commit 0e85ab6de99c68bf20cb6aff2090dbf5a6f1cf82
parent c8764d30add5f0a53c8d102b590eaf004fcdcdcc
Author: Ed van Bruggen <ed@edryd.org>
Date: Fri, 7 Feb 2025 23:51:41 -0500
Add more quotes
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1 file changed, 52 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/data/quotes.yaml b/data/quotes.yaml
@@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ quotes:
- [ "A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible", "Freeman Dyson" ]
- [ "I never did give them hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell", "Harry Truman" ]
- [ "Looking at the earth from afar you realise it is too small for conflict, and just big enough for cooperation", "Yuri Gagarin" ]
- # - [ "See that's why we can't win. They fuck up, they get beat. We fuck up, they give us pensions", "Thomas Hauk" ]
+ - [ "See that's why we can't win. They fuck up, they get beat. We fuck up, they give us pensions", "Thomas Hauk" ]
- [ "This is America, you're either a duper or a dupee", "Frank Reynolds" ]
- [ "Freud was right about a lot of things, but for all the wrong reasons" ]
- [ "If you fail to plan, you plan to fail" ]
@@ -283,6 +283,7 @@ quotes:
- [ "You cannot loose if you do not play", "Marla Daniels" ]
- [ "I cannot remember the books I've read any more than the meals I have eaten; even so, they have made me", "Ralph Waldo Emerson" ]
- [ "As I discuss in my book, Earth in the Balance, and the much more popular, Harry Potter and the Balance of Earth, we need to defend our planet from pollution as well as dark wizards", "Al Gore" ]
+ - [ "How long before the hate that we hold lead us to another Holocaust? Are we so deep in it that we can't end it?", "Michael Render" ]
- [ "I’m so embarrassed. I wish everybody else was dead", "Bender Bending Rodríguez" ]
- [ "Anything less than immortality is a complete waste of time", "Bender Bending Rodríguez" ]
- [ "Tabloids are vitamins for the insecure" ]
@@ -294,7 +295,7 @@ quotes:
- [ "Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!", "John Brown" ]
- [ "The truth is usually just an excuse for a lack of imagination", "Elim Garak" ]
- [ "Don't worry, I don't have low self esteem, I have low esteem for everyone else", "Daria Morgendorffer" ]
- - [ "Newton's greatest invention was the derivative. His second greatest was the second derivative" ]
+ - [ "Newton's greatest invention was the derivative. His second greatest was the second derivative", "Bruce Hevly" ]
- [ "The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim", "Edsger Dijkstra" ]
- [ "Variety is the spice of life, except for actual spices" ]
- [ "I could call my old pal Hank Kissinger, I'm sure he has a few war crimes he never pulled off", "Sy Borgman" ]
@@ -383,3 +384,52 @@ quotes:
- [ "So is that the only super power you get, surviving winters? Because I've survived many winters without these berries", "Dennis Reynolds" ]
- [ "Smart, pyramid scheme and a time share. We're diversifying our portfolio", "Mac McDonald" ]
- [ "This city should not exist its a monument to man's arrogance", "Peggy Hill" ]
+ - [ "A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed, and is, thereby, a true manifestation of what one feels about life in its entirety", "Ansel Adams" ]
+ - [ "Spacetime tells matter how to move, matter tells spacetime how to curve", "John Wheeler" ]
+ - [ "It is entirely possible that future generation will look back, from the vantage point of a more sophisticated theory, and wonder how we could have been so gullible", "David Griffiths" ]
+ - [ "You could fill a library with all the things you don't know. In fact, they do, they call them libraries", "Paige Sinclair" ]
+ - [ "If at first you don't succeed, reduce your expectations until you're a success", "Shane Wighton" ]
+ - [ "As a modern American man I am woefully unprepared to manage a woman's emotions. I was never taught, and I will not learn", "Joseph Sugarman" ]
+ - [ "I mean no one wants to admit they ate nine cans of ravioli, but I did and I'm ashamed of myself", "Ricky" ]
+ - [ "One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibilty", "Albert Einstein" ]
+ - [ "How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism", "Howard Zinn" ]
+ - [ "You'd rather live in shit than let the world see you work a shovel", "Cedric Daniels" ]
+ - [ "We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring, will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time", "Thomas Stearns Eliot" ]
+ - [ "Perfect moments can be had, but not preserved, except in memory", "Leonard Nimoy" ]
+ - [ "Object oriented programs are offered as alternatives to correct ones", "Edsger Dijkstra" ]
+ - [ "Do you want to know the terrifying truth? Or do you want to watch me sock a few dingers!", "Mark McGwire" ]
+ - [ "The only art form that Americans have invented, that will commend us down through the years to posterity, is a music born primarily in a community that has the historical memory of being unfree is a supposedly free land", "Ken Burns" ]
+ - [ "Life and death are a seamless continuum", "Scruffy the janitor" ]
+ - [ "Baseball is a game of inches, or whatever is smaller than inches", "Nick Castellanos" ]
+ - [ "Your consistency enlarges your ability. Strive for progress not perfection" ]
+ - [ "See? You say something to someone enough times and eventually they internalize it, the system works", "Bojack Horseman" ]
+ - [ "We mathematicians work for the gruding approbation of a few friends" ]
+ - [ "For others, their technique serves their art, but for mathematicians our art is our technique", "broke math student" ]
+ - [ "Look at my life and look at your, get some ambious, why you bored?", "Kendrick Lamar" ]
+ - [ "Inclusion is not enough, diversity is not enough, we do not want to be included in a racist soceity where profit counts much more than human beings", "Angela Davis" ]
+ - [ "We are all agreed that your theory is crazy. The question which divides us is whether it is crazy enough to have a chance of being correct", "Neils Bohr" ]
+ - [ "Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?' Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand", "Kurt Vonnegut" ]
+ - [ "People can only undertand us at the depths at which they have met themselves" ]
+ - [ "The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence toward women. Instead patriarchy demands of all males that they engage in acts of psychic self-mutilation, that they kill off the emotional parts of themselves", "belle hooks" ]
+ - [ "In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn", "Phil Collins" ]
+ - [ "There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are", "Ernst Haas" ]
+ - [ "Whatever you now find weird, ugly, uncomfortable, and nasty about a new medium will surely become its signature. CD distortion, the jitteriness of digital video, the crap sound of 8-bit all of these will be cherished and emulated as soon as they can be avoided", "Brain Eno" ]
+ - [ "In our rapidly changing society we can count on only two things that will never change: the will to change and the fear of change. It is the will to change that motivates us to seek help. It is the fear of change that motivates us to resist the very help we seek", "Harriet Lerner" ]
+ - [ "I've selected Mariners because of the natural association between the sea and Seattle and her people, who have been challenged and rewarded by it", "Roger Szmodis" ]
+ - [ "Don't waste your time or time will waste you", "Matt Bellamy" ]
+ - [ "The thing I had on my side was patience. When you wait all your life for respect and equality and a seat in the front of the bus, it's nothing to wait a little while for the slider inside", "Hank Aaron" ]
+ - [ "The dilemma of life: you have to find meaning, but by the same time, you have to accept reality. How to handle that contradiction is a challenge to everyone of us", "Hua Hsu" ]
+ - [ "You might be able to fool the FBI but you can't fool the F-B-Me", "Jim Layhey" ]
+ - [ "How can you not be romantic about baseball?", "Billy Beane" ]
+ - [ "I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time", "Blaise Pascal" ]
+ - [ "If you study physics and history you can become a someone competent human being", "Bruce Hevly" ]
+ - [ "Although I don't understand ultimate frisbee, I imagine the history of class struggle could explain that", "Bruce Hevly" ]
+ - [ "Art is getting away with it", "Marshall McLuhan" ]
+ - [ "You just need a lucky ritual, Joe Demiago kept a penny in his shoe, and Ty Cobb would beat his velet", "Peggy Hill" ]
+ - [ "If you find that you’re spending almost all your time on theory, start turning some attention to practical things; it will improve your theories. If you find that you’re spending almost all your time on practice, start turning some attention to theoretical things; it will improve your practice", "Donald Knuth" ]
+ - [ "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler", "Albert Einstein" ]
+ - [ "No man is your enemy, no man is your friend, every man is your teacher", "Florence Scovel" ]
+ - [ "Being a good programmer is 10% talent and 90% not being distracted by the internet" ]
+ - [ "Mathematics is the art of giving the same name to different things", "Henri Poincaré" ]
+ - [ "One of the embarrassments of applied probabilty is that we cannot analyze the original game of solitare", "Persi Diaconis" ]
+ - [ "The tree that doesn't bend, breaks. Bend too far, you're already broken" ]
