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Sector 3.0 Worlds, to Bravely go where no One has Gone Before. Sherlock Holmes never said Elementary, my Dear Watson and for the skeptic, Conan Doyle never said so either. Why do you want to read your source code, the machine will. The only creature a hacker pets too soon is a mouse, yet Douglas Englebart takes credit for it. Tim Patterson wrote Quickn Dirty Operating System, Microsoft just ended up with Dirty, oops, Disk Operating System. Luckily they rewr
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A Collection by Sunil Beta Baskar God cannot alter the past, though historians can. Samuel Butler (19th Century Novelist, author of Erewhon.) I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult. E B White (US Author and Humorist, better known for Stuart Little) Fortune can, for her pleasure, fools advance, and toss them on the wheels of Chance. Juvenal The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable. - John Kenneth Galbraith How can you help me if you don't believe me? - Cole Sear [Haley Joel Osment] The Sixth Sense In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for it. They must not do too much of it. And they must have a sense of success in it. - (John Ruskin (1819 - 1900)) On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time. - (George Orwell) We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give. - (Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)) "For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - ( Prof. Richard Feynman ) "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has Landed." - ( Neil Armstrong ) "For believe me: the secret for harvesting from existence the greatest fruitfulness and greatest enjoyment is - to live dangerously." - ( Friedrich Nietzsche ) "I'm frequently appalled by the low regard you Earthmen have for life." - ( Spock, Galileo Seven, Stardate 2822.3 [Star Trek - TOS]) "You're too sharp. That's your trouble. You're like a drawn sword. Sharp, naked without a sheath. You cut well. But good swords are kept in their sheathes." - ( "Sanjuro", Akira Kurosawa )

"Danger always strikes when everything seems fine." - ( "The Seven Samurai", Kambei Shimada [Takashi Shimura], Akira Kurosawa ) "He who thinks only about himself will destroy himself too!" - ( "The Seven Samurai", Kambei Shimada [Takashi Shimura], Akira Kurosawa ) "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." ( Marcus Aurelius Antonius, Caesar Imperator [161 - 180 CE] ) "One thing is certain, the rest is lies." "One thing is certain, time flies." ( oft-quoted by my English Professor, K.G.Seshadhri ) "If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it..." - ( Albert Einstein ) "And the wall went down just as the windows went up ..." - ( Amartya Sen on 09-11-1989 or 09-Nov-1989)

"The Kingdom of your brother was here," indicating the heart, "and here," indicating the mind. "That Kingdom can never be surrendered." ('Balian of Ibelin' [Orlando Bloom], "The Kingdom of Heaven", William Monahon)

"I think a man does what he can, until his destiny is revealed to him." - ('Capt. Nathan Algren' [Tom Cruise], "The Last Samurai")
"Never let them see you bleed. Always have an escape route." - ( 'Q' [Desmond Llewlyn], "James Bond - The World is Not Enough" ) "First Things First." - ( 'James Bond' [Pierce Brosnan], "James Bond - The World is Not Enough" ) [reference to Stephen Covey's Book of the same name.]

"Those whom the gods love, die young." - Virgil (Aenid) "Fortune favors the Bold." - Virgil (Aenid) "Never Hesitate." - ( 'Olympias' [Angelina Jolie], "Alexander-2004", Oliver Stone ) "Snakes, They are like men, you can feed them, nurture them and live with them, but they can turn on you anytime." - ( 'Olympias' [Angelina Jolie], "Alexander-2004", Oliver Stone ) "All man's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a room alone." - Blaise Pascal ( src: ravi@codito.com's e-mail signature )

"... Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering." - ( 'Yoda', "Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace", George Lucas ) "The secrets of this earth are not for all men to see, but only for those who will seek them." - ( Anthem, Ayn Rand ) "Someone has to die Leonard, in order that the rest of us should value life more." - ( 'Virginia Woolf' [Nicole Kidman], "The Hours", Michael Cunningham ) "Forgiveness is between them and God, it is my job to arrange the meeting." - ( 'Creasey' [Denzel Washington], "Man on Fire", Tony Scott ) ( attributed to General Norman Schwarzkopf [of 'Operation Desert Storm' fame] ) "No Greater Friend. No Greater Enemy." - ( Lucius Cornelius Sulla's tombstone, "Caesar's Women", Colleen McCullough ) "Time is what stops everything from happening at once!" - John Archibald Wheeler (better known as Feynman's professor ) "You have to let it all go, Neo. Fear, doubt, and disbelief. Free your mind." - ( 'Morpheus' [Laurence Fishburne], "The Matrix", Andy & Larry Wachowski ) "The East has a way of swallowing its enemies!" - ( Aristotle, "Alexander [2004]", Oliver Stone ) rex sedet in vertice sits the king at the summit caveat ruinam! let him fear ruin! nam sub axe legimus for under the axis is written Hecubam reginam. Queen Hecuba. ( from: "Carmina Burana, 2. Fortuna Plango Vulnera", Carl Orff ) [Oh Fortuna!] Here you'll find my collection of quotes from the web. For most quotes, I have cited the source. Some of these I find amusing, others thought provoking or at times witty. I update this only when something perks my attention. I have included quotes from movies and credited actors when their manner of delivery brought attention to the quote than merely the words. After having adopted this format, some of the hyperlinks do not appear distinct, so youll have to mouse-over to check references. Sunil Beta Baskar (Last updated: Monday, 09 January 2012)