-- Sven's favourite quotes. http://www.guckes.net/quotes/collection http://www.guckes.net/quotes/collection.txt Sven Guckes Latest change: Tue Jan 31 04:23:42 CET 2012 -- =========================================================== === NEW =========================================================== -- nicht gemeckert ist gelobt genug. ehre ist zwang genug. -- 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 -- 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! -- 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 -- 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! . 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 . 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? -- 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. 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 -- 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 don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying." -- 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. -- 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 -- 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 ... -- "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) -- "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 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 =========================================================== -- 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. -- You are lost in a maze of twisty little web pages, all pointless. -- You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike. -- 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.. -- 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 -- 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 ;-) =================================================================== -- 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 $HOME there's no place like 127.0.0.1 there's no place like ::1 -- =================================================================== People I know. =================================================================== -- "..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. -- #EOF