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| Post #1 Dec 6 2007, 12:00 AM | DaFranker |
Let's make the point of this thread obvious by example:
Those are quotes. Yes. So, this is another thread for wisdom quotes? Not quite. I'd like this to stick to this forum's rules -- serious stuff only, please. Moreover, anything that's related to wisdom, quasi-wisdom or meta-wisdom is welcome -- songs, texts, links to other websites/forums, quotes, poems, rants, or even pictures, videos, and totally abstract things, as long as they have relevance. |
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| Post #2 Dec 6 2007, 03:21 PM | InfernoTsunami |
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The Hacker Manifesto by +++The Mentor+++ Written January 8, 1986 Another one got caught today, it's all over the papers. "Teenager Arrested in Computer Crime Scandal", "Hacker Arrested after Bank Tampering"... Damn kids. They're all alike. But did you, in your three-piece psychology and 1950's technobrain, ever take a look behind the eyes of the hacker? Did you ever wonder what made him tick, what forces shaped him, what may have molded him? I am a hacker, enter my world... Mine is a world that begins with school... I'm smarter than most of the other kids, this crap they teach us bores me... Damn underachiever. They're all alike. I'm in junior high or high school. I've listened to teachers explain for the fifteenth time how to reduce a fraction. I understand it. "No, Ms. Smith, I didn't show my work. I did it in my head..." Damn kid. Probably copied it. They're all alike. I made a discovery today. I found a computer. Wait a second, this is cool. It does what I want it to. If it makes a mistake, it's because I screwed it up. Not because it doesn't like me... Or feels threatened by me.. Or thinks I'm a smart ass.. Or doesn't like teaching and shouldn't be here... Damn kid. All he does is play games. They're all alike. And then it happened... a door opened to a world... rushing through the phone line like heroin through an addict's veins, an electronic pulse is sent out, a refuge from the day-to-day incompetencies is sought... a board is found. "This is it... this is where I belong..." I know everyone here... even if I've never met them, never talked to them, may never hear from them again... I know you all... Damn kid. Tying up the phone line again. They're all alike... You bet your ass we're all alike... we've been spoon-fed baby food at school when we hungered for steak... the bits of meat that you did let slip through were pre-chewed and tasteless. We've been dominated by sadists, or ignored by the apathetic. The few that had something to teach found us willing pupils, but those few are like drops of water in the desert. This is our world now... the world of the electron and the switch, the beauty of the baud. We make use of a service already existing without paying for what could be dirt-cheap if it wasn't run by profiteering gluttons, and you call us criminals. We explore... and you call us criminals. We seek after knowledge... and you call us criminals. We exist without skin color, without nationality, without religious bias... and you call us criminals. You build atomic bombs, you wage wars, you murder, cheat, and lie to us and try to make us believe it's for our own good, yet we're the criminals. Yes, I am a criminal. My crime is that of curiosity. My crime is that of judging people by what they say and think, not what they look like. My crime is that of outsmarting you, something that you will never forgive me for. I am a hacker, and this is my manifesto. You may stop this individual, but you can't stop us all... after all, we're all alike. That is all I have to say about that. |
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| Post #3 Dec 6 2007, 04:42 PM | DaFranker |
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Ah, yes, how could one forget the Hacker Manifesto. There is more than one good lesson to learn from this, and not all lessons are learned by acquiring information, even these. Here's a little less philosophical, but it can open up lots of subjects to think about. I know it was the case for me when I read it.
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| Post #4 Dec 7 2007, 11:44 PM | AZNguns |
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"Youth ages, immaturity outgrown, ignorance taught, even drunkeness sobered, but STUPID lasts forever." -Aristophanes "I live for days like these, when the passage of time has lost meaning and the sun in the sky can appear in as many places as it wants. To gaze at the clouds and dream of wondrous things. They say indolence is only for the dregs of society, that is wrong. It is days like these that enrapture the mind causing it to imagine, and with the imagination there lies no limits," -Unknown |
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You wade through the grief and the bloodshed. There are corpses around you they bleed the dust of the ancient Earth. You reach the mountain and climb it till you reach the summit. There he stands, the Dark Lord, the Ungodly One, the Bane of Redemption. He laughs at your feeble attempts of glory. There is a flash of lightning and the boom of thunder and the corpses at the bottom of the mountain rise to watch your defeat. You roar, a roar that shakes the foundations of the heavens themselves. The gods peer down in wonder at the task your are about to perform. Flames arise and a great conflagration burns a symbol in the sky, a lion and a dragon in battle. You smile at the image and draw your sword, it howls in anticipation in the coming blood-drawing. He pulls out a massive scythe it drips blood, the blood of men, the blood of women, the blood of children, the blood of the universe. You are the last warrior, the last champion, the last messiah. | |
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| Post #5 Dec 14 2007, 09:08 PM | Flak |
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Whether or not this has been repeated in the forums, I care not. I merely wish to express it in relevancy to your own quotes. "Peace is an accident, war is natural. Old men start it, young men fight it, everybody in the middle dies, and nobody tells the truth." -Sylvester Stallone. Heh. And here I was thinking some great Military Tactician utter that. Ha ha. "Don't die for your country, make some other dumb bastard die for his." -General George S. Patton. I love that one. |
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| Post #6 Oct 29 2008, 08:21 PM | Azedos_Sodeza |
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"I am not conceited by quoting myself. -Azedos_Sodeza" --Me of course. I'm sorry, that's an inside joke from another forum I visit and I felt like I had to post that. Also epic necromancy. I am a level 20 necromancer. Edited by Azedos_Sodeza, Oct 29 2008, 08:21 PM.
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| Post #7 Oct 29 2008, 09:02 PM | Flak |
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You guys love to add quotes that were repeated by yourself. Egotistic maniacs... |
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| Post #8 Oct 31 2008, 05:42 PM | DaFranker |
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Yes, I can assert to the fact that I, at least, am what you say in this regard. Cleaned-up, corrected, textually-enhanced translation of a (relatively) recent conversation between me and a friend:
I have no idea why I'm actually posting this out here and making this kind of personal stuff so public. Maybe it's because I don't care about the people here anymore, for the reasons mentioned above. Take it for what worth you'll give it. Feel free to use any or all of it against me in any situation you feel like it -- I probably deserve that. Yes, that text is heavily edited by me, but all the things said were really said, and the sense is intact. I just had to fill in the gaps that you wouldn't have understood, since in the original conversation we left out lots of things we already knew or understood, that I just had to mention here so you could understand what was going on. Did I mention the original text was also in québécois? As a side note, some of you will obviously assume I'm moping and being self-incriminating and am probably depressed and stuff. You'll also try to sympathize and tell me I'm not like that, that it's not really my fault, that it's just a bad phase, or any other thing of the sort. Don't. It'll be your waste of time if you do, and you might actually succeed in ruining my fun. If you do ruin my fun, I'm ruining yours, because as wise as I can be, I'm also a very practical person, and if taking down someone just so he won't get in my way later won't cause me too much trouble, I'll do it. Being hypocritical just isn't as fun as making other people be hypocritical in your place. If you can count at least ten ways I could mean the following sentence, then take all those for true. If you can't find at least ten, then all the ones you did find are false: It's all about power. |
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| Post #9 Oct 31 2008, 07:15 PM | Flak |
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Wisdom of the Fucking Day: Its times like this that I wished DaFranker was deficient in fingers. Or a tongue. Or toes. Or a nose. Or elbows. Or knees. Or a chin. Or appendages in general that are capable of scrupulously buttons on an input device such as a keyboard. I hate you Franker. Shut up. Happy Halloween.
Edited by Flak, Oct 31 2008, 07:20 PM.
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| Post #10 Nov 2 2008, 08:07 PM | DaFranker |
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Meh? I don't understand what you mean, Flak. Why would you wish for me to not be able to give you ammunition to later throw at me in an argument?
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| Post #11 Nov 2 2008, 08:18 PM | Flak |
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Because it's volatile, heavy, and doesn't load into the weapon. That entire phrase was a metaphor. But, you already knew that. |
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| Post #12 Nov 2 2008, 09:16 PM | DaFranker |
| I love chess, especially when it's not played with a board and a set of pieces ^^ |
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| Post #13 Nov 6 2008, 05:06 PM | Flak |
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| Post #14 Nov 6 2008, 07:11 PM | Taceo |
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Nothing gives us courage more readily than the desire to avoid looking like a damn fool. Sometimes there is no darker place than our thoughts, the moonless midnight of the mind. The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion. It's all Dean Koontz. |
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| Post #15 Nov 6 2008, 07:41 PM | Flak |
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"Wooden wings aren't as flexible as feathered ones." - ME. |
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| Post #16 Nov 6 2008, 07:53 PM | Taceo |
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Very nice. We are hypocrisy, we are corruption, and we are the people that inhabit the dark alley ways. When we step into the light, we show what we really are, and it's not a pretty picture. -me *this probably makes no sense to anyone but me, but it has a meaning. Edited by Taceo, Nov 6 2008, 07:54 PM.
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| Post #17 Nov 6 2008, 07:58 PM | Flak |
| That makes perfect sense, silly. |
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