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# About me

The path to wisdom is simple and easy to express-
To err
And err
And err again but
Less
And less
And less.
-Piet Hein
"If it disagrees with experiment it is wrong. In that simple statement is the key to science. It does not make any difference how beautiful your guess is. It does not make any difference how smart you are, who made the guess, or what his name is - if it disagrees with experiment it is wrong."
- Richard Phillips Feynman
"The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not `Eureka!` (I found it!) but `That`s funny ..."

- Isaac Asimov

So through the eyes love attains the heart:

For the eyes are the scouts of the heart,

And the eyes go reconnoitering

For what it would please the heart to possess.

And when they are in full accord

And firm, all three, in the one resolve,

At that time, perfect love is born

From what the eyes have made welcome to the heart.

Not otherwise can love either be born or have commencement

Than by this birth and commencement moved by inclination.



By the grace and by command

Of these three, and from their pleasure,

Love is born, who its fair hope

Goes comforting her friends.

For as all true lovers

Know, love is perfect kindness,

Which is born--there is no doubt--from the heart and eyes.

The eyes make it blossom; the heart matures it:

Love, which is the fruit of their very seed.

-GUIRAUT DE BORNEILH (ca. 1138-1200?)
To Be Is To Do.
-- Immanuel Kant
To Do Is To Be.
--Sigmund Freud
Doobie, Doobie, Do.
--Frank Sinatra


If the landslide is big enough even square boulders roll.

It's vital to remember who you really are. It's very important. It isn't a good idea to rely on other people or things to do it for you, you see. They always get it wrong.
Sourcery - Terry Pratchett

Ymyrr nad ydynt yn y materion y dreigiau ar gyfer celf crensiog ti ac yn dda gyda saws.

τὰ ὄντα ἰέναι τε πάντα καὶ μένειν οὐδέν - Ἡράκλειτος ὁ Ἐφέσιος

"Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only that the cat died nobly."
- Arnold Edinborough

I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
- Joseph Addison
If you lend someone $20, Then they disappear and you never see them again, it was probably worth it...

Sapere aude.

Susan: [Susan is reading the fairy tale "Jack and the Beanstalk" to Twyla and Gawain] "And then Jack chopped down what was the world's last beanstalk, adding murder and ecological terrorism to the theft, enticement and trespass charges already mentioned and all the giant's children didn't have a daddy any more. But he got away with it and lived happily ever after without so much as a guilty twinge about what he had done. Which proves that you can be excused just about anything if you're a hero, because no one asks inconvenient questions."
Hogfather - Terry Pratchett

Older than dirt, as ugly as a mud fence and as crazy as a rat stuck in a drain-pipe.

Never let your sense of morals keep you from doing what is right.

Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur.

And the true order of going, or being led by another, to the things of love, is to begin from the beauties of earth and mount upwards for the sake of that other beauty, using these as steps only, and from one going on to two, and from two to all fair forms, and from fair forms to fair practices, and from fair practices to fair notions, until from fair notions he arrives at the notion of absolute beauty, and at last knows what the essence of beauty is.
- Plato, The Symposium, ca 385 BCE

The man that hath no music in himself, nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, is fit for treasons, stratagems and spoils; the motions of his spirit are dull as night and his affections dark as Erebus.
- William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice, Act V, scene I

"Human beings make life so interesting. Do you know that in a Universe so full of wonders they have managed to invent boredom? Quite astonishing..."
- Death

"Things just happen, what the hell..."
- Didactylos the Philosopher

Current Residence: MW Orion Spur Sol3 EM34xe, in a swamp...
deviantWEAR sizing preference: dWEAR sells mosquito netting?
Print preference: You bet, doesn't everyone?
Favourite genre of music: Classical, Soft Rock, Ancient Mandarin Folk Songs
Favourite photographer: Ansel Adams, Ray Harryhausen, Nick Park
Favourite style of art: Victorian/Art Deco/Art Nouveau/Baroque
Operating System: Small electrical pulses caused by the transfer of Sodium ions across cell... Huh? Oh! Windoze 7 Pro
MP3 player of choice: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh - Um, what?
Shell of choice: Dyson Sphere, Lisi's E8
Wallpaper of choice: Something with cheese, aged Camembert would be lovely, thank you.
Skin of choice: Someone else's [application available upon request]
Favourite cartoon character: Zeeba; Samurai Jack; Pinky and the Brain; Ren and Stimpy; South Park; Grim; Futurama
Personal Quote: Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.

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