All Quotes

"Te de pauperibus natum suscepit alendum Christus, et immeritum sic enutriuit et auxit, Vt collata tibi miretur munera mundus. Nam puero faciles prouidit adesse magistros, Et iuuenem perduxit ad hoc ut episcopus esses. Reges, pontifices, populi te magnificabant, Seruum prudentem censentes atque fidelem Esse pii Domini. Sed pro pudor ipse nefande. Nec prudens neo fidus eras ut res manifestat. Nam contra memorare pudet quam nequiter ipsum Laeseris et sanctos eius tua praua tuentes, Quae uix ulla satis possunt tormenta piare. Prestolatur adhuc Dominus tamen ille benignus, Et te uiuere perpetitur, si forte resciscens Segnitiem zelo perimas, meritoque reatum."

"Chorus novae Ierusalem novam meli dulcedinem promat colens cum sobriis paschale festum gaudiis.Quo Christus, invictus leo, dracone surgens obruto, dum voce viva personat, a morte functos excitat."

"Interviewer: The Shroud, the large linen sheet bearing marks consistent with the torture and crucifixion of Christ, now preserved in Turin Cathedral, is the subject of heated controversy regarding its dating. You coordinated a study that sets the date between 33 AD and 250 AD. What methods did you use? Are there any new elements? Professor Fanti: First of all, it should be remembered that the Shroud of Turin (ST) was dated using the carbon-14 method in 1988, resulting in an age of 1325 AD with an uncertainty of ±65 years at a 95% confidence level. However, recent studies, including those conducted by the team of Prof. Marco Riani, professor of statistics at the University of Parma, have shown how unreliable these data are. In fact, in 1988, a probable contamination of the linen was not considered, which distorted the results, in addition to other procedural errors."

"This image can only be the result of the Resurrection. To obtain an image of this type, it is necessary to have an extremely intense source of energy, comparable to the “flash” of the Resurrection. A clue to this comes from the results of the 1988 radiocarbon test. While previous mechanical and chemical tests had dated the linen to the first century AD (when Jesus of Nazareth actually lived and died in Palestine), this test, on the other hand, places the dating in the Middle Ages."

"Thirty-six hours after the deposition, there was a bright explosion in the tomb that imprinted the image of Jesus on the sheet. Perhaps similar to the source that feeds the Holy Fire of Jerusalem: a flame that does not burn."

"The relevant topics are varied, but in particular, a professor of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements offers his expertise in the field of measurement science applied to physical systems, especially in the mechanical and thermal fields. Consequently, mechanical measurements on the Shroud are particularly suited to a university professor specialising in this subject, not to mention the thermal measurements that have been very important both for studying the effects of the Chambéry fire of 1532, which severely damaged Christianity's most important relic, and for studying the thermal effects linked to the probable explosion of energy that produced the double body image. [...]"

"I was inspired to write a folk song — about how soldiers have no choice in the matter but to follow orders — but with the irreverence of rock ’n’ roll."

"And it's one, two, three, what are we fighting for? Don't ask me I don't give a damn Next stop is Vietnam. And it's five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates, Well there ain't no time to wonder why, Whoopie! We're all gonna die!"

"Now come on mothers throughout the land Pack your boys off to Vietnam Come on fathers don't hesitate Send your sons off before it's too late And you can be the first one on your block To have your boy come home in a box."

"Fediverse: The Archipelago Of Digital Freedom"

"The fediverse is an island within an increasingly dystopian capitalist hellscape."

"Isa sa natutunan ko ay kapag ang isang tao, mahal ka na agad, big gestures agad ang ginagawa sa’yo, noong una, akala ko nakakakilig. Pero hindi, red flag ‘yun. Love-bombing ‘yun,” she said. “Takbo ka. Kasi hindi siya totoo sa sarili niya. Hindi love ‘yun. Part ‘yun ng manipulation. (One of the things I learned is that when someone claims that they love you right away and do big gestures, you would think it makes you giddy at first, but it’s not. It’s a red flag. It’s a form of love-bombing. Run. They are not true to themselves. That’s not love. It’s part of their manipulation.)"

"When all is said and all is done, When all is lost or all is won— In spite of musty theory, Of purblind faith and vain conceit, Of barren creed and sophistry; In spite of all—success, defeat— The judge applies to worst and best, Impartially, this final test:What hast thou done with brawn and brain, To help the world to lose or gain An onward step? Canst reckon one Unselfish, brave or noble deed That thou—nor counting cost—hast done To help a brother's crying need? Not what professed nor what believed— But what good thing hast thou achieved!"

"King David and King Solomon Led merry, merry lives, With many, many lady friends, And many, many wives; But when old age crept over them— With many, many qualms, King Solomon wrote the Proverbs And King David wrote the Psalms."

"In this nadir of poetic repute, when the only verse that most people read from one year's end to the next is what appears on greeting cards, it is well for us to stop and consider our poets...It is ourselves that we are hurting by our stupidity and ignorance of poetry, much more than the poets. Poets are the leaven in the lump of civilization. But our sodden and lumpish society prefers to lie unleavened and unchanged by the ferment of poetry."

"If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go."

"[Power is] the ability not to have to please."

"I can remember...the surprise of animals, not only the pretty mare...but animals in and out, cats and dogs and a milk goat and chickens and guinea hens, all taken for granted, as if man was intended to live on terms of friendly intercourse with the rest of creation instead of huddling in isolation on the fourteenth floor of an apartment house in a city where animals occurred behind bars in the zoo."

"The Goddamn human race deserves itself, and as far as I'm concerned it can have it."

"I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life, but I am not one of them. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being."

"Like their personal lives, women's history is fragmented, interrupted; a shadow history of human beings whose existence has been shaped by the efforts and the demands of others."

"Sex cannot be contained within a definition of physical pleasure, it cannot be understood as merely itself for it has stood for too long as a symbol of profound connection between human beings."

"Philosophically, incest asks a fundamental question of our shifting mores: not simply what is normal and what is deviant, but whether such a thing as deviance exists at all in human relationships if they seem satisfactory to those who share them."

"Growing up human is uniquely a matter of social relations rather than biology. What we learn from connections within the family takes the place of instincts that program the behavior of animals; which raises the question, how good are these connections?"

"I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably siinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them."

"Rule 1 of cryptanalysis: check for plaintext."

"Never underestimate the attention, risk, money, and time that an opponent will put into reading traffic."

"It is easy to run a secure computer system. You merely have to disconnect all dial-up connections and permit only direct-wired terminals, put the machine and its terminals in a shielded room, and post a guard at the door."

"The next natural order is doubtless Senile Insanity, occasionally commencing in the form of Mania, more frequently in the form of Melancholia, but most frequently during its whole course presenting the well known features of Dementia, in all its degrees, from simple impairment of the memory down to total Fatuity ; and de- pendent, I believe, upon an atheromatous condition of the vessels of the Brain, and the consequent changes which take place in the nutritive and reparative processes of the cerebral tissues. This form of Insanity I hope to see fully described in an early number of the Journal by my friend Dr Yellowlees."

"Thank God that [Apple buying BeOS] didn’t happen, because I hated Apple's management. I couldn’t picture myself in there."

"BeOS was pretty good, mind you. Positioned as a multimedia platform, BeOS benefited from symmetric multiprocessing, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and BFS, a custom 64-bit journaling file system known as BFS. It too was developed on the principles of clarity and an uncluttered design."

"I would strongly press upon you this view of the subject, — one to which I have already referred, that this is, in fact, the stand- point from which we all instinctively view a case of Insanity, when called upon as practical men to form a diagnosis, or offer a prognosis, upon any case submitted to us for the first time. We ask ourselves, is this a case of congenital moral perversion or intellectual deficiency? Is it one connected with masturbation, with pubescence, with hysteria, with phthisis, with drinking, with uterine disease, with brain disease, and so forth ? If this is true, surely this is at least the practical basis upon which to form a Classification of the Insane; and if not the most scientific, it is certainly more so than the present poor, uncertain, and conventional one, or perhaps than any one which can be founded upon a physiological or psychological basis, in our present very imperfect knowledge of the physiology of the Brain. It has this especial merit, at least — that it ever keeps before us the all-important principle, that Insanity is a disease of the body, whether it be of some remote organ sympathetically acting on the mind, or of the material organ of the mind itself."

"The solar system is like a roulette gone mad, and the earth is the ball. It's been rolling for millions of years; what's going to happen if it stops? What hole will the ball plump into? Thirty-six — A pocketful of money for everybody — or zero? And the eternal banker sweeps up the stakes?"

"Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk."

"Foolish economy and reckless expenditure are indications of an elementary quality. In that sense woman is still something of a savage. She is still less civilized than man, largely because she has not been educated. This may be a very good thing, and it certainly is an agreeable one from the masculine point of view. Whether we consider woman's attitude to the law, to social service, or to war, it is the same thing. In most cases she is lawless; she will obey the law because she is afraid of it, but she will not respect it. For her it is always sic volo, sic jubeo. I suspect that if she had had a share in making the law she would not have been like this, for she would have become aware of the relation between law and life. Roughly she tends to look upon the law as tyrannous if she does not like it, as protective if she does like it. Probably there is little relation between her own moral impulse, which is generous, and the law, which is only just."

"There are human tendencies, such as belief in a divine spirit, painting pictures, making war, composing songs. Are there any special female tendencies? Given that we glimpse what distinguishes man from the beast, is there anything that distinguishes woman from man? ... Questions addressed to women do not always yield the truth; nor do questions addressed to men; for a desire to please, vanity, modesty, interfere. But the same question addressed to a woman may, according to circumstances, be sincerely answered in four ways,—1. Truthfully, with a defensive touch, if she is alone with another woman.2. With intent to cause male rivalry if she is with two men.3. With false modesty and seductive evasiveness if she is with one man and one woman.4. With a clear intention to repel or attract if she is with a man alone.And there are variations of these four cases! A man investigating woman's points of view often finds the response more emotional than intellectual. Owing to the system under which we live, where man is a valuable prey, woman has contracted the habit of trying to attract. Even aggressive insolence on her part may conceal the desire to attract by exasperating."

"It seemed to me that this desertion of the old saloon, child of the taverns where the clipper captains used to meet to drink, I suppose mulled claret and canary wine, is as significant of Finis Bostoniæ as the installation of the most modern repetition plant. For here is a revolution in the mind, which matters more than a revolution in the workshop. The old saloon meant as much to Boston as the learned ones who paced the greensward at Cambridge; it was part of the same adventurous individual life, where a man took a single chance and, when he succeeded, took his pleasure. Now, Boston is socialized industrially, and a new impulse toward efficiency has turned away the flow of its people from the taverns where it used to royster. It is not age which has killed Boston, for no cities die of age; it is the youth of other cities, of young America, who would not let Old Boston live unless it transformed itself as it is doing."

"There is no peace in Chicago. In Chicago the past and the future give birth to an unruly being that angrily shakes the fetters of one tradition as it creates another which it thrown away as it goes, like a snake which wearies of its skin and sloughs it off for a new one. It is a city of terror and light, untamed and unwearied. It has harnessed a white-hot energy to beginnings; upon its roofs it erects cities; it has torn the vitals of its streets for railway cuttings, set up porticoes as promises of colonnades. Grim is the heart within, and hot as molten metal. The city writhes in its narrow communications, as the head of Medusa among its tangled hair. Its suburbs lie like disjointed members, deprived of easy transit to the body: the suburban stores forbid it; they fear for their custom, and the politicians tumble and crawl in, graft, threat, and proclamation, over the great body that heaves, angry and chafed, yet negligent of what is not its daily labor, like a dray horse with bent head that shakes the tenacious flies. Here is room for lust and its repression, none for listlessness; here is everlasting struggle, no mild aspiration to peace. There is no peace in Chicago."

"During all those years, I was never really asked for my input, my thoughts, my ideas."

"I know I’ve been getting some backlash and I obviously know that it would be much easier to just to stick to what has been working for me, to stay forever the same."

"I’ve sacrificed my childhood, I’ve sacrificed my freedom, and I’ve sacrificed my happiness to present Liza Soberano to the world."

"If operating systems were judged purely on engineering, BeOS would be remembered as one of the greatest desktop OSs ever built. Instead, it became a footnote. Not because it was slow. Not because it was unstable. Not because it was badly designed. But because it showed up at the wrong time, against the wrong opponents, in an industry where technology alone doesn’t win."

"The monopoly of the United States and Europe in the selection process condemns the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund to being seen as mere extensions of the strategic interests of industrialised countries. The choice of who leads these institutions is too important to be entrusted to mechanisms that are opaque, undemocratic and increasingly unable to guarantee that the best candidate will prevail."

"The blog is perhaps not the most appropriate tool for performing the true function of politics, which is to mediate between different interests and find a synthesis. It is more likely that the Internet will continue to be a tool for information and reporting. This is, however, a very important function."

"The fact is that a reduction in contributions increases the current deficit, but will automatically reduce future deficits due to the lower implicit debt associated with pension payments as these mature. We are not aware that this feature of our social security system has been highlighted in EU-level negotiations on the Stability Law."

"(About ius soli and ius culturae) Does it make sense to make them feel stateless in our own country? Does it make sense to present them to our children as strangers? Does it make sense to teach them our laws, our social norms and our history in our schools, to impart our culture to them and then exclude them from all of this? Are we not running the risk of developing in them and in our children a feeling of learned helplessness, injustice and discrimination, which is a precursor to resentment, hatred and mistrust?"

"The international system of exhibitions, fairs, biennials and scientific events is now extremely dense and pervasive. And although every year new crowds of global tourists (Chinese, Russian and even Indian) arrive on the scene, it is very difficult to make headway in such a fiercely competitive environment. [...] Why should 29 million visitors come to Milan in the summer of 2015? To see an extraordinary exhibition on food (the materials for which could be consulted in real time on our iPhones while we travel to India or Brazil to study their food policies first-hand)? Or to visit the beauties of Milan (no doubt about that, but some doubt about our ability to compete with much more aggressive competitors in this regard)? This is no laughing matter: if we want the Milan Expo not to be a flop, it is crucial that Milan gradually becomes a global centre of attraction on the theme of food."

"Thanks to the large cultivated areas that still surround it, Milan could truly become the first metropolis where agriculture returns to being the lifeblood of the city and not just an extraneous presence. But we need pluralistic agriculture, promoted by pluralistic urban policies. We need a new belt of extensive agriculture that could redraw the city's perimeter and prevent any further expansion; but we also need “zero-kilometre agriculture” to give meaning to the thousands of small pockets of empty space that dot the large sprawling city of northern Milan. Finally, we need urban agriculture to multiply the amount of green and organic space on rooftops and along roadsides and to create opportunities for employment and environmental awareness everywhere."

"We need a project that makes Milan a “world city” in terms of food production and marketing; a project that helps migrant communities to promote widespread food entrepreneurship and creates a network of spaces (such as the many abandoned farms within the municipal boundaries) where these different cultures can find logistical support."

"The real problem we have in Italy today is one of fairness, not the financial sustainability of our pension system."