sábado, 31 de julio de 2010

δημοκρατία

"El mejor argumento contra la democracia es una conversación de cinco minutos con un votante medio".

Winston Churchill, en un momento de preclara lucidez

sábado, 24 de julio de 2010

Físicos domestican el viaje en el tiempo, al prohibir matar a tu abuelo

En las especulaciones sobre viajes en el tiempo, la paradoja del abuelo consiste en la idea de que uno pudiera viajar en el tiempo y matar a su propio abuelo. Esto provocaría no haber nacido. Pero si no naciste ¿Cómo pudiste matar a tu abuelo?

El físico Seth Lloyd, del MIT, realizó experimentos con protones intentando de algún modo simular estas condiciones y se encontró que los problemas paradójicos, no llegaron a ocurrir:

Yendo hacia atrás y prohibiendo cualquier hecho que resultaría más tarde paradójico en el futuro, esta teoría desmonta incómoda idea de que un viajero del tiempo puede impedir su propia existencia. "En nuestra versión del viaje en el tiempo, las situaciones paradójicas son censuradas", dice Lloyd.

Pero esta afirmación en contra de los sucesos paradójicos, provoca con mayor frecuencia que sucedean hechos posibles pero escasamente probables. "Si se hace un ligero cambio en las condiciones iniciales, la situación paradójica no sucederá. Esto parece algo bueno, pero lo que significa es que si estas muy cerca de la condición paradójica, las diferencias ligeras serán muy amplificadas", dice Charles Bennett, del Centro de Investigaciones Watson de IBM en Yorktown Heights, Nueva York.

Por ejemplo, una fabricante de balas tendría una exagerada mayor probabilidad de producir una bala defectuosa, si esa bala exácta iba a ser utilizada más adelante para matar al abuelo de un viajero en el tiempo, o la pistola fallaría, o "alguna pequeña fluctuación cuántica desviaría la bala en el último momento ", dice Lloyd. En esta versión de tiempo de viaje, el abuelo, dice, es "un tipo difícil de matar."

Visto en Wired

jueves, 15 de julio de 2010

Repiblik d'Ayiti

Seis meses después y con un Mundial de por medio, Haití ha caído de nuevo en el pozo de la nada, de la ineficacia, la corrupción, el olvido y el silencio. Carlos Díaz en TV3, compone un excelente cuadro tan sólo con elementos locales:

sábado, 10 de julio de 2010

Über Quotes

43% of all statistics are worthless.
7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.
99% of lawyers are giving the rest a bad name.
A bachelor’s life is no life for a single man.
A bad plan is better than no plan.
A city is a large community where people are lonesome together.
A computer once beat me at chess, but it was no match for me at kick boxing. — Emo Philips
A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking.
A day for firm decisions! Or is it?
A day without sun shine is like, you know, night.
A drunk mans’ words are a sober mans’ thoughts.
A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular.
A generation which ignores history has no past – and no future. — Robert A. Heinlein
A gentleman is a man who can play the accordion but doesn’t.
A gentleman is a patient wolf.
A good pun is its own reword.
A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. — Winston Churchill
A little bit of powder, a little bit of paint, makes a girl’s complexion seem what it ain’t.
A little inaccuracy sometimes saves a ton of explanation.
A long-forgotten loved one will appear soon. Buy the negatives at any price.
A lot of people mistake a short memory with a clear conscience. — Doug Larson
A man on a date wonders if he’ll get lucky. The woman already knows.
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small package.
A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems.
A person is just about as big as the things that make them angry.
A professor is one who talks in someone else’s sleep.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
A religious war is like children fighting over who has the strongest imaginary friend.
A single death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic. — Joseph Stalin
A smart man covers his ass, a wise man leaves his pants on.
A Smith & Wesson beats four aces.
A smoking section in a restaurant is like a peeing section in a pool.
A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students
A weekend wasted isn’t a wasted weekend.
A witty saying proves nothing. — Voltaire
According to my calculations the problem doesn’t exist.
Admit nothing, deny everything and make counter-accusations.
Adult: One old enough to know better.
After all is said and done, more is said than done.
Alcohol is not the answer, it just makes you forget the question.
All generalisations are dangerous, even this one.
All hope abandon, ye who enter here!
All programmers are optimists. — Frederick P. Brooks, Jr
All those who believe in psychokinesis raise my hand.
All true wisdom is found on T-shirts.
All work and no play, will make you a manager.
Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code will be a violent psychopath who knows where you live. — Damian Conway
Always keep your words soft and sweet, just in case you have to eat them.
Am I ranting? I hope so. My ranting gets raves.
An apple every eight hours will keep three doctors away.
An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
Any clod can have the facts, but having an opinion is an art.
Any fool can know. The point is to understand. — Albert Einstein
Any time things appear to be going better, you have overlooked something.
Anybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
Anybody with money to burn will easily find someone to tend the fire.
Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral or fattening.
Anything worth taking seriously is worth making fun of.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
Are you wearing lipstick? Well, mind if I taste it?
Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity.
As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools.
Assumption is the mother of all screw-ups.
Atheists can do whatever the hell they want.
Attitude determines your altitude.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay…
Bad spellers of the world untie!
Bald guys never have a bad hair day.
Batteries not included.
Be good – and if you can’t be good, be careful.
Be good; if you can’t be good, have fun.
Be naughty – save santa the trip.
Be nice to your kids. They’ll choose your nursing home.
Be safety conscious. 80% of people are caused by accidents.
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder.
Beauty lasts for a moment, but ugly goes on and on and on.
Beer – the reason I wake up every afternoon.
Best viewed on my computer.
Better late than really late.
Between two evils always pick the one you haven’t tried.
Biology grows on you.
Blondes may have more fun, but brunettes remember it the next day.
Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the airplane, the pessimist invents the parachute. — George Bernard Shaw
Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men. — Kin Hubbard
Bravery is being the only one who knows you’re afraid.
Canis meus it comedit. My dog ate it.
Carpenter’s rule: cut to fit; beat into place.
Change is inevitable, except from vending machines.
Chaos, panic, pandemonium – my work here is done.
Character is what you are. Reputation is what people think you are.
Chicago law prohibits eating in a place that is on fire.
Children in the dark make accidents, but accidents in the dark make children.
Clones are people two.
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. — Mark Twain
Coarse and violent nudity. Occasional language.
Cogito cogito ergo cogito sum. I think that I think, therefore I think that I am.
Come to the dark side – we have cookies.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. — Pablo Picasso
Could crop circles be the work of a cereal killer?
Courage is being afraid but going on anyhow.
Crime doesn’t pay… does that mean my job is a crime?
Criminal Lawyer – a redundant phrase.
Cult: It just means not enough people to make a minority.
Dawn is nature’s way of telling you to go to bed.
Depression is merely anger without the enthusiasm.
Do not attribute to malice what can as easily be attributed to stupidity.
Does the name Pavlov ring a bell?
Does the noise in my head bother you?
Don’t argue with a fool. The spectators can’t tell the difference.
Don’t be humble, you’re not that great.
Don’t be irreplaceable. If you can’t be replaced, you can’t be promoted.
Don’t be sexist. Broads hate that.
Don’t believe everything you think.
Don’t cry because its over, smile because it happened.
Don’t follow me, I’m lost too.
Don’t let yesterday take up to much of today.
Don’t look unless you’re prepared to see.
Don’t steal a police car unless you’re prepared to floor it all the way to Mexico.
Don’t tell any big lies today. Small ones can be just as effective.
Don’t tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
Don’t trust reality. After all, it’s only a collective hunch.
Drive defensively – buy a tank.
Drugs cause amnesia and other things I can’t remember.
Dyslexics have more fnu.
Eagles may soar, but weasels don’t get sucked into jet engines.
Early to rise, and early to bed, makes a man healthy but socially dead.
Earn cash in your spare time. Blackmail your friends.
Earth first! (We’ll strip-mine the other planets later).
Earth is a great, big funhouse without the fun.
Eat drink and be merry, for tomorrow they may make it illegal.
Electrical Engineers do it with less resistance.
Elevators smell different to midgets.
Entropy isn’t what it used to be.
Even at a Mensa convention someone is the dumbest person in the room.
Every absurdity has a champion who will defend it.
Every man has his price. Mine is $3.95.
Every snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
Every solution breeds new problems.
Everybody has a plan, ’till they get hit. — Mike Tyson
Everybody is somebody else’s weirdo.
Everybody wants to go to heaven, but nobody wants to die.
Everyone has a scheme for getting rich that will not work.
Everyone is beautiful if you squint a bit.
Everyone leaves the world a little better – some by leaving.
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself. — Leo Tolstoy
Everything is always okay in the end, if it’s not okay, then it’s not the end.
Examine what is said, not who speaks.
Except for 75% of the women, everyone in the whole world wants to have sex.
Excuse me, is there an airport nearby large enough for a private jet to land?
Experience is something you don’t get until just after you need it.
Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes. — Oscar Wilde
F u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgrmmng.
Failure is not an option – it’s a lifestyle.
Failure is not falling down, it is not getting up again.
Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently. — Henry Ford
Failure teaches success.
Faster hardware doesn’t solve business problems – unless the business problem is slow hardware.
Fill what’s empty, empty what’s full, scratch where it itches.
Fine day to work off excess energy. Steal something heavy.
First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure. — Mark Twain
First rule of acting: whatever happens, look as if it were intended.
For a good time, call (415) 642-9483.
For every action there is an equal and opposite criticism.
For every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat and wrong. — H.L. Mencken
For good, return good. For evil, return justice.
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.
Freedom of speech is wonderful – right up there with the freedom not to listen.
Friendly fire – isn’t.
Friends help you move. Real friends help you move bodies.
Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate. — Thomas Jones
Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
Frog blast the vent core!
Gee, Toto, I don’t think we’re in Kansas anymore.
Getting screwed while everybody else is getting laid.
Give a jackass an education and you get a smartass.
Goals are deceptive. The unaimed arrow never misses.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
God made us brothers, but Prozac made us friends.
God will forgive me. That’s his job, after all.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.
Great thinkers have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds. — Albert Einstein
Half the people you know are below average.
Happiness isn’t having what you want, it’s wanting what you have.
Hard work never killed anyone but why risk it?
Hear and you forget; see and you remember; do and you understand. — Confucius
Help wanted: Telepath. You know where to apply.
Hey Santa, how much for your list of naughty girls?
Hey! It compiles! Ship it!
Hey, you want to go out for pizza and some sex? What, you don’t like pizza?
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defence.
Honk if you like peace and quiet.
How come wrong numbers are never busy?
How long a minute is depends on what side of the bathroom door you’re on.
I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn how to do it. — Pablo Picasso
I am not single, I’m romantically challenged.
I am willing to make the mistakes if someone else is willing to learn from them.
I can resist everything except temptation. — Oscar Wilde
I can’t complain, but sometimes I still do.
I can’t spell and beer doesn’t help.
I couldn’t repair your brakes, so I made your horn louder.
I didn’t say it was your fault, I said I was blaming you.
I don’t care who you are! Get those reindeers off my roof!
I don’t mean to sound bitter, cold, or cruel, but I am, so that’s how it comes out. — Bill Hicks
I don’t mind coming to work, but that eight hour wait to go home is a bitch!
I don’t suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it.
I don’t care to belong to any club that will have me as a member. — Groucho Marx
I doubt, therefore I might be.
I drink to make other people interesting.
I had a show. Then I had a different show. Now I have a Twitter account. — Conan O’Brien
I have a drinking problem – the bars close at 2 AM.
I have a strong will but a weak won’t.
I have often wanted to drown my troubles, but I can’t get my wife to go swimming. — Jimmy Carter
I intend to live forever, or die trying. — Groucho Marx
I know I’m paranoid, but am I paranoid enough? — Tom Clancy
I like being single. I’m always there when I need me.
I like long walks, especially when they are taken by people who annoy me.
I need someone really bad! Are you really bad?
I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.
I only drink to make other people more sociable.
I prefer old age to the alternative.
I quote people to better express myself.
I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person.
I still miss my ex. But my aim is getting better.
I think animal testing is a terrible idea; they get all nervous and give the wrong answers. — Peter Kaye
I thought I wanted a career, turns out I just wanted paychecks.
I thought I was wrong once, but it turns out I was mistaken.
I used to be indecisive but I am not sure anymore.
I went to a fight and a hockey game broke out.
I’d buy you a drink, but I’d be jealous of the straw.
I’d rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.
I’m a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I’m perfect.
I’m busy now. Can I ignore you some other time?
I’m not crazy, but the voices in my head might be.
I’m not normally a praying man, but if you’re up there, please save me, Superman!
I’m not paranoid, they really are after me.
I’m trying to see things from your point of view, but I can’t get my head that far up your ass.
If 50 million people say a foolish thing, it’s still a foolish thing.
If a camel flies, no one laughs if it doesn’t get very far.
If a man tells a woman she’s beautiful she’ll overlook most of his other lies.
If all the cars on the Earth were lined up bumper to bumper, some idiot would try to pass them.
If all the girls in Australia were laid end to end, I wouldn’t be at all surprised.
If all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
If at first you do succeed try not to look astonished.
If at first you don’t succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.
If at first you don’t succeed, failure may be your style.
If at first you don’t succeed, give up, no use being a damn fool.
If at first you don’t succeed, look in the trash for the instructions.
If at first you don’t succeed, quit; don’t be a nut about success.
If at first you don’t succeed, redefine success.
If at first you don’t succeed, skydiving is not for you.
If at first you don’t succeed, try a shorter bungee.
If at first you don’t succeed; call it version 1.0.
If Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?
If blind people wear sunglasses, why don’t deaf people wear earmuffs?
If everything seems to be going right, you obviously don’t know what the hell is going on.
If everything seems to be going well, you have obviously overlooked something.
If god is inside us, then I hope he likes Fajita’s, cause that’s what he’s getting.
If god is watching us, the least we can do is be entertaining.
If homosexuality is a disease, can I call into work ‘gay’?
If I look confused it’s because I’m thinking.
If I misbehave and nobody sees me, that’s one less lie I’ll have to tell later. — Dave Dunseath
If ignorance is bliss, why aren’t more people happy?
If it can go wrong it probably already has.
If it wasn’t for the last minute, nothing would ever get done.
If it’s stupid but works, it isn’t stupid.
If life gives you lemons, stick them down your shirt and make your boobs look bigger.
If oranges smell like chicken, why are tomatoes blue? Think about it!
If the early bird catches the worm, what about the worm?
If the opposite of pro is con, then what must be the opposite of progress?
If things get any worse, I’ll have to ask you to stop helping me.
If two wrongs don’t make a right, try three.
If voting could really change things, it would be illegal.
If we don’t protect freedom of speech, we will never know who the assholes are.
If we don’t succeed, we run the risk of failure.
If we’d stop trying to be happy we could have a pretty good time.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
If you are going to walk on thin ice you might as well dance.
If you are not committing any sins, you are probably not having a lot of fun.
If you are willing to admit faults, you have one less fault to admit.
If you can see this, you’re not blind, which is a very good start.
If you can’t learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
If you can’t remember, the claymore is pointed towards you.
If you cannot convince them, confuse them.
If you choke a smurf, what color does it turn?
If you didn’t get caught, did you really do it?
If you don’t care where you are, then you ain’t lost.
If you find a path with no obstacles, it probably leads nowhere.
If you lend someone $20 and never see that person again, it was probably worth it.
If you put it off long enough, it might go away.
If you take something away from users, they’ll sneak it in the back way.
If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
If you try and don’t succeed, cheat. Repeat until caught. Then lie.
If you understand what you’re doing, you’re not learning anything.
If you’re happy, you’re successful.
If you’re not having fun, then you’re not doing it right.
Illegal drugs are the chlorine in the gene pool.
In a world without walls and fences who needs Windows and Gates?
In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take.
In mathematics you don’t understand things. You just get used to them. — Johann von Neumann
In order to avoid being called a flirt, she always yielded easily. — Charles, Count Talleyrand
In the dark I hold your hand, because in the light you look like a man.
Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. — Rita Mae Brown
It always takes longer and costs more to fix it later.
It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. — Albert Einstein
It has recently been discovered that research causes cancer in rats.
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
It is easier to get forgiveness than permission.
It may be that your sole purpose in life is simply to serve as a warning to others.
It’s better to be a well-known drunk than to be an anonymous alcoholic.
It’s better to be wanted for murder than not to be wanted at all.
It’s better to keep your mouth shut and have people think you are a fool than to open it and remove any lingering doubt.
It’s like deja vu all over again.
It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required. — Winston Churchill
It’s not reality that’s important, but how you perceive things.
It’s not that I’m afraid to die, I just don’t want to be there when it happens. — Woody Allen
It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s how you look when you play the game.
It’s one thing to give advice, it’s another to take it.
It’s people that give drinking a bad name.
It’s the squeaky wheel that gets the grease.
I’m not mentally ill, I just have a problem with reality.
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Laugh at your problems; everybody else does.
Lead me not into temptation. I can find the way myself.
Learn from my parent’s mistake. Don’t have kids!
Learn from your parents’ mistakes – use birth control.
Learning from your mistakes is smart, learning from the mistakes of others is wise.
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse.
Let’s play carpenter, first we get hammered, then I nail you.
Life exists for no known purpose.
Life is a sexually transmitted disease — R. D. Laing
Life is an open door. It can be closed at any time, so don’t complain about the draught.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome. — Isaac Asimov
Life is what happens to you when you’re busy making other plans.
Life’s a bitch, and then you’re reincarnated.
Life’s a bleach and then you dye.
Light travels faster than sound. That’s why some people appear bright until you hear them speak.
Linux is only free if your time is worthless.
Linux: because rebooting is for adding new hardware.
Living healthy is merely the slowest possible rate at which you can die.
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. — Lord Dunsany
Look to the future, because that is where you’ll spend the rest of your life. — George Burns
Love is atemporary insanity curable by marriage.
Love may be blind but marriage is a real eye-opener.
Lunix… Because i’m better than you.
Make it idiot proof and someone will make a better idiot.
Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
Man who stands on toilet is high on pot.
Marriage is grand; divorce, a hundred grand.
Marriage. An expensive way of getting your laundry done for free.
Married men live longer than single men, but they’re a lot more willing to die.
Matrimony isn’t a word, it’s a sentence.
Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.
Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious conviction. — Blaise Pascal
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. ‘No’ is the answer. — Erik Naggum
Monday is an awful way to spend 1/7th of your life.
Monday is the root of all evil.
Money is the root of all evil, and man needs roots.
Money should be utilized as a tool. You just gotta know which nuts to screw.
Most people don’t act stupid – it’s the real thing.
Mother told me to be good, but she’s been wrong before.
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. — Woody Allen
Never argue with a fool, they will lower you to their level and then beat you with experience.
Never buy a car you can’t push.
Never call a man a fool. Borrow from him.
Never eat yellow snow.
Never get into fights with ugly people, they have nothing to lose.
Never hit a man with glasses. Hit him with a baseball bat.
Never interrupt your enemy while they are making a mistake.
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what is right. — Isaac Asimov
Never tell a lie unless it is absolutely convenient.
Never test the depth of the water with both feet.
Never try to teach a pig to sing. It wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Never underestimate the power of a small tactical nuclear weapon.
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups.
Never waste a lie when the truth will do. — Jack Clancy
Never, ever make absolute, unconditional statements.
No good deed goes unpunished.
No life is totally wasted, one can always be a bad example.
No one dies a virgin, life screws them all.
No-one suspects the butterfly!
Nostalgia isn’t what it used to be.
Not all men are fools… Some are bachelors.
Nothing is illegal if one hundred businessmen decide to do it.
Nothing will dispel enthusiasm like a small admission fee.
Of course there’s no reason for it, it’s just our policy.
Old age is nothing to worry about, except if you’re a cheese.
Old ideas got that way because they proved useful.
Old soldiers never die. Young ones do.
Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it’s hard to get it back in.
One way to stop a runaway horse is to bet on him.
Only dead fish go with the flow.
Only the winners decide what were war crimes.
Only users lose drugs.
Optimist: Someone without much experience.
Patience has its limits – take it too far and its cowardice. — George Jackson
People in cars cause accidents. Accidents in cars cause people.
People will believe any lie, either because they want it to be true or they are afraid it’s true.
Physics is like sex. Sure, it may give some practical results, but that’s not why we do it. — Richard Feynman
Pretend to spank me – I’m a pseudo-masochist!
Programmers never die. They just become legacy. — epsilona01
Programming is like sex: one mistake and you’re providing support for a lifetime. — Michael Sinz
Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
Punctuality is the virtue of the bored. — Evelyn Waugh
Quando omni flunkus moritati – when all else fails, play dead.
Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand.
Reality is a nice place, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
Reality is for people who can’t handle drugs.
Rehab is for quitters.
Religion cannot be without morality, but morality may arrive without religion.
Remember to always be yourself. Unless you suck. — Joss Whedon
Resistance isn’t futile, it’s voltage divided by amperage.
Roses are #FF0000, violets are #0000FF, all of my base are belong to you.
Save the whales. Collect the whole set.
Save water – take a bath with your neighbor’s daughter.
Send lawyers, guns and money!
Sex is like air; it’s not important unless you aren’t getting any.
Sex is not the answer. Sex is the question. Yes is the answer.
Sex on tv can’t hurt unless you fall off.
Sleep: a completely inadequate substitute for caffeine.
Smile, it’s the second best thing you can do with your lips.
Smith & Wesson: The original point and click interface.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics. — Fletcher Knebel
Software isn’t released, it’s allowed to escape.
Some cause happiness wherever they go. Others whenever they go. — Oscar Wilde
Some mistakes are too much fun to only make once.
Some people wish to get what they deserve, while others fear the same.
Sometimes a majority only means that all the fools are on the same side.
Sometimes the best helping hand you can give is a good, firm push.
Spelling is a lossed art.
Stop searching. Happiness is right next to you.
Stupidity, if left untreated, is self-correcting. — Heinlein
Support your local Search and Rescue unit. Get lost.
Sure, when… – oink flap oink flap – well I’ll be darned!
Systems aren’t made from metaphors, paradigms and methodologies. They’re made from code, wires and hardware.
Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.
Take it easy, and if you get it easy take it twice.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Teamwork is essential – it allows you to blame someone else.
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
The beatings will continue until morale improves.
The best things in life aren’t things.
The chance of a piece of bread falling the buttered side down is directly proportional to the cost of the carpet.
The computer was born to solve problems that did not exist before. — Bill Gates
The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits. — Albert Einstein
The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
The doctors X-rayed my head and found nothing.
The dumber people think you are, the more surprised they’re going to be when you kill them.
The early bird may get the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese.
The future will be better tomorrow.
The Killer Ducks are coming!
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The man who strikes first admits that his ideas have given out.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka!’, but ‘That’s funny…’ — Isaac Asimov
The only certain thing in life is death.
The only job you start at the top is digging a hole.
The only really decent thing to do behind a person’s back is pat it.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. — Edmund Burke
The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true. — James Branch Cabell
The person who knows how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
The problem with the future is it turns into the present.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple. — Oscar Wilde
The repairman will never have seen a model quite like yours before.
The revolution will not be televised.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The severity of the itch is inversely proportional to the ability to reach it.
The shortest distance between two points is under construction.
The sooner you fall behind, the more time you’ll have to catch up.
The Stock Market always does what you think it will, but rarely when.
The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.
The trouble with ignorance is that it picks up confidence as it goes along.
The truth is what is; what should be is a dirty lie.
The voices in my head may not be real, but they have some good ideas!
The web isn’t better than sex, but sliced bread is in serious trouble.
There are 10 types of people, those who understand binary and those who don’t.
There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
There are three kinds of lies: Lies, Damn Lies, and Statistics.
There are three types of people – those who can count and those who can’t.
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don’t believe this to be a coincidence. — Jeremy S. Anderson
There are two types of people – those who divide people into two types, and those who don’t.
There is no such thing as a stupid question, just stupid people who ask questions.
There is no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole.
There is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. — Bill Hicks
There is no time like the pleasant.
There’s a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot.
There’s too much blood in my alcohol system.
They call it "pms" because "mad cow disease" was already taken.
They’re only trying to make me LOOK paranoid!
Think much, Speak little, Write less.
This sentence contradicts itself — no actually it doesn’t.
This website may not be idiot proof, but at least it’s dimwit resistant.
This will be a memorable month — no matter how hard you try to forget.
Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do. — Isaac Asimov
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Time flies like a bullet. Fruit flies like a banana.
To be is to do – Socrates, To do is to be – Sartre, Do be do be do – Sinatra
To err is human, to arr is pirate.
To err is human, to forgive highly unlikely.
To err is human, to really screw up requires the root password.
To err is hunam.
To generalize is to be an idiot.
To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism; to steal from many is research.
Today is the first day of the rest of this mess.
Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
Today’s children would be less spoiled if we could spank grandparents!
Tomorrow will be canceled due to lack of interest.
Too bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
Too much of a good thing is wonderful. — Mae West
Too much of everything is just enough.
Tracers work both ways.
Trying is failing with honors.
Two possibilities exist: Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not. Both are equally terrifying. — Arthur C. Clarke
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but three lefts do.
Two wrongs don’t make a right, but two Wrights made an airplane.
Unix is user friendly – it’s just picky about it’s friends.
Veni, vedi, visa. I came. I saw. I did a little shopping.
Veni, Vidi, Velcro – I came, I saw, I stuck around.
Vidi, vici, veni. I saw, I conquered, I came.
Viewer discretion may be advised, but it’s never really expected.
War does not determine who is right – only who is left. — George Bernard Shaw
Warning: Dates in calendar are closer than they appear.
Wasting time is an important part of living.
We all can’t be heroes. Somebody has to sit on the sides and clap as they go by.
We found Jesus – he was behind the sofa all along.
We live in a society where pizza gets to your house before the police.
Welcome to Hell. Here’s your copy of Windows ME.
Welcome what you can’t avoid.
What happens if you get scared half to death twice?
What has been seen cannot be unseen.
What the hell, go ahead and put all your eggs in one basket.
What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
Whatever happens, ignore it all.
When a man steals your wife, there is no better revenge than to let him keep her.
When all else fails, admit i’m right and kiss my ass.
When blondes have more fun, do they know it?
When everything’s coming your way, you’re in the wrong lane.
When I am sad, I sing, and then the world is sad with me.
When I was young I was told that anyone could be president. Now I’m beginning to believe it.
When in doubt empty the magazine.
When in doubt, do what the President does. Guess.
When in doubt, poke it with a stick.
When it’s dark enough you can see the stars.
When someone points skyward, it’s the fool that looks at the finger.
When the pin is pulled, Mr. grenade is not our friend.
When vultures fly, are they allowed carrion luggage?
When you are in it up to your ears, keep your mouth shut.
When you don’t know what you are doing, do it neatly.
When you have nothing to say, say nothing.
Which is worse: Ignorance or apathy? Who knows? Who cares?
While having never invented a sin, I’m trying to perfect several.
Who are these kids and why are they calling me mom?
Whoever said nothing was impossible never tried slamming a revolving door.
Why buy shampoo when real poo is still free.
Why do they use sterile needles for lethal injections?
Why is the alphabet in that order? Is it because of that song?
Wise people think all they say; fools say all they think.
With a rubber duck, you’re never alone.
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.
Work harder: millions on welfare depend on you.
Work is the curse of the drinking class.
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength.
Worry is a misuse of the imagination.
Worry is like a rocking chair; it keeps you busy, but gets you nowhere.
XML is like violence. If it doesn’t solve your problem, you’re not using enough of it.
You are only truly in control of your life when you accept you are not.
You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word.
You can observe a lot just by watching.
You can only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. — Mae West
You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish.
You do not need a parachute to skydive. You only need a parachute to skydive twice.
You don’t have to explain something you never said.
You don’t learn anything the second time a mule kicks you.
You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life. — Winston Churchill
You laugh at me because I’m different. I laugh at you because you’re all the same.
You may delay, but Time will not. — Benjamin Franklin
You will be a winner today. Pick a fight with a four-year-old.
You’re driving a car. It isn’t a telephone booth, a beauty parlor or a restaurant.
You’re just jealous because the little voices only talk to me.
You’re not drunk if you can lie on the floor without holding on.
You’re only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Your true value depends entirely on what you are compared with.

lunes, 5 de julio de 2010

Get over it

By Eagles



I turn on the tube and what do I see
A whole lotta people cryin’ ’don’t blame me’
They point their crooked little fingers ar everybody else
Spend all their time feelin’ sorry for themselves
Victim of this, victim of that
Your momma’s too thin; your daddy’s too fat

Get over it
Get over it
All this whinin’ and cryin’ and pitchin’ a fit
Get over it, get over it

You say you haven’t been the same since you had your little crash
But you might feel better if I gave you some cash
The more I think about it, old billy was right
Let’s kill all the lawyers, kill ’em tonight
You don’t want to work, you want to live like a king
But the big, bad world doesn’t owe you a thing

Get over it
Get over it
If you don’t want to play, then you might as well split
Get over it, get over it

It’s like going to confession every time I hear you speak
You’re makin’ the most of your losin’ streak
Some call it sick, but I call it weak

You drag it around like a ball and chain
You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain
You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown
Got your mind in the gutter, bringin’ everybody down
Complain about the present and blame it on the past
I’d like to find your inner child and kick it’s little ass

Get over it
Get over it
All this bitchin’ and moanin’ and pitchin’ a fit
Get over it, get over it

Get over it
Get over it
It’s gotta stop sometime, so why don’t you quit
Get over it, get over it