Pending quotes
I need to add these to my quotes DB:
Example quote. -- Example attribution ~~ The purpose of freedom is to create it for others. -- Nelson Mandela ~~ If it's work, people figure out how to do less. If it's art, people try to figure out how to do more. -- Seth Godin ~~ We are what we celebrate. -- Dean Kamen ~~ You can't see it if you don't look at it. -- Dan McKenna ~~ What I cannot create, I do not understand. -- Richard Feynman ~~ Hardware eventually fails. Software eventually works. -- Michael Hartung ~~ The walls between art and engineering exist only in our minds. -- Theo Jansen ~~ Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a quality that decides between success and failure. Edsger W. Dijkstra ~~ Do well by doing good. -- Benjamin Franklin ~~ The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there -- Gordon Bell ~~ Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. -- Henry Ford ~~ Perfect is the enemy of good. -- Voltaire ~~ Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. -- Leonardo da Vinci ~~ In recent times, modern science has developed to give mankind, for the first time in the history of the human race, a way of securing a more abundant life which does not simply consist in taking away from someone else. -- Karl Taylor Compton, President of MIT, 1930–1948 ~~ The trouble with quotes on the Internet is that you can never tell if they are genuine. -- Abraham Lincoln ~~ A facility for quotation covers the absence of original thought. -- Lord Peter Wimsey ~~ It is useless for sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while wolves remain of a different opinion. -- William Ralph Inge ~~ Night time is really the best time to work. All the ideas are there to be yours because everyone else is asleep. -- Catherine O'Hara ~~ If you have a parrot and you don’t teach it to say, "Help, they’ve turned me into a parrot", you are wasting everybody’s time. -- Julia Segal ~~ I had some words with my wife, and she had some paragraphs with me. -- Sigmund Freud ~~ To find out a girl's faults, praise her to her girl friends. -- Benjamin Franklin ~~ In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. -- Thomas Jefferson ~~ I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone. -- Bjarne Stroustrup ~~ I like lists for the same reason other people like football or pedophilia. People have their preferences. -- Umberto Eco ~~ So we have the strange phenomenon, as Kant assures us, of a mind believing with all its strength in the real presence of a set of things of no one of which it can form any notion whatsoever. -- William James ~~ When people stop believing in God, they don’t believe in nothing---they believe in anything. -- G. K. Chesterton ~~ Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor. -- NASA ~~ Love: the steady directing of the human will toward the eternal well-being of another -- Stephen Neill ~~ Software license synopsis: EULA: sharing is evil BSD: sharing is not evil GPL: not sharing is evil ~~ Life is the art of drawing without an eraser. -- John W Gardner ~~ He was guided by what he saw rather than what he wanted to believe. -- Vernor Vinge ~~ Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it. -- Mark Twain ~~ When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When i ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. -- Dom Helder Camara ~~ "Apple Macintosh" — An anagram of "Complaints Heap". -- Unknown
Processing
I need to do the following processing on select quotes:
Misspelling:
- 262: everybody
- 598: add space between try and to
Duplicates:
- 283
- 325
Combine 5 and 7, remove 7
Replace:
- 8
- 9
- 16
Fix quotes for:
- 23
- 53
Fix markup for:
- None
IRC quotes
Not sure whether these should be in my quotes DB, but they're interesting nonetheless.
<influx> almost everyone who leaves a voice mail on my phone
<influx> starts its with HEY FUCKER
<influx> pickup your phone
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<vamp_work> some guy named Debian hacked my box and made it unstable
<vamp_work> it tells me every time I log in
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<e\\oCo> Pookey: im a designer.. i need a wysiwug
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<SysError> i wish i had a girlfriend whos name didnt end in .jpg
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<influx> i remember turning on the tv in london
<influx> it was nonsense
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<ebnf> @_=/(\d)/g;($i,$s)=0;foreach(@_){if(($i++)%2==0){$_*=2;if($_>=10){$_=int($_/10)+($_-10);}}$s+=$_;}print($s%10==0?"$s - GOOD!\n":"$s - BAD!\n");
<ebnf> xjjk: that will verify if a credit cardnumber is valid
~~
<elrond3> basically, um.. chick with age x dates a guy with age (x-10)/5 + x
<elrond3> hmm.. maybe /3.
~~
Arguing with an engineer is like wrestling with a pig in mud, after a while you realise the pig is enjoying it.