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Age: 32
Software QA Engineer
Atheist
"I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours." - Stephen Roberts
Democratic socialist
"Put it this way. Marx was a democrat with a small d. The Democratic Socialists envision a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning...and racial equality. I share an immediate program with liberals in this country because the best liberalism leads toward socialism.... I want to be on the left wing of the possible." Michael Harrington
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out. - Richard Dawkins
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. - Albert Einstein
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
- Douglas Adams
If it looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, we have at least to consider the possibility that we have a small aquatic bird of the family anatidae on our hands. - Douglas Adams
It is a well-known fact that those people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it... anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job. Douglas Adams
We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. Anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem. - Douglas Adams
It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong. - Richard Feynman
There is a computer disease that anybody who works with computers knows about. It's a very serious disease and it interferes completely with the work. The trouble with computers is that you 'play' with them! - Richard Feynman
A professional writer is an amateur who didn't quit. - Richard Bach
Can miles truly separate you from friends... If you want to be with someone you love, aren't you already there? - Richard Bach
If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem. - Richard Bach
Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof. - Richard Bach
The simplest questions are the most profound. Where were you born? Where is your home? Where are you going? What are you doing? Think about these once in a while and watch your answers change. - Richard Bach
Your friends will know you better in the first minute you meet than your acquaintances will know you in a thousand years. - Richard Bach
Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included. - Karl Marx
Capital is reckless of the health or length of life of the laborer, unless under compulsion from society. - Karl Marx
Democracy is the road to socialism. - Karl Marx
It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends. - Karl Marx
Natural science will in time incorporate into itself the science of man, just as the science of man will incorporate into itself natural science: there will be one science. - Karl Marx
Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people. - Karl Marx
Social progress can be measured by the social position of the female sex. - Karl Marx
The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles. - Karl Marx
The oppressed are allowed once every few years to decide which particular representatives of the oppressing class are to represent and repress them. - Karl Marx
An ounce of action is worth a ton of theory. - Friedrich Engels
People think they have taken quite an extraordinarily bold step forward when they have rid themselves of belief in hereditary monarchy and swear by the democratic republic. In reality, however, the state is nothing but a machine for the oppression of one class by another, and indeed in the democratic republic no less than in the monarchy. - Friedrich Engels
A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. - Charles Darwin
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficent and omnipotent God would have designedly created parasitic wasps with the express intention of their feeding within the living bodies of Caterpillars. - Charles Darwin
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science. - Charles Darwin
The worker is the slave of capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave. - James Connolly
Just as it is true that a stream cannot rise above its source, so it is true that a national literature cannot rise above the moral level of the social conditions of the people from whom it derives its inspiration. - James Connolly
If you strike at, imprison, or kill us, out of our prisons or graves we will still evoke a spirit that will thwart you, and perhaps, raise a force that will destroy you! We defy you! Do your worst! - James Connolly
It will always be a battle a day between those who want maximum change and those who want to maintain the status quo. - Gerry Adams
Such decisions will be far reaching and difficult. But you never lacked courage in the past. Your courage is now needed for the future. - Gerry Adams
Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment. - Gerry Adams
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume. - Noam Chomsky
Everybody's worried about stopping terrorism. Well, there's a really easy way: stop participating in it. - Noam Chomsky
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all. - Noam Chomsky
The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history. - Noam Chomsky
The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all the people. - Noam Chomsky
You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it. - Noam Chomsky
We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes - Gene Roddenberry
But the fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses. They laughed at Columbus, they laughed at Fulton, they laughed at the Wright Brothers. But they also laughed at Bozo the Clown. - Carl Sagan
The church says the earth is flat, but I know that it is round, for I have seen the shadow on the moon, and I have more faith in a shadow than in the church - Ferdinand Magellan
The Government of the United States is in no sense founded on the Christian religion. - John Adams, 2nd President of the US
I do not think it is necessary to believe that the same God who has given us our senses, reason, and intelligence wished us to abandon their use, giving us by some other means the information that we could gain through them - Galileo Galilei
I have examined all the known superstitions of the world, and I do not find in our particular superstition of Christianity one redeeming feature. They are all alike founded on fables and mythology. - Thomas Jefferson
Which is it, is man one of God's blunders or is God one of man's? - Friedrich Nietzsche
Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. Nelson Mandela
It is better to lead from behind and to put others in front, especially when you celebrate victory when nice things occur. You take the front line when there is danger. Then people will appreciate your leadership.
Nelson Mandela
I detest racialism, because I regard it as a barbaric thing, whether it comes from a black man or a white man.
Nelson Mandela
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge. - Carl Sagan
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. - Oscar Wilde
Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone elses opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation. - Oscar Wilde
"Be the change you wish to see in the world" - Gandhi |
| Thoughts about SETI and SETI@home |
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| I believe that once humanity realizes that there is life elsewhere and that we are not magically created that this will raise better awareness for the (quite probable terrible prospect) of the future of humanity. And, turn it around, baby. |
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