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Showing posts with label quotation. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotation. Show all posts

Thursday, July 09, 2009

I’ve never had a problem with drugs, only with policemen.

Keith Richards.

Jessica Pallington West has a book out, What Would Keith Richards Do? Daily Affirmations From a Rock and Roll Survivor, from whence the title gem came.

Amazon info but no free reads inside the book. Alas.

Wednesday, May 02, 2007

San Francisco values

Why is it that Republicans are so offended to see two gay men holding hands, but do not have the same moral outrage about two children who are being turned away from the hospital because their parents can't get health insurance. What about that moral outrage, what about those values?

Gavin Newsom on "San Francisco values"
San Diego, CA
29-Apr-2007

Saturday, January 13, 2007

[URL] Mathematical Quotation Server

Mathematical Quotation Server from Mark Woodward and the Furman University (SC) mathematics department.

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Text references given when known.

Apocryphal Babbage quotation?

Even if so, I like this:

On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.

-- Charles Babbage (1791-1871)