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Tom
Big Wall climber
San Luis Obispo CA
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May 30, 2011 - 05:59am PT
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I went into the Mountain Shop, because I wanted to be cool.
Now, then, you have to make sure you don't get your velocity mixed up with your veracity.
 Neal Cassady
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Fixdpin
Trad climber
Springville,CA
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May 30, 2011 - 08:43am PT
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"Hey man, that ain't no 5.9!"
John Long after doing Thin Ice at the Needles, Giant Sequoia National Monument.
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guido
Trad climber
Santa Cruz/New Zealand/South Pacific
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May 30, 2011 - 02:26pm PT
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Shit! Someone just cashed my reality check.
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rmuir
Social climber
From the Time Before the Rocks Cooled.
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Recently found on a note pad I used to keep handy for gathering favorite sayings. The attributes are all pretty accurate, I think.
>After careful research, it has been determined that a resource was completely
> ignored in the frenzy of Y2K testing and has now surfaced to haunt Sysadmin
> and Technical Support personnel. The EBCC/LIC(1) isn't Y2K compliant and
> should be handled with extreme care until a patch can be created and applied.
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> (1) Equipment Between Computer and Chair/ Luser in Chair
That one's going in the excuse database. I just used it in an e-mail, and
one PHB said, "good that you're keeping up with this. when will it be taken
care of?" Blissfully clueless lot. Makes me wonder just _how_far I can take
acronyms.
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"Lasciate ogne speranza, voi ch'intrate."
-- Dante Alighieri, "La Divina Commedia"
It's is not, it isn't ain't, and it's it's, not its, if you mean it is.
If you don't, it's its. Then too, it's hers. It isn't her's. It isn't
our's either. It's ours, and likewise yours and theirs.
-- Oxford University Press, Edpress News
"I prefer rogues to imbeciles, because they sometimes take a rest."
-- Alexandre Dumas (fils)
Don't remember what you can infer.
-- Harry Tennant
"The truth will set you free, but first it will piss you off"
-- Angela P. Elliott
aibohphobia n. A fear of palindromes.
S A T O R
A R E P O
T E N E T
O P E R A
R O T A S
On action alone be thy interest, never on its fruits.
-- ("Bhagavad Gita")
I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less
than half of you half as well as you deserve.
-- Bilbo Baggins, _Lord of the Rings_
NP: _Best of King's X_ - King's X / "QUIDQUID LATINE DICTUM SIT,
PROFUNDUM VIDITUR"
(Whatever is said in Latin appears profound) - from COL users mailing
list
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. Whatever I can pry up is not nailed down.
-- Collis P. Huntingdon, railroad tycoon
"That is the sort of arrant pedantry up with which I shall not put."
OS X: Because making Unix user-friendly was easier than debugging Windows
-- Simon Slavin, on a.f.c
"Speed is subsittute fo accurancy."
If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
-- Freeman Dyson
"Doveriai no proveriai." (Trust but verify.)
-- Russian proverb, as quoted by Ronald Reagan
The differential of hi over ho is ho di hi minus hi d ho ho over ho ho.
Esse Quam Vederi -- that is the motto of the state of North Carolina, and for those of you who learned languages like Perl in High School instead of Latin, it means "To Be, Rather Than To Seem".
"The State of California has no business subsidizing intellectual
curiosity."
-- Ronald Reagan
"When in fear, and when in doubt;
Run in circles, scream and shout!"
-- Robert Heinlein
"A man, a plan, a canoe, pasta, heros, rajahs, a coloratura, maps, snipe, percale, macaroni, a gag, a banana bag, a tan, a tag, a banana bag again (or a camel), a crepe, pins, Spam, a rut, a Rolo, cash, a jar, sore hats, a peon, a canal-- Panama!"
-- Guy Steele Jr., CLTL2
"Some people are heroes. And some people jot down notes."
-- Terry Pratchett, The Truth
"The only cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity."
-- Dorothy Parker
"Their incompetence robs them of the ability to realize it."
-- Kruger/Dunning, Journal of Personality & Social Psychology,
Dec. 1999, on incompetent people.
"I don't have any solution but I certainly admire the problem."
-- Ashleigh Brilliant
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character,
give him power.
-- Abraham Lincoln
If anyone disagrees with any statement I make, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also to deny under oath that I ever made it.
-- T. Lehrer
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement...let me go upstairs and check.
-- M.C. Escher
The most dementing of all modern sins: the inability to distinguish excellence
from success.
-- David Hare
With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not necessarily a good
idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to land, and it could be dangerous
sitting under them as they fly overhead. [RFC1925 - section 2, subsection 3]
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
-- Elbert Hubbard
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
-- Lily Tomlin
Eisenhower was very nice,
Nixon was his only vice.
-- C. Degen
"There's no shame in giving in when you've got no alternative whatsoever."
-- Terry Pratchett, "The Dark Side of the Sun"
All that is necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing...
-- Edmund Burke
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote."
--Benjamin Franklin, 1759
There is more simplicity in the man who eats caviar on impulse than in the man who eats Grape-Nuts on principle.
-- G.K. Chesterton
There are only 10 types of people in this world: those who understand
binary, and those who don't.
-- Arne Buhmann
Prediction is difficult, especially of the future.
--- Niels Bohr
The future always comes too fast and in the wrong order.
-- Alvin Toffler
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.
-- Vernon Schryver
Getting an education was a bit like a communicable sexual disease. It made you unsuitable for a lot of jobs and then you had the urge to pass it on.
--Hogfather, by Terry Pratchett
Sending >500KB attachments is forbidden by the Geneva Convention. Your country may be at risk if you fail to comply.
-- ntk
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains
to be done.
-- Marie Curie
Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.
-- Hector Berlioz
Reality is what you bump into when you walk around with your eyes closed.
-- Raymond Fiest
In part of the 1700s, American currency was measured in bytes. Two bits is simply 25 cents, a quarter of a byte.
--AJR in asr
The truly paranoid administrator may wish to place motion detectors in the air ducts.
-- Practical UNIX & Internet Security, 2nd Edition
"The key words 'MUST', 'MUST NOT', 'DO', 'DON'T', 'REQUIRED', 'SHALL', 'SHALL NOT', 'SHOULD', 'SHOULD NOT', 'RECOMMENDED', 'MAY', 'MAY BE' and 'OPTIONAL' in this document do not mean anything."
-- RFC 3251
It taketh but short space to craze men of indifferent understanding with a new thing.
-- Mark Twain
Networks are like sewers... My job is to make sure your data goes away when you
flush, and to stop the rats climbing into your toilet through the pipes.
-- Network administration, as told by Tanuki
The Internet is totally out of control, impossible to map accurately, and being used
far beyond its original intentions. So far, so good.
-- Dr. Dobb's Journal May 1993
The mere act of drinking beer in an attempt to measure your tolerance is likely to affect your impression of how many beers you've drunk.
-- The Heineken uncertainty principle.
What did you do to the cat? It looks half-dead.
-- Schroedinger's wife
"Men are from Mars, women are from Venus, pop psychology is from Uranus."
-- Ben@lspace.org
"My place of work has certainly heard of karoshi. They think it's a good idea."
-- Dave Brown
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Fixdpin
Trad climber
Springville,CA
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"Shut up when you're talking to me!"
Israeli tank commander
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High Fructose Corn Spirit
Gym climber
-A community of hairless apes
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Jun 16, 2011 - 08:50pm PT
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“More than at any time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
—Woody Allen
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o-man
Social climber
Paia,Maui,HI
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Jun 16, 2011 - 09:43pm PT
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"Don't look at me in that tone of voice!"
Deke Cook
"If can,can
If no can, no can"
Pidgin Philosopher
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rockermike
Trad climber
Berkeley
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Topic Author's Reply - Jul 14, 2011 - 12:00pm PT
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"every man dies, not every man lives" -William Wallace
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this just in
climber
north fork
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Jul 14, 2011 - 12:02pm PT
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"Sh#t, If it's going to be this kind of party I'm gonna stick my dick in the mashed potatoes."
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MisterE
Social climber
CA
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Jul 14, 2011 - 12:07pm PT
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The Revolution will not be motorized
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Gary
climber
Desolation Basin, Calif.
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Jul 14, 2011 - 12:09pm PT
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“If I decide to be an idiot, then I'll be an idiot on my own accord.”
JS Bach
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Studly
Trad climber
WA
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Jul 14, 2011 - 12:11pm PT
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I could take a good look at a t-bone steak by sticking my head up a bull's ass, but I would rather take the butchers word on it.
Tommy boy
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Chango
Trad climber
norcal
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Jul 14, 2011 - 01:49pm PT
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“I have made an important discovery…that alcohol, taken in sufficient quantities , produces all the effects of intoxication. ” ~ Oscar Wilde
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justin01
Trad climber
sacramento
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Jul 14, 2011 - 02:08pm PT
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“I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.”
Thomas Paine, December 23, 1776
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neversummer
Trad climber
30 mins. from suicide USA
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Jul 14, 2011 - 02:41pm PT
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"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria."
Ben Franklin.
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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Jul 15, 2011 - 08:02pm PT
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Got these off the radio today. I can't offer attribution.
"Inequity leads inevitably to iniquity."
"You can't be too careful when you're dealing with a hex."
This one was in reference to a McCullough chain saw.
The quotee had just explained that he'd torn the saw down to scrap and buried it in three different places.
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Bobert
Trad climber
boulder, Colorado
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Jul 15, 2011 - 08:12pm PT
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"Age is a question of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it don't matter." Satchel Paige.
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couchmaster
climber
pdx
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Jul 15, 2011 - 08:39pm PT
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Crap, I was going to post that great Tom Higgins quote from one of the best threads on this site, the Frank Sacher thread (Tom posts as "Long Ago on Supertopo), but I did a search and saw I'd already posted it here earlier:-0
F*K it, one more time anyway:-)
...my small benediction: let us be most humbled, thankful and awestruck at the prize of consciousness, the sunny days on what we call rock and mountains with others we call friends, the noble globe itself only a dot in the vast swirl of matter and time, in the great physics of it all Frank pondered, the same which pounds and baffles each of us under a clear night sky. And there, looking up, perhaps I am not alone making a quiet vow to hold more tightly to good friendship and love before sleeping Frank’s sleep.
Tom Higgins"
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ncrockclimber
climber
NC
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Jul 15, 2011 - 10:24pm PT
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The stillness within stillness is not the true stillness; the true stillness is within motion.
Lao-Tsu
Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Lao-Tsu
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom"
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
There is only one success; to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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MH2
climber
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Jul 15, 2011 - 10:29pm PT
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Hops, hops, and more hops.
The Energizer Bunny
in an interview with Barbara Walters
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