response 51 of 80:

Jul 24 23:36 UTC 2003

        "I'm thinking about getting a computer so I can have cybersex," Grandma
said.  "Anybody know how that works?"
        "You go into a chat room,"  Valerie said.  "And you meet someone.  And
then you type dirty suggestions to each other."
        "That sounds like fun," Grandma said.  "How does the /sex/ part
happen?"
        "You sort of have to do the sex part yourself."
        "I knew it was too good to be true," Grandma said.  "There's always
a catch to everything."

        -- dialogue from _Hard Eight_, Janet Evanovich (St Martin's, 2002)

response 53 of 80:

Jul 27 20:14 UTC 2003

"Abandon hope, all ye who enter here."  -- taped to the door of the sociology
GSIs' office at U Towers, apparently to prove why they aren't Classics GSIs.

"Kayak Naked

It adds color to your cheeks"
  -- tshirt seen on the Diag

response 55 of 80:

Jul 29 02:59 UTC 2003

There are 10 kinds of people in this world , those who know binary and those
who don't.

response 57 of 80:

Jul 29 21:52 UTC 2003

Had to think about it a sec.  I think I'll put that on a shirt.

response 59 of 80:

Jul 29 23:26 UTC 2003

Well, I never said I'd be the /first/.  'Sides, I'm making my own for 
just the cost of a tee.

response 61 of 80:

Aug 2 19:25 UTC 2003

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GREG

response 63 of 80:

Aug 4 11:33 UTC 2003

        It is said that science will dehumanize people and turn
        them into numbers.  That is false, tragically false.
        Look for yourself.  This is the concentration camp and
        crematorium at Auschwitz.  This is where people were
        turned into numbers.  And it was not done by gas.  It
        was done by arrogance.  It was done by dogma.  It was
        done by ignorance.  When people believe that they have
        absolute knowledge, with no test in reality, this is
        how they behave.  This is what men do when they aspire
        to the knowledge of gods.  Science is a very human form
        of knowledge.  We are always at the brink of the known,
        we always feel forward for what is to be hoped.  Every
        judgement in science stands on the edge of error, and is
        personal.  Science is a tribute to what we can know
        although we are fallible.

                -- Jacob Bronowski, from "The Ascent of Man"

response 65 of 80:

Aug 6 23:37 UTC 2003

        A people living under the perpetual menace of war and invasion
        is very easy to govern.  It demands no social reforms.  It does
        not haggle over expenditures on armaments and military equipment.
        It pays without discussion, it ruins itself, and that is an
        excellent thing for the syndicates of financiers and manufacturers
        for whom patriotic terrors are an abundant source of gain.
                        -- Anatole France

response 67 of 80:

Aug 7 23:25 UTC 2003

[T]heory means you have ideas; an ideology means ideas have you.

        -- An Anarchist FAQ, [http://cat.tao.ca/afaq], Introduction to
        Section A

response 69 of 80:

Aug 9 21:17 UTC 2003

The fact [is] that since my youth --  I was 19 when I left Russia --  
my political creed has remained as  bleak and changeless as an old gray 
rock. It is classical to the point of triteness.  Freedom of speech, 
freedom of thought, freedom of art. The social or economic structure of 
the ideal state is of little concern to me. My desires are modest. 
Portraits of the head of the government should not exceed a postage 
stamp in size.  No torture and no executions. No music, except coming
through earphones, or played in theaters.

               -- Vladimir Nabokov

response 71 of 80:

Aug 10 13:51 UTC 2003

Yes, but the only thing Nabokov claimed to remember about him was that 
he had the worst handwriting he'd ever seen.  

response 73 of 80:

Aug 11 02:40 UTC 2003

VLADIMIR Nabokov wrote mean short stories.