Tag: quotes

[…] when WikiLeaks wants to publish the next archive, they can get their best practice from eztv.it, and have 20 people scattered around the globe at the ends of various big pipes ready to seed it. Once the distribution is underway the only way to shut it down will be to shut down the Internet itself. Politicians should be aware that these are the stakes. They either get used operating in the open, where the people they’re governing are in on everything they do, or they go totalitarian, around the globe, now.

via Scripting News: WikiLeaks on the run.

I caught myself adding a new quote to my Facebook profile and while reviewing the existing ones, realized that I didn’t post any of them here. Here’s me rectifying that unfortunate fact.

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.

Albert Einstein

It is hard to teach a coder how to think, but trivial to teach a thinker how to code.

Unattributed

I reject your reality and substitute my own

Adam Savage, MythBusters

Sometimes, if you’re a compulsive dreamer, reality doesn’t really have a choice.

Mat Hoffman

If you’re going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you’re going to be locked up.

Hunter S. Thompson

Don’t panic

Douglas Adams, HG2G

You, skateboarders, are the leading edge of a revolution of the human being’s relation to his or her environment.

Edmund Bacon

My dad used to say he worked part-time, which for him meant only twelve hours a day.

Coluche (translated from French)

My life is perfect because I accept it as it is.

Lenny Kravitz, Eleutheria

I don’t have the strength within me to allow any ideology or philosophy to get between me and a ham and cheese sandwich.

Christopher Murtagh