November 10, 2005
Quote of the Day; November 12, 2005
"The argument for aboriginal whaling by the actual indigenous people is seldom made on a basis of subsistence, but more often because hunting whales is a 'cultural tradition of their people that must be preserved.' This, of course, is utter bullshit. It's a tradition of Americans of European descent to commit genocide on indigenous people, but that doesn't mean we ought to start doing it again. Even some old ideas are still bad ideas."
- Christopher Moore; Fluke
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August 12, 2005
Quote of the Day; August 12, 2005
Was having a conversation with a colleage over lunch on this very topic, and fortune produced this quote:
"No right of private conversation was enumerated in the Constitution. I don't suppose it occurred to anyone at the time that it could be prevented."
- Whitfield Diffie
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June 14, 2005
Quote of the Day; Tuesday June 14 2005
"Well sure the government lies, and the press lies, but in a democracy they aren't the same lies."
- Alexis Gilliland
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January 20, 2005
Quote of the Day; Thursday January 20, 2005
"Americans may be undereducated, lazy, and disorganized, but they do one
thing better than any people on the face of the earth, and that is watch
television. The average eight-year old American has absorbed more about
media technology than a goddamn film student in most other countries.
You can tell lies to them and they'll never know. But if you try to lie
to them with the camera, they'll crucify you."
- Cy Ogle, "Interface"
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December 23, 2004
Quote of the Day; Thursday December 23, 2004
'I'm always trying to look for bullshit in what I believe. But you can only do so much yourself. You need other people that are going to beat you up on your beliefs. We may do a show on libertarianism. We'd say that this is something that we really believe, and what does it look like when we attack one of our most cherished beliefs? It's hard to get a real science take on it - something that you could test.
I get that feeling that maybe I endorse some stuff that doesn't make sense, and I'd like someone to beat me up about that a little more. I have a certain kind of peacenik default in all my interactions. If you ask me, "Should we have been in World War II?," I instantly say no. World War I, certainly no. Vietnam, certainly no. Iraq, no. I really seem to think that the answer to everything is peace, and I'm not sure I can support that. I have this weird kind of feeling that if I knew enough, maybe peace isn't always the answer.'
-- Penn Jillette
ReasonOnline, "Love and Memory and Humanity"
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December 21, 2004
Quote of the Day; Tuesday December 21, 2004
"Science is best defined as a careful, disciplined, logical search for knowledge about any and all aspects of the universe, obtained by examination of the best available evidence and always subject to correction and improvement upon discovery of better evidence. What's left is magic. And it doesn't work."
- James Randi
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