“I remember friends over describing one guy as the type “who would put his foot in the toilet and pee down his leg in order to be quiet about it”

Stolen wholesale from kur05hin.

Also from Kuro5hin:

“Godwin’s Law: As a Usenet discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Nazis or Hitler approaches one.

popularly understood as “the first person in an argument to refer to Hitler or the Nazis loses the argument”, but it isn’t a law like “murder is a crime” is a law. It’s more like Newton’s Laws–not something that can be “invoked” or “violated”, but an observation of the surrounding world.

Godwin’s corollary: When someone takes an unofficial “law” like Godwin’s or Moore’s too seriously and writes new corollaries for it, they automatically lose.

*ponders…*

I concede defeat! :o”

“If we’re all god’s children, what’s so special about Jesus?”

“no matter how much you practice, the bra is an elusive and clever adversary”

“The action of a recurrent network in converging upon the final output involves a sequence through a series of states. It is the operation of the network state stepping sequentially toward the final result that is described by the term attractor. This developing sequence is most clearly seen when shown as a phase diagram. The diagrams here almost make the right point, but, in my opinion, do not adequately present the idea of the phase space. This issue would all be inconsequential were it not for the confusion which arises in thinking of any pattern recognizer as an attractor. I find an unfortunate tendency in some other places for the term to be devalued by its use in this latter sense. “

– Lloyd Rice (emphasis mine)

We are “consciously aware of thoughts according to their: stability, persistence, level of influence” – Kinsbourne (1997), Mathis + Moser (1995)