Yet further quotes I like

[holly_evolving]

If you choose not to decide -- you still have made a choice!
Neil Peart

Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.
Theodor W. Adorno

Civility costs nothing and buys everything.
Lady Mary Wortley Montague

In a war of ideas, it is people who get killed.
Stanislaus J. Lec

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Dylan Thomas

Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter Kerr

Just because something doesn't do what you planned it to do doesn't mean it's useless.
Thomas A. Edison

In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.
Orson Welles , The Third Man (1949)

Comments

[thegreyeminence.livejournal.com]

“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”

Or a programmer. An authoritarian programmer.

[holly-evolving.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodor_Adorno

I don't think he had much of a chance to study programmers...but I would say that there is some level of authoritarianism implicit in the desire to program...programmers, after all, create something from nothing. They're like very small, nerdy gods.

[thegreyeminence.livejournal.com]

This is frighteningly true.