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If something goes wrong, it is more important to talk about who is going to fix it, than who is to blame.
-Francis J. Gable
BUSINESS ANSWER: I'm not being paid, so you can't complain. REAL ANSWER: I'm sorry it had to be that way, but I do have a life; there's more to life than PONG, man! There's also DOOM.
-Stephan Gagne
Chicago came on slowly. Like a migraine.
-Neil Gaiman, American Gods
I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don't last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle lke fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend.
-Neil Gaiman, Sandman #48
I knowed a man in Paphlagonia who'd swallow a live snake every morning, when he got up. He used to say, he was certain of one thing, that nothing worse would happen to him all day. 'Course they made him eat a bowlful of hairy centipedes before they hung him, so maybe that claim was a bit presumptive.
-Neil Gaiman, Stardust
Everybody who has ever read Sandman knows exactly what the Sandman looks like, which is more than anybody who has ever read The Catcher in the Rye can say about Holden Caufield.
-Neil Gaiman
London grew into something huge and contradictory. It was a good place, and a fine city, but there is a price to be paid for all good places, and a price that all good places have to pay.
-Neil Gaiman, Neverwhere
There's a trick they do with one pea and three cups which is very hard to follow, and something like it, for greater stakes than a handful of loose change, is about to take place. The text will be slowed down to allow the sleight of hand to be followed. Mrs. Deirdre Young is giving birth in Delivery Room Three. She is having a golden-haired male baby we will call Baby A. The wife of the American Cultural Attache, Mrs. Harriet Dowling, is giving birth in Delivery Room Four. She is having a golden-haired male baby we will call Baby B. Sister Mary Loquacious has been a devout Satanist since birth. She went to Sabbat School as a child and won black stars for handwriting and liver. When she was told to join the Chattering Order she went obediently, having a natural talent in the direction and, in any case, knowing that she would be among friends. She would be quite bright, if she was ever put in a position to find out, but long ago found that being a scatterbrain, as she'd put it, gave you an easier journey through life. Currently she is being handed a golden-haired male baby we will call the Adversary, Destroyer of Kings, Angel of the Bottomless Pit, Great Beast that is called Dragon, Prince of This World, Father of Lies, Spawn of Satan, and Lord of Darkness. Watch carefully.
-Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchet, _Good Omens_
This is a work of fiction. All the characters in it, human and otherwise, are imaginary, excepting only certain of the fairy folk, whom it might be unwise to offend by casting doubts on their existence. Or lack thereof.
-Neil Gaiman, "The Books of Magic"
This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera on me right now'. Instead a real photographer pulls out her camera and takes the photograph.
-Neil Gaiman
The views expressed above are not shared by Gamers.com, Gamers Extreme, or probably even the author himself. Please don't sue us. It is almost impossible to imagine the amount of anguish one radioactive goat can cause.
-gamers.com disclaimer
If you think I wear the cloak of filth, then let me tell you baby, I wear it real good.
-Diamanda Galas
It seems stupid when people limit themselves to one kind of music. It tells me they're not using their ears.
-Diamanda Galas
If all else fails, immortality can always be assured by spectacular error.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
Under capitalism - man exploits man. Under communism it's just the opposite.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
Where humor is concerned there are no standards -- no one can say what is good or bad, although you can be sure that everyone will.
-John Kenneth Galbraith
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use.
-Galileo Galilei
In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.
-Galileo Galilei
I wish there was a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence. There's a knob called 'brightness', but it doesn't work.
-Gallagher
Of course, back then we joked about malodorous UIUC pencilneck frat nerds who think 'third base' means that they died twice in regulation.
-Felix Gallo, Berkeley INL player
What would happen in a battle between an Enterprise security team, who always get killed soon after appearing, and a squad of Imperial stormtroopers, who can't hit the broad side of a barn?
-Tom Galloway
I read somewhere that 77 percent of all the mentally ill live in poverty. Actually, I'm more intrigued by the 23 percent who are apparently doing quite well for themselves.
-Jerry Garcia
No academic ever expects to be taken seriously by more than three other people, because really, we write for three other people in our field.
-Howard Gardner
Every psychic investigator of [the medium] Mrs. Piper was impressed by her simplicity and honesty. It never occurred to them that no charlatan ever achieves greatness by acting like a charlatan. No professional spy acts like a spy. No card cheat behaves at the table like a card cheat.
-Martin Gardner
The MFS node can handle circuits as slow as a T1, and as fast as OC48 - a whopping 2.6 GBps traveling over single-mode fiber. With signals like that, the MFS engineers must do their utmost to limit the amount of electrical noise in the room, which is about the size of a small coffee shop. Alternating current is a no-no - it generates too much interference - so all of the switching equipment is powered with 48-volt direct current. Wong let me snap a photograph of the DC distribution system. Each of the red cables in the photo is thicker than a carrot, and carries enough current to kill everybody in HotWired's offices. (Not that this would ever cross my mind.)
-Simson Garfinkel
Rieger floors it. My head snaps back, my foot stomps on the virtual brake pedal, and I'm a mess of quivering Jell-O as Bad Boy hits 100 miles an hour. "Fun, isn't it?" says a grinning Rieger, when we screech to a stop. Fun! Sex is fun. Those four seconds of full-on palpitations were more than fun. They were intense.
-Rochelle Garner, Upside
Maybe it was the snake drills. Maybe that's what got to them. From time to time, it seemed right to throw a length of hose into the river, yell 'Snake!', and everyone open up with shotguns, Magnums, semi-automatic weapons, whatever was handy on the boats. Apart from being fun, it established that the Gunkhole was heavily armed and crazy, which was all to the good. You wound up being able to leave your tools out on the deck and go for a beer and come back, and nobody had messed with your stuff.
-Joel Garreau, _The Nine Nations of North America_
This note will surely be lost in a fog of corrective correspondence about Casablanca's "unforgettable" closing airport scene, but here goes: Peter Berkowitz is wrong to say that Keith Angus was right to say that Rick does not shoot Major Strasser. Rick does. Berkowitz is right to say that Angus is wrong to say that the French police captain Louis's ensuing command to "round up the usual suspects" is cynical. But Berkowitz is only half right to say that Louis's order represents the triumph of "friendship over cynicism." It also-at least as important-represents the triumph of moral integrity over convenience. Louis, finally, does the right thing. But if he had shot Strasser, as both Angus and Berkowitz remember it, his famous command would have been merely self-serving, and we wouldn't have had much of a picture to not forget.
-Kelly Garrett, Letter to the Editor, Atlantic Monthly
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.
-William Lloyd Garrison
The Microsoft corporate culture can be broken down into four key parts: a tremendous work ethic; Bill Gates is always right; an us-versus-them mentality; and Bill Gates is always right. If you execute successfully on all of that, you get to retire in your thirties as a multimillionaire.
-Michael Gartenberg, Gartner Group
So, my question, Tosh, is: Am I slime? And is she really OK with it or is she just saying that?
-Mike Gaslin
A year ago, Steve was in the wilderness, and everybody thought that NeXT was going nowhere. Then, as if by magic, he manages to sell it to Apple, for a very high price, and gain control of Apple in the process, and now he is in the position of again becoming a revered figure in the history of computing. If that's not leadership, I don't know what is.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
Another aspect of our work environment is that we're cheap. In some companies, the thought police would advise me to say 'spartan,' but once you see the pair of 8-foot couches I bought for $10 in the summer of 1991, when we set up our first office in San Jose, you'll probably agree that cheap is the word.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
Corporate beer: less taste, more filling.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
Don't ask me 'When is our IPO?' My office overlooks the parking lot, and when I see the BMWs of investment bankers fighting for spaces, I'll know it's time.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
Don't try to lawyer me out of common sense.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
I worked 22 years in the industry, and I noticed that operating systems get cancer with age.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
If you ask people in the mainstream what they want, they'll say faster and smaller and cheaper. But with that you don't get innovation. If you align yourself with the ball-breaker, high-testosterone crowd, that leads to innovation.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
It's more important for us to find the next Adobe than to convince Adobe that Be is their next platform
-Jean-Louis Gassee
On the Intel platform, Microsoft is the defacto standard. It's the weather.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
Thank you, but right now we are barely a fly on the giant's butt.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
The goal of the computer is to provide people with the means to extend people's minds and bodies. It is an exoskeleton that expands our human reach.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
The romance of Silicon Valley was about money - excuse me, about changing the world, one million dollars at a time.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
The way to find what the mainstream will do tomorrow is to associate with the lunatic fringe today.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
When an idea, a proposition, a cause is presented to me in terms that leave me no alternative but to be for it, because it's all pros and no cons, then I know I'm being conned.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
You have the apple - the symbol of knowledge. It is bitten - the symbol of desire. You have the rainbow - but the colors are in the wrong order. Knowledge, lust, hope, and anarchy: any company with all that cannot help being mythic.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
You know, our young Steve has said so many things ...and their contrary.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
You know the people who have the bumper stickers that say "Windows 95 = Mac '89"? These are the faithful, and I respect their faith, but I would like to respectfully point out that faith is dangerous. Religion kills.
-Jean-Louis Gassee
The metaphor is probably the most fertile power possessed by men.
-Ortega Y Gassett
You know, the language of some of those messages that come up, it just absolutely drives me crazy. They are flat-out incomprehensible.
-William Gates II (The Microsoft CEO's father) on Windows error messages
Any machine that can run a browser is not thin. The browser has to be the thickest application man has ever invented, and it's getting thicker faster than anything ever development by man.
-Bill Gates
I believe OS/2 is destined to be the most important operating system, and possibly program, of all time.
-Bill Gates, 1987
Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep us constantly vigilant, and sometimes they beat us to the punch. Microsoft's success to date is based solely on the fact that people like Microsoft software.
-Bill Gates, April 1995
Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more 'user-friendly' [...] Their best approach, so far, has been to take all the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover.
-Bill Gates
We always overestimate the change that will occur in the next two years and underestimate the change that will occur in the next 10.
-Bill Gates
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
-Jules de Gaultier
Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies when you're having fun.
-Jorge Gautier
I was part of that strange race of people aptly described as spending their lives doing things they detest to make money they don't want to buy things they don't need to impress people they dislike.
-Emile Henry Gauvreay
At the suggestion of several nanog readers, my traceroute 2.9.4 has been renumbered to The All New TrACESroute 6.0 GOLD. Note that this is a higher revision level than either Netscape 4.8, IE5, or AOL 5, and is therefore the clearly superior software. * [...] * In the United Kingdom, please consider this superiour software.
-Ehud Gavron
If the product breaks after the 1-year warranty period, it's cheaper to get it replaced than to have it repaired.
-G.E. answering machine documentation
I have a social philosophy; you have political opinions; he has an ideology.
-C. Geertz
Happy is harder than money. Anyone who thinks money will make them happy, doesn't have money.
-David Geffen
I wouldn't mind dying -- it's that business of having to stay dead that scares the shit out of me.
-R. Geis
Death is life's way of telling you you've been fired.
-R. Geis
The question is not how to use computing power efficiently, but how to squander it creatively.
-Dr. David Gelernter
I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none of the actual passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.
-Libby Gelman-Waxner, Premiere
Impeccability, a finely honed strategic sense, and an intelligent application of personal ferocity beat out fear and hate every time.
-Joshua Geller
It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises - but only performance is reality.
-Harold S. Geneen
If there is going to be a Big Brother in the United States, it is going to be us -- the FBI.
-Paul George, Supervisory Special Agent, Michigan Bureau, FBI
Yeah, we're fascist netcops. Deal.
-David Gerard
If you can write a nation's stories, you needn't worry about who makes its laws.
-George Gerbner
I once named a Usenet server tatooine, for the vast wasteland that Usenet is. Maybe this thread should be relegated there also.
-Eric Germann
The last thing IBM needs right now is a vision.
-Lou Gerstner
Financial statements belong in the fiction section of the library.
-Eric Gertler
If you can count your money, you don't have a billion dollars.
-J. Paul Getty
A 'No' uttered from deepest conviction is better and greater than a 'Yes' merely uttered to please, or what is worse, to avoid trouble.
-Gandhi
Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.
-Gandhi
First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.
-Gandhi
Being miserable and treating other people like crap is every New Yorker's God given right.
-Ghostbusters 2
Necessity is the mother of the re-invented wheel.
-Charlie Gibbs
The purpose of JCL is to give you something to debug once you have your programs running.
-Charlie Gibbs
If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.
-Khalil Gibran
An entire city block populated by morons that are so blessed with whatever it is that God uses to punish the weaker branches of the tree of life that any sort of advanced technology stops working here. This helps explain why we use Microsoft operating systems run on Intel motherboards.
-Lex Gibson
Dear Generation X, We are sorry to inform you of the death of "The Voice of Your Generation." We deeply regret his loss to suicide and wish you all the best in the future. Yours sincerely, The Management
-Lex Gibson
I'm sure if Faisal were going to make up a story it would at least be interesting.
-Lex Gibson
If your ass isn't your greatest asset, what is? It's certainly not your personality.
-Lex Gibson
It's kind of in her hands because, well, basically, I want to sleep with her.
-Lex Gibson
Lex has decided to host the New Year's Eve festivities this time around, since It falls on the 31st this year. The Supreme Court upheld the decision. In the majority opinion, Chief Justice Billy Rehnquist stated "Fuck the legitimacy of the High Court. I would have to wait four more years to retire if Gore got elected. I mean, umm... something about equal protection rights, and there isn't enough time to find another place to party."
-Lex Gibson
No you don't have to tell me an embarrassing story. I already know.
-Lex Gibson
So the two rules for tonight are, I'm not going to sleep with you, and you've *got* to stop lying to me.
-Lex Gibson
What's with this song? It sounds like R2-D2 asking a lot of really stupid questions.
-Lex Gibson
Would you keep control of your clothing.
-Lex Gibson
Distributed computing is where someone tripping over a cable in another building can ruin your day.
-D. Gifford
Hey babe, I've got an O(n) method for computing form factors.
-Steve Gifford
Hey, that makes this the first recorded instance of someone playing StarFleet when they shoulda been doing work. Yeah, this is historic.
-Steve Gifford
I always find my self wondering how people who can't code manage to get through life.
-Steve Gifford
I don't think people are ragging on you because you've raised uncomfortable questions. No, instead I think they're wailing on you because you come off like a total dick in email.
-Steve Gifford
I really love how the phrase "using the full power of C++" has come to mean "slow and sucky".
-Steve Gifford
I wasn't aware Perl was sexually transmitted.
-Steve Gifford
"Imagine you're falling off a cliff and all you've got is a rope to save yourself. At the top of the cliff there's a CMU graduate and an MIT graduate. Which do you throw the rope to?" "The MIT graduate." "The MIT graduate!!? Why?" "I'm probably going fast enough to yank him off the cliff."
-Steve Gifford
hen people of good faith come together as one.... the rest of us end up in concentration camps.
-Steve Gifford
"It's not your father's SAP," Homlish and his fellow-managers like to say, paraphrasing those hipsters at Oldsmobile
-Jennifer Gilbert, Business 2.0
The information glut has become a ruling cliche. As all resources - from energy to information - become more abundant, the presure of economic scarcity falls ever more heavily on one key residual, and that single shortage looms ever more stringent and controlling. The governing scarcity of the information economy is time: the shards of a second, the hours in a day, the years in a life, the latency of memory, the delay in aluminum wires, the time to market, the time to metastasis, the time to retirement.
-George Gilder
amazon.com <--- sign over paychecks. thank you, have a nice day. -bezos
-Vijay Gill
At Mach 3, coffee does not get served. It gets Vaporised. SR-71A: As NOT seen on Russian Radar.
-Vijay Gill
C++ is probably a good keyword on your resume, so might as well go with it. If the Dragon Book saw C++, it probably would vomit.
-Vijay Gill
C++ is to object orientation as Winger is to music. I hereby declare a Jihad against the devil made flesh - Bjarne Stroustrup!
-Vijay Gill
change must come from within [...] what are the actual chances we'll stop hanging with the same losers [...] so its all talk, we must implement a paradigm shift to leverage our madness into an engine of booty
-Vijay Gill
date of easter indicator is crossing the line from function to frivolity. imagine if you will, an M car with cupholders. oh wait.
-Vijay Gill
hate = good : beer = food : food = good => hate = beer
-Vijay Gill
He bought a new Ferrari. 328. $80k. That's expensive for a car but quite cheap for Heaven.
-Vijay Gill
He is dead. Something that that he disagreed with, ate him
-Vijay Gill
I don't do drugs because I like to keep reality where I can get hold of it ASAP.
-Vijay Gill
I had already anticipated your lameness, and made plans to go to ballroom or something
-Vijay Gill
I must admit my education in the assgoblin arena has been sadly lacking, perhaps you can clue me in
-Vijay Gill
I wonder how do I show off my two uu t1's?. maybe I'll log on TWICE. for twice the daily recommended dose of idiocy
-Vijay Gill
if you don't know how to do this, chances are that you should NOT be doing this. Leave this sort of thing for the professionals. Given that warning, and being the sort of person who loves to give out rope so people can hang themselves, here we go:
-Vijay Gill
If you were online with a very large OC customer and people were calling you in the middle of a complex diverse BGP setup, and kept yelling homosex, I guarantee you would lose your shit so fast.
-Vijay Gill
If your so called "SARCASM" was any good, you wouldn't need to go around telling people about it. Hey, look over here, I'm making a SARCASTIC statement, ain't I so SARCASTIC? You, in the clown suit, wanna check out my SARCASM?
-Vijay Gill
Is your continent year 2028 compliant?
-Vijay Gill
It's not just that amazon.com's business plan is brilliant, but that their execution is brilliant. Note the complete lack of any pages with the extension "asp" anywhere on their site.
-Vijay Gill
No, ignoring is not the same as treating like crap. If I were to treat someone like crap, I'd be leaping upon them in the hallways like a tiger and beating them to the death with the bloody stump of their own arm that I had ripped out of its socket. The hallways would run red with blood, and I would write a symphony of screams.
-Vijay Gill
perl is not just an insane language. it is the insane language of CHOICE.
-Vijay Gill
Shut up Fleur, you're one of the guys.
-Vijay Gill
slight issue: to wit, we are not nice, we are not quiet, and we are not 'slightly' eccentric, we are fucking --><--- far away from being put in padded cells
-Vijay Gill
that makes it better, or soemthing. if my name was anukul, I'd have lots of quotes in faisals files too
-Vijay Gill
the issue is getting worked up over nothing and then the morons who send mail about people getting worked up and then the morons who send mail about morons sending mail about people getting worked up. if everyone just hit delete like I do, I wouldn't see a problem. it is not hard to deal with a mailing list, I can't see how you idiots can actually survive in the real world
-Vijay Gill
the "kinetic" cool sounding word hadn't come into phase then, along with other lame ass words such as "Extreme Sports"
-Vijay Gill
The Revolution will not be available at stores.
-Vijay Gill
[This] makes entirely too much sense, therefore we junk this premise.
-Vijay Gill
Time to put on some excessive force.
-Vijay Gill
Times when state in names is useful - when you are transmitting information over a very low bandwidth medium, eg, slide presentations to senior management.
-Vijay Gill
vampire guy is clueless, in fact, the vampire guy is stupid as FUCK, so why is vampire guy asking about X.25?
-Vijay Gill
we are all the same color once our skin has been removed and replaced by superconducting wire mesh to dissipate spot lasers
-Vijay Gill
We don't need solutions. We need shotguns!
-Vijay Gill
WHAT DID YOU SAY KMFDM STOOD FOR AGAIN PUNK?
-Vijay Gill
will build dynamic routing meshes for food
-Vijay Gill
you can do that, there is nothing physically preventing you from doing it. make sure the scsi controllers have different ids. also, go see a doctor. you are fux0red
-Vijay Gill
You. You're cute. You'll do. Come with me.
-Vijay Gill
you will CEASE from speaking, or I WILL RIP OUT YOUR TONGUE. Lightly braise it with a lemon/pepper sauce, and feed it to you.
-Vijay Gill
A libertarian is just an anarchist on the gold standard.
-Alexis Gilliland
Layered protocols give the software implementor a chance to ruin his performance in each layer.
-Don Gillies
There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law. No artist ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.
-Jean Giradoux
Faldo had begun the day six strokes behind Norman. By the time the two started their slow walk to the eighteenth hole, through the throng of spectators, Faldo had a four- stroke lead. But he took those final steps quietly, giving only the smallest of nods, keeping his head low. He understood what had happened on the greens and fairways that day. And he was bound by the particular etiquette of choking, the understanding that what he had earned was something less than a victory and what Norman had suffered was something less than a defeat. When it was all over, Faldo wrapped his arms around Norman. "I don't know what to say--I just want to give you a hug," he whispered, and then he said the only thing you can say to a choker: "I feel horrible about what happened. I'm so sorry." With that, the two men began to cry.
-Malcolm Gladwell, "The Art of Failure"
Lands' End has undergone three major changes over the past couple of decades. The first was the introduction of an 800 number, in 1978; the second was express delivery, in 1994; and the third was the introduction of a Web site, in 1995. The first two innovations cut the average transaction time--the time between the moment of ordering and the moment the goods are received--from three weeks to four days. The third innovation has cut the transaction time from four days to, well, four days.
-Malcolm Gladwell
The Dockers campaign, however, proved that you could sell fashion to men. But that was only the first of its remarkable implications. The second-which remains as weird and mysterious and relevant to the fashion business today as it was ten years ago-was that you could do this by training a camera on a man's butt and having him talk in yuppie gibberish.
-Malcolm Gladwell
What was Welch's career-altering personal crisis? What wild-animal metaphors will he employ? ("As I looked around the room, I felt like a young wildebeest being surveyed by a group of older and larger--but less nimble--wildebeests, whose superior market share and penetration of the herd were no match for my greater hunger, born of my impoverished middle-class upbringing in the jungles of suburban Boston.")
-Malolm Gladwell
this is the voice you have learned to giggle hysterically at, this is the voice of an overly dramatic sample.
-glamboy
Why is it that no matter how far i travel and how light i pack, my neuroses always seem to catch up with me?
-Josh Glazer
Everyone who uses Stacker has had problems with it. Some just don't realize it.
-Todd Gleason
Note: Neither the Information Technology Center nor Carnegie Mellon University has ever been awakened with a blowjob, so I don't see how the opinions expressed herein could possibly reflect those of my employers.
-Bob Glickstein
There is no truth to the rumor that nns got "stuck" in alt.sex because it got "interested" in what it saw there, despite those who say that such behavior would be normal for a program I wrote.
-Bob Glickstein
MY HOME PAGE HAS JAVA.
-god@heaven.com
I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about. I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?
-Mike Godwin
It is the leaders of the country who determine the policy and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the peacemakers for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
-Hermann Goering
Be bold and mighty forces will come to your aid.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
It is not enough to have knowledge, one must also apply it. It is not enough to have wishes, one must also accomplish.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Mathematicians are like Frenchmen: whatever you say to them they translate into their own language, and forthwith it is something entirely different.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
-Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Kill every human on the planet? Sounds like a good idea! But first, we should concentrate on more immediate goals.
-Jeffrey Goines, 12 Monkeys
It's like documenting the construction of the grand canyon!
-Ash Gokhale
You'll notice that 'telephony' has a 'phony' in it.
-Ash Gokhale
It is fundamental that the great powers of Congress to conduct war and to regulate the Nation's foreign relations are subject to the constitutional requirements of due process. The imperative necessity for safeguarding these rights to procedural due process under the gravest of emergencies has existed throughout our constitutional history, for it is then, under the pressing exigencies of crisis, that there is the greatest temptation to dispense with fundamental constitutional guarantees which, it is feared, will inhibit governmental action. "The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances ... In no other way can we transmit to posterity unimpaired the blessings of liberty, consecrated by the sacrifices of the Revolution.
-Justice Arthur Goldberg, Kennedy v. Mendoza-Martinez
i guess that these are the some of the people you can fool all of the time.
-Joshua Goldberg
I won't be in the office today. Your bad airline karma has spread to me. Annie, my dog, was "mistakenly" flown to New Orleans instead of SFO. The city names are so close, I can see how the mixup happened.
-Ross Goldberg
I liked Beauty and the Beast a lot. Bitter, isolated, and physically repulsive. I can identify with that.
-Kevin Goldsmith
Is there such a thing as a weather penis?
-Kevin Goldsmith
Remember, it's not the size of the paintbrush, but the amount you flaunt it on the net that counts.
-Kevin Goldsmith
Hell, I'd gladly fuck him if I weren't a lesbian, and didn't have a boyfriend.
-Rachel "Fenriss" Goldsmith
I *wish* my ass were a doorway to another dimension.
-Rachel Goldsmith
Let me draw an analogy here; I'm quite fond of a well mixed bloody mary, but I can't stomach straight vodka. Likewise, I would imagine pure Goth, replete with angst but lacking any ANGER, would be insipid and self-indulgent beyond my ability to endure it.
-Rachel Goldsmith
Where are we going and what's with this handbasket?
-Rachel Goldsmith
A lot of people have these quotes pages full of funny and sometimes thought provoking things people they know or admire say. Most of the time the quotes are painfully sarcastic or full of angst and ultraviolence. This is useless and will not be supported here.
-Randy Goldstein
I'm weak because I think souless, goth, wanna be, candyass, makeup caking fuckheads sully the earth I walk upon? This is a WEAKNESS?? When I'm wearing white facepaint in the middle of July, and I'm not in kabuki theatre, THEN you may call me weak.
-Randy Goldstein
.666 -- The Number of the Millibeast
-Randy Goldstein
This logic/grey argument is the dumbest fucking thing I've seen in a very very long time. You people have taken the good name of debate and turned it into a philosophical maze with no end in site. Everyone is right and everyone is wrong. Trying to take logic to the level of "does logic even exist" in a debate format is stupid. Stop it. Now. Someone will say "everything is grey" then someone else will say "ah, but grey is composed of black and white". I say "shut it" and lets talk about power pop.
-Randy Goldstein
We put the "laughter" in Manslaughter.
-Randy Goldstein
A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away.
-Barry Goldwater
A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on.
-Samuel Goldwyn
Hello. This is Evan Golub's e-mail filter. According to my internal clock, it is 1900 and e-mail will not be invented for several decades. Your message will be held in a queue until this invention has been made. However, please note that Evan may not respond for several more years as he has not been born as of yet and certainly does not know how to type.
-Evan Golub
I unfortunately let AOL start up.
-Suzy Gooch
If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to procrastinate and you're still going to have a shitload of work to do.
-Lesley Goodwin
Oh my god, using a computer in denny's. Believe me guys, that must come with INCHES of being a multiple orgasm!
-Lesley Goodwin
I have this point to make about software engineering: when your your wrappers have grown wrappers it's time to switch to decaf.
-Lucas Gonze
It is true that some lawyers are dishonest, arrogant, greedy, venal, amoral, ruthless buckets of slime. On the other hand, it is unfair to judge the entire profession by a few hundred thousand bad apples.
-James D. Gordon III, The Washington Post
Crossposting isn't inherently evil, in the same sense that necrophilia doesn't really hurt anybody. One wonders only whether it's appropriate to the occasion.
-Rick Gordon
Those who are obsessed by ideology are the Republican Party, where they are in such disarray that the right hand doesn't know what the far right hand is doing
-Vice President Al Gore
there are 2 kinds of music: laibach, and othe music. other music allsounds the same.
-Eric Gottesman
We all enter this world in the same way: naked; screaming; soaked in blood. But if you live your life right, that kind of thing doesn't have to stop there.
-Dana Gould
In science, "fact" can only mean "confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional assent." I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.
-Stephen Jay Gould
All that was meant to bore you shitless.
-I. Goulden
This committee has not tried to determine whether the National Security Agency tendency to advance exaggerated claims of authority ... stems from conscious policy or the actions of individual NSA employees.
-The Government's Classification of Private Ideas, House Report 96-1540
The reason why everything else in this ship is, I maintain, safe, is that no one is really crazy enough to use them. No one. At least no one that crazy would ever get near them. Anyone that mad or dangerous rings very deep alarm bells. People may be stupid but they're not *that* stupid.
-government official, Young Zaphod Plays It Safe
There is such a fine line between goth and skanky biker ho.
-Carl Graci
Disposable income is very cool and that's the reason we're in grad school.
-The Grad School Rap
How can you dream the impossible dream, when you can't get any sleep?
-graffiti in Morewood
You're damn right we need a rational code of morality and ethics. But not much progress can be made in that direction while we've still got a majority ranting about gods, devils, souls, and absolute morality, and using an ancient book written by ignorant nomads as a guide.
-Doug Graham
Every problem in the universe can be solved by finding the right long-haired prettyboy and beating the crap out of him.
-The Grand List of Console Role Playing Game Cliches
Paranoia will get you through times of no enemies better than enemies will get you through times of no paranoia.
-Pete Granger
now that departments have a choice between Unix and Windows there's a lot of interest in Macs...
-Dair Grant
Whenever there has been talk of exterminating rats, others, who were not rats, have been exterminated.
-Gunter Grass
In my country there is a belief, and rightly so, that the only thing that separates us from animals is mindless superstition and pointless ritual.
-Latka Graves, Taxi
Argument from Design: 1. One looks at a simple computer, and sees evidence of intelligent design. 2. One looks at a Sun Sparc 20 and... um... well... Okay, One looks at a DEC Alpha and sees evidence of intelligent design. 3. It is therefore likely that something created them. 4. One looks at the network and sees evidence of intelligent design. 5. It is therefore likely that something created it. That something is the System Administrator. Counter-argument: 1. If you think the network implies intelligent design, you haven't seen *our* network. 2. Even assuming this proves the existence of a System Administrator, there's no evidence the System Administrator is intelligent.
-Andy Gray
Like a fly to a bug zapper, you are drawn to the cafeteria.
-Brendan Gray
Something bothers me about a bunch of scrawny kids in $150 oxblood DM's, $150+ Leather jackets, and a ton of expensive jewelry and decorations sitting in doorways begging for change. WAKE UP CALL!!! LOOKING LIKE A FREAK IS A LUXURY! YOU CAN'T ALL WORK AT TOWER!!!!!!
-Brendan Gray
"This" cyberscene? Yeah, like this bboard is a "virtual reality", not just a bunch of ASCII-twiddling weenies who have the privelege of Internet access...
-Mike Greelish
Here is the set of "organisations using encryption codes legitimately" and here is the set of terrorists. Observe the intersection. There is NONE. IT IS THE NULL SET. VENN DIAGRAM THAT LOOK LIKE TWO BIG CIRCLES EQUAL BAD PUBLIC POLICY.
-Dave Green, Need to Know News
and the obvious answer to that is yes, you smoke crack like an engineer drinks espresso.
-Fred Green
Are you sick and tired of men sniveling and whining about how we women want to smother them? If you can still hear them whining you aren't holding the pillow down hard enough.
-Fred Green
Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.
-Fred Green
Q: How many Newtons does it take to screw in a lightbulb? A: Foux! There to eat lemons, axe gravy soup.
-Fred Green
Reality is an illusion that occurs due to lack of caffeine.
-Fred Green
The first piece of luggage out of the chute doesn't belong to anyone, ever.
-Fred Green
Actually, for those of you counting at home, two war crimes. ... Of course, only the losers face war-crime tribunals.
-Sam Greenfield
Along, the same lines, I've proved P = NP, but I don't want to tell anyone yet.
-Sam Greenfield
Dammit! Rob posted my entire point, and made it more succinct.
-Sam Greenfield
I guess what I am saying is that you would have to be more specific in order for me to answer your question.... But my post does have a lot of acronyms
-Sam Greenfield
I think I've been reading /etc/passwd *way* too much.
-Sam Greenfield
I'm gonna get luddite on your ass!
-Sam Greenfield
If your sysadmin's not being fascist, you're paying him too much.
-Sam Greenfield
Let me just point out that this is all I saw I of your message. Then my head exploded.
-Sam Greenfield
Nope, those weren't the Rockettes. They were just average citizens from New York who happened to be walking through Times Sqaure. They were so amazed by the downright funkiness of the Pentium II that they had to start dancing in a sychronized line right then and there.
-Sam Greenfield
Seg fault. Core dump. Machine panic. Lost contact with all afs file servers. WAR BREAKS OUT. THE SUN EXPLODES. MERHABIAN SHAVES HIS MUSTACHE.
-Sam Greenfield
sh*t. my carefully designed brilliant algorithm fails to work. d*mm*t!!! GRR
-Sam Greenfield
SOPHISM SMACKS! Only one distorted statement per spoonful! (Nothing goes better with Sophism Smacks than a hefty helping of Infinitoes.)
-Sam Greenfield
Technology is useless without art.
-Sam Greenfield
[We] might not see eye to eye on quite a few topics, but on this one, we are in complete agreement. Except of course, for the cars, women, and cash, there have been very few perks in running the various incarnations of this or any social list.
-Sam Greenfield
What's up with the Jewish Conspiracy? Where's *my* power?!!?
-Sam Greenfield
When I say 'morning', what I really mean is 'afternoon'.
-Sam Greenfield
yep.! I'll call tomorrow afeternoonfgr. I'd fix that byut I am toe lzay to move my hand to the deleteeee key.
-Sam Greenfield
You broke up over a year and a half? That's one *long* phone call.
-Sam Greenfield
You put the art back in fart.
-Sam Greenfield
I am one of the culprits who created the problem. I used to write those programs back in the '60s and '70s, and was so proud of the fact that I was able to squeeze a few elements of space by not having to put '19' before the year.
-Alan Greenspan
Although the Buddhists will tell you that desire is the root of suffering, my personal experience leads me to point the finger at system administration.
-Philip Greenspun
Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp.
-Philip Greenspun
Computers are the tools of the devil. It is as simple as that. There is no monotheism strong enough that it cannot be shaken by Unix or any Microsoft product. The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.
-Phil Greenspun
For some reason, Web service seems to attract incompetent system administrators and antique, unloved hardware. Here at MIT, for example, we actually do have some modern computers. They're in the new $70 million biology building. In the computer science building, we like to say "I haven't seen anyone using that SPARC 2 since 1988, let's make it the Web server for 100 creative programmers." Then we're surprised when the machine dies at 1/600th of the www.netscape.com traffic. Anyway, as you might expect, a substantial percentage of the links on the Web go dead (look at the entries in Yahoo).
-Philip Greenspun
Frame is a good enough piece of software that there are actually rewards to taking an intelligent and formal approach to your problem. But if you want to be stupid, you can think of Frame as a version of Microsoft Word with most of the bugs taken out.
-Philip Greenspun
Like most people in Academia, my vision of the future is the same as the average industry person's vision of five years ago.
-Philip Greenspun
Most people who are rich chose their parents wisely.
-Philip Greenspun
Price to universities: a system that is cheap for university CS students will, ten years later, be the dominant technology in any market where software development innovation is important
-Phil Greenspun
Remember that in 1993 a company with a bad Web site needed an engineer. Today, a company with a bad Web site needs a psychiatrist.
-Phil Greenspun
Start by putting yourself in your users' shoes. Why are they coming to your site? If you look at most Web sites, you'd presume that the answer is "User is extremely bored and wishes to stare at a blank screen for several minutes while a flashing icon loads, then stare at the flashing icon for a few more minutes."
-Philip Greenspun
The devil is real. He lives inside C programs.
-Philip Greenspun
Web/db connectivity was a sort of interesting problem in 1994 when everyone was using CGI (see the database interfacing chapter of Philip and Alex's Guide to Web Publishing). It became a completely uninteresting problem after it was solved in 1995 by AOLs erver (then called NaviServer), whose connection pooling scheme and interpreted language API improved performance by roughly a factor of 100 over CGI. The irrelevance of even this level of performance gain is illustrated amply by the fact that Amazon.com ignored the connection innovations, continued to use CGI, and cried all the way to a $25 billion market capitalization.
-Philip Greenspun
Earth is a single point of failure.
-Patrick Greenwell
What's the saying? "You reap what you sew" or is it "you reap what you allow to fester long enough?"
-Patrick Greenwell
You can only kiss so much faculty butt before you get a mouthfull of hair.
-David Gregg
Big breasts are popular, people look around, they say, "Oh, there's lots of big breasts -- they're very big, they're scary, someone might get their eye put out. I'm going to vote for Buchanan." ... It's not that "Political times are repressive, ergo we like big breasts" but that "There are a lot of big breasts around, ergo we get scared and we get conservative." And, conversely, like in the sixties you had people like Penelope Tree and Twiggy, and people looked around and said, "Oh, there's lots of small breasts around -- it's okay, it's safe. I'm going to join a commune and take drugs."
-"Gregory", radio show caller, as quoted in Esquire, Feb 1999
I don't know the answer to this... but you don't either.
-Jerry Griffin
If you try hard enough, you can blow a 50 minute lecture.
-Jerry Griffin
Simple little math teachers say that 10/0 is undefined.
-Jerry Griffin
The best things about solid mechanics is that you can break things all the time. Getting paid money to destroy things - what more could a man ask for?
-Jerry Griffin
The stresses.. They just don't care. They're like you on Sunday morning.
-Jerry Griffin
You wonder what faculty do? We sit around drinking beer and discussing free-body diagrams.
-Jerry Griffin
When you hear the word 'nonhomogeneous' do you feel queasy inside?
-Jerry Griffin
As an aside, I next plan to gun for both news.announce.newgroups and comp.risks. I figure that along with the mysterious but timely disappearance of alt.conspiracy and talk.politics.guns, once I've gotten them, I'll have accomplished my goal of imposing my will upon all of USENET's readership. I'll control Star Trek, I'll control humor, I'll control which newsgroups exist, and I'll ensure that no one can be warned about the threat I pose. So Mr. Neumann and Mr. Lawrence, you've been warned. And once the Internet is present in every household in the world, I'll have fulfilled my dream to become the absolute ruler of the hearts and minds of every sentient being on the planet. But I digress.
-Jim Griffith, prolific newsgroup moderator
Anu, you're babbling, go to eat'n park.
-Chris "Ratha" Grimes
Anything's funny with blood all over your face.
-Chris Grimes
Dammit. i wish there were some sheep around here i could fuck just to spite you.
-Chris Grimes
I want something to organize my life and it should play tetris.
-Chris Grimes
I'm feeling slightly less existentially despondent.
-Chris Grimes
Can you STOP talking about spinning metal penises!
-Chris Grimes
If at first you don't succeed -- give it up. It isn't worth the pain.
-Matt Groening
Love is a snowmobile racing across the tundra and then suddenly it flips over, pinning you underneath. At night, the ice weasels come.
-Matt Groening
If companies don't know that they can run out of money, they won't be thinking of ways not to run out of money.
-Bill Gross
Sorry dude, didn't realise you had the detector. I hate it when they use the old fashioned "pacing" technique. It's just darned sneaky, as opposed to blasting 200W of microwaves all over the place so we can detect them.
-Peter Gross
I'll have the plate of vomit.
-Alec Grossman
This is the philosophical ramblings of a tortured mind. We'll print it exactly the way he wants it.
-Bob Guccione
This fellow Charles Lindbergh will never make it. He's doomed.
-Harry Guggenheim
An ideal wife is one who remains faithful to you but tries to be just as charming as if she weren't.
-Sacha Guitry
You can pretend to be serious, you can't pretend to be witty.
-Sacha Guitry
The difference is that manure is manure, with any bucket as useful for fertilizer as any other. A more apt comparison would be to think of the Usenet archive as dumptrucks full of manure, each containing a single peanut butter cup...somewhere...
-Mike Gunderloy
The security of the Nation is not at the ramparts alone, Security also lies in the value of our free institutions. A cantankerous press, an obstinate press, a ubiquitous press must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve the even greater values of freedom of expression and the right of the people to know.
-U.S. District Judge Murray Gurfein
If you can think up a company in your head, there are likely five other people who can do the same. [...] At last count, there were something like six venture-backed seafood exchanges. I doubt that the canneries are crying out for that much innovation just yet.
-J. William Gurley, General Partner, Benchmark Capital
In many industries, such as biotech, the cost and time required to develop a new product are enormously high. In these markets, it is sensible for the government to grant an award to innovators such that investors have the proper incentives to fund new health discoveries. ... To argue that the Internet sector suffers from a lack of funding incentive would be, pardon the pun, patently absurd.
-J. William Gurley
Of course, one could argue that revenue is not the proper metric for measuring the success of a company with a potentially negative gross margin.
-J. William Gurley
Of course, success invites arbitrage, and on the Internet, that means someone is selling what you sell for cheaper.
-J. William Gurley
The good news is that you can build a portal overnight; the bad news is that so can everyone else.
-J. William Gurley
A sacrifice... how about a young, nubile, willing dancing girl, dressed in thin white silk, holding a chocolate chip cheesecake in one hand and a six-pack of Blue Ridge Porter in the other? Just send her to my place and consider yourself paid up.
-Nikki Gustas
...almost everyone in the film is made a little too dumb for my taste (even by New Hampshire standards).
-Nikki Gustas
At this point, wanting to get my point across with the proper sign language, I tried to strangle him.
-Nikki Gustas
Ever fly through a thunderstorm? It's pretty, in an "I'm gonna die" way.
-Nikki Gustas
If you placed all the blood vessels in your body end to end, you'd be dead.
-Nikki Gustas
So, I went over to the X Marks the Pedwalk web page, in hopes of figuring out what the HELL the lyrics are to Facer (one of those questions that keeps me up late at night, along with "does God exist?" and "If Colin's five years older than me, how come *he's* always the one getting carded?").
-Nikki Gustas
Support your local medical examiner. Die strangely.
-Nikki Gustas
The frustrating thing about [...] is that he... really tries to dominate my attention... which would be okay if he'd sleep with me.
-Nikki Gustas
Well, I saw Hackers last night.... It was flashy, gorgeous, stylish, and appallingly dumb - much like many people I know.
-Nikki Gustas
Yes, I know, it's Adams Morgan. Yes, I know, it's about ten degrees out. And I know just about everyone's suffering from Seasonal Affected Disorder at the moment. But hey, you know what they say, misery loves company! Brave this wintry hell and drag your PVC-clad butt out to Heaven this Tuesday!
-Nikki Gustas
Come on, why would anyone want to live in California any more? People can't even read their pink slips because the power is out.
-Craig Guthery
Etc. (gratuitous parenthetical phrase).
-Craig Guthery
Santa Claus wears a Red Suit ... he must be a communist. And a beard and long hair ... must be a pacifist. What's in that pipe that he's smoking?
-Arlo Guthrie
This song is Copyrighted in U.S., under Seal of Copyright # 154085, for a period of 28 years, and anybody caught singin it without our permission, will be mighty good friends of ourn, cause we don't give a dern. Publish it. Write it. Sing it. Swing to it. Yodel it. We wrote it, that's all we wanted to do.
-Woodie Guthrie
We've got people looking seriously at adopting Communicator as an institutional standard, but I'm looking for something that works well instead.
-David Gutierrez, comp.mail.imap
Oh my! An 'inflammatory attitude' in alt.flame? Never heard of such a thing...
-Allen Gwinn
UNIX was never designed to keep people from doing stupid things, because that policy would also keep them from doing clever things.
-Doug Gwyn