"Hope, it is the quintessential human delusion, simultaneously the source of your greatest strength, and your greatest weakness."

- The Architect
The Matrix Reloaded

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Understanding is a three-edged sword.

(Another Kosh quote from B-5. I'd start a marathon of episodes if it weren't for that pesky thing called work...)

One from one of my favorite B5 characters...

Zathras: Zathras is used to being beast of burden to other people's needs. Very sad life... probably have very sad death, but at least there is symmetry.

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One from one of my favorite B5 characters...

B5 equal with Babylon 5 ?

One from one of my favorite B5 characters...

B5 equal with Babylon 5 ?

Yep

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Try to snatch the stones from my hand, grashopper.

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It is, Yes, Young Padawan.

=) yes indeed...I'm new and need to learn more from all my masters in here *giggling*


"Be mindful of the living Force, my young Padawan."
―Qui-Gon Jinn

Gillian "Do you guy's like Italian"
Spock "No"
Kirk "Yes"

McCoy "Where are we going?"
Kirk "Where they went"
McCoy "Suppose they went nowhere"
Kirk "then this will be your big chance to get away from it all"

Spock "What does it mean 'exact change'"

Different Star Trek Movies.

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Depending on which edit of the film you watched;

"So this is how democracy dies, with thunderous applause."

-Padme
Star Wars II: The Clone Wars


*Some viewers seemed to have a different quote in the same scene;

"So this is how liberty dies, with thunderous applause."

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"Who am I? I'm Susan Ivanova, Commander, daughter of Andrei and Sofie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance, and the boot that is gonna kick your sorry ass all the way back to Earth, sweetheart. I'm death incarnate and the last living thing that you're ever going to see. God sent me."

-- Ivanova in Babylon 5:"Between the Darkness and the Light"



"Thin air? Why is it always thin air? Never fat air, chubby air, mostly-fit-could-stand-lose-a-few-pounds air?"

-- Garibaldi to a Supervisor in Babylon 5:"Grey 17 is Missing"

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"Gentlemen, there are only two types of naval vessels..........Submarines, and Targets" -- U.S. Navy Submarine SONAR Instructor.

"...Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mindboggingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers have chosen to see it as the final and clinching proof of the non-existence of God."

"The argument goes something like this:
'I refuse to prove that I exist,' says God, 'for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.'

"'But,' says Man, 'The Babel fish is a dead giveaway, isn't it? It could not have evolved by chance. It proves you exist, and so therefore, by your own arguments, you don't. QED.'

"'Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanished in a puff of logic.

"'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

"Most leading theologians claim that this argument is a load of dingo's kidneys, but that didn't stop Oolon Colluphid making a small fortune when he used it as the central theme of his best- selling book Well That About Wraps It Up For God.

"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation."

-- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
Complete Babel Fish entry (Youtube)

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

"'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Which is incredibly funny if you're from the U.K. and a mystery to most of us on this side of the pond.

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"'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Which is incredibly funny if you're from the U.K. and a mystery to most of us on this side of the pond.

Here is a clue.

"'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Which is incredibly funny if you're from the U.K. and a mystery to most of us on this side of the pond.

Here is a clue.

I didn't think there was a traffic signal there....

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What do you mean you've never been to Alpha Centauri? For heaven's sake, mankind, it's only 4 light years away you know. I'm sorry, but if you can't be bothered to take an interest in local affairs that's your own outlook.

Energise the demolition beams.

I don't know, apathetic bl**dy planet, I've no sympathy at all

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Well I can do next Tuesday.

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Turn up the sonic oscillator one more notch!

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Q:Doctor? Doctor who?

A:No, just the Doctor.

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Reverse the polarity of the neutron beam...

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So many quotes, so little time! <G>

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... and we'll be saying a big hello to all intelligent life forms everywhere ... and to everyone else out there, the secret is to bang the rocks together, guys.

Douglas Adams - The Late, Great, Sadly Missed, Bath-taker :-)

"'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Which is incredibly funny if you're from the U.K. and a mystery to most of us on this side of the pond.

Here is a clue.

I didn't think there was a traffic signal there....

Nevermind. Have a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster (Youtube) ;D

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

"'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Which is incredibly funny if you're from the U.K. and a mystery to most of us on this side of the pond.

Here is a clue.

I didn't think there was a traffic signal there....

I think what you have noticed is the Belisha Beacon, introduced by Leslie Hore-Belisha in 1934 to make pedestrian crossings safer.
The yellow ball flashes. Here are a couple of pictures - by day and by night.

"'Oh, that was easy,' says Man, and for an encore goes on to prove that black is white and gets himself killed on the next zebra crossing.

Which is incredibly funny if you're from the U.K. and a mystery to most of us on this side of the pond.

Here is a clue.

I didn't think there was a traffic signal there....

I think what you have noticed is the Belisha Beacon, introduced by Leslie Hore-Belisha in 1934 to make pedestrian crossings safer.
The yellow ball flashes. Here are a couple of pictures - by day and by night.

Yes, but.....

The old "walk/don't walk" signals in the UK weren't red and green lights like in the U.S. but were black or white cards.

So, if Man then proved that black was white and white was black, he'd likely be crossing against the signal....

The Belisha Beacon is a good idea, but being yellow it isn't as funny.

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So, if Man then proved that black was white and white was black, he'd likely be crossing against the signal...

LoL, I see. No, there's no signal. ( Edit.. Okay..I'll Bite... A zebra crossing, recognised by black/white stripes on the tarmac, is a pedestrian right of way, and cars must stop for all pedestrians at these (without signals). But don't you think that because mankind is capable, since he just reasoned God out of existence despite holding proof he must exist (Babel fish), that the same dodgy reasoning isn't capable of getting him run over on a zebra crossing that gives him right of way under all circumstances?)

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.

So, if Man then proved that black was white and white was black, he'd likely be crossing against the signal...

LoL, I see. No, there's no signal. ( Edit.. Okay..I'll Bite... A zebra crossing, recognised by black/white stripes on the tarmac, is a pedestrian right of way, and cars must stop for all pedestrians at these (without signals). But don't you think that because mankind is capable, since he just reasoned God out of existence despite holding proof he must exist (Babel fish), that the same dodgy reasoning isn't capable of getting him run over on a zebra crossing that gives him right of way under all circumstances?)

Sure, pedestrians have the right of way, even when there isn't a proper marked crosswalk (zebra crossing), and hitting a pedestrian is illegal in just about every jurisdiction, no matter what the pedestrian does.

But crossing against the signal isn't smart, and the Man is "at risk" because he's being far, far too clever.

Moral: you can get in big trouble if you overthink the problem.

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But crossing against the signal isn't smart, and the Man is "at risk" because he's being far, far too clever.

Moral: you can get in big trouble if you overthink the problem.

ROFL: You know that's easy to do being descended from a crashed spaceship's inhabitants consisting mostly of hairdressers and telephone desanitisers.

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"Living by the wisdom of computer science doesn't sound so bad after all. And unlike most advice, it's backed up by proofs." -- Algorithms to live by: The computer science of human decisions.