#QuoteSunday
"We are in different time zones. The earliest you understand, the best it is for you to get the best of other people around you."
– Olawale Daniel
Yes, the clocks sprung forward in the early hours of this morning here in the UK (and Europe?). We're now working on summer time! […]
#QuoteSunday
"Move fast and break things".
– Mark Zuckerberg
This was Facebook's internal motto until 2014, and is equally applicable to the techbro ethos now running the USA.
Moving fast:
The USA is the fastest nation in recent times to successfully suppress democracy. ( […]
"Och, wir hatten ja noch einen Atomkrieg vor uns".
#quotesunday
#QuoteSunday
"Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?"
– Attributed to King Henry II of England.
The king believed he hadn't enough power, and that Archbishop Thomas Becket had exceeded the authority given by the king - a once-classic conflict between church and monarchy.
The 4 knights […]
#QuoteSunday
“Violence,” came the retort, “is the last refuge of the incompetent.”
– Salvor Hardin, a character in Foundation, by Isaac Asimov.
It is derived from the famous phrase by Samuel Johnson: "Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel" and from the words of Lady Anne Bellamy in H […]
#QuoteSunday
"Have you ever just thought to yourself that it would have been better if you just hadn't thought at all, because I do that a lot."
– @JustFrank https://mas.to/@JustFrank/114672160057842278
#QuoteSunday
"(War, huh) Good God, y'all
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothin'
Say it again
(War, huh) Woah, woah, lord, lord
(What is it good for?) Absolutely nothin'
Listen to me
"(War) It ain't nothing but a heartbreaker
(War) Friend only to the undertaker, aww!"
– A partial lyric of […]
#QuoteSunday
The word "de-escalate" is used here, how odd.
'More RAF jets are being sent to the Middle East amid intense fighting between Israel and Iran, the prime minister has said.
'Sir Keir Starmer said the military aircraft, including Typhoons and air-to-air refuelers, were being sent […]
Early #QuoteSunday
RIP Bill Atkinson, best known for #Apple Lisa & Mac graphics & HyperCard.
"Inspired by a mind-expanding LSD journey in 1985, I designed the HyperCard authoring system that enabled non-programmers to make their own interactive media. HyperCard used a metaphor of stacks of […]
#QuoteSunday
"Après moi, le déluge."
– King Louis XV of France.
English translation of the French, "After me, the flood."
It is generally regarded as a nihilistic expression of indifference to whatever happens after one is gone. The phrase is also often seen as foretelling the French […]
A #QuoteSunday for #HHGG on #TowelDay!
"You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young."
"Why, what did […]
#QuoteSunday
"If you want me to stop doomscrolling you have to stop producing such compelling doom."
– Thanks to @Mjack
#QuoteSunday
"Illegitimi non carborundum"
'Dog latin phrase meant to be read as “don’t let the bastards grind you down”, even though a more accurate translation would be “The unlawful are not silicon carbide”'.
– Anonymous.
"Imagine a Ukrainian arguing that we were not attacked on September 11, 2001. And if we were that's because we provoked Al Qaeda."
#quotesunday
@paulengelhard:
"The US isn't Europe or Canada with guns.
It's Russia with Type 2 Diabetes."
#quotesunday
@skullmandible:
"We developed the ability to talk to each other and communicate on a scale and fidelity unimaginable at any other point in human history and it drove us absolutely fucking insane in less than my lifetime."
#quotesunday
"France says the American War of Independence funding was a loan, and is now demanding $150 trillion in interest."
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#QuoteSunday
"Workers of all lands unite. The philosophers have only
interpreted the world in various ways; the point is to change it."
– Karl Marx's epitaph - by himself.
#QuoteSunday
"Well, we know where we're goin'
But we don't know where we've been
And we know what we're knowin'
But we can't say what we've seen
And we're not little children
And we know what we want
And the future is certain
Give us time to work it out
Yeah"
– Talking Heads 'Road To […]
#QuoteSunday
War, I despise
'Cause it means destruction of innocent lives
War means tears to thousands of mother's eyes
When their sons go off to fight
And lose their lives
I said, war, huh (good God, y'all)
What is it good for?
Absolutely nothing, just say it again
War (whoa), huh (oh Lord) […]
Today's #QuoteSunday is brought to you by our beloved robotic overlords, and is prompted by @morrick quoting an article on usable systems (from *only* 1995).
https://appdot.net/@morrick/113891028415404395
Next week, Ada Lovelace's belief that, though having potential, computers can never […]
#QuoteSunday
" What is a computer?
A computer is a fast rule-following idiot machine with the ability to remember things.
It's fast because it is electronic; and electrons are pretty speedy. It follows rules because that is all a computer does. You can alter or replace the rules more or less […]
#QuoteSunday
"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on."
– Franklin D. Roosevelt
#QuoteSunday
"I think there should be regulations on social media to the degree that it negatively affects the public good," Musk continued. "We can't have willy-nilly proliferation of fake news, that's crazy. You can't have more clicks on fake news than real news. That's allowing public […]
#QuoteSunday
"Talent don't mean shit. I don't care how much talent we got, unmotivated talent don't do shit."
– Hue Jackson, not exactly the best head coach the Cleveland #Browns ever had.¹
An attribution of sorts […]
#QuoteSunday
When it is evening you say, "It will be fair weather; for the sky is red." And in the morning, "It will be stormy today, for the sky is red & threatening." You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.
–New Testament: Matt 16:2b–3
#QuoteSunday
A long time ago on a network far, far away I started to post quotes I thought notable or relevant to current events. On Sundays. With the hashtag #QuoteSunday. I wasn't the first, merely carrying on a tradition I think started by the estimable @nitinkhanna. It's often fun to find […]
*Lazy* #QuoteSunday. Thanks @kibcol1049.
See what I did there? :)
https://mstdn.social/@kibcol1049/113695519430400897
