"Simon, as someone, who deeply respects your work ethic and responsiveness, and fully recognizes the immense contribution you bring to the workspace, I have only one request for you: don't help your fellow man."
"Parliamentary speaker suffers concussion after hearing a particularly awful argument from a minority party member."
This Country is the only country i know, where The Party For The Destruction Of This Country (PFTDOTC) has representatives in the parliament.
International politics: the fine art of selling someone that, which they have enough of, for that, which they don't have enough of, all while making them feel guilty for being so selfish.
A book, in which you are not allowed to scribble, does not belong to you, no matter how much you paid for it.
If i were an X-Man, my power would probably be something uncanny like See Visible.
"I don't get paid enough to think while i'm on the job. I do it only because i am physically incapable of doing otherwise."
I am told i am someone who is very hard to get into a quarrel with; But, i firmly believe, that there is nothing someone can't do, if they really put their mind to it.
A lot of people deserve to be yelled at, but, unfortunately, none of them is likely to benefit from it.
I suspect i might be a little sleep-deprived. I base my suspicion on the fact i hardly ever get enough sleep.
"Come to think of it, now, as i'm editing and translating our [martial arts] style's promotional material, i am, in fact, creating^W lost to history." The naïveté of 2009 me is charming, at times, even adorable.
"What was my user password on this computer?... Can't remember. Oh, well, guess i'll just pull the hard drive out, mount it on my main machine, drop in this public key, then SSH to it as root and reset the password. No big deal!"
It's nice to be able to report what turns out to be a real bug, for a change, instead of the usual NOTABUGs and WONTFIXes.
Everything worth saying was already said before; Or, at least, that's what someone said.
A miracle is an event that doesn't logically follow from preceding events. To believe in miracles is to hope and expect that they happen when they are most needed — that is, that occasionally they do follow logically from preceding events.
"The mind is like a mirror" metaphor holds pretty well. Sure, polishing it *will* improve the reflection quality, but it won't do anything to any bends, from casting, or cracks, from rough handling. And, even if the surface itself was flawless, the reflection is still forever *flipped*.