"what's life without a spice of stupidity"

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Source : Nancy Springer (2003). “Outlaw Princess of Sherwood”, p.23, Penguin

Nancy Springer

#Stupidity Quotes #Spices Quotes

“You can't prove anything about a program written in C or FÃ˜RTRAN. It's really just Peek and Poke with some syntactic sugar.”
“If tolerance is taken to the point where it tolerates the destruction of those same principles that made tolerance possible in the first place, it becomes intolerable.”
“Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make clear. The argument against reason in this literature is straightforward: it is impossible for any individual to acquire enough reliable information to make a rational decision, any actions founded on rational thought will therefore be delusional, any attempts at reason should therefore regarded as dangerous, and all action should instead be guided by tradition.”
“Fate is the malevolent little jester sitting up in the heavens and pondering over how ridiculous we humans are and he does his best to make fools out of all of us. And sooner or later he succeeds.”
“The modern picture of the artist began to form: The poor, but free spirit, plebeian but aspiring only to be classless, to cut himself forever free from the bonds of the greedy bourgeoisie, to be whatever the fat burghers feared most, to cross the line wherever they drew it, to look at the world in a way they couldn't see, to be high, live low, stay young forever -- in short, to be the bohemian.”
“There will not be a magic day when we wake up and it's now okay to express ourselves publicly. We make that day by doing things publicly until it's simply the way things are.”
“It is the way we react to circumstances that determines our feelings.”
“Oft morning dreams presage approaching fate, For morning dreams, as poets tell, are true.”

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