# HG changeset patch # User HackBot # Date 1334612233 0 # Node ID a1aac5b68b44edde38f8c2007bfd96d0d68ae208 # Parent 2dea41d8492763cea950e0054f61959249e72672 pastefortunes diff -r 2dea41d84927 -r a1aac5b68b44 paste/paste.16622 --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/paste/paste.16622 Mon Apr 16 21:37:13 2012 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,76 @@ + +Coming together is a beginning; + keeping together is progress; + working together is success. +--- + In the beginning there was only one kind of Mathematician, created by +the Great Mathamatical Spirit form the Book: the Topologist. And they grew to +large numbers and prospered. + One day they looked up in the heavens and desired to reach up as far +as the eye could see. So they set out in building a Mathematical edifice that +was to reach up as far as "up" went. Further and further up they went ... +until one night the edifice collapsed under the weight of paradox. + The following morning saw only rubble where there once was a huge +structure reaching to the heavens. One by one, the Mathematicians climbed +out from under the rubble. It was a miracle that nobody was killed; but when +they began to speak to one another, SUPRISE of all suprises! they could not +understand each other. They all spoke different languages. They all fought +amongst themselves and each went about their own way. To this day the +Topologists remain the original Mathematicians. + -- The Story of Babel +--- +This "brain-damaged" epithet is getting sorely overworked. When we can +speak of someone or something being flawed, impaired, marred, spoiled; +batty, bedlamite, bonkers, buggy, cracked, crazed, cuckoo, daft, demented, +deranged, loco, lunatic, mad, maniac, mindless, non compos mentis, nuts, +Reaganite, screwy, teched, unbalanced, unsound, witless, wrong; senseless, +spastic, spasmodic, convulsive; doped, spaced-out, stoned, zonked; {beef, +beetle,block,dung,thick}headed, dense, doltish, dull, duncical, numskulled, +pinhead; asinine, fatuous, foolish, silly, simple; brute, lumbering, oafish; +half-assed, incompetent; backward, retarded, imbecilic, moronic; when we have +a whole precisely nuanced vocabulary of intellectual abuse to draw upon, +individually and in combination, isn't it a little to be +limited to a single, now quite trite, adjective? +--- +Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have +much of anything to do with it. +--- +A sadist is a masochist who follows the Golden Rule. +--- +Any road followed to its end leads precisely nowhere. +Climb the mountain just a little to test it's a mountain. +From the top of the mountain, you cannot see the mountain. + -- Bene Gesserit proverb, "Dune" +--- +Unix is like a toll road on which you have to stop every 50 feet to +pay another nickel. But hey! You only feel 5 cents poorer each time. + -- Larry Wall in <1992Aug13.192357.15731@netlabs.com> +--- + . + / \ + | | + |.| + |.| + |:| __ +,_|:|_, / ) + (Oo / _I_ + +\ \ || __| + \ \||___| + \ /.:.\-\ + |.:. /-----\ + |___|::oOo::| + / |:<_T_>:| + |_____\ ::: / + | | \ \:/ + | | | | + \ / | \___ + / | \_____\ + `-' +--- +I loved her with a love thirsty and desperate. I felt that we two might commit +some act so atrocious that the world, seeing us, would find it irresistible. + -- Gene Wolfe, "The Shadow of the Torturer" +--- +Kime's Law for the Reward of Meekness: + Turning the other cheek merely ensures two bruised cheeks. +---