Category: Quotes

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

Attributed to Robert J. Hanlon, maybe really Robert Heinlein.

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. � attributed to Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. � attributed to Charles Darwin

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.

–Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshal and Luftwaffe chief at Nuremberg trials, 1945

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.

–Hermann Goering, Nazi Reichsmarshal and Luftwaffe chief at Nuremberg trials, 1945

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.

�Thomas Jefferson, letter to Isaac McPherson, 1813

Feels like there is some Budhist saying in here.

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.

– Bruce Schneier

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Feels like there is some Budhist saying in here.

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.

– Bruce Schneier

[via diveintomark]

So the other day engel was commenting on what was the point of Sun’s Mad Hatter, desktop Linux stuff. I think I have found the answer.

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

[via Hack the Planet]
Wes Felter’s Hack the Planet Weblog

So the other day engel was commenting on what was the point of Sun’s Mad Hatter, desktop Linux stuff. I think I have found the answer.

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

[via Hack the Planet]
Wes Felter’s Hack the Planet Weblog