favourite quotes

[Tiwaking!]

Advertising is a tax you pay on having an unremarkable culture

[Pigdog]

I'm Batman
-Batman

[Tiwaking!]

This series of books is affectionately dedicated
 to the Type 650 computer once installed at
Case Institute of Technology,
 with whom I have spent many pleasant evenings

[Tiwaking!]

Safeguarding the past is no way to promote innovation

[Tiwaking!]

An extension is like a house. If you want an extension, first you need the house

[Tiwaking!]

there is one unmistakable lesson in American history; a community that allows a large number of men to grow up in broken families, dominated by women, never acquiring any stable relationship to male authority, never acquiring any set of rational expectations about the future -- that community asks for and gets chaos

[Tiwaking!]

Anything Anytime Anywhere for No Reason At All

[Tiwaking!]

The world is the will to power and nothing besides!
And you yourselves are also this will to power and nothing besides!

[Tiwaking!]

You cannot be a rights lawyer in China, without becoming a rights case yourself

[Tiwaking!]

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself

[Tiwaking!]

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders

[Tiwaking!]

There's no such thing as an 'ethical hacker' - that's like saying 'ethical rapist'

[Tiwaking!]

Given the unique resources of microcomputers, you'd think someone would come up with an entirely new approach to game playing. Unfortunately, design innovations in video games are all too rare; we see new maze games, new shoot-'em-up games, and new adventure games, but seldom anything that stretches the imagination.
There's a reason for this: adapting an existing, commercially proven idea and then programming it for six months is much easier than agonizing over a new concept, programming for six months, and hoping for the best.

edit:date is wrong, 1982 not 1983 and I typed never instead of new

[Tiwaking!]

I dunno, man. I just can't... I can't understand why professional programmers out there allow themselves to have a career without teaching themselves to type. It doesn't make any sense. It's like being, I dunno, an actor without knowing how to put your clothes on.

[Tiwaking!]

Passionate art students paint and sculpt a shitload. Passionate electrical engineers spend a shitload of hours building circuits. Passionate CS/MIS students spend a shitload of hours coding. In all cases, it is a shitload of hours beyond the minimum requirement to get a degree.

[Tiwaking!]

We are, each of us, stronger than we think

[Tiwaking!]

The lure of imaginary totality is momentarily frozen before the dialectic of desire hastens on within symbolic chains.

[Tiwaking!]

I experienced an invasion of my mind by a transcendentally rational mind, as if I had been insane all my life and suddenly I had become sane

[Tiwaking!]

Nothing can be known, not even this

[Tiwaking!]

I sincerely believe that the true enemy of democracy and freedom is corruption

[Tiwaking!]

Without promotion, something terrible happens... nothing!

[Tiwaking!]

Yeah, well... I'm gonna go build my own theme park, with blackjack and hookers.

[Tiwaking!]

This is a very important lesson. You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

[BerG]

It is worthy of remark that a belief constantly inculcated during the early years of life, whilst the brain is impressible, appears to acquire almost the nature of an instinct; and the very essence of an instinct is that it is followed independently of reason.

[Tiwaking!]

Sometimes the smallest things take up the most room in room in your house