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=== Past JC Splash Quotes ===
=== Past JC Splash Quotes ===
A selection of the quotes used on the front page of the JC [[from time to time]]:
A selection of the quotes used on the front page of the JC [[from time to time]]:<br>
'''September 2021''': ^^^ <br>
'''September 2021''': ^^^ <br>
'''August 2021''': “I’m tethered to the logic of ''homo sapiens''; <br>
'''August 2021''': “I’m tethered to the logic of ''homo sapiens''; <br>
Can’t take my eyes from the great salvation <br>
Can’t take my eyes from the great salvation <br>
Of bullshit faith.” — David Bowie, ''Quicksand'', 1971
Of bullshit faith.” — David Bowie, ''Quicksand'', 1971 <br>
'''July 2021''': “For honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.” — ''As You Like It'', III, iii
'''July 2021''': “For honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.” — ''As You Like It'', III, iii
'''April 2021''': “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” — ''Pablo Picasso'' <br>
'''April 2021''': “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” — ''Pablo Picasso'' <br>

Revision as of 15:25, 16 September 2021

“What? You search? You wish to multiply yourself by ten, by a hundredfold? You seek followers? Seek zeroes!” — Friedrich Nietzsche. Twilight of the Idols


Past JC Splash Quotes

A selection of the quotes used on the front page of the JC from time to time:
September 2021: ^^^
August 2021: “I’m tethered to the logic of homo sapiens;
Can’t take my eyes from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith.” — David Bowie, Quicksand, 1971
July 2021: “For honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.” — As You Like It, III, iii April 2021: “When art critics get together they talk about Form and Structure and Meaning. When artists get together they talk about where you can buy cheap turpentine.” — Pablo Picasso
March 2021: “You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” — Inigo Montoya
March 2021: “My work always tried to unite the truth with the beautiful, but when I had to choose one or the other, I usually chose the beautiful.”— Hermann Weyl
December 2020: “Sometimes I doubt your commitment to SparkleMotion” — Kitty Farmer, in Donnie Darko
October 2020: “Space is big. Really big.” — Douglas Adams, The Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
September 2020: “Smokey, this is not ’Nam. This is bowling. There are rules.” — Walter, The Big Lebowski
May 2020: “May God us keep From Single vision & Newtons sleep” — William Blake
Jan 2020: “... the information entropy of a binary random variable that is 0 or 1 with equal probability...”