Banning software tools to prevent "contributory copyright infringement" is like banning automobiles to prevent "contributory bank robbing".

"Intellectual property" is to property as "fool's gold" is to "gold".

Evolution doesn't pick winners. It only picks losers.

The fearful and the hateful can only be strong when we make them strong, through our refusal to be strong ourselves.

Humor is pain that happens to someone else.

The most violent form of hate speech is censorship of hate speech.




• Never expect to win; always refuse to lose.
  
  
• Details are the shields behind which small minds cower.
  
  
• American democracy is pure -- we get people in office who are just like us -- more's the pity.
  
  
• Reflect, Repent, and Reboot -- Catechism of the First Distributed Faith
  
  
• Every problem has a solution.  Every solution begets the next problem.
  
  
• In the Country of the Blind, the one-eyed man is an enemy of the State.
  
  
• The optimist says, "Things have been worse."  The realist says, "Things could be worse."  The pessimist says, "Things will be worse."
  
  
• The uneducated are those who have not learned.  The ignorant are those who will not learn.
  
  
• As pockets grow deeper, dreams grow shallower.
  
  
• If "alpha testing" is done "in-house", where might "beta-testing" be done?

Gilroy's Pages : Quotables

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Quotes of My Own See also "The Wit & Wisdom of Karl Kaufeld". See also the witticisms recorded by my students.