User:Jeffq/Experiments/QotD: June/20
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2004 : Vanity is so anchored in the heart of man that a soldier, a soldier's servant, a cook, a porter brags and wishes to have his admirers. Even philosophers wish for them. Those who write against it want to have the glory of having written well; and those who read it desire the glory of having read it. I who write this have perhaps this desire, and perhaps those who will read it... ~ Blaise Pascal
2005 : I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions. ~ Lillian Hellman
- 3 Kalki 03:00, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
- 1 MosheZadka 03:13, 18 Jun 2005 (UTC)
--- "The idea that I can be presented with a problem, set out to logically solve it with the tools at hand, and wind up with a program that could not be legally used because someone else followed the same logical steps some years ago and filed for a patent on it is horrifying." John Carmack, in celebration of the two year anniversary of the expiry of the infamous U.S. Patent 4,558,302 pertaining to GIF generation.
- 3 MosheZadka 00:03, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)