Easter Egg: Website 11-13 (Peter Spoo Memorial)

Posted February 15, 2004, 4:01 p.m.

Most every version of my website has had an “easter egg,” or a hidden goofy something. Variations of this particular easter egg were in Website 11, 12, and part of 13. This is roughly how it appeared in the Website 12 era. This egg has now been retired and replaced. Made in 2002.

Website 11-13 Easter Egg.

Scott Bradford has been putting his opinions on his website since 1995—before most people knew what a website was. He has been a professional web developer in the public- and private-sector for over twenty years. He is an independent constitutional conservative who believes in human rights and limited government, and a Catholic Christian whose beliefs are summarized in the Nicene Creed. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Public Administration from George Mason University. He loves Pink Floyd and can play the bass guitar . . . sort-of. He’s a husband, pet lover, amateur radio operator, and classic AMC/Jeep enthusiast.

Quotes

How silly to suppose that any man by his own efforts can ever save himself.

In the case of Socrates, [his] executioner wept over the executed, but here, it is the [Christ] who is to be executed who weeps over the executioners. Such is the difference between a philosopher and God.

Okay, so I lost The Tonight Show, but I’ll show them . . . I’ll stop shaving.

The fact that I myself, at the moment of painting, do not understand my own pictures, does not mean that these pictures have no meaning. . . .

The Church does not derive from human will, from reflection, from man’s ability and organizational capacity . . . if that were so it would have become extinct a long time ago, like all human things.

Arithmetic is not an opinion.

If you do not know how great marriage is, you cannot know how terrible divorce is.

You can’t just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they’ll want something new.

Even a fool who keeps silent is considered wise; when he closes his lips, he is deemed intelligent.

Liberty therefore can only subsist, where the powers of government are properly divided, and where the different jurisdictions are inviolably kept distinct and separate.

Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we’re damned if we’re going to show.

If you are not a wild and crazy fanatic when it comes to giving yourself to God, you are not practicing the heart of Christianity. If you are a fanatic about anything else, you are an idolater.

We have been forgetting the basic truth that the greatest threat to human freedom is the concentration of power, whether in the hands of government or anyone else.

He who takes offense when no offense is intended is a fool, and he who takes offense when offense is intended is a greater fool.

Conscience has rights because it has duties.

The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their Constitutions of Government. But the Constitution which at any time exists, till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.

The rhetoric about ‘progressive’ and ‘regressive’ hardly deserves comment. Those who tell truth by the clock or the calendar are practicing chronological snobbery.

In despotic States men know not how to act, because they are told nothing; in democratic nations they often act at random, because nothing is to be left untold.

‘Unmet needs’ are inherent . . . whether we have a capitalist, socialist, feudal, or other kind of economy. These [systems] are just different institutional ways of making trade-offs. . . .

Philosophy seems to me on the whole a rather hopeless business.

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