Quotation of the day for May 31, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 31, 2013 "Some days I regret having half of my body tattooed, just because it's like wearing the same shirt every day for the rest of your life." - Dallas Green, musician. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 28, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 30, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 30, 2013 "I hope this vile show dies a natural death very soon." - Brian May, guitarist of Queen, on the BBC singing contest program, The Voice. [http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2328467/Queen-guitarist-Brian-May-launches-attack-BBCs-The-Voice.html] Submitted by: M. McGuffin May 22, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 29, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 29, 2013 "You're only given one little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it." - Robin Williams, comic and actor. Submitted by: M. McGuffin May 21, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 28, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 28, 2013 "I've been forcing Yahoo and Tumblr to kiss for YEARS, so I guess this isn't a big a blow to me as it is to the Cumberbatch and cosplay community." - Julieanne Smolinski, on the aquisition of Tumblr by Yahoo. [http://boobsradley.tumblr.com/post/50912276832/as-the-most-enthusiastic-yahoo-advocate-im-aware-of] Submitted by: Bob Bruhin May 20, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 27, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 27, 2013 "Music alone remains alive, and in this beautiful country, the only other thing to do is to make love; the other pleasures of the soul encounter obstacles and constraints; in so far as one feels one is a citizen of the country, one will die poisoned by melancholy." - Stendhal, from Rome, Naples and Florence en 1817. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 23, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 26, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 26, 2013 "I do not expect this to happen in the very near future, but I do believe that by 2045 machines will be able to do if not any work that humans can do, then a very significant fraction of the work that humans can do....Does the future need us? By this I mean to ask, if machines are capable of doing almost any work humans can do, what will humans do? I have been getting various answers to this question, but I find none satisfying." - Moshe Y. Vardi, from The Consequences of Machine Intelligence, in The Atlantic. [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/10/the-consequences-of-machine-intelligence/264066/] Submitted by: Terry Labach May 21, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 25, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 25, 2013 "Now I become an activist to help the rest of the kids that are missing," he said. "So if you need anybody to be with you 100 percent beside you, come to me -- I'm the man. Thank you." - Felix DeJesus, as quoted in the Plain Dealer. DeJesus's daughter Gina was freed in early May after nine years in captivity in a Cleveland house. [http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2013/05/watch_streaming_video_as_gina.html] Submitted by: Rick Garcia May 8, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 24, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 24, 2013 This is the end Beautiful friend This is the end My only friend, the end Of our elaborate plans, the end Of everything that stands, the end No safety or surprise, the end I'll never look into your eyes...again - Jim Morrison, from his song The End, recorded by his band The Doors. Ray Manzarek, the band's keyboardist, died May 20, 2013. [The submitter notes: Ray Manzarek, RIP] Submitted by: Dana Weeks May 20, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 23, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 23, 2013 "You cannot change all the details of Plato's story and still claim to have Plato's story. That is like saying the legendary King Arthur is 'really' Cleopatra; all you have to do is to change Cleopatra's sex, nationality, period, temperament, moral character, and other details, and the resemblance becomes obvious." - L. Sprague de Camp in his book Lost Continents. Submitted by: Duffy O'Craven May 16, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 22, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 22, 2013 "I always, always, always show up on time. When my camera crew arrives in the lobby for call time, I'm already there. That comes from years of working as a dishwasher, as a cook, as a chef - working as part of a team and understanding that if you can't show the respect to your co-workers and employers of at least showing up on time, then there is no need to investigate what else is good or bad about you. It's always the thing I looked for in my employees. It spoke of character and that's something you can't teach people. Skills you can teach, technique you can teach, but not character." - Anthony Bourdain, celebrity chef and TV host. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 16, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 21, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 21, 2013 "We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about." - Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, quoted in The Atlantic. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 16, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 20, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 20, 2013 "This is a place where you're supposed to sip Scotch quietly and make sure that you don't cause too much ruckus." - Mike Duffy, journalist, on the Canadian Senate, speaking to journalist Peter Gzowski in 1985. Duffy later became a Conservative Senator and is now embroiled in a scandal over his large and dubious expense claims. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 19, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 19, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 19, 2013 "I guess I try to medicate my terrors by throwing myself into impossible tasks." - Baz Luhrmann, director, on filming The Great Gatsby. Quoted in "An Orgiastic 'Gatsby'? Of Course." An interview with Charles McGrath, New York Times, May 5, 2013 Submitted by: Peg Syverson May 14, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 18, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 18, 2013 "Cyber-utopians ambitiously set out to build a new and improved United Nations, only to end up with a digital Cirque du Soleil." - Evgeny Morozov, from his book The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 13, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 17, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 17, 2013 "The most obnoxious person at the theatre, after the woman with the crying baby, is the man who wants his neighbors to understand that he appreciates the play." - Willa Cather Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 13, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 16, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 16, 2013 "There is a historical inevitability to all this, of course. The market economy means that your choices will be dictated by corporate forces and the tastes of the mass market: you may love family-run shoe stores and funky diners, but the body republic has cast its dollar vote with big box malls and national food chains, so that’s what you will get. And the crowd has also chosen the automatic." - Peter Cheney, automotive writer, on car-makers moving away from manual transmissions. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk May 10, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 15, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 15, 2013 .When I think about kids watching a TV show like American Idol or The Voice, then they think, .Oh, OK, that.s how you become a musician, you stand in line for eight fucking hours with 800 people at a convention center and. then you sing your heart out for someone and then they tell you it.s not fuckin. good enough.. Can you imagine?. he implores. .It.s destroying the next generation of musicians! Musicians should go to a yard sale and buy and old fucking drum set and get in their garage and just suck. And get their friends to come in and they.ll suck, too. And then they.ll fucking start playing and they.ll have the best time they.ve ever had in their lives and then all of a sudden they.ll become Nirvana. Because that.s exactly what happened with Nirvana. Just a bunch of guys that had some shitty old instruments and they got together and started playing some noisy-ass shit, and they became the biggest band in the world. That can happen again! You don.t need a fucking computer or the internet or The Voice or American Idol.. . Dave Grohl (via blacktooth100) Submitted by: Terry Labach May 4, 2013

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Quotation of the day for May 14, 2013

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Quotation of the Day for May 14, 2013 "I hope I'm not going to shock anybody here, but the Chinese know how to make iPads. They have managed to exfiltrate that information from the U.S." - Marcus Ranum, from his keynote address to the 2013 EDUCAUSE Security Professionals Conference. Submitted by: Terry Labach May 10, 2013

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