Quotes II

"Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams

"Ask a Russian engineer to design you a shoe, and he'll give you something that looks like the box the shoe came in. Ask him to design something that will slaughter Germans, and he turns into Thomas fucking Edison." - Neal Stephenson

"On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament!], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." - Charles Babbage (attributed)

"My wallpaper and I are fighting a duel to the death. One or the other of us has to go." - Oscar Wilde (last words)

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

"It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue." - Voltaire

"Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms." - Aristotle

"I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgment in all human affairs." - Albert Einstein

"We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers." - Carl Sagan

"We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately." - Benjamin Franklin

"For I have been a man, and that means to have been a fighter." - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

"All work is an act of philosophy." - Ayn Rand

"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." - Thomas Edison (attributed)

"Today's scientists have substituted mathematics for experiments, and they wander off through equation after equation, and eventually build a structure which has no relation to reality." - Nikola Tesla

"A state of war only serves as an excuse for domestic tyranny." - Alexander Solzhenitsyn

This is what corruption looks like

ACLU Tells Judge Not Even President Above Law

In fact, the president is held to an even higher standard than an average citizen. The average citizen doesn't swear an oath, administered by the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, to defend and uphold the Constitution of the United States.

Besson said "The government's arguments that the president, alone, can decide to spy on Americans without a warrant are fundamentally un-American and contradict the vision of the founders of our democracy."

However, the government argued that ACLU's defense of the constitution and checks on presidential power were "extreme." In response, Beeson said, "If our view of the separation of powers is extreme, than the Constitution is extreme."

Other critical quote:

"The government is trying to shut this case down, without any legal review, because it simply knows that this program is illegal," said Kary L. Moss, executive director of the ACLU of Michigan. "To avoid any oversight, the government is trying to hide behind the once-rare state secrets privilege. Fortunately, everything we need to argue this case is already available in the public domain."

It's obvious who's right here, but you watch; this case will get thrown out of court so fast you'd think it was a frivolous, McDonald's-related lawsuit.

Now, what do we all know is necessary for the people to do when the courts start openly defending corruption and out-of-control government?