A little less neglected: Quotes
Mar. 18th, 2008 02:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jackThese quotes not be quite up to the normal hoped for quality, however, I wanted to get something posted and they are all nice. Several of the gemmiest witticisms have been in interpersonal email recently, and I've stopped trying to catch them all and work out which are sufficiently context-free and non-private to reproduce, so aren't here.
"He has apparently never made any secret of the fact that he has a male friend with whom he maintains a platonic relationship, in all possible senses of the word."
--Rilstone?
"God made one of his rare personal interventions, striking York Minster with a bolt of lightening, a contribution widely regarded as having great rhetorical power but questionable logical validity."
--Rilstone?
"I wouldn't have been able to reject a scientific understanding of biology for religious reasons, any more than I would have followed the Bible if it said that the sky was bright green. [But it doesn't and I do follow.]"
--Rilstone?
G: Have you heard of Carcassonne?
M: Yes.
G: No not that one
-- I wish I could remember the exact context. It was where Mum was telling Grandfather about the board game, and it just seemed to epitomise his greater knowledge of original knowledge than of geek references to it. But I haven't been able to place it, but I'm quoting it now to get it off my 'to quote' file for good.
"That is some GREAT viral marketing. Very clever of them. Excuse me, I have to go fall for it now."
--nicked_metal
B: So, let me get this straight. Those photos are from [company]? And they're on the ceiling so the camera on the development board has something other than white to calibrate to when looking at the ceiling? And the weight of a ceiling tile is insufficient to stick blue-tack? So the only way of attaching them is to lift the ceiling tile and hold it down from above? So when boss comes by and asks why A is standing on the cupboards with his head in a hole in the ceiling, you were both genuinely actually working?
A: [goes back to computer] Don't worry, I'm stopping working now.
--work
"Mathematical folklore contains a story about how Acta Quandalia published a paper proving that all partially uniform k-quandles had the Cosell property, and then a few months later published another paper proving that no partially uniform k-quandles had the Cosell property. And in fact, goes the story, both theorems were quite true, which put a sudden end to the investigation of partially uniform k-quandles." -- Mark Dominus [When I first read this, I worried that perhaps I'd been wrong and there *was* such a thing as partially uniform k-quandles (well, temporarily) but for the non-mathmos out there who can't tell, not those are actual made up words, just very good ones]
--Mark Dominus
"In total, you were viewed 5 times and no people expressed interest in you.
You are more desirable than less than 20% of 17,007,618 people."
--Spark, via facebook
"Heck, most rocket science isn't rocket science."
-- Rocket Scientist (No, really.)
"[The] bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the British government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, except that it has a buffoonish, slap-stick quality totally lacking in that particular novel."
-- Wikipedia on Terry Gilliam's Brazil.
"He has apparently never made any secret of the fact that he has a male friend with whom he maintains a platonic relationship, in all possible senses of the word."
--Rilstone?
"God made one of his rare personal interventions, striking York Minster with a bolt of lightening, a contribution widely regarded as having great rhetorical power but questionable logical validity."
--Rilstone?
"I wouldn't have been able to reject a scientific understanding of biology for religious reasons, any more than I would have followed the Bible if it said that the sky was bright green. [But it doesn't and I do follow.]"
--Rilstone?
G: Have you heard of Carcassonne?
M: Yes.
G: No not that one
-- I wish I could remember the exact context. It was where Mum was telling Grandfather about the board game, and it just seemed to epitomise his greater knowledge of original knowledge than of geek references to it. But I haven't been able to place it, but I'm quoting it now to get it off my 'to quote' file for good.
"That is some GREAT viral marketing. Very clever of them. Excuse me, I have to go fall for it now."
--nicked_metal
B: So, let me get this straight. Those photos are from [company]? And they're on the ceiling so the camera on the development board has something other than white to calibrate to when looking at the ceiling? And the weight of a ceiling tile is insufficient to stick blue-tack? So the only way of attaching them is to lift the ceiling tile and hold it down from above? So when boss comes by and asks why A is standing on the cupboards with his head in a hole in the ceiling, you were both genuinely actually working?
A: [goes back to computer] Don't worry, I'm stopping working now.
--work
"Mathematical folklore contains a story about how Acta Quandalia published a paper proving that all partially uniform k-quandles had the Cosell property, and then a few months later published another paper proving that no partially uniform k-quandles had the Cosell property. And in fact, goes the story, both theorems were quite true, which put a sudden end to the investigation of partially uniform k-quandles." -- Mark Dominus [When I first read this, I worried that perhaps I'd been wrong and there *was* such a thing as partially uniform k-quandles (well, temporarily) but for the non-mathmos out there who can't tell, not those are actual made up words, just very good ones]
--Mark Dominus
"In total, you were viewed 5 times and no people expressed interest in you.
You are more desirable than less than 20% of 17,007,618 people."
--Spark, via facebook
"Heck, most rocket science isn't rocket science."
-- Rocket Scientist (No, really.)
"[The] bureaucratic, totalitarian government is reminiscent of the British government depicted in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four, except that it has a buffoonish, slap-stick quality totally lacking in that particular novel."
-- Wikipedia on Terry Gilliam's Brazil.