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I propose these changes. I don't believe any of these were intentional.
- Jim Van Zandt
--- datfiles/cookie-orig 2005-12-31 19:51:42.000000000 -0500
+++ datfiles/cookie 2006-01-08 09:43:53.000000000 -0500
@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
- Bert Lantz
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-"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity."
+"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a necessity."
- Oscar Wilde
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"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy
thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. Thy navel
is like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap
-of wheat set about with lillies.
+of wheat set about with lilies.
Thy two breasts are like two young roses that are twins.
[Song of Solomon 7:1-3 (KJV)]
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@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@
- Joey Ramone
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No one is fit to be trusted with power. ... No one. ... Any man who has lived
-at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capabe of. ... And if he does
+at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capable of. ... And if he does
know it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to
decide a single human fate.
- C. P. Snow, The Light and the Dark
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@
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Do not allow this language (Ada) in its present state to be used in
applications where reliability is critical, i.e., nuclear power stations,
-cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti-ballistic missle defense
+cruise missiles, early warning systems, anti-ballistic missile defense
systems. The next rocket to go astray as a result of a programming language
error may not be an exploratory space rocket on a harmless trip to Venus:
It may be a nuclear warhead exploding over one of our cities. An unreliable
@@ -221,7 +221,7 @@
- Fred Brooks, Jr.
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Digital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build:
-They hyave very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing,
+They have very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing,
and testing them hard. Software systems have orders-of-magnitude more states
than computers do.
- Fred Brooks, Jr.
@@ -248,7 +248,7 @@
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
- Brian Kernighan
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-Perfection is acheived only on the point of collapse.
+Perfection is achieved only on the point of collapse.
- C. N. Parkinson
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There you go man,
@@ -405,7 +405,7 @@
The control program manager had 150 men. He asserted that they could prepare
the specifications, with the architecture team coordinating; it would be
-well-done and practical, and he could do it on schedule. Futhermore, if
+well-done and practical, and he could do it on schedule. Furthermore, if
the architecture team did it, his 150 men would sit twiddling their thumbs
for ten months.
@@ -417,7 +417,7 @@
added a year to debugging time.
- Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month"
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-The reason ESP, for example, is not considered a viable topic in contemoprary
+The reason ESP, for example, is not considered a viable topic in contemporary
psychology is simply that its investigation has not proven fruitful...After
more than 70 years of study, there still does not exist one example of an ESP
phenomenon that is replicable under controlled conditions. This simple but
@@ -432,7 +432,7 @@
is and will always be a wild animal.
-- Charles Galton Darwin
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-Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as concious
selection.
+Natural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as conscious
selection.
We will civilize and alter ourselves to suit our ideas of what we can be.
Within one more human lifespan, we will have changed ourselves unrecognizably.
-- Greg Bear
@@ -603,7 +603,7 @@
%
"Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free
with my breakfast cereal."
-- Zaphod Beeblebrox in "Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
+- Zaphod Beeblebrox in "Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
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Uncompensated overtime? Just Say No.
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@@ -762,7 +762,7 @@
ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them.
-- Steven Wright
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-My brother sent me a postcard the other day with this big sattelite photo of
+My brother sent me a postcard the other day with this big satellite photo of
the entire earth on it. On the back it said: "Wish you were here".
-- Steven Wright
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@@ -861,9 +861,9 @@
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The characteristic property of hallucinogens, to suspend the boundaries between
the experiencing self and the outer world in an ecstatic, emotional experience,
-makes it posible with their help, and after suitable internal and external
+makes it possible with their help, and after suitable internal and external
perparation...to evoke a mystical experience according to plan, so to speak...
-I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing materail aid
+I see the true importance of LSD in the possibility of providing material aid
to meditation aimed at the mystical experience of a deeper, comprehensive
reality. Such a use accords entirely with the essence and working character
of LSD as a sacred drug.
@@ -873,7 +873,7 @@
pervading all spheres of Western industrial society can be remedied only
by a change in our world view. We shall have to shift from the materialistic,
dualistic belief that people and their environment are separate, toward a
-new conciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the
+new consciousness of an all-encompassing reality, which embraces the
experiencing ego, a reality in which people feel their oneness with animate
nature and all of creation.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman
@@ -885,13 +885,13 @@
influence our consciousness, the innermost essence of our being. The history
of LSD to date amply demonstrates the catastrophic consequences that can
ensue when its profound effect is misjudged and the substance is mistaken
-for a pleasure drug. Special internal and external advance preperations
+for a pleasure drug. Special internal and external advance preparations
are required; with them, an LSD experiment can become a meaningful
experience.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD
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I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability
-more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjution
+more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in conjunction
with meditation, then in the future this problem child could become a wonder
child.
- Dr. Albert Hoffman, the discoverer of LSD
@@ -1141,7 +1141,7 @@
our doubts serve to reassure us.
- Jean-Pierre de Caussade, eighteenth-century Jesuit priest
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-Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurence of the
+Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the
improbable.
- H. L. Mencken
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@@ -1154,7 +1154,7 @@
become better people as a result of practicing it.
- Joe Mullally, computer salesman
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-Imitation is the sincerest form of plagarism.
+Imitation is the sincerest form of plagiarism.
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"Unibus timeout fatal trap program lost sorry"
- An error message printed by DEC's RSTS operating system for the PDP-11
@@ -1228,7 +1228,7 @@
%
I believe in an America where the separation of church and state is absolute --
where no Catholic prelate would tell the president (should he be Catholic)
-how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishoners for whom
+how to act, and no Protestant minister would tell his parishioners for whom
to vote--where no church or church school is granted any public funds or
political preference--and where no man is denied public office merely
because his religion differs from the president who might appoint him or the
@@ -1512,7 +1512,7 @@
of UFO skeptics to prove that a UFO has never existed, nor is it the
responsibility of paranormal-health-claims skeptics to prove that crystals
or colored lights never healed anyone. The skeptic's role is to point out
-claims that are not adequately supported by acceptable evidcence and to
+claims that are not adequately supported by acceptable evidence and to
provide plausible alternative explanations that are more in keeping with
the accepted body of scientific evidence. ...
- Thomas L. Creed, The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, pg. 215
@@ -1524,13 +1524,13 @@
outsiders who eventually overthrew entrenched scientific orthodoxies, but
they prevailed with irrefutable data. More often, egregious findings that
contradict well-established research turn out to be artifacts. I have
-argued that accepting psychic powers, reincarnation, "cosmic conciousness,"
+argued that accepting psychic powers, reincarnation, "cosmic consciousness,"
and the like, would entail fundamental revisions of the foundations of
neuroscience. Before abandoning materialist theories of mind that have paid
handsome dividends, we should insist on better evidence for psi phenomena
than presently exists, especially when neurology and psychology themselves
offer more plausible alternatives.
-- Barry L. Beyerstein, "The Brain and Conciousness: Implications for Psi
+- Barry L. Beyerstein, "The Brain and Consciousness: Implications for Psi
Phenomena", The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, ppg. 163-171
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Evolution is a bankrupt speculative philosophy, not a scientific fact.
@@ -1693,7 +1693,7 @@
our daily needs, but hopelessly differing whenever we attempt to describe
the ultimate origin or end of our paths; and yet, when one of us ventures
to declare that we don't know the map of the universe as well as the map
-of our infintesimal parish, he is hooted, reviled, and perhaps told that
+of our infinitesimal parish, he is hooted, reviled, and perhaps told that
he will be damned to all eternity for his faithlessness...
- Leslie Stephen, "An agnostic's Apology", Fortnightly Review, 1876
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@@ -1739,7 +1739,7 @@
crudeness.
- Johnny Mnemonic, by William Gibson
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-However, on religious issures there can be little or no compromise.
+However, on religious issues there can be little or no compromise.
There is no position on which people are so immovable as their religious
beliefs. There is no more powerful ally one can claim in a debate than
Jesus Christ, or God, or Allah, or whatever one calls this supreme being.
@@ -1778,12 +1778,12 @@
God, then, is just that -- a matter of belief, not knowledge. My respect
for Jesus Christ arises from the fact that He seems to have been the
most virtuous inhabitant of Planet Earth. But even well-educated Christians
-are frustated in their thirst for certainty about the beloved figure
+are frustrated in their thirst for certainty about the beloved figure
of Jesus because of the undeniable ambiguity of the scriptural record.
Such ambiguity is not apparent to children or fanatics, but every
recognized Bible scholar is perfectly aware of it. Some Christians, alas,
resort to formal lying to obscure such reality.
-- Steve Allen, comdeian, from an essay in the book "The Courage of
+- Steve Allen, comedian, from an essay in the book "The Courage of
Conviction", edited by Philip Berman
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...it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs about the
@@ -1816,9 +1816,9 @@
problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to
a religious philosophy -- and it does not matter whether that philosophy
is generally reasonable and high-minded or utterly bizarre and
-irrational -- the powers of reason are suprisingly ineffective in
+irrational -- the powers of reason are surprisingly ineffective in
changing the believer's mind.
-- Steve Allen, comdeian, from an essay in the book "The Courage of
+- Steve Allen, comedian, from an essay in the book "The Courage of
Conviction", edited by Philip Berman
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Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult
@@ -1828,7 +1828,7 @@
We may not be able to persuade Hindus that Jesus and not Vishnu should
govern their spiritual horizon, nor Moslems that Lord Buddha is at the
center of their spiritual universe, nor Hebrews that Mohammed is a major
-prohpet, nor Christians that Shinto best expresses their spiritual
+prophet, nor Christians that Shinto best expresses their spiritual
concerns, to say nothing of the fact that we may not be able to get
Christians to agree among themselves about their relationship to God.
But all will agree on a proposition that they possess profound spiritual
@@ -1866,7 +1866,7 @@
common tests. It is the essence of all dogmatic faiths to hold that
any such "show-down" is sacrilegious and perverse. The characteristic
of religion, from their point of view, is that it is intellectually
-secret, not public; peculiarly revealed, not generall known;
+secret, not public; peculiarly revealed, not generally known;
authoritatively declared, not communicated and tested in ordinary
ways...It is pertinent to point out that, as long as religion is
conceived as it is now by the great majority of professed religionists,
@@ -1887,7 +1887,7 @@
educative process is carried on in a predominantly democratic or non-
democratic way becomes, therefore, a question of transcendent importance
not only for education itself but for its final effect upon all the
-interests and activites of a society that is committed to the democratic
+interests and activities of a society that is committed to the democratic
way of life.
- John Dewey (1859-1953), American philosopher
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@@ -1915,7 +1915,7 @@
"Well, you see, it's such a transitional creature. It's a piss-poor
reptile and not very much of a bird."
- Melvin Konner, from "The Tangled Wing", quoting a zoologist who has
-studied the archeopteryz and found it "very much like people"
+studied the archaeopteryx and found it "very much like people"
%
"You need tender loving care once a week - so that I can slap you into shape."
- Ellyn Mustard
@@ -1979,7 +1979,7 @@
"There is such a fine line between genius and stupidity."
- David St. Hubbins, "Spinal Tap"
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-"If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been neccessary to invent it."
+"If Diet Coke did not exist it would have been necessary to invent it."
-- Karl Lehenbauer
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I am approached with the most opposite opinions and advice, and by men who
@@ -2009,7 +2009,7 @@
and so basic that we often forget to mention it: because it is false, and
because good teachers understand exactly why it is false. What could be
more destructive of that most fragile yet most precious commodity in our
-entire intellectualy heritage -- good teaching -- than a bill forcing
+entire intellectual heritage -- good teaching -- than a bill forcing
honorable teachers to sully their sacred trust by granting equal treatment
to a doctrine not only known to be false, but calculated to undermine any
general understanding of science as an enterprise?
@@ -2044,7 +2044,7 @@
designers in the thin disguise of good, clean fun."
-- P. J. Plauger, from his April Fool's column in April 88's "Computer
Language"
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-"If you want to eat hippopatomus, you've got to pay the freight."
+"If you want to eat hippopotamus, you've got to pay the freight."
-- attributed to an IBM guy, about why IBM software uses so much memory
%
Parkinson's Law: Work expands to fill the time alloted it.
@@ -2190,7 +2190,7 @@
-- Kendrick Frazier, "The Year in Science: An Overview," in
1988 Yearbook of Science and the Future, Encyclopaedia Britannica, Inc.
%
-"jackpot: you may have an unneccessary change record"
+"jackpot: you may have an unnecessary change record"
-- message from "diff"
%
"One lawyer can steal more than a hundred men with guns."
@@ -2366,7 +2366,7 @@
in two weeks time, and its citizens will disperse to various resort communities
around the world. Said Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, 'Who needs the
aggravation?'"
--- Dennis Miller, "Satuday Night Live" News
+-- Dennis Miller, "Saturday Night Live" News
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"And, of course, you have the commercials where savvy businesspeople Get Ahead
by using their MacIntosh computers to create the ultimate American business
@@ -2650,7 +2650,7 @@
-- TV Guide, describing the Star Trek episode _Amok_Time_
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"Poor man... he was like an employee to me."
--- The police commisioner on "Sledge Hammer" laments the death of his bodyguard
+-- The police commissioner on "Sledge Hammer" laments the death of his
bodyguard
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"Trust me. I know what I'm doing."
-- Sledge Hammer
@@ -2799,7 +2799,7 @@
around than any other city in the world."
-- David Letterman
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-"Tourists -- have some fun with New york's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get
+"Tourists -- have some fun with New York's hard-boiled cabbies. When you get
to your destination, say to your driver, "Pay? I was hitchhiking."
-- David Letterman
%
@@ -2930,7 +2930,7 @@
Absolute: Independent, irresponsible. An absolute monarchy is one in which
the sovereign does as he pleases so long as he pleases the assassins. Not
many absolute monarchies are left, most of them having been replaced by
-limited monarchies, where the soverign's power for evil (and for good) is
+limited monarchies, where the sovereign's power for evil (and for good) is
greatly curtailed, and by republics, which are governed by chance.
-- Ambrose Bierce
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@@ -2998,7 +2998,7 @@
daily undertaken on hearsay evidence. There is no religion in the world
that has any other basis than hearsay evidence. Revelation is hearsay
evidence; that the Scriptures are the word of God we have only the
-testimony of men long dead whose identy is not clearly established and
+testimony of men long dead whose identity is not clearly established and
who are not known to have been sworn in any sense. Under the rules of
evidence as they now exist in this country, no single assertion in the
Bible has in its support any evidence admissible in a court of law...
@@ -3056,7 +3056,7 @@
occur to me that you really might not wish the public to know who wrote it."
-- Ambrose Bierce
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-Many aligators will be slain,
+Many alligators will be slain,
but the swamp will remain.
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What the gods would destroy they first submit to an IEEE standards committee.
@@ -3119,12 +3119,12 @@
everything.
-- Karl Lehenbauer
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-This is, of course, totally uninformed specualation that I engage in to help
+This is, of course, totally uninformed speculation that I engage in to help
support my bias against such meddling... but there you have it.
-- Peter da Silva, speculating about why a computer program that had been
changed to do something he didn't approve of, didn't work
%
-"This knowledge I pursure is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could
+"This knowledge I pursue is the finest pleasure I have ever known. I could
no sooner give it up that I could the very air that I breath."
-- Paolo Uccello, Renaissance artist, discoverer of the laws of perspective
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@@ -3137,7 +3137,7 @@
%
The F-15 Eagle:
If it's up, we'll shoot it down. If it's down, we'll blow it up.
--- A McDonnel-Douglas ad from a few years ago
+-- A McDonnell-Douglas ad from a few years ago
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"The Amiga is the only personal computer where you can run a multitasking
operating system and get realtime performance, out of the box."
@@ -3164,7 +3164,7 @@
%
There is something you must understand about the Soviet system. They have the
ability to concentrate all their efforts on a given design, and develop all
-components simulateously, but sometimes without proper testing. Then they end
+components simultaneously, but sometimes without proper testing. Then they end
up with a technological disaster like the Tu-144. In a technology race at
the time, that aircraft was two months ahead of the Concorde. Four Tu-144s
were built; two have crashed, and two are in museums. The Concorde has been
@@ -3288,7 +3288,7 @@
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In his book, Mr. DePree tells the story of how designer George Nelson urged
that the company also take on Charles Eames in the late 1940s. Max's father,
-J. DePree, co-founder of the company with herman Miller in 1923, asked Mr.
+J. DePree, co-founder of the company with Herman Miller in 1923, asked Mr.
Nelson if he really wanted to share the limited opportunities of a then-small
company with another designer. "George's response was something like this:
'Charles Eames is an unusual talent. He is very different from me. The
@@ -3403,7 +3403,7 @@
discovery. But as soon as the human animal who asked himself this question
emerged, he plunged himself and his descendants into an eternity of doubt
and brooding, speculation and truth-seeking that has goaded him through the
-centures as reelentlessly as hunger or sexual longing. The chimp that does
+centuries as relentlessly as hunger or sexual longing. The chimp that does
not know that he exists is not driven to discover his origins and is spared
the tragic necessity of contemplating his own end. And even if the animal
experimenters succeed in teaching a chimp to count one hundred bananas or
@@ -3414,7 +3414,7 @@
-- Selma Fraiberg, _The Magic Years_, pg. 193
%
A comment on schedules:
- Ok, how long will it take?
+ OK, how long will it take?
For each manager involved in initial meetings add one month.
For each manager who says "data flow analysis" add another month.
For each unique end-user type add one month.
@@ -3440,7 +3440,7 @@
which do more than pages of instructions in a 3GL. Applications can be
developed in hours and days, rather than months and years with traditional
systems. Most of the other 4GLs available today look more like COBOL or
- RPG, the most tedious of the third generation lanaguages.
+ RPG, the most tedious of the third generation languages.
"UNIX Relational Database Management: Application Development in the UNIX
Environment" by Rod Manis, Evan Schaffer, and Robert Jorgensen. Prentice
@@ -3614,7 +3614,7 @@
%
"Facts are stupid things."
-- President Ronald Reagan
- (a blooper from his speeach at the '88 GOP convention)
+ (a blooper from his speech at the '88 GOP convention)
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"The argument that the literal story of Genesis can qualify as science
collapses on three major grounds: the creationists' need to invoke
@@ -3645,7 +3645,7 @@
-- Albert Einstein
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"Card readers? We don't need no stinking card readers."
--- Peter da Silva (at the National Academy of Sciencies, 1965, in a
+-- Peter da Silva (at the National Academy of Sciences, 1965, in a
particularly vivid fantasy)
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Your good nature will bring unbounded happiness.
@@ -3801,7 +3801,7 @@
"Pok pok pok, P'kok!"
-- Superchicken
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-Live Free or Live in Massachusettes.
+Live Free or Live in Massachusetts.
%
"You can't get very far in this world without your dossier being there first."
-- Arthur Miller
@@ -4151,7 +4151,7 @@
turf....But at the outer edges, this skepticism about science easily turns
into a kind of naive acceptance of nonscience, or even nonsense. The same
people who doubt experts can also believe any quackery, from the benefits of
-laetrile to eye of newt to the movment of planets. We lose the capacity to
+laetrile to eye of newt to the movement of planets. We lose the capacity to
make rational -- scientific -- judgments. It's all the same.
-- Ellen Goodman, The Boston Globe Newspaper Company-Washington Post Writers
Group
@@ -4182,7 +4182,7 @@
and tested over the centuries. Nobody's ever found any validity to it at
all. It is not even close to a science. A science has to be repeatable, it
has to have a logical foundation, and it has to be potentially vulnerable --
-you test it. And in that astrology is reqlly quite something else.
+you test it. And in that astrology is really quite something else.
-- Astronomer Richard Berendzen, President, American University, on ABC
News "Nightline," May 3, 1988
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@@ -4270,7 +4270,7 @@
%
"I turn on my television set. I see a young lady who goes under the guise
of being a Christian, known all over the nation, dressed in skin-tight
-leather pants, shaking and wiggling her hips to the beat and rythm of the
+leather pants, shaking and wiggling her hips to the beat and rhythm of the
music as the strobe lights beat their patterns across the stage and the
band plays the contemporary rock sound which cannot be differentiated from
songs by the Grateful Dead, the Beatles, or anyone else. And you may try
@@ -4374,7 +4374,7 @@
%
Remember, an int is not always 16 bits. I'm not sure, but if the 80386 is one
-step closer to Intel's slugfest with the CPU curve that is aymptotically
+step closer to Intel's slugfest with the CPU curve that is asymptotically
approaching a real machine, perhaps an int has been implemented as 32 bits by
some Unix vendors...?
-- Derek Terveer
@@ -4492,7 +4492,7 @@
I think most of us are interested in examining and discussing literary
(and musical) works that possess a certain stylistic excellence and perhaps a
rather extreme perspective; this is what CP is all about, no? Maybe there
-should be a newsgroup like, say, alt.postmodern or somthing. Something less
+should be a newsgroup like, say, alt.postmodern or something. Something less
restrictive in scope than alt.cyberpunk.
-- Jeff G. Bone
%
@@ -4527,7 +4527,7 @@
%
...I don't care for the term 'mechanistic'. The word 'cybernetic' is a lot
more apropos. The mechanistic world-view is falling further and further behind
-the real world where even simple systems can produce the most marvellous
+the real world where even simple systems can produce the most marvelous
chaos.
-- Peter da Silva
%
@@ -4559,7 +4559,7 @@
3) The TETflame flaming representatives include: Richard Sexton, Oleg
Kisalev, Diane Holt, Trish O'Tauma, Dave Hill, Greg Nowak and our most
- recent aquisition, Keith Doyle. But all he will do is put you in his
+ recent acquisition, Keith Doyle. But all he will do is put you in his
kill file. Weemba by special arrangement.
-- Richard Sexton
@@ -5177,7 +5177,7 @@
"You may be wrong here, little one."
-- R. W. F. Clark ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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- "Yes, I am a real piece of work. One thing we learn at Ulowell is
+ "Yes, I am a real piece of work. One thing we learn at ULowell is
how to flame useless hacking non-EE's like you. I am superior to you in
every way by training and expertise in the technical field. Anyone can learn
how to hack, but Engineering doesn't come nearly as easily. Actually, I'm
@@ -5191,7 +5191,7 @@
chosen mode of existence!"
-- Jim Morrison ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
%
-"BYTE editors are men who seperate the wheat from the chaff, and then
+"BYTE editors are men who separate the wheat from the chaff, and then
print the chaff."
-- Lionel Hummel (uiucdcs!hummel), derived from a quote by Adlai Stevenson, Sr.
%
@@ -5332,7 +5332,7 @@
system that worked."
-- John Gall, _Systemantics_
%
-"In my opinion, Richard Stallman wouldn't recognise terrorism if it
+"In my opinion, Richard Stallman wouldn't recognize terrorism if it
came up and bit him on his Internet."
-- Ross M. Greenberg
%
@@ -5347,7 +5347,7 @@
pleasure of contradicting him abruptly, and of showing him immediately some
absurdity in his proposition. In answering I began by observing that in
certain cases or circumstances his opinion would be right, but in the present
-case there appeared or semed to me some difference, etc.
+case there appeared or seemed to me some difference, etc.
I soon found the advantage of this change in my manner; the conversations I
engaged in went on more pleasantly. The modest way in which I proposed my
@@ -5358,7 +5358,7 @@
-- Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
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"If I ever get around to writing that language depompisifier, it will change
-almost all occurences of the word "paradigm" into "example" or "model."
+almost all occurrences of the word "paradigm" into "example" or "model."
-- Herbie Blashtfalt
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"Life, loathe it or ignore it, you can't like it."
@@ -5406,7 +5406,7 @@
-- Senator Adlai E. Stevenson
%
"The ACLU has stood foursquare against the recurring tides of hysteria that
->from time to time threaten freedoms everyhere... Indeed, it is difficult
+>from time to time threaten freedoms everywhere... Indeed, it is difficult
to appreciate how far our freedoms might have eroded had it not been for the
Union's valiant representation in the courts of the constitutional rights
of people of all persuasions, no matter how unpopular or even despised
@@ -5660,7 +5660,7 @@
as he tastes them, thinking he knows them in the naming."
-- Siddartha, _Lord_of_Light_ by Roger Zelazny
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-"Irrigation of the land with sewater desalinated by fusion power is ancient.
+"Irrigation of the land with seawater desalinated by fusion power is ancient.
It's called 'rain'."
-- Michael McClary, in alt.fusion
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-- System Information:
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APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (990, 'unstable'), (500, 'oldstable'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.14
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=C (charmap=ANSI_X3.4-1968)
Versions of packages fortunes depends on:
ii fortune-mod 1:1.99.1-2 provides fortune cookies on demand
ii fortunes-min 1:1.99.1-2 Data files containing fortune cook
fortunes recommends no packages.
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