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Crptc_Prgrmr

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Anyone have favorite quotes by famous (or infamous) people?
Crptc_Prgrmr

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Since this site is programming related, I think some quotes by Blaise Pascal would be appropriate...

"Men blaspheme what they don't know."

"The God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, the God of Jacob," not of philosophers and scholars.

"We know God only through Jesus Christ. Without this Mediator, is taken away all communication with God; through Jesus Christ we know God. All those who have pretended to know God, and prove Him without Jesus Christ, have only had impotent proofs."

"Not only do we know God only through Jesus Christ, but we know ourselves only through Jesus Christ."

BlazeQ

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Do they have to be just (in)famous people? (or by infamous did you mean people not famous?)

"Darwin is dead." (I think that speaks enough about him and his theory, heh heh :-)

Most of my favorite quotes are from songs. Besides the one in my sig, I like:

"We're gonna change the world, we're the alien youth. We're coming for your soul, we're the alien youth." - Skillet

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rowanseymour

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The Tao gave birth to machine language.  Machine language gave birth to the assembler.

The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages.

Each language has its purpose, however humble. Each language expresses the
Yin and Yang of software. Each language has its place within the Tao.

But do not program in COBOL if you can avoid it.


from the Tao of Programming

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!ßrendan

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"Worshiping God and the Lamb in the temple: God, for his benefaction in creating all things, and the Lamb, for his benefaction in redeeming us with his blood."
Sir Isaac Newton

"We have been assured, Sir, in the Sacred Writings, that 'except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.' I firmly believe this; and I also believe that without his concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better that the builders of Babel."
Benjamin Franklin

Here's a coupe I found

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Crptc_Prgrmr

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Those are good ßrendan, I ran across the one by Isaac Newton just the other day, pretty amazing guy, started many fields of science and mathamatics, furthered many others, even came up with calculus (nobody's perfect

BlazeQ, I meant both famous as well as infamous people, by infamous I mean people like Bonoparte or Hitler...

Crptc_Prgrmr

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I found the following at http://www.icr.org/pubs/imp/imp-088.htm

As Gould says, our ability to classify both living and fossil species distinctly and using the same criteria "fit splendidly with creationist tenets." "But how," he asks, "could a division of the organic world into discrete entities be justified by an evolutionary theory that proclaimed ceaseless change as the fundamental fact of nature?"

They really should stop honest evolutionists from opening their mouths too often

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quote:

‘If the solar system was brought about by an accidental collision, then the appearance of organic life on this planet was also an accident, and the whole evolution of Man was an accident too. If so, then all our present thoughts are mere accidents — the accidental by-product of the movement of atoms. And this holds for the thoughts of the materialists and astronomers as well as for anyone else’s. But if their thoughts — i.e. of materialism and astronomy — are merely accidental by-products, why should we believe them to be true? I see no reason for believing that one accident should be able to give me a correct account of all the other accidents. It’s like expecting that the accidental shape taken by the splash when you upset a milkjug should give you a correct account of how the jug was made and why it was upset.’

C.S. Lewis (1898–1963), The Business of Heaven, Fount Paperbacks, U.K., p. 97, 1984.


http://www.answersingenesis.org/home/area/tools/quotes.asp has this and many other quotes.

here's a few others I've picked up:

# "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however measured or far away" --Henry David Thoreau

# "The first to present his case seems right, till another comes forward and questions him" -- Proverbs 18:17, NIV

# "'Circumstantial evidence is a very tricky thing,' answered Holmes thoughtfully; 'it may seem to point very straight to one thing, but if you shift your point of view a little, you may find it pointing in an equally uncompromising manner to something entirely different' . . . 'There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.'" --Sherlock Holmes novel (dont' know which book)

!ßrendan

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Infamous...

"I know men and I tell you that Jesus Christ is no mere man. Between Him and every other person in the world there is no possible term of comparision. Alexander, Caeser, Charlemange, and I have founded empires. But on what did we rest the creations of our genius? Upon force. Jesus Christ founded His empire upon love; and at this hour millions of men would die for Him." Napoleon Bonaparte

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Crptc_Prgrmr

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CobraA1, hey from another AIG devotee!
I hadn't been by the quotes before, thanks for the link

ßrendan, I ran across that same quote by Napoleon and I'm still not sure what to make of the guy. If I recall right aside from battling nearly every other country, he did some things like having a mistress which go against Jesus' own teaching. Another hypocrite? The quote is very perceptive anyway...

!ßrendan

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I don't know much about the guy... I'd say your right... Just quoting somebody 'infamous'... It's quite strange that somebody can know about Jesus ( Know the truth about Him ) but reject Him... That freaks me out! It's like they've condemned themselves.

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"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick referring to Confederate snipers.
Crptc_Prgrmr

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Of course the Devil himself knows more about Jesus than we, and yet he rejected him as well...the difference between knowledge and understanding perhaps?

Falkone, did you make that last one up?

falkone
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No i didn't :-P.. battle of Spotsylvania in 1864..
Crptc_Prgrmr

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Just had to ask
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hehehe
BlazeQ

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quote:
by infamous I mean people like Bonoparte or Hitler...

That's what I thought. I asked 'cause you can never be sure on the Internet...

Here's a favorite of mine:
"Imagine 1.e+50 (10 the 50th power) blind persons each with a scrambled Rubik cube, and try to conceive of the chance of them all simultaneously arriving at the solved form. You then have the chance of arriving by random shuffling of just one of the many biopolymers on which life depends. The notion that not only the biopolymers but the operating programme of a living cell could be arrived at by chance in a primordial organic soup here on the Earth is evidently nonsense of a high order. Life must plainly be a cosmic phenomenon." - Sir Fred Hoyle (like maybe a Creator? :-)

Crptc_Prgrmr, I actually saw this in Creation magazine (published by AIG). That mag is great.

quote:
"They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist..." - Last words of Union General John Sedgwick referring to Confederate snipers.

heh, I remember reading about that guy.

BlazeQ

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Crptc_Prgrmr

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Yeah, I get Creation magazine as well BlazeQ
My only complaint is that there are only four issues a year! They're really packed though, and don't have the advertisements that other mags. have. Great stuff!
BlazeQ

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Yeah, that's my only complaint too.

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Good topic

"The greatest trick the devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." - from the movie The Usual Suspects.

-Krylar

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"That's the way, boys. We've got them on the run now." Alleged last words of General George Custer, Battle of Little Big Horn