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To fully understand this situation, go into alt.polyamory and ask someone why all monogamous relationships are stupid. Then ask me why all polyamorous relationships are stupid. Then compile this information and realize you're better off buying a rubber fuck doll than wasting most of your life trying to understand your loved one(s).
-Nikolaus Maack
Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency... Always there has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.
-General Douglas MacArthur
Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there is no substitute for victory, that if you lose, the nation will be destroyed, that the very obsession of your public service must be duty, honor, country.
-General Douglas MacArthur
No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourse of courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hate each other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another's throats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men are compelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it is human nature.
-Thomas B. Macaulay, "Milford's History of Greece"
A motorcycle is a combination of pony, blow dryer, and vibrator - perfect for girls of all ages.
-Colin MacDonald
After riding a motorcycle, riding a car is like riding a living room. Except Claudia's car, which is like riding your crazy grandmother's attic.
-Colin MacDonald
Don't burn your bridges while you're standing on them.
-Colin MacDonald
Gee, hopefully I'll be less drunk this time so I can remember what I did.
-Colin MacDonald
God, I *love* Capitalism. Hot towels, clean sheets, good food, and we'll have those Commie bastards on their knees in no time.
-Colin MacDonald
This is like a cross between 'Thelma & Louise' and 'Raise the Titanic'.
-Colin MacDonald
caution: if you write code like this, immediately after you are fired the person assigned to maintaining your code after you leave will resign
-Philip Machanick, Learn C and C++ in 5 Days
If you're a Mac user who depends on fonts for your work, you probably fall into one of two categories (we hesitate to say types): You don't even pretend to understand the Mac's font architecture and you have a difficult time managing your typefaces, or you're an experienced user with a thorough understanding of the Mac's font architecture and you have a difficult time managing your typefaces.
-MacUser
It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.
-Machiavelli
It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful of success, nor more dangerous to managment than the creation of a new system. For the initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institution and merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.
-Machiavelli
Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter how much money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart of the watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheck ahead of the game.
-Harvey B. Mackay,
The subspace W inherits the other 8 properties of V. And there aren't even any property taxes.
-J. MacKay
RB AND RS: These commands no longer reboot if there are extra parameters on the command line. The motivation here is that Dave recently typed 'rb -s' when he meant to type 'rd -s', and he really, really didn't mean to reboot his system at that particular time.
-from the MacsBug 6.5d12 documentation
There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot the engineers and begin production.
-MacUser, November 1990
Called up the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms regional office and asked, "What wine goes best with an M-16?" The guy who answered did his best to be helpful: "That depends. What are you smoking?"
-Michael Maciolek
And the final step is to say to yourself, 'Are you nervous? Are you ill prepared, still? Well, fuck it. Do it anyway. 'Cause you're the man.'
-William H. Macy
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.
-James Madison
A unix signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent of a black velvet clown painting. It's a rectangle of carets surrounding a quote from a literary giant of weeniedom like Heinlein or Dr. Who.
-Chris Maeda
Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except those that just don't add up.
-James Magary
I notice that on each box, there is the phrase "Baked by authority of Girl Scouts of the USA." I suddenly picture a little girl scout handing someone a big rolled doobie and saying, "Here you go. I have my permission to smoke it."
-Jeff Magnuson
I have a headache this big, and it has a boot to the head written all over it.
-Jeff Magnuson
I thought they stuck with their call letters - WHFS (White Heroin addicts From Seattle)?
-Jeff Magnuson
I've heard so much Green Day that I've got dookie coming out my ears.
-Jeff Magnuson
So far, Owen does not have access to: music, alcohol, caffeine, beef. Who wants chip in and send a care package? Who will voluenteer to wrap the cow?
-Jeff Magnuson
Step one: Pour gin in a glass. Step two: Drink gin. Step three: Repeat 15 times.
-Jeff Magnuson
That was so funny, I just shot milk out my nose. Which is strange, because I am not drinking milk right now.
-Jeff Magnuson
Um...this week's word (according to Vince) was "moderation." We'll try not to do that again. Anyway, thanks again for hosting. Now, where is that Owen?
-Jeff Magnuson
Well, the real question is when is Karen going to get the Mattel tattoo on her butt?
-Jeff Magnuson
Why don't you come over to my place? I've got a bathtub full of MAYONAISE!
-Jeff Magnuson
Jay is the werewolf or the seer. He's the village Solid Gold Dancer.
-Jamshid Mahdavi
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
-Naguib Mahfouz
I've been informed that alt.religion.kibology is a *MODERATED* group, strictly for postings by ai's.
-Steven Majewski
Yellow and blue make green... thanks, next you're going to tell me that red and blue make purple. Wonderful.
-Paolo Malabuyo
'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.
-Malaclypse the Younger
There are plans afoot to connect every teenager in the US to the internet by the year 2000. Most of these, considered as individual units, are barely able either to understand or to write a coherent English paragraph, yet aggregrate them them into one vast world wide parallel computational soup and it's almost impossible to underestimate what they might achieve.
-Chris Malcolm
I'll get the implanted cellphone. With an answering machine for when I'm out of my head.
-David Malcolm
As for two years from now... who knows where it'll be. I think we'll ideally be doing a lot of the same stuff, but maybe with spell checking.
-Rob Malda
Let me just say that it is super wierd throwing your own bash at a conference instead of just leaching off everyone else's, but hey, free beer, right?
-Rob Malda
There are different types of depression. ... This is, if you will, The Psycho Venn Diagram.
-Dr. David Mallot, University of Maryland Medical Center
So I decided to try Galaxies after all, although with some trepidation. I felt better when I came to understand that it did not have to be a novel but merely a set of notes for one. Knowing this I was not shamed nor did I grieve, for one's life is merely a set of notes for a life and Ridgefield Park merely a rough working model of Trenton in which nonetheless several thousand people live unable to divine their right hand from their left, and also some cattle. Shalt thou have not pity on the cattle? For they too grew up and perished in a night.
-Barry N. Malzberg, Galaxies
We're people just like you who happen to be huge and muscle-bound and own a truck.
-Mambo Movers slogan
Hell! HELL!! I'VE WORKED IN THE COMP CENTER FOR TWO F*ING YEARS!!! HELL WOULD SEEM LIKE CLUB MED!!!!
-Dean Mancine
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our darkness that most frightens us.
-Nelson Mandela
We ask ourselves--Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are we not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.
-Nelson Mandela
Because of the subtlety of differences within the same range of styles, it took more time to fathom other people than it does to read their philosophical bottom lines, so to speak, on their pants, buttons, caps or T-shirts. To probe candidates for friendship and other intimacies, one had to talk to them, which is unquestionably less efficient than it is to look around a room, decide, "They're all jerks," and go home and play computer games.
-Miss Manners
Her other recommendation, which also applies equally to conventional weddings, is actually at odds with the unfortunate current practices of society as a whole. That is to plan the occasion remembering that its purpose is not to show off your love for each other, but to establish yourselves as a public and dignified unit in the society in which you move.
-Miss Manners
If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.
-Miss Manners
Miss Manners does not recommend anyone's inviting society as a whole to any social event. Society as a whole doesn't approve of anything.
-Miss Manners
Miss Manners is not quite so naive as to believe that love produces any agreement of views after that first rapturous discovery that both people like movies and the outdoors.
-Miss Manners
There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered: entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a great deal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection. As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately. When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under no circumstances can the food be omitted.
-Miss Manners
You can take a pile of rocks and use them to build a house, or you can take the same pile and start a war. Tell children not to throw rocks, make rules against picking up rocks, and then make mad. Keep projecting what not to do and you make the thought in their brains of what can and will be done.
-Charles Manson
the internet is the trailer park for the soul
-Marilyn Manson
I was 15. She was punk. D.R.I. was playing "Dead in a Ditch" and our friends were waiting for us in a nearby park (we went out to get the cold malt liquor). As we bonded in the backseat of her Honda, I told her I loved her. She said "don't ruin it".
-mantid@morphine.neuron.net
A revolution is not a dinner party.
-Mao Tse Tung
If someone thinks we're not after Lotus and after WordPerfect and after Borland, they're confused.... My job is to get a fair share of the software applications market, and to me that's 100 percent.
-Mike Maples, as quoted by James Gleick
If and when the Feds get special authority (and exemptions from the Bill of Privileges) to go after terrorists, we will be absolutely amazed to find out just how many terrorists there are in this country. Thousands, maybe millions-- at least one under every bed and several behind every bush.
-Ted Marcus
There are only two things of importance. One is the customer, and the other is the product. If you take care of customers, they come back. If you take care of your product, it doesn't come back. It's just that simple. And it's just that difficult.
-Stanley Marcus
Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and then teams up with three complete stangers to kill again.
-Marin Paper TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
-Mark 8:36
On a related note, John is telling me how Winona Ryder was at Tsunami for both RTTS2 and Growling Mad Scientists in November. Winona Ryder!! I'm shocked I didn't notice her. What I wouldn't do to get her dressed like a duck.
-Mark of Indole
I find it very disturbing that you people know how to use my penis better than I do.
-Tatia Markland
When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him _whose_?
-Don Marquis
A true capitalist fights with their wallet. A true anarchist fights with the opponents' wallet
-Jessica Marrell
DOS people actually believe this shit?
-Jessica Marrell
I don't use computers like I don't give myself enemas - they're both occasionally useful, and I know how to do them both, but really, I could just go stub my toe for the fun of it.
-Jessica Marrell
Mac people actually believe this shit?
-Jessica Marrell
There is a differerence between being different and being new, a difference between questioning social customs and just being rude, a difference between being daring and simply breaking rules. Most people do not understand this difference. It makes them easy to tell them apart.
-Jessica Marrell
UNIX people actually believe this shit?
-Jessica Marrell
What a frickin' idiot.
-Jessica Marrell
You need to understand... no... wait... you don't...
-Jessica Marrell
Post mortem debugging can be fun, especially when you get to see the victim die over and over again in slow motion!
-Greg Marriott
Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez
It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue. It is morale that wins the victory.
-General George Catlett Marshall, "Military Review"
On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and that usually gets them interested enough to go for a second date.
-Martin, age 10
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but fooling Usenet doesn't take much time at all.
-Kevin Martin
He's got a neon sign above his head that says 'assmunch'.
-Mecal Martin
The most dangerous moment in any financial market boom is the one where the suppliers of funds stop paying attention.
-Peter Martin
Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible to predict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communication such as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light. Let's suppose that you want to say, "I am a jerk." In the 18th century, you would have to go around person to person and utter the phrase individually to each one of them. However, here in the third millennium, with our advances in telephone communication, it is possible to say, "I am a jerk" to a thousand people at a time by forgetting to turn off your cell phone and having it ring during a performance of "Death of a Salesman."
-Steve Martin
The dogma of the church was challenged in the mid-17th-century by Renee Descartes's famous pronouncement "Cogito ergo sum" ("I am nervous about having to add"), and the age of rationalism began. Rationalism then gave way to empiricism, and David Hume declared that it was impossible to know if anything existed at all, though later he recanted when he stubbed his toe on a doorjamb.
-Steve Martin
Actually, this has been a feature of Unix for years now. A process may have all of its child processes reaped without warning, lose its entire flock, and even find itself afflicted by boils, all at the whims of the scheduler. This is why the operating system refers to a suspended process as a "stopped Job". Unfortunately, most implementations fail to capitalize the name, leading to widespread confusion and mispronounciation among users.
-Dan Martinez
Ahem. UPS are a bunch of cretinous, knuckle-dragging fuckwads who couldn't find their own assholes with both hands, a differential GPS suppository, and a licensed proctologist, hired as a full-time consultant, on 'round-the clock call. To their credit, they are stunningly coordinated, or at least ambidextrous, insofar as their total and absolute incompetence is not the slightest bit affected by the outcome of the decision as to which hand is to hold the bong and which is to choke the chicken. I wouldn't trust in their ability to get water downhill or toothpaste out of a tube, let alone a box across the country. If any of you should, for any reason, at any time, engage in an agreement, business contract, licensing deal, or other arrangement with UPS which will in any way result in a net benefit to them, I will KILL you. If said arrangement actually involved your entrusting items of any actual value to this company of gibbering, hell-spawned idiots, I will be doing you a FAVOR.
-Dan Martinez
Bring Captain Solo and the stock options to me.
-Dan Martinez
But perhaps it's unfair to berate Microsoft for little shortcomings like these. Clearly, they had weightier issues to grapple with. Who's got time to do usability testing when you're struggling to empower your users with the ability to surround text with a border of animated flashing marquee lights, Las Vegas style?
-Dan Martinez
But while we're on the subject of file formats, let's pause for a moment in frank admiration of the way in which Microsoft brazenly built backward-incompatibility into its product. By initially making it virtually impossible to maintain a heterogenous environment of Word 95 and Word 97 systems, Microsoft offered its customers that most eloquent of arguments for upgrading: the delicate sound of a revolver being cocked somewhere just out of sight.
-Dan Martinez
Clearly, I need to start soliciting fashion advice from Martin.
-Dan Martinez
"Congratulations! You've described the PostScript filesystem! What does Aleecia win, Don?" "Alex, Aleecia wins second prize -- dinner with Stephen Jay Gould!"
-Dan Martinez
Crafty weasel-like hedging? From CMU? You don't say.
-Dan Martinez
Dear Spammers, Thank you for your recent note, which I shall treasure as much for its blatantly forged headers as for its inept use of the English language and carefree disregard for hoary, hidebound, established conventions of legible formatting or coherent punctuation.
-Dan Martinez
Do not bait Happy Fun Boy.
-Dan Martinez
Do not meddle in the affairs of Win32, for it is subtle, and quick to anger.
-Dan Martinez
Dude, your company is teetering on the very BRINK of technological RELEVANCE. Now is not the time to make feeble sport of the company whose BOOTED HEEL is at your THROAT.
-Dan Martinez
Excellent! Now I can precisely measure my penguin slippage!
-Dan Martinez
[Fucking lots of fucking other stuff fucking deleted.]
-Dan Martinez
Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Dan, and I'll be your designated ranter for the evening. Flying spittle is one of the risks of attending a live performance, so you may wish to shield yourselves with your dessert menus.
-Dan Martinez
Greetings... from the lovely People's Republic of Fuck Me Sideways. Population: Me. It's the very model of pastoral tranquility here.
-Dan Martinez
Happy Thread, take me away!
-Dan Martinez
have I ever told you how much more authoritative and convincing your arguments sound when you sprinkle them liberally with expletives? No, really. I'm just so completely won over by the forcefulness and lucidity of your rhetoric.
-Dan Martinez
[He] has taken a basically valid observation [...] and extrapolated it somewhere into the Oort cloud.
-Dan Martinez
Hey! Anyone for a round of "Reinstall Service Pack 4"?
-Dan Martinez
Hey, man -- if there's one thing we need more of around here, it's enough rope to hang ourselves with.
-Dan Martinez
Hey, we're using JAVA. We have to show how amazingly INTERACTIVE we are. Let's make our interface elements DANCE and SHIT. Hmmmm. No, still way too practical. Let's add a 3D view, but make it ROTATE ALL THE TIME, without giving the user any way to STOP IT or even SLOW IT DOWN. Yeah, that's it. Beautiful. Information resource? Video game? Kinetic sculpture? Who CARES? We're too busy being HIP, ICONOCLASTIC web designers to worry about crap like that. EVERYONE KNOWS that the web is a TOTALLY NEW medium, COMPLETELY UNLIKE anything that's EVER BEEN SEEN before, so trying to apply ESABLISHED RULES from human-factors research is not just POINTLESS but BOURGEOIS.
-Dan Martinez
However, this line of thought is threatening to transmogrify into the dreaded "What Is Art?" thread, which leads me to suspect that I should probably drop it before Dr. Faisal decides to make a house call and adminster several whole units of blunt force trauma.
-Dan Martinez
I can only hope that one of either Devlin or Emmerich decides to raise his slavish emulation of the pair's obvious role models in the art of making big dumb movies, Simpson and Bruckheimer, still one notch further by dropping dead.
-Dan Martinez
I could have sharp, bony projections sprouting from my body at all angles, reek of sulphur and brimstone, and sport a tongue pocked with the occasional eyeball; I'd still be able to get geek dates as long as I was female.
-Dan Martinez
I don't buy the notion that Tomb Raider was a hit because of Lara Croft's unusually large, um... polygon count.
-Dan Martinez
I don't know whether reading Roo's mind is something to be proud or afraid of. Either way, I'd guess that knowledge of the contents could probably get me arrested in several states.
-Dan Martinez
I feel obligated to point out that it's quite possible to like Martin *without* in any way distancing oneself from the belief that he's a real poindexter. (Yeah, yeah. Glass houses and all that. Pot. Kettle. Your mother.)
-Dan Martinez
I found uninstallation to be the most satisfactory approach. I didn't take the time to familiarize myself with any less radical ones.
-Dan Martinez
I have been placed upon this Earth to torment you. YOU....
-Dan Martinez
I haven't yet decided whether the blame for this arrangement belongs to Netscape or to Apple, as could be inferred from the fact that no one's been seriously injured for it yet.
-Dan Martinez
I hope we will pull into San Franciso with a truck full of guns and hearts full of hate.
-Dan Martinez [originally spoken as "...a trunk full of guns...", but the online misquotation has taken on a life of its own]
I just succeeded in getting my SPARCstation and my PC to use the same Netscape bookmarks file. All it took, aside from mapping an SMB server to a drive letter, was a little surgery on the Windows 95 Registry. I don't know whether to be really pleased, or to succumb to the feeling of impending disaster and of tampering with unholy forces that always attends tinkering with the Registry.
-Dan Martinez
I no longer wish to destroy an inanimate object. I wish to *murder* it.
-Dan Martinez
I think that your faith in the wisdom of Congress is grossly misplaced. Don't forget that this is the same body which said, while proudly passing the PATRIOT and USA acts, "We're going to replace the fine toilet tissue we normally use with the U.S. Constitution. Let's wipe our asses and see if the Supreme Court notices."
-Dan Martinez
I went and invented a new variant of Roshambo we'll call "Rock, Thumbtip, 7,000 RPM CPU Fan".
-Dan Martinez
I won't be a full-fledged Pod Person until I have a PCS phone.
-Dan Martinez
I'd hesitate to accuse anyone of being outright *corrupt*, but I'll admit that I'm probably not going to expect a hard, searching look at all things Microsoft from magazines with names like "Windows Sources" and "Windows Computing" ("NT 5.0: The crashproof Windows you've been waiting for!" Shyeah, right. 'This time for sure.'). When you have the name of a company's product in your *title*, and every other product you review requires that company's product in order to be useful, you probably don't need to do a spectrographic analysis to figure out which side your bread's buttered on. All of the above notwithstanding, Ziff-Davis as a corporate entity is so far down Bill's pants that they need to run a pressurized air hose down there just to breathe.
-Dan Martinez
I'd mention Emacs's folded-editing modes, but you'd only get annoyed with me.
-Dan Martinez
I'll be bitterly disappointed if Martin doesn't come up with a way to quote this back at me, in whole or in part, at the most embarassing moment possible.
-Dan Martinez
I'm not sure what kind of career path one can look forward to as a nomadic city-vaporizing lunatic, but it's got to be worth a try.
-Dan Martinez
If you shoot me with .25 ACP, and I find out about it, I'll kick your ass.
-Dan Martinez
If you're testing a script incorporating "rm -rf" by actually running it, your balls are so much bigger than mine that the difference is most tersely expressed in AU.
-Dan Martinez
If your response to Chris really is going to contain a moral argument, I can't *wait* to see it. ("And the LORD spake unto them, saying, 'Partake not of the fruits of the Xing player, for its keys are not encrypted in accordance with the licensing agreement; it is an abomination.'")
-Dan Martinez
If your spirit has become karmically burdened with the belief that obvious wire work somehow detracts from rather than contributes to the enjoyment of a Hong Kong film, you are not merely unready to leave the temple, but in imminent danger of being forcibly confined to your cell.
-Dan Martinez
Ignore me. I'm raving. If you put me under glass and pumped out all the air right now, I'd burn for a thousand years. I am full of hate, and it's got nothing to do with you. Nothing to see here. Move along.
-Dan Martinez
Is stuff being delivered out of order again, or did we just witness the latest installment of Aleecia Needs A Real Mail Client Theater?
-Dan Martinez
Is there a W3O-approved systax for Stellman-side includes yet?
-Dan Martinez
Is there some kind of stoic ethos in effect that says you have to shell out the full $8.75 even when you know in your bones that the production of this movie is going to plunge the rest of the world into an ass shortage from which it will not recover for nine months?
-Dan Martinez
It could be argued that I know slightly less about what it means to be in a healthy long-term relationship than your average monkey does about what it feels like to drown in quicksand.
-Dan Martinez
It was like watching a first-year film student's halfhearted attempt at a satire of superspy movies, except that he had an unlimited budget courtesy of his insane rich uncle, and editing courtesy of the strung- out smack-addict roommate he felt vaguely sorry for. I think we were also hoping against hope for something to happen that would make it all worthwhile, or at least make sense. Maybe Uma Thurman and Ralph Fiennes would shed their human skins, or Jeremiah S. Chechik -- the director, whom you've never heard of, and for damn good reason -- would pop up from behind one of the props and say, "Hah! Got your money, suckers!"
-Dan Martinez
...it was more a process of incrementation than revelation. I started by not fretting over minor missteps, and built my way gradually upward from there, to the point where I can now fuck up in ways that plunge the ecologies of entire third-world nations into dry and dusty ruin, send whole planeloads of widows and orphans screaming to fiery deaths, deliver dozens of pounds of weapons-grade plutonium to fanatics convinced they're on a direct line to God, and still keep a beatific smile upon my face.
-Dan Martinez
It's a day for reflecting upon the fact that you don't have kittens, yarn baskets, or a fireplace, and realizing that one of the the three would be useless to you anyway. It's a day for holing up in your apartment with the collected works of Jean-Paul Sartre. It's a day for thinking that the Emperor didn't know jack shit about spite or malice. It's a day of wishing for a sackful of hand grenades.
-Dan Martinez
It's claimed that NT 5.0 will fix this, but then, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if the marketing literature stated that it'll cure prostate cancer.
-Dan Martinez
It's incidents like these which serve to reinforce my conviction that if Khruschev and Kennedy had had e-mail during the Cuban Missile Crisis, we wouldn't be sitting here speculating about it.
-Dan Martinez
Jesus Christ, will you east coasters GET TO BED?!?
-Dan Martinez
Join Computing Services! Good pay! Flexible hours! No adult supervision!
-Dan Martinez
Just now I remembered why we should cut the poor guy some slack: he's in the process of migrating from an Indy to an O2. And he's going to have to find some way to get his work done with only 128 MB of RAM to operate in. The rat bastard.
-Dan Martinez
Look, cupcake, you're aggravating my PostScript-traumatic stress disorder.
-Dan Martinez
...manufacturers provide Installable Client Drivers (ICDs) implementing a limited subset of OpenGL, sometimes referred to as "mini-GL". The term for such a driver is thus "mini-GL ICD", pronounced "enough GL functionality to play GLQuake with."
-Dan Martinez
Maybe this weekend. (And maybe your place of business will be buzzed by the Air Force's 51st Tactical Pork Wing. I say again: kill me.)
-Dan Martinez
Messing with the user's expectations of the CD user interface isn't a good way of demonstrating your hip, iconoclastic sensibilities. It isn't a good way of demonstrating *anything*, really, except maybe what a complete bunch of self-indulgent screw-offs you are.
-Dan Martinez on 'hidden' tracks
Methinks Sam's getting uppity. Looks like it's once again time for me to stand between his Newton and the best light source in the room.
-Dan Martinez
Most children have, by the age of three, mastered the simple concept that Scott Hess summed up thus: DON'T PUT CRAP IN YOUR MOUTH. Apparently, where the net is concerned, otherwise functional adults still labor under the delusion that the planet is MADE OF CANDY.
-Dan Martinez
Must... restrain... condescending Unix user fist of death!
-Dan Martinez
Netscape Communicator is the John Holmes of my desktop. It pretty much fucks everything that crosses its path, and by and large it's extraordinarily well hung.
-Dan Martinez
Nicely put. However, as any anally retentive person will happily tell you, "anal-retentive" takes a hyphen.
-Dan Martinez
No, I'm not using a slippery-slope argument to point out the drawbacks of a slippery-slope argument. You will bring Captain Solo and the Wookiee to me.
-Dan Martinez
PDF has its own quirks, but at least it doesn't require that tools for analyzing and/or manipulating it solve the Halting Problem.
-Dan Martinez comparing PDF and PS
Perl is the crystal meth of programming: it's so incredibly useful when you need to do a large amount of work in a small amount of time that you tend to overlook the fact that it's basically precipitating the implosion of your vital organs.
-Dan Martinez
Personally, I'd prefer first prize -- dinner without Stephen Jay Gould.
-Dan Martinez
Pot. Kettle. Event horizon.
-Dan Martinez
Speaking of flaming assholes: there have been a number of times, most of them experienced while I watched or listened to the news, when I heard about one factional squabble or another, and thought, "These people don't really disagree. They've just been caught up in their own rhetoric. If a neutral party were to step in and explain each side's point of view to the other, they'd see that they have more similarities than differences." I've sometimes fancied myself as that third party: objective, reasonable, tolerant, able to portray each group's goals in terms which the other would understand and find acceptable. ... So it's something of an eye-opener to enter into a discussion of semiotics in personal mail exchanged with Richard Stallman, and realize that, no, the problem is in fact not one of terminology at all: the man's potato has simply been baking too long.
-Dan Martinez
So, if you discovered a new feature in Gnus *while* rolling on the juice through a well-cambered turn on your bike, would your pleasure center simply short itself out?
-Dan Martinez
Suddenly, I'm unable to shake visions of Stormtroopers in bell-bottomed combat armor, Imperial Officers wearing big, ugly gold medallions, Grand Moff Tarkin ordering the obliteration of planets from his hot tub, and the Death Star as a moon-sized disco globe from my mind. And it's not even 9:00. Gad.
-Dan Martinez
That tinkling sound in the background -- that's the sound of my whole little world shattering
-Dan Martinez
That's all there is to it! Wasn't that fun? We sure hope so, because you're going to have to do it EVERY SINGLE TIME you want to modify a style! Oh, we know. You can hardly wait. We can see you trembling with excitement now. Did the vein in your temple always throb like that?
-Dan Martinez
That'd be cool. Unfortunately, being a hapless loser, I chose to pursue computer science at CMU, instead of doing the manly thing and learning to drive the big rigs at the Pittsburgh Diesel Institute.
-Dan Martinez
That's *int* main() to you, citizen
-Dan Martinez
That aged looking kid in the back of the class was actually Rupert Murdoch. There is no conspiracy.
-Dan Martinez
The idea that we're governed by some larger intelligence when we crowd together in sufficient numbers would certainly explain a lot, though. Nazism. Woodstock. The Macarena.
-Dan Martinez
The impossible has come to pass. I find myself envying friends of mine who live in Pittsburgh. I need to drink and/or see "Chasing Amy" again. Wings and Guinness would come close enough.
-Dan Martinez
"The Red Book will you read, hmmm? You data on the stack, followed by your operators will you put, hmmm?" "I'm not afraid." "You will be. *You will be.*"
-Dan Martinez
The repeated juxtaposition of "salary" and "penis length" has evoked in me an irrational but persistent anticipation that someone is going to make a post announcing how many inches they make in a year.
-Dan Martinez
The sibilant sucession surmising "sixty-six satellites" sounded somewhat silly.
-Dan Martinez
The world's various religions are just beginning their research into Clerical Acceleration, and it will be a number of years before they can even begin to consider reaching near-luminal velocities. This is a shame, since it means that a number of tantalizing theories must remain little more than speculation at this point, and a number of fundamental questions go unanswered. For instance, if a Catholic priet's speed were to come close to that of light, and it were Sunday in his frame of reference, would he in fact approach infinite Mass?
-Dan Martinez explains relativistic morality
There is a Purify for NT. I've used it, and it's pretty slick. However, I don't see how even Purify is going to help Laurel with a compile error.
-Dan Martinez
To Scott, for a thoughtful, if brief, musing on the apparently impending convergence of the web and the desktop, points++. And, for attempting to use "inherent" as a verb, a boot to the head.
-Dan Martinez
Uh, now that you mention it, how are X packets getting into and out of your home system through the firewall? (Hint: the correct answer is, "They're being port-forwarded via SSH." If this is not *your* answer, please administer yourself one dope slap, so as to spare me the time and expense of cross-country travel. Then rearrange things so that it *is* your answer. [...])
-Dan Martinez
You are talking about the Count Dracula of the computing world. The tree large enough that a stake capable of killing COBOL could be fashioned from its trunk has not yet grown anywhere upon the face of this verdant planet.
-Dan Martinez
You're Grand Moff Berkun -- Grand Moff Tarkin's younger and much shrewder cousin, who was quietly building a power base in an outlying sector while his brutish relative was getting himself and Emperor Palpatine's expensive hardware blown to atoms at Yavin Four.
-Dan Martinez
You're right, of course. Let's get back to the order of the day: petty bickering!
-Dan Martinez
You're thinking of Captain Pedantic's faithful sidekick, Kid Sphincter. Not to be confused with Buttboy, who appeared alongside Pedantic and Sphincter in the eight-issue limited series, "Dualitrauma", but was never made into a regular character.
-Dan Martinez
Well, on the one hand I feel as though I might be perilously close to encouraging the birth of some kind of cult of personality or something. On the other hand, I'm a shameless ego-whore, so... sure.
-Dan Martinez
Well, yeah. That's just iCandy.
-Dan Martinez
What? You think it's disorienting to see a test, a block of code, another block of code, and then finally an "ifelse"? What's wrong with you?
-Dan Martinez
What's that application, you ask? What obscure, rogue, poorly-written, backwater hack could fail to interact properly to an interface setting built into the operating system itself? Why, it's Visual C++.
-Dan Martinez
While I agree that FAT is the twisted spawn of Satan, "more and more stuff is likely to work with NT as time progresses", and fifty cents, will buy you a (shitty) cup of coffee.
-Dan Martinez
While trying to answer this question, I got a blue screen and had to reboot my system. I think there's a lesson there for all of us.
-Dan Martinez
Windows CE, while storing dates as 64-bit quantities, uses a minimum tick size of 100 nanoseconds, and starts counting from some point in the 1600s -- I'm guess that to be the inception of the Gregorian calendar. CE dates are therefore "only" good for approximately fifty thousand years. I'm going to go on record as saying that if there are any CE devices still in existence at that point, they will all be under glass, in museums, and the bulk of their internals will long since have rotted into uselessness as a consequence of metal migration. (And if I'm wrong, you may wander over to my severed head, floating in its amniotic tank at the Hall of Oddities, and say "Neener, neener, neener".)
-Dan Martinez
With Word 97, Microsoft has at last succeeded in reproducing in the Windows arena the elusive success of Word 6.0 for the Mac: an upgrade so vile, so utterly beyond accomodation, that users will go digging through their attics in search of the media needed to install the previous version.
-Dan Martinez
Woo-hoo. Full-bore memetic warfare on the horizon. Y2K less than a year and a half away. The End Times *are* upon us. What the hell's keeping those Xists?
-Dan Martinez
[X] YES! Please rush me my first issue of "unhinged: the journal of postcollegiate angst". I understand that if for any reason I am not completely satisfied, I may write "CANCEL" on my invoice, return it, and owe nothing. Even if I choose not to continue my subscription, the free copy of "White Phosphor: Faisal Jawdat's Best Rants", the Jody Prival signature chocolate sampler, and the Rob Earhart Limited Edition XPilot Cockpit fuzzy dice are mine to keep.
-Dan Martinez
I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.
-Groucho Marx
These are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.
-Groucho Marx
Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana.
-Groucho Marx
Capital is dead labor that, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks.
-Karl Marx, Das Capital
You're free to be as much of an asshole as you wish -- as long as I'm not paying for it.
-Todd Masco
France has culture but no civilization. England has civilization but no culture. The United States has neither. Canada has both.
-Robin Mathews
The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for making love to one.
-Leonard Matlovich
...what's the point of making non-addictive drugs illegal? If anything which alters the mental state of the individual is to be illegal in case he's unable to function in society, can we have a ban on religion please?
-mathew@mantis.co.uk
If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, it is the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble.
-Paul Maud'Dib, Dune
My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking if you understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.
-Paul Maud'Dib, Dune
What do you despise? By this you are truly known.
-Paul Maud'Dib, Dune
Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
-W. Somerset Maugham
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
-W. Somerset Maugham
If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too.
-W. Somerset Maugham
In this world of sin and sorrow if virtue triumphs over vice it is not because it is virtuous, but because it has bigger and better guns; if honesty prevails over double-dealing, it is not because it is honest, but because it has a stronger army more nobly led; and if good overcomes evil it is not because it is good, but because it has a well-lined purse. It is well to have right on your side, but it is madness to forget that unless we have might we might as well it will avail us nothing. We must believe that God loves men of good will but there is no evidence to show that He will save fools from the results of their folly.
-W. Somerset Maugham, Then and Now
It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.
-W. Somerset Maugham
The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.
-W. Somerset Maugham
There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.
-W. Somerset Maugham
I've decided that the dinosaurs weren't killed by a giant asteroid. My new theory is that the facilities staff just decided they were too difficult to maintain.
-Michael Mauldin
Let's hit The Penguin. It's like, what, 1:20? It's almost cocktail hour....
-Max, Kicking & Screaming
What I used to able to pass off as another bad summer could now potentially turn into a bad life.
-Max, Kicking & Screaming
Before we go on, a word to the wise. What we're suggesting here is that you install parts of a development-level, unsupported operating system and install them onto a similar-but-not-identical, still-in-beta operating system. This is frighteningly close to the thin line that separates geekery and madness. If you run into trouble, we'd be interested to know just how long it would take Apple to quit laughing at you before they told you they couldn't help.
-maximumlinux.com
Being condescending and rude is appropriate when an argument is so pointless and stupid that one needs that "extra special edge" to win.
-Justin Maxwell
History! Tradition! Culture! These are not concepts! These are trophies I keep in my den as PAPERWEIGHTS!
-Marvin Mayflower, "Hudson Hawk"
'Ben-Gay' now comes is an Extra Strength variety. "Always check first."
-Paul "Goob" Mazaitis
Cats are essentially narcissistic masochists.
-Paul Mazaitis
Childish as it may be, line three gives us more clues to the rhyme scheme of our fledging work. This turn of events safely rules out a Sicilian Sonnet (abababab cdecde/cdcdce), the sonetto rispetto (ababccdd efgefg/efefef), and the English Sonnet (ababcdcdefefgg). The Spencerian Sonnet (abab bcbc cdcd ee) is also ruled out, because they suck to write.
-Paul Mazaitis
destroy destroy. stand up. walk around
-Paul Mazaitis
Fuzzy Wuzzy was a bear. Fuzzy Wuzzy had no hair. Fuzzy Wuzzy was a PUNK ASS degenerate HACK, GOOSESTEPPING around in his NEON GREEN LACED DOC MARTINS, screaming WAGNERIAN OPERA with SLIM JIMS cramed in his NOSE.
-Paul Mazaitis
I KNOW you, sir. I have SEEN you TRAIPSE on the FIELDS of the APACAPSE. I have WATCHED you BEACH your BOAT on the BRANDED SANDS of the ISLE MOTAG. I have FELT the ANGELS BLEEDING, their SOILED SWEAT landing with a TRICKLE upon your UNFETTERED BROW. I have TASTED the BLACK GUM you have left on our SWEET STREETS in your MAD CHASE for the next SPEED BUMP. With my LEFT HAND I have USHERED IN this AGE, and with my RIGHT, this BURRITO. I. KNOW. YOU.
-Paul Mazaitis
I'd also like to say that I'm sick of hearing about guns. Guns guns guns. Will you people get some sex or something?
-Paul Mazaitis
If I end up buying these albums because of this, I'm gonna slap you so hard you'll think I ended this sentence with something clever.
-Paul Mazaitis
New For Spring on NBC's Wednesday 'Must See TV' lineup: _Idealist at Heart_, the wacky adventures of cynical Gen X'ers struggling to find some semblance of intelligent management in corporate America.
-Paul Mazaitis
Oh. Okay. I'll just use pine. No, wait; I *am* using pine! Lesse...what else does pitt support? Uh. Pine. And, uh, messages. Plus messages dumps core! ... Guess I'll just use that new mail reader, 'Fuck'.
-Paul Mazaitis
Only God, or possibly Jeff Hutzleman, knows that.
-Paul Mazaitis
People are stupid. ALL THE TIME.
-Paul Mazaitis
rich memery butter!
-Paul Mazaitis
The distance between Heaven and Hell is measured not in miles but in moments.
-Paul Mazaitis
Things Not To Do in Formula One Racing. IF you are racing at Spa-Francorchamps, try not to do it in the RAIN. IF you must, use RAIN TIRES. Not INTERMEDIATES. They don't work so well in the RAIN. UNLESS you're British; then use TYRES.
-Paul Mazaitis
This is, of course, too beautiful for me to put into context.
-Paul Mazaitis
We looked at the programs and the parties, and they're all the same, only with different famous people, and they're all the same as well. You aren't going to look back on this in twenty years and think 'Sonny and Cher'. There's no ideal place to be for Y2K. Well, except maybe Natalie Portman's lap.
-Paul Mazaitis
"When the Levee Breaks" is not a 'great song for fucking'. That song is great in a FAST CAR, a fast RED car, a fast red car with PERELLI tires, at about ONE HUNDRED MILES PER HOUR, as delivered by a KENWOOD 100 WATT SIX SPEAKER STEREO, via a CD PLAYER, with all the WINDOWS and THE SUNROOF completely DOWN and/or OPEN, at NIGHT, with the LIGHTS OFF, in the RAIN, and with a complete FREAK driving said car, so I can put on SUNGLASSES and CLEARLY see the GODS of REALITY QUALITY ASSURANCE loudly STOMP upon this BLACK EARTH and use their HAMMERS OF BEATEN PAIN to take long arc SIDESWIPES at THE FOOLS WHO THINK I NEED TO KNOW WHAT THEY THINK ABOUT THEIR PASSIONLESS ANIMAL LIVES.
-Paul Mazaitis
WHOOPS! FORGOT to MENTION my PANTS!
-Paul Mazaitis
You probably would have done the computing community a favor if you had just hosed his ass down with "Carpet Fresh".
-Paul Mazaitis
You can fool some of the people some of the time, the rest are fooling themselves.
-Thomas McBride
You need an exit strategy to be able to walk away a winner, and today, mine was realized.... Effective today at midnight, I have resigned from America Online Inc. in order to spend money, race motorcycles, and drink scotch. I am, at age 27.85, retired. It's the American Dream, but with less full frontal nudity and more political undertones. God Bless Steve Case!
-Hal McCabe, in his goodbye e-mail
Yoda wouldn't hear of it. He was insistent that he work with Frank Oz again if we wanted him back. He told us, "Frank Oz! Or I will help you not!"
-Rick Mccallum
That which does not freak us out, makes us stronger.
-Woody McCandlish
May I be Frank?
-Tom McCarthy
The measure on a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
-Thomas McCauley
The decisions that really matter are made outside the democratic process.
-Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin
The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste you time waving your hands and hopping when a rock or a club will do.
-McCloctnick the Lucid
There's nothing like a five year old getting hit by napalm to make your morning if you don't have coffee.
-Dave McClory
But, I thought that was why I liked UNIX? The incompatibilities, the arcane syntax. I hope some day to contribute some really bad software to it.
-Scott McClung
All this proves is that anyone setting themselves up as a kind of digital moral compass quickly finds themselves plunged into a kind of virtual Bermuda Triangle, where vertigo reigns and you hope to hell you pop out the other side still on course. Technology is never a substitute for conscience.
-Declan McCullagh
Lots of Mozilla architecture begins with a premise that is hard to put in context. As if every problem sounds like: if you take every faculty member from every college in the U.S. and lay them end to end, how many engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?
-David McCusker
ah, the infamous "Booth Babes". Avoid them for they are specially trained to extract corporate secrets.
-Chad McDaniel
i am the 'travel bingo' of the information superhighway
-Chad McDaniel
I herd cyberpunks on the electronic frontier.
-Chad McDaniel
Is it bad when you start to think of work as "that place with the really fast internet connection"?
-Chad McDaniel
You're high or something; try actually using that class you just made.... See, told you.
-Chad McDaniel explains C++
There is no interest in the common good.
-Ian McDiarmid as Senator Palpatine, "Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace"
Also. I want to see this shit become real during my lifetime. Fuck what's economically wise, I'm all about what's going to accelerate the pace. Never mind fancy propulsion systems, we all know what rockets really burn: money. The more you burn, the faster they go.
-Aleecia McDonald
goal: to go to Great America more often than i reinstall NT's service pack 3. so far i'm losing 0 to 11.
-Aleecia McDonald
how serious is Sun about buying the Newton? i have this bleak vision of Sun getting Newton, Ellison killing the mac, and Be folks unsure if it's better to laugh or cry.
-Aleecia McDonald
I don't need to get laid, i need to get fiber laid...
-Aleecia McDonald
i liked it when i was the dumbest person in the room, not the dumbest person in my chair
-Aleecia McDonald
i'm going to write a children's book, all about you, and call it _The Good Weasel_. it'll be an inspiration to youth everywhere.
-Aleecia McDonald
(*) i'm not a hypocrite; i'm experienced.
-Aleecia McDonald
I'm so glad I invented logic.
-Aleecia McDonald
I'm starting to *like* Outlook. ... Clearly, I'm not writing enough code any more. That, and I need a shower, just for thinking such unclean thoughts. My Pilot has stopped sync'ing. I don't blame it. I'd quit in protest, too.
-Aleecia McDonald
if i don't go postal it will only be because i ran out of time.
-Aleecia McDonald
If people have that much free time, they should give it to me.
-Aleecia McDonald
It's always fun to make 3k post-tax while sitting on your ass. That's the best part of the stock market: having a profitable butt.
-Aleecia McDonald
mmmMmm, cat herding
-Aleecia McDonald
My evil twin wants to [...] and see how many people I could confuse the hell out of. mmmMmmm, evil twin.
-Aleecia McDonald
Never mind the dark and the light side of the duct tape: be the sticky part and grab what you can.
-Aleecia McDonald
Next week on unhinged: geeks, their anxieties, and the pre-processors that love them!
-Aleecia McDonald
One of my best friends in the whole wide world. And if that isn't a negative endorsement, I don't know what is.
-Aleecia McDonald
Please Do NOT Feed The Paranoias. Thank You. -- The Management
-Aleecia McDonald
Tech Writing rule #1: when documentation approaches conjugation, flee.
-Aleecia McDonald
That's John *Gardiner* Myers to you, citizen!
-Aleecia McDonald
The designers were too busy coming up with ren+stimpy error messages to design a decent interface.
-Aleecia McDonald
Under no circumstances should anyone leave Italy without seeing Florence. Rome is like your favorite, most comfortable, 10-year-old sweater. It fits just right. Florence is like your first love, the one you never got over, the one who broke your heart so hard you didn't know then that you would live.
-Aleecia McDonald
Yah, 'cause god knows, New York didn't know any excess before the dotcoms. What a unique and historically unprecedented state of affairs.
-Aleecia McDonald
You lost your savings throw vs. cause light guilt. On a 1d20, you rolled a Bite Me.
-Aleecia McDonald
I wish everyone would just wake up and buy a Macintosh.
-Alan McElrath
Unix is not an 'a-ha' experience, it is more of a 'holy-shit' experience.
-Colin McFadyen
Someone who may or may not still be a friend of mine... once wondered whether anyone ever felt like their lives were bad FOX-TV soap operas. I'm inclined to agree with him. However, I should point out that this means nothing, anyway. Everybody feels this way at one time or another. However, I can only _wish_ I got the babes like Dylan McKay.
-Brendan P. McFeely
I use so much beta software (including Netscape 1.1b3 and the Microsoft Word 6.0 for Mac release version), that I tend to forget that others don't "upgrade/test" as quickly.
-J.E. McGimpsey
Winners always want the ball when the game is on the line.
-McGinty, "The Replacements"
Small towns in Germany are usually about ten kilotons apart.
-Jake McGuire
Audiophiles know squat about auditory perception and Shannon's sampling theorem, so we get these misconceptions about CDs and tubes repeated again and again, and these misconceptions influence what people believe they hear when they play their systems (especially audiophiles, who are both near-deaf and extremely gullible).
-William McIlhagga
Considering that over half the traffic on this list is in response to postings or forwards from others, I do believe that you may have a better crack conncection than the rest of us, and suggest you kick down with your contact before the IS Death Squad opens a Touble Ticket on yer ass.
-Dana McIntosh
While my duties as a serf are not onerous, involving mostly turnip-gathering, wood-hewing, pig-minding and the maintenance of a large object-oriented DBMS written in C++, and I have no real reason to complain of my lot in life, you will understand if I am not immediately in a position to take advantage of the possibilities offered by your no doubt excellent handbook.
-Angus McIntyre
Anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron, because I said so.
-Matt McIrvin
I think you CAN make progress spiritually with psychedelics, but not necessarily.....Aldous Huxley said of psychedelics that they are neither necessary nor sufficient for the attaining of salvation. He called them 'gratuitous graces', meaning you're sure glad you have them, but they're neither necessary nor sufficient.
-Terence McKenna
It's very hard to be a psychedelic person and not participate in one of the central tenets of both Buddhism and Hinduism, which is the primacy of mind -- Mind Only, the dogma that all manifestation is somehow a product of the ratiocination of mind -- that's a pretty Buddhist point of view.
-Terence McKenna
What is waiting to be born is a psychedelic ethic, a moral vision that could be a counterweight to the Fundamentalist vision and the Existentialist vision, both of which are observed to be inadequate. Ethics on the basis of symbiosis with the natural environment.
-Terence McKenna
When you cease to believe that you're Nobody and you begin to believe that you might be Somebody, this is considered proof of severe mental disturbance, and you become a candidate for sedation at this point, because usually the discovery that you're Somebody excites you into inappropriate states of arousal, which means you interfere with other people's being asleep, and you run around trying to inform them of the true nature of things.....The only conjuration against that developing into a problem is Humour. You have to have a completely jaundiced view of reality; you can't take anything seriously, including your own most serious constructs and expectations, because it is ultimately some kind of joke.
-Terence McKenna
Eknath Easwaran, the California meditation teacher whose book "Gandhi the Man" is the simplest, and therefore loveliest, of the many Gandhi biographies, describes seeing Gandhi meditate during the evening prayer service in the last years of his life. The text that evening was from the second chapter of the Gita. As the sonorous verses were read, you could see him completely absorbed, his mind growing calm and still. His concentration was so complete that it was no longer the second chapter you were listening to, it was the second chapter you were seeing, witnessing for yourself the transformation it describes: "They are forever free who have broken, Out of the ego-cage I and mine, To be united with the Lord of Love. This is the supreme state. Attain thou this And pass from death to immortality." On the other hand, you could have 1.6 Gb, a 10xCD-ROM, 128 MB RAM and a smug dose of superiority.
-Bill McKibben, Salon
The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and the laws of physics are not likely to yield.
-Bill McKibben
Before I started working here I drank, smoked, and used foul language for no reason at all. But thanks to this job, I now have a reason.
-Fitz McKinzie
Get next to a clue and hope the wind blows, dude.
-Fitz McKinzie
Physical Plant: The plants are no longer touching; They're spending their time playing mind games.
-Fitz McKinzie
Remember, the strong get funded...the weak get jobs. As it should be.
-Bob McKisson
VC's are among the most incestuous creatures on the planet. If your presentation clicks in the hearts and minds of the folks at Novak-Biddle, Draper or Sutter Hill, to think that FBR, NEA or ATV won't be studying your Plan within 48 hours, is like believing that the woman you were out with Saturday night won't be on the phone to her girlfriend Sunday giggling over the steamy details.
-Bob McKisson
When Keebler releases an XML spec, they might describe it as "baked by tiny recursive elves" or something.
-David McCusker
Nietzsche must have had a bad childhood.
-Rob McLay
fuck ice frisbee, it's all about BUTTSLEDDING
-Colleen McManus
hey, he knows the terms. I'm like a porn site. there are benefits and a tour for non-members but for the goodness, j00 gots ta join.
-Colleen McManus
If engineering is simply a pastime for your overinflated folk ego while you wait around to become Jewel, go sing in a hippy coffee shop on the corner instead and step the (fuck) off my console
-Colleen McManus
I'm so gothic I have BATS IN MY HOUSE. Have you ever had a BAT swoop at your HEAD? You forget about booty REAL QUICK.
-Colleen McManus
HEY! WE SHOULD HANG OUT! WHO'S THE HOTTIE? Did she get attacked by the estee lauder counter?
-Colleen McManus
she's pun-krock
-Colleen McManus
still, if you cut through all the bullshit, usually there's something that spawned it, other than an anus
-Colleen McManus
You've seen the sheep, now ph33r the pumpkins.
-Colleen McManus
NT 5.0 is the last nail in the Unix coffin. Interestingly, Unix isn't in the coffin... It's wondering what the heck is sealing itself into a wooden box 6 feet underground.
-Jason McMullan
She is lying. It's obvious. ...the middle class lies well only about sex.
-McCone, The Running Man
The big debate [was] over Richard Stallman's emphasis on the "free" in "free software." The way it was characterized politically, you had copyright, which is what the big companies use to lock everything up; you had copyleft, which is free software's way of making sure they can't lock it up; and then Berkeley had what we called copycenter, which is take it down to the copy center and make as many copies as you want.
-Kirk McKusick
There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.
-Marshall McLuhan
Yes, but if ISP A peers with ISP B in the woods, does anybody snoop the packets?
-Shawn McMahon
AT&T has Bell Labs, and we have Bill Joy. We get a lot more for our money.
-Scott McNealy
Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system. I guess I would be nervous if my system was built on their technology too.
-Scott McNealy
Microsoft says we're 100 percent committed to Java, but we're not pure. I don't think my wife would buy it if I said, 'Honey, I'm 100 percent committed, but I'm not pure.'
-Scott McNealy
Okay, wait. We majored in golf in business school. Could somebody tell me what this thing does?
-Scott McNealy
You people just don't get it, do you? All Linux applications run on Solaris, which is our implementation of Linux. Now ask the question again.
-Scott McNealy
Bringing the original Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne to New Jersey is like ... what, bringing the Olympics to Athens? There's an Ozzy Osbourne service area on our Garden State Parkway. Our state bird is the Headless Bat. The State Legislature failed to elect a chairman one year in the early '80s, issuing instead a proclamation that "Ozzy rules forever."
-Gavin McNett, Salon
Probably the four biggest reasons for a slowdown in network innovation are BellSouth, SBC, Qwest and Verizon.
-John McQuillan
Solaris has over 3,000 kernel locks. Whenever an OS gets that multi-threaded, you've made a pact with the devil.
-Larry McVoy
You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted,then used against you.
-MDTiger11@aol.com
'me' is a token, it returns whoever calls 'me'. in general though, whenever people call 'me' they get my answering machine, because i'm never home
-me
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.
-Margaret Mead
One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.
-Margaret Mead
Many Bothans died to bring us this information.
-Ryan Meader, Mac OS Rumors
Just to let you know, I have a Winston Churchill quote *and* a Vince Lombardi quote.
-Mary Meeker
The network is the business.
-Mary Meeker
IRC is an ideal medium for asking questions extremely slowly, and not reading the answers carefully.
-Michael Meeks
You don't have many suspects who are innocent of a crime. That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.
-Edwin Meese III
Don't be humble. You're not that great.
-Golda Meir
I want this group. What do you think? Anyone who disagrees with me is a communist.
-mel@rottweiler.ee.nd.edu
Does anyone else ever get the distinct impression that some day a group of people in suits are going to walk into your office or your home and say, 'We've got you now! You had everyone *thinking* you were a grown up, but you're not. Now get your things. Your mother's got supper on the table and you have to be in bed by 7:30.' Or is it just me?
-Cynthia Melcher
Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must be protected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its first concern must thus be to penalize the free play of ideas.
-H.L. Mencken
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
-H. L. Mencken
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
-H. L. Mencken
For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong.
-H. L. Mencken
In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and this assumption was correct, as it always is.
-H.L. Mencken
In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.
-H.L. Mencken
Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.
-H. L. Mencken
Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agency engaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which all self-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.
-H.L. Mencken
The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a bore. It is not so much a war as an endless standing in line.
-H.L. Mencken
The best teacher, until one comes to adult pupils, is not the one who knows most, but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and the wonderful which slips into the infantile comprehension...The best teacher of children, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.
-H.L. Mencken
Five months of torturous pain is a long time, Diablo. Five months of nothing but pondering revenge against you and your friend Twix. That, and reading 'Newsweek.' And sampling different varieties of Ben 'N' Jerry's wonderful ice cream flavors. And of course the occassional game of Yahtzee, but as we all know, my sentient pea-plant henchmen aren't very good game players, so there was little challenge there. They often ate the dice. But mostly, I pondered revenge. Revenge and monkeys. Monkeys are funny.
-Mendel, "Goats"
Do you think it's a coincidence that insurance companies ask people if they do the sorts of stuff we do?
-Mike Mengason
If you want to dine with the devil, you'd better bring a long spoon.
-Mercy, Cyborg 2
You just kissed the wrong ass goodbye.
-Mercy, Cyborg 2
Now, suddenly, dynamic HTML makes the Web as interactive as my old Apple IIc.
-Peter Merholz
Finding bad websites is a little like stalking and hunting a herd of dairy cows with an uzi.
-merilus.com
Only flirt with those you intend to refuse: then you acquire a reputatation for invincibility, whilst slipping away with the lover of your choice. A poor choice is less dangerous than an obvious choice. Never write letters. Get them to write letters. Always be sure they think they're the only one. Win or die.
-Marquise De Merteuil, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew then that the role I was condemned to, namely to keep quiet and do what I was told, gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest to me, but to whatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learn how to look cheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophers to find out what to think, and novelists to see what I could get away with, and in the end it all came down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.
-Marquise De Merteuil, Dangerous Liasons
it is only the strong who are capable of ripping off their own limbs.
-Matt Messner
excuse me, i'll just be over here reading the student employment book of mormon.
-Tosh Meston
This was not a trivial matter like taking a pen or a pencil. The helmet in question was Darth Vader's helmet.
-Hon. John Metcalf
It's called DisInformation for God's sake! The clue phone is ringing, pick it the fuck up!
-Richard Metzger
Alcohol can clean a bathroom, it ought to be able to clean your arteries.
-Ted Metzler
I am the ultimate artiste and everything I do, from my painting and drawing to blowing my nose and emptying my bladder qualifies as art. I have many jars of my "art" if you want to buy some.
-Ted Metzler
if asdf ever becomes a word, I'll be able to type it real fast
-Ted Metzler
Sure, I have a lust for life, but I'm not really ready to make a commitment.
-Ted Metzler
That's Yngwie *J.* Malmsteeen to you. The "J" is, of course, to distinguish him from the multitudes of other Yngwie Malmsteens operating in the Heavy Metal genre.
-Ted Metzler
There's 'bound' if you care to see debauchery and fetishism at its worst...and who doesn't?
-Ted Metzler
You've got to be suspicious of any sentence that begins, "The funniest thing I have ever seen in a urinal..."
-Ted Metzler
Who the fuck do they think they're kidding? Posturepedic Support indeed. In stupidity quotient, that's right up there with the Retsyn(TM) in Certs, also known by the more mundane name of "artificial flavors".
-Ted Metzler
pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computer industry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computer graphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.
-Jeff Meyer
Don't fuck your head for your dick.
-Eric Meyhofer
Programmatically is a Microsoft euphamism for 'with many lines of code.'
-from a Microsoft Access tutorial manual
The pen may be mightier than the sword, but if I cut your arms off with my sword, what are you going to do with your stupid pen then, Mr. smarty-pants?
-Pakasit Mhojadee
"Oh, Christ!" I scream aloud, taking the name of the Lord in vain to underscore the seriousness of the situation.
-Philip Michaels
new cities are good and bad. low culture, high personality. but then the city decides what it's going to be one day and you are either part of it or you have to leave.
-Chel Micheline
You can spend your whole life trying to change the world. No, seriously, you can.
-Microsoft ad
By downloading these unsupported tools you are using them at your own risk--you know, like bungee jumping in your underwear or dating your best friend's sister.
-Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.0 PowerToys disclaimer
So I call up Sally: "Hi, I'm doing research. Do you have a boyfriend?"
-Dan Milberg
I feel no different. My hate's the same.
-Milk, _Milk & Cheese_
"We have Attention Deficit... uh, Disorder!" "What?" "What!?"
-Milk & Cheese
Just imagine, if you will, what kind of delicious suffering awaits you at the hands of the most powerful milkman in the universe.
-Milkman Dan, Red Meat
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.
-John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
-John Stewart Mill
Prince of Darkness: ... We offer a way out of the guilt and constant drumbeat of negativism, the don't-do-thises and don't-do-thats of the past. My message is basically one of optimism, achievement, and empowerment. For me, the glass is always half full. Forget about 666, our new watchword in the wired world is 24/7!
-Brian Miller, Seattle Weekly
Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being the villain in a James Bond movie.
-Dennis Miller
If some unemployed punk in Trenton, New Jersey lying on a sofa with a bong can get a cassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going to make crack look like Sanka.
-Dennis Miller
Queensboro president Donald Mannis, charged with receiving bribes in exchange for city contracts, resigned on Tuesday. Mannis feels he must devote more time to impending litigation, some of which might emanate from a recent statement he made comparing New York Mayor Ed Koch to Nazi Martin Bormann. A spokesman from the Bormann estate said they are weighing the odds of a slander suit. Mayor Koch could naturally be reached for comment, but we chose not to listen.
-Dennis Miller, "Saturday Night Live"
Adolescence is a marketing tool.
-Elaine Miller, "Almost Famous"
I didn't choose this role, but I'll play it.
-Elaine Miller, "Almost Famous"
The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.
-George Miller
It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is more likely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites, poltroons.
-Henry Miller
The ordinary man is involved in action, the hero acts. An immense difference.
-Henry Miller
When shit becomes valuable, the poor will be born without assholes.
-Henry Miller
Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone dates 30 year-old virgins from the Church of Christ.
-Jenni Miller
Eww... No, he's waiting for marriage. Besides, I don't think he'd doink a Jew. That'd be dirty!
-Jenni Miller
Gee, I forgot my penis, can't join in this conversation!
-Jenni Miller
Tape Nazis. everyone has a friend that, upon entering your car, takes it upon himself to provide the music for the duration of the journey. this makes a person a Tape Nazi. Tape Nazi's bastard cousin is the CD Nazi. This type of person is also known to utter statements like, "what is this crap? some of your damn creepy music?" some have been known to fondle the treble/bass buttons when the driver is not looking, or even hit the hazard lights.
-Jenni Miller
You just can't go wrong with a fisting joke.
-Jenni Miller
I have a conservative penis.
-Michael Miller
I have some really awful lemonade. It'll give you diarhea. It's great.
-Sam Miller
sleeze... I need sleeze....very much so........
-Sam Miller
(Top story on "Entertainment Tonight," Sept. 25, 1998) "How do you follow an act like a show about nothing? With "Nothing"! NBC proved that there is life after "Seinfeld" last night when it debuted the revolutionary show "Nothing" in "Seinfeld's" old Thursday 9 p.m. slot. For one half-hour, the screen was blank, except for commercials. And it didn't seem to bother viewers accustomed to tuning in for "Seinfeld" one bit! "Nothing" was the highest rated show of the night, handily winning its time slot over CBS's "Mandelbaum," Fox's "World's Scariest Naked Fat Guys on Crystal Meth" and ABC's "Cracker" ...
-Joyce Millman, Salon
The road to hell is paved with deleterious mutations.
-Paul Mineiro
In my music I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time.
-Charles Mingus
Power corrupts. Absolute power really turns on the chicks.
-Jeff Mink
Until the day animals stand up and demand equal rights, I have the right to eat them.
-Jeff Mink
...anyone could learn Lisp in 1 day, except that if they already knew Fortran, it would take 3 days.
-Marvin Minsky
I bet the human brain is a kludge.
-Marvin Minsky
It's not that they waste money. It's that they waste ALL the money.
-Marvin Minksy on NASA
Why do we like sports or movies? It's just incredible that a trillion-synapse computer could actually spend Saturday afternoon watching a football game. It's a colossal phenomenon that needs to be explained, and I'm not joking.
-Marvin Minsky
On one side, the Americans are the champions of democracy and human rights. On the other side, they are fighting against Osama bin Laden with the help of military dictators and kings who don't believe in democracy or human rights. Osama bin Laden is not a hero because of his ideas. He is a hero by default.
-Hamid Mir, Pakistani journalist
If you copy from one author it's plagiarism. If you copy from two, it's research.
-Wilson Mizner
I believe aborting the keyboard with coke is only allowed to save the life of the motherboard.
-Arch Moberly
One day I returned from lunch, and my screensaver had evolved intelligent, self-aware, beautiful life forms. They had art, science, a reasonably complete understanding of their universe, and monumental architecture, most of which was devoted to the message: "Please don't move your mouse!" But what was I supposed to do? I had to see how the market closed.
-Gordon Mohr
And if that doesn't work you could always convince yourself that it's really unimportant.
-Stephan Monnier
Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.
-Ashley Montague
I think that all good, right thinking people in this country are sick and tired of being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being told that all good, right thinking people in this country are fed up with being sick and tired. I'm certainly not, and I'm sick and tired of being told that I am.
-Monty Python's Flying Circus
You see, our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid, lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious company and irrepressibly drab and awful. And whereas in most professions these would be considerable drawbacks, in chartered accountancy they are a positive boon.
-Monty Python Flying Circus
Rush [Limbaugh] fills the same niche in political discourse that WWF wrestling fills in sport.
-Dave Mooney
I thought that you should be the first to know. I joined the psychotic friends network.
-Hugh Moore
Man, it's really dark in here. Somebody should light a witch.
-Hugh Moore
Now you have to choose if you want to be a warrior, ranger, rogue, or academic. Hint: don't pick rogue.
-Hugh Moore
You could come with us if you want. In fact, if you did... you might not even suck...
-Hugh Moore
Your BASTARD AI pushed me off a cliff!
-Hugh Moore
Who needs foresight when you've got apathy?
-Hugh Moore
When the rabbit of chaos is pursued through the field of anarchy it is time to hang your pants on the hook of darkness.
-Roger Moore, Spiceworld
Down the street, at the Touretzky Nasal Grindworks, they have a different motto: "Miserable Today - For a Better Tomorrow"
-Hans Moravec
It's now more important to learn boring algebra than to practice fun rock throwing. So you take your choice. If you choose happiness over survival too consistently--well, then you die happy. Or else, you thrive grumpily. It's the tragedy of the human condition. About time we changed it, in my humble opinion.
-Hans Moravec
On this side you have customers coming in, and the customers coming in better bring some dollars with them, because if they don't bring some dollars with them they're not really customers.
-Avery More
It's fine. No, it's bad. Wait, it's fine after all. Just a minute, it's...
-Morgan Stanley "MacroScope" Multi-Asset Research, Global, Sept/Oct 2001
I can't kill myself with idiocy, it's not sharp enough.
-Chris Morgan
"I have a small question regarding MX records. Given a site with two MX records at priority 10 and 20, if I add an additional MX at priority 15 which forwards all mail to the priority 10 MX, and then remove the priority 10 MX, what will happen?" what will happen is, I will come to your site and beat you with a stick you MX-meddling fuck.
-Chris Morgan
instead of ICMPs, let's try sending llamas. they're a little bigger
-Chris Morgan
Oh, and none of us are responsible if you somehow manage to fux0r your computer running this program. If you can't handle CLICKING by now, get off our internet.
-Chris Morgan
This is bullshit. On this list and in thousands of other places every day, words like "you're" and "than" are spelled "your" and "then", does this mean that they're correct? Negative, it means people are fucking stupid. Usage does not dictate language, rules dictate language. Usage follows rules.
-Chris Morgan
When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue -- you sell him a whole new life.
-Christopher Morley
I love Gummi Bears ... and I want Gummi Bears and I like Gummi Bears and I eat Gummi Bears and I don't like it when I don't eat my Gummi Bears, but I'm certainly not addicted to them.
-Philip Morris President James Morgan on why cigarettes are not addictive
You are nothing. You are not a man. You are not a god. I will find a man, and give birth to a god!
-Morgana, "Excalibur"
Another minor point, by the way, is that we don't say that we deconstruct the text but that the text deconstructs itself. This way it looks less like we are making things up.
-Chip Morningstar, "How to Deconstruct Almost Anything"
Of course, no real deconstruction would be like this. I only used a single paragraph and avoided literary jargon. All of the words will be found in a typical abridged dictionary and were used with their conventional meanings. I also wrote entirely in English and did not cite anyone. Thus in an English literature course I would probably get a D for this, but I already have my degree so I don't care.
-Chip Morningstar, "How to Deconstruct Almost Anything"
The person who walks alone is soon trailed by the FBI.
-Wright Morris
They have treated Clinton as if he was a black president.
-Toni Morrison
Wanna fly? You got to give up all the shit that weighs you down.
-Toni Morrison
She said, 'I know you....you cannot sing', I said, 'That's nothing, you should hear me play piano.'
-Morrissey
you will get a better response in New York by snarling at people over a period of weeks. Once you are recognised as someone who has no desire to be in anyone else life, the possibility of intimacies such as mutual nodding opens up.
-Damien Morton
You know you're in college when you go to Entropy and the only two things you buy are Saline solution and Trojans.
-Mathew Morton
Just remember: you're not a "dummy," no matter what those computer books claim. The real dummies are the people who, though technically expert, couldn't design hardware and software that's usable by normal consumers if their lives depended upon it.
-Walter Mossberg
A good Olds goes through a bad winter. A good Porsche goes everywhere.
-Motor Trend, June 1995
Walter Röhrl ... goes much, much faster than anyone wearing a cardigan sweater has a right to. Without force, without breaking into a sweat, and while talking to you in a tone that would suggest you were chatting with him at the pool side, this two-time World Rally Champion can finesse a 911 Turbo around a track at speeds that have you swearing a big crash is just a nanosecond away. Late, late, late, near-disaster braking points, 6-5-4-3-2-1 downshifts faster than a Nikon motor drive can catch it on film, a three pedal Terpsichore at Mach VIII velocity, and a perfect rotation into the hairpin, full throttle acceleration through the esses, and then hard braking to stop in the pits - he's like Bing Crosby on crystal meth.
-Motor Trend, June 1995
Find bad web sites 8x faster.
-Motorola ISDN modem advertisement
Well, we've come full circle, Lord; I'd like to think there's some higher meaning to all this. It would certainly reflect well on you.
-Mouse, "Ladyhawke"
Secrecy is for losers.
-Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan, US Intelligence Medal recipient
Am I going on a bit here? I don't care.
-Mr Cranky
Any film of Polanski's that begins in the United States, as this one does, is entirely predictable. It's only going to stay there for as long as Polanski is capable of eluding the authorities.
-Mr. Cranky
For those of you who happen to be brain-dead, do note that the "orgazmorator" is just the slightest bit of a rip-off of Woody Allen's "orgazmatron" from "Sleeper." In fact, write each word on a piece of paper, hold both pieces against each other in front of a light source, and you'll discover that they're *practically fucking identical*.
-Mr. Cranky
In each of Van Damme's films, there's a new, ridiculous explanation as to why he's been allowed out of Belgium.
-Mr. Cranky
As it turns out, Zardoz is just a puppet utilized by some upper class beings to spew manipulative nonsense at the unwashed masses, sort of like George W. Bush, only smarter.
-Mr Cranky
Let me tell you just how much of a struggle Matt Damon was experiencing at the time: He was starving, not knowing where his next meal would come from, freezing during the Boston winter as he tried to sleep in a cardboard box using bagel bags for socks and slabs of wood for shoes. Oh, wait. That might be an actual inspiring story. In truth, Matt Damon was starving in his warm Harvard dormitory. If you bought the former tale, thank you for sucking the penis of Miramax Films. Please exit to the right.
-Mr. Cranky
Two amateurish storytelling techniques utilized in the first five minutes, and it's pretty obvious we're going to spend a few hours with Mr. Cliché shoving his hands down our pants.
-Mr. Cranky
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-Mtrichter@f801.n163.z1.rubicon.pinetree.org
You buy Windows, and you put it on your machine-you can't do a whole lot with it.
-Bob Muglia, Microsoft Senior Vice President
Cool is only three letters away from Fool.
-Mike Muir
Sleep is the mind-killer! Defeat sleep! And you can end up like Anu!
-Jim Mulhearn
There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for "melancholy of relationships past." It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgement, to listen to country music.
-Kary Mullis, Nobel laureate
If God had meant us to think, we'd have brains.
-Nick Munn
PGP: Secret decoder rings for the Internet.
-Tatsuya Murase
Power Users believe computer salesmen.
-Richard Murnane
It is impossible to make something foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.
-Edsel Murphy
If there's more than one way to do a job and one of those ways will end in disaster, then someone will do it that way.
-Edward Murphy, Jr., "Murphy's Law", frequently misquoted as "Anything that can go wrong will."
I think they're very creative. I think their work is very powerful, but I think it's very naive.... sort of, if you like, a petulant young child out of control.
-Peter Murphy on Marilyn Manson
I have feelings too, I just choose to hide them underneath bitter denial.
-Ms. Musso, Parker Lewis Can't Lose
The more you do, the more you are.
-Bryan R Mundy
PGP is the rifle over the mantlepiece. So is the rifle over the mantlepiece, still.
-Chuck Murcko
Any definition of "noise" that doesn't count discussion of gun control is inherently bogus.
-John Gardiner Myers
He obviously didn't realize who I am. Sure, that sounds a bit pretentious... but it's true.
-John Gardiner Myers
It's amazing the number of people failing their hack saving throws on this topic.
-John Gardiner Myers
So, Is it too early to hose andrew?
-John Gardiner Myers
I have pantyhose older than you are.
-John Gardiner Myers' mother to Rob Earhart
The problem with mail systems in general is that there are far too many idiots writing and running mail systems. A killing spree won't help, there are far too many people in need of extinction. The authors of Listproc, Lotus Notes, Microsoft Mail, anyone having anything to do with X.400, ...
-John Gardiner Myers
Now the actual correct mathematical solution to this differential equation is insane, so physicists use a special trick which is that you guess.
-Ron Myers
No animals were harmed in the making of this film. We found it like that.
-Mykl
If you're like me, you think that those miserable little sticks of wood fired by the Archers are way too wimpy. And if you're like me, you've often said to yourself, "Why can't my Archers be just a little more manly? Why can't they be shooting flaming, exploding chickens?"
-Myth II propaganda