Random quotes                                               rak
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Random quotes stolen from various places. Not necessarily PG.
Or even PG-13.

"The cost of a thing is the amount of ... life which is required
to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run."
    --- Henry David Thoreau, 1854

<solene> OpenBSD continuous integration 101: Theo yells at
         you when something is wrong in your patch
#openbsd, 2022-07-20

"We don’t need to fix the problem. We need a 30-page document
showing we discussed the problem with all the relevant
stakeholders and, as a result, have a strategy ready to
implement over the next 3-5 years to address the problem."
    -- Associate Deans (@ass_deans),
    https://twitter.com/ass_deans/status/1540943054563164162

<bremner> to err is human. to really fuck things up requires
          automation.
#debian-devel, 2022-05-26, regarding
https://bugs.debian.org/1011146

It's easy to have the courage of a lion, they're gigantic and
have no claws and no natural predators. Have the courage of the
guinea pig, a two pound meat potato with zero offensive or
defensive abilities, that will scream at an ape 100 times its
size if their lettuce is too wilty. — Cliff Jerrison

Sometimes, hurting someone is the kindest thing you can do.
-- me, 2021-11-20, meant in the same spirit as:
Better to get hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
-- Khaled Hosseini

Captain Penny's Law:
    You can fool all of the people some of the time, and
    some of the people all of the time, but you Can't Fool
    Mom.   -- MOTD on grex.org, 2021-11-20

<rak> TIL pickle/puckle mean a little bit in Scotland
<twb> Jings!  Ahm nae mithered, sae dinnae fash.
<sarnold> nac mac feegle wha hae!
<Myon> TIL you can't decode Scotish using rot13
(in #debian-til, 2021-11-15)

« Le gras c'est la vie! », Chef Michel Dumas,
https://youtu.be/2FaL2nB3OAY?t=415

* _jwilk sighs at hipsters requiring Go 1.16 (bullseye has 1.15,
         latest Ubuntu LTS has 1.13).
<_jwilk> They should rename the language to Go Fuck Yourself,
         because that's been my experience so far.
(in #debian-rant, 2021-10-14)

"Reasoning will never make a Man correct an ill Opinion, which
by Reasoning he never acquired" -- Jonathan Swift, 1721.
Sometimes paraphrased as: "You cannot reason people out of
positions they didn't reason themselves into",
https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/07/10/reason-out/ .

"The highlights of his waning administration include encounters
with Rudy Giuliani, a healthcare disaster and a dildo
collector." -- Benjamin Dreyer, regarding Oxford commas.

"The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of
magnitude larger than to produce it." -- Brandolini's law

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