenmenschen, mit Maschinenköpfen, und Maschinenherzen. Ihr seid keine Roboter, ihr seid keine Tiere, ihr seid Menschen! Bewahrt euch die Menschlichkeit in euren Herzen und hasst nicht, nur wer nicht geliebt wird, hasst, nur wer nicht geliebt wird. Soldaten, kämpft nicht für die Sklaverei, kämpft für die Freiheit. . Im siebzehnten Kapitel des Evangelisten Lukas steht: Gott wohnt in jedem Menschen. Also nicht nur in einem oder in einer Gruppe von Menschen. Vergesst nie, Gott liegt in euch allen, und ihr als Volk habt allein die Macht. Die Macht Kanonen zu fabrizieren, aber auch die Macht Glück zu spenden. Ihr als Volk habt es in der Hand, dieses Leben einmalig kostbar zu machen, es mit wunderbarem Freiheitsgeist zu durchdringen. Daher im Namen der Demokratie: . Lasst und diese Macht nutzen! Lasst uns zusammen stehen! . Lasst uns kämpfen für eine neue Welt, für eine anständige Welt! Die jedermann gleiche Chancen gibt, die der Jugend eine Zukunft und den Alten Sicherheit gewährt. Versprochen haben die Unterdrücker das auch, deshalb konnten sie die Macht ergreifen. Das war Lüge, wie überhaupt alles, was sie euch versprachen, diese Verbrecher. Diktatoren wollen die Freiheit nur für sich, das Volk soll versklavt bleiben. . Lasst uns diese Ketten sprengen! Lasst uns kämpfen für eine bessere Welt! . Lasst uns kämpfen für die Freiheit in der Welt. Das ist ein Ziel, für das es sich zu kämpfen lohnt. Nieder mit der Unterdrückung, dem Hass und der Intoleranz! . Lasst uns kämpfen für eine Welt der Sauberkeit. In der die Vernunft siegt, in der uns Fortschritt und Wissenschaft allen zum Segen reichen. Kameraden, im Namen der Demokratie: Dafür lasst uns streiten!" -- What's the difference between a cat and a comma? One has claws at the end of its paws and one is a pause at the end of a clause. -- "We the willing, lediglich by the ignorant, are doing the impossible for the ungrateful. We have done so much, with so little, for so long, we are now qualified to do anything, with nothing." -- Zwei Dinge kommen im Leben nie zurück: Das gesprochene Wort und die verpasste Gelegenheit. -- Ich gehe eine Straße entlang . Ich gehe eine Straße entlang Da ist ein tiefes Loch in Gehsteig. Ich falle hinein. Ich bin verloren.... Ich bin ohne Hoffnung. Es ist nicht meine Schuld. Es dauert endlos, wieder herauszukommen. . Ich gehe dieselbe Straße entlang. Da ist ein tiefes Loch im Gehsteig. Ich tue so, als sähe ich es nicht. Ich falle wieder hinein. Ich kann es nicht glauben, schon wieder am gleichen Ort zu sein. Aber es ist nicht meine Schuld. Immer noch dauert sehr lange, herauszukommen. . Ich gehe dieselbe Straße entlang. Da ist ein tiefes Loch im Gehsteig. Ich sehe es. Ich falle immer noch hinein... aus Gewohnheit. Ich weiß wo ich bin. Es ist meine eigene Schuld. Ich komme sofort wieder heraus. . Ich gehe dieselbe Straße entlang. Da ist ein tiefes Loch im Gehsteig. Ich gehe darum herum. . Ich gehe eine andere Straße. -- Your car is German. Your vodka is Russian. Your pizza is Italian. Your kebab is Turkish. Your democracy is Greek. Your coffee is Brazilian. Your movies are American. Your tea is Tamil. Your shirt is Indian. Your oil is Saudi Arabian. Your electronics are Chinese. Your numbers are Arabic, your letters Latin. And you complain that your neighbour is an *immigrant*? -- "I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure you realise that what you heard is not what I meant." --Robert McCloskey -- "Every OS has its purpose. OSX - building webapps. Linux - running webapps. Windows - testing IE." -- Intelligence is the capacity to receive, decode and transmit information efficiently. Stupidity is blockage of this process at any point. Bigotry, ideologies etc. block the ability to receive; robotic reality-tunnels block the ability to decode or integrate new signals; censorship blocks transmission. --Robert A. Wilson -- Don't like gay marriages? Don't get one. Don't like cigarettes? Don't smoke them. Don't like abortions? Don't get one. Don't like sex? Don't have it. Don't like drugs? Don't do them. Don't like porn? Don't watch it. Don't like alcohol? Don't drink it. Don't like guns? Don't buy one. Don't like your rights taken away? -> Don't take away someone else's. -- You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life. - Winston Churchill -- "You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, `Look at that, you son of a bitch.'" -- Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell -- "Wenn ich einen Tag nicht übe, merke ich es, wenn ich drei Tage nicht übe, merken es meine Freunde, wenn ich aber acht Tage nicht übe, merkt es das Publikum." (Joseph Joachim) -- The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do. --Walter Bagehot -- Linux sex: date; unzip; strip; touch; mount; etc.. Windows sex: start; explore; reboot; viruscheck; solitaire -- Zensur ist, Erwachsenen Steaks zu verbieten, weil Babys sie nicht kauen können. -- Mark Twain (ca.) -- I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. -- "Dogs with thumbs would make you coffee, cats with thumbs would steal your car." -- Richard Stevens -- Die Wahrheit suchen, ist beschwerlich, die Wahrheit finden, ist verehrlich, die Wahrheit künden, ist zwar ehrlich, doch wie Sie wissen, auch gefährlich. --Fritz Tobias http://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/der-streitbare-reichstagsbrand-forscher-/3693370.html -- legal downloads kills leeching! kein bit/datenpaket ist illegal! -- (illegal content) kein BIT ist illegal! wer nicht ohne hilfe (ins internet) reinkommt, hat da drin auch nichts zu sagen! -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_they_came%E2%80%A6 They came first for the Communists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Communist. Then they came for the trade unionists, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a trade unionist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up because I wasn't a Jew. Then they came for me and by that time no one left to speak up. --Martin Niemöller -- Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. -- Robert Frost -- Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I've tasted of desire I hold with those who favor fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To know that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. -- Robert Frost http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_Ice_%28poem%29 -- Nicht die Freiheit der Rede ist das Problem, sondern die Freiheit nach der Rede. --G. Alexejewitsch Jawlinski -- Jeder, der glaubt, dass exponentielles Wachstum auf einem begrenzten Planeten unendlich weitergehen kann, ist entweder ein Verrückter oder ein Ökonom. -- Kenneth Boulding -- Private Daten schuetzen. Oeffentliche Daten nuetzen. -- "I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. Corporations have been enthroned, an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money-power of the country will endeavor to prolong it's reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until the wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed." Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) -- http://213.251.145.96/ Google wants to mirror all human knowledge.. shouldn't they be mirroring wikileaks? . Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, braucht auch keine Angst vor Wikileaks zu haben! If you have nothing to hide then you need not be afraid of Wikileaks. . People should not be afraid of their governments. Governments should be afraid of their people. . In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. --George Orwell . All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others. --George Orwell . Every war when it comes, or before it comes, is represented not as a war but as an act of self-defense against a homicidal maniac. --George Orwell . Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. (or:) If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear. --George Orwell . -- Worse is Better. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. War is peace. Freedom is Slavery. Ignorance is Strength. --George Orwell -- "Hallo, ich möchte meine Zeitmaschine umtauschen, sie ist kaputt." "Gut, wann hatten Sie sie denn gekauft?" "Morgen.." -- KDE = Kolorful Diskfilling Environment -- rule#34 corollary: every country has the internet porn it deserves. -- =========================================================== Unattributed Quotes =========================================================== -- dont sell the steak - sell the sizzle! -- "If you are not paying for it, you're not the customer; you're the product being sold." -- darum heisst es auch Muttersprache, weil Vater zu Hause nicht zu Worte kommt... -- Eifersucht ist eine Leidenschaft, die mit Eifer sucht, was Leiden schafft. -- Teigwaren heißen Teigwaren, weil Teigwaren mal Teig waren. -- der Alkohol und das Nikotin rafft die halbe Menschheit hin, doch ohne Schnapps und ohne Rauch, stirbt die andere Haelfte auch! -- woher soll ich wissen was ich denke bevor ich höre was ich sage... -- "People should not be afraid of their governments Governments should be afraid of their people." -- http://soup.blah.at/post/44919417/Image There's always a liltte truth behind every "just kidding", a little knowledge behind every "i dont know", a little emotion behind every "i dont care", and a little pain behind every "it's ok". -- Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you will not do anything with it. -- Neugier ist das Laster der Frauen, Wissbegier die Tugend des Mannes. -- You can clip our wings but we will always remember what it was like to fly -- Mit vielen teile Deine Freude, mit allen Munterkeit und Scherz, mit wenig Edlen Deine Leiden, mit Auserwählten nur Dein Herz. -- work for free - or full price. never for cheap. -- If common sense is so common, then why isn't there more of it? -- frueher war alles anders. warum sollte das heute nicht auch so sein? -- God has made me an atheist. Who are you to question his wisdom? -- Save the earth! It is the only planet that has chocolate. -- Erst wenn die letzte kritik zensiert, die letzte satire geloescht und der letzte internet user erfasst wurde, werdet ihr feststellen, dass es im netz immer noch kinderp0rn0graphie gibt. -- if you live each day as if it were your last - some day you'll most certainly be right. -- Freunde sind manchmal falsch - aber Feinde sind ehrlich. -- wenn du es eilig hast, geh langsam! -- too much is never too much. -- never wrestle with a pig! the pig has its fun and you just get dirty. -- Noone wants backups - but everyone wants "restore". -- Die einen wissen was sie sagen und die anderen sagen was sie wissen. -- Teach a man to fish and you'll feed him for the rest of his life. Teach a man to phish and he'll clean out your bank account. -- Welcome to the internet, where men are men, women are men and children are undercover FBI agents! -- Programmers rule #218: No C0DE before 0xC0FFEE -- Hier läuft EHNIX und das ist ZUNIX kompatibel -- "Information ist eine Holschuld? Warum hat mir das keiner gesagt?" -- Which is worse, ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares? . "What's the difference between ignorance and indulgence? I don't know, and I don't care!" -- there is no future in time travel. -- lieber ständig übermüdet als ständig überwacht. -- das leben beginnt, wenn die kinder aus dem haus und der hund tot ist. -- Bbl BblE3mAETE N3 AMEPNKAHCKO7O CEKTOPA -- Real programmers don't eat quiche. Real programs don't eat cache! -- Vieles war nah der Vergammlung. Drum hielt man eine Versammlung. Und während man sich versammelt, ist abermals etwas vergammelt. -- What did you bring that book I didn't want to be read to out of about Down Under up for? -- Agnes' Law: Almost everything in life is easier to get into than out of. / Often it is easier to ask for forgiveness than it is to ask for permission. -- "I'm on a seafood diet -- I see food and I eat it." -- Confidence is the feeling you have before you understand the situation. -- Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored. -- Good friends help you move house. Best friends help you move bodies. -- ..and if you place a mirror on Saturn then you can wave at the Chinese. -- There are 10 types of people: those who understand binary - and those who don't. -- THE 5 STAGES OF LIFE: 1. To Grow Up 2. To Fill Out 3. To Slim Down 4. To Hold It In AND 5. To Hell With It! -- Arme haben Beine. Arme haben Arme. Beine haben keine Arme. Arme Beine! -- First they laugh about you Then they ignore you Then They Fight you And Then You Win -- #define PI 3 /* 1 Kings 7:23 */ -- me too -- If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. -- Sic transit gloria signature. -- "kaum macht man's richtig - geht's!" -- "wer lesen kann ist klar im vorteil!" -- "if it ain't broke - don't fix it!" -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. -- Love is like Pi: natural, irrational, and very important. -- Memes don't exist. Tell this to everybody you know. -- Wer glaubt, dass Projektleiter Projekte leiten, der glaubt auch, dass Zitronenfalter Zitronen falten. -- Das Internet ist dazu da, um "Punkt, Punkt, Komma, Strich" durch "Doppelpunkt, Bindestrich, runde Klammer" zu ersetzen. -- just because you're not paranoid doesn't mean they're not out there to get you. Corollary: it's only paranoia if they *aren't* out to get you. Niemand hat etwas zu verbergen [tm] -- Atheism: A non-prophet organization. -- When we talk to God it's called prayer. When God talks back it's called schizophrenia. -- Intolerant people should be shot. -- Redundancy Department of Redundancy -- standards are wonderful - everyone should have one! -- $ cat < food > litter -- There are three ways to get something done. Do it yourself, hire someone to do it for you - or forbid your kids to do it. -- Always remember you're unique - just like everyone else. -- Only in America would you have a general in charge of the post office and a secretary in charge of defense. -- "However, there is no language wherein a double positive can form a negative." "Yeah. Right." -- Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana. -- [about some patch to a program] No warrantee is implied. If it breaks you get to keep both halves. -- You were born an original - don't die a copy. -- =========================================================== Attributed Quotes =========================================================== -- "The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." --John Gilmore (TIME Magazine, 1993-12-06) -- "Wenn ich Dir einen Apfel schenke und Du mir einen, dann haben wir beide einen Apfel. Wenn ich Dir eine Idee schenke und Du mir eine, dann haben wir beide zwei Ideen." --Wen Jiabao das proVisorium :: Wir diskutieren 360° -> sekunden zu industrie Stunden -- "Man verliert die meiste Zeit damit, dass man Zeit gewinnen will." --John Steinbeck -- the world is changed by your *example*, not by your *opinion*. --Paulo Coelho -- There is no way to peace, peace is the way. --Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi . Be the change you want to see in the world --Mahatma Gandhi . Mahatma Gandhi, when asked what he thought of Western civilization: "I think it would be a good idea." -- Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end: then stop. -- The King in "Alice in Wonderland" -- Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? -Epikur -- Ich bin der Geist, der stets verneint! Und das mit Recht! Denn alles, was entsteht, ist wert, dass es zugrunde geht. Drum besser wär's, dass nichts entstünde. So ist denn alles, was ihr Sünde, Zerstörung, kurz, das Böse nennt, mein eigentliches Element. --Mephisto (Goethes Faust) -- The liberties of a people never were, nor ever will be, secure, when the transactions of their rulers [are] concealed from them. -- Patrick Henry -- Die meisten verwechseln Dabeisein mit Erleben. -- Max Frisch -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. -Lazarus Long, Time Enough For Love -- I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia. --Woody Allen -- "I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." --Woody Allen . I can't listen to that much Wagner. I start getting the urge to conquer Poland. --Woody Allen -- "Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia." -- Charles Schulz -- "This parrot is no more. It has ceased to be. It's expired and gone to meet its maker. This is a late parrot. It's a stiff. Bereft of life, it rests in peace. If you hadn't nailed it to the perch, it would be pushing up the daisies. It's rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible. This is an ex-parrot." - John Cleese/Monty Python, Episode 8 -- "People don't want their lives fixed. Nobody wants their problems solved. Their dramas. Their distractions. Their stories resolved. Their messes cleaned up. Because what would they have left? Just the big scary unknown." --Chuck Palahniuk http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Palahniuk -- "Wo kämen wir hin, wenn jeder sagte, wo kämen wir hin und keiner ginge, um zu sehen, wohin wir kämen, wenn wir gingen." --Kurt Marti -- Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? --Epicurus -- Toleranz heißt: die Fehler der anderern entschuldigen. Takt heißt: sie nicht bemerken. -- Arthur Schnitzler -- Nicht weil es schwer ist, wagen wir es nicht, sondern weil wir es nicht wagen, ist es schwer. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca -- "The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources." -- Albert Einstein -- Goals without a plan are just dreams. A goal without a plan.. is just a wish. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry -- ich komme, ich weiss nicht woher, ich gehe, ich weiss nicht wohin, ich bin - ich weiss nicht, wer - mich wundert, dass ich so froehlich bin. -- Martinus von Biberach(?) -- Angelus-Silesius (Johann Scheffler)? . Wir leben und wissen nicht wie lang, Wir sterben und wissen nicht wann, Wir reisen und wissen nicht wohin, Mich wundert's dass ich noch so fröhlich bin. Wir leben so dahin Und nehmen es nicht in acht, Dass jeder Augenblick Das Leben kürzer macht. (Marterlaufschrift im Auseerland mit dem Bild von der Flucht nach Ägypten.) -- Hoffnungslos versklavt ist der, der fälschlich glaubt frei zu sein. - Goethe. -- Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it. --Salvador Dalí -- @diophantus Found truly marvellous proof that x^n+y^n=z^n has no solution for n>2, but 140 characters is too little to contain it. -- "Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers." -- Article 19 of "Universal Declaration of Human Rights" -- Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood. -- William Penn -- "Wenn man unsere deutsche Sprache mit einem Gebäude vergleichen wollte", meinte Hagedorn, "so könnte man sagen, in Sachsen habe es durchs Dach geregnet". --Erich Kaestner -- Man darf nicht warten, bis der Freiheitskampf Landesverrat genannt wird. Man darf nicht warten, bis aus dem Schneeball eine Lawine geworden ist. Man muss den rollenden Schneeball zertreten. --Erich Kaestner -- True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country. --Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007) -- "Space," it says, "is big. Really big. You just won't believe how vastly hugely mindboggingly big it is. I mean you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist, but that's just peanuts to space." -- Douglas Adams -- "Falls Freiheit überhaupt etwas bedeutet, dann bedeutet sie das Recht darauf, den Leuten das zu sagen, was sie nicht hören wollen." --George Orwell -- Humor ist der Knopf, der verhindert, daß uns der Kragen platzt. --Joachim Ringelnatz -- "Der Rundfunk wäre der denkbar großartigste Kommunikationsapparat des öffentlichen Lebens, ein ungeheures Kanalsystem, das heißt, er wäre es, wenn er es verstünde, nicht nur auszusenden, sondern auch zu empfangen, also den Zuhörer nicht nur hören, sondern auch sprechen zu machen und ihn nicht zu isolieren, sondern ihn in Beziehung zu setzen." --Bertholt Brecht, 1932 -- "We're crossing over from a species that lives for the survival of our genes to one that lives for the survival of our ideas" --Andrey Fedorov -- "Wenn's schon nicht gelingt, die tatsaechlichen Probleme zu loesen - die Arbeitslosigkeit, die Fluechtlingsfrage, die Steuerreform - dann laesst man geschwind ein Scheinproblem. Hokuspokus - endlich ein Gesetz! Endlich ist die Jugend gerettet! Endlich koennen sich die armen Kleinen am Kiosk keine Aktphotos mehr kaufen und bringen das Geld zur Sparkasse." --Erich Kaestner, 1950 als Sachverstaendiger vor dem deutschen Bundestag zur Einfuehrung des "Gesetzes ueber die Verbreitung jugendgefaehrdender Schriften" -- "Man verdirbt einen Juengling am sichersten, wenn man ihn anleitet, den Gleichdenkenden hoeher zu achten als den Andersdenkenden." --Friedrich Nietzsche (Werk: Morgenroete) -- Nur die allergescheitesten Leute benutzen ihren Scharfsinn zur Beurteilung nicht bloß anderer, sondern auch ihrer selbst. -- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach -- Das Übel kommt nicht von der Technik, sondern von denen, die sie mißbrauchen - mutwillig oder auch nur fahrlässig. -- Jacques Yves Cousteau -- "Wir müssen wissen. Wir werden wissen." --David Hilbert -- Beware the Four Horsemen of the Information Apocalypse: terrorists, drug dealers, kidnappers, and child pornographers. Seems like you can scare any public into allowing the government to do anything with those four. --Bruce Schneier on "Computer Crime Hype" [2005-12-16] http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/12/computer_crime_1.html -- Relying on the government to protect your privacy is like asking a peeping tom to install your window blinds. --John Perry Barlow ... -- "Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world." -- Cypherpunk Manifesto, 1993. -- "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." --Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- getting off information from the internet is like taking a drink from a fire hydrant. -Mitchell Kapor -- Es darf absolut nicht das Gegenwärtige um eines Zukünftigen willen oder das Vergangene um des Gegenwärtigen willen gerechtfertigt werden. --Friedrich Nietzsche -- Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves. -William Pitt, British prime-minister (1759-1806) -- I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by. --Douglas Adams -- The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty. --Eugene McCarthy -- Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, does not go away. -- Phillip K. Dick -- A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. "Specialization is for insects." --Robert A. Heinlein -- There has grown in the minds of certain groups in this country the idea that just because a man or corporation has made a profit out of the public for a number of years, the government and the courts are charged with guaranteeing such a profit in the future, even in the face of changing circumstances and contrary to public interest. This strange doctrine is supported by neither statute or common law. Neither corporations or individuals have the right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or turned back. --Robert Heinlein -- "Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, Cocksucker, Motherfucker, and Tits. Those are the heavy seven. Those are the ones that'll infect your soul, curve your spine and keep the country from winning the war." --George Carlin, Class Clown, "Seven Words You Can Never Say on Television" -- George Carlin on Death: The most unfair thing about life is the way it ends. I mean, life is tough. It takes up a lot of your time. What do you get at the end of it? A Death! What's that, a bonus? I think the life cycle is all backwards. You should die first, get it out of the way. Then you live in an old age home. You get kicked out when you're too young, you get a gold watch, you go to work. You work forty years until you're young enough to enjoy your retirement. You do drugs, alcohol, you party, you get ready for high school. You go to grade school, you become a kid, you play, you have no responsibilities, you become a little baby, you go back into the womb, you spend your last nine months floating - and you finish off as an orgasm. -- "If privacy is outlawed, only outlaws will have privacy." -- Phil Zimmermann, 1991 http://www.philzimmermann.com/EN/essays/WhyIWrotePGP.html -- This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright #154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do. --Woody Guthrie -- Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-12-16 -- 2008-03-19) Profiles of the Future, third law of prediction, often called Clarke's Third Law www.clarkefoundation.org -- There is always an easy solution to every human problem - neat, plausible and wrong. -- Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) "The Divine Afflatus", New York Evening Mail (16 November 1917); later published in Prejudices: Second Series (1920) and A Mencken Chrestomathy (1949) -- "The state doesn't just want you to obey... ... it wants to make yout WANT to obey" --H.L Mencken (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken) -- "Hey, sometimes a bit of technobabble's good for the soul." -- Cpt. Jack Harkness, Torchwood -- "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." --Edsger Dijkstra -- Handle stets so, daß die Maximen deiner Handlungen als Grundlage einer allgemeinen Gesetzgebung dienen könnten. --Immanuel Kant -- Habe den Mut, dich deines eigenen Verstandes zu bedienen! --Immanuel Kant -- "Good night, you princes of Maine, you kings of New England." Dr. Wilbur Larch (Michael Caine) - THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, 1999 -- If you think technology can solve your problems you don't understand technology and you don't understand your problems." --Bruce Schneier -- Ein Mensch, der einen andern traf, Geriet in Streit und sagte: "Schaf!" Der andre sprach: "Es wär Ihr Glück, Sie nähmen dieses Schaf zurück!" Der Mensch jedoch erklärte: "Nein", Er säh dazu den Grund nicht ein. Das Schaf, dem einen nicht willkommen, Vom andern nicht zurückgenommen, Steht seitdem, herrenlos und dumm Unglücklich in der Welt herum. --Eugen Roth (1895-1976) -- INTELLIGENCE Artifical intelligence is trying to make computers look like they do on TV. Computers are not intelligent - they only think they are! The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. Artificial intelligence has the same relation to intelligence as artificial flowers have to flowers. --David Parnas -- Der Krieg ist ein Massaker von Leuten, die sich nicht kennen, zum Nutzen von Leuten, die sich kennen, aber nicht massakrieren. --Paul Valéry -- STATISTICS 37% of all statistics are made up. 97% of all statistics are wrong. 42,08154711 of all statistics list too many digits after the comma. 23%, however, don't have any digits after the comma at all! lies, damn lies, and statistics. -- Freudvoll, leidvoll / Gedankenvoll sein, Hangen und bangen / in schwebener Pein. Himmelhochjauchzend / zu Tode betrübt, Glücklich alleine ist / die Seele die liebt! Goethe -- "Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux'". --Bruce Perens, Debian's Fearless Leader -- "If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is not shared." --Saint Augustine -- TV is a medium because anything well done is rare. --Fred Allen (on the American radio programme, The Big Show, December 17th 1950) -- If you want to be worshipped, go to India and moo. -The Quiz Show -- "The trouble with being punctual is that nobody's there to appreciate it." -- Franklin P. Jones -- To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research. -- Unknown -- "Jedermann klagt über sein Gedächtnis, niemand über seinen Verstand." -- Francois Duc de La Rochefoucauld -- Schiller sagt zu Goethe: "Mein Arsch ist eine Floete." Goethe sagt zu Schiller: "Mein Arsch ist eine Triller!" So standen sie nun Arsch an Arsch und spielten den Radetzkymarsch. -- "Multiple exclamation marks", he went on, shaking his head, "are a sure sign of a diseased mind." -- Terry Pratchett in "Eric" -- "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said, in a rather scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less." Lewis Carroll -- Through the Looking Glass, Chapter 6 -- "A one-character regular expression is a regular expression that matches whatever the one-character regular expression matches." --- "man regexp" (on SUN) -- Die Wachstuben in den Wachstuben werden durch Kunststoffflaschen ersetzt, die durch Ziehen an den Kunststofflaschen geoeffnet werden. (c) 1994, Werner Icking -- Unterschätze nie die Macht dummer Leute, die einer Meinung sind. --Kurt Tucholsky -- Profanity is the inevitable linguistic crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker. -- Bruce Sherrod -- "Man proves that email is usenet and gets himself killed on the next newsgroup." (with apologies to Douglas Adams) -- Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months. --Clifford Stoll -- A marriage is always made up of two people who are prepared to swear that only the other one snores. --Terry Pratchett "The Fifth Elephant" -- "Don't talk to me about LIFE..." --Marvin, the robot (THHGTTG) -- Unsere Meinungen: die Haut, in der wir gesehen werden wollen. --Friedrich Nietzsche -- Die Tragik des 20. Jahrhunderts liegt darin, daß es nicht möglich war, die Theorien von Karl Marx zuerst an Mäusen auszuprobieren. -- Stanislaw Lem -- "I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend your right to encrypt it" . "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." --Voltaire . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evelyn_Beatrice_Hall Evelyn Beatrice Hall, (1868 - 19??), who wrote under the pseudonym S.G. Tallentyre, was an English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire with the title The Friends of Voltaire, which she completed in 1906. Hall wrote the phrase: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it," [1] (which is often misattributed to Voltaire), as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs in her biography on him. Hall's quote is often cited to describe the principle of freedom of speech. -- Es war einmal eine Rosine die zog mit fröhlicher Miene in den Stollen --Heinz Bornemann [Juni 2001] seitdem ist sie verschollen http://members.aol.com/hbornema/ -- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. --Oscar Wilde 1854-1900 -- ============================================================ === Calvin & Hobbes ============================================================ -- Calvin: "i think football is a sport the way ducks think hunting is a sport." -- "Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us." --Calvin and Hobbes (by Bill Watterson) -- =========================================================== === Neil Stephenson - In the Beginning was the Command Line =========================================================== -- "it is commonly the case with technologies that you can get the best insight about how they work by watching them fail." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- ".. Microsoft's excellent management has figured out that they can make more money for their stockholders by releasing stuff with obvious, known imperfections than they can by making it beautiful or bug-free." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "Nothing is more disagreeable to the hacker than duplication of effort. The first and most important mental habit that people develop when they learn how to write computer programs is to generalize, generalize, generalize.: --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "So a proprietary, closed, secret operating system is a contradiction in terms. It goes against the whole point of having an operating system. And it is impossible to keep them secret anyway." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "Why, then, do I say that Microsoft is not such a great operating systems company? Because the very nature of operating systems is such that it is senseless for them to be developed and owned by a specific company. It's a thankless job to begin with." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "Ten years from now [1999], most of the world's computer users may end up owning these cheaper OSes. But these OSes do not, for the time being, run any Microsoft applications, and so these people will use something else." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "There are only two ways to sell a product: price and features. When OSes are free, OS companies cannot compete on price, and so they compete on features. This means that they are always trying to outdo each other writing code that, until recently, was not considered to be part of an OS at all: stuff like GUIs. This explains a lot about how these companies behave." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "Why are we rejecting explicit word-based interfaces, and embracing graphical or sensorial ones .. we simply can't handle all of the details. We have to delegate." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "But then countries controlled via the command-line interface, as it were, by double-domed intellectuals, be they religious or secular, are generally miserable places to live." ;-) --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "The OS has (therefore) become a sort of intellectual labor-saving device that tries to translate humans' vaguely expressed intentions into bits. In effect we are asking our computers to shoulder responsibilities that have always been considered the province of human beings -- we want them to understand our desires, to anticipate our needs, to foresee consequences, to make connections, to handle routine chores without being asked, to remind us of what we ought to be reminded of while filtering out noise." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "Most people who shop for OSes .. are comparing not the underlying functions but the superficial look and feel. .. What we're really buying is a system of metaphors. And -- much more important -- what we're buying into is the underlying assumption that metaphors are a good way to deal with the world." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "We want GUIs largely because they are convenient and because they are easy-- or at least the GUI makes it seem that way Of course, nothing is really easy and simple, and putting a nice interface on top of it does not change that fact. A car controlled through a GUI would be easier to drive than one controlled through pedals and steering wheel, but it would be incredibly dangerous." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "But word-processing software -- particularly the sort that employs special, complex file formats -- has the eldritch power to unwrite things. A small change in file formats, or a few twiddled bits, and months' or years' literary output can cease to exist." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "The danger lies not in the machine itself but in the user's failure to envision the full consequences of the instructions he gives to it." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "The triad of editor, compiler, and linker, taken together, form the core of a software development system." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "The command line interface makes it easy for programs to dribble out little comments, warnings, and messages here and there. Even if the application is imploding like a damaged submarine, it can still usually eke out a little S.O.S. message." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "Commercial OSes have to adopt the same official stance towards errors as Communist countries had towards poverty. For doctrinal reasons it was not possible to admit that poverty was a serious problem in Communist countries, because the whole point of Communism was to eradicate poverty. Likewise, commercial OS companies like Apple and Microsoft can't go around admitting that their software has bugs.." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "Joint stock corporations are wonderful inventions that have given us many excellent goods and services. They are good at many things. Admitting failure is not one of them. Hell, they can't even admit minor shortcomings." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "It is quite possible that the engineers at Microsoft have all sorts of insider knowledge on how to fix the system when it goes awry, but if they do, they do not seem to be getting the message out to any of the actual system administrators I know. - Because Linux is not commercial -- because it is, in fact, free, as well as rather difficult to obtain, install, and operate -- it does not have to maintain any pretensions as to its reliability. Consequently, it is much more reliable. When something goes wrong with Linux, the error is noticed and loudly discussed right away." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "In the world of open source software, bug reports are useful information. Making them public is a service to other users, and improves the OS. Making them public systematically is so important that highly intelligent people voluntarily put time and money into running bug databases. In the commercial OS world, however, reporting a bug is a privilege that you have to pay lots of money for. But if you pay for it, it follows that the bug report must be kept confidential -- otherwise anyone could get the benefit of your ninety-five bucks! And yet nothing prevents NT users from setting up their own public bug database." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "As I've explained, selling OSes for money is a basically untenable position, and the only way Apple and Microsoft can get away with it is by pursuing technological advancements as aggressively as they can, and by getting people to believe in, and to pay for, a particular image: in the case of Apple, that of the creative free thinker, and in the case of Microsoft, that of the respectable techno-bourgeois. Just like Disney, they're making money from selling an interface, a magic mirror. It has to be polished and seamless or else the whole illusion is ruined and the business plan vanishes like a mirage. -- Accordingly, it was the case until recently that the people who wrote manuals and created customer support websites for commercial OSes seemed to have been barred, by their employers' legal or PR departments, from admitting, even obliquely, that the software might contain bugs or that the interface might be suffering from the blinking twelve problem. They couldn't address users' actual difficulties. The manuals and websites were therefore useless, and caused even technically self-assured users to wonder whether they were going subtly insane." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- " An Apple/Microsoft system needs to have the same information in order to launch its GUI, but it's apt to be deeply hidden somewhere, and it's probably in a file that can't even be opened and read by a text editor. All of the important files that make Linux systems work are right out in the open. They are always ASCII text files, so you don't need special tools to read them. You can look at them any time you want, which is good, and you can mess them up and render your system totally dysfunctional, which is not so good." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "Like almost all Linux users, I depend on having all of those details hidden away in thousands of little ASCII text files, which are in turn wedged into the recesses of the Unix filesystem. When I want to change something about the way my system works, I edit those files. [...] But the sheer power and complexity of the system -- the qualities that make it so vastly technically superior to other OSes -- sometimes make it seem too formidable for routine day-to-day use." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "somewhere outside of and beyond our universe is an operating system, coded up over incalculable spans of time by some kind of hacker-demiurge. The cosmic operating system uses a command-line interface." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- "What would the engineer say, after you had explained your problem, and enumerated all of the dissatisfactions in your life? He would probably tell you that life is a very hard and complicated thing; that no interface can change that; that anyone who believes otherwise is a sucker; and that if you don't like having choices made for you, you should start making your own." --Neil Stephenson "In the Beginning was the Command Line" -- =========================================================== === Microsoft and Windows Bashing hehe ;-) =========================================================== -- "erst wenn der letzte admin verhaftet, der letzte pentester verschwunden, der letzte tüftler ausgewiesen und der letzte hacker aus-gefragt wurde, werdet ihr merken dass man Sicherheit nicht KAUFEN kann." -- Linux: Für Leute, die wissen wollen, warum etwas funktioniert. Mac: Für Leute, die nicht wissen wollen, warum etwas funktioniert. Windows: Für Leute, die nicht wissen wollen, warum etwas nicht funktioniert. -- "Reverse defenestration: Throwing Windows out of computers." -- "Where do you want to be lead today?" -- Linux: be root. Windows: reboot. -- Why use windows when you can use the door? -- He who opens the windows invites the bugs in. -- If you have a problem in windows, reboot. If you have a problem in UNIX, be root! -- Use a WIMP (Windows Icons Mouse Pulldowns) interface - or an interface with a CLUE: Command Line User Environment. -- Windows is a pane in the ASCII. -- Bananensoftware: reift beim Kunden. -- Bill Gates: quality software Ronald McDonald: gourmet cuisine -- [GATES] Aus "Winnetou - Band 3"L "Das Verhalten von Gates hatte mir bewiesen, daß ich auf ihn und seine beiden Gefährten nicht rechnen durfte." -- Computers are like airconditioners - they stop working properly when you open WINDOWS. -- MCSA MicroSoft Certified Attorney MCSE Must Consult Someone Experienced MCSE Minesweeper Consultant and Solitair Expert -- "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners " -- Ernst Jan Plugge -- In a world without walls and fences, why do we need windows and gates? -- If NT is your answer, you don't understand the question. -- Your mouse has moved. Windows NT must be restarted for the change to take effect. Reboot now? [ OK ] -- WindowsNT = "Windows? No, Thanks!" -- I sense much NT in you. NT leads to bluescreen, bluescreen leads to downtime, downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside! Powerful UNIX is - Jedi SysAdmin -- Pinky: "What are we going to do tonight, Brain?" Brain: "The same thing we do every night, Pinky: try to install Windows 95!" -- Tell me: Why is a Win-PC called Win-PC? Oh, just look at someone using this. You'll see: The PC always wins, the user is always losing... -- Windows95: n. 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2 bit company, that can't stand 1 bit of competition. -- "In our world, software has to be small, has to be debugged, has to ship as part of a major initiative, has to avoid compatibility problems, has to avoid end user calls." --Bill Gates Yeah, right. -- Microsoft broke Volkswagen's world record: Volkswagen only made 22 million bugs! -- There are three ways to get something done: (1) Do it yourself. (2) Hire someone to do it for you. (3) Forbid your kids to do it. -- Exchange Microsoft... -- Microsoft is to software what McDonalds is to gourmet cooking. -- Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly. -- Henry Spencer -- Windows 98 supports real multitasking - it can boot and crash simultaneously. -- When I shop for hardware I always look for the "Designed for Windows 95" logo. I really thank Microsoft(TM) for encouraging manufacturers to label their products this way, so I know what to AVOID. -- "I used to be interested in Windows NT, but the more I see of it the more it looks like traditional Windows with a stabler kernel. I don't find anything technically interesting there. In my opinion, MS is a lot better at making money than it is at making good operating systems." --Linus Torvalds -- The box said "Requires Win95, NT, or better," and so I installed Linux. -- MCSE pays the bills until I learn unix well enough to get a real job. --Steve Wingate [000303 in email] -- Titanic 12 / Hindenburg Zeppelin 37 / Microsoft Windows 98 -- =========================================================== === UNIX =========================================================== -- one job - one tool! use the right tool for the job! -- It is a book about a Spanish guy called Manual. You should read it. -- Dilbert -- =========================================================== === Text vs GUIs =========================================================== -- Mottos: "don't panic!" --THHGTTG Douglas Adams "the shell is your friend!" "texttools are your friends!" -- KISS: "Keep it Simple, Stupid!" Acronyms for Interfaces: GUI = Graphical User Interface WIMP = WIndows, Icons, Menus, and Pointer WYSIWYG = What You See Is What You Get CLITORIS = Command Line Is The Only Real Interface Stuff! -- in the beginning was the word. and the word was "Content-Type: text/plain". -- "In the beginning...was the command line" --Neal Stephenson -- GIGO principle: "Garbage In, Garbage Out". The quality of the results from the computer programme (skill and needs maps, needs priority lists, action plan) are directly related to the quality of your input (business strategy, key tasks, analysis of relevance of skills etc.). The outcomes for your business can be only as relevant as is your input. -- "I love the command line more than any graphic interface. I want to type commands, not move graphics around on a screen. Working through my keyboard is faster than clicking for me, and what I do seems more real. I don't know what it is that makes the keyboard seem more real than icons in a window. They're both abstractions, different ways of interacting with a a flow of bits and bytes. Maybe I was brainwashed from my early exposure to Unix." Stephen Figgins -- f y cn rd ths thn y mst b sng nx! =========================================================== === MISC =========================================================== -- Do not take life too seriously; you will never get out of it alive. -- Life is a sexually transmitted disease which is always fatal. -- Programming is like sex: one mistake and you have to support it for the rest of your life." -Michael Sinz -- To those who understand, no explanation is necessary, to those who will not understand, no explanation is possible. -- Having a non-smoking section in a restaurant is like having a non-peeing section in a pool. -- Standards are wonderful. Everyone should have one! -- "You agree to agree to any modifications made to this agreement after agreeing to it." -- From the "Terms of Agreements" of CGIForMe.com -- Imagine a world without hypothetical situations. -- You can tell the pioneers by the arrows in their backs. -- Deep down, I'm pretty superficial. -- Ava Gardner -- Success has many fathers, but failure is a bastard. -- Definition of Atheism: a non-prophet organization. -- What do you get crossing an atheist with a Jehova's witness? Someone knocking on your door for no reason at all. -- If you live more than 10 miles from where you work, you have no right to complain about the traffic. You are the problem! -- In theory there's no difference between theory and practice, but in practice... -- We are sorry, you have reached an imaginary number. Please rotate your phone ninety degrees and try again. -- Raechzschraibraephorm - findichgut. :-) -- Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. -- If your use of lose and loose is loose you lose. -- Stupidity has a certain charm - ignorance does not. -- A thesaurus is a tool to allow tautology without repetition. -- -- HELP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossal_Cave_Adventure "You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike." --> "You are lost in a maze of twisty little web pages, all pointless." -- A language is a dialect with a territory and an army to defend it. -- Glaube keinem Lebensmittel(-Schild), welches kuenstlicher aussieht als ein daenisches Wuerstchen... -- "Contrariwise," continued Tweedledee, "if it was so, it might be, and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic!" -- Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking Glass" -- "In order to keep a true perspective of one's importance, everyone should have a dog that will worship him and a cat that will ignore him." -- Dereke Bruce -- Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupery -- "Goodbye" said the fox to the Little Prince. "And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can rightly see, what is essential is invisible to the eye" [-Antoine de Saint-Exupery] -- Eyes: n, devices used to examine things to find answers. Fingers: n, devices used far too much to ask questions before Eyes (qv) have been applied to problem documentation -- Dharma: What is the greatest mystery of all? Yudishthira: That each day, death walks the earth, and we continue to live as though we were immortal. -The Bhagvad Gita -- "Kill every human on the planet? Sounds like a good idea! But first, we should concentrate on more immediate goals." -Jeffrey Goines, in 12 Monkeys -- "The most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to correlate its contents." -H.P. Lovecraft -- "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in shapes of our own choosing." -George Orwell, _1984_ -- Push to test. Release to detonate. -Unknown Sign -- Non-Geek: Someone who thinks a kilobyte is 1000 bytes. Geek: Someone who thinks a kilometre is 1024 metres. -- Sicher ist, dass nichts sicher ist. Selbst das nicht. -- Ringelnatz -- We're knights of the round table / We dance whene'er we're able We do routines and chorus scenes / With footwork impeccable. We dine well here in Camelot / We eat ham and jam and spam a lot. -- "`Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing. -- THHGTTG by Douglas Adams -- There are two things which you should always mistrust: (1) "It's free." (2) "I'm from the government and I'm here to help you." -- In the News: "Today is National Weather person's Day. There's a 20% chance no one will care." (BBS Briefs) -- When you have a hammer in your hand, everything looks like a nail. Anthony's Law of Force: Don't force it. Get a larger hammer. When in doubt, use a larger hammer! One must be either the anvil or the hammer. -- Yesterday is history. Tomorrow is a mystery. Today is a gift. That's why it is called 'present'. -- "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 -- "Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education." -- Bertrand Russell, History of Western Philosophy. -- =========================================================== === QUESTIONS =========================================================== Do employees at the Lipton company get coffee breaks? Do illiterates have fun with letter soup? Do you need a silencer if you are going to shoot a mime? Does a one-legged duck swim in a circle? == Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations? How can there be self-help groups? How did man discover that cows give milk? How do these "do not step on the grass" signs get into the middle of the lawn? How do you tell when you run out of invisible ink? How does a blind man knwos he's done wiping his butt? How does the guy who drives the snowplow get to work in the mornings? == If 7-11 is open 24h/day, 365 days a year, why are there locks on the doors? If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose? If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the "terminal"? If carrots are so good for the eyes, then why are there so many dead rabbits on the highway? If man is an improvement of apes - why are there still apes? If nothing ever sticks to TEFLON, how do they make TEFLON stick to the pan? If olive oil is made from olives - what is baby oil made from? If you tied buttered toast to the back of a cat and dropped it from a height, what would happen? == Isn't having a smoking section in a restaurant like having a peeing section in a swimming pool? Sooner or later, doesn't EVERYONE stop smoking? == What do sheep count when they cannot sleep? What happens if you get scared half to death twice? What is the speed of dark? == When the taxi drives in reverse - does the customer get paid? When you choke a smurf - what color does he get? When you go at light speed - what happens when you turn on the lights? When you're sending someone styrofoam, what do you pack it in? == Why are cigarettes sold in gas stations when smoking is prohibited there? Why are there interstate highways in Hawaii? Why are there five syllables in the word "monosyllabic"? Why are there flotation devices under plane seats instead of parachutes? Why are there only two people who run for president and 50 for Miss America? Why didn't Noah kill those two mosquitos? Why do kamikaze pilots were helmets? Why do psychics have to ask you for your name? Why do coffins need to be nailed shut? Why do sheep don't shrink when it rains? Why do they put Braille dots on the keypad of the drive-up ATM? Why do you need a driver's license to buy liquor when you can't drink and drive? Why do you need an appointment with a clairvoyant? Why do we drive on parkways and park on driveways? Why doesn't glue stick to the inside of the bottle? Why is "abbreviation" such a long word? Why is there an expiration date on SOUR cream? Why isn't "phonetic" spelled the way it sounds? Why is brassiere singular and panties plural? Why is it that when you transport something by car, it's called a shipment, but when you transport something by ship, it's called cargo? Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the volume on the radio? You know how most packages say "Open here"; but what is the protocol if the package says "Open somewhere-else"? You know that little indestructible black box that is used on planes, why can't they make the whole plane outof the same substance? -- Warum gibt es eigentlich nur *ein* Kartellamt? Warum gibt es im Flugzeug Schwimmwesten statt Fallschirme? -- Anti-Virus Software Users: Some anti-virus software programs may interfere with the download and should be disabled while installing the Microsoft software. -- du mußt verstehn! verlier die vier, und neun ist eins, aus eins mach zehn, aus fünf und sechs - und zehn ist keins. und zwei laß gehn, so sagt die hex - das ist das hexen-einmaleins! und drei mach gleich, mach sieben und acht, -- Aus "Faust" von so bist du reich. so ist´s vollbracht; Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- "Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything as mind-bogglingly useful as the Babel fish could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as a final and clinching proof of the NON-existence of God. "The argument goes something like this: 'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.' "'But,' says Man, 'the Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.' "'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic. "'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next pedestrian crossing." -- Douglas Adams, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" -- Deliver yesterday, code today, think tomorrow. -- Prof. Harro Heuser: "Standardbeweistechniken: Ueberredung, Bestechung, Einschuechterung." In der Mathematik *nicht* erlaubt! ;-) -- A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it rains. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) -- I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) -- Seit die Mathematiker über die Relativitätstheorie hergefallen sind, verstehe ich sie selbst nicht mehr. --Albert Einstein -- life is what's happening while you are busy making other plans.. --John Lennon in "Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)"; . similar expressions were used by others prior to Lennon's use of this line, and have been attributed to Betty Talmadge, Thomas La Mance, Margaret Millar, William Gaddis, and Lily Tomlin, but the earliest known published occurrence was the 1957 attribution of "Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans." to Allen Saunders in Reader's Digest, according to The Quote Verifier : Who Said What, Where, and When (2006) by Ralph Keyes -- warum erkennen wir nicht den augenblick in dem liebe beginnt? aber wir wissen immer wenn sie endet.. "L.A. Story" (USA 1990) -- No woman, no cry. -Bob Marley -- To be or not to be. * Shakespeare To do is to be. * Nietzsche To be is to do. * Sartre Do be do be do. * Sinatra -- ======================================================= Animals ======================================================= -- Dogs have masters, cats have staff. -- Das Pferd frisst keinen Gurkensalat. --Philip Reis -- Thousands of years ago, cats were worshipped as gods. Cats have never forgotten this. -- I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. --Winston Churchill (1874-1965) -- "Voici mon secret. Il est très simple: on ne voit bien qu'avec le coeur. L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux." "It is only with the heart that one can rightly see; what is essential is invisible to the eye." "Und hier ist mein Geheimnis", sagte der Fuchs, "es ist ganz einfach." "Man sieht nur mit dem Herzen gut, das Wesentliche ist für die Augen unsichtbar." --Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupéry -- Hello, I am Mister Ed A horse is a horse of course of course And no one can talk to a horse of course That is of course unless the horse Is the famous Mister Ed Go right to the source and ask the horse He'll give you the answer that you'll endorse He's always on a steady course Talk to Mister Ed People yakkity-yak a streak And waste your time of day But Mister Ed will never speak Unless he has something to say A horse is a horse of course of course And this one'll talk 'till his voice is hoarse You never heard of a talking horse Well, listen to this I am Mister Ed -- -- Bad Dog! hey - dont chew on that power cor NO TERRIER =================================================================== Deutsche Sprache - German language =================================================================== -- ENGLISH for Krauts: actual vs current, become vs get, if vs when, it's vs its, than vs then, say vs tell, vine vs wine, thread vs threat, -- Gross/Kleinschreibung: er hat lieber genossen in moskau. der gefangene floh. helft den armen vögeln. frauen sind gut zu voegeln. . Zusammenschreibung: herr und frau X sind gestern zusammen gekommen. Nicht Auszurottende Fehler: http://www.oberlehrer.org/naf.html Mark Twain: http://www.boondocksnet.com/twaintexts/tramp_ap_d.html . Dear people who type in all lowercase, We are the difference between helping your Uncle Jack off a horse, and helping yout uncle jack off a horse. Sincerely, Capital Letters -- Blumento-Pferde! Quelle folgender Worte: wortschatz.uni-leipzig.de Abt-reibung, Bundesweh-reinheit, Erb-rechen, Eil-eiter, Gas-traum, Nach-truhe, Kau-fladen, Punk-trichter, Paten-trichter, Fürsorger-ente, Talg-rund, Hau-stier, Fluch-traum. Stau-b-ecken, Wach-s-tube, Bau-m-ast. -- =================================================================== Computers, Programs, and all that =================================================================== -- Boss: "I want to build a relational database." Dilbert: "Ok. What color do you want?" Boss: "I think Mauve has the most RAM" in "Dilbert" by Scott Adams -- [AI] Artificial Intelligence: Making computers behave like they do in the movies. -- "ASCII - da weiß man was man hat!" -- * Progress (n.): The process through which Usenet has evolved from smart people in front of dumb terminals to dumb people in front of smart terminals. -- obs(at)burnout.demon.co.uk (obscurity) -- [C] If it wasn't for C, we'd be writing programs in BASI, PASAL, and OBOL. -- [FOOL] Create a program that any fool can use and only fools will use it. Build a system that even a fool can use and only a fool will want to use it. -- [GNU + LINUX] GNU is Not Unix. May the source be with GNU! UNIX is user friendly. It's just selective who the friends are. Linux is user-friendly. But it is neither ignorant-friendly nor idiot-friendly. Linux is like wigwam - no windows, no gates, and an apache inside. Linux - the choice of a GNU generation. Geek by nature, linux by choice. -- "In general, an implementation must be conservative in its sending behavior, and liberal in its receiving behavior." RFC791 Sep 1981 by Jon Postel => "Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept" -- [RTFM] f y cn rd ths y mst b sng nx -- [SPELL] Due knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl miss steaks -- [SNMP] SNMP? "Security's Not My Problem" -- [TCSH] The only way tcsh "rocks" is when the rocks are attached to it's feet in the deepest part of a very deep lake. -Linus Torvalds -- [SECURITY] "Those who give up freedom for security deserve neither freedom nor security." --Benjamin Franklin -- [SECURITY] The only secure computer system in the world is unplugged, locked in a vault at the bottom of the ocean and only one person knows the location and combination of that vault. And he is dead. --Bruce Schneier in "Applied Cryptography" -- [SECURITY] The only secure computer is one that is turned off, locked in a safe and buried 20 feet down in a secret location, and I'm not completely confident of that either. --Bruce Schneier see also: http://w3.physics.uiuc.edu/~menscher/quotes.html -- =================================================================== === VI! =================================================================== -- [VI] In the middle of evil there's always *vi*. -- [VI] Vi is my shepherd - I shall not font. -- [VI] Vi is to Emacs as masturbation is to making love: effective and always available but probably not your first choice. -- [VI] To me vi is Zen. To use vi is to practice zen. Every command is a koan. Profound to the user, unintelligible to the uninitiated. You discover truth everytime you use it. --Reddy -- =================================================================== me, myself, and I ;-) =================================================================== -- 2016-03-29 "in another time zone i'd be an early bird" -- 2016-03-26 "die gedanken sind frei" sagt er zu sich in seinem kopf und glaubte, zu denken. -- "umlaute sind uber-bewertet" -- 2016-02-04 celebrities die many times: before they die, when they die, and afterwards. -- digitale sicherheit am arbeitsplatz ist wichtig fuer das unternehmen. fuer unsere privatsphaere gilt das erst recht. darum duerfen wir es uns nicht gefallen lassen, dass man uns systeme vorsetzt und verkauft, die hintertueren haben und unsere persoenliche sicherheit kompromittieren. eingebauten unsicherheiten sind ein angriff auf die freiheit! -- TTIP? nein! man unterschreibt keine vertraege, deren inhalt man nicht kennt. und schon gar nicht, wenn man sie nicht einmal ansehen *darf*. und ueberhaupt niemals, wenn sie fuer andere bindend sind. solche vertraege duerfen keine bindung haben. das ist einfach gegenstandlos. und ein armutszeugnis fuer politiker, die das unterschreiben. solche kann man einfach nicht wieder waehlen. das waere dumm. -- meine deutschen-falle für die wüste: ein ampel, die *immer* auf rot ist. (nur die deutschen bleiben stehen. :-P) -- daten sind ware. und datenbesitzer verkaufen kopien. -- man muss essen, was einem schmeckt. bis es einem die aerzte verbieten. -- computers are not for everybody. some people cannot accept machinery which are able to change and look different the next day. not everyone can cope with change. these folks are better off with a game box which never changes. --Sven Guckes 2011-10-31 -- an application is good when it allows the user to be lazy. --Sven Guckes 2009-06-04 -- the moment the computer laughs about the joke i am typing i will instantly turn it off. --Sven Guckes 2007-05-05 -- es ist besser angenehm ueberrascht zu werden als in einer erwartung enttaeuscht zu werden. --Sven Guckes 2006-12-01 -- Every people deserves the politicians it elects. Corollary: Everybody uses the editor/mailer/program/OS he deserves. --Sven Guckes (said this about a gazillion times) -- i wish the amount of energy put into intellectual property stimulated as much energy to put into intellectual freedom. --Sven Guckes 2006-05-23 -- the bigger the net - the less the netiquette. -- Daten sind nicht Information. Information ist nicht Wissen. Wissen ist nicht Intelligenz. Intelligenz ist nicht Weisheit. Weisheit ist noch kein Humor. Aber wer lachen kann, der befindet sich auf dem richtigen Weg.. --Sven Guckes 2001-12-01 -- "We need killfiles that actually *kill*!" --Sven Guckes on alt.fan.warlord [990611] -- Q: Why do Germans have no humor? A: There is no newsgroup de.humor. --Sven Guckes -- schwarze schafe gibt's immer - da hilft auch keine gentechnik. --Sven Guckes [2002-04-17] -- "Use the force -- change the source." --Sven Guckes in comp.mail.elm [1996-07-11] -- Es ist einfacher, eine Taste zu treffen, als einen Pixel. --Sven Guckes -- Wieso benutzt jemand eine Maus mit 3/5/9 Tasten? Warum benutzt er dann nicht gleich die Tastatur? --Sven Guckes -- Hat jemand schon mal versucht, einen Text mit der Maus zu schreiben? --Sven Guckes -- Möchten Sie Ihre Festplatten formatieren? [J]etzt nicht [N]a klar --Sven Guckes -- =================================================================== Geek Quotes =================================================================== -- there's no place like ~ there's no place like $HOME there's no place like 127.0.0.1 there's no place like ::1 -- =================================================================== PEOPLE I know. =================================================================== -- das telephon klingelt.. mutter will antworten. "geh nicht ran.. ist bestimmt *irgendjemand*." --Jasmin 2015-08-27 -- https://twitter.com/blind_coder/status/568392548072480769 So, a cloud service goes dark and so do my lightbulbs? No better way to tell people "don't buy our stuff. YOU don't control it. WE do." --blindcoder [2015-02-19] -- "Ich verwend doch nichts, was man nicht per apt-get bekommt. ;)" 2015-01-13 16:31 --Rhonda -- "encrypt hard - party hard!" M.Schmidt at the 2014-09-24 cryptoparty -- 2014-09-17 10:23 blindcoder "Mochten Sie das Skript abbrechen?" [ OK ] [ Abbrechen ] was drueckt man jetzt? -- "wer unverschlüsselt kommuniziert, wird ignoriert." 2014-09-14 hsank in dresden bei den datenspuren.de -- Got marketing call. Told her no money because we are spending it all suing telemarketing agencies. Other side desperately disconnected. :) https://twitter.com/AtulChitnis/status/140399574815744001 --Atul Chitnis 2011-11-26 -- die leute, die es mir wert waren, habe ich umerzogen. --zeltophil 2013-04-10 im AFRA -- "'free' is too expensive!" --Ruben Lubbes 2012-02-17 -- "..so ist das halt, wenn man sein Herz bei seinem Fussballverein lässt, auch wenn es keinen Sinn macht" 2012-01-23 15:52 wuehli -- "Ich habe mir beim Testen einen Virus geholt. Den will ich mir erstmal anschauen. *sezier*" 2012-01-13 17:05 qbi -- "Dosenpfand is something indigenous to Germany; it does not survive in other climates." --Igor 2011-03-28 -- "Ich habe keine Maus - ich habe ein TOUCHPAD!" --Jana W. 2011-03-26 -- "our product has exactly *one* key.. why do we need 'customer service'?" --Mitch Altman 2011-01-03 -- "das beste wlan ist ein kabel" "der beste kleber ist eine schraube" 2009-08-12 on HAR2009 by Wulf Coulmann -- dass man im kopf redet, bedeutet nicht, dass man denkt, sondern bloss, dass man redet. -- Open WiFi aka "bring your own encryption" (via Rene Pfeiffer at DeepSec 2010) -- "ich bin breitformat - ich bin 16:9!" --Stefan Schumacher 2010-11-22 in Wien -- 2010-11-29 10:43 iago-x86 (on long words in german) I've gotten the impression that spaces are optional in German. -- "Die absolute Wahrheit ist ein Verrat am Wissen" --Alex Antener [2010-10-12] -- "jedes mal, wenn ich versuche die welt zu retten, ist mir dann einer boes." --Markus Grueneis 2010-04-28 -- "berliner saechsisch stinkt wie eine open source variante, die auf DLL basiert." Nando Koerner 2008-11-08 -- 2008-10-29 12:19 @wuehlmaus NENN NIEMALS VIM NUR VI! -- "lieber maedels checken als mails checken.... digga!" --Sven Uebelacker 2008-09-22 -- "Natuerlich funktioniert mein UTF-8 - schliesslich zahle ich ja auch in Euro und nicht in Mark!" 2008-08-29 20:30 Wulf Coulmann - nach dem Konzert der Hauptstadtpolka. -- 2008-03-22 beim brunch... "was sind eigentlich MUDs?" "sowas wie WOW .. in text" -- Sven Guckes: "*staun* der mann kann meine gedanken lesen - eek!" Michael Sucha: "ich benutze windows... ich *muss* das koennen!" 2007-10-03 17:23 auf dem p52-balkon -- Michael Prokop auf #grml ueber den debian installer: 2007-07-19 16:21 < mika> wuah, ich zuck beim dem graffl noch aus.... -- 2007-06-24 13:00 -!- wuehlmaus changed the topic of #guckes to: Sind wir nicht alle Scripte, die auf ihre Ausfuehrung warten? -- 2007-05-14 Nysvr: "Haq vpu erqr avpug iba vag bqre pune!" -- Sebastian - blind. "Licht ist Luxus!" -- 2007-02-21: thema statistik, terminus "zufaellige auswahl" Sven: so, nun waehle drei leute mal zufaellig aus! Sebastian: aber - wir sind doch nur zu *zweit*! -- b9: "i thought you also had guns up there in canada.." Ken: "yes, but we actually shoot stuff that *deserves* to die!" 2006-12-22 at the cccb -- "Hätten wir es nicht alle gern... französisch?" "Wir sind A-moe-ben!" -- Jorge dos Santos [2006-10-21] -- "WLAN ist Dein Freund, und Dein Nachbar Dein Provider." --Alexander Wiederhold [2006-10-21] -- Sven Guckes: Why does GNUpg have so many options? Werner Koch: I always thought that it is nice that it has more options than mutt. [2006-05-04 at the Linuxtag Social Event in Wiesbaden] -- "Das kann gar nicht so viel sein, denn jede Bürokraft kann das lernen." --Peter Voigt [Vim Workshop in Herford, 2006-04-29] -- Message-ID: <20060106175448.GA24916@tuxmobil.org> > warum sind laptops immer nur so schwierig? :-/ Damit ich beruehmt werde ;-) --Werner Heuser [2006-01-06] www.tuxmobil.org -- Da ich also momentan auf [ein anderen maschine] arbeite, bitte ich eventuelle Buchstabentauscher aufgrund des ungewohnten Kezboard-Lazouts yu veryeihen. -- Jochen Striepe [2005-05-08 23:28] -- "ich wollte kuscheln.. und fand das grad toll.. aber er war suse user.. und damit aus" -- Rebecca [2005-03-10] ueber IRC -- Rebecca: du stinkst nach bier. Nico: und du stinkst nach seife! [2005-03-04] -- 28.02 22:01 nein meine initialen sind nion --Nico Golde ueber ICQ [2005-02-28] -- Ich chatte eigentlich nicht gerne und ICQ mag ich auch nicht besonders, die lenken mich nur vom Usenet ab und rauben Zeit, in der ich Emails beantworten könnte. --Sabine Schulz [2004-07-31] in privater email -- "Jeder Tastendruck ist einer zuviel!" ("every keystroke is one too many!") --David Kastrup [2004-03-06] -- "GUI = Girls Use It?" Sabine 'Sani' Schulz [de.comm.software.mailreader.misc] [2004-01-25] Message-ID: -- "KDE hat mit Windowmanager nur sehr am Rande etwas zu tun. KDE ist ein Desktop Environment (duh!), und weiß Gott nicht das schlechteste auf dieser Welt. Es halt nur langsam, häßlich, bunt, laut, und überhaupt für Mädchen. Aber das ist eine andere Geschichte." Robin Socha [2003-08-14] -- * Christian Perle writes: > > Für mich gilt die Devise: Es gibt keine dummen Fragen, es gibt nur dumme Antworten. > Das ist ein Ammenmaerchen aus Sozialpaedagogenhausen. de.comp.os.unix.linux.misc Date: 2003-05-19 02:49:44 PST -- freie software lehrt und lernt sich schlecht in unfreien verhaeltnissen.. --Hans-Peter Prenzel [2003-04-03] -- Freie Software will allen Leuten immer etwas Gutes. Den Leuten Freiheiten *geben*. Nicht ihnen welche *nehmen*. -- Hans-Peter Prenzel [2003-04-03] -- "Ein Linux-System in seinem Aufbau nicht zu verstehen und nicht gelegentlich in Konfigurationsdateien 'herummachen' zu wollen, ist so, als säße man alleine in einem Flugzeug und könne es nur per Autopilot fliegen." --Florian Cramer [2003-01-13] auf der Rohrpost Mailingliste -- "Wenn Deine Primärziele nicht das Abspielen von Fickfilmen und Reformatieren virenverseuchter Festplatten sind, ist Linux die bessere Wahl." Robin Socha [2002-07-17] -- Robin Socha FUCK OFF AND DIE! -- "Wer Tutti Frutti, Schulmädchenreport, Verbotene Liebe, Vera, Gute Zeiten und Unter Uns konsumiert, verwendet auch Outlook Express." Robin S. Socha in -- Newsgroups: de.comm.software.mailserver Date: Mon, 22 Jul 2002 04:16:50 -0400 Message-ID: Die technische Erklärung für Dein Problem lautet, daß Du ein Idiot bist. -- Newsgroups: de.comm.software.newsreader * Cord D Mittauer : > Hallo ihr guten Menschen, From: "Robin S. Socha" [2001-02-03] > Darf ich trotzdem antworten? -- "Ich hatte kein 'wc' - also habe ich 'tree' benutzt..." (name withheld) [2001-08-10] -- but really, I know too little about Linux at present to get it online safely, and so I'll give it more time. Okay, before you say anything, I know windows is not safe, but at least *THAT* is not my fault. --Marleen Garcia [2002-04-18] -- Rechtschreibreform und Puenktlichkeit: Ich schaffe es nie, puenktlich zu sein. Ich schaffe es, nie puenktlich zu sein. -- Gilda Kindt -- .. gegen Windows spricht natürlich die eigentliche OS-Funktionalität, und auch seine Graphikästhetik, die mich an das lilagrüne Perforationsholz- Interieur des ICE I, Siemens-Telefone und anderes Behördenmobiliar erinnert, ist eine Beleidigung jedes guten Geschmacks. --Florian Cramer [2002-01-22] -- Um ueberhaupt beurteilen zu koennen, ob ich arbeite oder rumdaddel muss man schon ziemlich gut Perl koennen ;) --Jens Dreger [2001-04-19] -- Frueher wurde man als Hexe verbrannt - heute brauch ich 'ne Firewall... --Sabine Kurjo McNeill [2001-10-23] -- Student: "Hey, ich kann mich nicht einloggen!" Technik: "OK - schick eine email an 'staff'.." -- my friend the windows consultant gave me a Linux voodoo doll. She noted that the windows voodoo doll has many, many more pins. --Tim Johnson [2002-01-26] -- "let's face it, AFW *is* a mostly-dead group. The Web killed it. The PWs who used to create big ugly .sigs with ASCII art and figlet fonts switched en masse to creating big ugly web pages with animated GIFs in angry fruit salad colours." Keith Lim [2000-02-19] on alt.fan.warlord -- http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=deathsquad.m3k8oac4xk.fsf%40socha.net&output=gplain "Fsck pico - vim *RuL3z!!!* for Email. (all-hail 'Sven) for his .vimrc: - beware: this stuff is tuned for mutt..." From: "Robin S. Socha" [1999/10/26] -- sendmail - written by Martians for Martians. --Paul Tomblin (1992) -- "The PROPER way to handle HTML postings is to cancel the article, then hire a hitman to kill the poster, his wife and kids, and fuck his dog and smash his computer into little bits. Anything more is just extremism." --Paul Tomblin -- =================================================================== =================================================================== -- Wer nichts zu verbergen hat, braucht auch keine Angst vor Wikileaks zu haben! -- http://www.telemedicus.info/urteile/Presserecht/Vertraulichkeit-der-Redaktionsarbeit/180-BVerfG-Az-1-BvR-58662,-61063-und-51264-Spiegel.html Eine freie, nicht von der öffentlichen Gewalt gelenkte, keiner Zensur unterworfene Presse ist ein Wesenselement des freiheitlichen Staates; insbesondere ist eine freie, regelmäßig erscheinende politische Presse für die moderne Demokratie unentbehrlich. Soll der Bürger politische Entscheidungen treffen, muß er umfassend informiert sein, aber auch die Meinungen kennen und gegeneinander abwägen können, die andere sich gebildet haben. Die Presse hält diese ständige Diskussion in Gang; sie beschafft die Informationen, nimmt selbst dazu Stellung und wirkt damit als orientierende Kraft in der öffentlichen Auseinandersetzung. In ihr artikuliert sich die öffentliche Meinung. -- Why Linux? by William E. Shotts, Jr. When I am asked to explain the difference between Windows and Linux, I often use a toy analogy. Windows is like a Game Boy. You go to the store and buy one all shiny new in the box. You take it home, turn it on and play with it. Pretty graphics, cute sounds. After a while though, you get tired of the game that came with it so you go back to the store and buy another one. This cycle repeats over and over. Finally, you go back to the store and say to the person behind the counter, "I want a game that does this!" only to be told that no such game exists because there is no "market demand" for it. Then you say, "But I only need to change this one thing!" The person behind the counter says you can't change it. The games are all sealed up in their cartridges. You discover that your toy is limited to the games that others have decided that you need and no more. Linux, on the other hand, is like the world's largest Erector Set. You open it up and it's just a huge collection of parts. A lot of steel struts, screws, nuts, gears, pulleys, motors, and a few suggestions on what to build. So you start to play with it. You build one of the suggestions and then another. After a while you discover that you have your own ideas of what to make. You don't ever have to go back to the store, as you already have everything you need. The Erector Set takes on the shape of your imagination. It does what you want. Your choice of toys is, of course, a personal thing, so which toy would you find more satisfying? -- vim: set ft=sven fenc=utf8: THPXRF EOF