Curse your indisputable logic!

Tenure is what you get when your experiments go as planned. The Nobel Prize is when they don’t.
from Kjella (173770) on slashdot

found in a support thread
“the fate of the universe hangs on the results of this thread and she’s making popcorn. “

“Whatever happened to free culture on the internet?” “It wasn’t profitable.” – oahazmatt (868057)

Governments are made of people. And people are stupid.

A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver.

The Roman Historian Sallust once said: ‘Few people prefer liberty, most people would settle for a fair master’

AIG Vice Chairman Jacob Frenkel “The left side of the balance sheet has nothing right and the right side of the balance sheet has nothing left. But they are equal to each other. So accounting-wise we are fine”

Bender: Love is suspicious, love is needy, love is fearful, love is greedy. My friends, there is no great love without great jealousy!

Klatu Verata Nictu!

No one can become expert in everything — that’s why we have experts. user “symbolset” on slashdot

My sources are unreliable, but their information is fascinating. — Ashleigh Brilliant

The Wise adapts himself to the world. The Fool adapts the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the Fool.

what part of this looks like authorities should be involved?

If a job’s not worth doing, it’s not worth doing right.

Technology will liberate us if it doesn’t enslave us first.

I can’t do haiku
I will always get them wrong
Oh, wait. Never mind.

Benjamin Franklin said, “Some people are penny-wise, but pound foolish.” You try to save pennies and waste pounds/dollars instead.

How much net work could a network work, if a network could net work?

governments who drive subversive speech underground aren’t really doing themselves, or their citizens, any favors. Ideas don’t need sunlight to grow.

Profit is market inefficiency due to lack of competition—someone selling a product for more than the marginal cost of production, which hasn’t yet been exploited by an undercutting competitor, often due to difficulty of market access or strongly entrenched incumbents.

When large numbers of otherwise decent people routinely violate a law, the law itself is probably the problem.

Complacency is the rot from within; and, unfortunately, complacency is rampant.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it. — James Huneker

Just because you get a paycheck doesn’t mean you’re an adult.

Engineering 101: If it shouldn’t move, you need duct tape. If it should move, you need WD-40

I think the basic problems here are well understood. At least by the people who understand these things.

A bullet may have your name on it but splash damage is addressed “To whom it may concern.”