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Open Source Philosophy
In this section you will find comments about the open source philosophy, and what is needed to extend this theory beyond software. For the moment... just links.
- Copyleft
- Open Content
- Free Software Foundation
- GNU Licences
- Eric Raymond's docs ("The Cathedral and the Bazaar")
- Information liberation
The Future is not Science Fiction
Comments about different predictions found in books & movies.
Asimov, Clarke, Huxley, Lem, Kaku and the rest of psychohistorians.
- Analyzing the present to predict the future (...some Psychohistory)
- Visions - Michio Kaku
- Sir "Arrogant" Asimov (Robot Dreams, Foundation...)
- The Thirteenth Floor
- Strange Days
In "quotes" Some selected (and unsorted) comments about... well you'll see.
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"Mind over matter... if you dont mind it, it doesn't matter."
-- Modified from Jack Benny's quote about age
"Those who can't DO, TEACH. Those who can't TEACH, MANAGE.
Those who can't MANAGE, GOVERN."
-- Extension of Bernard Shaw's famous dictum
"No hay suspenso comparable al que se produce cuando
un mosquito deja de zumbar en una habitación oscura"
-- I read it as a signature
"What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?"
-- Dr. Who, The Two Doctors
"Democracy is three wolves and a sheep voting on dinner"
-- I read that in SlashDot by Bobo the Space Chimp
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"
-- Evelyn Beatrice Hall (S. G. Tallentyre) or Voltaire?
"Ye shall know the truth and the truth shall make you mad."
-- Aldous Huxley
"Hypocrisy or not?: Information should be free, unless it's my personal information..."
-- sig from JWhitlock at slashdot
"I love my country but fear my government"
-- anonymous
"What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity"
-- anonymous
"...who controls the present, controls the past"
-- George Orwell, "1984"
"It has to start somewhere, it has to start sometime... what better place than here, what better time than now"
-- Rage Against the Machine, "Guerrilla Radio"
"The mass media try to gain audiences by pleasing them, not by confronting them with challenging ideas"
-- Brian Martin, "Information Liberation" from "Democracy without Citizens"
"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistiguishable from magic"
-- Arthur C. Clarke
"The future is already there. It's just distributed unevenly."
-- Paul Saffo
"For every difficult question there is a simple answer... and it's wrong"
-- H.L. Mencken
"... we don't know enough scientifically to do it safely, we don't know enough medically to do it effectively, and we don't know enough ethically to do it wisely."
-- French Anderson
"If we don't play god... who will?"
-- James Watson
"Propaganda is to democracy what violence is to totalitarianism"
-- Noam Chomsky
"If you are very happy in your job, it's time to move on."
-- Tom Peters
"Voici mon secret. Il est très simple... L'essentiel est invisible pour les yeux."
-- Le Petit Prince
"Una es mas auténtica mientras más se parezca a lo que siempre a querido ser"
"A woman is more authentic the more she looks like what she has dreamed for herself."
-- The character Agrado in Almodovar's film "Todo sobre mi madre"
"Le degré de la lenteur est directement proportionnel à l'intensité de la mémoire; le degré de la vitesse est directement proportionnel à l'intensité de l'oubli"
-- Milan Kundera
"The good thing about drinking beer in a Klein bottle is that all the beer of the world is already inside" -- I heard it from Cris Moore
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