"REPARARE INIURIA MUNDI"

"If you really want to avoid all the critics in your life, then do nothing, say nothing and be nothing and you'll never get their attention" -- Plitt

Scientia, Industria, Veritas


"Follow the path of the unsafe, independent thinker. Expose your ideas to the danger of controversy. Speak your mind and fear less the label of crackpot than the stigma of conformity." -- Thomas J. Watson, Sr., (unsourced)

"After much effort, as names, definitions, sights, and other data of sense, are brought into contact and friction one with another, in the course of scrutiny and kindly testing by men who proceed by question and answer without ill will, with a sudden flash there shines forth understanding about every problem, and an intelligence whose efforts reach the furthest limits of human powers." -- Plato, (The Seventh Letter/Epistle)


"Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates to invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving...conflict is a sine qua non of [essential to] reflection and ingenuity."-- John Dewey, (Human Nature and Conduct: An Introduction to Social Psychology, 1930)

"Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community, and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilisation." -- O.W.

"The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking." -- John Kenneth Galbraith, (unsourced)


The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt. --- Bertrand Russell ("The Triumph of Stupidity" (1933-05-10) in Mortals and Others: Bertrand Russell's American Essays, 1931-1935, p. 28)


The will of the people is the only legitimate foundation of any government, and to protect its free expression should be our first object. --- Thomas Jefferson, First Inaugural Address, 1801

" Honest disagreement is often a good sign of progress."

- Mohandas Gandhi

"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when contemplating the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of the mystery every day. The important thing is not to stop questioning; never lose a holy curiosity."

- Albert Einstein, Statement to William Miller, as quoted in LIFE magazine (2 May 1955)

"The ideal outcome would be two people unharmed in the first place. The necessity of revenge is embedded in the darker places of our minds." -- Roger Ebert.

"I am beginning to lose patience
With my personal relations.
They are not deep
And they are not cheap." -- Auden.

"Better by far to embrace the hard truth than a reassuring fable." -- Sagan.


"You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them think." -- Tom Robbins

"There is no light without heat." -- Victor Hugo.

"An author's first duty is to let down his country." -- Behan




"I don't give a ♥♥♥♥ about frags to be honest, frags don't matter, key frags are ones that matter, theres alot of new players who should know that" - Friberg


Kerbal Space Program plays a lot like work to me.