commit 54a9cc1721bc2332efd2042cf99a6f01c22ca3a4
parent e9a758dbf6b823889d0ddd1bc46ea17785af378a
Author: Ed van Bruggen <ed@edryd.org>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2017 21:54:37 -0800
Add more quotes, remove some bad ones
Diffstat:
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/assets/quotes.txt b/assets/quotes.txt
@@ -110,7 +110,6 @@
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread" - Anatole France
"To accomplish great things we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe" - Anatole France
"Ignorance and error are necessary to life, like bread and water" - Anatole France
-"You think you are dying for your country; you die for the industrialists" - Anatole France
"If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing" - Anatole France
"Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another" - Anatole France
"It is by acts, and not by ideas that people live" - Anatole France
@@ -119,6 +118,15 @@
"If you want to accomplish something in the world, idealism is not enough — you need to choose a method that works to achieve the goal" - Richard Stallman
"Open source is a development methodology; free software is a social movement"
"I am a pessimist by nature. Many people can only keep on fighting when they expect to win. I'm not like that, I always expect to lose. I fight anyway, and sometimes I win" - Richard Stallman
-"People said I should accept the world. Bullshit! I don't accept the world" - Richard Stallman
-"You can use any editor you want, but remember that vi vi vi is the text editor of the beast" - Richard Stallman
"I'm not asking you to call it 'Stallmanix' right?" - Richard Stallman
+"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum" - Noam Chomsky
+"There'll be plenty of time to rest in the grave" - Erdős
+"Some French socialist said that private property was theft, I say that private property is a nuisance" - Erdős
+"The best chapters in our economic history are those that embrace the many, not the few" - David Cameron
+"Everybody thinks of changing humanity, and nobody thinks of changing himself" - Leo Tolstoy
+"The difference between the poet and the mathematician is that the poet tries to get his head into the heavens while the mathematician tries to get the heavens into his head" - G.K. Chesterton
+"Physics depends on a universe infinitely centred on an equals sign" - Mark Z. Danielewski
+"Freedom does not mean maximising what you are allowed to do, but rather minimising what you are obliged to do"
+"Capitalism tends to destroy its two sources of wealth: nature and human beings" - Karl Marx
+"Rights are to be taken, not requested; seized, not begged for" - José Martí
+"Shoot first, ask questions never but maybe apologize for the shooting because that probably wasn't helpful of me" - Linus Torvalds
