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• Long stormy spring-time, wet contentious April, winter chilling the lap of very May
  but at length the season of summer does come. -- Thomas Carlyle...
• What is philosophy but a continual battle against custom? -- Thomas Carlyle
• Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. -- Albert Einstei
• Evil Empire n. [from Ronald Reagan's famous characterization of the communist Soviet Union] Formerly IBM, now Microsoft.
  Functionally, the company most hackers love to hate at any given time....
• Time spent at Cons does not count against your lifespan.
• How does the poet speak to men with power, but by being still more a man than they?
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) -- Burns, Edinburgh Review, 1828...
• They have exiled me now from their society and I am pleased, because humanity does not exile except the one whose noble spirit rebels against despotism and oppression.
• There is a natural aristocracy among men. The grounds of this are virtue and talent.
  -- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)...
• You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 10^12 to 1.
  -- Ernest Rutherford...