Love is being stupid together.
-- Paul Valery

A dead man cannot bite.
-- Gnaeus Pompeius (Pompey)

"Gravitation cannot be held responsible for people falling in love."
-- Albert Einstein

On the other hand, you have different fingers...
-- Stephen Wright

Hi,

a friend of mine runs a small restaurant and wants to professionalize his
IT. Our idea was to store everything in subversion (we use Debian with svn
1.3). We had absolutely no problems with the 2D objects, converting recipes
to ASCII and storing them was peanuts. However the 3D objects are giving us
a headache - the forks and knifes are stuck in the keyboard, we even
destroyed a floppy drive trying to read an apple.

Any ideas how we can still use SVN to store everything?

Konrad Rosenbaum on the Subversion Users' mailing list
http://svn.haxx.se/users/archive-2006-04/0008.shtml
1 April 2006

Kyle, you need to stop being such a chicken shit and stand up to your
mother. You need to smack her in the face and say, "That's enough of your
shit, you fucking bitch!"

PISSING DOWN ANY ONE'S BACK. Flattering him.

Awareness
Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action.

This mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You don't live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim.

Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

Osho A Sudden Clash of Thunder Chapter 1

Love -- the last of the serious diseases of childhood.

Every kind action has a not-so-kind reaction
-- Murphy's Love Laws n°8

You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having
both at once.
-- Lazarus Long

To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three
parts dead.
-- Bertrand Russell

"Quick, you must come with me, you're in great danger!"
"Why?"
"Because I'll kill you if you dont."
(Sourcery)

Maturity

The distinction between the grasses and the blossoms is the same as
between you not knowing that you are a buddha, and the moment you know
that you are a buddha. In fact, there is no way to be otherwise.
Buddha is completely blossomed, fully opened. His lotuses, his petals,
have come to a completion.... Certainly, to be full of spring yourself
is far more beautiful than the autumn dew falling on the lotus leaves.
That is one of the most beautiful things to watch: when autumn dew
falls on the lotus leaves and shine in the morning sun like real
pearls. But of course it is a momentary experience. As the sun rises,
the autumn dew starts evaporating.... This temporary beauty cannot be
compared, certainly, with an eternal spring in your being. You look
back as far as you can and it has always been there. You look forward
as much as you can, and you will be surprised: it is your very being.
Wherever you are it will be there, and the flowers will continue to
shower on you. This is spiritual spring.

Osho No Mind: The Flowers of Eternity Chapter 5

A green hunting cap squeezed the top of the fleshy balloon of a head. The
green earflaps, full of large ears and uncut hair and the fine bristles that
grew in the ears themselvse, stuck out on either side like turn signals
indicating two directions at once. Full, pursed lips protruded beneath the
bushy black moustache and, at their corners, sank into little folds filled
with disapproval and potato chip crumbs. In the shadow under the green visor
of the cap Ignatius J. Reilly's supercilious blue and yellow eyes looked down
upon the other people waiting under the clock at the D.H. Holmes department
store, studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste in dress. Several
of the outfits, Ignatius noticed, were new enough and expensive enough to be
properly considered offenses against taste and decency. Possession of
anything new or expensive only reflected a person's lack of theology and
geometry; it could even cast doubts upon one's soul.
-- John Kennedy Toole, "Confederacy of Dunces"

AWAKE! FEAR! FIRE! FOES! AWAKE!
FEAR! FIRE! FOES!
AWAKE! AWAKE!
-- J. R. R. Tolkien

I'd rather feel the earth beneath my feet,
Yes I would.
If I could,
I surely would.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "El Condor Pasa"

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
(Hogfather)

And now for flame-time!

Adi, you dunderhead. You are old enough and experienced enough to know
that your sodding and idiotic waste of bandwidth by quoting my message
whole to add the above answer was wasteful, immoral and punishable by
eternal singing of Hava Nagila in the company with Hanale Sharon.

-- Marc A. Volovic on linux-il, 2 Jan, 2002

"That's the whole problem with science. You've got a bunch of
empiricists trying to describe things of unimaginable wonder."
--- Calvin

Never ask what sort of computer a guy drives. If he's a Mac
user, he'll tell you. If not, why embarrass him?
-- Tom Clancy

I wrote an ad for Apple Computer: "Macintosh - We might not get
everything right, but at least we knew the century was going to
end."
-- Douglas Adams

[Pulls out a phaser] Stop right there. I have here the only working phaser ever
built. It was fired only once, to keep William Shatner from making another album.

-- Comic Book Guy
Treehouse of Horror X: Desperately Xeeking Xena (Episode BABF01)

The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it
seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the
fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving
after rational knowledge.
- Albert Einstein

[War] is instinctive. But the instinct can be fought. We're human
beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands! But we
can stop it. We can admit that we're killers ... but we're not going
to kill today. That's all it takes! Knowing that we're not going to
kill today!
-- Kirk, "A Taste of Armageddon", stardate 3193.0

Heroism on command, senseless violence, and all the loathsome nonsense that
goes by the name of patriotism -- how passionately I hate them!
Albert Einstein

"I'd love to go out with you, but my favorite commercial is on TV."

Anyone can become angry -- that is easy; but to be angry with the right
person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose
and in the right way -- that is not easy.
-- Aristotle

We have lots of FogBugz customers who have high-priced Remedy, Rational, or
Mercury products sitting on the shelves after investments of well over
$100,000, because that software isn't good enough to actually use. Then they
buy a couple of thousand dollars worth of FogBugz and that's the product they
really use. The Rational salesperson is laughing at me, because I have $2000 in
the bank and he has $100,000. But I have far more customers than he does, and
they're all using my product, and evangelizing it, and spreading it, while
Rational customers either (a) don't use it or (b) use it and can't stand it.
But he's still laughing at me from his 40 foot yacht while I play with rubber
duckies in the bathtub. Like I said, all three methods work fine. But cheaper
prices is like buying advertising and as such is an investment in the future.

Joel Spolsky
"Camels and Rubber Duckies" (on the Pricing of Software)

Knuth is not God! God has already released TeX version 4.0.

Shlomi Fish

I feel much better, now that I've given up hope.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Jubilation,
She loves me again,
I fall on the floor and I laughing.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Cecilia"

The truth may be out there, but lies are inside your head.
(Hogfather)

Discovery is dangerous . . . but so is life. A man unwilling to take risk is
doomed never to learn, never to grow, never to live.

-PLANETOLOGIST PARDOT KYNES, An Arrakis Primer, written for his son Liet

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in
higher regard those who think alike than those who think differently.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche

(Covered in Lucite)

(The Collector, slowly, strikes a dramatic pose)

Collector:
Lucite hardening ... must end life in classic Lorne Greene
pose from "Battlestar Galactica." Best ... death ... ever!

Treehouse of Horror X: Desperately Xeeking Xena (Episode BABF01)

Don't Worry, Be Happy.
-- Meher Baba

QUEER ROOSTER. An informer that pretends to be sleeping,
and thereby overhears the conversation of thieves in
night cellars.

SALMON or SALAMON. The beggars'sacrament or oath.

After they make styrofoam, what do they ship it in?
-- Stephen Wright

Tell her to reap it with a sickle of leather:
Parsley, sage, rosemary and thyme;
And gather it all in a bunch of heather,
Then she'll be a true love of mine.

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Scarborough Fair/Canticle"

He was singin' on his knees
An angry mob trailed along
They shot my brother dead
Because he hated what was wrong

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "He Was My Brother"

The more a man is imbued with the ordered regularity of all events, the firmer
becomes his conviction that there is no room left by the side of this ordered
regularity for causes of a different nature. For him neither the rule of
human nor the rule of divine will exists as an independent cause of natural
events. To be sure, the doctrine of a personal God interfering with natural
events could never be refuted, in the real sense, by science, for this
doctrine can always take refuge in those domains in which scientific knowledge
has not yet been able to set foot.

But I am persuaded that such behavior on the part of the representatives
of religion would not only be unworthy but also fatal. For a doctrine which
is able to maintain itself not in clear light, but only in the dark, will
of necessity lose its effect on mankind, with incalculable harm to human
progress. In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion
must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is,
give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast
powers in the hands of priests. In their labors they will have to avail
themselves of those forces which are capable of cultivating the Good, the
True, and the Beautiful in humanity itself. This is, to be sure, a more
difficult but an incomparably more worthy task.
- Albert Einstein

Chandler: Well, y'know, I had some trouble with it at first too, but the
way I look at it is, I get all the good stuff: all the fun, all the talking,
all the sex; and none of the responsibility. I mean, this is every guy's
fantasy!

Phoebe: Oh, yeah. That is not true. Ross, is this your fantasy?

Ross: No, of course not! [Thinks] ...Yeah, yeah, it is.

Monica: What? So you guys don't mind going out with someone else who's
going out with someone else?

Joey: I couldn't do it.

Monica: Good for you, Joey.

Joey: When I'm with a woman, I need to know that I'm going out with more
people than she is.

Excerpt from the TV Show "Friends"

I have abandoned my search for truth, and am now looking for a good fantasy.

Ashleigh Brilliant

Q: What's the difference between an Irish wedding and an Irish wake?
A: One less drunk.

Let me take you a button-hole lower.
-- William Shakespeare, "Love's Labour's Lost"

I wrote a few children's books...not on purpose.
-- Stephen Wright

I wrote a song, but I can't read music so I don't know what it is.
Every once in a while I'll be listening to the radio and I say, "I think
I might have written that."
-- Stephen Wright