#quote
EDGAR: The prince of darkness is a gentleman.
— King Lear, III, iv
Fear of the people is the defect of all those who belong to authority. The people, as concerns power, is the enemy.
-- Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
“I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.”
— Mark Twain
#Q4TD #Quote #Quotes http://q4td.blogspot.com/2023/06/i-am-old-man-and-have-known-great-many.html
“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antoine_de_Saint-Exup%C3%A9ry
Only in respecting their human character do I respect my own.
-- Mikhail Bakunin
What new technology does is create new opportunities to do a job that customers want done.
— John Sexton
#quote #technology
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
― Andrew Boyd #quote
[ #Art • “Heart of Stone” by Shane Gallagher ] https://www.deviantart.com/shanegallagher/art/Heart-of-Stone-151665892
“Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.”
— Sherlock Holmes, in “Silver Blaze”
A quotation from Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Sr.:
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Professor. — What message do people generally send back when you first call on them?
Old Age. — Not at home. Then I leave a card and go. Next year I call; get the same answer; leave another card. So for five or six, — sometimes ten years or more. At last, if they don’t let me in, I break in through the front door or the windows.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wendell/61060/
A quotation from La Bruyere, Jean de:
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Discourtesy is not one specific vice of the soul but the result of several vices: foolish vanity, ignorance of one’s duties, laziness, stupidity, thoughtlessness, contempt for others, and jealousy.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/la-bruyere-jean-de/50904/
#quote #quotes #quotation #discourtesy #impoliteness #incivility #rudeness #vice
Alone, without any reference to his neighbours, without any interference, the artist can fashion a beautiful thing; and if he does not do it solely for his own pleasure, he is not an artist at all.
-- Oscar Wilde
A quotation from Russell, Bertrand:
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Since I do not admit that a person without bias exists, I think the best that can be done with a large-scale history is to admit one’s bias and for dissatisfied readers to look for other writers to express an opposite bias. Which bias is nearer to the truth must be left to posterity.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/61025/
#quote #quotes #quotation #bias #disclaimer #future #historian #history #humannature #truth
A quotation from Bierce, Ambrose:
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APOLOGIZE, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offense.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bierce-ambrose/39267/
#quote #quotes #quotation #apologize #apology #contrition #dissembling #future #hypocrisy #recidivism #regret
A quotation from Child, Lydia Marie:
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All who strive to live for something beyond mere selfish aims find their capacities for doing good very inadequate to their aspirations. They do so much less than they want to do, and so much less than they, at the outset, expected to do, that their lives, viewed retrospectively, inevitably look like failure.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/child-lydia-marie/61020/
#quote #quotes #quotation #aspiration #capability #disappointment
A quotation from Euripides:
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His mother was the high priestess. It was her right to go first. To begin the killing, and so she threw herself at him.
He tore the headband from his head so that she would recognize him — oh, poor Agave — to stop her from killing him.
He touched her face and said:
It’s me, mother.
It’s me. Your son, it’s Pentheus.
You…
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/euripides/61017/
📚 The Purpose of Education.
This quote comes from an article King wrote for the Morehouse College student newspaper, "The Maroon Tiger," in February 1947, entitled "The Purpose of Education.”
#quote #photo #mlk #civilrights #education #freedom #racism #SocialJustice #Inequity #discrimination
But if we could just celebrate all the wonderful complexities of people, the world would be such a better place. ~~ Elliot Page
Since I killed my son... the Dreaming has not been the same ... or perhaps I was no longer the same. I still had my obligations... But even the freedom of the Dreaming can be a cage, of a kind, my sister.
— Dream, in SANDMAN #69: “The Kindly Ones:13”
The only thing I am not entitled to is what I do not do with a free cheer, that is, that I do not entitle myself to.
-- Max Stirner
"Mathematics is an art. The difference between math and the other arts, such as music and painting, is that our culture does not recognize it as such." – Paul Lockhart
#quote #mathematics #math #maths
Today's #quote is:
"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."
(Eleanor Roosevelt)
When was the last time you "checked in" with the beauty of your dreams?
"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing." Baltasar Gracián #QOTD #quote #Friendship
A quotation from Bible:
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But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/bible/12813/
#quote #quotes #quotation #avarice #greed #money #riches #temptation #wealth
“You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.”
― Sammy Davis Jr. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr.
"We swallow greedily any lie that flatters us, but we sip only little by little at a truth we find bitter." — Denis Diderot — — — #DenisDiderot #quote #quotes #lies #truth #flattery #offensive #contradiction
"If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." — James Cameron — — — #JamesCameron #quote #quotes #goal #excessive #achievement #success #failure
"Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not." — Oscar Wilde — — — #OscarWilde #quote #quotes #quip #life #fairness #fair #happenstance #circumstances
"Computers are being called upon to perform many new functions, including the consumption of homework formerly eaten by the dog." — Doug Larson — — — #DougLarson #quote #quotes #humor #humorous #computers #blame #technology
"Even the worst book can give us something to think about." - Wisława Szymborska
#quote #quotes #quoteoftheday #quotestoliveby #books #reading #thinking #BeingHuman
“I don't know what to believe any more.”
“Well, that sounds healthy, anyway. Never be certain of anything; it's a sign of weakness.”
— Leela and the Doctor, in “The Face of Evil”
Anarchism is just the way people act when they are free to do as they choose, and when they deal with others who are equally free.
-- David Graeber
There are many reasons why Mitt Romney should not become president, but perhaps the most important of all is the narrowness of his experience, perspective and vision.
— George Washington
#quote #experience
“Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.”
― Judy Garland https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland
KING HENRY VI: How irksome is this music to my heart!
When such strings jar, what hope of harmony?
— 2 Henry VI, II, i
"If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion." – Dalai Lama
It is not another state that men aim at, but their union, uniting, this ever-fluid uniting of everything standing.
-- Max Stirner
“The only fool bigger than the person who knows it all is the person who argues with him.”
— Stanislaw Jerszy Lec
#Q4TD #Quote #Quotes http://q4td.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-only-fool-bigger-than-person-who.html
“Minds are like parachutes. They only function when open.”
― Thomas Dewar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Dewar,_1st_Baron_Dewar
“Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs.”
— Charlotte Bronte
#Quote #QuoteOfTheDay
A quotation from Jackson, Robert H.:
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The most odious of all oppressions are those which mask as justice.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/jackson-robert-h/16723/
#quote #quotes #quotation #injustice #justice #oppression #pretence
ICYMI: You can now live stream the top-trending hashtag and view the most popular posts from across the fediverse at https://elk.fedified.com - no need to switch servers, just log in using your existing Mastodon account.
Oh, yeah, and you also get:
✅ privacy-conscious #quote toots
✅ built-in language translation service
✅ an hones-to-goodness separate, real-time DM inbox
h/t @chrismessina for inadvertently volunteering for these screenshots, which feature the #WWDC23 hash tag ;-)
Do we call this the land of the free? What is it to be free from King George and continue the slaves of King Prejudice?
-- Henry David Thoreau
It is so wonderful to see the Monarch butterflies as they are now endangered. This beauty was sipping nectar from the pink Buddleia in the summer garden and the morning light cast a lovely soft glow on the butterfly and bloom.
Available here
https://www.pictorem.com/177454/The%20Beauty%20Of%20The%20Butterfly.html
#InspirationalQuote #MotivationalQuote #quote #MotivationalMonday #butterfly #nature #wild #wildlife #Insect #photography #MonarchButterfly #butterflies #MastoPhoto #PhotographersOnMastodon #BuyIntoArt #garden #gardening
This line from "This Island Earth" drive me crazy every time I hear it. :
"It's only Neutron, we call him that because he's so positive" - Ruth Adams -This Island Earth
“They're all having a marvelous time. It's great.”
“Well, thank you, little Miss Sunshine.”
— Death and Hob Gadling, in SANDMAN #73, epilogue to “The Wake”
A quotation from Joubert, Joseph:
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The end of an argument or discussion should be, not victory, but enlightenment.
[Le but de la dispute ou de la discussion ne doit pas être la victoire, mais l’amélioration.]
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/joubert-joseph/6582/
#quote #quotes #quotation #argument #debate #discussion #dispute #ends #enlightenment #goal #illumination #meme #progress #purpose #understanding #victory #winning
Capitalism and communism felt like they were always going to be around, but it turns out they were just two ways of ordering an industrial society. If you were looking for more fundamental human political poles, you'd take anarchy and fascism, for my money.
-- Alan Moore
“I once spent centuries, faithfully cataloguing every species there, every organism from the smallest bacterium to the largest ichthyosaur. But as soon as I'd finished, the whole world started changing.”
“That's life.”
— Light and the Doctor, in “Ghost Light”
Libertarian communism is as yet only an approximation, and not a dogma of absolute truth.
-- Daniel Guerin
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
-- Malcolm X
Even if a single United Nations World State would come into existence, it would solve nothing. It would still be composed of the reduced number of state organisms crystallizing around the remaining great powers.
-- Leopold Kohr
Only the shallow know themselves.
-- Oscar Wilde
@alisynthesis I have a #Quote for that!
“There is something to be learned from a rainstorm. When meeting with a sudden shower, you try not to get wet and run quickly along the road. But doing such things as passing under the eaves of houses, you still get wet. When you are resolved from the beginning, you will not be perplexed, though you will still get the same soaking. This understanding extends to everything.” - Tsunetomo Yamamoto, The Hagakure: A Code to the Way of The #Samurai
No #memes!
"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness." ~ Maya Angelou
As set forth by theologians, the idea of "God" is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.
-- Johann Most
The conditions of contemporary life encircle the workers on all sides, surround them, like water surrounds fish in the sea. The workers are not able to escape from these conditions.
-- Peter Arshinov
"#Rust developers usually are not just looking for "less buggy".
They are addicted to the clicky sound of legos." - by @Amirography in this thread:
https://floss.social/@Amirography@fosstodon.org/110486392843897963
Urgh, this quote is so 100% true!😄
Thank you @Amirography for expressing this!
I hate governments and rules and fetters. Can't stand caged animals. People must be free.
-- Charlie Chaplin
Some galactic hobo with ideas above his station... the cosmos is full of them.
— The Doctor describes the Black Guardian, in “The Leisure Hive”
“A good leader is a good listener, especially when it comes to design.” — Jared M. Spool
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#Design #Leader #Listening #Design #UxDesign #IxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Quote
Sociability is as much a law of nature as mutual struggle.
-- Peter Kropotkin
Is it not plain that all these governments are systematic poisoners, interested stupefiers of the masses?
-- Mikhail Bakunin
@jensscholz @breitenbach Ist das nicht die Pseudobegründung für die Zwangsgebühren?
"#Quote|n- und #Werbekunden-unabhängiger sowie neutraler #Journalismus?"
Weil zzt. siehts qualitativ eher aus wie #bwtv & #RadioAndernach: #Copaganda wird einfach unhinterfragt verteilt!
Sogar auf #YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=omzUM4ZM_BU
There's no point in being grown-up if you can't be childish sometimes.
— The Doctor, in “Robot”
Society, from which we have everything, is a new master, a new spook, a new "supreme being," which "takes us into its service and allegiance!"
-- Max Stirner
“The ‘H’ in ‘PROGRAMMING’ stands for happiness.” — David Bisset
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#Development #DeveloperLife #Development #WebDevelopment #WebDev #Frontend #Backend #Programming #Happiness #Quote
Others invent more or less complicated system of mutuality. But in the long run it is always the searching for a more secure guarantee of freedom which is the common factor among anarchists, and which divides them into different schools.
-- Errico Malatesta
We don't have faith; we have absolutely no confidence in our success.
-- Albert Libertad
Social ecology is based on the conviction that nearly all of our present ecological problems originate in deep-seated social problems.
-- Murray Bookchin
Those that envision the goal from the first steps, those that want the certitude of reaching it before walking never arrive.
-- Albert Libertad
Resistance to tyranny is obedience to God.
-- Susan B. Anthony
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes ...”
― John Steinbeck
(A flower farm in Jamaica. Photo by Jodi Cobb)
The Ottoman Empire was an ugly affair, but they had the right idea. The rulers in Turkey were fortunately so corrupt that they left people alone pretty much -- were mostly interested in robbing them -- and they left them alone to run their own affairs, and their own regions and their own communities with a lot of local self determination.
-- Noam Chomsky
“The great civil war... only the army survived.”
“Well, that sounds like a well-organized war.”
— Seth and Romana, in “The Horns of Nimon”
The revolution has cast a powerful net of sympathy among the workers of the entire world, and it would be most unfortunate if we were to deliver ourselves over to debates that are more or less partisan and biased and thus destroy the achievements to which this sympathy has given rise.
-- Angel Pestana
A quotation from Russell, Bertrand:
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In all affairs — love, religion, politics or business — it’s a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
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Full quote, sourcing, notes:
https://wist.info/russell-bertrand/3382/
#quote #quotes #quotation #acceptance #assumption #axiom #doubt #premise #questioning #reevaluation #reexamination #reexamine #revalidation #skepticism #takingforgranted
OK, das sieht alles wirklich ziemlich cool aus: @DataDrivenMD erweitert aktuell unter https://elk.fedified.com/ den eigentlich schon ziemlich tollen Client #Elk für #Mastodon um sinnvolle Zusatzfunktionen.
Da kann man sich mit dem Account einloggen und bekommt praktische Buttons für #Übersetzungen, eingebettete #Quote-Posts und jetzt auch noch eine Anzeige trendender Beiträge aus dem #Fediverse. Die sind leider englisch-lastig, aber das passt wohl zur Gewichtung.
Werd’ ich wohl mal wechseln.
OK, but what if you had #quote toots *and* trending posts from *across the fediverse* and it was all happening within Mastodon's existing privacy framework? Check it out at https://elk.fedified.com
h/t @ummjackson for graciously offering access to https://feditrends.com, which are used for logged out-users
The art we look at is made by only a select few. A small group create, promote, purchase, exhibit and decide the success of art. Only a few hundred people in the world have any real say. When you go to an art gallery you are simply a tourist looking at the trophy cabinet of a few millionaires.
-- Banksy
"...to be "feminist" in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression." - bell hooks
(the meme incorrectly capitalizes her name)
“To want nothing. Just to wait, until there is nothing left to wait for. Just to wander, and to sleep. To let yourself be carried along by the crowds, and the streets. To follow the gutters, the fences, the water’s edge. To walk the length of the embankments, to hug the walls. To waste your time. To have no projects, to feel no impatience. To be without desire, or resentment, or revolt.”
― Georges Perec
#quote #GeorgesPerec
“To replace programmers with AI, clients will need to accurately describe what they want. We’re safe.” — Milan Milanović
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#Development #AI #Chatbots #Business #Client #Programing #WebDevelopment #WebDev #Frontend #Backend #Code #Quote
“Professionalism is caring more than is reasonable to get it right.” — Dan Saffer
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#Design #Business #Design #ProductDesign #UxDesign #UiDesign #WebDesign #Development #WebDevelopment #WebDev #Quote
#quote | «The pressing ethical questions in machine learning are not about machines becoming self-aware and taking over the world, but about how people can exploit other people, or through carelessness introduce immoral behavior into automated systems».
precise and beautiful.
thanks for sharing @cogdog @epilepticrabbit
“We resist the notion that we’ll become mere handfuls of dust, so we wish to become words instead. Breath in the mouths of others.”
- Margaret Atwood, “Old Babes in the Wood”
@Radical_EgoCom It's false, the rich are productive. They produce misery.
ICYMI: Privacy-conscious and accessible #Quote Tooting, now available at https://elk.fedified.com — no need to change servers, and visible in all Mastodon clients.
The critical human flaw is not that as a species we're particularly aggressive. It's that we tend to respond to aggression very poorly.
-- David Graeber
Just updated https://elk.fedified.com to sync up with the main Elk repo, so now you get #quote toots plus all of the under-the-hood improvements. I also added a new "Dim mode" -- it's a theme that uses a blue hue with yellow-orange accents. It's a little more accessible to persons with certain kinds of color blindness.
To access the new mode/theme:
On desktop - click on the icon on the bottom right corner of the screen
On mobile - click settings, then "Toggle mode"
OK, so, what if you had #quote toots that were accessible and visible on all Mastodon clients **and** the app *also* automatically expanded links to *any public* Mastodon post that happens to appear on your timeline. And that linked post were fully interactive, so you could see all the images, follow the author, click through to reply, etc.? And all of this were done within Mastodon's existing privacy framework?
Sound good? Check it out at https://elk.fedified.com
https://fedified.com/users/DataDrivenMD/statuses/110398034263397484
It is from the love of humanity that we are revolutionaries: it is not our fault if history has forced on us this distressing necessity.
-- Errico Malatesta
“Don’t waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power—it’s time.” ~ David Crosby
@supernovae @stux While you wait for official Mastodon support for #quote posts, check out the Elk fork hosted at https://elk.fedified.com. It's an implementation that preserves the original author's privacy preferences while optimizing for accessibility
https://universeodon.com/users/supernovae/statuses/110406810957463994
Direct action is the logical, consistent method of anarchism.
-- Emma Goldman
“Calling it ‘content’ was the first step in convincing people that machines could make it.” — Peter Ramsey
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#Design #AI #ML #Chatbot #ProductDesign #UxDesign #DigitalDesign #WebDesign #WebDevelopment #Website #Blog #Content #Human #Machine #Quote
“As designers, we’re not just creating products. We’re creating a language, a dialogue with users that transcends the screen. A conversation that starts with a user’s first click and evolves with every interaction.” — Dylan Field
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#Design #Language #ProductDesign #UxDesign #IxDesign #UiDesign #DigitalDesign #WebDesign #Communication #Interaction #User #Quote
"It is also crucial for us to recognize that it is equally valid for a trans person to decide to transition and live as the other sex as it is for them to instead choose to blur gender boundaries and identify themselves outside the gender binary. There is no one right way to be trans. Each of us simply needs to figure out what works best for us and what allows us to best express who we feel we are." - Julia Serano – Whipping Girl
"And by the time I made the decision to transition, my gender dissonance had gotten so bad that it completely consumed me; it hurt more than any pain, physical or emotional, that I had ever experienced. I know that most people believe that transsexuals transition because we want to be the other sex, but that is an oversimplification." - Julia Serano – Whipping Girl
The awesome thing about open source is that, license permitting, you can build WTF you want. In this case, I added #quote toots to the amazing (and delightfully elegant) Elk client. It's still a work in progress, but you can try it out today-- no need to change servers or anything. Just log on at https://elk.fedified.com