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"No kidding? Mystery. I get real excited by mysteries. Like why your friend here's so quiet. Frozen, like. Or what 
this thing here is for," and she held up the little control unit that she'd somehow taken from Lewis. Ralfi looked ill." 
William Gibson, Johnny Mnemonic, 1981 [Molly Millions].

Gentleman's Vibe — ROSES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvN_aEWE5cw

"O churche men are wyly foxes More crafty then juggelers boxes To play ligier du mayne teached.
Yt is not for nought they sayne That the two sweardes to theym pertayne Both spretuall and temporall.
Wherwith they playe on both hondes Most tyrannoully in their bondes Holdynge the worlde universall.
Agaynst god they are so stobbourne That scripture they tosse and tourne After their owne ymaginacion.
Yf they saye the mone is belewe [moon is blue] We must beleve that it is true Admittynge their interpretacion.
Art thou not a frayde to presume Agaynst the Cardinalls fume Seynge they wilbe all on his syde ? 
No I do rather gretly rejoyce That of a lytell wormes voyce Goddis judgement maye be veryfyed. 
Agaynst soche a wicked brothell Which sayth vnder his girthell He holdeth Kynges and Princes.
To whom for a salutacion I will rehearce a brefe oracion dedicate unto his statlynes.
Nowe gentell mate I the praye Have at it then with out delaye Contempnynge his maliciousnes."
William Roy, Pamphlet, Rede me and be nott wrothe, for I say no thynge but trothe, 1528 [father of perversity].

"At present war causes lesser evils than in a more economical peaceful order (Lebensordnung) the case would be."
Otto Neurath, Problems of War Economics (Probleme der Kriegswirtschaftslehre), 1913.

Russian Proverb: Когда рак на горе свистнет
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRuFlruNr2s

When the scorpion whistles on a mountain, in the reign of queen Dick, only if the devil is blind & pigs fly under a blue moon.

"The ship wherein Theseus and the youth of Athens returned had thirty oars, and was preserved by the Athenians down even 
to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in 
their place, insomuch that this ship became a standing example among the philosophers, for the logical question of things 
that grow; one side holding that the ship remained the same, and the other contending that it was not the same." 
Plutarch, The Parallel Lives, The Life of Theseus, trans Arthur Hugh Clough [the father threw himself headlong from a rock].

"But what if the boat could not be brought ashore? Actually, the boat could still be repaired, but at some risk. 
We could repair the planks at sea by standing on some of the planks while repairing others. The project could work 
— we could repair the boat without being on the firm foundation of ground. The project is not guaranteed, however, 
because we might choose to stand on a rotten plank."
Keith E. Stanovich, The Robot's Rebellion: Finding Meaning in the Age of Darwin, Chapter 7, Univ. Of Chicago Press, 2004, p. 180.

Scorpions — Wind of Change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8cMCnI5GiOM

"Then is working out what someone will get out by a calculation already applied mathematics?—and hence also: 
working out what I myself get out? That is not to say that this contrast does not shade off in all directions. 
And that in turn is not to say that the contrast is not of the greatest importance. What is mathematical about 
an unproved proposition (an axiom)? what has it in common with a mathematical proof?"
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics, Blackwell, 3rd edition, 1978, p. 243.

"As for common agreement, of course it does not follow from it that what is approved of is really good. We are familiar 
with widespread flaws, the corruption of human nature, and may fear that we are subject to it. And nobody is deducing 
an ought from an is. All that is claimed, and that is surely uncontroversial, is that we judge oughts because of something 
that is true: because of the shape of our prescriptions and attitudes and stances, because of our desires, and because of 
our emotional natures. I make no inference from the expressivism to any particular moral conclusion."
Simon Blackburn, Ruling Passions: 
A Theory of Practical Reasoning, Clarendon, 1998, p. 320.