Ignorance
If you think that “ignorant” is a pejorative term, then you are an ignorant. Go look the word up in a dictionary.
(adapted from) Erann Gat in How I Lost My Faith in Lisp
Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Como realizar sonhos…
“Se eu quiser que meus sonhos se realizem, não posso dormir demais.”
provérbio judeu
Saturday, June 21, 2008
A note to religious fanatics
“Do not do an immoral thing for moral reasons!”
It only works in theory…
“Wikipedia has succeeded not in spite of the fact that the encyclopedia is free but because the encyclopedia is free.”
quoting Benjamin Mako Hill from “Why Give to Wikimedia?“
Monday, June 2, 2008
The Classic
A classic - something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Mark Twain
Thursday, May 22, 2008
The Truth About Insults
“it’s never an insult to be called what somebody thinks is a bad name.”
Harper Lee, in To Kill a Mockingbird
Thursday, May 8, 2008
Destiny wins
People often meet their destiny on the road they take to avoid it.
French Proverb
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
Researching should be hard! (not)
“The notion that the Internet is eroding our research skills echoes the past mantra that the lower classes should not be taught to read.”
Reference books? Give me Wikipedia (read it, I reccomend it)
Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Islamofascists
“when you cant even bring yourselves to condemn stoning as a punishment, it’s clear that yours is the morality of the cavemen.”
Pat Condell in “A word to Islamofascists“
Pat Condell always ends his video commentaries on religion wishing peace to the viewers. This time, since he was talking to the people he calls “Islamofascists”, he closes his speech saying:
“I’d wish you peace, but… you wouldn’t know what to do with it.”
Not-so-funny islam-related news (linked in the video page):
Wednesday, July 25, 2007
diferenças subtis
“A educação faz com que as pessoas sejam fáceis de guiar, mas difíceis de arrastar; fáceis de governar, mas impossíveis de escravizar.”
Henry Peter
