Murray's Rule: Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't. An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest. -- Benjamin Franklin Knowledge is power. -- Francis Bacon Beauty may be skin deep, but ugly goes clear to the bone. -- Redd Foxx "Humor is a drug which it's the fashion to abuse." -- William Gilbert Giving money and power to governments is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. -- P. J. O'Rourke 99 blocks of crud on the disk, 99 blocks of crud! You patch a bug, and dump it again: 100 blocks of crud on the disk! 100 blocks of crud on the disk, 100 blocks of crud! You patch a bug, and dump it again: 101 blocks of crud on the disk! ... Kindness is a language which the deaf can hear and the blind can read. -- Mark Twain The more laws and order are made prominent, the more thieves and robbers there will be. -- Lao Tsu Truth is free, but information costs. What they say: What they mean: New Different colors from previous version. All New Not compatible with previous version. Exclusive Nobody else has documentation. Unmatched Almost as good as the competition. Design Simplicity The company wouldn't give us any money. Fool-proof Operation All parameters are hard-coded. Advanced Design Nobody really understands it. Here At Last Didn't get it done on time. Field Tested We don't have any simulators. Years of Development Finally got one to work. Unprecedented Performance Nothing ever ran this slow before. Revolutionary Disk drives go 'round and 'round. Futuristic Only runs on a next generation supercomputer. No Maintenance Impossible to fix. Performance Proven Worked through Beta test. Meets Tough Quality Standards It compiles without errors. Satisfaction Guaranteed We'll send you another pack if it fails. Stock Item We shipped it before and can do it again. If you continually give you will continually have. Rotten wood cannot be carved. -- Confucius, "Analects", Book 5, Ch. 9 Be nice to people on the way up, because you'll meet them on your way down. -- Wilson Mizner AMAZING BUT TRUE ... There is so much sand in Northern Africa that if it were spread out it would completely cover the Sahara Desert. Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations. HOW TO PROVE IT, PART 1 proof by example: The author gives only the case n = 2 and suggests that it contains most of the ideas of the general proof. proof by intimidation: 'Trivial'. proof by vigorous handwaving: Works well in a classroom or seminar setting. Biology is the only science in which multiplication means the same thing as division. Birds are entangled by their feet and men by their tongues. To do two things at once is to do neither. -- Publilius Syrus It is better to never have tried anything than to have tried something and failed. -- motto of jerks, weenies and losers everywhere Law stands mute in the midst of arms. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero ... "fire" does not matter, "earth" and "air" and "water" do not matter. "I" do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming. -- Roger Zelazny, "Lord of Light" Tart words make no friends; a spoonful of honey will catch more flies than a gallon of vinegar. -- B. Franklin Never promise more than you can perform. -- Publilius Syrus Difficulty Practice no-action; Attend to do-nothing; Taste the flavorless, Magnify the small, Multiply the few, Return love for hate. Deal with the difficult while it is yet easy; Deal with the great while it is yet small; The difficult develops naturally from the easy, And the great from the small; So the sage, by dealing with the small, Achieves the great. Who finds it easy to promise finds it hard to be trusted; Who takes things lightly finds things difficult; The sage recognizes difficulty, and so has none. -- Lao Tse, "Tao Te Ching" Perfection is the enemy of good. Ad astra per aspera. [To the stars by aspiration.] Under capitalism, man exploits man. Under communism, it's just the opposite. -- J. K. Galbraith Most of our lives are about proving something, either to ourselves or to someone else. libgsm (1.0.23-2) unstable; urgency=medium * silly me forgot quotes (really Closes: #1116696) -- Thorsten Alteholz Sun, 09 Nov 2025 18:55:21 +0100 --- Changes for libdebconfclient0 --- If you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all. Confucius say too much. -- Recent Chinese Proverb Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. -- Confucius Learn from other people's mistakes, you don't have time to make your own. There's no easy quick way out, we're gonna have to live through our whole lives, win, lose, or draw. -- Walt Kelly Time as he grows old teaches all things. -- Aeschylus Scratch the disks, dump the core, Shut it down, pull the plug Roll the tapes across the floor, Give the core an extra tug And the system is going to crash. And the system is going to crash. Teletypes smashed to bits. Mem'ry cards, one and all, Give the scopes some nasty hits Toss out halfway down the hall And the system is going to crash. And the system is going to crash. And we've also found Just flip one switch When you turn the power down, And the lights will cease to twitch You turn the disk readers into trash. And the tape drives will crumble in a flash. Oh, it's so much fun, When the CPU Now the CPU won't run Can print nothing out but "foo," And the system is going to crash. The system is going to crash. -- To the tune of "As the Caissons go Rolling Along" "...'fire' does not matter, 'earth' and 'air' and 'water' do not matter. 'I' do not matter. No word matters. But man forgets reality and remembers words. The more words he remembers, the cleverer do his fellows esteem him. He looks upon the great transformations of the world, but he does not see them as they were seen when man looked upon reality for the first time. Their names come to his lips and he smiles as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming." -- Siddartha, _Lord_of_Light_ by Roger Zelazny The first sign of corruption in a society that is still alive is that the end justifies the means. -- Georges Bernanos (1888-1948), "Why Freedom?" The last essays of George Bernanos" (1955) Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances. -- Herodotus Life, like beer, is merely borrowed. -- Don Reed To everything there is a season, a time for every pupose under heaven: A time to be born, and a time to die; A time to plant, and a time to pluck what is planted; A time to kill, and a time to heal; A time to break down, and a time to build up; A time to weep, and a time to laugh; A time to mourn, and a time to dance; A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones; A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; A time to gain, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to throw away; A time to tear, and a time to sew; A time to keep silence, and a time to speak; A time to love, and a time to hate; A time of war, and a time of peace. Ecclesiastes 3:1-9 Meanehwael, baccat meaddehaele, monstaer lurccen; Fulle few too many drincce, hie luccen for fyht. [D]en Hreorfneorht[d]hwr, son of Hrwaerow[p]heororthwl, AEsccen aewful jeork to steop outsyd. [P]hud! Bashe! Crasch! Beoom! [D]e bigge gye Eallum his bon brak, byt his nose offe; Wicced Godsylla waeld on his asse. Monstaer moppe fleor wy[p] eallum men in haelle. Beowulf in bacceroome fonecall bemaccen waes; Hearen sond of ruccus saed, "Hwaet [d]e helle?" Graben sheold strang ond swich-blaed scharp Sond feorth to fyht [d]e grimlic foe. "Me," Godsylla saed, "mac [d]e minsemete." Heoro cwyc geten heold wi[p] faemed half-nelson Ond flyng him lic frisbe bac to fen. Beowulf belly up to meaddehaele bar, Saed, "Ne foe beaten mie faersom cung-fu." Eorderen cocca-colha yce-coeld, [d]e reol [p]yng. -- Not Chaucer, for certain He that would govern others, first should be the master of himself. If you want divine justice, die. -- Nick Seldon All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers ... Each one owes infinitely more to the human race than to the particular country in which he was born. -- Francois Fenelon In those days he was wiser than he is now -- he used to frequently take my advice. -- Winston Churchill A Plan for the Improvement of English Spelling attributed to Mark Twain For example, in Year 1 that useless letter "c" would be dropped to be replased either by "k" or "s", and likewise "x" would no longer be part of the alphabet. The only kase in which "c" would be retained would be the "ch" formation, which will be dealt with later. Year 2 might reform "w" spelling, so that "which" and "one" would take the same konsonant, wile Year 3 might well abolish "y" replasing it with "i" and Iear 4 might fiks the "g/j" anomali wonse and for all. Jenerally, then, the improvement would kontinue iear bai iear with Iear 5 doing awai with useless double konsonants, and Iears 6-12 or so modifaiing vowlz and the rimeining voist and unvoist konsonants. Bai Iear 15 or sou, it wud fainali bi posibl tu meik ius ov thi ridandant letez "c", "y" and "x" -- bai now jast a memori in the maindz ov ould doderez -- tu riplais "ch", "sh", and "th" rispektivli. Fainali, xen, aafte sam 20 iers ov orxogrefkl riform, wi wud hev a lojikl, kohirnt speling in ius xrewawt xe Ingliy-spiking werld. If there is no wind, row. -- Polish proverb Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.