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If we can't have sanity, we can fake it with humor. Humor gives you the same distance from the situation, the same metaview, only laughing is easier than sanity and possibly more fun.

— Jude Milhon

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Jude's mugshot from her civil rights days.

Hacking is the clever circumvention of imposed limits, whether imposed by your government, your IP server, your own personality, or the laws of physics.

I hate this waaaah-I'm-a-poor-sensitive-weak-woman-protect-me shit. This kind of stuff generates more contempt for women. So fuck niceness!

Interview in Wired (1995)

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A tragedy can never suffer by delay: a comedy may, because the allusions or the manners represented in it maybe temporary.

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Laughter is the closest thing to the grace of God.

Karl Barth The Harper Book of Quotations (1993)

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