User:Huizhe

Quotations by the anonymous Anymouse:

"It has always been easier to eat vegetables than it is to eat meat. You have to chase animals, but vegetables just sit in your garden waiting for you to come kill them."


"Machines are rational because they unemotionally do what they're told to do without making value judgments about what they do. Humans, on the other hand, are irrational because they constantly make value (i.e., emotional) judgments, even about natural functions that need not be judged. That's both politics and pretension."


"It has come to my attention that my opinions are not universally shared; ergo, they are not in the public domain."


"Why I am a linguistic prescriptivist: Because I want my children to understand what I write and say and I want to be able to understand what they write and say. It's as simple as that. The less linguistic continuity we demand of our fellow English speakers, the more we insist that it's okay not to understand others. Where is the virtue in that?"


"Most murderers are tolerable individuals momentarily blinkered by their passions. Liars and thieves, however, are almost always intolerably consistent recidivists addicted to their own petty self interest."


"Diplomacy and tact require that you lie when it is expedient, and pragmatism requires that you lie when it is to your advantage. Good lies and good liars are sumptuously rewarded in all societies. No one wants to hear a painful truth, especially about themselves: but that's politics for you. And that's why Diogenes couldn't find an honest man."


"I've never met a solecism I couldn't turn into an acceptable idiom. [The name of your favorite descriptivist linguist here.]"


"That which has no function must become art if it isn't art already."


"'Rules were made to be broken' is only the first half. The second, and almost always forgotten, half is 'by those who know and understand the rules they break'."

"Diversity is just a bunch of odds and ends -- things and people who don't fit here, there, or anywhere, at least not in 'our' world. Diversity creates suspicion, is responsible for rumors, and generates animosity. Just say what you really think using the words you want to use and you'll know just what I'm talking about, Mr Square Peg in a Round Hole."

SOURCES:
The Internet. Copy and paste to find them.