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Scarab Sages

“When we see our uniqueness as a virtue, only then do we find peace.”

- Aramaki (Takeshi Kitano), Ghost In The Shell (2017)

Just watched this; after the complaints about it when it was released, I was surprised how powerful and, in a number of respects, close-to-home for me it was. Am I the only one who is not only upset by the notion that the above should need to be said as though it's not obvious, but perceives that is presently does?

Scarab Sages

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“I don't like mobs. In my opinion, if you need one to get what you want, it's not worth getting.”

- Odo (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), "Bar Association"

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Having checked, I'm honestly surprised this gem of ages hasn't made it on here yet:

“I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell.”

- Harry Truman

Scarab Sages

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“YOU ARE NOT FOOD! NEVER EAT YOU. OTHER OTYUGHS ARE GOOD, SPECIALLY IF THEY DEAD. BUT NOT EAT YOU.”

- Bleached Otyugh

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"Here's a health to the Anglican Vicar,
And his church without meaning or faith
For the foundation stones of his temple
Are the b&&+!~~s of Henry VIII."

— Brendan Behan

Scarab Sages

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“...[H]e has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating it’s [sic] most sacred rights of life & liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating & carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither. this piratical warfare, the opprobrium of infidel powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought & sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce: and that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished die, he is now exciting those very people to rise in arms among us, and to purchase that liberty of which he has deprived them, by murdering the people upon whom he also obtruded them; thus paying off former crimes committed against the liberties of one people, with crimes which he urges them to commit against the lives of another.”

- Thomas Jefferson's final grievance against King George III in a 'rough draft' of the American Declaration of Independence, before it was struck out by Congress

Liberty's Edge

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"The greater idiot ever scolds the lesser."
- Herman Melville (Moby Dick, Or the Whale)

Scarab Sages

"In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in failure."
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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“I feel sorry for people who feel guilt.”
- Ted Bundy

Mull that one over a few times in your head, why don'tcha?


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I'm not a fan of my problems.
-Vidmaster7 fawtl put into a robot and spit back up.


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Thou shalt not make a machine in the likeness of a human mind.

Scarab Sages

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“It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”
- Jean-Luc Picard

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“All things make sense; you just have to fathom *how* they make sense.”
- Piers Anthony

Scarab Sages

"I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!"
- Theodore Roosevelt

Scarab Sages

“One must be cold if one wishes to savor Chaos.”
― Ferdinand Hardekopf

Scarab Sages

"Always be yourself, express yourself, have faith in yourself, do not go out and look for a successful personality and duplicate it."
- Bruce Lee

Scarab Sages

"You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or who says it."
- Malcolm X

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“Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.”
- Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, AKA Paracelsus

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“I confused things with their names: that is belief.”
- Jean-Paul Sartre

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“The reserve of modern assertions is sometimes pushed to extremes, in which the fear of being contradicted leads the writer to strip himself of almost all sense and meaning.”
- Winston Churchill

Scarab Sages

"Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining our adults?"
- Marylin Manson


I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:

“It is possible to commit no errors and still lose. That is not a weakness. That is life.”

- Jean-Luc Picard

One of my all time favorites.


My other favorite:

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
-Jimi Hendrix


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"My country, right or wrong; if right, to be kept right; and if wrong, to be set right." -- Senator Carl Shurz (1829-1906), remarks before the Senate, 1872.

Scarab Sages

“Make no judgments where you have no compassion.”
- Anne McCaffrey


I'm Hiding In Your Closet wrote:

"Is adult entertainment killing our children? Or is killing our children entertaining our adults?"

- Marilyn Manson

The guy is full of good quotes. For good or ill, he and Henry Rollins provided a lot of my philosophical reading material during my younger years.

A few of my favorites:

"Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised."

"When you're taught to love everyone, to love your enemies, then what value does that place on love?"

"If you want to find out who your real friends are, sink the ship. The first ones to jump aren't your friends."

"What doesn't kill you is going to leave a scar."


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"Australia has many parking lots but few ruins. When Australians see the ruin of an old building, our impulse is either to finish tearing it down or to bring in the architects and restore it as a cultural center, if large, or a restaurant, if small."
- Robert Hughes, The Fatal Shore: the Epic of Australia's Founding (1986)

Scarab Sages

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“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.”
- Oscar Wilde

Scarab Sages

“It is characteristic of all deep human problems that they are not to be approached without some humor and some bewilderment.”
- Freeman Dyson

Scarab Sages

“A laugh can be a very powerful thing. Sometimes in life it's the only weapon we have.”
― Roger Rabbit

Scarab Sages

"An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics."
- Plato, circa 350 B.C.


“I think the saddest people always try their hardest to make people happy because they know what it’s like to feel absolutely worthless and they don’t want anyone else to feel like that.”

-Robin Williams


Calvin: "I'm so smart it's almost scary. I guess I'm a child progeny."
Hobbes: "Most children are."
Calvin: "Huh?"
Hobbes: "Nothing."
Calvin: "People think it must be fun to be a super genius, but they don't realize how hard it is to put up with all the idiots in the world."
Hobbes: "Isn't your pants zipper supposed to be in the front?"

Liberty's Edge

"Lex iratum videt. Iratus legem non videt." (The law sees the angry man. The angry man does not see the law.)

- Publilius Syrus Sententiae

Scarab Sages

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"I don't mind being the smartest man in the world, I just wish it wasn't this one."
- Adrian "Ozymandias" Veidt

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“My doctor grabbed me by the wallet and said, ‘Cough!’”
- Henny Youngman

“I could tell my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”
- Rodney Dangerfield

“I like to tease my plants when I water them. I like to water them with ice cubes.”
- Steven Wright

“British scientists have demonstrated that cigarettes can harm your children. Fair enough. Use an ashtray!”
- Jimmy Carr

“You don’t know anything about pain… You don’t know anything about pain until you’ve seen your own baby drowned in a tub… And you definitely don’t know anything about how to wash a baby.”
- Anthony Jeselnik

“I saw a dog in a cage. And that cage had a sign on it that said, ‘I bite.’ And I was like, ‘That is good to know doggy, but that’s not the most important thing about you. You should make a sign that says, ‘I make signs.’”
- Doug Benson

“I was walking in the park and this guy waved at me. Then he said, ‘I’m sorry, I thought you were someone else.’ I said, ‘I am.’”
- Demetri Martin

“I like to hold the microphone cord like this: I pinch it together, then I let it go, then you hear a whole bunch of jokes at once.”
- Mitch Hedberg

“Actually, the reason I look like this is because my father was from Sweden and my mother was Elton John.”
- Jim Gaffigan

“Sometimes, I like to read the Bible in public and yell out, ‘Oh B%~$@@@@!’”
- Zach Galifianakis

Scarab Sages

“Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.”

- Billy Wilder

Scarab Sages

“Chance is always powerful. Let your hook always be cast in the pool where you least expect it; there will be a fish.”

- Ovid


"I make money. I never count it, the accountant does. We talk a few times a year. I say "Am I doing anything horribly wrong?" and she'll say, "Well, from your receipts, it doesn't look like you eat very much, but you sure seem to like records. Are you eating those?"
- Henry Rollins


Here is my favorite quote
“A ship in harbor is safe — but that is not what ships are built for.” — John A. Shedd.

Scarab Sages

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“1988: What if we could post web pages!
1993: What if we could just e-mail each other!
1998: What if we could just share music!
2003: What if we could share videos!
2008: What if we could share messages with everyone at once!
2018: What have we done?!”

- Chelsea Manning on Twitter


I like it, even if the timeline is funky; I volunteered at the U.C. Berkeley mathematics library in 1986 so I could have a free e-mail account, so 1993 is pretty late in the game...

Scarab Sages

"Don't fully trust anyone until he has stuck with a good cause which he saw was losing."
- Morton Blackwell


a little history on modems


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a little history on modems

I like it, but it's missing the 110-baud acoustic coupler I used in 1976...

...when we "upgraded" to 300 baud in 1978 it was like night and day! :-P

EDIT: Never mind. A Find on the page revealed our amazingly fast modem. As kids the most fun part was yelling at the modem and watching all the random characters appear. The challenge was to get the most characters without causing the connection to fail.


we used to hit a b-flat on the old hammond to handshake via acoustic modem... it's funny when I tell people the first language I learned was machine code. It was all downhill from there... LoL rewrote the OS and the teacher had to reset the whole thing. Drum memory and accumulators... nuthing compared to the Trash-80. End of story time...

“The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.” ― Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

"I can resist everything except temptation." ― Oscar Wilde, Lord Darlington, Act I.

Liberty's Edge

Azothath wrote:
a little history on modems

I once lived very close to an AM radio station. Our telephone was a good receiver, and it played havoc with our modem connection.

Scarab Sages

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"I'm still waiting for the music part."
- Ray Charles, when asked his opinion of rap music

Scarab Sages

"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled."
- Plutarch


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If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the men to gather wood, divide the work and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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