Post brief quotes from fiction/narrative/whatever

Ugarte: "Well, Rick, after tonight, I'll be through with the whole business and I am leaving finally this Casablanca."
Rick: "Who did you bribe for your visa? Renault or yourself?"
Ugarte: "Myself. I found myself much more reasonable."

Casablanca

"I only mention that because sometimes there's a man. I won't say a 'hero,' because what's a 'hero'? But sometimes there's man,and I'm talking about 'The Dude," here. Sometimes there's a man. Well, he's the man for his time and place: he fits right in there. And that's 'The Dude,' in Los Angeles."

— TBL

Victor Laszlo: "You ran guns to Ethiopia. You fought against the fascists in Spain."
Rick: "What of it?"
Laszlo: "Isn't it strange that you always happen to be fighting on the side of the underdog?"
Rick: "Yes. I found that a very expensive hobby, too. But then I never was much of a businessman."

Casablanca

"Don't smoke right after you drink it! No smoking! No smoking while you're drinking!" — "Virgil" in The Great Escape

Ilsa: "I can't fight it anymore. I ran away from you once. I can't do it again. Oh, I don't know what's right any longer. You have to think for both of us. For all of us."
Rick: "All right, I will. Here's looking at you, kid."
Ilsa: [smiles] "I wish I didn't love you so much."

Casablanca

"I believe in America: America has made my fortune, and I raised my daughter in the American fashion. I gave her freedom, but I taught her not to dishonor her family."

— The Godfather

Ugarte: "Rick, think of all the poor devils who can't meet Renault's price. I get it for them for half. Is that so... parasitic?"
Rick: "I don't mind a parasite. I object to a cut-rate one."

Casablanca

"If this [Warren Harding's management of a small-town newspaper called the Marion Star] (or naming his [sc. W.H.'s] dong Jerry and talking at length about Jerry in letters to his mistress) intrigues you, the book “Dead Last: The Public Memory Of Warren G. Harding’s Scandalous Legacy” might be up your alley. " —Natalie Dee, Garbage Brain University blog and podcast, Apr. 29 2019

Rick: "I'm sorry for asking. I forgot we said 'no questions.'"
Ilsa: "Well, only one answer can take care of all our questions." [she kisses him]

Casablanca

"static void setup_connection(struct scanner_connection *conn)
{
struct sockaddr_in addr = {0};

if (conn->fd != -1)
close(conn->fd);
if ((conn->fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_STREAM, 0)) == -1)
{
#ifdef DEBUG
printf("[scanner] Failed to call socket()\n");
#endif
return;
}

conn->rdbuf_pos = 0;
util_zero(conn->rdbuf, sizeof(conn->rdbuf));

fcntl(conn->fd, F_SETFL, O_NONBLOCK | fcntl(conn->fd, F_GETFL, 0));

addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
addr.sin_addr.s_addr = conn->dst_addr;
addr.sin_port = conn->dst_port;

conn->last_recv = fake_time;
conn->state = SC_CONNECTING;
connect(conn->fd, (struct sockaddr *)&addr, sizeof (struct sockaddr_in));
}"

— a bit of an important worm called Mirai. Written in C, and I think it's cute the authors included the IF(N)DEF DEBUG things.

Horrific consequences, and it's not over yet: bad actors, and bad IT policies worldwide.

NB: This is not any secret code. It's just published information, and the quote is nothing more than some pedestrian utlility fragment to verify something called a socket is open. Well, it manipulates certain values, according to the internal scheme of the whole program, but this snippet is just some boilerplate,standard code.

ETA OK, fine. So a "socket" is just an abstraction that designates a layer 4 protocol of TCP/UDP, plus a port number and a layer 3 IP address.

Pedants may argue, but that's what it is.

EETA And, yes, if you see it in code headers, #INCLUDE socket*.h is C code.

Yes, I am a Cisco Certified Network Associate, and, no, I'm not good at explaining things, but I'm good at doing stupid stuff like making your Cisco router work and making sure you didn't do stupid shit like leaving a default password exposed, or neglecting to update to a newer firmware security patch for your ice maker.

My little girl, the ice machine.

"Speed's expensive. How fast do you you want to go?"

—DMCL

Renault: "Ricky, I'm going to miss you. Apparently you're the only one in Casablanca with less scruples than I."

Casablanca

"The point of the story isn't the little girl, the point of the story is that they robbed a bank with a fucking telephone!"

— Pulp Fiction

"Puhleeze. Whoever survives the culling will have plenty of food. <The WHAT?> Uh, the culling? You know, where people suffocate in their sleep with gross sweaty socks stuffed in their mouths and then get [source audio unclear] accidentally stabbed in their mouths while they pee or whatever?" — "Carol" in Archer S10E06

Major Strasser: "We have a complete dossier on you: Richard Blaine, American, age 37. Cannot return to his country. The reason is a little vague. We also know what you did in Paris, Mr. Blaine, and also we know why you left Paris. [hands the dossier to Rick] Don't worry, we are not going to broadcast it."
Rick: [reading] "Are my eyes really brown?"

Casablanca

"t's not necessary to lay a foul tongue on me my friend. I could get upset. Things could get out of hand. Then in self defense, I could do something to you that you would not like, right here." — Cape Fear (both the original and the remake).

As an aside, something about both those movies makes me not want to side with humanity: I'm not sure I want to be in a world with people like Max Cady running around, but I suppose we're all stuck with it. Doesn't mean I have to be happy about it, though. Oh well. Maybe movies are sort of a year-round Halloween: a loop running ever-forward of sheer terror.

"Was that cannon fire, or is it my heart pounding?"

Casablanca

"It is impossible to program a machine without such gaps, in the same way that it is impossible (and in any case not desirable) to write a novel without them. The designer of a “learning machine” would need to find a way to make it respond to challenges pertaining to such loci by allowing it to fill in gaps when challenged."

— Landgrebe, Smith, "There is no general AI: Why Turing machines cannot pass the Turing test," in Synthese, 9-june-2019

Rick: "What makes you think I'd stick my neck out for Laszlo?"
Capt. Renault: "Because, one, you bet 10,000 francs he'd escape. Two, you've got the letters of transit. Don't bother to deny it. And you might want to do it simply because you don't like Strasser's looks. As a matter of fact, I don't like them either."
Rick: [chuckles] "They're all excellent reasons."

Casablanca

"[W]e draw attention to what we take to be serious problems underlying current views of artificial intelligence encouraged by these successes [of machine learning, generally], especially in the domain of language processing.

[...]

[W]e believe that one place where we can look for a role for philosophy in the future will lie in the way it can be used to strengthen and enable applied sciences in the digital era – for example, in the creation of useful and realistic artificial intelligence applications involving automatic translation of natural language texts into computer-processable logical formulae."

— Landgrebe, Smith, "Making AI Meaningful Again," in Synthese, 23-Mar-2019

"Since a Turing machine cannot master human dialogue behaviour, we conclude that a Turing machine also cannot possess what is called 'general' Artificial Intelligence. We do, however, acknowledge the potential of Turing machines to master dialogue behaviour in highly restricted contexts, where what is called 'narrow' AI can still be of considerable utility."

— Landgrebe, Smith, "There is no general AI: Why Turing machines cannot pass the Turing test," in Synthese 9-June-2019.

The claims are demonstrated, in detail, with detailed post mortems of both the failures and successes of limited AI, and convincing conclusions arrived at about the limitations of a formal language. The lemma on which these claims are made is that natural language and formal language only intersect when it's possible to restrict the domain of inputs and outputs for a given system. A corollary is that these restricted efforts are desirable, and can be not only used to great advantage, but that they can be improved by refining and narrowing the scope and capabilities of such algorithms.

Well, that's just my synopsis of both papers cited above.

On the one hand, the applied-scientific critique is very much a propos, as has been demonstrated by the successes and failures the authors note in the papers above. On the other hand, the deductive, grid-oriented ontology of "temporal logics," among other variants of multimodal logic, is famously not very apt to being "translated" willy-nilly into natural language: IOW, the semantics get quickly out of hand. Well, so does FOPL, but modal logic is especially bad. Almost unthinkably bad.

The solution, ISTM, that at least one of the authors agrees with, is that technology/engineering should work more closely with the theoretical arms of ontology and automata theory, as it's called.

At least that's my take on it, and I only just saw these papers just now.

"I ain't signing shit for that space faggot Bezos."

— private correspondance

Captain Renault: "Rick, there are many exit visas sold in this café, but we know that you've never sold one. That is the reason we permit you to remain open."
Rick: "Oh? I thought it was because I let you win at roulette."
Renault: "That is another reason."

Casablanca

"47 EL3RST Level 3 reset"

— the errno page for errno code 47.

My new game is, every time I have to sign in by hand, I assign under "explanation": "errno=47." Well, that was today's, but there's quite a few error codes to throw (it's under errno.h and stuff, I have no idea how many other languages use these, but, pretty entertaining). What makes it entertaining is that L2 and L3 designate, yeah, here it's about network layers, but some companies call classes of employees L1, L2, and so forth.

Oh, here's a good post, somewhere in there, about the errno codes.

"I'm the only 'cause' I'm interested in."

Casablanca

"With substantial experience of non‐anglophone cultures, I’m probably able to refer to more non‐anglophone music than many other native speakers of my mother tongue."

— Philip "Mr. Wonderful" Tagg, Everyday Tonality II: Towards a Tonal Theory of what Most People Hear (New York & Huddersfield: The Mass Media Music Scholars’ Press, 2014)

"I wouldn't bring up Paris if I were you, it's poor salesmanship."

Casablanca

"I'm Virgil and I'm guidin' you through the gates of Hell. We are now in the Ninth Circle, the Circle of Traitors. Traitors to country! Traitors to fellow man! Traitors to GOD! You, sir, are charged with betrayin' the principles of all three."

— Cape Fear (remake)

Captain Renault: "My dear Ricky, you overestimate the influence of the Gestapo. I don't interfere with them and they don't interfere with me. In Casablanca I am master of my fate! I am...."
Police Officer: "Major Strasser is here, sir!"
Rick: "You were saying?"
Captain Renault: "Excuse me."

Casablanca

"The marriage condition is also sufficient for the existence of a [system of distinct representatives]." — Balakrishnan, Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Combinatorics

Captain Renault: "Well, Rick is the kind of man that... well, if I were a woman, and I were not around, I should be in love with Rick. But what a fool I am, talking to a beautiful woman about another man."

Casablanca

"Did you get me my Cheez Whiz, boy?"

— The Blues Brothers

Rick: "I don't like disturbances in my place. Either lay off politics, or get out."

Casablanca

"You just tell us where they are, and there'll be no trouble."

—The Blues Brothers

Yvonne: [drunk] "Give me another."
Rick: "Sascha, she's had enough."
Yvonne: "Don't listen to him, Sascha. Fill it up!"
Sascha: "Yvonne, I love you, but he pays me."

Casablanca

"Mishkin: Look, you are his agent, isn't that the idea?
Agent: Sixteen years, Mr. Mishkin.
Mishkin: Then book him in the Air Force Museum. This guy doesn't tell jokes, he goes on bombing missions."

—The Night Gallery, episode 104, "Make Me Laugh" segment

Rick: "Why did you come back? To tell me why you ran out on me at the railway station?"
Ilsa: "...Yes."
Rick: "Well, you can tell me now. I'm reasonably sober."

Casablanca

"When playing, even the simplest of finger exercises, the full attention must be fixed on the finger-work, each note must be played consciously. [sic]"

—Dohnányi, Essential Finger Exercises, Preface, Engl. transl. N. Drewett.

"And what if you track down these men and kill them, what if you killed all of us? From every corner of Europe, hundreds, thousands would rise up to take our places. Even Nazis can't kill that fast."

Casablanca

"When asked he will say: well he's a physicist or something. He may not think that this picks out anyone uniquely. I still think he uses the name 'Feynman' as a name for Feynman."

— Kripke, Naming and Necessity, lecture 2. Down to brass tacks.

Victor Laszlo: "Are you enough of a businessman to appreciate an offer of 100,000 francs?"
Rick: "I appreciate it, but I don't accept it."

Casablanca

'I don't want to go into detail on the concept of metal — as I said, I don't know enough about it. Gold apparently has the atomic number 79."

— Kripke, Naming and Necessity, Lecture III (1970-Jan-29).

Captain Renault: "Realizing the importance of the case, my men are rounding up twice the usual number of suspects."

Casablanca

"I...could no longer write, as I once did, that '[Sherlock] Holmes does not exist, but in other states of affairs he would have existed.'"

— Kripke, Naming and Necessity, "Addenda" added to the 1970 lectures in the 1972 published version.

Captain Renault: "In 1935, you ran guns to Ethiopia. In 1936, you fought in Spain, on the Loyalist side."
Rick: "I got well paid for it on both occasions."
Renault: "The winning side would have paid you much better."

Casablanca

"No sugar? Damn. Y'all ain't never got two things that match. Either y'all got Kool-aid, no sugar. Peanut butter, no jelly. Ham, no burger. Daaamn."

— Friday (motion picture, 1995)

Captain Renault: "We are very honored tonight, Rick. Major Strasser is one of the reasons the Third Reich enjoys the reputation it has today."
Major Strasser: "You repeat 'Third Reich' as though you expected there to be others!"
Renault: "Well, personally, Major, I will take what comes."

Casablanca

"I'm using two fingers. The gentleman's limit."

— Drew Toothpaste and Nataliedee, podcast, "How We Got A Ghost On The Podcast," uncertain recorded time.

Customer: "Are you sure this place is honest?"
Carl: "Honest? As honest as the day is long!"

Casablanca

"You haven't done anything horrible, but waking up to a bunch of texts after you had already apologized for doing it once and I told you I was in a week long training was a big "NO" for me. Again it's not like you egregiously harmed me- I just have limited energy for people-ing and i basically just hermit, work, and dance. I don't want to discourage you from people-ing, but you and i won't be socializing. I'm sorry. :( "

— some random like crazy person.

Dude, seriously, just put it in one sentence or even one word. Like queen drama.

My response? "That's cool and the gang. There's no problems."

That's about the level of engagement one should have in text.

Not this fucking morose, weepy "exploring my feelings" shit.

Rick: "I heard a rumor those two German couriers were carrying letter of transit."
Ugarte: "Huh? Oh, huh, I heard that rumor too. Poor devils."
Rick: "You're right, Ugarte. I am a little more impressed with you."

Casablanca

"My heart should be well schooled
'Cause I've been fooled
Oh I've been fooled by you in the past."

— Sammy Cahn, lyrics to the standard "I Fall In Love Too Easily"

Victor Laszlo: "I know a good deal more about you than you suspect. I know, for instance, that you're in love with a woman. It is perhaps a strange circumstance that we both should be in love with the same woman. The first evening I came to this café, I knew there was something between you and Ilsa. Since no one is to blame, I - I demand no explanation. I ask only one thing. You won't give me the letters of transit: all right, but I want my wife to be safe. I ask you as a favor, to use the letters to take her away from Casablanca."

Casablanca

"So What?"

— Miles Davis, unkn. date.

Ferrari: "As the leader of all illegal activities in Casablanca, I am an influential and respected man."

Casablanca

"One, two, one two three, HIT IT!!!!"

— ending of Dr. John's performance in the movie The Last Waltz.

Incidentally, it's very difficult to practice clapping and metronome stuff at your place without it sounding like a special private moment. Which I assure you, it is not.

Rick: "You love her that much?"
Laszlo: "Apparently you think of me only as the leader of a cause. Well, I'm also a human being. Yes, I love her that much."

Casablanca

"—Have a nice voyage to nowhere. I'll see you in a day or two.
—Don't get lost on the way home."

—Cape Fear, original, dialogue.

Rick: "You'll excuse me, gentlemen. Your business is politics, mine is running a saloon."

Casablanca

"Good luck, powder!"

— Vanishing Point, drug dealer to Kowalski after making a bet.

Ferrari: "What do you want for Sam?"
Rick: "I don't buy or sell human beings."
Ferrari: "Too bad. That's Casablanca's leading commodity. With refugees alone we can make a fortune if you work with me through the black market."
Rick: "Suppose you run your business and let me run mine."

Casablanca

"Oh, no, Miss Elsie, I don't think I can remember that one."

— Casablanca

"Man, you must be out of your fucking mind if you think I'm getting in this dirty-ass trunk. "

— Beaumont Livingstone, motion picture, Jackie Brown

"Lewis: Let's go, we're late!
Melanie: Kiss my ass, fuckwad!"

—Jackie Brown

Ilsa: [crying] "Richard, I'm sorry. I'm sorry, but you are our last hope. If you won't help us, Victor Laszlo will die in Casablanca."
Rick: "What of it? I'm gonna die in Casablanca. It's a good spot for it."

Casablanca

"Melanie: I want to be over there.
Lewis: You just...you just stay right here.
Melanie: Because you're a little bit too conspicuous.
Lewis: In? What? I don't care how inconscpicuous."

—Jackie Brown

Emil: [serving Rick another drink] "You're becoming your own best customer."
Captain Renault: [surprised] "Why, Ricky, I'm pleased with you - now you're beginning to live like a Frenchman!"

Casablanca

"[The Tec-9] is advertised as the most popular gun in American crime. Do you believe that shit? It actually says that in the little book that comes with it: the most popular gun in American crime. Like they're actually proud of that shit."

—Jackie Brown

Woman: "What makes saloonkeepers so snobbish?"
Banker: "Perhaps if you told him I ran the second-largest banking house in Amsterdam."
Carl: "Second-largest? That wouldn't impress Rick. The leading banker in Amsterdam is now the pastry chef in our kitchen."
Banker: "We have something to look forward to."

Casablanca

"You want some breakfast, or do you already know how to do that, too?"

— The Sting

Major Strasser: "Perhaps you have already observed that in Casablanca human life is cheap."

Casablanca

"Life is cheap, in Angola: they give a convict a gun to shoot another one, if he run."

—"Angola" (I think is the title) sung by Dr. John on the Bluesiana Triangle album.

Captain Renault: "I was informed that you were the most beautiful woman ever to visit Casablanca. That was a gross understatement."
Ilsa: "You're very kind."

Casablanca

"If I don't do it, somebody else will."

—Mac, "Such a Night" (refrain)

Ilsa: "I love you so much. And I hate this war so much."

Casablanca

"Boys, you got to learn not to talk to nuns that way."

—The Blues Brothers

Captain Renault: "How extravagant you are, throwing away women like that. Someday they may be scarce. You know, now I think I shall pay a call on Yvonne. Maybe get her on the rebound. Hmm?"
Rick: "When it comes to women, you're a true democrat."

Casablanca

"Except you gotta do it right. I mean, you gotta have the hole already dug before you show up with a package in the trunk. Otherwise, you're talking about a half-hour or forty-five minutes of digging. And who knows who's gonna be coming along in that time? Before you know it, you gotta dig a few more holes. You could be here all fucking night."

—Casino goddamned fucking assholes who print shit like wikiquotes fucking bastards, they never get the fucking quotes right, it's like they're fucking retarded or handicapped or something or don't fucking speak the fucking English shit mother fuckers.

Rick: "If it's December 1941 in Casablanca, what time is it in New York?"
Sam: "What? My watch stopped."
Rick: "I'd bet they're asleep in New York. I'd bet they're asleep all over America."

Casablanca

"There are eight million stories in the Naked City. You have just seen one of them." —the Jules Dassin movie The Naked City (I think they used that line in the TV show spinoff, but I've never seen the TV show...and I might have remembered the line wrong...but it's close).

Ilsa: "Thank you for the coffee, monsieur. I shall miss that when I leave Casablanca."
Senor Ferrari: "It was gracious of you to share it with me."

Casablanca

"I ate a bowl of chili / And I felt OK / At least until I passed / This fine Cafe / I saw a guy eatin / A great big steak / While a waitress stood by feedin him / Ice cream and cake"

— "It Should Have Been Me," sung by Ray Charles

Captain Renault: "Tell me, when we searched the place, where were [the letters of transit]?"
Rick: "Sam's piano."
Captain Renault: "Serves me right for not being musical."

Casablanca

"Hot and hairy. That's how you like it, Captain? Hot and hairy?"

—Apocalypse Now

Captain Renault: "Rick, have you got those letters of transit?"
Rick: "Louis, are you pro-Vichy or Free French?"
Captain Renault: [laughs] "Serves me right for asking a direct question. The subject is closed."

Casablanca

"There is no way to tell his story without telling my own. And if his story really is a confession, then so is mine."

— Apocalypse Now

Si tu me permettrais un supplément:

"Some lady: Well, if I'd known that, then, like any American mother. I'd have ripped the bastard's heart out. Pardon my French.
Poirot: It is indeed a French word."

—teleplay from Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express

Rick: "Here's looking at you, kid."

Casablanca

"You fucking dumbass bint, you're not going to be back in the office until 1500? Well, that gives me plenty of time to fuck you in the ass from three to five, you fucking bitch."

— internal monologue from an unnamed person, dated 2019, timestamp, just now, almost.

"Glad to meet you, kid: you're a real horse's ass.'

— Henry Gondorff, The Sting

Major Thomas: "The barbarities of war are seldom committed by abnormal men. The tragedy of war is that these horrors are committed by normal men in abnormal situations."

Breaker Morant

"Two, boiled, and exactly the same size."

—Agathe Christie's Hercule Poirot: Murder On The Orient Express

Harry Morant: "Live every day as if it were going to be your last, for one day you're sure to be right."

Breaker Morant

"f6 da d6 cd d8 d9 97 c4 c2 d4 dc c4 97 d6 97 d3 d8 d0 90 c4 97 d3 de d4 dc"

— my XOR encryption written on a piece of company scrip to be paid tomorrow on a "double or nothing" bet (which I lost). I'm pretty sure it decodes to "Amazon sucks a dog's dick," but I don't remember the XOR "key" I chose, and since I did it by hand, I could have easily made a mistake.

It could well "decode" to whatever you want, depending on how thick you want your distribution of consonants and vowels, I guess.

I prefer to think I did it right, but that took me quite a while with pencil and paper.

ETA Oh, that's just in hexadecimal divided up into bytes, and the target plaintext is 7-bit ASCII, padded with a "0" as the MSB (eeta, "most significant bit" is what that means. Like how in the number 1999, the most significant numeral is the "1," because, you know, reasons. never mind). eeeta, Oh, I see I used the key B7₁₆, or 1011 0111₂ but good luck to that dink trying to figure that out.

Yeah, good luck.

I knew there was a reason people invented computers!

Oh, and putting it in hexadecimal is not being a dick: trust me, you don't want to look at hundreds of zeroes and ones for more than a few seconds, no matter how good at "reading" you are. It's a million times easier doing anything but that. Or, like a gazillion times easier. Whatever. Trust me, nobody wants to read the several binary representations of large or small numbers, let alone some puny seven-bit code, unless for the satisfaction of doing a quick check on what the mantissa or whatever is.

So, "Amazon sucks a dog's dick."

— unknown origin, possibly a llama, a jackal, or a Batman

Um... ok.

Peter Handcock: [standing on a table] "There once was a lad from Australia who painted his ass like a dahlia. The color was fine and likewise the design, but the aroma - whew! - that was a failure."

Breaker Morant

"One of two things may happen during this scene, and in either case I apologize."

— some apocryphal phrase said by a male actor to his female partner before shooting a "love scene" in the movies

Sentry: "Do you want the padre?"
Harry Morant: "No, thank you. I'm a pagan."
Sentry: "And you?"
Peter Handcock: "What's a pagan?"
Harry Morant: "Well... it's somebody who doesn't believe there's a divine being dispensing justice to mankind."
Peter Handcock: "I'm a pagan, too."

Breaker Morant

"Fire in the hole! Traffic on lanes one and two, coming in hot!"

—unnamed warehouse laborer at an undisclosed location (effective and humorous, I must say).

Harry Morant: "There is an epitaph I'd like: Matthew 10:36. Well, Peter... this is what comes of 'empire building.'"
[They are marched off]
Major Thomas: "Matthew 10:36?"
Minister [checking Bible]: "And a man's foes shall be they of his own household."

Breaker Morant

"It was a bad call, Ripley. It was a bad call."

—sportscasters after every Redskins' game, apparently.

Harry Morant: "As a matter of interest, how many courts-martial have you done?"
Major Thomas: "None."
George Wittow: "None?"
Peter Handcock: "Jesus, they're playing with a double-headed penny, aren't they?"

Breaker Morant

"'E.g.,' 'I.e,' fuck you. The point is this is that when I say 'jump,' you say 'OK,' OK?"

—Get Shorty

Peter Handcock: [to a foe who has just left the witness stand] "You couldn't lie straight in bed, Drummond."

Breaker Morant

"[Under one applied interpretation], we [can] get the Russellian truth conditions via two steps of function application: 'The present King of France is bald' is true if, and only if [sic] Ex((Kx & y(Ky -> y=x)) & Bx)." —wikipedia page on Definite descriptions

I'm using "E" as the existential quantifier, and the unadorned "y" to mean "for all y." Of course '&' is the caret/AND and -> is entailment.

Makes sense to me: I don't see what the problem is with this semantics. Probably there is a hard limit when we need Kripkean many-worlds semantics, but I'd have to think more about it.

Oh, here's maybe a way you'd say that formal logic in words: "There is at least one thing such that that thing is a King of France, and for all things such that if it is a King of France it is identical to that thing which is our King of France, it must also be bald."

Uhhh....never mind, it makes more sense using symbols.

Lt. Col. Denny: "Control yourself, Mr. Handcock, or you will find yourself in serious trouble."
[Handcock scoffs]
Lt. Col. Denny: "You find that amusing?"
Peter Handcock: "Well, I was just wondering how much more serious things could be."

Breaker Morant

"The present King of France is bald."

— one canonical example of a non-referential sentence

"It really ain't the place nor time to reel off rhyming diction / but yet we'll write a final rhyme while waiting crucifixion.
For we bequeath a parting tip of sound advice for such men / who come in transport ships to polish off the Dutchman.
If you encounter any Boers, you really must not loot 'em / and if you wish to leave these shores, for pity's sake, don't shoot 'em.
Let's toss a bumper down our throat before we pass to Heaven / and toast a trim-set petticoat we leave behind in Devon."

Breaker Morant

""And, also, if you do not dream, it fucks you up. From what I understand, it mostly happens if you get a brain injury. Although there might be other reasons, I just was not able to find it in my very brief researching of this shit. So, your brain gets fucked up somehow, probably by injuring it. And, it makes it so you don't dream when you sleep, and you just, like, have all kinds of problems. So, you will get like, if you do not get in REM sleep, if you do not have dreams, you will get signs of psychosis, and you will start getting hallucinations, and then you will get irritable and disoriented."

—podcast, "How Natalie Destroyed E.T.'s Nasty Little Body," 2019-may-17

George Wittow: "Did you write that, Harry?"
Harry Morant: "No, no. It was a minor poet, called Byron."
Peter Handcock: "Never heard of him."
Harry Morant: "I did say he was a minor poet."

Breaker Morant

"[S]quirrels are an invasive species. So we were talking before about how there's like all kinds of different squirrels. We have gray ones. But, you know, sometimes you'll see pictures — I've never seen one in real life, of like the red one. [T]hey're like real cute and real red and like 'Ahh, look at me!!!' Apparently in England that used to be the kind of squirrels they had, but then, in the eighteen-hundreds, like a bunch of Victorian people, like decided it'd be very posh of them to get like the exotic squirrels from like overseas and have them in their yards and have the gray squirrels, and it would be so special of them, right?"

— podcast, "I Accidentally Murdered A Squirrel" 2019-May-06

Harry Morant: "It's a new kind of war, George. A new war for a new century. I suppose this is the first time the enemy hasn't been in uniform. They're farmers. They come from small villages, and they shoot at us from behind walls and from farmhouses. Some of them are women, some of them are children, and some of them... are missionaries, George."

Breaker Morant

'The average person weighs about a hundred and ninety pounds. The average American, I should say. Weighs about a hundred and ninety pounds. 10 pounds of that is bacteria. Living mostly in your intestines, although there's a lot living on your hair, on the surface of your skin, and in your mouth and in your nose, etc. etc. So when your bacteria eats this special sugar-free sugar that's in these sugar-free candies, it makes products that you don't normally smell." — podcast, "The Worst Candy In the World" 2019-Jul-01

Major Bolton: "How did Lt. Handcock look?"
Corporal Sharp: "Like he was thinking, sir... like... I can't think of the...."
Major Bolton: "Did he look like he was agitated?"
Corporal Sharp: "Agitated? Yes, that's it, sir. Yes, sir, he looked agitated."
Major Thomas: "Objection. Major Bolton is leading the witness."
Major Bolton: "I will rephrase the question, sir. Tell me, Corporal Sharp, how did Lt. Handcock look?"
Corporal Sharp: "Agitated, sir!"
Major Bolton: "Thank you, Corporal."

Breaker Morant

"He took a perfect conversation, realized he couldn't read it to Congress, it was a perfect conversation … He took that conversation, which was perfect, he said: "I can't read this." And he made up a conversation and said it to Congress and to the American people. And it was horrible, what he said. And that was supposed to be coming from me, and it was all fabricated. He should resign from office in disgrace, and frankly they should look at him for treason, because he is making up the words of the President of the United States, it's a disgrace and it shouldn't be allowed to happen."

— Winston Churchill

Harry Morant: "It's all right, Major. I've had a good run. There's nothing for me in England anymore. And back in Australia, well... they say if you need a couple of stiff drinks before you climb up on a wild horse, you're finished."

Breaker Morant

"A three-cushion and a straight-pool tournament ran at the same time. There were nine tables lined up end-to-end, every other one billiards. Mixing the pool and billiard players together like that was crazy, and was the idea of the Assistant Scorekeeper, who was a woman. She didn't know much about running a tournament, but she was a hell of a lay ... one of the best I ever had."

— McGoorty : a pool room hustler, publ 1972

Lord Kitchener: "Needless to say, the Germans couldn't give a damn about the Boers. It's the diamonds and gold of South Africa they're after."
Major Bolton: "They lack our... altruism, sir."
Lord Kitchener: "Quite."

Breaker Morant

"1885? It's a very interesting story, future boy, but there's just one little thing that doesn't make sense: if the me of the future is now in the past, how could you possibly know about it?"

—Back to the Future III, unknown provenance and authors, viz, it was just what Chris Lloyd said in the movie.

Sentry: "Excuse me, sir. I was in a public house last night, sir."
Major Thomas: "Were you, Sergeant?"
Sentry: "Yes, sir. I overheard one of the witnesses talking about the prisoners. In his cups he was, sir. A very indiscreet gentleman."

Breaker Morant

"Also, dude, 'chinaman' is not the preferred nomenclature Asian-American, please.
—Walter, this isn't a guy who built the railroads here, this is a guy...
What the fuck are you tal..."

— overlapping dialogue like it's an Altman film or something.

Major Thomas: "Have you not been saying in the local pubs that you would walk barefoot from Cape Town to Petersburg to be on a firing party to shoot Lieutenant Handcock?"
Corporal Sharp: [visibly shaken] "Well, sir I might have said something like that over a pint, sir. It may have been the beer talking, sir, not me, sir."

Breaker Morant

"Charlie didn't get much USO. He was dug in too deep or moving too fast. His idea of great R&R was cold rice and a little rat meat."

—Apocalypse Now

Peter Handcock: "New South Wales Mounted? What sort of a lawyer are you?"
Major Thomas: "They haven't locked me up yet. What sort of a soldier are you?"

Breaker Morant

"Watch the hottest Color Blind porn on SpankBang now! Explore fresh Blind, Blind Date, & Color Climax scenes only on SpankBang."

—don't ask, don't tell

Handcock [after being reproved for having affairs with two married women]: "Well, they say a slice off a cut loaf's never missed."

Breaker Morant

"Do you think I'd risk the electric chair just to suffer more of you, that suet pudding body of yours, that was bad enough, but that voice, Pamela. That voice. That screeching fingernail across the blackboard that fills the room every time you air your tonsils."

— John Astin to Phyllis Diller in Night Gallery, "Pamela's Voice"

Lt. Col. Denny: [regarding Kitchener's alleged order to shoot any Boers taken prisoner] "Do you really believe that Lord Kitchener, a man venerated throughout the world, would be capable of issuing an order of such barbarity?"
Major Thomas: "I don't know, sir. But I do know that orders that one would consider barbarous have already been issued in this war. Before I was asked to defend these soldiers, I spent some months destroying Boer farmhouses, burning their crops, herding their women and children into stinking refugee camps where thousands of them have already died from disease. Now these orders were issued, sir! And soldiers like myself, and these men here, have had to carry them out, however damned reluctantly!"

Breaker Morant

"I kill you! I just bought the fucking car last week! I kill your fucking car, man! Fuck you! You like that? Fuck you! I kill your fucking car! I kill your fucking car!"

— unnamed owner of a red Chevrolet Corvette of uncertain value, The Big Lebowski

Major Thomas: "The fact of the matter is that war changes men's natures. The barbarities of war are seldom committed by abnormal men. The tragedy of war is that these horrors are committed by normal men in abnormal situations. Situations in which the ebb and flow of everyday life have departed and have been replaced by a constant round of fear and anger, blood and death."

Breaker Morant

"Sweet Dee: OK, so, where's the dong?

Focus group lady: The dong?

Sweet Dee: John Thunder Gun has hung dong in every chapter of this saga, and I just watched ninety minutes of one, and not one hang.

Focus group lady: Well, I think that the studio was thinking that gratuitous nudity was maybe a bit much.

Charlie: Fuck you.

—It's Always Sunny in Philadelhia Season 14, Episode 2, "Thunder Gun 4: Maximum Cool"

Handcock: [after helping repel a Boer attack on the prison where he and Morant are being held] "Well, that broke the monotony."

Breaker Morant

"Jules: You know what divine intervention is?
Vincent: I think so. That means that god came down from heaven and stopped the bullets?
Jules: That's right. That's exactly what it means. God came down from heaven and stopped these motherfucking bullets."

—Pulp Fiction

George Wittow: "Why did they do this to us, Harry? Why?"
Harry Morant: "They have to apologize for their damned war. They're trying to end it now, so they need scapegoats."

Breaker Morant

"Nicki: But, we will return here, exactly one year, if you feel the same. Be here at sunset, and we will spend our days together knee-deep in American gash.
Frank: One year.
Charlie: Yeah.
Frank: One year.
Charlie: We'll be here."

— It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia season 14, episode 1.

Goddammit, the Boer wars were a fucking bummer, and the whole Paths of Glory plotline, fucking a, of course it happened, but, jesus christ, fucking a, you know, I've fucking seen Breaker Morant at least once, and I don't feel the least bit bad for those guys. I mean, they both were the fucking Nazis in that scenario! Terrible people fighting terrible people. No trial separation, no jury, I'm sorry, but each joined the wrong team. I'm not fucking weeping for little Klaus von Littlejungenhitlern. Each fucking lost, dude. There were no good people there, and everybody deserved to die. So, some people decided to die less. Heinous, but there was no reason to be there for anybody.

The French tortured the Algerians, and the red Vietnamese went all Deer Hunter on whitey. Fucking A. Nobody was right.

That is certainly one school of thought when it comes to Morant and his codefendants.

Harry Morant: "Well, Mr. Taylor, sir, so much for your damned intelligence report. 'Eight Boers, exhausted' - that's what you said. 'Horses with fever,' you said. What do you say now?"
Capt. Taylor: "I say avenge Captain Hunt."

Breaker Morant

"1. Detach the cable from the negative terminal of the battery.
[...]
2. Loosen the locknut on the threaded portion of the accelerator cable at the throttle body.
[...]
6. Installation is the reverse of removal."

—Haynes Repair Manual, Toyota Camry 1997 thru sic 2001

Lt. Col. Denny [reading affidavits from two married women who provide an alibi for Handcock]: "Lt. Handcock, what does Mrs. Vanderberg mean by 'entertained'? Did you sing to her?"

Breaker Morant

"And our favorite was one named 'Zorro.' Zorro was really butch: she looked like Johnny Cash. And she just came out nude. She didn't strip. And she looked at the men in the audience and said, 'What the fuck are you looking at?'"

— John Waters, This Filthy World, 2006.

Major Thomas: "Lt. Handcock's personal morality is not on trial, sir."
Lt. Col. Denny [under his breath to a fellow officer] "Regrettably."

Breaker Morant

"Regan — Let Jesus fuck you. Let Jesus fuck you. Let him fuck you.
Chris — Give it, give it to me.
Regan — Lick me. Lick me. Do you know what she did? Your cunting daughter?"

— The Exorcist

Harry Morant: "Was it like this? No; it was not quite so handsome. As to rules and regulations, we had no rule books, and knew nothing about them. We were out there, on the veldt, fighting the Boers, not sitting comfortably behind barb-wire entanglements. We got them and we shot them under Rule .303!"

Breaker Morant

"Near Memphis. Cotton country, rice country. The most interesting thing is probably the music. Carl Perkins, Muddy Waters, king of country music, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Bo Diddley, that's kind of the middle of the country, you know, like there's so bluegrass, or country music, you know, if that comes down to that area, and if it mixes there with the rhythm and if it dances, then you've got a combination of all those different kinds of music, country, bluegrass, blues music, the melting pot, 'show music.' Rock and roll."

— Levon Helm, of his group "The Band," interviewed in the concert video The Last Waltz (some "uh"s" elided).

Harry Morant: "Shoot straight, you bastards. Don't make a mess of it!"

Breaker Morant

"It's an old habit. I spend my life trying not to be careless. Women and chldren can be careless, but not men."

— The Godfather

Devlin: "I love you."
Alicia: "Say it again, it keeps me awake."
Devlin: "I love you."

Notorious (Alfred Hitchcock, dir., 1948)

"Moderator: Well, I think that the studio was thinking that gratuitous nudity was maybe a bit much.
Charlie: Fuck you!"

— It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Season 14, Episode 2, "

Devlin: "Miss Huberman is first, last and always not a lady. She may be risking her life, but when it comes to being a lady, she doesn't hold a candle to your wife, sitting in Washington, playing bridge with three other ladies of great honor and virtue."

Notorious

"One of the best things that I ever saw was when I went to the prison, and, in the break room of the prison, they had a dispenser that dispensed Monster energy drinks, but it only took coins. So I had to stand there pumping coins into the machine that just got me more hyped up to get my Monster."

— podcast, Garbage Brain University, 2019-11-23, "GBU 53 and a Theory for Why Fish are Aliens"

Alicia: "This is a very strange love affair."
Devlin: "Why?"
Alicia: "Maybe the fact that you don't love me."

Notorious

"Good golly miss Molly, she sure like to ball!"

— Little Dick Penniman

Devlin: "A man doesn't tell a woman what to do. She tells herself."

Notorious

"Robertson: 'He [Ronnie Hawkins] called me up and I said 'Sure, I'd like a job, what does it mean, what do I do? He said 'Well, son, you won't make much money, but you'll get more pussy than Frank Sinatra.''"

— interview in The Last Waltz

Alicia: "There's nothing like a love song to give you a good laugh."

Notorious

"I still ask, ‘Where is the server?’ How come they never got the server? Where is the server? I want to see the server. Let’s see what’s on the server.'”

— Cicero, reported speech in his second Catiline accusatory oration.

Madame Sebastian: "We are protected by the enormity of your stupidity, for a time."

Notorious

"In February [2019], for example, Google debuted a method for encrypting most low-end Android devices regardless of how piddly their processors are."

— L. H. Newman, "The Debate Over How to Encrypt the Internet of Things," Wired 23-Nov-2019

Devlin: "I knew her before you, loved her before you, only I'm not as lucky as you."

Notorious

"If the user prefer older methods to use his desktop, then GNOME is not an option. With the hot corners as well as the no minimize button, plus the other application layout method, it’ll take the most newcomers getting easily used to it." — a remarkable phrase I happened upon for a reason that is unknown to me, and whose provenance I shall not name, because it's too absurd to deserve credit.

Alicia: "You're sore because you've fallen for a little drunk you tamed in Miami and you don't like it. It makes you sick all over, doesn't it? People will laugh at you, the invincible Devlin, in love with someone who isn't worth even wasting the words on."

Notorious

"Buffy: You just say: 'Hey, I got a thing, you maybe got a thing, maybe we could have a thing.
Rupert: Well, thank you, Cyrano.
Buffy: I'm not finished. Then you say, 'How do you feel about Mexican?'
Rupert: About Mexicans?
Buffy: Mexican. Food. You take her for food, for which you then pay."

— Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Season 2, Episode 2, "Some Assembly Required"

Madame Sebastian: "Wouldn't it be a little too much if we both grinned at her like idiots?"

Notorious

"Xander: On a scale of one to ten? It sucked. Well, I guess it could be worse: I could have gangrene on my face."

— Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1, Episode 12, "Prophecy Girl"

Alicia: "Dev, is that you? I'm glad you're late. This chicken took longer than I expected. I hope it isn't done too much. It caught fire once."

Notorious

"Lana: I'm sorry, have we all forgotten that he [Archer] basically sexually assaulted me with a rolled-up magazine?" — Archer Season 10, Episode 9

Devlin: "Dry your eyes, baby; it's out of character."

Notorious

" I can't tell you the amount of swag I've received over my near-decade of office work, but I can tell you exactly how much of it didn't end up in a landfill: fucking zero."

— some anonymous, illiterate, but true drivel on the self-help website crackedDotcom

Alicia: "Why should I?"
Devlin: "Patriotism."
Alicia: "That word gives me a pain."

Notorious

"Where's the money, Lebowski? We want that money, Lebowski!"

— some movie line I got in the habit of saying out loud when I walk into my place after dark

Alexander Sebastian: "An old friend is never an extra guest."

Notorious

"Should a villain say so
(The most resplendish'd villain in the world)"

— Hermoione, The Winter's Tale, Act II, Sc. 1

Alexander Sebastian: "I'm not afraid to die."
Devlin: "You've got your chance, here and now."

Notorious

"Snake jazz. Ha. Idiots. Let's get moving: we got a long way to go and I'm not sharing that centipede."

— Rick and Morty, Season 4. Episode 5.

Alicia: "Waving the flag with one hand and picking pockets with the other, that's your 'patriotism.'"

Notorious

"I've already been places. I just want to stay where I am."

— Harry Dean Stanton (RIP)'s character in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

Alicia: "What does the speedometer say?"
Devlin: "65."
Alicia: "I want to make it 80 and wipe that grin off your face."

Notorious

"Buffy: So, I think going to the dance like a normal person would be the best way to keep that secret. Giiles! Unbudge! No one likes an unbudger.
Rupert: Fine!"

Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Season 2, Episode 4, dialogue.

Alicia: "I've told you before, Mr. Devlin doesn't mean a thing to me."
Alexander Sebastian: "I'd like to be convinced. Would you maybe care to convince me, Alicia, that Mr. Devlin means nothing to you?"

Notorious

Mariner: -,-,-,-, Aye, my lord, and fear
We have landed in ill time: the skies look grimly,
And threaten present blusters."

— The Winter's Tale Act III, Sc. 3

Alicia: "If you only once had said that you loved me. Oh, Dev."
Devlin: "Listen, you've chalked up another boyfriend, that's all. No harm done."
Alicia: "I hate you."
Devlin: "There's no occasion to. You're doing good work."

Notorious

"Jacob: You don't believe in me.
Ebenezer: I don't.
Jacob: What evidence would you have of my reality beyond that of your own senses?
Ebenezer: I dont know.
Jacob: Why do you doubt your senses?
Ebenezer; blah blah etc."

— unknown author, film starring George C. Scott, A Chiristmas Carol from 1984.

Eric Mathis: "Alex, will you come in, please? I wish to talk to you."

Notorious

"nerd n00b: Jen, you were a minute and nineteen seconds late from break.
Me: [looks directly at Ra Tea**** standing next to me and just doing an inaudible groan and jacking-off motion with eye contact alone]."

— some mega nerd shit from yesterday (that fool has got to learn, he can't talk to my people that way!)

Honey: "Uh-uh! Don't you think about running off doing no derring-do! We've been planning this dinner for two months!"
Lucius: "The public is in danger!"
Honey: "My evening's in danger!"
Lucius: "YOU TELL ME WHERE MY SUIT IS, WOMAN! We are talking about the greater good!"
Honey: "'Greater good?' I am your wife! I'm the greatest good you are ever gonna get!"

The Incredibles

Harold Ramis: So, how many of you would say you speak English fairly well, but with some difficulties?
Random guy: Son of bitch. Shit.
All together now: Son of bitch. Shit."

— Stripes

Dash: "We're dead! We're dead! We survived but we're dead!"

The Incredibles

"ARRRGH! Little Bastard! What a world!"

— probably James Dean's last words, I'm guessing.

Edna: "I didn't know the baby's powers so I covered the basics."
Helen: "Jack-Jack doesn't have any powers."
Edna: "No? Well, he'll look fabulous anyway."

The Incredibles

"Lebowski: Is it being prepared to do the right thing? Whatever the price? Isn't that what makes a man?
Lebowski: That and a pair of testicles."

—take a wild guess (although I have it on good authority that Hitler had only got one ball, while Goering had two, but very small)

Edna: "This is a horrible suit, darling. You can't be seen in this. I won't allow it. Fifteen years ago, maybe, but now? Feh!"
Bob: "Wait, what do you mean? You designed it."
Edna: "I never look back, darling! It distracts from the now."

The Incredibles

"Lebowski: She's not my special lady, she's my fucking lady friend. I'm just helping her conceive, man!"

— source redacted

Edna: "You are Elastigirl! My God... pull yourself together! 'What will you do?' Is this a question? You will show him you remember that he is Mr. Incredible, and you will remind him who you are. Well, you know where he is. Go, confront the problem. Fight! Win! [normal voice] And call me when you get back, darling. I enjoy our visits."

The Incredibles

"Cordelia: Nice pet, Giles. Don't you like anything regular: golf, USA Today, anything?"

— Buffy Season 3, Episode 2, "Dead Man's Party"`

Mr. Incredible: "No matter how many times you save the world, it always manages to get back in jeopardy again. Sometimes I just want it to stay saved! You know, for a little bit? I feel like the maid; I just cleaned up this mess! Can we keep it clean for... for ten minutes?!?"

The Incredibles

"Pitt: Here, put these [sunglasses] on. Don't cry in front of the Mexicans. Now what's wrong?
[...]
Leo: I got to do fucking eye-talian movies, that's a fucking problem!"

— Once Upon a Time in Hollywood

Edna: "Metaman, express elevator! Dynaguy, snagged on takeoff! Splashdown, sucked into a vortex! [shouts] No capes!"

The Incredibles

"I have always wished for my computer to be as easy to use as my telephone; my wish has come true because I can no longer figure out how to use my telephone."

— Bjarne Stroustrup, possibly apocyrphal.

Edna: [on Jack-Jack's suit] "I cut it a little roomy for free movement. The fabric is comfortable for sensitive skin... [a sheet of flame erupts in front of the suit] and it can also withstand a temperature of over 1000 degrees. Completely bulletproof... [four heavy machine guns appear and open fire on the suit, without effect] and machine washable, darling. That's a new feature."

The Incredibles

"Some guy in a plane: 'Mustang, this is Maverick requesting fly-by
Some other guy: Negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full."

— some movie. some Top movie.

Syndrome: "Oh, no. Elastigirl? You married Elastigirl? Ho, ho, ho.... [sees the kids] Oh - and got biz-zay! It's a whole family of supers! Looks like I hit the jackpot! Oh, this is just too good!"

The Incredibles