Zik's aphorisms and random thoughts
I think I am, therefore I dunno.
Sometimes I get the feeling that Schrodinger wasn't really a cat lover.
Anything sufficiently bizarre is indistinguishable from truth.
The stock exchange - a din of inequity
When all else fails... do nothing. That way you won't fail again.
Nighttime programmer's litany: "Good night, code tight, hope the bugs don't bite."
The one thing I can't stand is intolerance.
Fashion hint: Geek is chic!
Great minds think alike - particularly when they're being serendipitous.
If the mind is a fertile field then I'd like to think that I spend most of my time furrowed.
There is a limited number of new ideas short and interesting enough
to make a good aphorism. There may now be one less.
Lies are more powerful than truth. In fact this one has such power that it has now become a truth.
A good captain should go down with his computer, but I prefer to stay up all night with mine.
You begin to understand politics when you realise that it is the only way that boring people can become famous.
There are no simple answers; only simplifications of the complex ones.
Schroedinger is the man who taught the world that a closed box may or may not have a dead cat in it.
If someone extorts money from you with threats it's
called a "protection racket". If the government does the same thing it's called "tax".
Contact lenses are in the eye of the beholder.
It is far more important to appear to be intelligent than to actually be intelligent.
Children should be indoctrinated to authority as early as possible. They
should be given an object lesson of deprivation, segregation,
subjugation, and injustice in order to minimise any chance of later
rebellion. Incarceration behind bars for a year or two is a good method,
and "the cot" serves this purpose admirably.
"free thinkers" are those who reject the unproven precepts of religion.
Interestingly a rejection of the unproven precepts of politics is known
as "anarchy" and is today rejected in much the same way that "free thinking" once was.
Really, I'm not paranoid, it's just that everyone thinks I am.
Boring people use the word `Bizarre' to describe things that are too interesting for them.
Never speak ill of bigots - they are as much a product of their environment as you or I.
It's the natural order of the universe that everything can be used as a tool
to do just about anything, it just tends to be very bad at it. And it tries to
gets worse at it too, which is what they call entropy.
Creation is the process of making things better at doing something specific.
When the truth is predictable only lies are worth listening to.
"I got a new car - it's a Fnord Falcon. I went shopping in it but couldn't
find it in the car park afterwards."
"Sanity is for the weak-minded."
"There is a certain triumph in well-considered monotony" - Voltaire on COBOL
Q: What did the female praying mantis say to the male praying mantis?
A: It's ok dear, I'm lapsed.