"First things first, but not necessarily in that order."
-- Doctor Who
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
-- Thomas Edison
"The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference."
--Elie Wiesel
"It is appallingly obvious that our technology exceeds our humanity."
--Albert Einstein
"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe.
-- Albert Einstein
"I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use."
--Galileo Galilei
"Don't imagine that you know what a computer terminal is. A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body can connect with the universe and move bits of it about."
-- Douglas Adams, "Mostly Harmless"
"Computers are useless. They can only give you answers."
-- Pablo Picasso
"REALITY is a SANDWICH that I DID NOT ORDER!"
--Zippy the Pinhead
"We travel together, passengers on a little spaceship, dependent on its vulnerable reserves of air and soil; all committed for our safety to its security and peace; preserved from annihilation only by the care, the work and, I will say, the love we give our fragile craft."
--Adlai E. Stevenson
Rights is a fictional abstraction. No one has "Rights", neither machines nor flesh-and-blood. Persons...have opportunities, not rights, which they use or do not use.
-- Lazarus Long
Who I'd like to meet: Anyone who isn't repelled by my offbeat sense of humor,
Fellow geeks of all types,
and anyone who enjoys the occasional day-into-night-into-day conversation that rambles on from tangent to tangent...