Dead Man Switch

Famous quotes containing the words dead man, dead, man and/or switch:

    But when once the earth has sucked up a dead man’s blood, there is no way to raise him up.
    Aeschylus (525–456 B.C.)

    Religions die when they are proved to be true. Science is the record of dead religions.
    Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

    “Don’t touch me, please I say, don’t touch me, please.
    I’ll not be put to bed by you, my man.”
    “Just as you say. Have it your own way, then.
    ‘My man is it?’ You talk like a professor....”
    Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
    Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)