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Liberty & Safety

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little
temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety.

— Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Reply of the Pennsylvania Assembly to the Governor, November 11, 1755

What use is it having lots of money

What use it it having all that money if you can never sit still or just watch your cattle eating grass?

— Mma Ramotswe

The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

Wikileaks accident?

Assange has made a lot of very powerful very self-important people look very stupid. They'll get him one way or another. I wouldn't be at all surprised if he tragically dies falling down the stairs in some Swedish police station, even if it's a bungalow.

— Andy Pagin

In a comment on this article (http://www.zdnet.co.uk/blogs/security-bullet-in-10000166/wikileaks-edito...) about the arrest of Wikileaks editor, Julian Assange

live each day as if it was your last

If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right

— Unknown

If two men agree on everything...

If two men agree on everything, you may be sure that one of them is doing the thinking

— Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908-1973)

You are slaves of the one whom you obey

Do you not know that when you present yourselves to someone as slaves for obedience, you are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin resulting in death, or of obedience resulting in righteousness?

— Romans 6:16

Praise without envy

Don't expect praise without envy until you're dead

— Joan Rivers

Outsiders need never know

Kagutui ka Mucii gatihakagwo Ageni: the oilskin of the house is not for rubbing into the skin of strangers.

Gikuyu saying. From Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, "The River Between"

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

— George Bernard Shaw

On the inevitability of change

Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine.

— Anonymous

Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices; and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others

— William J.H. Boetcker

The Weekend Sun. Friday 27 June 2008

Reclaim your computer!

A personal computer is called a personal computer because it's yours. Anything that runs on that computer, you should have control over.
— Andrew Moss, Microsoft's senior director of technical policy, 2005

The most serious impediment to a lasting archive is the evolution of media, platforms, formats, and the applications that create them. Unique, proprietary, and constantly evolving data formats such as Acrobat-4, MPEG-4, Oracle 8, Quicken 2001, Real G2, and Word 2000 suggest or even guarantee obsolescence.
— Gordon Bell, Senior Researcher in Microsoft's Media Presence Research Group.

LIMITATION ON AND EXCLUSION OF DAMAGES. You can recover from Microsoft and its suppliers only direct damages up to the amount you paid for the software. You cannot recover any other damages, including consequential, lost profits, special, indirect or incidental damages.
— Clause 26 of the Windows 7 License.

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