The Bad Influence Speaks

11.11 Hump Day Quote: Veteran's Day

 

Honor to the soldier and sailor everywhere, who bravely bears his country's cause. Honor, also, to the citizen who cares for his brother in the field and serves, as he best can, the same cause.

~Abraham Lincoln

And nobody has the right to judge a soldier from the warmth and safety of their armchair.

~Karen Traviss

11.4 Hump Day Quote: Computer mistakes

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.

From Geek24.com

10.28 Hump Day Quote: NASA

Man is the lowest-cost, 150-pound, nonlinear, all-purpose computer system which can be mass-produced by unskilled labor.

~ NASA in 1965

10.21 Hump Day Quote: Issa Asimov

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

~Issac Asimov

10.14 Hump Day Quote: Ronald Regan (government)

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

~Ronald Regan

10.7 Hump Day Quote: Thomas Jefferson

I know no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves; and if we think them not enlightened enough to exercise their control with a wholesome discretion, the remedy is not to take it from them but to inform their discretion by education. This is the true corrective of abuses of Constitutional power.

~Thomas Jefferson

9.30 Hump Day Quote: Iris Murdoch

I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.

~ Iris Murdoch

9.23 Hump Day Quote: Germaine Greer

The most cursory examination of even the most progressive organs of information reveals a curious inability to recognize women as newsmakers, unless they are young or married to a head of state or naked or pregnant by some triumph of technology or perpetrators or victims of some hideous crime or any combination of the above. Women's issues are often disguised as people issues, unless they are relegated to the women's pages which amazingly still survive. Senior figures are all male; even the few women who are deemed worthy of obituaries are shown in images from their youth, as if the last forty years of their lives have been without achievement of any kind. If you analyze the by-lines in your morning paper, you will see that the senior editorial staff are all older men, supported by a rabble of junior females, the infinitely replaceable 'hackettes'

~ Germaine Greer

9.9 Hump Day Quote: Andy Rooney

Yes, we praise women over 40 for a multitude of reasons. Unfortunately, it's not reciprocal. For every stunning, smart, well-coiffed, hot woman over 40, there is a bald, paunchy relic in yellow pants making a fool of himself with some 22-year old waitress. Ladies, I apologize. For all those men who say, "Why buy the cow when you can get the milk for free?", here's an update for you. Nowadays 80% of women are against marriage. Why? Because women realize it's not worth buying an entire pig just to get a little sausage!

~ Andy Rooney

9.2 Hump Day Quote: Joseph Conrad

Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

~Joseph Conrad