Interesting Quote Thread

[Dempsey]

The more people I meet, the more I love my computer - from the Internet

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

"Capitalism is the unequal sharing of happiness. Socialism is the equal sharing of misery" ----- Winston Churchill

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Someone needs to emphasize this in such a way that the right people see it: people who pirate software enjoy cracking it. The game itself is orders of magnitude less amusing. And their distributed ingenuity will smash your firm, secure edifice into beach absolutely every time. There are no exceptions to this rule.

-- Tycho

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Thomas Jefferson: "A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take away everything you have."

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

I agree with you. What bothers me is that I've seen this conversation about 50,000,000 times on this site:

A: Linux isn't very good at Foobar.
B: Windows is just as bad at Foobar!1!!!

Notice how person B totally and completely changed the subject while simultaneously missing the point. The point isn't how good Windows is at it; in fact, the original poster didn't even *mention* Windows 90% of the time this conversation happens. The point is that Linux isn't very good at Foobar and should be better at Foobar.

Mac OS X users don't constantly compare themselves to Windows; I could go on "macosxhints.com" and post, "wow, the interface for Spotlight in Finder sucks ass" and I won't get 47 replies that all read, "yeah, well, Windows search is worse!!11!." For some reason, the Linux community does that constantly. It's annoying, it should stop.

It's logically impossible to build an OS better than Windows if you only work on problems until you're "as good as Windows" at them. If the Linux cared about making a usable, supported, real alternative OS, they wouldn't do this constant penis-measuring about Windows and they'd start working on it.

End rant, sorry.

Blakey Rat on /.

My emphasis.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."

- Ronald Reagan

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Highlander: A Swiss/French guy playing a Scotsman and a Scotsman playing a Spaniard. The bad guy was played by an actor from Ohio, so I assume the character was intended to be Chinese.

M0MUS
http://www.cracked.com/article_15080_6- ... ovies.html

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

"The world cannot be discovered by a journey of miles, however long, but only by a spiritual journey, a journey of only one inch very arduous and humble and joyful, by which we arrive at the ground at our feet, and learn to be at home."

Wendell Berry, a farmer poet

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Interesting quote here from Maj Gen Smedley Butler in the 1930's:

I spent 33 years and four months in active military service and during that period I spent most of my time as a high class thug for Big Business, for Wall Street and the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism. I helped make Mexico and especially Tampico safe for American oil interests in 1914. I helped make Haiti and Cuba a decent place for the National City Bank boys to collect revenues in. I helped in the raping of half a dozen Central American republics for the benefit of Wall Street. I helped purify Nicaragua for the International Banking House of Brown Brothers in 1902-1912. I brought light to the Dominican Republic for the American sugar interests in 1916. I helped make Honduras right for the American fruit companies in 1903. In China in 1927 I helped see to it that Standard Oil went on its way unmolested. Looking back on it, I might have given Al Capone a few hints. The best he could do was to operate his racket in three districts. I operated on three continents.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

There are only three sports: bullfighting, motor racing, and mountaineering; all the rest are merely games.
- E. Hemingway

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

One day on a golf course with Jack Benny, he was asked what his handicap was. "Handicap?" he asked. "Talk about handicap — I'm a one-eyed Negro Jew."

Sammy Davis Jr.

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Misquotes:

http://listverse.com/2007/10/18/top-15-film-misquotes/

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

Rule 1: Life is not fair – get used to it!
Rule 2: The world doesn’t care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.
Rule 3: You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won’t be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.
Rule 4: If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.
Rule 5: Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.
Rule 6: If you mess up, it’s not your parents’ fault, so don’t whine about your mistakes, learn from them.
Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren’t as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent’s generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.
Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they’ll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn’t bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.
Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don’t get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time.
Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.
Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you’ll end up working for one.

Bill Gates

[THE JEW (RaVeN)]

I f**king hate you! We're only having one kid being ripped out of my vagina! Adopted Chinese kids are looking pretty f**king cute right about now! We are so NEVER having s3x again! You bastard!

Well, that was pleasurable. We can have s3x again.

[Dempsey]

Do you mean your woman Jason?