“Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.”
Tyron Lannister
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So that is why you have an event horizon!I won’t forget what I am, because I have no clue what I am.
The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters
Pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will
both gramsci
“Oh no, not again.” -Bowl of Petunias
your future hasn’t been written yet. No one’s has. Your future is whatever you make it, so make it a good one.
From Back to the Future.
Never argue with an idiot. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience. - Mark Twain
“I’m Batman.”
Some context, Batman says this frequently when explaining why a man dressed up as a Bat is there to a confused onlooker.
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Thanks, that clears it up
“Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb.”
- also Batman (in the 1966 film Batman)
“Man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.”
― Euripides
“Man was born free, but everywhere is in chains.” -Rousseau
Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it’s all over much too soon.
Woody Allen
“Gentlemen, I don’t know whether we are going to make history tomorrow, but at any rate we shall change geography”
General Sir Charles Harrington
Just before one of the largest non-nuclear explosions was detonated.
Not as positive, but definitely one of the quotes that gave me chills (and made more popular due to recent movie, I hope this is in the movie):
Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds
- Robert Oppenheimer, 1965 (quoting the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad-Gita: Vishnu)
… and not Ripple Rock in '69. Huh.
Here are a few nice ones, I can’t really pick:
“Capitalism is the extraordinary belief that the nastiest of men for the nastiest of motives will somehow work together for the benefit of all.” - John Maynard Keynes
(You can also apply this one to proprietary software vs. Free software (don’t say open source in my presence))
“The tyrants are only great because we are on our knees.” - Étienne de La Boétie
“Those who do not move, do not notice their chains.” - Rosa Luxemburg
In a similar vein “the greatest weapon in the hand of the oppressor is the mind of the oppressed” … Steve Biko
don’t say [those words] in my presence
Will I regret asking why?
Free software tells you “do whatever you want, you’re free” but open source completely misses the point: it means you can read the code, but not necessarily recompile, modify and redistribute. Plus the term was invented for the confusion that would come from it. For example, a lot of AI models like LLM’s claim they are “open-source”, which basically means nothing: it’s far easier to say that than to claim it’s a free model, because that would imply freedoms to modify, reuse, redistribute the training data, weight etc. (no AI model allows that for now, and there will probably never be one that does).
Not OP, but I personally heavily dislike the confusion surrounding those terms - that is IMHO entirely self-inflicted. “Open-source” referring to FOSS as a whole, and what open-source sounds like actually being called “source available”, is needlessly confusing.
I usually write FOSS since I like acronyms, but when I speak I’d say open-source. I don’t see how open-source is any more confusing than free software, considering most people would immediately think “free as in beer”.
If only the term “free software” itself wasn’t just as confusing lol
Good people do good things and bad people do evil things but for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Current mood is a toss up between
“I dream of a society where I would be guillotined as a conservative.” - Proudhon / “I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member” - Marx (Groucho)
I don’t want to believe, I want to know - Carl Sagan
“I’d love to agree with you, but then we’d both be wrong.”
