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41 Random Quotes

Trespassers will be hydrolysed.
— Reville Saw «facebook.com» in #laughing

The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me; while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

— George Bernard Shaw in #designing & #teaching
We are the masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
— Winston Churchill
In the war between good and evil, a great weapon of the forces of evil is the notion that there is a war between good and evil.
— Charles Eisenstein «Synchronicity, Myth, and the New World Order»
The hardest thing of all is to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if there is no cat.
— Confucius
We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
— Joseph Campbell
An era can be considered over when it's basic illusions have been exhausted.
— Arthur Miller «

Civilized to Death

»
We make the path by walking.
— Chuang Tzu
The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it.
— Jamie Zawinski «jwz.org»
People believe Loose Change because it proposes a closed world: comprehensible, controllable, small. Despite the great evil which runs it, it is more companionable than the chaos which really governs our lives, a world without destination or purpose.
— George Monbiot «Popular Documentary Takes Us Nowhere»
Before despair; chop wood, carry water. After despair; chop wood, carry water.
— Adam Shand
There is hardly anything more stupid and dangerous than putting important decisions in the hands of people who don't have to pay a price for being wrong.
— Gearóid T. «comment on Russell Brand's Oh SHT, Something TERRIFYING Is Happening» in #breaking & #laughing
Everybody wants to disown neocon strategy, including the neocons, because that strategy never worked. Still, it was, in point of fact, a strategy. Nobody else has one.
— Bruce Sterling «State of the World 2007»

If you're not in my circle of trust, you're probably in my triangle of suspicion or rhombus of doubt.

— Sara K. Runnels «

@omgskr

» in #laughing & #teaching
I should like to spend the whole of my life in traveling abroad, if I could anywhere borrow another life to spend afterward at home.
— William Hazlitt
We have emerged from a line of descent that began with microbial life, a line common to all plant and animal species … [we] are dependent not only on other human beings and on the physical world but also on other creatures—animals, plants, microbes—that have evolved together with us. We will ultimately destroy ourselves if we thoughtlessly eliminate the organisms which constitute essential links in the complex and delicate web of life of which we are a part.
— Rene Dubos «(rephrased).»
Chindogu are offerings to the rest of the world. They are not therefore ideas to be copyrighted, patented, collected and owned. As they say in Spain, 'mi Chindogu es tu Chindogu.
— Kenji Kawakami «The Nineth Tenant of Chindogu»
It's just not that big an achievement to be sure of yourself.
— Stephen Jenkinson «Dumbo Feather, Issue 54»
If you meet the Buddha on the road, misquote him.
— Bodhipaksa «There are only two mistakes»
Perfect is the enemy of done.
— Joe Abley «Managing IP Networks with Free Software»
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
— Oscar Wilde
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is “thank you”, that would suffice.
— Meister Eckhart
He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.
— T.E. Lawrence
I was foolishly optimistic and energetic.
— Christopher Horvath «vfxblog.com» in #daring & #making
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us. We ask ourselves, “Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented and fabulous?” Actually, who are you not to be? … As we let our light shine, we consciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fears, our presence automatically liberates others.
— Marianne Williamson «Return To Love (often misattributed to Nelson Mandela)»
This subreddit wouldn’t exist if probiotics or yogurt fixed everyone’s health problems.
— Eleanorina «r/zerocarb» in #eating, #healing & #laughing
Life is a bridge. Cross over it, but build no house on it.
— Proverb «Songlines»
Guard the mysteries, constantly reveal them.
— Unknown «Elise Mathson»
For the simplicity that lies this side of complexity, I would not give a fig, but for the simplicity that lies on the other side of complexity, I would give my life.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes in #designing & #making
One effect of sustained conflict is to narrow our vision of what is possible. Time and time again, conflicts are resolved through shifts that were unimaginable at the start.
— Nelson Mandela «(Adam Kahane in “Solving Tough Problems”)»
I'm practically paralyzed under a flood of ideas, none of which is particularly important, but all of which give me an initial sting of glee and, afterward, scheduling problems.
— Jonathan Gillette «aka. why the lucky stiff»

Stan runs his network like a fascist police state that crushes the spirit of TCP/IP packets. Stan often finds himself locked out of or inside of his network during one of many revolts of the oppressed packets. Stan uses OpenBSD PF.

Noah's network is run like a Hippie commune of free-love, drum circles and consciousness raising drugs. On occasion some packets wander out and reach their destination. Sometimes they send back postcards with poems written on the back. Sometimes gangs of biker packets roar up and steal all the good drugs. But there is no hate in Noah's network because all packets are created equal and sometimes bad packets are just ones we haven't made love to yet. Noah uses Linux iptables.

— Noah «Stan's Network vs Noah's Network» in #designing, #laughing & #nerding
You have to find your own rainbow to follow. There is no gold at the end of somebody else's rainbow.
— Bill Grundfest «@stewfortier» in #making & #teaching
Visions become responsible through all sort of processes. The best one I know is sharing it with other people who bring in their knowledge, their points of view, and their visions. The more a vision is shared, the more responsible it gets, and also the more ethical.
— Donella Meadows «Making Permaculture Stronger»
You don't have to be weird to be weird; you don't have to be strange to be strange.
— Mark E. Smith «Farewell to Beyond the Beyond»
It is not the project but the living process that will be the measure of our actions.
— David Holmgren
Every species which has ever existed, all individuals of every generation, come equipped to fulfil their tasks and roles and is moved by an innate pleasure at performing their functions.
— Ernst Götsch «Agrofloresta do Futuro (paraphrased)» in #healing
Raiding is our agriculture.
— Proverb «Against the Grain» in #wilding

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

— Oscar Wilde in #daring & #wilding
However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
— Stanley Kubrick

Cowardice asks the question, 'Is it safe?' 
Expediency asks the question, 'Is it politic?'
Vanity asks the question, 'Is it popular?'
But, conscience asks the question, 'Is it right?'

And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because one's conscience tells one that it is right.

— Martin Luther King Jr.