Quotation of the day for November 30, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 30, 2014 "God said 640x480 16 color graphics is a covenant like circumcision. Children will do offerings. Think of 16 colors like the Simpson's cartoons." - Terry Davis, from the TempleOS Charter. TempleOS is a computer operating system developed by Davis in accordance with his religious beliefs. [http://motherboard.vice.com/read/gods-lonely-programmer] Submitted by: Rob Wood Nov. 26, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 29, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 29, 2014 "Washington has always needed an "ism" to fight against, an idea against which it could rally its citizens like lemmings. First, it was anarchism, then socialism, then communism. Now, it's terrorism. Any whistleblower who goes public in the name of protecting human rights or civil liberties is accused of helping the terrorists." - John Kiriakou, whistleblower [http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/aug/06/obama-abuse-espionage-act-mccarthyism] Submitted by: Rob Wood Nov. 24, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 28, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 28, 2014 "Then there's some really eldritch stuff, like: Are you okay with mastering for iTunes? What does that even mean? The album's already mastered, which was already a pain in the ass. And why bother? Everyone listens to music on rotten little computer speakers or those miserable earbud things." - Donald Fagen, musician, from his book Eminent Hipsters. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 26, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 27, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 27, 2014 "Here I am also saying that mutants are dangerous to us ordinaries, a view which John W. Campbell, Jr. deplored. We were supposed to view them as our leaders. But I always felt uneasy as to how they would view us. I mean, maybe they wouldn't want to lead us. Maybe from their superevolved lofty level we wouldn't seem worth leading. Anyhow, even if they agreed to lead us, I felt uneasy as to where we would wind up going. It might have something to do with buildings marked SHOWERS but which really weren't." - Philip K. Dick, writer, on differing views in science fiction. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 26, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 26, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 26, 2014 "Sleep is an uncompromising interruption of the theft of time from us by capitalism. Most of the the seemingly irreducible necessities of human life - hunger, thirst, sexual desire, and recently the need for friendship - have been remade into commodified or financialized forms. Sleep poses the idea of a human need and interval of time that cannot be colonized and harnessed to a massive engine of profitability, and thus remains an incongruous anomaly and site of crisis in the global present. In spite of all the scientific research in this area, it frustrates and confounds strategies to exploit and reshape it. The stunning, inconceivable reality is that nothing of value can be extracted from it." - Jonathan Crary, in his book 24/7: Late Capitalism and the Ends of Sleep. Submitted by: Rob Wood Nov. 24, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 25, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 25, 2014 "A woman equals envy plus vanity plus chatter plus a confused mind." - Coco Chanel Submitted by: Rob Wood Nov. 24, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 22, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 22, 2014 Vargas-Cooper: The lawyer lady also said he violated the Patriot Act. Maass: A ham sandwich can get indicted under the Patriot Act for crossing the street. - Natasha Vargas-Cooper and Peter Maass, from a discussion of how computer security issues were presented in an episode of the television series The Newsroom. [https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/11/17/newsroom-fbi-breaks-encrypted-filing-cabinet/] Submitted by: Rob Wood Nov. 21, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 21, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 21, 2014 "We know that most Canadians are inactive and in most cases unfit, and when we get these big snowfalls and go out shovelling, sometimes, the literal physical stress we put on our body is just too much." - Matthew Mayer, a senior specialist of research at the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada. [http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/how-shovelling-snow-can-shock-your-heart-1.2841919] Submitted by: Rob Wood Nov. 21, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 20, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 20, 2014 "They would say this isn't your job, or you'd be told you don't have enough information to make those kinds of judgments. You'd basically be instructed not to worry about it.... This was when I really started seeing how easy it is to divorce power from accountability, and how the higher the levels of power, the less oversight and accountability there was." - Edward Snowden, NSA whistleblower, quoted in Glenn Greenwald's book No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the US Surveillance State. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 20, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 19, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 19, 2014 "Most men, it seems to me, do not care for Nature and would sell their share in all her beauty, as long as they may live, for a stated sum -- many for a glass of rum. Thank God, men cannot as yet fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth!" - Henry David Thoreau, in his Journal, 3 January 1861. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 17, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 18, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 18, 2014 "I always say, as you know, that if my fellow citizens want to go to Hell I will help them. It's my job." - Oliver Wendell Holmes, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, in a letter to Harold Laski. Submitted by: M. McGuffin Nov. 9, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 17, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 17, 2014 "Civilization is arguably a story of an expanding moral circle. Over time we've extended kindness from kin to tribe to nation and beyond. In 1776 when Thomas Jefferson declared "all men are created equal" he implicitly excluded women, African Americans, Native Americans, Jews, Quakers, Catholics, men without property, and anyone under 21. The Rights of Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness applied to less than ten percent of the human population. Whether we'll extend ourselves further, or not, is unclear, but shouldn't we take the time to consider our principles of classification? Is the boundary of our moral circle fuzzy or fixed? Is the center sentience or suffering? How do we circumscribe empathy?" - Peter Morville, Intertwingled. Submitted by: Margaret A. Syverson Nov. 10, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 13, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 13, 2014 "In such different domains as statistical physics and spin glasses, neurosciences, social science, economics and finance, large ensemble of interacting individuals taking their decisions either in accordance (mainstream) or against (hipsters) the majority are ubiquitous. Yet, trying hard to be different often ends up in hipsters consistently taking the same decisions, in other words all looking alike." - Jonathan Touboul, in the paper 'The hipster effect: When anticonformists all look the same.' [http://arxiv.org/pdf/1410.8001v1.pdf] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 11, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 12, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 12, 2014 "The Internet is moving so quickly that law enforcement cannot keep up. If there were one thing that I would ask for discussion on is that there has to be some mechanism of accountability for you to sign on to an Internet account that makes it like a digital fingerprint that identifies it to you sitting behind the computer or something at that time. There are mechanisms to do it, but the Internet is so big and so vast at this point, and it's worldwide, I'm not sure how that could happen, but that would certainly assist everybody. In that way I can make a digital qualification that that's the person that I'm talking to. If I had one choice, that's what I would ask for." - Scott Naylor, of the Ontario Provincial Police, testifying in front of a Senate Committee in early November 2014. [http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2014/11/ontario-provincial-police-recommend-ending-anonymity-internet/] Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 11, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 11, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 11, 2014 "Mr. Ives' style is sadly familiar here...at any rate in households where the baby or the cat has access to the piano." - Percy Goetschius, on the music of Charles Ives, in the journal Music & Letters. Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 10, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 10, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 10, 2014 "When we are forty let younger and stronger men than we throw us in the waste paper basket like useless manuscripts! They will come against us from afar, leaping on the light cadence of their first poems, clutching the air with their predatory fingers and sniffing at the gates of the academies the good scent of our decaying spirits, already promised to the catacombs of the libraries." - F. T. Marinetti, from The Futurist Manifesto (1909). [http://vserver1.cscs.lsa.umich.edu/~crshalizi/T4PM/futurist-manifesto.html] Submitted by: Mike Krawchuk Nov. 10, 2014

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Quotation of the day for November 9, 2014

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Quotation of the Day for November 9, 2014 "The fall of the Berlin Wall showed us that dreams can come true - and that nothing has to stay the way it is, no matter how high the hurdles might seem to be." - Angela Merke, German Chancellor, on the 25th anniversary of the opening of the Berlin Wall on Nov. 9, 1989. Submitted by: Terry Labach Nov. 9, 2014

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