Why the man who cuts down such a tree except when it is really necessary should be hanged as high as Haman on a gallows made from the wood av it"

- Father Cassidy to Emily in Emily of New Moon.

I am so in love with this book, I think it might have knocked Jane Eyre out of top place.

If you've got to read some theory
and your're brain is getting weary,
and you calendar is empty ( except for papers that are due)
and you think 7 pages looks like plenty.

Paste some quotes.

The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than
the question of whether a submarine can swim.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

"we veiled our own names under those of Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell; the ambigious choice being dictated by a sort of conscientious scruple at assuming Christian names positively masculine, while we did not like to declare ourselves women, because - without at that time suspecting that our mode of writing was not what is called "feminine" - we had a vague impression that authoresses are liable to be looked on with prejudice; we had noticed how critics sometimes use for their chastisement the weapon of personality, and for their reward, a flattery which is not true praise."

Currer Bell (Charlotte Bronte)

"What we 'know in our hearts' to be true, those articulations with which we identify ourselves, make a tremendous difference in the practices that we entertain as possible and on which we act. Similiarly, the more powerful the articulations by which we live, the more closed off we become to alternative practices and possibilities as well as the very critical faculty that allows us to know that we are living out social choices, not neccessities."

- Jennifer Slack, Contextualizing Technology, in Rethinking Communication.