DC Dan Quote of the Week

"It's one of the most exciting reports on the history of chocolate of the past 10 to 15 years"

Louis Grivetti

DC Dan Quote of the Week

"Marriage is an important part of getting ahead: lets people know you're not a homo; married guy seems more stable; people see the ring, they think at least somebody can stand the son of a bitch; ladies see the ring, they know immediately you must have some cash or your cock must work."
Ellerby in "The Departed"

DC Dan Quote of the Week

"I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?"
Frank Zappa at a Senate Hearing on Porn Rock (1985) in response to Tipper Gore's allegations that music incites people towards deviant behavior, or influences their behavior in general (he is referring to his song "Montana".)

DC Dan Quote of the Week

Part of the debtor mentality is a constant, frantically suppressed undercurrent of terror. We have one of the highest debt-to-income ratios in the world, and apparently most of us are two paychecks from the street. Those in power -- governments, employers -- exploit this, to great effect. Frightened people are obedient -- not just physically, but intellectually and emotionally. If your employer tells you to work overtime, and you know that refusing could jeopardize everything you have, then not only do you work the overtime, but you convince yourself that you're doing it voluntarily, out of loyalty to the company; because the alternative is to acknowledge that you are living in terror. Before you know it, you've persuaded yourself that you have a profound emotional attachment to some vast multinational corporation: you've indentured not just your working hours, but your entire thought process. The only people who are capable of either unfettered action or unfettered thought are those who -- either because they're heroically brave, or because they're insane, or because they know themselves to be safe -- are free from fear.
Quote is from The Likeness, a novel set in Ireland, by Tana French.


Via Schneier on Security

DC Dan Quote of the Week

"Expectation only leads to disaapoinment"

Quote of the Week

From a NYT story about Tracy Morgan:

Tracy Morgan said he knows where a life of misbehavior, pursued in the service of making others laugh, is going to get him. “You get somebody to crack a smile, that’s a beautiful thing,” he said. “So I think all comedians are earning their wings into heaven. We’re all going to heaven, but everybody’s not going to get their wings. Some people are just going to be regular angels. Doing cleanup, janitor work.”

“In heaven,” he said proudly, “I’m going to sit on the couch with Oprah.”

DC Dan Quote of the Week

Self-chosen epitaph: "Curiosity did not kill this cat."
Studs Terkel

DC Dan Quote of the Week

"A word to the credulous: Satan was a literary invention to give Jesus a villain. There’s no such thing as Satan. There’s no such thing as God. Jesus, like Barack Obama, was a politician."

Warren Ellis

DC Dan Quote of the Week

"When you lead your revolution, whitey better be standing still because you don't run worth a damn no more"
Shaft

DC Dan Quote of the Week

Dave Barry once famously defined a sense of humor as a "measurement of the extent to which we realize that we are trapped in a world almost totally devoid of reason."

DC Dan Quote of the Week

"Now, now my good man, this is no time for making enemies."
— Voltaire (1694-1778), on his deathbed in response to a priest asking that he renounce Satan.