Favorite Quotes:



   Even the safest course is fraught with peril.

   It pays to be paranoid.

   Don't growl if you can't bite.

   The Tao is the wine of nothingness.

   Life is a bitch.  Then you marry one.

   Heroes are boring. -- Joe

   The most eloquent poetry is silence.

   There is always time for a long walk.

   Job security through program obscurity.

   Behave, and thy time shalt be a lot more jolly.

   Technology transcends politics.

   To kill a wolverine is an offense against God.

   Never underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with backup tapes.

   Make friends fast. -- Handbook for the Shipwrecked

   Today's offal is tomorrow's opportunity

   No amount of planning will ever replace dumb luck.

   What's a place like this doing to a nice girl like you?

   R & D  :  Rip off  &  Duplicate.

   Never leave home without duct tape and a bottle of tabasco sauce.



   The dust settles heavily,
   the air becomes stale,
   the light dim in the room
   that we are not prepared to leave
   at any moment

        -- Dag Hammarskjold



   Core dumping fsck's tend to make me nervous.

        -- Linus Torvalds



   If God had meant man to be awake by day He
   wouldn't have given us the electric light.

        -- Cyril Kornbluth



   You learn something every day, unless you're careful.

        -- Tom Van Vleck



   OO is a big yawner

        -- Larry Rosler



   Microsoft is known generally for imitation rather than innovation.

        -- Richard Stallman



   A bottle of wine is good company.

        -- Ernest Hemingway



   We juggle priceless eggs in variable gravity.

        -- The Mote in God's Eye



   Hope is the last to die.

        -- Old Russian Proverb



   We are EFnet and we are the best.

        -- Sevn



   Life means for us constantly to transform into light and flame all that we are or meet with.

        -- Nietzsche



   Everything is deeply intertwingled.

        -- Theodore Nelson



   listen:there's a hell of a good universe next door;let's go

        -- E.E. Cummings



   Most people use it to masturbate and chat.

        -- Bill Maher (speaking about the Internet)



   QUICK HIDE TEH LUNIX!!!

        -- JEFFK



   I DONT HAEV TIEM FOR GIRLS becuase I am a vary bussey
   man and I am crazzey liek a BUG!!! and girls just
   get in teh way of my work and slows me down! I am living
   in NON STOP CYBERAGE WORALD and dont haev tiem for yuoer
   stuped problems and buying yuo Kleenexes for yuor femanien
   tiem and I wont watch movies about TITTANNIC
   (OH TEH BOAT SINKS, AHOY FAGOT!!!) so buzz off yuo JACKAL/

        -- JEFFK on girls



   Give a programmer a glitch and he'll try to drive a truck through it.

        -- William C. Lynch



   The only good strategy is one that no one else understands.

        -- Edson de Castro



   I am the best of the Wagnerians.

        -- Johannes Brahms



   I am a programmer.  On my 1040 form,
   that is what I put down as my occupation.

        -- Ken Thompson



   There's no such thing as a lousy job,
   -- only lousy men who don't care to do it.

        -- Ayn Rand



   It is easier to fill up with drink than with food.

   We should rather purge upward in summer,
   and downward in winter.

   A woman does not become ambidextrous.

   Livid flesh on a diseased bone is bad.

   If you wish to stop the menses in a woman,
   apply as large a cupping instrument as possible
   to the breasts.

        -- Hippocrates



   "Let's go do some crimes."
   "Yeah.  Let's get sushi and not pay."

   "There's fucking room to move as a fry cook."

   "What about our relationship?"
   "What?"
   "What about our RELATIONSHIP!?"
   "Fuck That!"

        -- Repo Man



   The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history.
   I mean in this century's history.
   But we all lived in this century.
   I didn't live in this century.

        -- Senator Dan Quayle



   Speaking as a man, it's not a woman's issue.
   Us men are tired of losing our women.

        -- Vice President Dan Quail
            (talking about breast cancer)



   The climate of Medina did not suit some people,
   so the Prophet ordered them to follow his shepherd,
   i.e. his camels, and drink their milk and urine (as a medicine).
   So they followed the shepherd that is the camels and drank their
   milk and urine till their bodies became healthy.

        -- Hadith Bukhari 7 590



   I regret to say that we of the F.B.I. are powerless to act in cases of
   oral-genital intimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate
   commerce.

        -- J. Edgar Hoover



   "All right, Mister Dorfman. Start pullin'!"

        -- Flight of the Phoenix



   Picture a weasel -- and most of us can do that, for we have met
   that little demon of destruction, that small atom of insensate
   courage, that symbol of slaughter, sleeplessness, and tireless,
   incredible activity -- picture that scrap of demoniac fury,
   multiply that mite some fifty times, and you have the likeness
   of a Wolverine.

        -- Ernest Thompson Seton, 1906



   Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that
   encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children,
   practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.

        -- Pat Robertson



   There is no such thing as rule-governed creativity.

   The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

   Sand blowing in the night. That is creation.

        -- Frank Herbert



   Man is the animal who laughs.

   Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.

   A woman in heat can be an awful fool.

   Everybody lies about sex.

   Shucks and other comments.

   Penguins are very nice people and they don't mean to be funny.

   What this weary planet needs is a lot more aloha.

   Rub her feet.

        -- Robert Heinlein



   The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter.

        -- Mark Twain



   Even bureaucracies have their patriots.

        -- Whitley Streiber



   Other people can talk about how to expand the destiny of mankind.
   I just want to talk about how to fix a motorcycle.
   I think that what I have to say has more lasting value.

   You want to know how to paint a perfect painting? It's easy.
   Make yourself perfect and then paint naturally.

        -- Robert Pirsig




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