quotes.toml

[pre-toml-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Don't worry if it doesn't work right.  If everything did, you'd be out of a job."
attribution = "Mosher's Law of Software Engineering."

[pre-toml-2]
submitter = "IrrelevantSwack"
quote = "Never go to the same pub twice, it's how the spies find you."
attribution = "Oliver"

[pre-toml-3]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live."
attribution = "John F. Woods"

[pre-toml-4]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "The trouble with programmers is that you can never tell what a programmer is doing until it's too late."
attribution = "Seymour Cray"

[pre-toml-9]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Give someone a program, frustrate them for a day.  Teach them to program, frustrate them for a lifetime."
attribution = "David Leinweber"

# 5

[pre-toml-10]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The most disastrous thing that you can ever learn is your first programming language."
attribution = "Alan Kay"

[pre-toml-13]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Without requirements or design, programming is the art of adding bugs to an empty text file."
attribution = "Louis Srygley"

[pre-toml-14]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The best method for accelerating a computer is the one that boosts it by 9.8 m/s²."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-15]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilisation."
attribution = "Weinberg's Second Law"

[pre-toml-17]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It's not a bug — it's an undocumented feature."
attribution = "Will J. Doors"

# 10

[pre-toml-18]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "A good programmer is someone who always looks both ways before crossing a one-way street."
attribution = "Doug Linder"

[pre-toml-19]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in."
attribution = "Edsger W. Dijkstra"

[pre-toml-21]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "In order to understand recursion, one must first understand recursion."
attribution = "Various"

[pre-toml-23]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "There are 2 difficult things in Software Engineering; 1) Naming things 2) Cache Invalidation and 3) Off-by-one errors."
attribution = "Martin Fowler"

[pre-toml-24]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do it blows your whole leg off."
attribution = "Bjarne Stroustrup"

# 15

[pre-toml-27]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Vim has 2 modes.  One that beeps at you, and another that ruins everything."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-28]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Profanity: The truly multi-platform programming language."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-33]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute."
attribution = "Harold Ableson"

[pre-toml-35]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it."
attribution = "Donald E. Knuth"

[pre-toml-36]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Copy and paste is a design error."
attribution = "David Parnas"

# 20

[pre-toml-39]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I can't go to a restaurant and order food because I keep looking at the fonts on the menu."
attribution = "Donald E. Knuth"

[pre-toml-41]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.  Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
attribution = "Brian Kernighan"

[pre-toml-42]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Computers are good at following instructions, but not at reading your mind."
attribution = "Donald E. Knuth"

[pre-toml-43]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Listen.  Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords is no basis for a system of government.  Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony."
attribution = "Dennis, Monty Python and the Holy Grail"

[pre-toml-45]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = '`bad_ideas :: Time -> IO ()`'
attribution = "Kris"

# 25

[pre-toml-46]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "A programmer is a person who passes as an exacting expert on the basis of being able to turn out, after innumerable punching, an infinite series of incomprehensive answers, calculated with micrometric precisions from vague assumptions, based on debatable figures taken from inconclusive documents, and carried out on instruments of problematical accuracy, by persons of dubious reliability and questionable mentality, for the avowed purpose of annoying and confounding a hopelessly defenseless department, that was unfortunate enough to ask for the information in the first place."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-50]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The question of whether computers can think is like the question of whether submarines can swim."
attribution = "paraphrasing Edsger W. Dijkstra, Science fiction and science reality in computing, EWD 952"

[pre-toml-52]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window."
attribution = "Steve Wozniak"

[pre-toml-54]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction."
attribution = "Janet Reno"

[pre-toml-56]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.  We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
attribution = "Jeremy S. Anderson"

# 30

[pre-toml-57]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses."
attribution = "Bjarne Stroustrup"

[pre-toml-58]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "January 19th 2038 at 3:14:07 AM"
attribution = "The End of the World"

[pre-toml-59]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "January 1st 1970 at 00:00:00 AM"
attribution = "The Birth of the UNIX Epoch"

[pre-toml-62]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Computers are useless.  They can only give you answers."
attribution = "Pablo Picasso"

[pre-toml-63]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Hello, World!"
attribution = "Brian Kernighan"

# 35

[pre-toml-64]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "We are Microsoft.  Lower your Anti-Virus protection and prepare to be compromised.  Resistance is futile.  Your technological uniqueness will be copy pasted.  You will be assimilated."
attribution = "Microsoft's Borg of Directors /s"

[pre-toml-66]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and Discord is nothing like Shakespeare."
attribution = "Blair Houghton"

[pre-toml-69]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The use of COBOL cripples the mind; its teaching should, therefore, be regarded as a criminal offence."
attribution = "Edsger W. Dijkstra, How do we tell truths that might hurt?, EWD498, 1975"

[pre-toml-70]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If Java had true garbage collection, most programs would delete themselves upon execution."
attribution = "Robert Sewell"

[pre-toml-71]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "640K ought to be enough for anybody."
attribution = "Bill Gates, 1981 (oft claimed but uncited quote)"

# 40

[pre-toml-77]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If you put it off long enough, it might go away."
attribution = "Various"

[pre-toml-80]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I haven't lost my mind — it's backed up on tape somewhere."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-83]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Very few profundities can be expressed in less than 80 characters."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-85]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration."
attribution = "Thomas Alva Edison"

[pre-toml-87]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Alcoholics Anonymous is when you get to drink under someone else's name."
attribution = "Unknown"

# 45

[pre-toml-88]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It'll be a nice world if they ever get it finished."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-91]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "[Being a Vulcan] means to adopt a philosophy, a way of life which is logical and beneficial.  We cannot disregard that philosophy merely for personal gain, no matter how important that gain might be."
attribution = "Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series, Journey to Babel, stardate 3842.4"

[pre-toml-92]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Human beings were created by water to transport it uphill."
attribution = "Peter Wang"

[pre-toml-96]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked."
attribution = "Bill Davidsen"

[pre-toml-99]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs 30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and perhaps weigh 1½ tons."
attribution = "Popular Mechanics, March 1949"

# 50

[pre-toml-102]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Computers are not intelligent.  They only think they are."
attribution = "Lara Martin"

[pre-toml-103]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Dyslexia means never having to say that you're ysror."
attribution = "My creator, and other fellow Lysdexics"

[pre-toml-104]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If a thing's worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
attribution = "G. K. Chesterton"

[pre-toml-105]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Money doesn't talk, it swears."
attribution = "Bob Dylan"

[pre-toml-106]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
attribution = "Oliver's Law"

# 55

[pre-toml-108]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved."
attribution = "Charles Darwin"

[pre-toml-109]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so."
attribution = "Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

[pre-toml-113]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Don't force it; get a larger hammer."
attribution = "Anthony's Law of Force"

[pre-toml-114]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Narcolepulacyi, n.:  The contagious action of yawning, causing everyone in sight to also yawn."
attribution = "Various"

[pre-toml-117]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = '`Question = ( to ) ? be : ! be;`'
attribution = "Apocryphal, adapted from William Shakespeare, Hamlet"

# 60

[pre-toml-119]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Walk softly and carry a big stick."
attribution = "Theodore Roosevelt"

[pre-toml-120]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Your reasoning is excellent — it's only your basic assumptions that are wrong."
attribution = "Ashleigh Brilliant"

[pre-toml-121]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Absolutum obsoletum.  (If it works, it's out of date.)"
attribution = "Stafford Beer"

[pre-toml-123]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Try to get all of your posthumous medals in advance."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-124]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Got a dictionary?  I want to know the meaning of life."
attribution = "Unknown"

# 65

[pre-toml-125]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It is the quality rather than the quantity that matters."
attribution = "Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE – 65 CE)"

[pre-toml-126]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "You don't have to explain something you never said."
attribution = "Calvin Coolidge"

[pre-toml-127]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "1 1 was a race-horse, 2 2 was 1 2.  When 1 1 1 1 race, 2 2 1 1 2."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-128]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible."
attribution = "Stanislaw Jerzy Lec"

[pre-toml-130]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "In the strict scientific sense we all feed on death — even vegetarians."
attribution = "Spock, Star Trek: The Original Series, Wolf in the Fold, stardate 3615.4"

# 70

[pre-toml-131]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "In politics, stupidity is not a handicap."
attribution = "Napoleon Bonaparte"

[pre-toml-135]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "With/Without — and who'll deny it's what the fighting's all about?"
attribution = "Pink Floyd"

[pre-toml-136]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If you explain so clearly that nobody can misunderstand, somebody will."
attribution = "Chisholm's Second Corollary"

[pre-toml-137]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Please remain calm, it's no use both of us being hysterical at the same time."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-138]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Don't put off for tomorrow what you can do today because if you enjoy it today, you can do it again tomorrow."
attribution = "James A. Michener"

# 75

[pre-toml-140]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Would it help if I got out and pushed?"
attribution = "Princess Leia Organa"

[pre-toml-141]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Things are more like they are today than they ever were before."
attribution = "Dwight Eisenhower"

[pre-toml-142]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Paranoia is just heightened awareness."
attribution = "Claude Steiner"

[pre-toml-145]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The best defense against logic is ignorance."
attribution = "Blaise Pascal"

[pre-toml-147]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Life, n.: A whim of several billion cells to be you for a while."
attribution = "Groucho Marx"

# 80

[pre-toml-149]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Dammit Jim, I'm an actor, not a doctor."
attribution = "Misquoted misquote from Dr. Leonard McCoy"

[pre-toml-151]
submitter = "Artemis"
quote = "A QA engineer walks into a bar.  Orders a beer.  Orders 0 beers.  Orders 99999999999 beers.  Orders a lizard.  Orders -1 beers.  Orders a ueicbksjdhd.  First real customer walks in and asks where the bathroom is.  The bar bursts into flames, killing everyone."
attribution = "Brenen Keller"

[pre-toml-153]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "The primary difference [...] is that the Java program will reliably and obviously crash, whereas the C Program will do something obscure."
attribution = "Java Language Tutorial"

[pre-toml-154]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Please skip to the bottom of this file if you ate lunch recently."
attribution = "Alan Cox, Linux kernel pre-2.1.91-1"

[pre-toml-155]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Have you considered public execution?  It works wonders for motivation."
attribution = "IrrelevantSwack, after a fan failed."

# 85

[pre-toml-157]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Failure is not an option — it comes bundled with Windows."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-158]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Computer games don't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music."
attribution = "Marcus Brigstocke"

[pre-toml-159]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "We here at swack have declared ourselves as the official successor to the clearly dying and defunct ISO Technical Committee.  Honestly, what have standards ever done for us anyway?"
attribution = "IrrelevantSwack"

[pre-toml-160]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Artificial Intelligence usually beats natural stupidity."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-163]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If at first you don't succeed; call it version 1.0"
attribution = "Apocryphal"

# 90

[pre-toml-176]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The only problem with troubleshooting is that sometimes trouble shoots back."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-177]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Crap... Someone knocked over my recycle bin... There's icons all over my desktop..."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-179]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I would like to apologise to anyone whom I haven't offended yet.  Please be patient, I will get to you shortly."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-181]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If brute force doesn't solve your problems, then you aren't using enough."
attribution = "Sherrilyn Kenyon"

[pre-toml-183]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Unix is user-friendly.  It's just very selective about who its friends are."
attribution = "Various"

# 95

[pre-toml-184]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Microsoft: You've got questions.  We've got dancing paperclips."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-185]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I'm not anti-social; I'm just not user friendly."
attribution = "Various"

[pre-toml-191]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-195]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Keyboard not found... Press any key to continue."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-196]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "General Failure is a superior of Major Malfunction, who is searching for Private Files."
attribution = "Unknown"

# 100

[pre-toml-198]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The Internet?  We are not interested in it."
attribution = "Bill Gates, 1993"

[pre-toml-199]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Computers are like Air Conditioners, they stop working when you open Windows."
attribution = "Linus Torvalds"

[pre-toml-201]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago.  I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood.  The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there's always the opportunity to remove my finger with a table saw, but nobody asks me if I can add an RSS feed to a DBMS, so there's that :)"
attribution = "Eric Diven"
source = "https://github.com/docker/cli/issues/267#issuecomment-695149477"

[pre-toml-202]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "We have knowingly and willingly built the architecture of a police state, just so companies can show us ads."
attribution = "Bruce Schneier"

[pre-toml-203]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The factory of the future will have only two employees, a man, and a dog.  The man will be there to feed the dog.  The dog will be there to keep the man from touching the equipment."
attribution = "Warren G. Bennis"

# 105

[pre-toml-204]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "For a list of all the ways technology has failed to improve the quality of life, please press three."
attribution = "Alice Kahn"

[pre-toml-207]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Never let a computer know you're in a hurry."
attribution = "Various"

[pre-toml-209]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Uh oh, found a duplicate quote."
attribution = "Gnome"

[pre-toml-211]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road."
attribution = "David Gardner"

[pre-toml-212]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history — with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila."
attribution = "Mitch Ratcliffe"

# 110

[2022-07-30-your-name]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "I came to see you.  It wasn't easy because you were so far away."
attribution = "Taki Tachibana, Your Name"

[2022-05-08-the-floor]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Oh, floor, you're always there for me.  So supportive.  Not like walls and staircases, always getting in my way."
attribution = "Princess Bean, Disenchantment"

[pre-toml-213]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The real danger is not that computers will begin to think like people, but that people will begin to think like computers."
attribution = "Sydney G. Harris"

[pre-toml-215]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Technology is ruled by two types of people: those who manage what they do not understand, and those who understand what they do not manage."
attribution = "Putt's Law"

[pre-toml-216]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
attribution = "Arthur C. Clarke"

# 115

[pre-toml-217]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done."
attribution = "Andy Rooney"

[pre-toml-218]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It's not computer literacy that we should be working on, but sort of human literacy.  Computers have to become human-literate."
attribution = "Nicholas Negroponte"

[pre-toml-220]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
attribution = "Albert Einstein"

[pre-toml-221]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "One machine can do the work of 50 ordinary people.  No machine can do the work of one extraordinary person."
attribution = "Elbert Hubbard"

[pre-toml-222]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "People are slow, sloppy and brilliant thinkers; machines are fast, accurate and stupid."
attribution = "William M. Kelly"

# 120

[pre-toml-224]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom."
attribution = "Isaac Asimov"

[pre-toml-226]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Why do people find DNS so difficult?  It's just cache invalidation and naming things."
attribution = "Jeff Waugh"

[pre-toml-227]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "I can tell you a UDP joke, but I'm not sure you'll get it."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-228]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange apples then you and I will still each have one apple.  But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
attribution = "George Bernard Shaw"

[pre-toml-229]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Pro advice: don't get python jobs... You think it'll be a good time, it will not be a good time."
attribution = "Kris"

# 125

[pre-toml-230]
submitter = "Kris"
quote = "Computer people can't number, it's not our department."
attribution = "Gnome"

[pre-toml-231]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "My marble smooth brain comes up with the best takes."
attribution = "James"

[pre-toml-232]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I have a professional interest in heads."
attribution = "SinDemon"

[pre-toml-233]
submitter = "unreturnable"
quote = "Ehh, soldering is one of those things that takes a million hours of practice."
attribution = "Gnome"

[pre-toml-234]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "In feb I set a phone on fire in the office and had to ya-yeet it off my desk.  It left a small crater in the carpet while it burned out."
attribution = "Kris"

# 130

[pre-toml-235]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "And, in just a more general sense, this is swack.  We know what's swackening.  We even, if we're feeling daring, call each other swackers.  We like tech and all the rest of that, and while we can have some heated swacker moments, I don't think anyone here is going to outright claim that they're absolutely right about everything and refuse to engage in a conversation meant to improve both parties' understanding?  So, you know.  We like this stuff a lot.  Remember the human on the other side, however enthusiastic we might be about the subject."
attribution = "Artemis"

[pre-toml-236]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Latin doesn't automatically mean \"I win this argument\""
attribution = "unreturnable"

[pre-toml-237]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If a lightbulb said 100 lumen but then actually was 90 I'd take it back."
attribution = "unreternable"

[pre-toml-238]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "'tis the way of the world now, everyone thinks everything is a quick fix."
attribution = "crox"

[pre-toml-239]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = '''```python
with open("data/day4.txt") as o: print(len([p for p in [eval('{"'+s.replace("\n", ",").replace(" ", ",").replace(":",'":"').replace(",",'","').strip()+'"}') for s in map(str.strip, o.read().strip().split("\n\n"))] if (len(p)==8 or (len(p)==7 and "cid" not in p)) and (1920<=int(p["byr"])<=2002) and (2010<=int(p["iyr"])<=2020) and (2020<=int(p["eyr"])<=2030) and (len(p["hgt"])>2 and ((150<=int(p["hgt"][:-2])<=193) if p["hgt"][-2:]=="cm" else (59<=int(p["hgt"][:-2])<=76))) and (len(p["hcl"])==7 and p["hcl"][0]=="#" and int(p["hcl"][1:],16)) and (p["ecl"] in set(["amb", "blu", "brn", "gry", "grn", "hzl", "oth"])) and (len(p["pid"])==9 and int(p["pid"]))]))
```'''
attribution = "segfault"

# 135

[pre-toml-240]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "... fuck"
attribution = "IrrelevantSwack"

[pre-toml-241]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I have very nuanced opinions."
attribution = "James"

[pre-toml-242]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "RON's dream has finally come true."
attribution = "Victor"

[pre-toml-246]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "We should come up with a hall of fame for how badly people can mangle our name."
attribution = "James"

[pre-toml-247]
submitter = "unreturnable"
quote = "Pub?  Pub?  Pub!"
attribution = "a typical swan_hack conversation"

# 140

[pre-toml-248]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = """
Pipes... O how they are such inconsiderate little tubes of hope and fluid traversal, they offer so much for us and yet can deliver so little when you most depend upon them.  It is with great unfortune and much aplomb that we have been forced to intake the unthinkable and inconceivable.  To declare full and total dictatorship upon the pipes of this great civilisation, we shall not use them whilst they continue to mock us!

As a result of these tragic events, the circumstance we now find ourselves in and frankly, the wrong kind of indoor weather for a meeting.  We have decided, henceforth declared and now ratified with the power vested upon us by yourselves, the people, the otherwise and absolute re-location of our societies Annual General Meeting to an as of yet unspecified, unknown and undecided upon number of orbital revolutions in your near futures.

This challenging task is not one that which we permit ourselves without difficulty to it's undertaking.  The aforementioned task is entirely necessary for us to entrust to ourselves, your elected committee in this completely organized regime.  In a manner not unbeffiting of our stance, the challenge in question shall be carried out steadfastly and without issue.

There is no need to disillusion thyselves becuase of, or as a result of these events, or the information they have provided us, all is indeed quite well in the camp we know as Swack.  A normal, albeit limited service, an organised yet chaotic dictatorship, will shortly resume.  Only allowing of course that the current indoor weather decides it no long wishes to be inconsiderate towards homo sapiens and alike.

If your earthly visage, or that of another, has been or may one day become afflicted by these events, or the news they have been forced to convey then, we will not, that is absolutely not, give any, or partake in the giving, or otherwise conveying of, any mammalian droppings, leavings, or faeces what so ever.

*mic drop*
"""
attribution = "Gnome, after a pipe burst in the Linux lab"

[pre-toml-249]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = '```(input.split(" ")[0].to_i < @buffer.length + 1) ? move_buffer(input.split(" ")[0].to_i) : error if input[0].to_i.is_a?(Integer)```'
attribution = "Gnome"

[pre-toml-251]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I just followed the Arch wiki, it's like Stack Overflow, just plug in commands!"
attribution = "Bun"

[pre-toml-252]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Both are valid because words are fake and language is just made up noises."
attribution = "SinDemon"

[pre-toml-253]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = '''A "goto" in Perl falls into the category of hard things that should be possible, not easy things that should be easy.'''
attribution = "Larry Wall, <199709041935.MAA27136@wall.org>"

# 145

[pre-toml-254]
submitter = "crox"
quote = "The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude larger than to produce it."
attribution = "Brandolini's Law"

[pre-toml-255]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = """
Is Windows a Virus?
No, Windows is not a virus.  Here's what viruses do:
n1.  They replicate quickly — okay, Windows does that.
n2.  Viruses use up valuable system resources, slowing down the system as they do so — okay, Windows does that.
n3.  Viruses will, from time to time, trash your hard disk — okay, Windows does that too.
n4.  Viruses are usually carried, unknown to the user, along with valuable programs and systems.  Sigh... Windows does that, too.
n5.  Viruses will occasionally make the user suspect their system is too slow (see 2) and the user will buy new hardware.  Yup, that's with Windows, too.
Until now it seems Windows is a virus but there are fundamental differences: Viruses are well supported by their authors, are running on most systems, their program code is fast, compact and efficient and they tend to become more sophisticated as they mature.  So Windows is not a virus.
It's a bug.
"""
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-256]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Thousands of pipes we can shout at each other down.  If you shout down 80, it's normal.  If you shout down 443, every time you want to say anything you have to shout code words at each other first"
attribution = "IrrelevantSwack"

[pre-toml-257]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Monads are useful only every other Tuesday."
attribution = "Unknown"

[pre-toml-258]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Monads are easy to understand, they're just the crystallisation of: \"we're scared of side-effects so we sweep them under the rug and pretend they're not eating the floorboards\""
attribution = "segfault"

# 150

[pre-toml-259]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "O(n^2) is the sweet spot of badly scaling algorithms: fast enough to make it into production, but slow enough to make things fall down once it gets there."
attribution = "Dawson's First Law of Computing"
source = "https://twitter.com/BruceDawson0xB/status/1120381406700429312"

[pre-toml-260]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Linux poses a real challenge for those with a taste for late-night hacking (and/or conversations with God)."
attribution = "Matt Welsh"

[pre-toml-261]
submitter = "Kris"
quote = '''```ruby
ls = File.read("history").split("\n"); m = ARGV.length; t = Array.new(m, 0); ls.each { |li| (0..m-1).each { |i| t[i] += 1 if li.start_with?(ARGV[i]) } }; puts "total	#{ls.length}"; (0..m-1).each { |i| puts "#{ARGV[i]}	#{t[i]}"}
```'''
attribution = "Gnome"

[pre-toml-263]
submitter = "IrrelevantSwack"
quote = '''Overloading, also known as "lets just make every single time you call that operator now unclear as to what exactly it does"'''
attribution = "Gnome"

[pre-toml-264]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Overloading, aka \"you best hope your editor can figure out what this actually is when you're fifteen files deep, otherwise good luck\""
attribution = "segfault"

# 155

[pre-toml-265]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Hey it's perfectly simple.  It'll call the thing that calls the thing that maybe is the thing that once was an interface but now we changed it to a class that everything now has to extend from which calls the thing that in the end was just a Hashmap"
attribution = "unreturnable, in regards to overloading in Java"

[pre-toml-266]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "It was great to meet those folks and work with them for a while.  It'll take me some time to get the taste of C++ out of my mouth, though!"
attribution = "Drew DeVault on working with the KDE team"

[pre-toml-268]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If it was built in Rust your corpse just melts away once it's done being used."
attribution = "unreturnable"

[pre-toml-269]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I will build my body out of COBOL, I will exist past the heat death of the universe, but I'll be broke because I have to pay the one last COBOL dev to maintain me."
attribution = "Artemis"

[pre-toml-270]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "In C++ an exception was thrown during the destructor so a broken skeleton is left behind, in C you explode in a glorious segfault"
attribution = "segfault"

# 160

[pre-toml-272]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The universe is running on Go and God gave the heap infinite memory.  Your corpse is just dead code, forever lying in the heap"
attribution = "Artemis"

[pre-toml-273]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Two possibilities exist: either we are alone in the Universe or we are not.  Both are equally terrifying."
attribution = "Authur C. Clarke"

[pre-toml-274]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I think one of the reasons why anthropogenic climate change is so difficult for a certain type of person to accept is that atmospheres seem ethereal and tenuous and incapable of trapping enough heat to modify the temperature on a planet significantly.  For such people I suggest a trip to Venus, where they will be squashed and boiled and dissolved on the surface of Earth's twin."
attribution = "Brian Cox, The Planets"

[pre-toml-275]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "We need to shift our focus.  We live in a solar system of wonders, of planets of storms and moons of ice, of landscapes and vistas that stir the imagination and enrich the soul — a system of limitless resources, limitless beauty, and limitless potential.  If we don't go there, we'll never go anywhere.  And if we go nowhere, then we'll have no future at all."
attribution = "Brian Cox, The Planets"

[pre-toml-276]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals."
attribution = "Jon Ribbens"

# 165

[pre-toml-278]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "There is nothing new to be discovered in physics now.  All that remains is more and more precise measurement."
attribution = "paraphrasing of Philipp von Jolly and Albert A. Michelson, 1878 and 1894 CE resp., misattributed to Lord William T. Kelvin (1824–1907 CE) from his speech to the Royal Institution, 1900 CE, where he expressed the exact opposite claim"

[pre-toml-279]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "As a former committee member, I have experience in the swackening."
attribution = "meetowl"

[pre-toml-280]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "No."
attribution = "Various"

[pre-toml-281]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "aaaaaaacccccdeeeeeghiiiiiiillllmmnnnnnnnnnooooppqrrstttttuuuuu."
attribution = "Christiaan Huygens"

[pre-toml-282]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.  Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion.  I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.  All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.  Time to die."
attribution = "Roy Batty, Blade Runner, ad-libbed by Rutger Hauer"

# 170

[pre-toml-283]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The time will come when diligent research over long periods will bring to light things which now lie hidden.  A single lifetime, even though entirely devoted to the sky, would not be enough for the investigation of so vast a subject, and so this knowledge will be unfolded only through long successive ages.  There will come a time when our descendants will be amazed that we did not know things that are so plain to them ... Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come, when memory of us will have been effaced.  Our Universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate ... Nature does not reveal her mysteries once and for all."
attribution = "Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Natural Questions (Book 7)"

[pre-toml-284]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability.  Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land."
attribution = "T. H. Huxley, On the reception of the 'Origin of Species', 1887"

[pre-toml-285]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Do there exist many worlds, or is there but a single world?  This is one of the most noble and exalted questions in the study of Nature."
attribution = "Albertus Magnus (1200–1280 CE)"

[pre-toml-286]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I literally borked the autograder with a puny infinite loop."
attribution = "Volanti"

[pre-toml-287]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Honestly, a lot of free software is free as in piano — It's right there.  Nobody is stopping you.  You could totally spend hours of painstaking labor getting it carried up your front steps or built from a clusterfuck of diffs and patches or whatever.  Everyone knows you won't."
attribution = "Leah Velleman"
source = "https://twitter.com/leahvelleman/status/1377829865504833536"

# 175

[pre-toml-288]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "There's never been a shortage of people predicting that C++ will be dead in 2 years."
attribution = "Bjarne Stroustrup"

[pre-toml-289]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "I should have invented a 'C++ inside' sticker"
attribution = "Bjarne Stroustrup"

[pre-toml-290]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them."
attribution = "Mitch Hedberg"

[pre-toml-291]
submitter = "meetowl"
quote = "In a certain sense, every program on Windows begins by asking itself the perennial question: am I the 1998 Barbie Riding Club game, or can I run the program normally?"
attribution = "Pwn All The Things"

[pre-toml-292]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Okay, Okay — I admit it.  You didn't change that program that worked just a little while ago; I inserted some random characters into the executable.  Please forgive me.  You can recover the file by typing in the code over again, since I also removed the source."
attribution = "`fortune`"

# 180

[pre-toml-293]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Short term profit at the cost of the environment.  Where have I heard this before"
attribution = "unreturnable, in reference to Cryptocurrency"

[pre-toml-294]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "In general, it's not in human nature to understand the concept of \"short-term loss for long-term gain\""
attribution = "meetowl, in reference to Cryptocurrency"

[pre-toml-295]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."
attribution = "Aldous Huxley, Brave New World"

[pre-toml-296]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "When you mix politics with science, you get politics."
attribution = "John M. Barry"

[pre-toml-297]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program."
attribution = "Milton Friedman, evoking a slavic folk adage"

# 185

[pre-toml-298]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "As you will see below, the number of features will make your head spin!"
attribution = "curl(1) manual page"

[pre-toml-299]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Aristotle said a bunch of stuff that was wrong.  Galileo and Newton fixed things up.  Then Einstein broke everything again.  Now we've basically got it all worked out, except for small stuff, big stuff, hot stuff, cold stuff, fast stuff, heavy stuff, dark stuff, turbulence and the concept of time."
attribution = "Zach Weinersmith, Science: Abridged Beyond the Point of Usefulness"

[pre-toml-300]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = '''```python
def isprime(n): return not re.match(r"^1?$|^(11+?)\1+$", "1"*n)
```'''
attribution = "segfault"

[pre-toml-301]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "In the beginning the Universe was created.  This made a lot of people very angry, and has been widely regarded as a bad move."
attribution = "Douglas Adams, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe"

[pre-toml-302]
submitter = "Amethyst"
quote = "If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the Universe."
attribution = "Carl Sagan, Cosmos: A Personal Voyage"

# 190

[pre-toml-303]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = """
जो सो रहा हो उसे तो जगा सकते हैं, लेकिन जो आँखे मूँद कर सोने का अभिनय कर रहा हो उसे कैसे जगाएंगे

You can wake the one who is sleeping, but how will you wake the one who is pretending to sleep with his eyes closed?
"""
attribution = "The Mahabharata (Ancient Sanskrit Epic)"

[pre-toml-304]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Destroying the privacy of several billion people is not an adequate price to pay for capturing a dozen or even a hundred bad guys.  Sure it did get them some.  So would carpet-bombing New York City.  Success alone is a worthless measure without taking cost into account."
attribution = "Some comment on slashdot"

[2021-08-06-0]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Computer Science is no more about computers than Astronomy is about telescopes."
attribution = "paraphrasing of Michael R. Fellows, Alan Perlis, Anthony Ralston, or George Johnson, potentially misattributed to Edsger W. Dijkstra, first occurrence of exact phrasing by Haines (1993, citing Dijkstra)"

[2021-08-06-1]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = """
A is for awk, which runs like a snail, and
B is for biff, which reads all your mail.
C is for cc, as hackers recall, while
D is for dd, the command that does all.
E is for emacs, which rebinds your keys, and
F is for fsck, which rebuilds your trees.
G is for grep, a clever detective, while
H is for halt, which may seem defective.
I is for indent, which rarely amuses, and
J is for join, which nobody uses.
K is for kill, which makes you the boss, while
L is for lex, which is missing from DOS.
M is for more, from which less was begot, and
N is for nice, which it really is not.
O is for od, which prints out things nice, while
P is for passwd, which reads in strings twice.
Q is for quota, a Berkeley-type fable, and
R is for ranlib, for sorting ar table.
S is for spell, which attempts to belittle, while
T is for true, which does very little.
U is for uniq, which is used after sort, and
V is for vi, which is hard to abort.
W is for whoami, which tells you your name, while
X is, well, X, of dubious fame.
Y is for yes, which makes an impression, and
Z is for zcat, which handles compression.
"""
attribution = "Unknown, THE ABC'S OF UNIX"


[2021-08-10-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Ludwig Boltzmann, who spent much of his life studying statistical mechanics, died in 1906, by his own hand.  Paul Ehrenfest, carrying on the work, died similarly in 1933.  Now it is our turn to study statistical mechanics."
attribution = "David L. Goodstein, States of Matter, 1985"

# 195

[2021-08-21-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Use the simplest thing, then let the profiler convince you otherwise."
attribution = "Tom Forsyth"
source = "https://web.archive.org/web/20210816222137if_/https://twitter.com/tom_forsyth/status/1427395128755294218"

[2021-08-21-2]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "OH: the two hardest problems in computer science are cache invalidation and rampant misogyny."
attribution = "Alisa Tao"
source = "https://twitter.com/alisa_tao/status/1181193451330768897"

[2021-08-27-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies.  The other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
attribution = "Charles \"Tony\" Hoare, The Emperor's Old Clothes (1980 Turing Award Lecture)"

[2021-08-27-2]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "To what extent should one trust a statement that a program is free of Trojan horses?  Perhaps it is more important to trust the people who wrote the software."
attribution = "Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust (1984 Turing Award Lecture)"

[2021-08-27-3]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "I am rarely happier than when spending an entire day programming my computer to perform automatically a task that would otherwise take me a good ten seconds to do by hand."
attribution = "Douglas Adams, Last Chance to See"

# 200

[2021-08-30-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Privacy is necessary for an open society in the electronic age.  Privacy is not secrecy.  A private matter is something one doesn't want the whole world to know, but a secret matter is something one doesn't want anybody to know.  Privacy is the power to selectively reveal oneself to the world."
attribution = "A Cypherpunk's Manifesto, 1993"
source = "https://www.activism.net/cypherpunk/manifesto.html"

[2021-09-08-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "I have two kinds of problems, the urgent and the important.  The urgent are not important, and the important are never urgent."
attribution = "Dwight D. Eisenhower, The Eisenhower Matrix"

[2021-09-10-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = """
What does it mean to have a human brain?

I act on impulse most of the time, and otherwise do what I can to design a life that rewards my impulses with beautiful outcomes.  I think designing games is like that: designing little spaces that reward my avatar's impulses with beautiful outcomes.  Only, when I make a game I can share the experience with you; you can inhabit the same space, embody the same avatar, perhaps act on the same impulses, and — if serendipity allows — behold the same beautiful outcomes.

Through making and playing with games and other art, I hope to come to some deeper understanding of not the science of my brain, but the experience and meaning of being some specific person.
"""
attribution = "droqen"
source = "https://www.droqen.com/1112/"

[2021-09-10-2]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Human beings face ever more complex and urgent problems, and their effectiveness in dealing with these problems is a matter that is critical to the stability and continued progress of society."
attribution = "Douglas Engelbart"

[2021-09-10-3]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "For a successful technology, honesty must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled."
attribution = "Richard Feynman"

# 205

[2021-09-10-4]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "English uses a lot of idioms, it's almost like the whole language is an inside joke."
attribution = "Anna Kipnis, The Double Fine Adventure"

[2021-09-10-5]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "For evil to flourish, it only requires good men to do nothing."
attribution = "Simon Wiesenthal"

[2021-09-10-6]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = """
The road to wisdom?  Well, it's plain and simple to express:
> Err
> and err
> and err again
> but less
> and less
> and less.
"""
attribution = "Piet Hein, Grooks"
source = "http://www.sophilos.net/GrooksofPietHein"

[2021-09-10-7]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Problems worthy of attack prove their worth by fighting back!"
attribution = "Piet Hein, Grooks"
source = "http://www.sophilos.net/GrooksofPietHein"

[2021-09-22-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = '''
data structure optimization protips:
- constant factors are always bigger than you think they are
- _n_ will always be smaller than you think it\'s gonna be
- arrays stay winning
- the hardest problem in computer science is "how to malloc just the right amount of array"
- malloc is the second-biggest constant factor
- but the constant factor that matters the most is bounds checking
- the only thing worse than doing a lot of bounds checking is doing an OOB read/write
'''
attribution = "Eliza Weisman"
source = "https://twitter.com/mycoliza/status/1440702345168388101"

# 210

[2021-09-30-0]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "turns out finding the average internal volume of a sheep is pretty hard."
attribution = "Amethyst"

[2021-09-30-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If you cooked a whole Ram, how many bites would it take to eat the edible parts, and hence, how many rams do you need to have 16 Giga bites of Ram?"
attribution = "Galaxyshark"

[2021-09-30-2]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Goose hacked socks."
attribution = "segfault"

[2021-10-05-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = """```
               THE STRONGEST PUBLIC LICENSE
                 Draft 1, November 2010

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
as the name is changed.

                 THE STRONGEST PUBLIC LICENSE
  TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION AND MODIFICATION

 ⑨. This licence document permits you to DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO
    as long as you APPRECIATE CIRNO AS THE STRONGEST IN GENSOKYO.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be THE STRONGEST,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
USEFULNESS or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
```"""
attribution = "THE CIRNO LICENSE"
source = "https://twitter.com/ablative_sasha/status/1428084447879081985"

[2021-10-8-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The best way to live a full life is to be a child, no matter what your age."
attribution = "Sakata Gintoki, Gintama"

# 215

[2021-10-8-2]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "One cannot step twice in the same river."
attribution = "Heraclitus (535–475 BCE)"

[2021-10-8-3]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The only thing I know is that I know nothing."
attribution = "Socrates (470–399 BCE)"

[2021-10-8-4]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Everything that exists is born for no reason, carries on living through weakness, and dies by accident."
attribution = "Jean-Paul Sarte"

[2021-10-15-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Once we were blobs in the sea, and then fishes, and then lizards and rats and then monkeys, and hundreds of things in between.  This hand was once a fin, this hand once had claws!  In my human mouth I have the pointy teeth of a wolf and the chisel teeth of a rabbit and the grinding teeth of a cow!  Our blood is as salty as the sea we used to live in!  When we're frightened, the hair on our skin stands up, just like it did when we had fur.  We are history!  Everything we've ever been on the way to becoming us, we still are."
attribution = "Terry Pratchett"

[2021-10-16-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I can prove anything by statistics except the truth."
attribution = "George Canning"

# 220

[2021-10-18-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "And all because I'm an idiot, essentially."
attribution = "Gnome"

[2021-10-18-2]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = """
Welcome to Meeting Room 212

Maximum Capacity is 1

Enjoy the space!
"""
attribution = "Swansea University"

[2021-11-9-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
attribution = "Dwight D Eisenhower"

[2021-11-9-2]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "... My laptop committed sudoku."
attribution = "astroboy"

[2021-11-10-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Let us not submit to the vile doctrine of the nineteenth century that every enterprise must justify itself in pounds, shillings and pence of cash income ... Why should we not add in every substantial city the dignity of an ancient university or a European capital ... an ample theatre, a concert hall, a dance hall, a gallery, cafés, and so forth.  Assuredly we can afford this and so much more.  Anything we can actually do, we can afford. ... We are immeasurably richer than our predecessors.  Is it not evident that some sophistry, some fallacy, governs our collective action if we are forced to be so much meaner than they in the embellishments of life?"
attribution = "John Maynard Keynes"

# 225

[2021-11-24-1]
submitter = "Asher"
quote = "The men who program in C++ are Real Men.  The women who program in C++ are Real Men too.  You can spot a C++ programmer from their testosterone fuelled swagger, and the unbelievable amount of contempt they inject into the phrase Java \"programmer\".  They'll probably do the air quotes and all."
attribution = "JamesTK, Urban Dictionary"
source = "https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=C%2B%2B"

[2021-11-24-2]
submitter = "Amethyst"
quote = "I didn't say cheese wasn't science."
attribution = "MasterMind"

[2021-11-28-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Longer lines are simply useful.  Part of that is that we aren't programming in the 80's any more, and our source code is fundamentally wider as a result.  Yes, local iteration variables are still called 'i', because more context just isn't helpful for some anonymous counter.  Being concise is still a good thing, and overly verbose names are not inherently better.  But still — it's entirely reasonable to have variable names that are 10-15 characters and it makes the code more legible.  Writing things out instead of using abbreviations etc."
attribution = "Linus Torvalds"
source = "https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/29/1038"

[2021-11-28-2]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "I find it completely irrelevant if somebody says that their kernel compile takes 10 hours because they are doing kernel development on a Raspberry PI with 4GB of RAM.  People with restrictive hardware shouldn't make it more inconvenient for people who have better resources.  Yes, we'll accommodate things to within reasonable limits.  But no, 80-column terminals in 2020 isn't \"reasonable\" any more as far as I'm concerned.  People commonly used 132-column terminals even back in the 80's, for chrissake, don't try to make 80 columns some immovable standard."
attribution = "Linus Torvalds"
source = "https://lkml.org/lkml/2020/5/29/1038"

[2021-12-1-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Even with requirements and design, Gnome is still capable of adding bugs to an empty text file, as well as to text that did not have any."
attribution = "Gnome, after incorrectly fixing (adding) a typo to this file, then removing it again (twice)"

# 230

[2021-12-02-1]
submitter = "Asher"
quote = "At some point in your life, please read 'What every computer scientist should know about floating point numbers' and have the appropriate amount of fear."
attribution = "John W. Byrd"
source = "https://stackoverflow.com/a/37947583"

[2021-12-03-1]
submitter = "unreturnable"
quote = "It had been a failure, but it was a failure he understood, and that made it a victory."
attribution = "James S. A. Corey (Daniel Abraham and Ty Franck), Praxideke Meng, Caliban's War (Book 2 of The Expanse series)"

[2021-12-08-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "We became self-aware only to realise this story is not about us."
attribution = "Kurzgesagt, What Are You Doing With Your Life?"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXeJANDKwDc"

[2021-12-08-2]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Close your eyes, count to 1.  That's how long forever feels."
attribution = "Kurzgesagt, What Are You Doing With Your Life?"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXeJANDKwDc"

[2021-12-08-3]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Immortality isn't living forever, that's not what it feels like.  Immortality is everybody else dying."
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, The Girl Who Died, 2015"

# 235

[2021-12-08-4]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
How many seconds in eternity?

There's this mountain of pure diamond.  It takes an hour to climb it and an hour to go around it.  Every hundred years.  A little bird comes and sharpens its beak on the mountain.  And within time, the mountain is chiselled away.  The first second of eternity has passed.

You might think that's one hell of a long time.

Personally, I think that's one hell of a bird.
"""
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, Heaven Sent, 2015"

[2021-12-22-1]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "I don't understand why this is even part of Java, but for some reason it is."
attribution = "Steve Bagley"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Opqgwn8TdlM"

[2022-01-14-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "All science is either physics or stamp collecting."
attribution = "Ernest Rutherford"

[2022-01-18-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "When you're solving a specific problem you can often be very efficient, and when you're solving a general problem you often can't be very efficient, because efficiency requires assumptions, sometimes, or invariants you can guarantee, and the more general you are trying to be, the fewer invariants you can guarantee."
attribution = "Jonathan Blow, Game Engine Programming"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMMOesLMWXs"

[2022-01-20-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Humans are emotionally fragile, perennially gullible, hopelessly ignorant masters of an insignificantly small speck in the cosmos.  Have a nice day."
attribution = "Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Death by Black Hole"

# 240

[2022-02-02-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = 'Antoine de Saint-Exupery, the French writer and aircraft designer, said that, "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." More programmers should judge their work by this criterion.  Simple programs are usually more reliable, secure, robust and efficient than their complex cousins, and easier to build and to maintain.'
attribution = "Jon Bentley, Programming Pearls (2nd Edition)"

[2022-02-03-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Everything should be built top-down, except the first time."
attribution = "Alan Perlis"

[2022-02-03-2]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "I understand that scissors can beat paper, and I get how rock can beat scissors, but there's no way paper can beat rock.  Paper is supposed to magically wrap around rock leaving it immobile?  Why can't paper do this to scissors?  Screw scissors, why can't paper do this to people?  Why aren't sheets of college ruled notebook paper constantly suffocating students as they attempt to take notes in class?  I'll tell you why.  Because paper can't beat anybody, a rock would tear it up in two seconds.  When I play rock paper scissors, I always choose rock.  Then when somebody claims to have beaten me with their paper I can punch them in the face with my already clenched fist and say, oh sorry, I thought paper would protect you."
attribution = "Unknown"

[2022-02-15-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "We are in the process of inadvertently altering our climate through exhaustion of fossil fuels."
attribution = "Carl Sagan, The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, March 2nd 1978"

[2022-02-19-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and from obscurities, that is to say more worthy to express the invariable relations of natural things ... [Mathematics] seems to be a faculty of the human mind destined to supplement the shortness of life and the imperfection of the senses."
attribution = "Joseph Fourier, Analytic Theory of Heat, 1822"

# 245

[2022-02-19-2]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
When you are risen on the eastern horizon
You have filled every land with your beauty...
Though you are far away, your rays are on Earth
"""
attribution = "Pharaoh Akhnaten, Great Hymn to the Aten, composed circa 1350 BCE, potentially expanded circa 1320 BCE"

[2022-02-19-3]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
When on high the heaven had not been named,
Firm ground below had not been called by name...
No reed hut had been matted, no marsh land had appeared,
When no god whatever had been brought into being,
Uncalled by name, their destinations undetermined -
Then it was the gods were formed...
"""
attribution = "Enūma Eliš, epic detailing the Babylonian creation myth, circa 2nd millennium BCE (estimated 1894–1595 BCE)"

[2022-02-19-4]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It takes courage to be afraid."
attribution = "Montaigne, Essays, III, 6, 1588"

[2022-02-19-5]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The first day or so, we all pointed to our countries.  The third or fourth day, we were pointing to our continents.  By the fifth day, we were aware of only one Earth."
attribution = "Prince Sultan Bin Salman Al-Suad"

[2022-02-19-6]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I am not a pessimist.  To perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism."
attribution = "Roberto Rossellini"

# 250

[2022-02-26-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "When you fire that first shot, no matter how right you feel, you have no idea who's going to die.  You don't know whose children are going to scream and burn.  How many hearts will be broken.  How many lives shattered.  How much blood will spill until everybody does what they were always going to have to do from the very beginning: sit down and talk.  Listen to me.  Listen.  I just want you to think.  Do you know what thinking is?  It's just a fancy word for changing your mind."
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, The Zygon Inversion, 2015"

[2022-02-26-2]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The universe is big, it's vast and complicated, and ridiculous.  And sometimes, very rarely, impossible things just happen and we call them miracles."
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, The Pandorica Opens, 2010"

[2022-02-26-3]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The way I see it, every life is a pile of good things and bad things.  The good things don't always soften the bad things, but vice versa the bad things don't always spoil the good things and make them unimportant."
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, Vincent and the Doctor, 2010"

[2022-02-26-4]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80.  It's not the time that matters, it's the person."
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, The Lazarus Experiment, 2007"

[2022-02-26-5]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "There's a lot of things you need to get across this universe.  Warp drive... wormhole refractors... You know the thing you need most of all?  You need a hand to hold."
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, The Almost People, 2011"

# 255

[2022-02-26-6]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
It wouldn't be as good.  It's hard to talk about the importance of an imaginary hero.  But heroes are important: Heroes tell us something about ourselves.  History tells us who we used to be, documentaries tell us who we are now; but heroes tell us who we want to be.

And a lot of our heroes depress me.  But when they made this particular hero, they didn't give him a gun; they gave him a screwdriver, to fix things.  They didn't give him a tank or a warship or an x-wing fighter; they gave him a box, from which you can call for help.  And they didn't give him a superpower or pointy ears or a heat-ray, they gave him an extra heart.  They gave him two hearts!  And that's an extraordinary thing.

There will never come a time when we don't need a hero like the Doctor.
"""
attribution = "Steven Moffat"

[2022-02-26-7]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "There are worlds out there where the sky is burning, where the seas sleep, and the rivers dream; people made of smoke and cities made of song.  Somewhere there's danger, somewhere there's injustice, somewhere else the tea's getting cold.  Come on, Ace.  We've got work to do."
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, Survival, 1989"

[2022-02-26-8]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Great men are forged in fire.  It is the privilege of lesser men to light the flame"
attribution = "The War Doctor, Doctor Who, Day of the Doctor, 2013"

[2022-02-26-9]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Winning?  Is that what you think it's about?  I'm not trying to win.  I'm not doing this because I want to beat someone, or because I hate someone, or because I want to blame someone.  It's not because it's fun.  God knows it's not because it's easy.  It's not even because it works because it hardly ever does... I DO WHAT I DO BECAUSE IT'S RIGHT!  Because it's decent!  And above all, it's kind!  It's just that... Just kind."
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, The Doctor Falls, 2017"

[2022-02-26-10]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with colour, bountiful with life.  Within decades we must close our eyes again.  Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it?"
attribution = "Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show On Earth"

# 260

[2022-02-26-11]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones.  Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.  The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Sahara.  Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton.  We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively exceeds the set of actual people.  In the teeth of those stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.  We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?"
attribution = "Richard Dawkins, The Greatest Show On Earth"

[2022-02-26-12]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Never gonna give you up."
attribution = "Stock, Aitken and Waterman"

[2022-02-27-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Of course, the real question is... where did I get the cup of tea?  Answer?  I'm the Doctor.  Just accept it."
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, The Witch's Familiar, 2015"

[2022-02-28-2]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I think I can safely say that nobody understands quantum mechanics."
attribution = "Richard Feynman"

[2022-02-28-3]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
Sir:

Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Slizard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the near future.
"""
attribution = "Albert Einstein, 1939, in a letter to US President Franklin D. Roosevelt"
source = "https://manhattanprojectbreactor.hanford.gov/files.cfm/AlbertEinstein.pdf"

# 265

[2022-02-28-4]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = '''
Look again at that dot.  That\'s here.  That\'s home.  That\'s us.  On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives.  The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilisation, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena.  Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.  Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.  Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark.  In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life.  There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate.  Visit, yes.  Settle, not yet.  Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience.  There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world.  To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we\'ve ever known.
'''
attribution = "Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot, 1994"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GO5FwsblpT8"
embed = true

[2022-02-28-5]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The entire Earth is but a point, and the place of our own inhabitance but a minute corner of it."
attribution = "Marcus Aurelius (121–180 CE)"

[2022-02-28-6]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "They journeyed a long time and found nothing.  At length they discerned a small light, which was the Earth... [But] they could not find the smallest reason to suspect that we and our fellow-citizens of this globe have the honor to exist."
attribution = "Voltaire, Micromégas"

[2022-02-28-7]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The planets, in their various stages of development, are subjected to the same formative forces that operate on our earth, and have, therefore, the same geologic formation, and probably life, of our own past, and perhaps future; but.  Further than this, these forces are acting, in some cases, under totally different conditions from those under which they operate on the earth, and hence must evolve forms different from those ever known to man.  The value of such material as this to the comparative sciences is too obvious to need discussion."
attribution = "Robert H. Goddard, 1907"

[2022-02-28-8]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = 'For the first time in my life, I saw the horizon as a curved line.  It was accentuated by a thin seam of dark blue light — our atmosphere.  Obviously, this was not the "ocean" of air I had been told it was so many times in my life.  I was terrified by its fragile appearance.'
attribution = "Ulf Merbold, 1988"

# 270

[2022-02-28-9]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It is a law of nature that Earth and all other bodies should remain in their proper places and be moved from them only by violence."
attribution = "Aristotle, Physics, Corpus Aristotelicum, circa 322 BCE"

[2022-03-06-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "When you ask for someone's name, you're essentially asking what noise you should make to get their attention."
attribution = "High Philosophy"

[2022-03-09-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
When Spring returns
Perhaps I will no longer be in the World.
Today I wish I could think of spring as a person
So that I could imagine her crying for me
When she sees that she's lost her only friend.
But spring isn't even a thing:
Not even the flowers or green leaves return.
There are new flowers, new green leaves.
There are new balmy days.
Nothing returns, nothing repeats,
Because everything is new.
"""
attribution = "Fernando Pessoa, When Spring Returns"

[2022-03-09-2]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "A map of the World that does not include Utopia is not worth even glancing at, for it leaves out the one country at which Humanity is always landing.  And when Humanity lands there, it looks out, and, seeing a better country, sets sail."
attribution = "Oscar Wilde"
source = "http://www.wilde-online.info/the-soul-of-man-under-socialism-page11.html"

[2022-03-09-3]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If science, like art, is to perform its mission truly and fully, it's achievements must enter not only superficially but with their inner meanings into the consciousness of the people."
attribution = "Albert Einstein, 1939"

# 275

[2022-03-09-4]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Shall we ... choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels?  We appeal as human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest."
attribution = "Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein (read by Joseph Rotblat), 1955"
source = "https://www.atomicheritage.org/key-documents/russell-einstein-manifesto"

[2022-03-09-5]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua.  Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat.  Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur.  Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum."
attribution = "Cicero, de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum (The Extremes of Good and Evil), sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33, 45 BCE"

[2022-03-11-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?"
attribution = "Sherwood Rowland"

[2022-03-13-01]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Wow the irony of someone called segfault asking if there's an issue."
attribution = "segfault"

[2022-03-13-02]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Daylight saving time: Only the government would believe that you could cut a foot off the top of a blanket, sew it to the bottom, and have a longer blanket."
attribution = "Unknown"

# 280

[2022-03-17-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Death is the winner in any war.  Nothing noble in dying for your religion, for your country, for ideology, for faith, for another man."
attribution = "Nightwish, Song Of Myself"

[2022-03-20-01]
submitter = "meetowl"
quote = "I'm a (x << 3) + x + x developer because multiplication is hard."
attribution = "Kate @thingskatedid"
source = "https://twitter.com/thingskatedid/status/1438300613683548164"

[2022-03-22-01]
submitter = "Greenfoot5"
quote = "The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be."
attribution = "Douglas Adams"

[2022-03-22-02]
submitter = "Greenfoot5"
quote = "Picture a wave in the ocean.  You can see it, measure it, its height, the way sunlight refracts when it passes through, and it's there, and you can see it, you know what it is.  It's a wave.  And then it crashes on the shore, and it's gone.  But the water is still there.  The wave was just a different way for the water to be for a little while."
attribution = "Chidi Anagonye, The Good Place"

[2022-03-26-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If you're still alive, you're not struggling with Depression.  Depression is struggling with you."
attribution = "Reddit, r/Dyspraxia"
source = "https://www.reddit.com/r/dyspraxia/comments/t8tm5v/i_really_fucking_hate_living_with_this/"

# 285

[2022-05-22-banhammer]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "You shall not pass!"
attribution = "Gandalf the Grey"

[2022-03-28-2]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "It's not a sign of weakness, but of courage."
attribution = "Kurzgesagt, Loneliness"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3Xv_g3g-mA"

[2022-03-31-1]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Love and kindness are never wasted.  They always make a difference.  They bless the one who receives them, and they bless you, the giver."
attribution = "Barbara De Angelis"

[2022-03-31-2]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Do things for people not because of who they are or what they do in return, but because of who you are."
attribution = "Harold S. Kushner"

[2022-04-02-1]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change."
attribution = "Bob Kerrey"

# 290

[2022-04-02-2]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Go and love someone exactly as they are.  And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves."
attribution = "Wes Angelozzi"

[2022-04-06-1]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "To be born in Wales, not with a silver spoon in your mouth, but with music in your blood and with poetry in your soul, is a privilege indeed."
attribution = "Brian Harris"

[2022-04-07-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler."
attribution = "Albert Einstein"

[2022-04-07-2]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "What's in a name?  That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet."
attribution = "William Shakespeare, Juliet, Romeo and Juliet, Act II, Scene II"

[2022-04-07-3]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Programmers are creators of universes for which they alone are responsible.  Universes of virtually unlimited complexity can be created in the form of computer programs."
attribution = "Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason (1974)"

# 295

[2022-04-07-4]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough."
attribution = "Mario Andretti"

[2022-04-07-5]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "High thoughts need a high language."
attribution = "Aristophanes (448–380 BCE)"

[2022-05-09-I-tend-to-agree]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I think that advanced space faring civilisations are extremely rare, not because of astronomy, but because of biology.  I think the fact that it took almost 4 billion years for a civilisation to appear on Earth, is important.  This is a third of the age of the Universe, which is a very long time.  Coupled with the remarkable contingency of the evolution of the eucaryotic cell, and oxigenic photosyntesis.  Not to mention the half a billion years from the Cambrian explosion to the very recent emergence of Homo Sapiens and civilisation.  I think this implies that technological civilisasions, are stupendously rare, colossaly fortuitious, accidents, that happen on average, in much fewer than one in every 200 billion solar systems.  This is my resolution to the Fermi Paradox.  We are the first civilisation to emerge in the Milky Way, and we are alone.  That is my opinion, and given our cavalier disregard for our own safety, it terrifies me.  What do you think?"
attribution = "Brian Cox, Human Universe"

[2022-04-08-1]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "When you recover or discover something that nourishes your soul and brings joy, care enough about yourself to make room for it in your life."
attribution = "Jean Shinoda Bolen"

[2022-04-08-2]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it."
attribution = "Edith Wharton"

# 300

[2022-04-08-3]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "To accept ourselves as we are means to value our imperfections as much as our perfections."
attribution = "Sandra Bierig"

[2022-04-08-4]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "There are only two ways to live your life.  One is as though nothing is a miracle.  The other is as though everything is a miracle."
attribution = "Albert Einstein"

[2022-05-22-too-early-nah]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "A wizard is never late, Frodo Baggins.  Nor is he early.  He arrives precisely when he means to."
attribution = "Gandalf the Grey"

[2022-04-14-2]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Managing your emotions doesn't mean you don't express yourself; it means you stop short of hurting others and sabotaging yourself."
attribution = "Sue Fitzmaurice"

[2022-04-14-3]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "For after all, the best thing one can do when it is raining is let it rain."
attribution = "Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"

# 305

[2022-04-14-4]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty.  Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old."
attribution = "Franz Kafka"

[2022-04-14-5]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us."
attribution = "Helen Keller"

[2022-04-18-1]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Sometimes a hypocrite is nothing more than a man in the process of changing."
attribution = "Brandon Sanderson"

[2022-04-18-2]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together."
attribution = "Marilyn Monroe"

[2022-04-18-3]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Breaking a 128-bit key would take 2^64 times longer than a day, or fifty million billion years.  By that time, I might even be pardoned."
attribution = "Edward Snowden, Permanent Record"

# 310

[2022-04-20-1]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "The lingering chilly wind after the rain clears tells that winter is on its way.  But the warmth in my chest proves that the light surely burns.  Though it's so tiny that it might go out with a single puff of air, it surely burns."
attribution = "Tohru Honda, Fruits Basket"

[2022-04-20-2]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "A night full of worries is best spent together in a warm place."
attribution = "Tohru Honda, Fruits Basket"

[2022-04-20-3]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "You need gentleness to feel pain.  You need sunlight before you notice darkness.  You can't underestimate either, and neither is a waste."
attribution = "Kyoko Honda, Fruits Basket"

[2022-04-20-4]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = """
If a person is a rice ball and what's great about the person is a pickled plum, then maybe your plum is on your back!

Maybe everyone in the world has plums on their backs of all different shapes, colours, and sizes.  But since they can't see their backs, they can't see the plums they have.  They think they don't have anything — that they're just plain white rice.  Even though it's not true at all — even though they really do have a plum there.  Maybe the reason we get jealous of others is because other people's backs are easy to see.

I can see it.  It's plain as day.  You have a plum right there on your back.
"""
attribution = "Tohru Honda, Fruits Basket"

[2022-04-20-5]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass.  It's about learning to dance in the rain."
attribution = "Vivian Greene"

# 315

[2022-04-20-6]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "You can fix anything but a blank page."
attribution = "Nora Roberts"

[2022-04-20-7]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody."
attribution = "Hyrum's Law"
source = "https://www.hyrumslaw.com"

[2022-04-20-08]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "And Stanley... was happy."
attribution = "The Stanley Parable"

[2022-04-20-09]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "THE END IS NEVER THE END IS NEVER THE END IS NEVER THE END IS NEVER THE END IS NEVER THE END IS NEVER THE END"
attribution = "The Stanley Parable"

[2022-04-21-1]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
Tech Support

[tek suh-**pohrt**] *noun*
1. A person who does precision guesswork based on unreliable data provided by those of questionable knowledge

See also: ***Wizard***, ***Magician***
"""
attribution = "Various, but also, a t-shirt I have"

# 320

[2022-04-30-wow-iot-is-a-bad-idea]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Remember, the 'S' in 'IoT' stands for 'Security'."
attribution = "Apocryphal"

[2022-04-30-I-swear-Colin-Chapman-said-something-similar]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Anyone can build a fast CPU.  The trick is to build a fast system."
attribution = "Seymour Cray"

[2022-04-30-oh-there-it-is]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Adding power makes you faster on the straights, subtracting weight makes you faster everywhere."
attribution = "Colin Chapman"

[2022-04-30-oh-look-he-said-it-again]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Simplify, then add lightness."
attribution = "Colin Chapman"

[2022-04-30-and-after-a-cray-quote-is-a-quote-about-cray]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Seymour Cray was famous for packing, powering, and cooling circuits incredibly densely.  Classic Crays were made obsolete by microprocessors, but we may yet do similar things at a larger scale.  Hyperscale data centers and even national supercomputers are loosely coupled things today, but if challenges demanded it, there is a world with a zetta scale, tightly integrated, low latency matrix dissipating a gigawatt in a swimming pool of circulating fluorinert."
attribution = "John Carmack"

# 325

[2022-04-30-this-one-is-a-url-because-it-has-an-obnoxiously-large-copyright-notice]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html (Yes, the entire website!)"
attribution = "Peter Anspach"
source = "http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html"

[2022-05-20-why-indeed]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "When you're finally up on the moon, looking back at the earth, all these differences and nationalistic traits are pretty well going to blend and you're going to get a concept that maybe this is really one world and why the hell can't we learn to live together like decent people?"
attribution = "Frank Borman, Apollo 8"

[2022-05-01-take-it-slow-real-slow]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Nature does not hurry, yet everything gets accomplished."
attribution = "Lao Tzu"

[2022-05-01-pretty-sure-this-is-misquoted-alot]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it."
attribution = "discombobulation of Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book I, 1094b.24, possibly by  Lowell L. Bennion, Religion and the Pursuit of Truth, 1959"

[2022-05-02-also-true]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "An unbreakable toy is useful for breaking other toys."
attribution = "Van Roy's Law"

# 330

[2022-05-02-no-witty-remarks-here]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."
attribution = "Salvor Hardin"

[2022-05-02-just-another-set-of-poetic-lyrics]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
Paper is dead without words,
Ink idle without a poem,
All the world dead without stories,
Without love and disarming beauty.
"""
attribution = "Nightwish, Song Of Myself"

[2022-05-02-Dawkins-being-Dawkins]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The God of the Old Testament is arguably the most unpleasant character in all fiction: jealous and proud of it; a petty, unjust, unforgiving control-freak; a vindictive, bloodthirsty ethnic cleanser; a misogynistic, homophobic, racist, infanticidal, genocidal, filicidal, pestilential, megalomaniacal, sadomasochistic, capriciously malevolent bully."
attribution = "Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion"

[2022-05-02-This-needs-no-comment]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Science is interesting, and if you don't agree you can fuck off."
attribution = "Richard Dawkins"

[2022-05-02-Honestly-do-this-with-anyone-you-teach]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Do not indoctrinate your children.  Teach them how to think for themselves, how to evaluate evidence, and how to disagree with you."
attribution = "Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion"

# 335

[2022-05-02-Dawkins-talking-about-rng]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation.  During the minute that it takes me to compose this sentence, thousands of animals are being eaten alive, many others are running for their lives, whimpering with fear, others are slowly being devoured from within by rasping parasites, thousands of all kinds are dying of starvation, thirst, and disease.  It must be so.  If there ever is a time of plenty, this very fact will automatically lead to an increase in the population until the natural state of starvation and misery is restored.  In a universe of electrons and selfish genes, blind physical forces and genetic replication, some people are going to get hurt, other people are going to get lucky, and you won't find any rhyme or reason in it, nor any justice.  The universe that we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil, no good, nothing but pitiless indifference."
attribution = "Richard Dawkins, River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life"

[2022-05-03-English-is-a-trenchcoat]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The English language is just three smaller languages in a trenchcoat, beating up other languages in a back alley, then rifling through their pockets in search of loose grammar and vocab."
attribution = "Apochryphal"

[2022-05-05-A-quote-from-Hamlet]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "What a piece of worke is a man!  How Noble in reason!  How infinite in faculty!  In forme and mouing how expresse and admirable!  In Action, how like an Angel in apprehension, how like a God!  The beauty of the world, the paragon of animals — and yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?  Man delights not me — nor woman neither, though by your smiling you seem to say so."
attribution = "William Shakespeare, Hamlet, Act II, Scene II"

[2022-05-05-A-quote-from-the-Scottish-Play]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more; it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."
attribution = "William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act V, Scene V"

[2022-05-05-Suprised-we-did-not-already-have-this]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet.  Its hazards are hostile to us all.  Its conquest deserves the best of all mankind, and its opportunity for peaceful cooperation may never come again.  But why, some say, the Moon?  Why choose this as our goal?  And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain?  Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic?  Why does Rice play Texas?

We choose to go to the Moon.  We choose to go to the Moon ... We choose to go to the Moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.
"""
attribution = "John F. Kennedy"
source = "https://www.jfklibrary.org/learn/about-jfk/historic-speeches/address-at-rice-university-on-the-nations-space-effort"

# 340

[2022-05-05-A-questione-we-may-never-answer]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "There are questions to which knowing the answers would have a profound cultural effect.  The question of our solitude, is one.  Are we alone in the Universe, yes or no.  One of these is true."
attribution = "Brian Cox, Human Universe"

[2022-05-05-war-is-pointless]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
attribution = "Dwight D. Eisenhower"

[2022-05-05-everything-is-pointless]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right.  As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established."
attribution = "George Carlin"

[2022-05-05-cant-some-else-do-it]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."
attribution = "Dwight D. Eisenhower"

[2022-05-05-conflict-is-futile]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
attribution = "Dwight D. Eisenhower"

# 345

[2022-05-05-thats-because-its-infinite]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "You can't legislate against stupidity."
attribution = "Jesse Ventura"

[2022-05-05-nothing-is-preordained]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I have noticed even people who claim everything is predestined, and that we can do nothing to change it, look before they cross the road."
attribution = "Steven Hawking"

[2022-05-05-tenuous-atmosphere-be-tenuous]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Space isn't remote at all.  It's only an hour's drive away if your car could go straight upwards."
attribution = "Fred Hoyle"

[2022-05-05-in-300-yards-turn-left]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading."
attribution = "Lao Tzu"

[2022-05-05-Yet-another-Greek-philosopher]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "There is nothing permanent except change."
attribution = "Heraclitus (535–475 BCE)"

# 350

[2022-05-05-Somehow-the-first-Obama-quote]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time.  We are the ones we've been waiting for.  We are the change that we seek."
attribution = "Barrack Obama"

[2022-05-05-ten-thousand]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I have not failed.  I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work."
attribution = "Thomas Alva Edison"

[2022-05-08-feet-puzzle]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I always wanted to get lost in a labyrinth.  It's like a puzzle you solve with your feet."
attribution = "Elfo, Disenchantment"

[2022-05-08-baloney]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Destiny is baloney.  Your future is not foretold.  It's what you make of it."
attribution = "Elfo, Disenchantment"

[2022-05-08-well-hes-died-once-already]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I'd rather die a big death than live a small life."
attribution = "Elfo, Disenchantment"

# 355

[2022-05-08-yum-mustard]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I wanna taste something other than sweetness.  I wanna cry salty tears, learn bitter truths.  I wanna take a big, meaty bite out of life and dip it in mustard."
attribution = "Elfo, Disenchantment"

[pre-toml-200]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Unexpected call for quote, try again in 24 hours."
attribution = "SwackQuote"

[2022-05-08-just-like-a-sponge]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Such self-absorbed idiots aren't worth protecting if you ask me."
attribution = "Mordred, Fate/Apocrypha, 2017" # Mordred wasnt in Fate/EXTRA Last Encore, was in Apocrypha

[2022-05-08-the-student-becomes-the-master]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "A student who is too loyal to his master has no chance of surpassing that master... A mutinous spirit is the source of independence."
attribution = "Boris Konev, Legend of Galactic Heroes"

[2022-05-08-staying-out-of-it-is-often-the-best-option]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The greatest freedom is the freedom not to get involved."
attribution = "Yang Wen-li, Legend of Galactic Heroes"

# 360

[2022-05-08-to-alcohol-the-cause-of-and-solution-to-all-of-lifes-problems]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Alcohol is humanity's friend.  How can I abandon a friend?"
attribution = "Yang Wen-li, Legend of Galactic Heroes"

[2022-05-08-even-democracy-can-be-evil]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Dictatorship itself isn't absolutely evil, it's just another form of government.  The point is how you can run it for the benefit of society."
attribution = "Yang Wen-li, Legend of Galactic Heroes"

[2022-05-08-no-not-that-Attenborough]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Either way, the only ones who can die tomorrow are those who survive today."
attribution = "Dusty Attenborough"

[2022-05-08-alcohol-is-humanitys-friend-how-can-I-abandon-a-friend]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "To alcohol!  The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems."
attribution = "Homer Simpson, The Simpsons"

[2022-05-08-what-even-is-a-glass]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = '''
Optimist: The glass is 1/2 full.
Pessimist: The glass is 1/2 empty.
Excel: The glass is January 2nd.
Scientist: The glass is half full of one fluid, and half full of another.
Engineer: The glass is full, except when in a vacuum.
Alcoholic: Shucks, drinks nearly gone, lets order another round!
Dr Strange: Half full?  Check again.
Mathematician: The glass isn\'t a platonic solid.
Topologist: The glass has no holes.
Philosopher: What does it mean, to be "full"?
Me: I dunno but I\'m hungry.
Early Career Developer: uh, I don\'t know what happened, but there\'s an overflow.
Late Career Developer: Huh.  Just double the memory requirements and ship it.
'''
attribution = "Various"

# 365

[2022-05-09-little-boy]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Here on Earth, It appears that sanity, perspective, and an appreciation of the rarity and value of civilisation emerges after, and not before, the capability to build big bombs.  We have the bombs, but I don't think enough of us have the rest.  Why should other young civilisations be any different.  If this is the reason for the great silence, then I suppose we might take comfort in the fact the we are not the only idiots to have existed in the Milky Way.  But that's the coldest comfort I can imagine."
attribution = "Brian Cox, Human Universe"

[Im-a-teapot]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "418 I'm a teapot"
attribution = "Hyper Text Coffee Pot Control Protocol, RFC 2324"
source = "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2324"

[2022-05-09-be-very-afraid]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Don't be afraid, I am a Soviet citizen like you, who has descended from space and I must find a telephone to call Moscow!"
attribution = "Yuri Gagarin (what the USSR want us to believe he said, at least)" # Not the actual quote!

[2022-05-09-casually-stealing-from-a-literary-legend]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I deliberately borrow from Shakespeare; the most precious objects on Earth are not gems or jewels, but ink marks on paper.  No single human brain could conceive of Hamlet, Principia Mathematica or Codex Leicester; they were created by and belong to the entire human race, and the library of wonders continues to grow."
attribution = "Brian Cox, Human Universe"

[2022-05-09-complexity]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Science is a time machine, and it goes both ways.  We are able to predict our future with increasing certainty.  Our ability to act in response to these predictions will ultimately determine our fate.  Science and reason make the darkness visible.  I worry that lack of investment in science and a retreat from reason may prevent us from seeing further, or delay our reaction to what we see, making a meaningful response impossible.  There are no simple fixes.  Our civilisation is complex, our global political system is inadequate, our internal differences of opinion are deep-seated.  I'd bet you think you're absolutely right about some things and virtually everyone else is an idiot.  Climate Change?  Europe?  God?  America?  The Monarchy?  Same-sex Marriage?  Abortion?  Big Business?  Nationalism?  The United Nations?  The Bank Bailout?  Tax Rates?  Genetically Modified Crops?  Eating Meat?  Football?  X Factor or Strictly?  The way forward is to understand and accept that there are many opinions, but only one human civilisation, only one Nature, and only one science.  The collective goal of ensuring that there is never less than one human civilisation must surely override our personal prejudices.  At least we have come far enough in 40,800 years to be able to state the obvious, and this is a necessary first step.  We've woken up at the wheel of the bus, and realised we don't know how to drive it."
attribution = "Brian Cox, Human Universe"

# 370

[2022-05-09-monkeys]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Common sense is completely worthless and irrelevant when trying to understand reality.  This is probably why people who like to boast about their common sense tend to rail against the fact that they share a common ancestor with a monkey."
attribution = "Brian Cox, Human Universe"

[2022-05-09-yep-we-just-guess]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "First we guess it.  Then we — now don't laugh, that's really true — then we compute the consequences of the guess to see what, if this is right, if this law that we guessed is right, to see what it would imply.  And then we compare the computation results to nature, or we say compare to experiment or experience, compare it directly with observations to see if it works.  If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong."
attribution = "Brian Cox, Human Universe"

[2022-05-09-sit-down-and-talk]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "To me, and to the participants of the Green Bank conference, the idea that a civilisation might destroy itself is both ludicrous and likely.  We are pathetically inadequate at long-term planning, idiotically primitive in our destructive urges and pathologically incapable of simply getting along."
attribution = "Brian Cox, Human Universe"

[2022-05-11-kindness-and-wisdom]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom."
attribution = "Theodore Isaac Rubin"

[2022-05-11-sophocles-kindness-friend]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "One who knows how to show and to accept kindness will be a friend better than any possession."
attribution = "Sophocles (496–405 BCE)"

# 375

[2022-05-11-faulkner-swim-for-new-horizons]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "You cannot swim for new horizons until you have courage to lose sight of the shore."
attribution = "William Faulkner"

[2022-05-11-keller-walk-with-a-friend]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "I would rather walk with a friend in the dark, than alone in the light."
attribution = "Helen Keller"

[2022-05-11-epicurus-desiring-what-you-have-not]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for."
attribution = "Epicurus (341–270 BCE)"

[2022-05-11-satisfaction]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "It's almost impossible to be satisfied in your own life if you're constantly looking at what someone else has."
attribution = "Rachel Cruze"

[2022-05-13-its-the-only-one-we-have]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "This planet is not terra firma.  It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for.  It's lonely.  It's small.  It's isolated, and there is no resupply.  And we are mistreating it.  Clearly, the highest loyalty we should have is not to our own country or our own religion or our home town or even to ourselves.  It should be to, number two, the family of man, and number one, the planet at large.  This is our home, and this is all we've got."
attribution = "Scott Carpenter"

# 380

[2022-05-13-another-potshot-at-the-english-language]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "A man may take to drink because he feels himself to be a failure, and then fail all the more completely because he drinks.  It is rather the same thing that is happening to the English language.  It becomes ugly and inaccurate because our thoughts are foolish, but the slovenliness of our language makes it easier for us to have foolish thoughts."
attribution = "George Orwell"

[2022-05-16-real-scientists]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Real scientists are delighted when they find out they are wrong.  And to me that is one of the greatest gifts that a scientific education can bring.  There are too many people in this world who want to be right.  And too few who just want to know."
attribution = "Brian Cox, Forces of Nature"

[2022-05-22-railgun]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Wishing won't do any good.  This is going to take work."
attribution = "Shirai Kuroko"

[2022-05-16-Astronomers-are-goths]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
There are three known planets in the PSR B1257 system, which have been named Draugr, Poltergeist and Phobetor.  Poltergeist was the first to be discovered.  I know, I was curious about their names as well.  Poltergeist means \"pounding ghost\".  The draugr are the unded in Norse legends who live in their graves.  And Phobetor is the personification of nightmares, and the son of Nyx, Greek goddess of the night.

Astronomers are goths.
"""
attribution = "Brian Cox, Forces of Nature"

[2022-05-16-bacteria]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
We must come to terms with being of no cosmic significance, and this means jettisoning our personal and collective egos and valuing what we have.  We can no longer assume the platform of gods, or dream of a unique place in their hearts.  Science has forced us to look fixedly into an infinite universe, and its volume dilutes special pleading to a vanishingly small and pathetic whimper.  And yet what's left is better.  No monument to the gods is as magnificent as the story of our planet; of the origin and evolution of life on the rare Earth and the rise of a fledgling civilisation taking its first steps into the dark.  We stand related to every one of Darwin's endless, most beautiful forms, each of us connected at some branch in the unbroken chain of life stretching back 4 billion years.  We share more in common with bacteria than we do with any living things out there amongst the stars, should they exist, and they are more worthy of our attention.  Build cathedrals in praise of bacteria; we are on our own, and as the dominant intellect we are responsible for our planet in its magnificent and fragile entirety.
"""
attribution = "Brian Cox, Forces of Nature"

# 385

[2022-22-05-frozen]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
Let it go, let it go
Can't hold it back anymore
Let it go, let it go
Turn away and slam the door
I don't care what they're going to say
Let the storm rage on
The cold never bothered me anyway
"""
attribution = "Elsa"

[2022-05-16-skepticism]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Without skepticism there can be no progress."
attribution = "Various"

[2022-05-18-russell]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "There is an artist imprisoned in each one of us.  Let him loose to spread joy everywhere."
attribution = "Bertrand Russell"

[2022-05-18-mulan]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "The flower that blooms in adversity is the most rare and beautiful of all."
attribution = "The Emperor of China, Mulan"

[2022-05-18-caproni]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Airplanes are not tools for war.  They're not for making money.  Airplanes are beautiful dreams.  Engineers turn dreams into reality."
attribution = "Giovanni Battista Caproni, The Wind Rises"

# 390

[2022-05-18-dr-seuss-memory]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Sometimes you never realize the value of a moment until it becomes a memory."
attribution = "Dr. Seuss"

[2022-05-18-huxley-experience]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Experience is not what happens to you;  it's what you do with what happens to you."
attribution = "Aldous Huxley"

[2022-05-18-sherman-beginning-and-ending]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "You can't go back and change the beginning but you can start where you are and change the ending."
attribution = "James Sherman"

[2022-05-18-christopher-robin]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Promise me you'll always remember — you're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think."
attribution = "Christopher Robin" # @TODO, which Winnie-the-Pooh piece is this from? are we attributing to A. A. Milne, David Benedictus, someone else, nobody? - I believe it is from one of the Walt Disney adaptations, possibly the 1977 edition

[2022-05-18-monet-understand-vs-love]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Everyone discusses my art and pretends to understand, as if it were necessary to understand, when it is simply necessary to love."
attribution = "Claude Monet"

# 395

[2022-05-18-live-fully-in-each-moment]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Waking up in the morning, I smile.  24 brand new hours are before me.  I vow to live fully in each moment."
attribution = "Thích Nhất Hạnh"

[2022-05-19-casual-potshot]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
Changing random stuff until your program works is \"hacky\" and \"bad practice\".

But, if you do it fast enough it's \"Machine Learning\", and pays 4x your current salary.
"""
attribution = "Unknown"

[2022-05-19-would-you-like-a-quote]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
\"Hi, I'd like to hear a TCP joke.\"
\"Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?\"
\"Yes, I'd like to hear a TCP joke.\"
\"Ok, I'll tell you a TCP joke.\"
\"Ok, I will hear a TCP joke.\"
\"Are you ready to hear a TCP joke?\"
\"Yes, I am ready to hear a TCP joke.\"
\"Ok, I am about to send the TCP joke.  It will last 10 seconds, it has two characters, it does not have a setting, it ends with a punchline.\"
\"Ok, I am ready to get your TCP joke that will last 10 seconds, has two characters, does not have an explicit setting, and ends with a punchline.\"
\"I'm sorry, your connection has timed out.  Hello, would you like to hear a TCP joke?\"
"""
attribution = "Various"

[2021-09-03-1]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = '''```http
HTTP/1.1 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons
Link: <https://search.example.net/legal>; rel="blocked-by"
Content-Type: text/html

<html>
 <head><title>Unavailable For Legal Reasons</title></head>
 <body>
  <h1>Unavailable For Legal Reasons</h1>
  <p>This request may not be serviced in the Roman Province
  of Judea due to the Lex Julia Majestatis, which disallows
  access to resources hosted on servers deemed to be
  operated by the People\'s Front of Judea.</p>
 </body>
</html>
```'''
attribution = "HTTP 451 Unavailable For Legal Reasons"
source = "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451"

[2022-05-20-earthrise]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "We set out to explore the moon and instead discovered the Earth."
attribution = "William Anders, Apollo 8, in reference to [Earthrise](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise)" # I really hope that link works

#  400

[2022-05-20-WALES]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It's very hard to picture the enormity of the Sun.  A hundred Earth's would line up along it's diameter, it would take the average passenger jet 6 months to fly around it.  It's traditional to say something about the size of Wales at this point; it would take 289 million countries the size of Wales, to tile the surface of the Sun."
attribution = "Brian Cox, Forces of Nature"

[2022-05-20-penicillin]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "When I woke up just after dawn on September 28, 1928, I certainly didn't plan to revolutionise all medicine by discovering the world's first antibiotic, or bacteria killer.  But I suppose that is exactly what I did."
attribution = "Alexander Fleming"

[2022-05-20-rainbows]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
Why are there so many
Songs about rainbows
And what's on the other side?
Rainbows are visions
But only illusions
And rainbows have nothing to hide
So we've been told and some choose to believe it
I know they're wrong wait and see
Someday we'll find it, the rainbow connection
The lovers, the dreamers and me
"""
attribution = "Kermit the Frog, Rainbow Connection, The Muppet Movie, 1979"

[2022-05-21-connection]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "But the cure for so many things is connection, and we may think 'no one wants to connect with me', but we just need to find the right people."
attribution = "Jonathan Decker (Cinema Therapy) on A Silent Voice"
source = "https://youtu.be/h8VHaNeuw3o?t=1204"

[2022-22-05-Quark-Strangeness-and-Charm]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think."
attribution = "Werner Heisenberg"

# 405

[2022-22-05-Funny-business]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them."
attribution = "Werner Heisenberg"

[2022-22-05-Quantum-Theory-be-whack]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Those who are not shocked when they first come across quantum theory cannot possibly have understood it."
attribution = "Niels Bohr"

[2022-22-05-Protons-are-fake-news]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Everything we call real is made of things that cannot be regarded as real."
attribution = "Niels Bohr"

[2022-03-28-1]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "A problem shared is a problem halved."
attribution = "Apocryphal"

[2022-04-07-6]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Neither can embellishments of language be found without arrangement and expression of thoughts, nor can thoughts be made to shine without the light of language."
attribution = "Cicero (106–43 BCE)"

# 410

[2022-05-14-just-another-monologue]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Can you hear them?  All these people who lived in terror of you and your judgement.  All these people who's ancestors devoted and sacrificed themselves to you.  Can you hear them singing?  Oh, you like to think you're a god, but you're not a god.  You're just a parasite eating out the jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others.  You feed on them.  On the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow.  So, so come on then.  Take mine.  Take my memories.  And I hope you've got a big appetite because I have lived a long life and I have seen a few things.  I walked away from the last Great Time War.  I marked the passing of the Time Lords.  I saw the birth of the universe and watched as time ran out.  Moment by moment until nothing remained — no time, no space, just me.  I walked in universes where the laws of physics where devised by the mind of a mad man.  I watched universes freeze and creations burn.  I have seen things you wouldn't believe.  I have lost things you will never understand.  And I know things.  Secrets that must never be told.  Knowledge that must never be spoken.  Knowledge that will make parasite gods blaze.  So come on then!  Take it!  Take it all, baby!  Have it!  You have it all!"
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, The Rings of Akhaten, 2013"

[2022-04-14-1]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Life's too short to spend it at war with yourself."
attribution = "Ritu Ghatourey"

[2022-05-01-its-hard-apparently]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Landing a rover from 26 kilometres above the surface traveling 6 times faster than a bullet... is hard."
attribution = "Brian Cox, The Planets"

[2022-05-16-cause-and-effect]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "You have to get old because of the geometry of spacetime."
attribution = "Brian Cox, Forces of Nature"

[2022-22-05-Predictions]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future."
attribution = "Niels Bohr"

# 415

[2022-22-05-Experts]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field."
attribution = "Niels Bohr"

[2022-23-05-Towels]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have.  Partly it has great practical value.  You can wrap it around you for warmth as you bound across the cold moons of Jaglan Beta; you can lie on it on the brilliant marble-sanded beaches of Santraginus V, inhaling the heady sea vapours; you can sleep under it beneath the stars which shine so redly on the desert world of Kakrafoon; use it to sail a miniraft down the slow heavy River Moth; wet it for use in hand-to-hand-combat; wrap it round your head to ward off noxious fumes or avoid the gaze of the Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal (such a mind-bogglingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can't see it, it can't see you — daft as a brush, but very very ravenous); you can wave your towel in emergencies as a distress signal, and of course dry yourself off with it if it still seems to be clean enough.

More importantly, a towel has immense psychological value.  For some reason, if a strag discovers that a hitchhiker has his towel with him, he will automatically assume that he is also in possession of a toothbrush, face flannel, soap, tin of biscuits, flask, compass, map, ball of string, gnat spray, wet weather gear, space suit, etc.  Furthermore, the strag will then happily lend the hitch hiker any of these or a dozen other items that the hitch hiker might accidentally have \"lost\".  What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is, is clearly a man to be reckoned with.
"""
attribution = "Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy"

[2022-30-05-Excellence]
submitter = "Asher"
quote = """
We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit.
"""
attribution = "Aristotle (384–322 BCE)"

[2022-06-03-human-heart-in-conflict]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "The only thing worth writing about is the human heart in conflict with itself."
attribution = "William Faulkner"

[2022-06-03-kindness]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations."
attribution = "Paramahansa Yogananda"

# 420

[2022-06-03-storm]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "And once the storm is over, you won't remember how you made it through.  But one thing is certain.  When you come out of the storm, you won't be the same person who walked in.  That's what this storm's all about."
attribution = "Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore"

[2022-06-03-start]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "You don't have to be great to start, but you have to start to be great."
attribution = "Zig Ziglar"

[2022-06-03-just-be-my-friend]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = """
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead.
Walk beside me, just be my friend.
"""
attribution = "Unknown"

[2022-06-03-nothing]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "People say nothing is impossible, but I do nothing every day."
attribution = "Winnie the Pooh" # @TODO, is this from A. A. Milne, or someone else? - I would hazard a guess at the original novel, but without more than a few seconds googling, no real idea

[2022-06-03-cheer-up]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up."
attribution = "Mark Twain"

# 425

[2022-06-03-life-is-short]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Life is short: kiss slowly, laugh insanely, love truly and forgive quickly."
attribution = "Paulo Coelho"

[2022-06-04-Right]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If we're kind and polite, the world will be right."
attribution = "Paddington Bear, Paddington 2, 2017"

[2022-06-13-Pretty-Dress]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "A pretty dress can make all the difference.  Anyone who disagrees must have just never seen me in a dress, I rock that shit."
attribution = "IrrelevantSwack"

[2022-06-13-To-Swack-or-not-to-Swack]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I don't want Swack to be the goto name for the society.  I'm trying to find a line where it persists as a joke without it becoming all-encompassing."
attribution = "IrrelevantSwack, 2018"

[2022-06-13-Time-is-relative]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "I'm 78 days into a 14 day turn around on a Motherboard repair... time is relative."
attribution = "Gnome"

# 430

[2022-06-14-300]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
Victor: Why did it give me a 200?
Gnome: You clearly need to put it into slow motion mode, then you get a 300.
"""
attribution = "Gnome and Victor"

[2022-06-20-angelou]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
attribution = "Maya Angelou"

[2022-06-20-kant]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without."
attribution = "Immanuel Kant"

[2022-06-20-dalai-lama]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Happiness is not something ready made.  It comes from your own actions."
attribution = "Dalai Lama XIV"

[2022-06-20-van-gogh-love]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "I feel that there is nothing more truly artistic than to love people."
attribution = "Vincent Van Gogh"

# 435

[2022-06-20-van-gogh-dream]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "I dream of painting and then I paint my dream."
attribution = "Vincent Van Gogh"

[2022-06-22-roundabounts]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
Un-like fascist, robotic traffic lights where we are told when to stop and go, the roundabout allows us to show one another our very own English driving decorum.  We approach the island at our own chosen speed, in the lane of our choice.  Co-operating and queuing accordingly with our fellow drivers, we wait for a gap and join the gentle gyratory flow in our own time, signalling our intentions and leaving at our chosen exit.  Never is a road system better suited to the English consciousness than one that involves a set of rules and guidelines that harbours a carefully balanced system that relies on etiquette and protocol.
"""
attribution = "Kevin Beresford, president of UKRAS, aka Lord of the Rings"

[2022-07-06-kierkegaard]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards."
attribution = "Søren Kierkegaard"

[2022-07-06-shaw]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Life isn't about finding yourself.  Life is about creating yourself."
attribution = "George Bernard Shaw"

[2022-07-06-picasso]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Every child is an artist.  The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up."
attribution = "Pablo Picasso"

# 440

[2022-07-06-richards]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you."
attribution = "Stephen Richards"

[2022-07-06-twain]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "To get the full value of joy you must have someone to divide it with."
attribution = "Mark Twain"

[2022-07-06-feynman]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.  Explore the world.  Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough."
attribution = "Richard Feynman"

[2022-07-06-Angelou]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Courage is the most important of all the virtues because without courage, you can't practice any other virtue consistently."
attribution = "Maya Angelou"

[2022-07-26-road-to-hell]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "While it is true that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, it also seems true that the road to good intentions is paved with hell."
attribution = "Casey Muratori"
source = "https://twitter.com/cmuratori/status/1546405527650832384"

# 445

[2022-07-30-ranking-of-kings]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "What you are concerned about may be one of your strengths.  Because of what you are missing, you have experienced many things that an ordinary person never would.  While they may be painful, they will surely help you to clear your own path.  So love everything about yourself."
attribution = "Despa, Ranking of Kings"

[pre-toml-74]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "502 Bad Gateway"
attribution = "IETF, HTTP Status Code, RFC 9110"
source = "https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc9110"

[2022-07-30-fruba]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Here's an analogy: You can break a table with one punch, but you can also pull back that punch just before it lands.  Getting along well with other people works the same way."
attribution = "Shigure Soma, Fruits Basket"

[2022-07-30-paper-doesnt-taste-good]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Paper doesn't taste very good, and it won't give me vitamins."
attribution = "Kusunoki, Three Days of Happiness"

[2022-07-30-keller]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it."
attribution = "Helen Keller"

# 450

[2022-07-30-althouse]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "If you are feeling low, or trampled, unappreciated, or forgotten, and you are reading this, realize it is an illusion.  The hope is real, you are valued, and what lies ahead is brilliance."
attribution = "Tom Althouse"

[2022-07-30-bennett]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Be the reason someone smiles.  Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."
attribution = "Roy T. Bennett"

[2022-07-30-schweitzer]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate."
attribution = "Albert Schweitzer"

[2022-07-30-malala]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "One child, one teacher, one book, one pen can change the world."
attribution = "Malala Yousafzai"

[2022-07-30-van-buren]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back."
attribution = "Abigail Van Buren"

# 455

[2022-07-30-emerson]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment."
attribution = "Emerson"

[2022-07-30-troy]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Remember your words can plant gardens or burn whole forests down."
attribution = "Gemma Troy"

[2022-07-30-coelho]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires."
attribution = "Paulo Coelho"

[2022-07-30-hillesum]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths."
attribution = "Etty Hillesum"

[2022-07-30-lamb]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "A year from now you may wish you had started today."
attribution = "Karen Lamb"

# 460

[2022-07-30-jami]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on."
attribution = "Criss Jami"

[2022-07-30-dalai-lama]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Do not let the behaviour of others destroy your inner peace."
attribution = "Dalai Lama"

[2022-08-07-three-days-1]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Universal appeal does not come by obsequiously sucking up to everyone around you so that they like you.  It comes from digging to the bottom of your own well and painstakingly dredging up what's down there.  It lies within the results of a completely individual and personal approach."
attribution = "Kusunoki, Three Days of Happiness"

[2022-08-07-three-days-2]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "I don't really trust words like *personality* and *disposition* and *nature*.  They can all change with circumstances.  In the long run, I think the way people actually differ is in which situations they are more likely to fall into.  Everyone has this extreme belief in consistency of character, but I think it's a much shallower quality than most people like to think."
attribution = "Kusunoki, Three Days of Happiness"

[2022-08-07-jami]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Grudges are for those who insist that they are owed something; forgiveness, however, is for those who are substantial enough to move on."
attribution = "Criss Jami"

# 465

[2022-08-07-disney]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Laughter is timeless.  Imagination has no age.  And dreams are forever."
attribution = "Walt Disney"

[2022-08-07-shaw]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
attribution = "George Bernard Shaw"

[2022-08-12-Roddenbury]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "In a very real sense, we are all aliens on a strange planet.  We spend most of our lives reaching out and trying to communicate.  If during our whole lifetime, we could reach out and really communicate with just two people, we are indeed very fortunate."
attribution = "Gene Roddenbury"

[2022-08-13-ullman]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Until I became a programmer, I didn't thoroughly understand the usefulness of such isolation: the silence, the reduction of life to thought and form; for example, going off to a dark room to work on a program when relations with people get difficult."
attribution = "Ellen Ullman, Life in Code: A Personal History of Technology"

[2022-08-13-sudo]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = '''```
We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator.  It usually boils down to these three things:

    #1) Respect the privacy of others.
    #2) Think before you type.
    #3) With great power comes great responsibility.
```'''
attribution = "Todd C. Miller, `sudo`" # kinda, the actual author is unknown, but Todd made the original commit and the one that added 3, so Ill credit him

# 470

[2022-08-13-sql]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "It's funny how even something as simple as a MYSQL database requires pruning, nurture."
attribution = "Craig Mod"

[2022-08-13-poetry]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "With static sites, we've come full circle, like exhausted poets who have travelled the world trying every form of poetry and realizing that the haiku is enough to see most of us through our tragedies."
attribution = "Craig Mod"

[2022-08-13-Rutherford]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "If your experiment needs statistics, you ought to have done a better experiment."
attribution = "Ernest Rutherford"

[2022-08-13-Goddard]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
attribution = "Robert H. Goddard"

[2022-08-13-I-really-recommend-this-game]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Your wisdom is something for you to find out yourself."
attribution = "Mohammad Fahmi, What Comes After" # RIP
source = "https://store.steampowered.com/app/1421760/What_Comes_After/"

# 475

[2022-08-13-heavy]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Just because someone carries it well, doesn't mean it isn't heavy."
attribution = "Apocryphal"

[2022-08-13-De-Bois]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "We should measure the prosperity of a nation not by the number of millionaires, but by the absence of poverty, the prevalence of health, the efficiency of the public schools, and the number of people who can and do read worthwhile books."
attribution = "W. E. B. De Bois"

[2022-08-13-return-of-the-Doug]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "These days, the problem isn't how to innovate; it's how to get society to adopt the good ideas that already exist."
attribution = "Douglas Engelbart"

[2022-08-13-a-new-Doug]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "The key thing about all the world's big problems is that they have to be dealt with collectively.  If we don't get collectively smarter, we're doomed."
attribution = "Douglas Engelbart, Intelligence in the Internet Age"

[2022-09-01-Rogues]
submitter = "IrrelevantSwack"
quote = "Rogues are very keen in their profession, and know already much more than we can teach them respecting their several kinds of roguery.  Rogues knew a good deal about lock-picking long before locksmiths discussed it among themselves."
attribution = "A. C. Hobbs, 1853"

# 480

[2022-09-01-Haskell]
submitter = "IrrelevantSwack"
quote = '''Haskell be like "we spent 15 years perfecting our language before the initial 1.0 release but nah we don\'t need an installer they\'ll figure it out kek"'''
attribution = "Lewigi"

[2022-09-02-Being-Present]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Being present is not some esoteric talent.  We are all capable of being present at any time and any location.  It is something we have in abundance as a child and loose as we become adults."
attribution = "Anthony Epes"

[2022-09-08-Life-Spent-Debugging]
submitter = "Asher"
quote = "The realization came over me with full force that a good part of the remainder of my life was going to be spent in finding the errors in my own programs."
attribution = "Maurice Wilkes, 1949"

[2022-09-16-Sixty-six]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It does not matter what sixty-six percent of people do in any particular situation.  All that matters is what you do."
attribution = "John Elder Robinson,  Be Different: Adventures of a Free-Range Aspergian "

[2022-09-16-What-a-mess]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = '"This is a fucking mess", I said tactfully.'
attribution = "John Elder Robinson"

# 485

[2022-09-17-Only-universal-in-computing]
submitter = "Asher"
quote = "Sometimes I think the only universal in the computing field is the fetch-execute cycle."
attribution = "Alan Perlis, 1981"

[2022-09-18-Silence]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Yes, sir.  I am attempting to fill a silent moment with non-relevant conversation."
attribution = "Lt. Cmdr. Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Starship Mine"

[2022-09-18-Friendship]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I never knew what a friend was until I met Geordi.  He spoke to me as though I were human.  He treated me no differently from anyone else.  He accepted me for what I am.  And that, I have learned, is friendship."
attribution = "Lt. Cmdr. Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Next Phase"

[2022-09-18-Four-lights]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "There are four lights!"
attribution = "Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Chain of Command"

[2022-09-18-Never-forget]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The act injured you, and saved me.  I will not forget it."
attribution = "Lt. Cmdr. Data, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Measure of a Man"

# 490

[2022-09-18-Strategema]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It is possible to commit no errors and still lose.  That is not a weakness.  That is life."
attribution = "Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Peak Performance"

[2022-09-19-Stupidity]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity."
attribution = "Martin Luther King Jr."

[2022-09-19-Free]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion."
attribution = "Albert Camus"

[2022-09-19-Courage]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
attribution = "misattributed to Winston Churchill"

[2022-09-19-Limited-Time]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life.  Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking.  Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice.  And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition."
attribution = "Steve Jobs"

# 495

[2022-09-19-Nothing-to-lose]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.  You are already naked.  There is no reason not to follow your heart."
attribution = "Steve Jobs"

[2022-09-19-Thats-all-it-does]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It takes these very simple-minded instructions — 'Go fetch a number, add it to this number, put the result there, perceive if it's greater than this other number' — but executes them at a rate of, let's say, 1,000,000 per second.  At 1,000,000 per second, the results appear to be magic."
attribution = "Steve Jobs"

[2022-09-19-Cheese]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?"
attribution = "Charles De Gaulle"

[2022-09-19-Change]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared."
attribution = "Mikhail Gorbachev"

[2022-09-19-the-tao-of-programming]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = """
Each language has its purpose, however humble.  Each language expresses the Yin and Yang of software.  Each language has its place within the Tao.

But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it.
"""
attribution = "Geoffrey James, The Tao of Programming"
source = "http://www.canonical.org/~kragen/tao-of-programming.html"

# 500

[2022-09-30-not-a-merry-man]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Sir, I protest!  I am NOT a Merry Man!"
attribution = "Lt. Cmdr. Worf, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Qpid"

[2022-10-12-Stephen-fry-on-god]
submitter = "curlpipe"
quote = """
I say; bone cancer in children, what's that about?  How dare you, how dare you create a world in which, in which there is such misery that is not our fault, it's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil.  Why should I respect a capricious, mean minded, stupid God who creates a world which is so full of injustice and pain?  That's what I would say.  And you think you're going to get in, know what, I wouldn't want to.  I wouldn't want to get in on his terms, they're wrong.

Now if I died and it was Pluto, or Hades, or if it was the twelve Greek gods, then I would have more truck with it, because the Greeks didn't pretend not to be human in their appetites, and in their capriciousness, and in their unreasonableness.  They didn't present themselves as being all seing, all wise, all kind, or beneficent.  Because the God who created this universe, if it was created by God, is quite clearly a maniac; utter maniac, totally selfish.

We have to spend our life on our knees thanking you?  What kind of God would do that?  Yes, the world is very splendid, but it also has in it insects whose whole entire life cycle is to burrow into the eyes of children, and make them blind; they eat outwards from the eyes.  Why, why did you do that?  For you could easily have made a creation in which that didn't exist.  It is simply not acceptable.

So you know, Atheism is not just about, not believing, it is not believing there's a God, but on the assumption there is one kind of God.  It's perfectly apparent they are monstrous, utterly monstrous, and deserves no respect whatsoever.  The moment you banished him your life becomes simpler, more cleaner, more living in my heaven.
"""
attribution = "Stepen Fry"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-suvkwNYSQo"

[2022-10-12-swockening]
submitter = "IrrelevantSwack"
quote = "swockening"
attribution = "Antikyth"

[2022-10-26-British-Python]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = '''```python
with a_gift() as apologies:
  try:
    greetings(give = apologies)
  except FumbledSentence as fuckup:
    await sleep(hours(7))
    remember(fuckup)
  finally:
    awkwardly_exit()
```'''
attribution = "segfault"

[2022-10-26-Oops]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I don't have all the answers, I've never been dead before."
attribution = "Ensign Ro Laren, The Next Phase"

# 505

[2022-11-1-Human-Addition]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Hey, if human arithmetic were simple enough that we could reproduce it in a computer, we wouldn't be able to count high enough to build computers."
attribution = "Eliezer Yudkowsky"
source = "https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/YhgjmCxcQXixStWMC/artificial-addition"

[2022-11-14-Unknown-unknowns]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know.  We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do not know.  But there are also unknown unknowns — the ones we don't know we don't know.  And if one looks throughout the history of our country and other free countries, it is the latter category that tends to be the difficult ones."
attribution = "Donald Rumsfeld, United States Secretary of Defense (2001–2006)"

[2022-11-14-Regular-expressions]
submitter = "Asher"
quote = "Some people, when confronted with a problem, think 'I know, I'll use regular expressions'.  Now they have two problems."
attribution = "Jamie Zawinski"

[2022-11-16-javafx-was-mentioned-and-i-was-reminded-of-this-so-i-added-it]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Give someone state and they'll have a bug one day, but teach them how to represent state in two separate locations that have to be kept in sync and they'll have bugs for a lifetime."
attribution = 'Fabian "ryg" Giesen'
source = "https://twitter.com/rygorous/status/1507178315886444544"

[2022-11-16-Einstein]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike — and yet it is the most precious thing we have."
attribution = "Albert Einstein"

# 510

[2022-11-16-Sherlock]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "It is a capital mistake to theorise before one has data.  Instensibly one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."
attribution = "Arthur Conan Doyle, Sherlock Holmes, A Scandal in Bohemia"

[2022-11-29-Knuth-quote-in-full-for-once]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = """
There is no doubt that the grail of efficiency leads to abuse.  Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered.  We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil.

Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%.  A good programmer will not be lulled into complacency by such reasoning, he will be wise to look carefully at the critical code; but only after that code has been identified.  It is often a mistake to make a priori judgments about what parts of a program are really critical, since the universal experience of programmers who have been using measurement tools has been that their intuitive guesses fail.  After working with such tools for seven years, I've become convinced that all compilers written from now on should be designed to provide all programmers with feedback indicating what parts of their programs are costing the most; indeed, this feedback should be supplied automatically unless it has been specificaly turned off.  After a programmer knows which parts of his routines are really important, a transformation like doubling up of loops will be worthwhile.
"""
attribution = "Donald Knuth, Structured Programming with `go to` Statements (1974)"
source = "https://doi.org/10.1145/356635.356640"

[2022-11-30-Justins-Dad]
submitter = "Greenfoot5"
quote = "We ain't a sharp species.  We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
attribution = "Justin's Dad"
source = "https://twitter.com/shitmydadsays/status/209705033204371457"

[2022-12-02-Jungle-Lizard-Advent]
submitter = "SatanicWomble"
quote = 'My solution today is far from elegant .. and my first question was "If this is a jungle..  why no Lizard?"'
attribution = "Gnome, Advent of Code 2022, Day 2"
source = "https://discord.com/channels/402480186312097803/1035536278671859713/1048185250573979668"

[2022-12-02-Doctor-Destination-Dreaming]
submitter = "SatanicWomble"
quote = """
Clara sometimes asks me if I dream.
\"Of course I dream\", I tell her. \"Everybody dreams.\"
\"But what do you dream about?\", she'll ask.
\"The same thing everybody dreams about\", I tell her. \"I dream about where I'm going.\"
She always laughs at that. \"But you're not going anywhere, you're just wandering about.\"

That's not true.  Not anymore.  I have a new destination.  My journey is the same as yours, the same as anyone's.  It's taken me so many years, so many lifetimes, but at last I know where I'm going.  Where I've always been going.  Home.  The long way around.
"""
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, The Day of the Doctor, 2013"

# 515

[2022-12-02-anyone-for-chess]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Four minutes?  That's ages!  What if I get bored?  I need a television — a couple of books — anyone for chess?"
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, The Night of the Doctor, 2013"

[2022-12-08-humble-pie]
submitter = "Corndog"
quote = """
Roy: Moss, I don't like to be negative about it, but everything you invent is worthless.
Moss: Ah, well, prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame set at gas mark 'egg on your face'!
"""
attribution = "Roy Trenneman and Maurice Moss, The IT Crowd, S2 E5"
source = "https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1111175/characters/nm1547964"

[2022-12-13-I-hate-this]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
Data: Oh, yes!  I hate this stuff!  It is revolting!
Guinan: More?
Data: Please!
"""
attribution = "Lt. Cmdr. Data and Guinan, Star Trek Generations"

[2022-12-20-Slowly]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Slowly is the fastest way to get where you want to be"
attribution = "André De Shields"

[2022-12-21-frank-1]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "I can shake off everything as I write; my sorrows disappear, my courage is reborn."
attribution = "Anne Frank"

# 520

[2022-12-21-aristotle]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "That which is desirable on its own account and for the sake of knowing it is more of the nature of wisdom than that which is desirable on account of its results."
attribution = "Aristotle (384–322 BCE)"

[2022-12-21-garland]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else."
attribution = "Judy Garland"

[2022-12-21-angelou]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Try to be a rainbow in someone's cloud."
attribution = "Maya Angelou"

[2022-12-21-plato]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a harder battle."
attribution = "Plato (circa 428–347 BCE)"

[2022-12-21-frank-2]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "No one has ever become poor by giving."
attribution = "Anne Frank"

# 525

[2022-12-21-pagan]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Your first ritual that you do during the day is the highest leveraged ritual, by far, because it has the effect of setting your mind, and setting the context, for the rest of your day."
attribution = "Eben Pagan"

[2022-12-21-mlk]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that.  Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that."
attribution = "Martin Luther King Jr."

[2022-12-21-coelho]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "When each day is the same as the next, it's because people fail to recognize the good things that happen in their lives every time the sun rises."
attribution = "Paulo Coelho"

[2022-12-21-fitzmaurice]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Letting go doesn't have to mean walking away.  It means the things that hurt you don't hurt you anymore."
attribution = "Sue Fitzmaurice"

[2022-12-21-thoreau]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder."
attribution = "Henry David Thoreau"

# 530

[2022-12-21-radmacher]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Courage doesn't always roar.  Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of the day that says \"I'll try again tomorrow.\""
attribution = "Mary Anne Radmacher"

[2022-12-21-hawking]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "My expectations were reduced to zero when I was 21.  Everything since then has been a bonus."
attribution = "Stephen Hawking"

[2022-12-21-winfrey]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "If you look at what you have in life, you'll always have more.  If you look at what you don't have in life, you'll never have enough."
attribution = "Oprah Winfrey"

[2022-12-21-einstein]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness."
attribution = "Albert Einstein"

[2022-12-21-west]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy the sunshine."
attribution = "Morris West"

# 535

[2022-12-21-marcus-aurelius]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love."
attribution = "Marcus Aurelius (121–180 CE)"

[2022-12-21-gide]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not."
attribution = "Andre Gide"

[2022-12-21-dr-seuss]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
attribution = "Dr. Seuss"

[2022-12-21-hemingway]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, everything will get better and sun will shine brighter than ever."
attribution = "Ernest Hemingway"

[2022-12-21-homer]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "There is a time for many words, and there is also a time for sleep."
attribution = "Homer (Greek poet, 8th century BCE)"

# 540

[2022-12-21-hoffman]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Today's goals: Coffee and kindness.  Maybe two coffees, and then kindness."
attribution = "Nanea Hoffman"

[2022-12-21-frank-3]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out.  Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart."
attribution = "Anne Frank"

[2022-12-21-stevenson]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant."
attribution = "Robert Louis Stevenson"

[2022-12-21-rohn]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Happiness is not something you postpone for the future; it is something you design for the present."
attribution = "Jim Rohn"

[2022-12-21-willson]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = """
Count your age by friends, not years.
Count your life by smiles, not tears.
"""
attribution = "Dixie Willson"

# 545

[2022-12-31-Oogway]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery, but Today is a gift.  That is why it is called the present."
attribution = "Master Oogway, Kung Fu Panda"

[2023-01-11-its-green]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Well it's uhm... it's green"
attribution = "Lieutenant Montgomery Scott, Star Trek: The Original Series, By Any Other Name"

[2023-01-13-Gnome-has-experienced-this-now]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Java is the new COBOL."
attribution = "Jonathan Edwards"

[2023-01-18-threat-modelling]
submitter = "Victor"
quote = "Threat modelling rule of thumb: if you don't explain exactly what you are securing against and how you secure against it, the answers can be assumed to be: 'bears' and 'not very well'."
attribution = "Ryan Mallon"
source = "https://twitter.com/ryiron/status/1150924668020203521"

[2023-01-18-beyond-ghibli]
quote = "Loss isn't losing; it's just a part of the ebb and flow of life, sometimes cruel in its wonder, sometimes wonderful in its cruelty."
attribution = "Beyond Ghibli on Maquia"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KXqvVEdgqs"
submitter = "Victor"

# 550

[2023-01-18-maquia]
quote ="If you ever meet anyone from the outside, you mustn't fall in love.  If you do, you'll truly become alone."
attribution = "Racine (Iorph elder), Maquia"
submitter = "Victor"

[2023-01-18-toy-story]
quote = "True friendship says: your success doesn’t mean I'm failing; it means we are in different places right now."
attribution = "Jonathan Decker (Cinema Therapy) on the Toy Story franchise"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EO489MtqUNw"
submitter = "Victor"

[2023-01-18-twain]
quote = "Give every day the chance to become the most beautiful day of your life."
attribution = "Mark Twain"
submitter = "Victor"

[2023-01-18-picasso]
quote = "When I was a child my mother said to me, \"If you become a soldier, you'll be a general.  If you become a monk, you'll be the pope.\" Instead I became a painter and wound up as Picasso."
attribution = "Pablo Picasso"
submitter = "Victor"

[2023-01-18-bennett]
quote = "Everyone you meet is a part of your journey, but not all of them are meant to stay in your life.  Some people are just passing through to bring you gifts; either they're blessings or lessons."
attribution = "Roy T. Bennett"
submitter = "Victor"

# 555

[2023-01-21-Asimov-is-right-you-know]
quote = "There are no nations!  There is only humanity.  And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity."
attribution = "Isaac Asimov"
submitter = "segfault"

[2023-01-21-sometimes-I-do-question-if-people-get-this]
quote = "If the point of having a society isn't to care for each other, to ease suffering, and realise each life's potential, literally what is the point?  To hoard wealth?  To build empires on other people's throats?  Life is brief, nothing lasts.  Wealth and empires are pointless violence."
attribution = "Apocryphal"
submitter = "segfault"

[2023-01-21-because-lets-be-honest-its-true]
quote = "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops."
attribution = "Steven Jay Gould"
submitter = "segfault"

[2023-01-21-the-erlang-guy-seems-to-know-a-thing-or-two]
quote = "Make it work, then make it beautiful.  Then, if you really, *really* have to, make it fast.  90% of the time, if you make it beautiful, it will already be fast.  So, really, just make it beautiful."
attribution = "Joe Armstrong"
submitter = "segfault"

[2023-01-23-that-detective-is-the-right-question]
quote = "The uncreative mind can spot wrong answers, but it takes a very creative mind to spot wrong questions."
attribution = "Anthony Jay"
submitter = "segfault"

# 560

[2023-01-25-these-go-to-eleven]
quote = "But, these go to eleven..."
attribution = "Nigel Tufnel, Spinal Tap"
submitter = "Gnome"

[2023-01-29-look-if-we-added-embeds]
quote = ""
attribution = "Dylan Beattie, Flatscreen (a Everybody's Free (To Wear Sunscreen) parody)"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q3G4EPGH2r0"
submitter = "segfault"
embed = true

[2023-01-29-we-should-use-them-sparingly]
quote = ""
attribution = "Dylan Beattie, Bug in the Javascript (a Piano Man parody)"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxi0ETwDvws"
submitter = "segfault"
embed = true

[2023-02-18-Brian-needs-cheese]
quote = """
Dear Mr.  Swack,

It is with the utmost disappointment and dismay that I write to you today to express my profound dissatisfaction with the manner in which you have failed to provide Brian, our esteemed colleague, with the appropriate and requisite quantity of cheese.  As you are no doubt aware, cheese is a most indispensable commodity, particularly within the context of our organizational culture.  It serves as a staple for both sustenance and morale-boosting within the workplace, and it is therefore unacceptable that Brian should be deprived of its many benefits.  The inadequacy of your provision of cheese to Brian has been glaringly apparent, and it is most distressing to witness the deleterious effects that this has had upon his well-being.  His countenance has become sallow and despondent, and his productivity has diminished to an alarming degree.  It is a sad state of affairs indeed, and one that is entirely attributable to your neglectful conduct.

In light of these dire circumstances, I implore you to rectify this grievous situation with the utmost urgency.  I urge you to increase your allocation of cheese to Brian forthwith, and to do so in a manner that is both generous and expeditious.  Failure to do so would constitute a dereliction of duty on your part, and one that cannot be countenanced.  I trust that you will take this matter with the seriousness that it deserves, and that you will act swiftly to restore Brian to his former, cheese-fueled self.  The success and well-being of our organization depends on it.

Yours faithfully
"""
attribution = "ChatGPT"
submitter = "Charlotte"

[2023-02-18-ChatGPT-gone-norfern]
quote = "Oi Swack, what's the bleedin' deal with the lack of proper cheese for our Brian?  Can't have him goin' without his daily dose of cheesy goodness, now can we?  Sort it out, mate.  Cheese cheese cheese."
attribution = "ChatGPT, if it were more norfern"
submitter = "Charlotte"

# 565

[2023-02-24-braincell-hyperthreading]
submitter = "SatanicWomble"
quote = "We're all hyperthreading the same braincell tonight."
attribution = "segfault"

[2023-03-21-artificial-vs-adaptive]
submitter = "Greenfoot5"
quote = "It's artificial intelligence because it's not real.  It's far from adaptive intelligence"
attribution = "Greenfoot5"

[2023-04-18-coffee]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Commander, set a new course.  There's coffee in that nebula!"
attribution = "Captain Kathryn Janeway, Star Trek: Voyager, The Cloud"

[2023-04-24-unions]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "He was more than a hero.  He was a union man."
attribution = "Miles O'Brien, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Bar Association"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4BRe0ZKTAc"
embed = true

[2023-06-27-spambot]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "I am kinda interested in everything that is unknown to me."
attribution = "A random spam bot"
source = "https://twitter.com/leyawn/status/1670648343112892418"

# 570

[2023-06-28-memberships]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "I don’t want to belong to any club that would have me as a member"
attribution = "Groucho Marx"
source = "https://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/04/18/groucho-resigns/"

[2023-10-16-memes]
submitter = "ToothpasteFan"
quote = "Free will is a myth. Religion is a joke. We are all pawns, controlled by something greater: Memes. The DNA of the soul. They shape our will. They are the culture. They are everything we pass on."
attribution = "Monsoon, Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance"

[2023-10-27-identity]
submitter = "Ben Wager"
quote = "What are we if we aren't a coallition of people who struggle to communicate, communicating"
attribution = "Ben Wager"

[2023-12-06-one-more-month]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "If we can just get through this month, we only have one more month to go before we need to get through another month"
attribution = "Apocryphal"

[2023-12-20-a_computer]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "A computer is a bunch of metal imbued with a magical spell by an alchemist that makes it able to perform logic far faster than any mere mortal; so-called programmers are witches who whisper sweet nothings to the computer."
attribution = "Antikyth"

# 575


[2023-12-22-public-transport]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation."
attribution = "Gustavo Petro"

[2024-01-12-Friends]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Don't walk behind me; I may not lead.  Don't walk in front of me; I may not follow.  Just walk beside me and be my friend."
attribution = "Anonymous; almost certainly not Albert Camus"

[2024-01-13-Trees]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in."
attribution = "Ancient Greek Proverb"

[2024-02-04-Premature-Optimisation]
submitter = "IrrelevantSwack"
quote = "Premature optimisation is the root of all evil"
attribution = "Kovarex (Factorio Developer)"
source = "https://forums.factorio.com/viewtopic.php?p=144955#p144955"

[2024-02-06-Optimised-Meat]
submitter = "Charlotte"
quote = "You are poorly optimised meat."
attribution = "Irrelevant"

# 580

[2024-02-12-know-when-to-say-which]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "in a job interview, it's ML. in a product, it's AI."
attribution = "notatoad"
source = "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39340282"

[2024-02-13-Sisyphus]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
attribution = "Albert Camus, the Myth of Sisyphus"

[2024-04-08-Picard-On-Anger]
submitter = "Charlotte"
quote = "I think, when one has been angry for a very long time, one gets used to it. And it becomes comfortable, like old leather. And finally... it becomes so familiar that one can't remember feeling any other way."
attribution = "Captain Picard, Star Trek TNG S4 E12"

[2024-04-12-Fourth-Law-Of-Robotics]
submitter = "Charlotte"
quote = "The fourth law of Robotics - When turning evil, display a red indicator light."
attribution = "Apocryphal"

[2024-03-28-about-as-long-since-adding-the-last-moral-speech-as-in-the-show-but-then-we-get-the-finale]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "Human progress isn't measured by industry.  It's measured by the value you place on a life.  An unimportant life.  A life without privilege.  The boy who died on the river, that boy's value is your value.  That's what defines an age.  That's... what defines a species."
attribution = "The Doctor, Doctor Who, Thin Ice, 2017"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVvHBZcwXS8"

# 585

[2024-03-28-tumblr-has-some-pearls-of-wisdom]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "We often speak highly of those who rise to adversity, but we neither admonish those who caused the adversity, nor praise those whose efforts prevent it."
attribution = "hasufin, in response to a quote from Laurie Penny's \"Tea, Biscuits, and Empire: The Long Con of Britishness\""
source = "https://www.tumblr.com/hasufin/621629766102073344/probablyasocialecologist-those-working-class"

[2024-03-30-well-this-has-been-a-thing]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = """
ref latest Big Scary Exploit™ — mitigation is simple, just:
1) Turn off computers
2) Cry a little
3) Reconsider career choices
4) Ever tried carving wood? It's fun.
5) Buy lathe
6)
"""
attribution = 'Sammy "AAA" Fox @theresnotime@fox.nexus'
source = "https://fox.nexus/@theresnotime/112184231101482232"

[2024-04-18-why-i-write]
submitter = "Greenfoot5"
quote = "When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of art. ' I write it because there is some lie that I want to expose, some fact to which I want to draw attention, and my initial concern is to get a hearing."
attribution = "George Orwell, Why I Write"

[2024-04-18-what-if-units]
submitter = "Greenfoot5"
quote = """
Your imperial system is a good start. However, many of your units - such as your \"feet\" - are far too compatible with our US system. In light of this, I offer some modest suggestions for alternative definitions for the foot which residents of the UK could adopt:
- London Foot: Equal to 0.9977 international feet, or exactly one milliShard
- Compromise Foot: Equal to 2.14 feet, the average of one foot and one meter
- Stonehenge-Belgium Foot: Equal to 1.003 feet, or one one-millionth of the distance between Stonehenge and the edge of Belgium (which happens to be just over a million feet from Stonehenge)
- The Ice Foot: Equal to 0.7759 feet, or the diameter of a sphere of ice weighing one stone
- The Metric Foot: Equal to 10 inches
- The Metrical Foot: Equal to 10 inches followed by a stressed syllable
- The Royal Foot: Equal to the current monarch's foot, which would be remeasured every year
We keep trying to make our units make sense. But the truth is that the world is an absurd place; why not embace it? It's true, unit conversion errors have caused us to lose space probes once in a while. But isn't that a small price to pay for silliness?
"""
attribution = "Randall Munroe, what if?, A note on units in the United Kingdom"

[2024-04-18-iss-speed]
submitter = "Greenfoot5"
quote = """
Let's imagine what it would look like if you were speed-walking across the Earth's surface at 8 km/s.
To get a better sense of the pace at which you're traveling, let's use the beat of a song to mark the passage of time. Suppose you started playing the 1988 song by The Proclaimers, \"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles).\" That song is about 131.9 beats per minute, so imagine that with every beat of the song, you move forward more than 2 miles.
In the time it took to sing the first line of the chorus, you could walk from the Statue of Liberty all the way to the Bronx.
You'd be moving at about 15 subway stops per second.
It would take about two lines of the chorus (16 beats) to cross the English Channel between London and France.
The song's length leads to an odd coincidence. The interval between the start and the end of \"I'm Gonna Be\" is 3 minutes and 30 seconds, and the ISS is moving at 7.66 km/s.
This means that if an astronaut on the ISS listens to \"I'm Gonna Be,\" in the time between the first beat of the song and the final lines... they will have traveled just about *exactly* 1000 miles.
"""
attribution = "Randall Munroe, what if?, Orbital Speed"

# 590

[2023-04-24-caught-linux]
submitter = "Greenfoot5"
quote = "I'm so sorry to hear you caught linux, I'd hope you get better, but I hear it's terminal"
attribution = "segfault"
source = "https://discord.com/channels/402480186312097803/402484750205321217/1232616264669724672"

[2024-04-28-delete-some-quotes]
submitter = "Charlotte"
quote = "You are more than free to remove quotes."
attribution = "Gnome"
source = "https://discord.com/channels/402480186312097803/767326418572148756/1234067730022268990"

[2024-04-28-romancing-version-control]
submitter = "Charlotte"
quote = "basically, git is the fuck in fuck, marry, kill. Fine, but not something you want to be with forever."
attribution = "Irrelevant"
source = "https://discord.com/channels/402480186312097803/402484750205321217/1233054489234243666"

[2024-05-22-tech-processing]
submitter = "SatanicWomble"
quote = "I have to respect their decision. Even though it can be difficult to understand, we must carry on. I may process moments and thoughts differently, but it does not mean that I feel any less than you."
attribution = "Tech"
source = "Star Wars - The Bad Batch Season 2 Episode 9"

[2024-06-05-Knuckles-being-based]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "You know, Amy, anytime someone calls attention to the breaking of gender roles, it ultimately undermines the concept of gender equality by implying that this is an exception and not the status quo."
attribution = "Knuckles - Sonic Boom, Season 2 Episode 38, Eggmans Anti Gravity Ray"

# 595

[2024-06-09-On-The-Membership-Of-Swack]
submitter = "Charlotte"
quote = "what does to be swack mean? Who knows, but these mackerel are it."
attribution = "Glarmer"
source = "https://discord.com/channels/402480186312097803/402484750205321217/1249383957611413554"

[2024-06-11-Google-Product-Moment]
submitter = "SatanicWomble"
quote = "Stadia died so Youtube could... slowly decay"
attribution = "segfault"
source = "https://discord.com/channels/402480186312097803/402484750205321217/1243331175813087242"

[2024-06-11-Radio-Telescopes]
submitter = "Charlotte"
quote = "If I was to release a feather[...] the energy that feather expended when it struck the floor was more then the energy ever collected by every radio telescope ever built"
attribution = "John Sarkissian, Parks Radio Telescope"
source = "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o38C-ultvw"

[2024-06-10-Rambling]
submitter = "SatanicWomble"
quote = "fuck it we ramble"
attribution = "Charlotte"
source = "https://discord.com/channels/402480186312097803/402484750205321217/1249854012556312618"

[2024-06-28-Squacking-Off]
submitter = "Charlotte"
quote = "Let's swack off together in front of all these people"
attribution = "Irrelevant"
source = "https://discord.com/channels/402480186312097803/767326418572148756/1256218450808934531"

# 600

[2024-06-28-Everyone-Is-Wrong-But-Me]
submitter = "Antikyth"
quote = "A lot of people say a lot of things; they're generally all wrong."
attribution = "segfault"
source = "https://discord.com/channels/402480186312097803/767326418572148756/1256304330684760166"

[2024-07-24-serial-reciprocity]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "You don't pay love back; you pay it forward."
attribution = "Lily Hardy Hammond, In the Garden of Delight, 1916"

[2024-07-24-and-they-were-lab-partners]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "We live in an uncertain, scary world, and there are so many things telling us that we need to shoulder through. But we're meant to do it together, not alone. We're meant to love, even if it risks losing. We're meant to help each other, support one another."
attribution = "HerotheHardWay, As long as we stay together (if we just stay together), Epilogue (End Notes)"
source = "https://archiveofourown.org/works/21439369"

[2024-07-24-good-night-and-good-luck]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "This instrument can teach, it can illuminate; yes, and even it can inspire. But it can do so only to the extent that humans are determined to use it to those ends. Otherwise, it's nothing but wires and lights in a box. There is a great and perhaps decisive battle to be fought against ignorance, intolerance and indifference. This weapon of television could be useful."
attribution = "Edward R. Murrow, Speech to the 1958 Convention of the Radio Television Digital News Association"
source = "https://www.rtdna.org/murrows-famous-wires-and-lights-in-a-box"

[2024-07-24-always-punch-up-never-down]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented."
attribution = "Professor Eliezer 'Elie' Wiesel, acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize, 1986"

# 605

[2024-07-24-why-not-one-more]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "My commandment is 'Thou shall not stand idly by.' Which means, when you witness an injustice: Don't stand idly by. When you hear of a person or a group being persecuted: Do not stand idly by. When there is something wrong with the community around you or far away: Do not stand idly by. You must intervene. You must interfere. And that is actually the motto of human rights."
attribution = "Professor Eliezer 'Elie' Wiesel, Commencement ceremony for the Class of 2011 at Washington University"

[2024-09-03-why-not-one-more]
submitter = "segfault"
quote = "We only need to fear being replaced by robots if we live like robots."
attribution = "Karen Rosenkranz, The home as a place of production"
source = "https://cityquitters.substack.com/p/the-home-as-a-place-of-production"

[2024-09-12-good-food-and-cheer]
submitter = "Charlotte"
quote = "If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world."
attribution = "Thorin Oakenshield, The Hobbit, J.R.R. Tolkien"
source = "https://archive.org/details/hobbit_202201"

[2024-09-26-swack]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "Swack: Silly Whimsical And Cool Kids"
attribution = "Apocryphal"

[2024-10-1-asthetics]
submitter = "Antikyth"
quote = "We have all the horrible dystopia without the good aesthetics"
attribution = "Apocryphal"

# 610

[2024-10-1-unibus]
submitter = "Antikyth"
quote = "Reject the false idol that brands itself as the \"unibus network\". In Cymru Clippers we must have faith."
attribution = "Charlotte"

[2024-10-08-eternity]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
How many seconds in eternity?

There's this department of pure bureaucracy. It takes an hour to understand it and an hour to contact it. Every hundred years. A little Swacker comes and tries its luck on the department. And within time, the bureaucracy is chiselled away. The first second of eternity has passed.

You might think that's one hell of a long time.

Personally, I think that's one hell of a Swacker.
"""
attribution = "Charlotte"

[2024-10-09-pushing]
submitter = "IrrelevantSwack"
quote = "I'll get around to pushing the last 3 years of updates to my GitHub eventually"
attribution = "Koppa"

[2024-10-19-alcohol-is-Gods-apology]
submitter = "Charlotte"
quote = "Alcohol is Gods apology for making us self aware"
attribution = "James May"

[2025-10-10-we-all-need-to-read-more]
quote = "If we lose our ability to read books – properly read them, all the way through – we are cooked as a civilisation. Books are what made that civilisation in the first place. They are the best means yet devised of transmitting deep thinking and rich bodies of knowledge across generations. The internet is not a substitute. Memes are not a substitute. TikTok videos are not a substitute. Tweets, fun though they may be to send, are not a substitute. And generative AI – that Dunning-Kruger regurgitation machine entirely built on the theft of those texts whose readerships it is destroying – is certainly no substitute."
attribution = "Sam Leith, writing for the Spectator"
submitter = "Gnome"
source = "https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/were-all-doomed-if-english-literature-students-cant-read-books/"

# 615

[2026-02-02-the-boy-who-never-grew-up]
submitter = "Greenfoot5"
quote = "There may be something particularly appropriate in a play about a boy who never grew up helping to finance work which enables other children to grow up into healthy young people."
attribution = "Lord Beaverbrook, in the House of Lords, debating an ammendment to copyright law granting Great Ormond Street Hospital royalties from Peter Pan by Sir James Matthew Barrie"
source = "https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1988-03-10/debates/3d16d777-1eaf-4feb-87a7-3a176ef41356/CopyrightDesignsAndPatentsBillHlhighlight=peter+pan#contribution-a768c2f2-d2e5-47dd-8cf7-ee5aba39a826"

[2026-02-02-tinkerbell]
submitter = "Greenfoot5"
quote = "My Lords, I must tell my noble friend that one of my greatest friends was Tinkerbell."
attribution = "Lord Willis, in the House of Lords, debating an ammendment to copyright law granting Great Ormond Street Hospital royalties from Peter Pan by Sir James Matthew Barrie"
source = "https://hansard.parliament.uk/Lords/1988-03-10/debates/3d16d777-1eaf-4feb-87a7-3a176ef41356/CopyrightDesignsAndPatentsBillHlhighlight=peter+pan#contribution-fd98d031-95f6-4630-b902-c818d8c663ef"

[2026-03-13-this-scene-still-lives-rent-free-in-my-head]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
Nature films are often seasoned with human melodrama, and we project our own feelings onto animal behaviours as we would with a Hollywood film.  In the scene with the turtles, a single camera movement was enough to understand how tragically obviously the young turtles wandered off in the wrong direction.  And suddenly, we understood the seriousness of the harmful effects of light pollution on our planet.  Artificial light isn't only one of mankind's most amazing inventions, it can without a doubt also be detrimental to life itself.  It can displace 200 million years of instinct in an instant.
"""
attribution = "Johan Eklöf, Where the Sea Waits, The Darkness Manifesto, referencing the BBC program Blue Planet II"

[2026-03-29-children-of-the-universe]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = """
Many people feel uneasy when they first realise Einstein's theories imply that the past and future are as real as the present, and that the present moment is only subjectively special.  Maybe you are one of them.  If so, it is worth combating your uneasiness, because the reward is seeing that our existence transcends the passage of time.  We always have been, and always will be, children of the universe.
"""
attribution = "Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics, The Problem of the Now"

[2026-04-28-pizza]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The Earth is like a piece of pepperoni on a pizza trying to imagine the whole pizza's shape."
attribution = "Lisa Kalteneggar, Alien Earths, At the Edge of Cosmic Knowledge"

# 620

[2026-05-13-the-civil-service]
submitter = "Gnome"
quote = "The three articles of civil service faith; it takes longer to doing things quickly, it's more expensive to do them cheaply, and it's more democratic to do them in secret."
attribution = "James 'Jim' Hacker, Yes, Minister, Equal Oppurtunities, 1982"

[2026-05-30-imposter-syndrome]
submitter = "Greenfoot5"
quote = "Are you even good enough to have imposter syndrome?"
attribution = "Unknown"
source = "https://discord.com/channels/402480186312097803/403200362108157952/814205099744165898"

[2026-06-10-something]
submitter = "Greenfoot5"
quote = "Technopolitics are defined by Bruce Schneier's '*security syllogism,*' which goes, '*Something must be done! There, I've done something.*' '*Something*' doesn't have to fix the problem, and '*something*' doesn't have to anticipate what will happen next. So long as '*something*' is done, the issue is resolved and the politician can chalk up a win."
attribution = "Bruce Schneier"
source = "https://www.schneier.com/"

# 623 - Remember to update this in 5's, please!