Sky, on Homestuck “I need this to be accessible. I do not want people getting a faceful of alien wang who didn’t join alien wang.” –Amberite “People have gotten very tired of being told they are the product in social network businesses, but, hey, we did tell you, so you do not really get to be upset about it now.” –Warren Ellis, on Facebook’s emotional contagion experiments “Old-college nerds are the Freemasons of the new infrastructure.” –Amberite “Before you beat the canine, discover out the title of the grasp.” –Chinese Proverb “Half the shouting and social upheaval on the web as we speak comes from entrenched groups who are outraged to study that their opinions and views are not universally agreed upon; the other half comes from those whose silence was beforehand mistaken for assent.” –Charles Stross “I like my kitties on Roombas, dammit!” –Dan Kaminsky “I think it is time to finally legalize insider trading.” –Mary Jo White, Chairperson, US Securities and Exchange Commission “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its means by way of our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy signifies that my ignorance is just pretty much as good as your information.” –Isaac Asimov “Deep hack mode: That mysterious and frightening state of consciousness the place mortal users fear to tread.” –Matt Welsh “It’s like the traveling salesman problem – baffling to pc scientists but routinely solved by traveling salesmen each day.” –Anonymous Cow-Orker “If folks might be persuaded that Rush Limbaugh is a sentient human after listening to him for five minutes, why not Eliza?” –Paul Werbos, on chatbots beating the Turing Test “Crypto nerds typically tend to conclude that the reason the newest wonderful crypto-based mostly scheme is not successful is that persons are too silly to understand it. This isn’t a productive line of argument.” –John Levine “Our technology is the first, ever, to have made the search for self-consciousness against the law, if it is finished with the use of plants or chemical compounds because the means of opening the psychic doorways.” –Alexander Shulgin “An anarchist is somebody who doesn’t need a cop to make him behave.” –Ammon Hennacy “Secrecy hides privilege, incompetance, and deception of those who depend upon it and who would be disempowered with out it.” –John Young “I think it’s vital to remember that folks do not set their lives on hearth, they don’t say goodbye to their households – really pack up without saying goodbye to their families – they don’t walk away from their extraordinary – extraordinarily comfortable lives – I imply, I made some huge cash for a man with no highschool diploma – and, and, and burn down every part they love for no purpose.” –Edward Snowden Nelson’s Maxim: Cryptography with no risk mannequin is like cookies with out milk.
The problem is that idiocy is feasible and permissible, not that it is necessary.” –James A. Donald “I need you to know, I’m happy with you.” “Because I’m getting rid of crap? I think we’re doing fine thus far, with the possible exception of me.” –Eugen Leitl “Clippy is simply doing what’s greatest for you. Jerry Doyle “When you’ve got eradicated the unattainable, whatever remains is usually extra improbable than your having made a mistake in considered one of your impossibility proofs.” –Steven Kaas “In my experience, enterprise IT folks want to deploy a ‘resolution’ that has low capital value and low value to take care of, and that is perceived as ‘finest observe” relative to their industry. Thank Clippy.” –Anonymous Intern “There’s more to the realization of our roles than gaining flashy powers. Anonymous “There may be all the time a right time to reveal one thing.” –Andrew Hussie “The main worth in bandying about theories of prosecuting journalists is the hope that it will bolster the local weather of worry for journalism.” –Glenn Greenwald “Because our nation’s cyber safety is too essential to trust to people who understand it.” –Anonymous Cow-orker “We are able to play the sport of ”you do not know that for a fact” perpetually, however at the tip of the day, they will never enter court and let the court docket declare it a reality, in order that straightforward excuse is their recreation, their guidelines, their victory.” –ianG In a sufficiently vast universe, paranoia is merely cheap suspicion.
Wow, It really works actually fast sooner or later.” “It’s because I’m sitting right subsequent to you and you said ‘please’.” –Anonymous Cow-orker and Bryce “And while you’re lying awake at evening worrying whether or not the Men in Black have backdoored the CPU in your laptop, you’re lacking the truth that the software program that is utilizing the random numbers has 36 completely different buffer overflows, of which 27 are distant-exploitable, and the crypto uses an RSA exponent of 1 and AES-CTR with a hard and fast IV.” –Peter Gutmann “It’s tasty and it’s tender. As was every reality included in that bundle. Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 110-1 (textual content) (PDF) January 17, 2007 (No brief title) To redesignate the White Rocks National Recreation Area in the State of Vermont as the “Robert T. Stafford White Rocks National Recreation Area”. Robert Charles Brown. For companies to the fishing trade in Dorset. Pub. L.Tooltip Public Law (United States) 110-242 (textual content) (PDF) June 3, 2008 (No quick title) To make technical corrections to section 1244 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008, which supplies particular immigrant standing for sure Iraqis, and for other purposes.
Archived from the original on April 11, 2011. Retrieved April 22, 2011. Many influential Religious Right teams discovered themselves placed upon the SPLC’s updated record, together with the Family Research Council, American Family Association, Concerned Women for America, National Organization for Marriage, and Liberty Counsel. Cory Doctorow “There are no Dubyas or bin Ladens or Cheneys in my fiction: Nobody who’d exploit religious beliefs to promote genocide, or start a war for no better purpose than to revenue their buddies within the energy sector. My characters could also be compelled to do horrible things, however they don’t seem to be as a rule horrible folks. Or a minimum of, not as horrible as folks tend to be in real life. So, yeah. I’m most likely being too optimistic.” –Peter Watts “Every color is associated with any person’s unpleasant politics.” –Dirk Bruere Live a life worthy of Leonard Cohen lyrics. Everytime you say yes, your being opens. Being actually effective towards respectable threats typically just isn’t on their guidelines.” –Stephen Kant “When one thing is on the web, it authorizes folks to interact with it in probably the most half-assed approach attainable.” –Andrew Hussie “They fit you.” “Yes, but I really feel like the 80’s distilled whereas sporting it.” –The Doctor and Hasufin “That’s yoink to the yoink with a yoink.” –Hasufin “Tell me, what is that this?