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Hanak David <dhanak@inf.bme.hu> writes:

>> "I don't know why I live in a world with so many supposed
>> mathematicians who are all so dumb AND rude.  Why oh why couldn't
>> someone like Gauss or Dedekind still be around?  Shoot, I'd even take
>> someone like Hardy at this point." -- James S Harris compromises
>
> Maybe you should consider lowering the score of those who use
> uninformative ((trying to be) funny) quotes as signatures instead of
> informative facts.  

Maybe, but expressing self-loathing is somehow less satisfying than
denigrating others.

Besides, I can't think of any informative facts that (1) I want to
include in every post and (2) aren't available in the headers.

Maybe I could set up a script to select a single sentence from my
dissertation[1] with each post.  But, I'm sure the average reader would
prefer to read James Harris's insightful writing rather than my dull
LaTeX source file.

Footnotes: 
[1]  The source on my computer with the most facts in a text file.
Not, to be sure, the most interesting reading on my computer.  In
fact, most of the binary files are more exciting than my dissertation.

-- 
"If you see math knowledge as a tool--as a hammer--with which
you can attack other people then ... you defeat rational discourse."
"I get to call my proof the Hammer.  It's more powerful than *any*
physical object.  It is overwhelming force."  -- Two JSH quotes