User:Araesmojo

Summary

User page for holding links, common quotes of interest, and general info.

Biography

Former engineer (mechanical, acoustics, aerospace, fluid dynamics, software, minor nuclear/chemistry if you have questions) with the space agency who eventually left to move overseas and wander the Earth. After domestic and family issues called me back, I find myself with time for software writing and Wikipedia editing and felt like contributing to the community.

Hippocrates (c. 400BC): "Ars longa, vita brevis, occasio praeceps, experimentum periculosum, iudicium difficile"

English: "Life is short, [the] craft long, opportunity fleeting, experiment treacherous, judgment difficult."

User Page on Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Araesmojo

Joke Quotes

On espionage:

• The KGB, the FBI and the CIA are all trying to prove they are the best at catching criminals. The Secretary General of the UN sets them a test. He releases a rabbit in a forest, and each of them has to catch it. The CIA go in. They place animal informants throughout the forest. They question all plant and mineral witnesses. After months of investigations, the CIA conclude the rabbit does not exist. The FBI goes in. After weeks with no leads, they burn the forest, killing everything, including the rabbit, making no apologies: the rabbit had it coming. The KGB goes in. They come out hours later with a badly beaten bear. The bear is yelling: "Okay! Okay! I'm a rabbit! I'm a rabbit!"

The five precepts of intellectuals:

• Don't think.
• If you think, don't speak.
• If you think and speak, don't write.
• If you think, speak and write, don't sign.
• If you think, speak, write and sign, don't be surprised.

On superhero movies:

• Bad guy opens giant Sky Anus and the Heroes must overcome their differences to save the day. Again.
• DriveBy on ArsTechnica

Quotes Removed from Articles

Quotes that I attempted to add to the Empire Strikes Back and Star Wars articles because they are the most famous and heavily quoted phrases in all of Star Wars (opinion with some evidence, look at any top 10 list)

Keeping these here for my own personal interest because I don't want to look through pages of dialogue just to see what Vader or Yoda said. Not attempting to insult anyone, or start an edit war, just a convenience for quotes I personally want to retain. I find I tend to look them up fairly often.

Star Wars

Vader

• Don’t be too proud of this technological terror you’ve constructed. The ability to destroy a planet is insignificant next to the power of the Force. (toward Conan Antonio Motti)
• I find your lack of faith disturbing.
• When I left you, I was but the learner. Now I am the master. (toward Obi-Wan Kenobi)
• This will be a day long remembered. It has seen the end of Kenobi. It will soon see the end of the Rebellion.

Empire Strikes Back

Vader

• I have altered the deal. Pray I don't alter it any further.
• He’s as clumsy as he is stupid. (reference to Admiral Ozzel)
• You have failed me for the last time, Admiral. (Admiral begins choking from Force Choke power use)
• I want them alive. No disintegrations. (implication of prior behavior toward Boba Fett)
• No. I am your father. (toward Luke Skywalker)
• Search your feelings; you know it to be true!
• Join me, and together, we can rule the galaxy as father and son!

Yoda

• That is why you fail. (In response to Luke: "You want the impossible.")
• A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.
• Adventure. Excitement. A Jedi craves not these things.
• Size matters not. Look at me. Judge me by my size, do you? Hmm? Hmm. And well you should not. For my ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is. Life creates it, makes it grow. Its energy surrounds us and binds us. Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. You must feel the Force around you; here, between you, me, the tree, the rock, everywhere, yes. Even between the land and the ship.
• Wars not make one great.
• Do. Or do not. There is no try.