Miscellaneous ramblings for January 27

To WA Mozart:

Happy 250th Birthday. Your work stands up after all these years.

For F:

The rules can be changed: Kobayashi Maru.

Helpful quote #1:

It's instinctive. The instinct can be fought. We're human beings with the blood of a million savage years on our hands, but we can stop it. We can admit that we're killers, but we won't kill today. That's all it takes -- knowing that we won't kill today.
- James T. Kirk, A Taste Of Armageddon, Star Trek TOS, Season 1

Helpful quote #2:

Come gather 'round people
Wherever you roam
And admit that the waters
Around you have grown
And accept it that soon
You'll be drenched to the bone.
If your time to you
Is worth savin'
Then you better start swimmin'
Or you'll sink like a stone
For the times they are a-changin'...

Your old road is
Rapidly agin'.
Please get out of the new one
If you can't lend your hand
For the times they are a-changin'.
- Bob Dylan, The Times They Are A Changin'

Plus the name of an album by Men Without Hats (if only it could come true (but guess what; it can)):

The Adventures of Women And Men Without Hate In The 21st Century