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All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
- Rudyard Kipling
“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949
“But what … is it good for?” - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.
-Inspector Harry CallahanI know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?
Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.
- Demetri MartinI like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.'
Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes
~Jack Handey
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Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
- Johnny Carson
Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.
Plato