Great Quotes III: Source and Context are Key

[SS-18 ICBM]

I have no idea what the hell is going on.
"A lot will have to do with Israel and whether or not Israel wants to make the deal — whether or not Israel's willing to sacrifice certain things. They may not be, and I understand that, and I'm OK with that. But then you're just not going to have a deal."
-Donald Trump, 2015-12-02 Associate Press interview

 

[Kyriakos]

"θάλασσα ὕδωρ καθαρώτατον καὶ μιαρώτατον, ἰχθύσι μὲν πότιμον καὶ σωτήριον, ἀνθρώποις δὲ ἄποτον καὶ ὀλέθριον"
(Sea is water at the same time purest and vilest, drinkable and a saviour to fish, undrinkable and a destroyer to humans)

As known, Heraklitos is one of the best writers

 

[Tigranes]

In 1999, in the lecture "The Folly of Mass Immigration", presented in Dublin, Vidal said:

A characteristic of our present chaos is the dramatic migration of tribes. They are on the move from east to west, from south to north. Liberal tradition requires that borders must always be open to those in search of safety, or even the pursuit of happiness. But now, with so many millions of people on the move, even the great-hearted are becoming edgy. Norway is large enough and empty enough to take in 40 to 50 million homeless Bengalis. If the Norwegians say that, all in all, they would rather not take them in, is this to be considered racism? I think not. It is simply self-preservation, the first law of species.

 

[Kozmos]

The new prime-minister of Croatia is incapable of speaking a grammatically correct sentence in Croatian. He just called the citizens buildings because it sounds kind of similar. He also received 0 votes - he wasn't even on a list. This status is not a joke. Croatia is though.

Things are going pretty great here.

 

[Tee Kay]

I just had to verify this.

Yeah, #notsatire

 

[GoodSarmatian]

My mom told me about it. the guy lives in Canada and has never held a poliical office, but he was apparently the only candidate MOSTand HDZ could agree agree on.
I'm frankly disappointed with MOST. I never really had much trust in them, and now they've even lost that by entering a coalition with the HDZ.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

"I think it's pay to win game. :("
-sjamy, Steam review for 3DMark

 

[GoodSarmatian]

He's right. If you want a high score you have to pay for expensive hardware.

 

[Phrossack]

I'm sure I posted it in a long-buried past thread, but oh well:

„Die schärfsten Kritikern der Elche waren früher selber welche."

"The harshest critics of moose used to be moose themselves."

--F.W. Bernstein

 

[Oruc]

Probably been posted

You won’t find any smart, handsome boys in these tents. They were got out of the war by their rich daddies, leaving it to us ordinary folk to die in Grozny, the ones who didn’t have the money to pay our way out. Heaped in these tents are the sons of labourers, teachers, peasants and blue-collar workers, basically all those who were made penniless by the government’s thieving reforms and then left to waste away. These tents contain the ones who didn’t know how to give a bribe to the right person, or who thought that army service was the duty of every man. Truth and nobility of heart are no longer virtues in our world - those who believe in them are the first to die.

One soldiers war in Chechnya.

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

It's almost as if giving people a stable, prosperous environment to live in keeps them from doing bad stuff.
"Indonesia is a country that doesn’t have a repressive government, is not under occupation, it’s politically stable, so there’s no social unrest or conflict, and the Muslims aren’t a persecuted minority. So when you put all of those factors together, it’s not all that surprising that it’s actually only a tiny minority of even the activist population that’s leaving for Syria."
-Sidney Jones, as quoted in "ISIS in the World’s Largest Muslim Country", The Atlantic

 

[Mechanicalsalvation]

Wisdom of the modern sages:

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency and vibration.” – Nikola Tesla

“What we have called matter is energy, whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses. There is no matter.” – Albert Einstein

 

[Kyriakos]

^No matter as non-following from energy/not a form of energy, yet it is crucial that human perception picks up matter as different. A bit (not a great parallelism) like having a horizontal gap on the ground, of only a few cm in length but of hundreds of meters in depth, disabling an ant to go to the other side; a human won't view that gap as an obstacle at all and may even fail to notice it is curiously deep despite it being there for him all along as well

I don't mind that they steal my ideas, but i do mind that they have none of their own

 

[SS-18 ICBM]

The inability of society to keep up with technological innovation is something I find more and more profoundly disturbing with each passing day.
"Even if there are replacement jobs for workers unemployed due to the changes, it still takes time and money to learn the skills for a new job. But there's no guarantee that they're going to have a job in the new industry because those are the ones with the most pressure to automate in the first place.

Are they seriously supposed to just jump from job to job, racking up enormous amounts of debt paying for tuition with no assurance that they'll ever get a career out of it? It's insane and it's unsustainable."
-Paul, comment on "The Automation Paradox", The Atlantic

Occam's Bayonet. (Paul, again!)
"When the alternatives are some massive Tom Clancyesque conspiracy involving all levels of the government colluding with a foreign power and a junior officer screwing up, it's probably the junior officer screwing up."
-Paul, comment on "What Led American Ships Into Iranian Waters?", The Atlantic

Didn't really expect historiography to pop up in this series.
Rohana: "It is strange...such a joyous event, and I only know of it from what has been recorded in history."
[...]
Artanis: "And yet we know all that we need to know about these times, Rohana."
Rohana: "You must understand though...to have so little of experience to recall it. My account is capable of flaws-of imperfection."
Artanis: "Perhaps this is how our histories should be viewed after all...without certainty. Only seen through the era one lives in."
-Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void

 

[Kyriakos]

Δῶς μοι πᾶ στῶ καὶ τὰν γᾶν κινάσω
(Give me somewhere to stand and i shall move the earth)

Archimedes the sage

 

[Flying Pig]

The inability of society to keep up with technological innovation is something I find more and more profoundly disturbing with each passing day.
"Even if there are replacement jobs for workers unemployed due to the changes, it still takes time and money to learn the skills for a new job. But there's no guarantee that they're going to have a job in the new industry because those are the ones with the most pressure to automate in the first place.

Are they seriously supposed to just jump from job to job, racking up enormous amounts of debt paying for tuition with no assurance that they'll ever get a career out of it? It's insane and it's unsustainable."
-Paul, comment on "The Automation Paradox", The Atlantic

Occam's Bayonet. (Paul, again!)
"When the alternatives are some massive Tom Clancyesque conspiracy involving all levels of the government colluding with a foreign power and a junior officer screwing up, it's probably the junior officer screwing up."
-Paul, comment on "What Led American Ships Into Iranian Waters?", The Atlantic

Didn't really expect historiography to pop up in this series.
Rohana: "It is strange...such a joyous event, and I only know of it from what has been recorded in history."
[...]
Artanis: "And yet we know all that we need to know about these times, Rohana."
Rohana: "You must understand though...to have so little of experience to recall it. My account is capable of flaws-of imperfection."
Artanis: "Perhaps this is how our histories should be viewed after all...without certainty. Only seen through the era one lives in."
-Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void

I approve of Occam's bayonet.

 

[Dachs]

Artanis: "Perhaps this is how our histories should be viewed after all...without certainty. Only seen through the era one lives in."
-Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void

The first of those sentences is good. The second one makes no sense when placed next to the first one, and can have multiple meanings - one good, one bad.

 

[Hygro]

one psi blade clapping

 

[Arakhor]

“We all came from the sea.” — J.F. Kennedy (1962). Back when US politicians understood basic Biology. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson

 

[GoodSarmatian]

Hard to believe, but I read a really great quote in the Cracked comment section (in an article about terrible Christian movies).

"The fundamentalist does not worship God, he worships himself by proxy of God."