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Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.

Why of course the people don't want war... That is understood. But, after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it's always a simple matter to drag the people along whether it's a democracy, a fascist dictatorship, a parliament or a communist dictatorship... the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders... All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism, and exposing the country to greater danger.

He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. Society may give an exclusive right to the profits arising from them, as an encouragement to men to pursue ideas which may produce utility, but this may or may not be done, according to the will and convenience of the society, without claim or complaint from any body.

Every time I write about the impossibility of effectively protecting digital files on a general-purpose computer, I get responses from people decrying the death of copyright. "How will authors and artists get paid for their work?" they ask me. Truth be told, I don't know. I feel rather like the physicist who just explained relativity to a group of would-be interstellar travelers, only to be asked: "How do you expect us to get to the stars, then?" I'm sorry, but I don't know that, either.

Sun Mad Hatter screen shots. At least it's not CDE.

Learn as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

- Gandhi

Never attribute to malicious intent what could more easily be attributed to incompetence. - UNKNOWN

A good friend will come bail you out of jail... but a true friend will be sitting next to you saying, "Damm... We Fucked Up"

UI-wise, Wiki is like a fun house for cheery gully dwarves, endless interconnected rooms with five-feet high ceiling and no housemaids. - Don Park's Blog

Does this violate the patient doctor relationship?
Only if you grab my ass.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism. -- Carl Sagan

I expect a good deal of the problem is that you are busy disbelieving a different God than the one I am busy believing in.

And this creativity is intended to be transitive. We are expected to be creative. And we're expected to help others be creative.

And that leads us back (finally) to the last part of your question, how all this relates to Perl.

Perl is obviously my attempt to help other people be creative. In my little way, I'm sneakily helping people understand a bit more about the sort of people God likes.

'My greatest teacher once told me,' said Yasujiro, 'that a man who has risked his life knows that careers are worthless, and a man who will not risk his career has a worthless life.'

"Action without philosophy is a lethal weapon. Philosophy without action is worthless".

Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.

Capitalism is the worst economic system, except for all the others.

Americans always do the right thing after trying everything else.

Everything should be as simple as possible, but no simpler"