Aliquid melius quam pessimum optimum non est.

Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.

-- (Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound.)

"No Quid Pro Quo."
(I'm Sorry, We're All Out of Quid.)

Fortune presents:
USEFUL PHRASES IN ESPERANTO, #1.

^Cu vi parolas angle? Do you speak English?
Mi ne komprenas. I don't understand.
Vi estas la sola esperantisto kiun mi You're the only Esperanto speaker
renkontas. I've met.
La ^ceko estas enpo^stigita. The check is in the mail.
Oni ne povas, ^gin netrovi. You can't miss it.
Mi nur rigardadas. I'm just looking around.
Nu, ^sajnis bona ideo. Well, it seemed like a good idea.

FIERI FACIAS. A red-faced man is said to have been served
with a writ of fieri facias.

Adde parvum parvo manus acervus erit.
[Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]
-- Ovid

Hodie natus est radici frater.

Love is being stupid together.
-- Paul Valery

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

Fortune presents:
USEFUL PHRASES IN ESPERANTO, #2.

^Cu tiu loko estas okupita? Is this seat taken?
^Cu vi ofte venas ^ci-tien? Do you come here often?
^Cu mi povas havi via telelonnumeron? May I have your phone number?
Mi estas komputilisto. I work with computers.
Mi legas multe da scienca fikcio. I read a lot of science fiction.
^Cu necesas ke vi eliras? Do you really have to be going?

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

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

Sex is like snow; you never know how many inches you are going to get or how long it is going to last
-- Murphy's Laws on Sex n°9

Useful Latin Phrase:
Antiquis temporibus, nati tibi similes in rupibus ventosissimis exponebantur
ad necem.
In the good old days, children like you were left to perish on windswept
crags.

Useful Latin Phrase:
Romani quidem artem amatoriam invenerunt.
You know, the Romans invented the art of love.

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

Hodie natus est radici frater.

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!"

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

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

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

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)

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

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

Fortune presents:
USEFUL PHRASES IN ESPERANTO, #5.

Mi ^cevalovipus vin se mi havus I'd horsewhip you if I had a horse.
^cevalon.
Vere vi ^sercas. You must be kidding.
Nu, parDOOOOOnu min! Well exCUUUUUSE me!
Kiu invitis vin? Who invited you?
Kion vi diris pri mia patrino? What did you say about my mother?
Bu^so^stopu min per kulero. Gag me with a spoon.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.

Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones,
as the wind blows out candles and fans fires.
-- La Rochefoucauld

Original Latin lyrics:
Benedictus qui est venit
In nomine Domine
In nomine
In nomine
In nomine Domine
In nomine Domine
In nomine
In nomine
In nomine Domine

- as sung by Simon & Garfunkel "Benedictus"

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

[John Lennon's Assassination]

"Some years later that nice young man from England was on his
way to see his little boy and was signing autographs
- FOR NO PARTICULAR REASON AT ALL - somebody shot him"

Forrest Gump

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

[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)

Forrest Gump: "That's all I have to say about that"

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

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

PISSING DOWN ANY ONE'S BACK. Flattering him.

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

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

(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)

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"

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"

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

The ultimate question: Why does life exist? The answer: For life's sake.

-ANONYMOUS, thought to be of Zensunni origin

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

Ashleigh Brilliant

If we want to have any kind of confidence that the hash is really
unbreakable, we should make it not just longer than 160 bits, we should
make sure that it's two or more hashes, and that they are based on totally
different principles.

And we should all digitally sign every single object too, and we should
use 4096-bit PGP keys and unguessable passphrases that are at least 20
words in length. And we should then build a bunker 5 miles underground,
encased in lead, so that somebody cannot flip a few bits with a ray-gun,
and make us believe that the sha1's match when they don't. Oh, and we need
to all wear aluminum propeller beanies to make sure that they don't use
that ray-gun to make us do the modification _ourselves_.

Linus Torvalds in http://lwn.net/Articles/132513/