Fahlman Quotes & Sayings

He chuckled to himself as he walked. A warm woman and a battle to come. To be alive on such a night was a wondrous thing. — Conn Iggulden

Common Lisp is politics, not art. — Scott Fahlman

We may love our chains and our stripes too. — Iris Murdoch

If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon. — Scott Fahlman

Sometimes you have to act a little crazy just to stay sane. — Luanne Rice

I don't in any way believe that I'm special. — Doreen Virtue

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases. — Moliere

Allow yourself a space of quiet, wherein you can add to your knowledge of the Good and learn to curb your restlessness. Guard also against another kind of error: the folly of those who weary their days in much business, but lack any aim on which their whole effort, nay, their whole thought, is focused. — Marcus Aurelius

If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless fun for children of all ages, and they won't mar the furniture. — Scott Fahlman

Put simply, unlike terrestrial organisms it did not adapt to its surroundings over the course of hundreds of millions of years, so as only then to produce a rational species, but it had gained control over its environment from the start. — Stanislaw Lem

In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'. — Scott Fahlman