The cocktail you have chosen is Modern Britain. A Modern Britain is like the classical Old Fashioned,
but with a new twist. For a Modern Britain, you'll need finely made English hand-blown crystal glasses,
the very best Islay malt whiskey, bred and lovingly blended by craftsmen who care: you'll need freshly
squeezed apple juice from pleasant Somerset orchards, a quarter gill of London gin, a pint of rich Jersey
cream, a half quart of soft, still Welsh mountain water, and to garnish, a shamrock, a daffoldil, a thistle
and a rose. To complete the Modern Britain we add to this kindly, noble, honourable and civilised mixture
a centilitre of flat cola-style syrup, a hectare of low-cal brand sweetener, a pot of non-dairy whitener, a
leisure-sachet of instant heritage, a two-parent family size pack of diluted good values, free-market
vegetables, a greedy helping of self-governing trusts and a plastic ice-cube for cosmetic purposes only.
The product should be half-baked at an immoderate temperature of the lowest common denominator in
an atmosphere of greasy cant and corrupt sleaze, until richly dishonoured and seared with shame. Your
Modern Britain will ideally have lost all colour, flavour and fizz by now and should then be divided against
itself and left in shoddy disrepair for a number of years until it rots before being sold off to the highest
bidder. An ideal self-serving suggestion would be to accompany the whole botched cocktail with a raft of
unappetising sound-bites and a package of feeble initiatives stuffed with tasteless media slime. But
perhaps, somewhere, you might be inspired to add one small, tender, caring cherry of hope. I wonder.
While you decide, I will entreat for the very finalest of last, last times, this entreaty of m'colleague,
Britain's own Melody Man as I say, "Please, oh please, for all our sakes, please Mr Music, will you play?"

A bit of Fry and Laurie, http://abitoffryandlaurie.co.uk/sketches/cocktail_ending_a_modern_britain

Vlastenectví je poslední útočiště chátry: kdo nemá mravní zásady, obvykle se zahalí
do praporu, a parchanti se vždy dovolávají čistoty své rasy. Národní totožnost je poslední
zbraň vyděděnců. A smysl pro ni se zakládá na nenávisti, na nenávisti k těm, kdo totožní
nejsou.

Umberto Eco, Pražský hřbitov

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Samuel Johnson, http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2012-March/065535.html

You cannot make a reliable system by *extending* an unreliable system.
[...]
You cannot get a simple system by adding simplicity to a complex system.


Richard O'Keefe, http://erlang.org/pipermail/erlang-questions/2012-March/065089.html

[... on various kinds of wealth ...] However underlying them all is "work" to both
accrue the wealth and to utilise it to transform raw materials or ideas into marketable
goods or services. As such "work" is just an abstraction of energy.

Thus I would keep my eye on the essential resources of non finite energy and finite
raw resources, and their efficient utilisation, which is the real measure of mankind's
growth not the faux notion of an "economy" based on the growth of financial wealth
at the expense of either non renewable or dificult to renew resources, expressed
through a percieved value of a black tulip.

Clive Robinson, https://financialcryptography.com/mt/archives/001342.html

[DE] Wir fordern etwas Abwechslung in uns'rer Umlaufbahn
endgültige Befreiung von Newton's Schwerkraftwahn
keine Gravitätlichkeiten, Fliegen fällt sonst schwer
Schluss mit Kontinentendrift, Pangea wieder her

[EN] We demand some change in our orbit
absolute liberation from Newton's gravitational mania
no gravitational bodily harm, or else flying’s a heavy task
Put an end to continental drift, bring back Pangaea

Einstruerzende Neubauten, Was Ist Ist, http://www.neubauten.org/ende-neu

But the real reason to make the distinction is, after all, because words matter. Two different things
deserve to have two different names, and it only confuses matters to use the same word for both.

Robert Harper, http://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2012/02/01/words-matter/

[DE] Wir fordern auch die Buchstaben zurück ins Alphabeth
Damit Unsereins im Babylon-Gestammel sich versteht

[EN] We demand letters are put back in the alphabet
so the likes of me can think amid the Babylonian babble

Einstruerzende Neubauten, Was Ist Ist, http://www.neubauten.org/ende-neu
(Anglicka verze je nejspis trochu blbe, ne?)

They have proven quite effectively
that bumblebees indeed can fly
against the field's authority

They invent each other ever anew
still they won't have a different view
of everyone or anything

Einstruerzende Neubauten, Youme & Meyou, http://www.neubauten.org/perpetuum-mobile

Do I contradict myself?
Very well then I contradict myself,
(I am large, I contain multitudes.)

Walt Whitman, http://www.daypoems.net/plainpoems/1900.html

All of my opinions are consistent, but I cannot present them all at once.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau, On The Social Contract

I grew in the sea and poverty was my wealth, then I lost the sea, then all luxury seemed grey,
poverty intolerable. Since then, I wait. I wait for the return voyage, the house by the sea, the clear
light of day. I wait, I struggle to be polite. People see me pass in elegant cultured streets, I admire
the views, I applaud like everyone else, I shake hands, it’s not really me speaking. People praise
me, I daydream a little, I’m offended, but show almost no surprise. Then I forget and smile at
whoever insults me, or I greet those I love too courteously. What’s to be done if I can only
remember a single image? Finally they urge me to say who I am. Still nothing, still nothing.

Albert Camus, http://www.philosophymagazine.com/others/MO_Heisenberg_PhysicsPhilo.html

Já vím, co potřebuji. Nijak mi nepomohou půvaby tohoto světa, ani pozemská království. [...] Blíží
se moje zrození. Nechte mne přijmout čisté světlo. Moje pozemská touha byla ukřižována, nemám
již v sobě oheň, abych miloval hmotu. Je však ve mně živá voda, která v mém nitru šeptá: „Pojď k Otci“.

Ignác z Antiochie, List Římanům, http://novydvur.cz/cz/guests.html

Fuck your cute hustle and disinformation campaign against legitimate dissent. Same old shit, working for the enemy.

John Young, Jan 2007, http://cryptome.org/wikileaks/wikileaks-leak.htm

Zacnu davkou ze sveho notepadu, z toho snad bude jasne o co jde... nejaka pravidla atp. si mozna vymyslim pozdeji, mazat se ale bude temer jiste.