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Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2018 3:43 pm
by Disembodied
Sir,

I am in receipt of your “Final Demand” for payment of my account. I have to inform you that my normal practice concerning the settlement of debts is to place all of my bills in a hat once a month, from which I draw out two or three for payment. I have followed this procedure with regard to your bill. However, if I receive another letter from you, Sir, the tone of which I consider to be rude, your bill will not be put in the hat at all.
(Okay, not really a “quote of the week”, since it dates from the nineteenth century, but still …)

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Tue Mar 20, 2018 6:21 pm
by Cody
It's still possible for there to be more than one universe: “Our conjecture strengthens the intuition that holographic cosmology implies a significant reduction of the multiverse to a much more limited set of possible universes.”

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sun Mar 25, 2018 4:57 pm
by Cody
Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg has taken out full-page adverts in several UK and US Sunday newspapers to apologise for the firm's recent data privacy scandal. He said Facebook could have done more to stop millions of users having their data exploited by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica in 2014. "This was a breach of trust, and I am sorry," the back-page ads state.
Shyster!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2018 12:23 pm
by Disembodied
So one January day, while having a "troubling" time in the lab, he threw off the lights and shone a UV light on a puffin carcass.

"What happened was quite impressive, really," he said.
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundl ... -1.4607386

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:12 pm
by RockDoctor
Ford : "It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
Arthur : "What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
Ford : "You ask a glass of water."

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:14 pm
by RockDoctor
(There was an "Appreciation of DNA" on the radio this evening. )

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sat Apr 07, 2018 10:21 pm
by Cody
(There was an "Appreciation of DNA" on the radio this evening. )
"You know, if this is Southend, there's something very odd about it."
"What, you mean the way the sea stays steady as a rock and the buildings keep washing up and down? Yes, I thought that was odd."

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:59 am
by spud42
are we quoting DA now?? lol

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:00 pm
by RockDoctor
spud42 wrote: Sun Apr 08, 2018 10:59 am
are we quoting DA now?? lol
This must be a Thursday. I could never get the hand of Thursdays.
(Incidentally, his middle name was Noel, which is why I refer to him as "DNA". Seems appropriate somehow.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Tue Apr 10, 2018 1:28 pm
by Cody
Incidentally, I believe his daughter's third name is Rocket.

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 1:47 pm
by Disembodied
There is an angry man with a microphone outside Euston station, ranting that the moon landings were fake. Not once has he said ‘Euston we have a problem’ #disappointed
It seems only right to cite the source: https://twitter.com/itsalexchapman/stat ... 0424767489

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2018 2:22 pm
by Cody
<grins> There's a T-shirt to match!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Mon Apr 23, 2018 10:59 pm
by Cody
Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you really wanted.

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Mon Jun 04, 2018 11:48 pm
by Cody
On the proposed acquisition of GitHub...
Nadella pleaded with software developers to "judge us by the actions we have taken in the recent past, our actions today and in the future." He reiterated, again, that Microsoft was "all in with open source."
No comment!

Re: Quote of the week!

Posted: Sun Jun 17, 2018 10:16 pm
by Cody
Gaming addiction has been listed as a mental health condition for the first time by the World Health Organisation.