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Bjørn

Sat May 26 2007, 03:22AM

Registered Member #27 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 02:20AM
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Looking at the first page of the thread there is an alarming number of self-quotes. It is a bit surprising since it is a very efficient way of shooting oneself in the foot.

A quote is traditionally from another often well known person, a good reason for that is that you need some base to judge the quote on. If you quote yourself you must be sure that your quote is capable of standing on its own unless the audience knows you.

Take this hypothetical self-quote as an example:
"Ramp it up till it explodes, then back it off a bit"

If the person was completely unknown to me I might find it stupid and a source of unpleasant associations. If I knew that the person was very clever and I knew in what context it was taken from I might think something completely different.

I might even think of it not as a self-quote at all but as a paraphrase of:

"The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible." â€“ Arthur C. Clarke

So what did I get from the robotking34 quotes.

"People who use quotes just lack the intelligence to come up with their own."
This is valid, not polite but still valid. When used as a self-quote the whole thing just blows up, then it actually says robotking34 is too stupid to come up with his own quote but he did it anyway.

"Logic is for the weak-minded."
In the correct context it might be something in it. Weak-minded people might in some cases have more use for logic to keep them on track. In the context of not doing biology homework it makes little sense. Was this homework about DNA computing? There is no benefit of doubt since that flew out the window on the previous quote so I just conclude that these quotes only are of interest to robotking34 himself.

Zonalklism

Sat May 26 2007, 04:26PM

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I can see where you are coming from on my second self-quote, but as for the first one, I am pretty sure it makes perfect sense. Now if somebody else used it, it would make them look like an idiot just because of the quote their using.

Bjørn

Sat May 26 2007, 05:22PM

Registered Member #27 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 02:20AM
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"People who use quotes just lack the intelligence to come up with their own."

According to the quote:
1. robotking34 used a quote so he must be lacking in intelligence.
2. The quote used by robotking34 was made by someone lacking in intelligence.
3. The quote must be worse than most since people in general quote intelligent or funny people.

I assume you meant something like this which would be immune from that logic:
"People who quote others lack the intelligence to come up with their own."

Steve Conner

Sat May 26 2007, 05:27PM

Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
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Robotking34 quoted himself saying that people who use quotes are too dumb to say anything quotable themselves.

To me this looks like another version of Russell's Paradox: "Consider the set of all sets that aren't members of themselves. Is it a member of itself?"

Groucho Marx explained it more clearly when he said that he wouldn't join any club who would have him as a member.

Zonalklism

Sat May 26 2007, 09:54PM

Registered Member #213 Joined: Sun Feb 19 2006, 05:48PM
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BjÃ¸rn BÃ¦verfjord wrote ...

I assume you meant something like this which would be immune from that logic:
"People who quote others lack the intelligence to come up with their own."

There you go!

Wolfram

Thu May 31 2007, 08:47PM

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<Pete> Thinking about lasers gives us all boners.
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<conner> LASER APERTURE DO NOT HUMP

Conundrum

Thu May 31 2007, 11:37PM

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"Bother" said Pooh, for he hadn't expected the Spanish Inqusition...

Part Scavenger

Fri Jun 01 2007, 02:21AM

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Yeah! I miss those Conundrum!

"Bother" said Pooh, as he saw the corona about his modem... :o)
-circa 2004.

uzzors2k

Sun Feb 24 2008, 03:21PM

Registered Member #95 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:57PM
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Almost a year since anyone posted here, have any new quotes?

I found this one here today:

Dude your not supposed to take CD ROM drives apart because they have radiation in them. Read the sticker on it and it will say "invisible laser radiation inside"

Ignorance is bliss.

And then these which I think came from the forum but I can't remember where.

The first time I powered this thing up I was pretty sure I would die... So I was extra cautious.

This hobby has so much more to offer than death.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

Zum Beispiel

Sun Feb 24 2008, 04:19PM

Registered Member #514 Joined: Sun Feb 11 2007, 12:27AM
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wrote ...
And then these which I think came from the forum but I can't remember where.

The first time I powered this thing up I was pretty sure I would die... So I was extra cautious.

That one is from Afrotech Mods Amiga-monitor-jacobs-ladder @

There's some other good stuff there too

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