Schol-R-LEA/fortune-scholrlea

## fortune-scholrlea
"Which is more elegant, a limousine or a Formula One racer? The answer depends on whether you're headed for the opera or for the finish line."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"I am a cynic, and one of the common faults of cynicism is the assumption that anyone who isn't an utter fool is just as cynical as you are."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"The terms 'liberal' and 'conservative' have no meaning, and anyone who uses them as if they do is a fool."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Western society has worked so hard to avoid Orwell's future that no one noticed when we ended up with Huxley's instead."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Objectivity is the scientific principle that an individual is never completely right. Objectivism is the religious belief that The Group is always completely wrong. Try not to confuse the two."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"The 'Religious Right', once you get beyond their rhetoric of personal 'salvation', is solidly collectivist and concerned primarily with social conduct."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Marital fidelity, as espoused by your typical Theocrat, means conscientiously following a set of personal-relationship rules, as set down by a society that existed for only two decades of the 20th century (1945-1965), died out a long time ago, and never really followed them anyway, which a handful of idiots who claim to speak for the nation worship as 'family values' despite the fact that following them is more destructive to families than not following them."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"No, the human race is not extinct yet, much to my surprise. Still, I have a deep and abiding faith in the fundamental stupidity of all human beings (including myself), and doubtless we shall find a way to destroy ourselves soon."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"It is becoming clear that Economics is a topic without a subject... 'the market' is the luminiferous ether of the 20th century."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Logic and Reason are the sharpest of intellectual scalpels, but a surgeon who operates without clamps, sutures, bandages, and antiseptic will still lose the patient."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"People only really 'think' either when they are in a contemplative mood (where it usually has little lasting impact), or else in the midst of a situation which their existing behavioral scripts don't cover - emergencies, major life decisions, solving engineering problems, and so on - and even then the flow of thought tend to slip into the pre-existing channels. To put it into programming terms, critical thought is the brain's exception handling mechanism - and as such, has all the strengths and weaknesses that go with the idea of exception handling. The human brain simply isn't structured to be continuously self-aware, and it is possible that no 'intelligent' being (whatever 'intelligence' means) could be."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"This is the Golden Age; we are living at the pinnacle of human achievement to date. This is a realization which has left me awake at 3AM in a cold sweat on many nights."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"The majority of people are perfectly willing to wear The Man's collar in exchange for safe streets at night, a full belly, and trains that run on time, and if some people suffer from it, they say 'they brought it on themselves by not going along'."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"A government, in the end, is nothing more than a mutual agreement about who can use coercive force, and when, backed up by a combination of custom and fear."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"If people stop thinking a government exists, then it doesn't."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Maybe that's the real revolution we need - for people to realize that government is nothing more than a figment of their imaginations, and that so long as they trust their own judgement and don't back down from the wielders of force, the only one who can make them do or not do something is themselves... Interestingly, it is widely observed that the 'stand up against oppressors' part is easier for most people than the 'trust your own judgement' part is."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Terrorism only works if people agree to be terrorized."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"The main weapons of the French Revolution were the National Assembly, and later, the Committees of Public Safety and the Revolutionary Tribunal."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"In politics, ideologies and religions are usually little more than tools of intrigue and self-aggrandizement, even among those who actually believe in them."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"The greatest strength of The Conspiracy is that it doesn't exist. The greatest weakness of The Conspiracy is that it does."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Microsoft Foundation Classes isn't a programming tool, it's a psychological warfare agent that MS uses against their competitors. There's a reason why MS's in-house developers rarely use their own (waste) products."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"One of the great realizations of my life was that all mystical doctrines are unscientific, irrational, anti-materialist, subjective and insane. Another great realization was that science, reason, materialism, objectivity and sanity are themselves mystical doctrines."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"The social history of the US is just an extended remix of the English Civil War."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Never think that what any politician says is a reflection of anything but a very carefully controlled marketing plan."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Seen objectively, Marxism is really just a retread of primitive Christianity; while the theological terms may be different ('God' -> 'historical dialectic', 'Apocalypse' -> 'Revolution', 'Kingdom of Heaven' -> 'Worker's Paradise', etc.), the contents (and smug self-righteousness) are the same. And like other forms of Christianity, it inevitably devolves into hatemongering and dogmatism disguised as peace and brotherhood."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Societies are defined as much by what they despise as by what they hold dear. The Omega members of the tribe are in some ways more important socially than the leader, because an accepted leader is, perforce, one which outwardly clings to convention, and is replaceable by any other equally acceptable leader - especially since the leaders themselves have little actual role in the course of events."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"The presidency is of little importance, because the president has little if any freedom of movement - the price of getting elected is a straitjacket."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"If Gore had been in charge from 2000 to 2004, we would still be in the same wars. If Kerry had defeated Bush in 2004, Hurricane Katrina would have had the exact same devastating effects. if McCain had won in 2008, the economy would be no better or worse than it is now, and the national insurance bill would have passed the same way it did. Even if one of the 'minor' or 'extremist' candidates such as Buchanan, Nader, or LeRouche had won, they would have taken the exact same actions - justified differently, perhaps, but in all other ways identical in outcome."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Power is inversely proportional to the options you have in how to use it."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"All you really need to know about political power is this: Kim Jong Un doesn't get to pick what he has for dinner."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs' is the programming equivalent of Tai Chi: it moves slowly, is harder than it seems at first, and most people get fed up with it after a short time, but if you stick to it, it gives truly impressive results."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"I always find it amusing when people refer to Bitcoin as a currency, as if the term 'Bitcoin' referred to a valuable item rather than to the network protocol. I do have to admit that 'Satoshi' was pretty clever in selling it that way, though; I imagine that 'untraceable electronic cash that can be used anywhere in the world' sells a lot better than 'secure distributed accounting system' would have, even though it is a much more accurate description (and far more important and useful than any cryptocurrency could ever be)."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"You know you have been homebrewing too long when you go to a swingers party with a cooler of homebrew, and you pay more attention to the beer than to the naked people."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"In software, the only thing that lasts forever is a program or tool meant to be used just once."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Timesharing was *just* *so* *bad* that the Altair sold faster than they could make the kits, despite being about as useful as a Yugo with the axles removed."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Anyone who cannot see the direct and fundamental contradictions between the foundational beliefs in the supremacy of Divine law over human laws in the Abrahamic religions (and most other religions, for that matter) on the one hand, and the ideological concepts of popular sovereignty, republican and democratic (little-r, little-d) governmental forms, and secular law, on the other, cannot be trusted to serve the interests of either."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"The reason PC security is awful isn't because PC operating systems are awful (well, not *just* because of that), but because 99% of the users are less inconvenienced by poor security than they would be be replacing what they have. Which should tell you all you really need to know about how actual consumers see the world vs how we as engineers do - and if you think *they* are the crazy ones, you are probably in for a rude awakening."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"The difference between a Master and a Slave is that chains can be broken. A slave can run away, or be released from the servitude, but a master can never be freed from their dependency on their slaves."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"The difference between getting committed and getting elected is a trust fund."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Like with all religious and ideological fanatics, programmers in general are more likely to go after the heretic or deviationist next door than the heathen down the street."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"the average user wouldn't leave Microsoft for a new OS even if it gave them a telepathic user interface, no administrative problems, perfect security, free gold, and frequent sex with their ideal lover, because different is scary."
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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It occurs to me that I forgot to mention Exceptionalism as a factor. I shouldn't really need to mention it, in this context or any other when discussing human thought patterns, for the same reason one shouldn't need to mention the existence of air when discussing terrestrial weather patterns, but Exceptionalism is recursively pervasive.
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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"Stand back, I'm warning you! I know Qui-Gon Jinn and Judaism! My hands are registered offenders! I have a black tie in Kerroppi and know the secret of Mai Tais! I'll use my Tang Soda on you! Hai-keeba!"
-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	"Which is more elegant, a limousine or a Formula One racer? The answer depends on whether you're headed for the opera or for the finish line."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"I am a cynic, and one of the common faults of cynicism is the assumption that anyone who isn't an utter fool is just as cynical as you are."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
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	"The terms 'liberal' and 'conservative' have no meaning, and anyone who uses them as if they do is a fool."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Western society has worked so hard to avoid Orwell's future that no one noticed when we ended up with Huxley's instead."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Objectivity is the scientific principle that an individual is never completely right. Objectivism is the religious belief that The Group is always completely wrong. Try not to confuse the two."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"The 'Religious Right', once you get beyond their rhetoric of personal 'salvation', is solidly collectivist and concerned primarily with social conduct."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Marital fidelity, as espoused by your typical Theocrat, means conscientiously following a set of personal-relationship rules, as set down by a society that existed for only two decades of the 20th century (1945-1965), died out a long time ago, and never really followed them anyway, which a handful of idiots who claim to speak for the nation worship as 'family values' despite the fact that following them is more destructive to families than not following them."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"No, the human race is not extinct yet, much to my surprise. Still, I have a deep and abiding faith in the fundamental stupidity of all human beings (including myself), and doubtless we shall find a way to destroy ourselves soon."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"It is becoming clear that Economics is a topic without a subject... 'the market' is the luminiferous ether of the 20th century."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Logic and Reason are the sharpest of intellectual scalpels, but a surgeon who operates without clamps, sutures, bandages, and antiseptic will still lose the patient."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"People only really 'think' either when they are in a contemplative mood (where it usually has little lasting impact), or else in the midst of a situation which their existing behavioral scripts don't cover - emergencies, major life decisions, solving engineering problems, and so on - and even then the flow of thought tend to slip into the pre-existing channels. To put it into programming terms, critical thought is the brain's exception handling mechanism - and as such, has all the strengths and weaknesses that go with the idea of exception handling. The human brain simply isn't structured to be continuously self-aware, and it is possible that no 'intelligent' being (whatever 'intelligence' means) could be."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"This is the Golden Age; we are living at the pinnacle of human achievement to date. This is a realization which has left me awake at 3AM in a cold sweat on many nights."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"The majority of people are perfectly willing to wear The Man's collar in exchange for safe streets at night, a full belly, and trains that run on time, and if some people suffer from it, they say 'they brought it on themselves by not going along'."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"A government, in the end, is nothing more than a mutual agreement about who can use coercive force, and when, backed up by a combination of custom and fear."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"If people stop thinking a government exists, then it doesn't."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Maybe that's the real revolution we need - for people to realize that government is nothing more than a figment of their imaginations, and that so long as they trust their own judgement and don't back down from the wielders of force, the only one who can make them do or not do something is themselves... Interestingly, it is widely observed that the 'stand up against oppressors' part is easier for most people than the 'trust your own judgement' part is."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Terrorism only works if people agree to be terrorized."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"The main weapons of the French Revolution were the National Assembly, and later, the Committees of Public Safety and the Revolutionary Tribunal."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"In politics, ideologies and religions are usually little more than tools of intrigue and self-aggrandizement, even among those who actually believe in them."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"The greatest strength of The Conspiracy is that it doesn't exist. The greatest weakness of The Conspiracy is that it does."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Microsoft Foundation Classes isn't a programming tool, it's a psychological warfare agent that MS uses against their competitors. There's a reason why MS's in-house developers rarely use their own (waste) products."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"One of the great realizations of my life was that all mystical doctrines are unscientific, irrational, anti-materialist, subjective and insane. Another great realization was that science, reason, materialism, objectivity and sanity are themselves mystical doctrines."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"The social history of the US is just an extended remix of the English Civil War."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Never think that what any politician says is a reflection of anything but a very carefully controlled marketing plan."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Seen objectively, Marxism is really just a retread of primitive Christianity; while the theological terms may be different ('God' -> 'historical dialectic', 'Apocalypse' -> 'Revolution', 'Kingdom of Heaven' -> 'Worker's Paradise', etc.), the contents (and smug self-righteousness) are the same. And like other forms of Christianity, it inevitably devolves into hatemongering and dogmatism disguised as peace and brotherhood."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Societies are defined as much by what they despise as by what they hold dear. The Omega members of the tribe are in some ways more important socially than the leader, because an accepted leader is, perforce, one which outwardly clings to convention, and is replaceable by any other equally acceptable leader - especially since the leaders themselves have little actual role in the course of events."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"The presidency is of little importance, because the president has little if any freedom of movement - the price of getting elected is a straitjacket."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"If Gore had been in charge from 2000 to 2004, we would still be in the same wars. If Kerry had defeated Bush in 2004, Hurricane Katrina would have had the exact same devastating effects. if McCain had won in 2008, the economy would be no better or worse than it is now, and the national insurance bill would have passed the same way it did. Even if one of the 'minor' or 'extremist' candidates such as Buchanan, Nader, or LeRouche had won, they would have taken the exact same actions - justified differently, perhaps, but in all other ways identical in outcome."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Power is inversely proportional to the options you have in how to use it."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"All you really need to know about political power is this: Kim Jong Un doesn't get to pick what he has for dinner."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"'Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs' is the programming equivalent of Tai Chi: it moves slowly, is harder than it seems at first, and most people get fed up with it after a short time, but if you stick to it, it gives truly impressive results."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"I always find it amusing when people refer to Bitcoin as a currency, as if the term 'Bitcoin' referred to a valuable item rather than to the network protocol. I do have to admit that 'Satoshi' was pretty clever in selling it that way, though; I imagine that 'untraceable electronic cash that can be used anywhere in the world' sells a lot better than 'secure distributed accounting system' would have, even though it is a much more accurate description (and far more important and useful than any cryptocurrency could ever be)."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"You know you have been homebrewing too long when you go to a swingers party with a cooler of homebrew, and you pay more attention to the beer than to the naked people."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"In software, the only thing that lasts forever is a program or tool meant to be used just once."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Timesharing was just so bad that the Altair sold faster than they could make the kits, despite being about as useful as a Yugo with the axles removed."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Anyone who cannot see the direct and fundamental contradictions between the foundational beliefs in the supremacy of Divine law over human laws in the Abrahamic religions (and most other religions, for that matter) on the one hand, and the ideological concepts of popular sovereignty, republican and democratic (little-r, little-d) governmental forms, and secular law, on the other, cannot be trusted to serve the interests of either."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"The reason PC security is awful isn't because PC operating systems are awful (well, not just because of that), but because 99% of the users are less inconvenienced by poor security than they would be be replacing what they have. Which should tell you all you really need to know about how actual consumers see the world vs how we as engineers do - and if you think they are the crazy ones, you are probably in for a rude awakening."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"The difference between a Master and a Slave is that chains can be broken. A slave can run away, or be released from the servitude, but a master can never be freed from their dependency on their slaves."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"The difference between getting committed and getting elected is a trust fund."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Like with all religious and ideological fanatics, programmers in general are more likely to go after the heretic or deviationist next door than the heathen down the street."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"the average user wouldn't leave Microsoft for a new OS even if it gave them a telepathic user interface, no administrative problems, perfect security, free gold, and frequent sex with their ideal lover, because different is scary."
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	It occurs to me that I forgot to mention Exceptionalism as a factor. I shouldn't really need to mention it, in this context or any other when discussing human thought patterns, for the same reason one shouldn't need to mention the existence of air when discussing terrestrial weather patterns, but Exceptionalism is recursively pervasive.
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality
	%
	"Stand back, I'm warning you! I know Qui-Gon Jinn and Judaism! My hands are registered offenders! I have a black tie in Kerroppi and know the secret of Mai Tais! I'll use my Tang Soda on you! Hai-keeba!"
	-- Rev. First Speaker Schol-R-LEA;2, Last Eristic Church of Finagle and Holy Bisexuality