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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Sun Aug 25 01:32:52 1991
Date: Sun, 25 Aug 91 01:32:27 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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carla (Carla Jean Fermann):
TechInfo er et elektroniske informasjonssystem med informasjon av og
for ansatte og studenter ved Universitetet i Oslo. Den tekniske drift
av systemet utf?res av Universitetets Senter for Informasjonsteknologi
(USIT), mens informasjon i systemet vedlikeholdes av fakulteter, inst-
itutter, avdelinger, enkeltpersoner og organisasjoner del av univers-
itetetsmilj?et.
Dersom du har kommentarer eller sp?rsm l rundt dette systemet kan du
henvende deg til Terje Bakka ved USIT, tlf 453470, eMail:
terjeb@usit.uio.no.
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ccount (Craig A Counterman):
================ Tao Te Ching of the Day ================
Chapter 9:
Better stop short than fill to the brim.
Oversharpen the blade, and the edge will soon blunt.
Amass a store of gold and jade, and no one can protect it.
Claim wealth and titles, and disaster will follow.
Retire when the work is done.
This is the way of heaven.
================ Koan of the day ================
One day Banzan was walking through a market. he overheard a customer
say to the butcher, "Give me the best piece of meat you have."
"Everything in my shop is the best," replied the butcher. "You can
not find any piece of meat that is not the best."
At these words, Banzan was enlightened.
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celine (Rob F):
It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is. If
you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't our's
either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.
- Oxford University Press, Edpress News
"NOTICE: Due to the shortage of ROBOTS and COMPUTERS
some of our workers are HUMAN and therefore will act
unpredictably when abused."
"Save the earth, develop space." - Bumper Sticker
"Money is the root of all evil!
Send $9.95 for more information."
- Billboard in Portland, OR
Seen on the wall in a New York subway station:
"There are no integers n > 2 and x, y, z > 0,
such that x^n + y^n = z^n.
I have found a truly wonderful proof of this.
Unfortunately, my train is coming."
"At age 35, Paul Gauguin still worked
as a teller in a Paris bank."
"At age 35, Mozart was dead."
--NYC subway graffiti, late 1960s
"Is there life before death?" --- Belfast graffiti
``Those what cannot remedy the past can pretend to repeal it."
- Attributed to Santa Ana by Howland Owl
It isn't what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that
ain't so. --Will Rogers
"if you copy from one source, it's theft; if you copy from two it's
research."
"If we knew what we were doing, it wouldn't be research!"
"Drunken Milkman...driving drunk...Family of four,
family no more...milk and blood...blood and milk." Scatterbrain
"Roly-poly fish heads are never seen drinking cappucino in Italian
restaurants with Oriental women." Barnes & Barnes, "Fish Heads"
There once was a fellow named Clarence
Who Simonized both of his parents
"The initial expense,"
he remarked, "is immense,
But I'll save it on wearance and tearance."
"Thinking small-minded is when you see your bus on the other side of
the street and wish you could teleport across to catch it."
It is a weak mind that can think of only one way to spell a word.
--- "Build high for happiness."
"There is no law that vulgarity and
literary excellence cannot coexist."
-- A. Trevor Hodge
``Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.''
Joseph Campbell
"A few sums!" retorted Martens, with a trace of his old spirit. "A
major navigational change, like the one needed to break us away from
the comet and put us on an orbit to Earth, involves about a hundred
thousand separate calculations. Even the computer needs several
minutes for the job."
A.C. Clarke, "Into the Comet", _Tales_of_Ten_Worlds_
Another feature is that the seats float, so that the airline can recover
them if the plane crashes into the ocean. -- Dave Barry
I'm thinking maybe we should do something about this pesky federal
budget deficit. Of course, this is not our job. We have a political system
called "democracy" (from the ancient Greek words "demo" meaning "white men"
and "cracy" meaning "wearing blue suits") under which we, The People, do not
personally govern the nation because we have to work.
-- Dave Barry
"I do have a cause, though. It's obscenity. I'm for it." -- Tom Lehrer
"He's a tie with the ambition to become a full-blown suit." -- Jon Westbrock
"Oppression by one man is a crime. Oppression by many men is a
government."
"The 'government' is defined as the people who have the guns." - unattrib.
"Absolute power has no need to lie: it is silent. Responsible government, on
the other hand, being obliged to speak, dissimulates and lies shamelessly."
- Emperor Napoleon I [conversation, 1816]
You know, I bet the fiscal attitudes of Congress would change dramatically
if taxes were due April 15, and elections were April 16.
-- mjb@hoosier.utah.edu
"1984 has past, forget about Big Brother, welcome
to the 90's where the government's your mother!"
"If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change
its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety
with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to
combat it." --Thomas Jefferson, 1st Inaugural, 4-Mar-1801
"We hold that what one man cannot morally do, a million men cannot
morally do, and government, representing many millions of men, cannot
do." -- Auberon Herbert
"An armed society is a polite society."
Political correctness is Turing undecidable. - Darin Johnson
Political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible-ORWELL
As of right now, I'm in charge here now... Alexander Haig.
"I know this defies the law of gravity, but, eh... you see, I never
studied law."
Gravity: Not just an idea, IT'S THE LAW!
Brook's Law -- Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
-- Brook Conner
the Heineken Uncertainty Principle:
You can never be sure how many beers you had last night
Sometimes, life is like a cream donut,
Without the cream,
And without the donut.
"We have to learn from others mistakes. None of us will live long
enough to make them all ourself. It just seems that way..."
"...the i860 is a wonderful source of thesis topics."
--Preston Briggs
"He's dead, Jim!"
"OK, you take the tricorder - I'll take the wallet!"
"He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, but Captain,
it makes no sense!"
"But Spock, with Santa, ALL things are possible!"
Kirk and Spock...Hallmark Greeting Cards
"Sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
--A.C.Clarke
"Nanotechnology is sufficiently advanced."
--J.S.Hall
Sometimes, I think we are alone. Sometimes I
think we are not. In either case, the thought
is quite staggering.
-- R. Buckminster Fuller
"Even in this modern age of supersonic jets and amazingly fast computers,
we have yet to concoct something which can go faster than a holiday .."
"Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller,
you're part of the road." - Stewart Brand
HDTV: higher resolution, improved colour, wider screen,
"sit-com" reruns. What's wrong with this picture? -??
"I don't *want* to be normal!"
"Not to worry."
"Maybe we should tell the truth?"
"Surely we aren't that desperate yet."
"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
hears a different drummer. Let him march to the music he hears, be it
however measured or far away." --Henry David Thoreau
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle, and quick to
anger."
"Oh no, my dear, I'm a very good man. I'm just a very bad Wizard."
"Even with an IQ of six thousand, it was still brown trousers time"
- Holly, Red Dwarf's Computer.
Gives me a headache just trying to think down to your level. - Marvin HHGTTG
"... She said that she was working for the ABC news,
it was as much of the alphabet as she knew how to use ..."
--- Elvis Costello
"A poor fool indeed is he who adopts a manner of thinking (meant) for others!"
- Donatien-Alphonse-Francois de Sade
"Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very
well and to be easily misled."
--- Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
Never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by stupidity.
One day, a Fool was in the village mill, filling his bag with a little
bit of every other person's wheat. "Why are you doing that?" someone
asked. "Because I am a Fool" "Why don't you then fill other people's
bags with your own wheat?"
"Then," the Fool answered, "I would be more of a fool."
"Never before have so many people known so little about so much." -James Burke
"There are beautiful people I wish would have never opened their mouths,
because such ugliness oozes out." Philosophy Prof. at NYIT
The three most dangerous things in the world:
1) a programmer with a soldering iron,
2) a hardware type with a program patch, and
3) a user with an idea.
"The series converges so slowly that it actually diverges."
"I've never written a device driver, but I have written a device driver manual"
-- Robert Hartman, IDE Corp.
"People ask if I have myself read all the books I quote. I reply that
I have not; it would certainly have meant spending my life reading very
bad books." -- Blaise Pascal
"Gentlemen, I regret to inform you that we're all drawings."
-- B. Kliban
As a math atheist, I should be excused from this. --Calvin
I have lots of common sense. I just choose to ignore it. <Calvin>
technoignorami (tek'no-ig'no-ram`i) a group of individuals that are constantly
found to be saying things like "Well, it works on my DOS machine ..."
-- Michael Stefanik
exxon, verb
to damage, especially by pollution: "Let's hear it for a new
verb that, like the oil in the water, truly rises to the
occasion: `Get this rust heap off of the reef, mate, before
you exxon the whole harbor....' `I'm all thumbs. I tried to
change the oil in my car, and I exxoned the whole driveway'"
(The Washington Post)
UNFAIR Term applied to advantages enjoyed by other people which we
tried to cheat them out of and didn't manage. See also DISHONESTY,
SNEAKY, UNDERHAND, and JUST LUCKY I GUESS.
Chad C. Mulligan
Chemicals, n.:
Noxious substances from which modern foods are made. -- Mike Waters
I'd call you a bestial sodomistic necrophiliac, but that's beating a dead
horse.
"It's a distinctly non-trivial task to decompile a stripped, encrypted binary
into something that can be understood." - Keith Bostic, on the Internet worm
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cyoo (Chan Yoo):
"Please have Tino Candy as quickly as possible after opening since
it is so delikate."
- from package of TINO Blueberry Candy
"We give a thing or phenomenon a name, and then we say we understand it."
- Max
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daishi (Daishi Harada):
oh shit, she said.
oh shit.
oh
o
oh
oh shit
fuck.
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
-- Jeremy S. Anderson
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drhee (David Y Rhee):
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mein (Yu J Chen):
"A dog is not reckoned good because he barks well, and a man is not
reckoned wise because he speaks skilfully."
- Chuang Tzu
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mingliu (Minghsun Liu):
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pagandhi (Parin A Gandhi):
Hi!
I am generally around from 11:30 AM to 3:00 AM...
Interested in some fun and frolicking???
How about it????
Enjoy and be happy,
See ya!
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warlord (Derek Atkins):
Im home!
Don't know where Im gonna be living, yet, but Im home.....
Send me mail if you need to get ahold of me... Ill be online a lot
for ClearingHouse...
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