“Today the network of relationships linking the human race to itself and to the rest of the biosphere is so complex that all aspects affect all others to an extraordinary degree. Someone should be studying the whole system, however crudely that has to be done, because no gluing together of partial studies of a complex nonlinear system can give a good idea of the behaviour of the whole.”
― Murray Gell-Mann, 1997

“In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.”
― Michael Crichton

“Vision is a process that produces from images of the external world a description that is useful to the viewer and not cluttered with irrelevant information.”
― David Marr, 1978

“Eliminative materialism is the thesis that our common sense conception of psychological phenomena constitutes a radically false theory, a theory so fundamentally defective that both the principles and ontology of that theory will eventually be displaced, rather than smoothly reduced, by completed neuroscience.”
― Paul Churchland

“Striking a balance in favor of individual rights has always been the right decision for us and that it remains so even when technology gives us new ways to exercise those rights. Individual liberty has never weakened us; freedom of speech, enhanced by the Net, will only make us stronger.”
― Mike Godwin

“The idea that all our pursuits can be distilled into neatly-defined objectives and then almost mechanically pursued offers a kind of comfort against the harsh unpredictability of life. There’s something reassuring about the clockwork dependability of a world driven by tidy milestones laid out reliably from the starting line. [...] Objectives might sometimes provide meaning or direction, but they also limit our freedom and become straitjackets around our desire to explore. After all, when everything we do is measured against its contribution to achieving one objective or another, it robs us of the chance for playful discovery. So objectives do come with a cost.”
― Kenneth Stanley, Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned

-: "No brain?"
-: "Oh, there is a brain all right. It's just that the brain is made out of meat!"
-: "So... what does the thinking?"
-: "You're not understanding, are you? The brain does the thinking. The meat."
-: "Thinking meat! You're asking me to believe in thinking meat!"
-: "Yes, thinking meat! Conscious meat! Loving meat. Dreaming meat. The meat is the whole deal! Are you getting the picture?"

— Terry Bisson, They're Made Out of Meat (1991)

Debian is like religion: releases are far and few between, but can stand the test of time.
Arch is like law: releases are on a roll and cutting-edge, but there is less stability.

“All work is as seed sown; it grows and spreads, and sows itself anew.”
― Thomas Carlyle, 1832

“For such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; Yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves: For they see their own wit at hand, and other men's at a distance.”
― Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan (1651)

“The assumption that what currently exists must necessarily exist is the acid that corrodes all visionary thinking.”
― Murray Bookchin, 1990

“Settler colonizers come to stay: invasion is a structure not an event.”
― Patrick Wolfe

“The trouble with America is that when the dollar only earns 6 percent over here, then it gets restless and goes overseas to get 100 percent. Then the flag follows the dollar and the soldiers follow the flag.”
― Smedley Butler, 1933

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“Most adults have some childlike fascination for making and arranging larger structures out of smaller ones.”
— Marvin Minsky, 1981

“Money is neither a material to work upon nor a tool to work with.”
— David Ricardo, 1810

“Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.”
— T. S. Eliot

“[W]e are now but on the threshold of the coming era of true cooperation. The time is fast going by for the great personal or individual achievement of any one man standing alone and without the help of those around him. And the time is coming when all great things will be done by the cooperation of many men in which each man performs that function for which he is best suited, each man preserves his individuality and is supreme in his particular function, and each man at the same time loses none of his originality and proper personal initiative, and yet is controlled by and must work harmoniously with many other men.”
— Frederick Winslow Taylor, 1906

“As a silly monkey like myself, anything I can do to protect myself, from myself, is a win in my book.”
— Aarimous

“All executive power – from the reign of ancient kings to the rule of modern dictators – has the outward appearance of efficiency.”
— William O. Douglas, 1952