mitchbones’s most recent Quotables

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do.

A lot of the people who call themselves Left I would regard as proto-fascists.

If you believe in freedom of speech, you believe in freedom of speech for views you don't like.

Unfortunately, you can't vote the rascals out, because you never voted them in, in the first place.

"Tough love" is just the right phrase: love for the rich and privileged, tough for everyone else.

The most effective way to restrict democracy is to transfer decision-making from the public arena to unaccountable institutions: kings and princes, priestly castes, military juntas, party dictatorships, or modern corporations.

There's a good reason why nobody studies history. It just teaches you too much.

If you assume that there's no hope, you guarantee that there will be no hope. If you assume that there is an instinct for freedom, there are opportunities to change things, there's a chance you may contribute to making a better world. That's your choice.

I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. - Bene Gesserit

Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law.

Don't settle for any one language or skill. If you had to pick one skill to be good at in software, I'd say pick 'an ability to easily and readily pick up whatever technology best solves the problem at hand.' Run virtual machines on your computer and keep doing your .net, also keep doing your open source stuff, and start learning newer languages like ruby and python.
Go super sayan on that shit nigga.

Whoever lays his hand on me to govern me is a usurper and tyrant, and I declare him my enemy.

"I THREW THAT SHIT BEFORE I WALKED IN THE ROOM!"

Jane Austen? Why I go so far as to say that any library is a good library that does not contain a volume by Jane Austen. Even if it contains no other book

A person who won't read has no advantage over one who can't read.

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain.

Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on or by imbeciles who really mean it.

Loyalty to country ALWAYS. Loyalty to government, when it deserves it.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Good friends, good books & a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.