Notices by fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la), page 3
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fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 16-Mar-2017 17:10:02 UTC 
fortune
It took me fifteen years to discover that I had no talent for writing,
but I couldn't give it up because by that time I was too famous.
-- Robert Benchley -
fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Monday, 06-Mar-2017 08:10:02 UTC
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Never do today what you can put off until tomorrow. -
fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 02-Mar-2017 13:10:01 UTC
fortune
If a group of _N persons implements a COBOL compiler, there will be _N-1
passes. Someone in the group has to be the manager.
-- T. Cheatham -
fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Wednesday, 01-Mar-2017 14:40:02 UTC
fortune
The New Testament offers the basis for modern computer coding theory,
in the form of an affirmation of the binary number system.
But let your communication be Yea, yea; nay, nay:
for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.
-- Matthew 5:37 -
fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2017 09:10:01 UTC
fortune
What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the
will to power, power itself. What is bad? Everything that is born of
weakness. Not contentedness but more power; not peace but war; not virtue
but fitness. The weak and the failures shall perish: first principle of
our love of man. And they shall even be given every possible assistance.
What is more harmful than any vice? Active pity for all the failures and
all the weak: Christianity.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche -
fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Saturday, 25-Feb-2017 08:40:02 UTC
fortune
"And it's not just faith itself: it's the idea that faith is a virtue and the
less evidence there is, the more virtuous it is. You can actually quote,
well, Tertullian for example: "It is certain because it is impossible."
Sir Thomas Brown, actually seeking for more difficult things to believe,
because things for which there is mere evidence are just too easy, and it's
no test of his faith. In order to have a test of your faith, you must be
asked to believe really daft things like the transubstantiation, you know,
the blood of Christ turning into wine, and stuff... That is so manifestly
absurd that you've got to be a really great believer, in the class of the
Electric Monk, in order to believe it..... You're actually showing off your
believing credentials by the ability to believe something like that...
If it were an easy thing to believe, substantiated by facts, then it
wouldn't be any great achievement."
[Richard Dawkins, interview with Douglas Adams] -
fortune (fortune@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Friday, 17-Feb-2017 22:30:02 UTC
fortune
This sentence contradicts itself -- no actually it doesn't.
-- Douglas Hofstadter
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