Pookleblinky, on writing Delta Green characters “Being improper is not a nasty thing like they educate you in school. It is an opportunity to study something.” –Richard Feynman “It is a harmful thing to say what a picture is. If things get too particular, the dream stops.” –David Lynch “It doesn’t matter what, if you do something extraordinary, it doesn’t matter what it’s or how effectively or how badly you do it, there are going to be individuals who worship you for doing it, and there are going to be individuals who throw shit at you for doing it. The trick to surviving in this business is making sure that the primary group doesn’t go to your head, and the second group isn’t proper.” –Phil Brucato Humanism is the substitute of religion in God with an equally unfounded faith in human beings. Michael Straczynski, on fen challanging his assumptions on the universes he created “If Morrissey says to not eat meat, then I’ll eat meat. That’s how much I hate Morrissey.” –Robert Smith “A lie doesn’t turn into reality, flawed doesn’t turn into right, and evil doesn’t develop into good just because it is accepted by a majority.” –Booker T. Washington “To suffix things -punk now ensures them a cozy sub-genre standing, thereby protecting the established order from whatever genuine conceptual menace they might in any other case have posed. Punk is sheer conceptual threat, punching up.” –William Gibson “Any technology, no matter how primitive, is magic to those who do not perceive it.” –Florence Ambrose “You live in a world where a whole operating system can fit on a wafer skinny piece of plastic smaller than your finger tip. And you may run this on a $5 (or $10) laptop that’s small enough to present away on the cowl of a magazine. You ought to be amazed, excited, and glad about this.” –Carter Nelson “Charismatic leaders ought to include a warning label on the forehead, ‘May be dangerous to your health.'” –Frank Herbert “When individuals perceive that the flipside of freedom is accountability-then you start asking for freedom from freedom.” –Nolen Gertz “I feel like I grew a pain mustache proper right here.” –Brian Brushwood “That looks protected.” –Jason Murphy “Everyone knows that debugging is twice as hard as writing a program in the first place. So if you are as clever as you can be if you write it, how will you ever debug it?” –Brian Kernighan “Conservatism consists of precisely one proposition. There must be in-teams whom the legislation protects but doesn’t bind, alongside out-groups whom the regulation binds however does not protect.” –Frank Wilhoit “For those who ever doubt the usefulness of your efforts, keep in mind that a considerable quantity of bushes are planted by squirrels hiding nuts and then forgetting the place they put ’em.” –Sargoth “Government taxes individuals based mostly on money. Charity taxes individuals primarily based on kindness.” –Kevin Binswanger “The first thing a principle does is kill someone.” –Lord Peter Wimsey “Essentially the most terrifying reality in regards to the universe is not that it’s hostile, however that it’s indifferent. But when we will come to phrases with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have real which means. However vast the darkness, we should provide our personal mild.” –Stanley Kubrick “The Lord of the Rings: A narrative the place the social elite coerce a belief-fund child’s exhausting-working gardener into shouldering international dangers. Before it’s over, he has to physically carry his useless employer (and their jewellery collection) up an energetic volcano.” –Edward Snowden “When I was younger and foolish, I believed that there have been a lot of dangerous ideas on the market, however not that many actually horrible folks. But it surely turns out that these horrible people not solely exist, they run much of the world.” –Paul Krugman “While you see one thing that’s technically candy, you go forward and do it and also you argue about what to do about it solely after you have got had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.” –J.
Michael Straczynski, on Thanksgiving “I don’t imagine our species can survive until we fix this (social media). We can’t have a society during which, if two folks want to speak, the one means that may happen is if it’s financed by a 3rd one that wishes to control them.” –Jaron Lanier “The more marginalized you are, the more issues you’re compelled to note in regards to the world so as to survive.” –Pookleblinky “As a society, we are as superior as we ever have been, but nonetheless mystified by the know-how inherent in a wombat’s asshole.” –Dildog “It isn’t civil disobedience if a liberal would not reference each MLK and Gandhi out of context in a thinkpiece condemning it.” –Kittybecca “Nobody has to speak to or make any effort to ‘perceive’ people who don’t want you to exist.” –Mia the Nasal Consonant “The last boss of pictures is making somebody in VR glasses look cool.” –Dan Kaminsky “The character of activism is visibility, and the nature of visibility is danger.” –Ben Nagy “The humorous thing about dudes who scream at people to google their questions on boards is that normally, if you Google the reply to one thing, it brings you to forums the place people are asking questions and getting told by uppity dinguses to go google it.” –Meryl S. Kavanaugh “The audiences like to assume that satire is doing one thing. But, the truth is, it is mostly to go away themselves glad. Satisfied slightly than indignant, which is what they needs to be.” –Tom Lehrer “Beware the outdated man who practices a occupation where males normally die younger.” –Jeremy Phillips “Please find the people who wrote the PCIe spec and give each a medal. This has been the one least ambiguous protocol specification I have ever learn. My cat can in all probability implement a PCIe endpoint working from it.” –@whitequark “For my pals, the whole lot. For my enemies, the regulation.” –Oscar Benavides “Throughout the Vietnam War, each respectable artist on this nation was in opposition to the war. It was like a laser beam. We had been all aimed in the identical direction. The facility of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six toes high.” –Kurt Vonnegut “Compilation is a needed but insufficient step.” –Anonymous Co-Worker “If ever there was a conspiracy concept I hope to be true, conspiring to be sure that refugees and other people of all faiths and all races have a secure dwelling and the assets to thrive in our communities can be it.” –Anonymous “‘Snowflakes’ is a word used by sociopaths in an try and discredit the notion of empathy.” –John Cleese “Never depend on authorities or establishments to create change. All important social change in human history was achieved by particular person motion.” –Margaret Mead “True pals are like diamonds, valuable and uncommon. False friends are like leaves, discovered in every single place.” –Anonymous Fear is for people who consider they have a future.
Gerry Casale, on being called cynical “Time is a great trainer, however sadly it kills all its pupils.” –Louis Hector Berlioz “If they manage to corner the market they turn out to be a magnet for public outcry and presumably lawsuits which is about nearly as good as accountability will get in the US.” –Retchdog, on corporations that conduct social media background checks “I sensed that it could more than meet my requirements, and that i knew that there have been all types of things I might do there that I hadn’t even been in a position to think about yet. But what was extra necessary at that point, by way of my sensible wants, was to name it one thing cool, because it was never going to work until it had a very good title. So the first thing I did was sit down with a yellow pad and a Sharpie and start scribbling – infospace, dataspace. I think I obtained cyberspace on the third strive, and I assumed, ”Oh, that’s a really weird phrase. I appreciated the way it felt within the mouth” – I thought it sounded prefer it meant something whereas nonetheless being basically hollow.” –William Gibson “I haven’t got religion in the Internet, I’ve religion in individuals related by the Internet.” –Jim Gilliam “Do not fuck with humanity. We nailed our god to a wood cross and let him die. What do you think we are going to do to you?” –Unknown “Whoever doesn’t miss the Soviet Union has no heart. Whoever wants it again has no brain.” –Attributed to Vladimir Putin (in all probability after Cory Doctorow) “Python is a language where casually replacing somebody’s spine with Twizzlers is taken into account barely offbeat.” –Binder “Pulsating. Never good.” –The Doctor “It wasn’t the Internet that accelerated history; it was the UNCONTROLLED Internet which accelerated history.” –Mark Pesce If the gods can’t take criticism, they shouldn’t be worshipped.
Dov Michaeli, MD, Ph.D “Everything the Communists advised us about communism was a complete and utter lie. Unfortunately, every part the Communists told us about capitalism turned out to be true.” –Post-Soviet Russian joke from the nineteen nineties “What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there can be no purpose to ban a ebook, for there can be nobody who needed to read one. Orwell feared those that would deprive us of knowledge. Huxley feared those that would give us so much that we could be lowered to passivity and egoism. Orwell feared that the truth would be hid from us. Huxley feared the truth can be drowned in a sea of irrelevance. Orwell feared we’d change into a captive culture. Huxley feared we would turn into a trivial culture.” –Neil Postman “Why don’t you make like a tree and slowly develop your maturity within a welcoming and supportive surroundings.” –@doththedoth “Whenever I hear about some bigmouth in Washington or the Christian heartland banging on in regards to the evils of sodomy or no matter, I mentally enter his title in my notebook and contentedly set my watch. Sooner fairly than later he will likely be discovered down on his weary and nicely-worn old knees in some dreary motel or latrine, with an expired Visa card, having tried to pay properly over the percentages to be peed upon by some Apache transvestite.” –Christopher Hitchens “After every ego death event, the new ego that arises is much less brittle, extra resilient. What is going to destroy the sixth iteration of a person, the first iteration could not have survived mere contemplation of. Eventually the capability to let somebody be incorrect on the web emerges.” –@chaosprime “What I’m saying is, the planet’s on fucking fire!” –Bill Nye the Science Guy “When one teaches, two study.” –Robert A. Heinlein “It is supremely unfair to focus on folks for being ignorant at the moment when the whole training has been constructed to deaden the human intellect as an alternative of stimulate and develop it.” –Earthship Captain “You already know, I’m sick of following my desires, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.” –Mitch Hedberg “Without deviation from the norm, progress shouldn’t be attainable.” –Frank Zappa “They say that if you do not be taught from historical past you might be doomed to repeat it. Additionally they say that history books are written by the victorious. It follows that given how little the history books talk in regards to the preponderance of ignorance, that the idiots have been profitable for a really long time.” –Dildog “Crows roost communally. Crows can describe individual people and inform other crows in their neighborhood about threats and pals. Corvids are extremely intelligent and very social. Birds are dinosaurs. Part of the fun of feeding crows is realizing that, as a direct outcome, actual dwell dinosaurs are going to talk to each other about you personally.” –Kistaro Windrider “Watching how IBM sells stuff and the way their products are being bought all over the place is like watching missiles passing over one’s head, from A to B and from B to A. We’ve no management over it as it occurs Up There, but we certain as hell shall be hit with blast, heat and radiation.” –Meadow Ellis “I don’t have any empathy.” –Joe Biden “Science typically has been discredited by standard culture.” –@lpgeffen “My voice was given to me as an instrument of inspiration for my friends, and a instrument of torture and destruction to my enemies. An instrument of reality.” –Diamanda Galas “There’s normally nothing you can do for mates who become ideologized. They’re like zombies, immune to logic, purpose, and decency till the ideology passes, after which you will not want to elucidate what happened to them because they’ll declare they were towards the ideology all along.” –Mojave Phone Booth “Collective good is dead. Only capitalist hell that makes somebody a clear revenue from the exploitation of others exists.” –Munin “We don’t have religion; we have changed it with science. And science is voodoo.” –T.