L'ennui avec la grande famille humaine, c'est que tout le monde veut en être le père. - Mafalda % Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth. - Mark Twain % We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. - Mark Twain % There has been only one Christian. They caught him and crucified him -- early. - Mark Twain % If Christ were here there is one thing he would not be -- a Christian. - Mark Twain % Conformity-the natural instinct to passively yield to that vague something recognized as authority. - Mark Twain % Il n'existe aucune limite sacrée ou non à l'action de l'homme dans l'univers. Depuis nos origines nous avons le choix: être aveuglé par la vérité ou coudre nos paupières. - [no one is innocent] % Ce que les siècles des grands abatoirs nous aura appris Devrait être inscrit au fond de toutes les écoles; Voici l'homme: le destructeur des mondes est arrivé. - [no one is innocent] % Si les triangles avaient un Dieu, ils lui donneraient trois côtés. - Montesquieu, Lettres persanes % Le monochrome, c'est pour ceux qui s'intéressent (encore) au contenu. Usenet dans ces conditions, c'est comme le web avec lynx, on prend trop conscience du vide, c'est déprimant. - JLC dans le Guide du linuxien pervers: "Coup de cafard..." % Seul a un caractère scientifique ce qui peut être réfuté. Ce qui n'est pas réfutable relève de la magie ou de la mystique. - Karl Popper % Lorsque l'on range des objets dans des tiroirs, et que l'on a plus d'objets que de tiroirs, alors un tiroir au moins contient deux objets. - Lejeune-Dirichlet, Peter Gustav % La guerre, c'est le massacre d'hommes qui ne se connaissent pas, au profit d'hommes qui se connaissent mais ne se massacreront pas. - Paul Valéry % Five out of four people have a problem with fractions % Advertisers, not governments, are the primary censors of media content in the United States today. - C. Edwin Baker % Premature optimization is the root of all evil - Donald Knuth % Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. - Albert Einstein % Pour marcher au pas d'une musique militaire, il n'y a pas besoin de cerveau, une moelle épinière suffit. - Albert Einstein % Thoughtcrime does not entail death: thoughtcrime IS death. - Winston Smith, 1984 % From the age of uniformity, from the age of solitude, from the age of Big Brother, from the age of doublethink - greetings! - Winston Smith, 1984 % The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he who, by peddling second-rate technology, led them into it in the first place. - Douglas Adams (1952-2001) % Jesus died for his own sins, not mine. - CRASS, 1978 % We should act only in such away that if everyone else acted as we do, we would accept the results. - Emmanuel Kant % Un éducateur dans l'âme ne prend rien au sérieux que par rapport à ses disciples -- soi-même non excepté. - Nietzsche, "Par delà le bien et le mal" % N'aimer qu'un seul est barbarie, car c'est au détriment de tous les autres. Fût-ce l'amour de Dieu. - Nietzsche, "Par delà le bien et le mal" % Au nom de l'état, la force s'appelle droit. Au main de l'individu, elle s'appelle crime. - Max Stirner % Si l'image donne l'illusion de savoir C'est que l'adage pretend que pour croire, L'important ne serait que de voir - Lofofora % Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes - E. Dijkstra % C'est avec les pierres de la loi qu'on a bâti les prisons, et avec les briques de la religion, les bordels. - William Blake % VBscript: la simplicité du C, la puissance du BASIC - Mathieu Petit-Clair % Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon full of tapes hurtling down the highway. - Andrew S. Tanenbaum, "Computer Networks" % In a world where Henry Kissinger wins the Nobel Peace Prize, there is no need for satire. - Tom Lehrer % Modern man has a kind of poverty of the spirit which stands in great contrast to his remarkable scientific and technological achievements. We've learned to walk in outer space and yet we haven't learned to walk to earth as brothers and sisters. - Martin Luther King, Jr. % If builders built houses the way programmers built programs, The first woodpecker to come along would destroy civilization. - Gerald Weinberg % It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education - Albert Einstein % feature, n: a documented bug | bug, n: an undocumented feature - Mario S F Ferreira % Si Dieu existe, j'espère qu'Il a une excuse valable - Daniel Pennac % À force de ne jamais réfléchir, on a un bonheur stupide - Jean Cocteau % Les écrivains qui ont recours à leurs doigts pour savoir s'ils ont leur compte de pieds ne sont pas des poètes, ce sont des dactylographes. - Léo Ferré, "Préface" % L'art n'est pas un bureau d'anthropométrie. - Léo Ferré, "Préface" % Marijuana grows naturally on the planet. Mushrooms grows naturally on the planet. Don't you think making nature against the law is a bit... unnatural? - Bill Hicks % Evil exists to glorify the good. Evil is negative good. It is a relative term. Evil can be transmuted into good. What is evil to one at one time, becomes good at another time to somebody else. - Sivananda % Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is the best. - Frank Zappa % You Are What You Is - Frank Zappa % Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization — you can't just swallow it whole. - Frank Zappa % The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced. - Frank Zappa % Rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, in order to provide articles for people who can't read. - Frank Zappa % Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex. - Frank Zappa % Ils versent un pauvre miel sur leurs mots pourris et te parlent de pénurie Et sur ta faim, sur tes amis, ils aiguisent leur appétit - Richard Desjardins, La maison est ouverte % In god we trust, others pay cash. - Richard Desjardins, Miami % To be naive and easily deceived is impermissible, today more than ever, when the prevailing untruths may lead to a catastrophe because they blind people to real dangers and real possibilities. - Erich Fromm % C'est trop facile quand les guerres sont finies D'aller gueuler que c'était la dernière Amis bourgeois vous me faites envie Ne voyez vous pas donc point vos cimetières? - Jaques Brel % Wherever they's a fight so hungry people can eat, I'll be there. Wherever they's a cop beatin' up a guy, I'll be there. If Casy knowed, why, I'll be in the way guys yell when they're mad an' I'll be in the way kids laugh when they're hungry an' they know supper's ready. An' when our folks eat the stuff they raise an' live in the house they build, why I'll be there. - John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath % We have no friends but the mountains. - Kurdish saying % Having failed to discover weapons of mass destruction, Washington shifted its propaganda to "establishing democracy." That flatly refutes their earlier claim that the "only question" was whether Saddam would disarm. But with a sufficiently obedient intellectual class, and loyal media, the farce can proceed untroubled. - Noam Chomsky, in an interview about Irak % Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum sonatur. Whatever is said in Latin sounds profound. % The problem is not a lack of highly educated workers, the problem is a lack of highly educated workers willing to work for the minimum wage or lower in the U.S. Costs are driving outsourcing, not the quality of American schools. - Scott Kirwin, IT Professionals Association % Ou bien Dieu voudrait supprimer le mal, mais il ne le peut pas Ou bien Dieu pourrait supprimer le mal, mais il ne le veut pas. - Sébastien Faure % That's one of the remarkable things about life: it's never so bad that it can't get worse. - Calvin % Freedom is being able to make decisions that affect mainly you. Power is being able to make decisions that affect others more than you. If we confuse power with freedom, we will fail to uphold real freedom. - Richard Stallman % Les plus beaux chants sont les chants de revendications Le vers doit faire l'amour dans la tête des populations. À l'école de la poésie, on n'apprend pas: on se bat! - Léo Ferré, "Préface" % Man really attains the state of complete humanity when he produces, without being forced by physical need to sell himself as a commodity. - Ernesto "Che" Guevara % The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing. - Albert Einstein % It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad; and it is better still to sit with the good than alone. It better to speak to a seeker of knowledge than to remain silent; but silence is better than idle words. - Imam Bukhari % Voter, c'est abdiquer - Élisée Reclus % La démocratie réelle se définit d'abord et avant tout par la participation massive des citoyens à la gestion des affaires de la cité. Elle est directe et participative. Elle trouve son expression la plus authentique dans l'assemblée populaire et le dialogue permanent sur l'organisation de la vie en commun. - De la servitude moderne % Sous un gouvernement qui emprisonne injustement, la place de l’homme juste est aussi en prison. - La désobéissance civile, Henry David Thoreau % Le pouvoir n'est pas à conquérir, il est à détruire - Jean-François Brient, de la servitude moderne % La nature n'a créé ni maîtres ni esclaves Je ne veux ni donner ni recevoir de lois. - Denis Diderot % À mesure que l'opression s'étend à tous les secteurs de la vie, la révolte prend l'allure d'une guerre sociale. Les émeutes renaissent et annoncent la révolution à venir. - Jean-François Brient, de la servitude moderne % La destruction de la société totalitaire marchande n'est pas une affaire d'opinion. Elle est une nécessité absolue dans un monde que l'on sait condamné. Puisque le pouvoir est partout, c'est partout et tout le temps qu'il faut le combattre. - Jean-François Brient, de la servitude moderne % O gentilshommes, la vie est courte. Si nous vivons, nous vivons pour marcher sur la tête des rois. - William Shakespeare % Travail, du latin Tri Palium trois pieux, instrument de torture. % Tout ce qui n’est pas donné est perdu. - Proverbe indien % Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it. - Brian W. Kernighan % Si Dieu est, l'homme est esclave ; or l'homme peut, doit être libre, donc Dieu n'existe pas. Et si Dieu existait, il faudrait s'en débarrasser! - Michel Bakounine % Il faut tout un village pour élever un enfant. - Proverbe africain % Le Québec ne rêve plus de devenir une société modèle: voilà son problème d'environnement. - Pierre Dansereau (1911 - 2011) % The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. - George Bernard Shaw % For every complex problem, there is an answer that is clear, simple - and wrong. - H.L. Mencken % Semantics is the gravity of abstraction. % The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater. - Frank Zappa % Le péché est né avant la vertu, comme le moteur avant le frein. - Jean-Paul Sartre % Wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat. - Albert Einstein [apocryphal] % Celui qui sait jouir du peu qu'il a est toujours assez riche. - Démocrite % Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster. - Wirth's law % The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself. - Friedrich Nietzsche % The Net treats censorship as damage and routes around it. - John Gilmore % That's the kind of society I want to build. I want a guarantee - with physics and mathematics, not with laws - that we can give ourselves real privacy of personal communications. - John Gilmore % Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. - Jimmy Wales, co-founder of Wikipedia % While the creative works from the 16th century can still be accessed and used by others, the data in some software programs from the 1990s is already inaccessible. - Lawrence Lessig % Code is law. - Lawrence Lessig % Instead of worrying about what somebody else is going to do, which is not under your control, the important thing is, what are you going to decide about what is under your control? - Richard Stallman % We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. - John Perry Barlow % I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say 'Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?' - Mike Godwin, Electronic Frontier Foundation % One of the things the Web teaches us is that everything is connected (hyperlinks) and we all should work together (standards). Too often school teaches us that everything is separate (many different 'subjects') and that we should all work alone. - Aaron Swartz % If you have come here to help me, you are wasting our time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work together. - Aboriginal activists group, Queensland, 1970s % During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act. - Georges Orwell % A ballot is like a bullet. You don't throw your ballots until you see a target, and if that target is not within your reach, keep your ballot in your pocket. - Malcom X % Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity, but don't rule out malice. - Albert Einstein % Choose a job you love and you will never have to work a day in your life. - Confucius % Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. - Mark Twain % Men often become what they believe themselves to be. If I believe I cannot do something, it makes me incapable of doing it. But when I believe I can, then I acquire the ability to do it even if I didn't have it in the beginning. - Mahatma Gandhi % Music gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination and life to everything - Plato % We all pay for life with death, so everything in between should be free. - Bill Hicks % I'm sorry if any of you are catholic. I'm not sorry if you're offended, I'm actually just sorry by the fact that you're catholic - Bill Hicks % It is the greatest of all mistakes to do nothing because you can only do little. Do what you can. - Sydney Smith % Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle And the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared. - Buddha % I know where I am going, and I know the truth, and I do not have to be what you want me to be. I am free to be what I want. - Muhammad Ali % Be who you are and say what you feel Because those who mind don't matter And those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss % Omnis enim ex infirmitate feritas est. All cruelty springs from weakness. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca (58 AD) % They say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself. - Andy Warhol % Non qui parum habet, sed qui plus cupit, pauper est. It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca (65 AD) % PHP was originally designed explicitly for non-programmers (and, reading between the lines, non-programs); it has not well escaped its roots. - Alex Munroe, PHP: a fractal of bad design % Perl is "some assembly required". Python is "batteries included". PHP is "kitchen sink, but it’s from Canada and both faucets are labeled C". - Alex Munroe, PHP: a fractal of bad design % We must shift America from a needs- to a desires-culture. People must be trained to desire, to want new things, even before the old have been entirely consumed. Man's desires must overshadow his needs. - Paul Mazur, Lehman Brothers % When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And "propaganda" got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the words "public relations". - Edward Bernays % Religion is like a blind man looking in a black room for a black cat that isn't there, and finding it. - Oscar Wilde % The steel horse fills a gap in modern life, it is an answer not only to its needs, but also to its aspirations. It's quite certainly here to stay. - Le Vélocipède Illustré, 1869 % Every time I see an adult on a bicycle I no longer despair for the future of the human race. - H. G. Wells % A casual stroll through the lunatic asylum shows that faith does not prove anything. - Friedrich Nietzshe % "Faith" means not wanting to know what is true. - Friedrich Nietzshe % The difference between a democracy and a dictatorship is that in a democracy you vote first and take orders later; in a dictatorship you don't have to waste your time voting. - Charles Bukowski % A man is none the less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years. - Lysander Spooner % Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Who watches the watchmen? Qui police la police? Tu. You. Toi. % Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. - Marie Curie % A riot is the language of the unheard. - Martin Luther King, Jr. % The survival of humans and other species on planet Earth in my view can only be guaranteed via a timely transition towards a stationary state, a world economy without growth. - Peter Custers % In serious work commanding and discipline are of little avail. - Peter Kropotkin % The lazy man does not stand in the way of progress. When he sees progress roaring down upon him he steps nimbly out of the way - Christopher Morley, "On Laziness" % A genius is someone who discovers that the stone that falls and the moon that doesn't fall represent one and the same phenomenon. - Ernesto Sabato % Toute mère doit être mère par choix. Tout enfant doit être un enfant désiré. - Henry Morgentaler % Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another. - Carl Sagan % The flesh you so fancifully fry Is not succulent, tasty or kind It's death for no reason And death for no reason is murder - Morrissey % La mer, cette grande unificatrice, est l'unique espoir de l'homme. Aujourd'hui plus que jamais auparavant, ce vieux dicton dit littéralement ceci: nous sommes tous dans le même bateau. - Jacques Yves Cousteau - Océanographe % How inappropriate to call this planet 'Earth' when it is quite clearly 'Ocean'. - Arthur C. Clarke % The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion. - Arthur C. Clarke % I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent. - Arthur C. Clarke % Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. - Arthur C. Clarke % People arbitrarily, or as a matter of taste, assigning numerical values to non-numerical things. And then they pretend that they haven't just made the numbers up, which they have. Economics is like astrology in that sense, except that economics serves to justify the current power structure, and so it has a lot of fervent believers among the powerful. - Kim Stanley Robinson, Red Mars % Il est sage de nous réconcilier avec notre adolescence ; haїr, mépriser, nier ou simplement oublier l’adolescent que nous fûmes est en soi une attitude adolescente. - Daniel Pennac, Comme un roman % L'homme construit des maisons parce qu'il est vivant, mais il écrit des livres parce qu'il se sait mortel. - Daniel Pennac, Comme un roman % Worker bees can leave Even drones can fly away The queeen is their slave - Fight Club % Everyone is a terrorist. You're just not pissed enough. % Either you're with us or you're with the terrorist state. % Be yourself. Everyone else is already taken! - Oscar Wilde % We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art—the art of words. - Ursula Le Guin % Hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds for hope. We will need writers who can remember freedom. Poets, visionaries—the realists of a larger reality. - Ursula Le Guin % It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the air force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber. - Unknown % No animal has more liberty than the cat; but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist. Until they learn that from the cat I cannot respect them. - For whom the bell tolls, Ernest Hemingway % For once you have tasted flight, You will walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward; For there you have been, And there you long to return. - Leonardo da Vinci % During the initial stage of the struggle, the oppressed, instead of striving for liberation, tend themselves to become oppressors The very structure of their thought has been conditioned by the contradictions of the concrete, existential situation by which they were shaped. Their ideal is to be men; but for them, to be men is to be oppressors. This is their model of humanity. - Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed % Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety. - Benjamin Franklin, 1755 % Freedom of speech is a principal pillar of a free government; when this support is taken away, the constitution of a free society is dissolved, and tyranny is erected on its ruins. - Benjamin Franklin, 1737 % Dr. King’s major assumption was that if you are nonviolent, if you suffer, your opponent will see your suffering and will be moved to change his heart. He only made one fallacious assumption: In order for nonviolence to work, your opponent must have a conscience. The United States has none. - Stokely Carmichael % The secret of life is to have no fear; it's the only way to function. - Stokely Carmichael % I prefer the tumult of liberty to the quiet of servitude. - Thomas Jefferson % I believe that if someone choose arts as their subject but do not criticize the issues of their society, they have have betrayed themselves, their conscience, and their society. - Atena Farghadani % We tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run. - Roy Amara % If it's important for you, you'll find a way. If it's not, you'll find an excuse. - Unknown % Il faut respecter le noir. Rien ne le prostitue. Il est agent de l'esprit bien plus que la belle couleur de la palette ou du prisme. - Odilon Redon % The university must paint itself black, mulatto, worker anddd peasant. If not, people will break down their doors and paint the university the color they like. - Ernesto "Che" Guevara % The true revolutionary is guided by a great feeling of love. - Ernesto "Che" Guevara % Secrecy is the keystone to all tyranny. Not force, but secrecy and censorship. - Robert A. Heinlein % You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. - Robert A. Heinlein % Revolution is not accompanied by a handful of conspirators whispering around a guttering candle in a deserted ruin. It requires countless supplies, modern machinery, and modern weapons [...] and there must be loyalty [...] and superlative staff organization. - Robert A. Heinlein % By now the computer has moved out of the den and into the rest of your life. It will consume all of your spare time, and even your vacation, if you let it. It will empty your wallet and tie up your thoughts. It will drive away your family. Your friends will start to think of you as a bore. And what for? - The True Computerist by Tom Pittman % I've got to design so you can put it together out of garbage cans. In part because that's what I started from, but mostly because I don’t trust the industrial structure—they might decide to suppress us weirdos and try to deny us the parts we need. - Lee Felsenstein % The history of any one part of the earth, like the life of a soldier, consists of long periods of boredom and short periods of terror. - British geologist Derek V. Ager % Isn't man but a blossom taken by the wind, and only the mountains and the sea and the stars and this Land of the Gods real and everlasting? - James Clavell, Shōgun % The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt. - Bertrand Russell, The Triumph of Stupidity, 1933 % If quantum mechanics hasn't profoundly shocked you, you haven't understood it yet. - Niels Bohr % There is no cloud, it's just someone else's computer. - Chris Watterson % Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein % To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. - Albert Einstein % I believe that love is a better teacher than a sense of duty. - Albert Einstein % Blind respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth. - Albert Einstein % Concepts have meaning only if we can point to objects to which they refer and to the rules by which they are assigned to these objects. - Albert Einstein % Use for yourself little but give to others much. - Albert Einstein % Striving for social justice is the most valuable thing to do in life - Albert Einstein % Uncompromising war resistance and refusal to do military service under any circumstances. - Albert Einstein % Nature hides her secret because of her essential loftiness, but not by means of ruse. - Albert Einstein % Man is, at one and the same time, a solitary being and a social being, - Albert Einstein % Brief is this existence, as a fleeting visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness. - Albert Einstein % The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think. - Albert Einstein % There is no power on earth from which we should be prepared to accept an order to kill. - Albert Einstein % One of the strongest motives that leads men to art and science is escape from everyday life with its painful crudity and hopeless dreariness. Such men make this cosmos and its construction the pivot of their emotional life, in order to find the peace and security which they cannot find in the narrow whirlpool of personal experience. - Albert Einstein % My passionate sense of social justice and social responsibility has always contrasted oddly with my pronounced lack of need for direct contact with other human beings and communities. I am truly a "lone traveler" and have never belonged to my country, my home, my friends, or even my immediate family, with my whole heart; in the face of all these ties, I have never lost a sense of distance and a need for solitude. - Albert Einstein % Education is the most powerful weapon which we can use to change the world. - Nelson Mandela % Cyberspace. A consensual hallucination experienced daily by billions of legitimate operators, in every nation, by children being taught mathematical concepts... - William Gibson % The future is already here – it's just not very evenly distributed. - William Gibson % All governments are run by liars and nothing they say should be believed. - I. F. Stone % Your injured body has become the burden of your digital soul. - Yin Aiwen, 2013, The Massage is the Medium % We will create a civilization of the Mind in Cyberspace. May it be more humane and fair than the world your governments have made before. - John Perry Barlow, 1996 A Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace % Arguing for surveillance because you have nothing to hide is no different than making the claim, "I don't care about freedom of speech because I have nothing to say." - Edward Snowden % The destiny of Earthseed is to take root among the stars. - Octavia Butler % Drowning people Sometimes die Fighting their rescuers. - Octavia Butler % We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools. - Martin Luther King, Jr. % One has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws. - Martin Luther King, Jr. % Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men. - Martin Luther King, Jr. % Only in the darkness can you see the stars. - Martin Luther King, Jr. % We don't need any more heroes. We just need someone to take out recycling. - Banksy % The greatest crimes in the world are not committed by people breaking the rules but by people following the rules. It's people who follow orders that drop bombs and massacre villages. - Banksy % A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to. - Banksy % People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones. People in glass cities shouldn't fire missiles. - Banksy % Some believe it is only great power that can hold evil in check, but that is not what I have found. It is the small everyday deeds of ordinary folk that keep the darkness at bay. Small acts of kindness and love. - J.R.R. Tolkien % When spider webs unite, they can tie up a lion. - ethiopian proverb % The ideal situation occurs when the things that we regard as beautiful are also regarded by other people as useful. - Donald Knuth % Le travail des pauvres est la seule source de toutes les douceurs de l'existence. - Bernard Mandeville % I'm no longer accepting the things I cannot change. I'm changing the things I cannot accept. - Angela Davis % We have to talk about liberating minds as well as liberating society. - Angela Davis % We know the road to freedom has always been stalked by death. - Angela Davis % To understand how any society functions you must understand the relationship between the men and the women - Angela Davis % Men are taught to apologize for their weaknesses, women for their strengths. - Lois Wyse % La seule excuse de Dieu, c'est qu'il n'existe pas. - Stendhal % L'adversaire d'une vraie liberté est un désir excessif de sécurité. - Jean de la Fontaine % La publicité est la dictature invisible de notre société. - Jacques Ellul % Soyons réalistes, faisons l'impossible. - Ernesto "Che" Guevara % Sous le projecteur, on ne voit pas les autres. - Félix Leclerc % What this country needs is more unemployed politicians. - Angela Davis % Prolétaires de tous les pays, qui lave vos chaussettes? - Audrey Lorde % Le féminisme n'a jamais tué personne Le machisme tue tous les jours. - Benoîte Groulx % Votre silence ne vous protégera pas. - Audrey Lorde % Qui vit sans folie n'est pas si sage qu'il croit. - François de La Rochefoucauld % Dans vos mensonges de pierre Vous gaspillez le soleil - Gilles Vigneault % Le matraquage publicitaire est une forme moderne et supérieure de la propagande. - Henri Gobard % On ne résout pas un problème avec les modes de pensée qui l'ont engendré. - Albert Einstein % If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution. - Emma Goldman % C'est la nuit qu'il est beau de croire à la lumière - Edmond Rostand % Je viens d'un pays où engagé veut dire que tu t'es trouvé une job. - Patrice Desbiens % Celui qui ne connaît pas l'histoire est condamné à la revivre. - Karl Marx % La dictature c'est ferme ta gueule. La démocratie c'est cause toujours! - Jean-Louis Barrault % Vivre tous simplement pour que tous puissent simplement vivre. - Gandhi % Be the change you want to see happen. - Arleen Lorrance, 1974 % La propriété est un piège: ce que nous croyons posséder nous possède. - Alphonse Karr % La politique est l'art d'empêcher les gens de se mêler de ce qui les regarde - Paul Valéry % On ne peut s'empêcher de vieillir, mais on peut s'empêcher de devenir vieux. - Henri Matisse % Tu connaîtras la vérité de ton chemin à ce qui te rend heureux. - Aristote % Never be deceived that the rich will allow you to vote away their wealth. - Lucy Parsons % In a racist society it is not enough to be non-racist, we must be antiracist. - Angela Davis % A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves & traitors are not victims... but accomplices. - George Orwell % We reject kings, presidents and voting. We believe in rough consensus and running code. - David Clark % Be conservative in what you send and liberal in what you accept. - John Postel % The desire to sacrifice an entire lifetime to the noblest of ideals serves no purpose if one works alone. - Che Guevara % Never believe that a few caring people can't change the world. For, indeed, that's all who ever have. - Margaret Mead % We won't have a society if we destroy the environment. - Margaret Mead % What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things. - Margaret Mead % Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. - Edward Abbey % It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. - Edward Abbey % May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. - Edward Abbey % A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. - Edward Abbey % Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. - Edward Abbey % Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. - Parkinson's law % On reconnait la grandeur et la valeur d'une nation à la façon dont celle-ci traite ses animaux. - Mahatma Gandhi % Si les élections n'étaient pas indispensables à la prospérité du capital, on ne nous les servirait pas partout, toujours, à coup de fric, à coup de flics. - René Binamé % The most prudent course for any society is to start from the assumption that the Internet should be fundamentally outside the domain of capital. - The Internet's Unholy Marriage to Capitalism % Gods don't like people not doing much work. People who aren't busy all the time might start to think. - Terry Pratchett, Small Gods % If we do not do the impossible, we shall be faced with the unthinkable. - Murray Bookchin % The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. - C.A.R. Hoare % There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. - C.A.R. Hoare % Like slavery and apartheid, poverty is not natural. It is man-made and it can be overcome and eradicated by the actions of human beings. Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. - Nelson Mandela % We build our computer (systems) the way we build our cities: over time, without a plan, on top of ruins. - Ellen Ullman % You are absolutely deluded, if not stupid, if you think that a worldwide collection of software engineers who can't write operating systems or applications without security holes, can then turn around and suddenly write virtualization layers without security holes. - Theo de Raadt % Be curious. Read widely. Try new things. I think a lot of what people call intelligence boils down to curiosity. - Aaron Swartz % The class which has the power to rob upon a large scale has also the power to control the government and legalize their robbery. - Eugene V. Debs % The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do. - Ted Nelson % It may be roundly asserted that human ingenuity cannot concoct a cipher which human ingenuity cannot resolve. - Edgar Allan Poe % It is capitalism and government which stand for disorder and violence. Anarchism is the very reverse of it; it means order without government and peace without violence. - Alexander Berkman % The ultimate test of your knowledge is your capacity to convey it to another. - Richard Feynman % There is no programming language–no matter how structured–that will prevent programmers from making bad programs. - Larry Flon % A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation. - Gustavo Petro % Anarchy is not perfection, it is not the absolute ideal which like the horizon recedes as fast as we approach it; but it is the way open to all progress and all improvements for the benefit of everybody. - Errico Malatesta % If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. - African proverb % Programming is a social activity in which communication is a vital skill. The code you leave behind speaks. - Kate Gregory % When the power of love overcomes love of power the world will know peace. - Jimi Hendrix % Treating different things the same can generate as much inequality as treating the same things differently. - Kimberlé Crenshaw % Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte. - Blaise Pascal % J'ai découvert que tout le malheur des hommes vient d'une seule chose, qui est de ne pas savoir demeurer au repos dans une chambre. - Blaise Pascal % Don't just do something, sit there. - Sylvia Boorstein % See the world as if for the first time; see it through the eyes of a child, and you will suddenly find that you are free. - Deepak Chopra % The odds are greatly against you being immensely smarter than everyone else in the field. If your analysis says your terminal velocity is twice the speed of light, you may have invented warp drive, but the chances are a lot better that you've screwed up. - Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design % You can't get to the moon by climbing successively taller trees. - Akin's Laws of Spacecraft Design % La perfection est atteinte, non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retirer. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry % The palest ink is better than the most capricious memory. - ancient Chinese proverb % When the people are being beaten with a stick, they are not much happier if it is called "the People's Stick." - Mikhail Bakunin % No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world. I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker. - Mikhail Bakunin % Imaginative fiction trains people to be aware that there *are* other ways to do things and other ways to be, that there is not just one civilization and it is good and it is the way we have to be. - Ursula K. Le Guin % Science knows still practically nothing about the real nature of matter, energy, dimension, or time; and even less about those remarkable things called life and thought. But whatever the meaning and purpose of this universe, you are a legitimate part of it. - Gene Roddenberry % Time is a created thing. To say, "I don't have time" is like saying, "I don't want to." - Lao Tzu % Only after disaster can we be resurrected. It's only after you've lost everything that you're free to doanything. Nothing is static, everything is evolving, everything is falling apart. - Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club % Do not use your energy to worry. Use your energy to believe, to create, to learn, to think, and to grow. - Richard Feynman % Every extension of mankind, especially technological extensions, has the effect of amputating or modifying some other extension[…] The extension of a technology like the automobile “amputates” the need for a highly developed walking culture, which in turn causes cities and countries to develop in different ways. The telephone extends the voice, but also amputates the art of penmanship gained through regular correspondence. — Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media % If ease of use was the ultimate aim for a tool, the bicycle would never have evolved beyond the tricycle. — Doug Engelbart, 1925-2013 % When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered. — Dr. Martin Luther King % A crank is a very elegant device. It’s small, it’s strong, it’s lightweight, energy efficient, and it makes revolutions. — E. F. Schumacher