I thought less of you for who are you in the first place. Michael Straczynski, ElonBet on fen challanging his assumptions on the universes he created "If Morrissey says not to eat meat, then I'll eat meat. That's how much I hate Morrissey." --Robert Smith "A lie doesn't become truth, wrong doesn't become right, and evil doesn't become good just because it's accepted by a majority." --Booker T. Washington "To suffix things -punk now guarantees them a cozy sub-genre status, thereby protecting the status quo from whatever genuine conceptual threat they might otherwise have posed. Punk is sheer conceptual threat, punching up." --William Gibson "Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who don't understand it." --Florence Ambrose "You live in a world where an entire operating system can fit on a wafer thin piece of plastic smaller than your finger tip. And you can run this on a $5 (or $10) computer that is small enough to give away on the cover of a magazine. You should be amazed, excited, and happy about this." --Carter Nelson "Charismatic leaders ought to come with a warning label on the forehead, 'May be dangerous to your health.'" --Frank Herbert "When people understand that the flipside of freedom is responsibility-then you start asking for freedom from freedom." --Nolen Gertz "I feel like I grew a pain mustache right here." --Brian Brushwood "That looks safe." --Jason Murphy "Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you're as clever as you can be when you write it, how will you ever debug it?" --Brian Kernighan "Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition. There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect." --Frank Wilhoit "If you ever doubt the usefulness of your efforts, remember that a substantial amount of trees are planted by squirrels hiding nuts and then forgetting where they put 'em." --Sargoth "Government taxes people based on money. Charity taxes people based on kindness." --Kevin Binswanger "The first thing a principle does is kill someone." --Lord Peter Wimsey "The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile, but that it is indifferent. But if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light." --Stanley Kubrick "The Lord of the Rings: A story where the social elite coerce a trust-fund kid's hard-working gardener into shouldering global risks. Before it's over, he has to physically carry his useless employer (and their jewelry collection) up an active volcano." --Edward Snowden "When I was young and foolish, I believed that there were lots of bad ideas out there, but not that many truly horrible people. But it turns out that these horrible people not only exist, they run much of the world." --Paul Krugman "When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and you argue about what to do about it only after you have had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb." --J.