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In this world there are two kinds of pinatas my friend, those filled with candy and those filled with nitroglycerine.
-sabbott@nmsu.edu
The MiG-21 is the plane that goes nowhere, and does nothing, better than any fighter in the world.
-Anwar Sadat
[in the future we] will assume things are active unless they're obviously not--for example, if they're running Windows.
-Paul Saffo
Never mistake a clear view for a short distance.
-Paul Saffo
A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.
-Carl Sagan
All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.
-Carl Sagan
In order to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
-Carl Sagan, Cosmos
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time someting like that happened in politics or religion.
-Carl Sagan
It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English -- up to fifty words used in correct context -- no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
-Carl Sagan
The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.
-Carl Sagan
Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star lost in a galaxy tucked away in some forgotten corner of a universe in which there are far more galaxies than people.
-Carl Sagan
Scepticism and re-evaluation are necessities, not luxuries.
-Edward Said
George, no matter how you try, the fact remains that I have a diagnosis of mental illness from the psychology department's sysop and you do not. A warning of impending phenomenology from a connectionist research scientist pales in comparison.
-Jim Salsman
No, I'm a middle-class white criminal. I got a slap on the wrist.
-Jim Salsman
Zen sex - is that like the Koan about the sound of one hand clapping?
-Jim Salsman
Usenet is a right, a left, a jab, and a sharp hit to the jaw. The postman hits! You have new mail.
-Chip Salzenberg
For him that steals, or borrows and returns not, a book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to his agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw at his entrails in token of the Worm that dieth not. And when at last he goes to his final punishment, let the flames of Hell consume him forever.
-inscribed in the library of the monastery of San Pedro, in Barcelona
Neural nets are cool. I have one. I like to put alcohol on it.
-Manuel Sanches
That's very nice. Now, take you're mouse, and click at the _beginning_ of his idea, drag to the _end_ of his idea, hit command-c, open a new mail window, place your cursor in the body field, hit command-v, and then e-mail it to me!
-Manuel Sanches
Wow. I thought crime was against the law in Switzerland!
-Manuel Sanches
You do not lie, you understate to the point of criminal negligence.
-Manuel Sanches
It's compiling! I have so many Mickey Mouse Hands pointing at my crotch that I can barely see the screen!!
-Jay Sanchez-Buch
Every time a computer science student graduates, another free software project goes into 'maintenance mode'.
-Fletcher Sandbeck
This is no time to act like a gentleman. I am a cad and shall react like one.
-George Sanders
It's a choice that's been offered to many men: Be a slave in Heaven or a star in Hell; and Hell does not always look like Hell - on a good day it can look a lot like L.A.
-Dr. Eugene Sands, Playing God
I'm not talking height, I'm talking mass - I mean, you've got boobs and shit which makes up for the height.
-Brian Sandusky
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
-George Santayana
Karma is like justice without the satisfaction. And I don't believe in justice.
-Joe Sarno, The Way of the Gun
The only thing you can assume about a broken-down old man is that he's a survivor.
-Joe Sarno, The Way of the Gun
Competition brings out the worst in people and the best in products.
-David Sarnov
Hell is... other people.
-Jean Paul Sartre
As the years went by, Apple management's reaction to its steady decline was to insist that its products would win because they were better, and to continually charge more for them until, by 1994, it decided it would allow clones to be built after all. This was followed by the decision that it would not allow clones to be built after all, then by a decision that it would allow it, then it wouldn't, and finally, no one cared.
-SatireWire
Oh, SURE us END USERs (those horrid people that buy your ordered bytes) are SO stupid that we can't possibly conceive a benefit from having a more responsive machine that doesn't get bogged by some miscrent wordprocessor. And, oh oh oh how I ADORE having that time to take a 10 mile run while StuffitLite decompresses and de-binhexes that 18 Meg file!!! YES YES YES!! I love computer tieups!
-Scott D. Sauer
If you're into shit, there really is no better place to find it than the World Wide Web.
-Dan Savage
There are no OSF-1/AD customers. There are only OSF-1/AD victims.
-Stefan Savage
Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like "Brothers in Arms" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.
-Alexei Sayle
If you travel to the States... they have a lot of different words than like what we use. For instance: they say 'elevator', we say 'lift'; they say 'drapes', we say 'curtains'; they say 'president', we say 'seriously deranged git'
-Alexei Sayle
Recently, my personal advisors have been telling me to go to America. Actually, people have been walking up to me in the street and telling me to sod off, but that's the same thing, isn't it?
-Alexei Sayle
Um...., this is comp.sys.plamtops.pilot. The "palmtop" part means we are all onanists here.
-sbkatz@ix.netcom.com
p.s. Just kidding about the small furry animals. I would't kill them REALLY, I might just try to hurt their feelings a little though.
-Phillip R. Scarr
The US military is, in spite of the efforts of the past few years by a whole lot of self-serving politicians, a junkyard dog on a short leash. In most cases harmless, but if you piss its owners off enough for them to slip the leash, it's time to bend over and smile.
-sscrivener@earthlink.net
A haiku is a a Japanese poem containing three lines of five, seven, and five syllables, containing a cutting, or pause, word, as well as spam, oelestra, or Spice Girls imagery.
-Joshua Schachter
All utterances of Joshua(tm) are guaranteed to contain Joshuaisms(R), of which the phrase "punk" is one of. "Feel free at any time to bite me" is another Joshuaism(R), and you should, infact, feel free to bite me at any time.
-Joshua Schachter
And remember -- if you can't be creative or interesting, you can be cute and naked.
-Joshua Schachter
Been there, done that, threw away the t-shirt.
-Joshua Schachter
beyond the humor event horizon is a universe bound entirely by lame forwards
-Joshua Schachter
Blah...I'm bored. Let's go out and get new girlfriends.
-Joshua Schachter
Enlightenment guaranteed or double your Buddha nature back!
-Joshua Schachter
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH. BACKSPACE IS DELETE.
-Joshua Schachter
he who controls the spice girls controls the universe!
-Joshua Schachter
Hey, there are some pretty good quotes in here. Although there are far too many of them. Delete three.
-Joshua Schachter
I AM A REAL PROGRAMMER. IF IT DOESN'T COME FROM A VENDING MACHINE, I DON'T EAT IT.
-Joshua Schachter
I am dyslexic of Borg. Your ass will be laminated.
-Joshua Schachter
"I am the being that is collectively know in the current time frame as circumlocutus of the collective entity borg, commence preperations for you collective entity to be subsumed and assimilated with in ours". alternatively: "i am circumlocutus of borg ... this is going to take a while".
-Joshua Schachter
I don't actually have a clue... but that's never stopped me before... although that's never helped me succeed
-Joshua Schachter
I got the error message "Error in compound command component; compound command terminated." Remind me next time I'm writing program to have the error messages rhyme.
-Joshua Schachter
i have de.ci.ded that we should just break all words at they're sy.la.ble boun.dar.ies be.cause hey, it's cool.
-Joshua Schachter
I never meta key I didn't like.
-Joshua Schachter
i predict stale humor
-Joshua Schachter
i was going to, in fact, deliver an insult so horrible and mind blowing that your personality and psyche would have been utterly destroyed. however, i have decided that it would not be worth it to lose you as a person i'll just mention that i could have done so.
-Joshua Schachter
i use sweet'n low in my coffee so a sugar rush doesn't interfere with my caffeine rush
-Joshua Schachter
I'm depressed ... It's a cheap way to show yourself a bad time.
-Joshua Schachter
i'm running IE 6.0 on NT 2000. i'm so bleeding edge that i am sliced so thin it makes the average deli vendor green with envy.
-Joshua Schachter
I've been all over the pittsburgh area looking for a good cup of joe at 3 AM since before you were a prekie.
-Joshua Schachter
i've been running this seti@home thing all week and i haven't detected any aliens yet
-Joshua Schachter
If you freak her out and she winds up in the hospital then YOU WIN.
-Joshua Schachter
in the future, when you feel you have things to share ... well, you'd be wrong. don't.
-Joshua Schachter
it turns out that it is not better to have tried and failed than to never have tried at all. it's better to not look like an idiot while doing so.
-Joshua Schachter
it's hard to be shocked by zephyr... so i installed a parallel port tazer
-Joshua Schachter
java: write once, run away.
-Joshua Schachter
KORTAL WOMBAT!
-Joshua Schachter
Look. We're talking about getting the computer store to sell Sparcs. Whether they can emulate your calclulator or whatever is pretty irrelevant.
-Joshua Schachter
No. *Cleveland* is not better than Pittsburgh.
-Joshua Schachter
"Oh, no!" shouts the computer scientist, "A special case!"
-Joshua Schachter
People tell me one thing one day and out the other.
-Joshua Schachter
quotesfile that. after you dump her.
-Joshua Schachter
Refenestration: reinstalling Windows
-Joshua Schachter
"Resistance is futile. You will be-- awww, Token Ring?!?
-Joshua Schachter
Schachter's Hypothesis: Given two unrelated technical terms, an internet search engine will retrieve only resumes.
-Joshua Schachter
scsi i kenobi, you're our only hope!
-Joshua Schachter
so, kill me, or i'll send the intel bunny people to do their thing on your ass.
-Joshua Schachter
Socializing, i don't know anything about it... zephyr, that's completely different.
-Joshua Schachter
That's not loud enough. I want to be able to hang up the phone and still hear it.
-Joshua Schachter
The only problem with the game so far is that I haven't figured out a good way to make money yet, so for ten bucks a month I get to roleplay a homeless person.
-Joshua Schachter
there are no X11 users. there are only X11 victims.
-Joshua Schachter
There's too much blood in my caffeine system.
-Joshua Schachter
You couldn't find your ass with both hands, a map, a compass, a troupe of boyscouts, a Navy Seal team, a GPS unit, three bloodhounds, all of Scotland Yard, and PONCE DE LEON!
-Joshua Schachter
you forget that i'm jewish. so to me, the pope is an annoying public leader that i didn't even vote for
-Joshua Schachter
you've raise some very interesting and important issues. i'll spank you later
-Joshua Schachter
Your zen-fu sucks.
-Joshua Schachter
I gave up luck in high school. I prefer a little deadly force myself.
-Dutch Schaefer, Predator
Life is a joke, and death is the ultimate punch line. Welcome to hell.
-Trevor Schadt
A non-vegetarian anti-abortionist is a contradiction in terms.
-Phyllis Schafly
It gets worse, though, because Bethell was also a *fine-arts* student, which means that he had apparently been getting either too much Cindy Sherman or not enough Baroque 101.
-Simon Schama, The New Yorker, on yet another Rembrandt vandal
Allow me to begin. Imagine the mezzanine level between Squalor and Gutter, join me, if you will, in the gentle transition between the Eighth and Ninth Circle of Hell. Milkman Dan has been invited several times, but has declined on the pretext of "early morning roadkill cookoffs". Only the hopeless, the deranged, and the existential need apply. Thank you. No chips are needed here, he's already got a floor.
-Ridgely Schantz
And when you beg to lick my killing floor, be sure to bring your Mastercard, because I will take your soul, but I won't take American Express.
-Ridgely Schantz
I am using this space to sheepishly grovel away my gross social irresponsibility of last night re: poetry reading in hell. I will write 500 times on the chalkboard: "Passing out is no excuse for not operating heavy machinery." I submit (because it's fun) my most deepest regrets and shit.
-Ridgely Schantz
I have Win95 on my computer. I'm not wowed, but neither have I been adversely affected. But, then, my geekdom is limited to minor modifications of pine, same with Eudora, and a few lines of html. So for me, Microsoft is the reclusive serial killer down the hallway with whom I am not intimately involved enough to be explicitly aware of the damage he's doing. I just sit home and eat my steak tartar quietly.
-Ridgely Schantz
If she comes at you with an orangestick and nail polish, be warned: SHE's BEEN DRINKING. Malt liquor and manicures don't mix. Come to think of it, not much does mix with malt liquor so I suggest you drink fast.
-Ridgely Schantz
Inside you're laughing. ... Outside you're covered with creamy nougat.
-Ridgley Schantz
Okay, I have you slated for "Carnage, Massive and Widespread" as well as "Pillage, Plunder, Other" and "Semi-Divine Escort (Brunhilde, Gunhilla, Sigurd: your choice of)".
-Ridgely Schantz
Oooooh! For fuck's sake you two are worse than two paleontologists over a tyrannosaurus turd. Tripp, just dig down into your all new cheap moves and deliver a pimp-daddy cool ass sign-off, the likes of which may cause Tracy to wish her name didn't start with a "t". Or kiss and make up and stuff.
-Ridgely Schantz
Pennsylvania is just a state that gets in your way when you're trying to get to other states!
-Ridgely Schantz
The correct expression is "my date". If ya can't bring a date to your own wedding...well, then, consider civilization collapsed.
-Ridgely Schantz
Um, it's time for the corrective *headgear*, dear.
-Ridgely Schantz
does this mean we get to nuke pittsburgh from orbit? pretty, pretty, please? unhinged pgh: you now have 30 minutes to reach minimum safe distance before MIRV seperation.
-Ethan Schartman
everytime i see those "under construction" gifs with the guy and a shovel, i just know it's a pile of shit he's tossing around.
-Ethan Schartman
i hope you all appreciate that i'm doing all my own stunts here
-Ethan Schartman
i seem to be canadian!
-Ethan Schartman
i'm seeing it because it has the Very Large Array in it - the same reason i saw ID4. two words: synthesized aperature. yummm
-Ethan Schartman
if anyone wants the vicarious orgasm, send me a check for $5.
-Ethan Schartman
it isn't really reasonable to ascribe the ability to break the laws of physics to the military - hundreds of billions of dollars is not enough to bribe god into granting exceptions
-Ethan Schartman
just to set the record straight: the roswell aliens, adolf hitler, JFK, elvis, lee harvey oswald and a short-order cook from missoula are all living on a sumptious estate owned by howard hughes just outside of buenos aires.
-Ethan Schartman
this is all well and good for Real Programmers, but what about the majority of programmers writing for Real World apps?
-Ethan Schartman
watch out for the volvo station wagons, too. actually, i think that the only station wagon it's permissable to buy is a powder blue late model buick roadmaster with faux wood panelling, and the driver's door has to be primer brown. no hub caps, neither. (of course, my personal dream car is a flat-black cadillac hearse with a chopped top, racing slicks, supercharger with enourmous hood scoop, and nitrous oxide - though the nitrous has to be plumbed into the vent system, not the engine:)
-Ethan Schartman
I recall composing that little speech one Friday afternoon while high on coffee and M&M's. It appeared in this space on June 1. It included such deep thoughts as "Sing," "Floss," and "Don't mess too much with your hair." It was not art.
-Mary Schmich
Web people don't care about your dumb design.
-John Schmitz
The airforce has spent 30 years and several billion dollars trying to make voice interaction work so why doesn't it work? Because when you're pulling 6Gs and you say "Fire" and it says "please repeat", you're not gonna use this thing ever again. Literally.
-Ben Schneiderman
Security is a process, not a product.
-Bruce Schneier
If atheism is a religion, then bald is a hair color.
-Mark Schnitzius
A pact between Microsoft and Barney. Sealed in purple blood.
-Dmitri Schoeman
erpf...uh...kill me now... better yet, kill him now.
-Dmitri Schoeman
Every 10 minutes I walk over to the library and press my face against the scanner, ftp the file over to my machine and serve it off a web server. I'm looking to automate the entire process though.
-Dmitri Schoeman
Genetic engineering is like legos, only with really small blocks.
-Dmitri Schoeman
Here's a new idea I have for a process scheduler. It assigns priorities based on how close they are to the deadline. This is a pretty standard method. However, in addition, if none of the process deadlines are particularly close it will just idle and not work on anything. And if it gets to the point where there are at least 2 jobs which can not be adequately scheduled in the remaining time it will panic and start randomly browsing the web and sending email.
-Dmitri Schoeman
I'd like a large bowl of angst with a side order of frustration, no catsup.
-Dmitri Schoeman
if we have enough bored cmu cs graduates here we could start our own consulting service. We provide the skilled boredom and pass the savings on to you!
-Dmitri Schoeman
Man, I've been out of pittsburgh so long, I forgot that the weather was dithered there.
-Dmitri Schoeman
Not only can [Mosaic] suck more, it does.
-Dmitri Schoeman
say, josh, if I type in a death threat to the president, will you send it from your account for me?
-Dmitri Schoeman
That's fine with me.. and by induction, I am most people.
-Dmitri Schoeman
There needs to be another level like MT-SAFE maybe called MT-NOT-FUCKED-BY-HP that could be added to the man pages to indicate compatibility.
-Dmitri Schoeman
They're just whining about how it doesn't let you make mistakes. This is UNIX, you're not supposed to make mistakes.
-Dmitri Schoeman
Every person takes the limits of their own field of vision for the limits of the world.
-Schopenhauer
To help you truly appreciate how we will verbally communicate with tomorrow's computers, stop thinking of Star Trek and instead imagine in your mind's ear the sociopathic musings of a digital Robert De Niro. You got a problem with that?!
-Michael Schrage
I've always hated Sabbat, and now I hate their games too. Now I know how Rudolf the Red-nosed Reindeer felt.
-Ian Schrieber
They wouldn't know subtlety if it painted itself purple and jumped up and down in front of them singing "Subtlety is here again"...
-Ian Schrieber, paraphrasing from Black Adder III
When The Going Gets Tough The Dice Get Hosey
-Ian Schrieber
cat > got_your_tongue?
-Kim Schroeder
The Pledge of Allegiance says 'liberty and justice for all'. Which part of 'all' don't you understand?
-Rep. Pat Schroeder (D) Colorado
Try not to have a good time ... This is supposed to be educational.
-Charles Schultz
Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.
-E. F. Schumacher
Just as most issues are seldom black or white, so are most good solutions seldom black or white. Beware of the solution that requires one side to be totally the loser and the other side to be totally the winner. The reason there are two sides to begin with usually is because neither side has all the facts. Therefore, when the wise mediator effects a compromise, he is not acting from political motivation. Rather, he is acting from a deep sense of respect for the whole truth.
-Stephen R. Schwambach
Josh, where you been? We figured you were out kicking McCcauley Culkin's ass.
-Randal Schwartz
As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he as a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.
-General Norman Schwarzkopf
I believe that forgiving them is God's function. Our job is simply to arrange the meeting.
-General Norman Schwarzkopf
I LOVE BUFFER OVERFLOWS. I THINK I'LL TAKE A LONG WALK OFF A SHORT ARRAY.
-Mike Schwern
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind.
-Albert Schwietzer
Be slow in choosing a friend, but slower in changing him.
-Scottish Proverb
I've suffered for my music, ladies and gentlemen. Now it's your turn.
-Raymond Scum
It is regrettable for the education of the young that war stories are always told by those who survived.
-Louis Scutenaire
After the third free Bloody Mary, it doesn't matter what the hell Richard Stallman says. Well, actually it does.
-Doc Searls
The simple fact is that Apple always was Steve's company, even when he wasn't there. The force that allowed Apple to survive more than a decade of bad leadership, cluelessness and constant mistakes was the legacy of Steve's original Art. That legacy was not just an OS that was 10 years ahead of the rest of the world, but a Cause that induced a righteousness of purpose centered around a will to innovate -- to perpetuate the original artistic achievements.
-Doc Searls
If someone tells you that the fully armored man of the Middle Ages was so encumbered by his armor that he could not rise if he fell, you may well ask yourself, first, if it is reasonable to assume that professional soldiers would go on wearing armor that kept them from fighting...
-Nicole Sebastiani
We need the ribbon for evidence.
-Secret Service agent regarding confiscation of an SJG laser printer
I've conquered your love with my hate.
-Secret Squirrel
They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist--
-The last words of General John Sedgwick, Battle of Spotsylvania Courthouse, 1864
Seems to me the basic conflict between man and women, sexually, is that men are like firemen. To us, sex is an emergency, and no matter what we're doing we can be ready in two minutes. Women, on the other hand, are like fire. They're exciting, but the conditions have to be exactly right for it to occur.
-Jerry Seinfeld
As usual with true stories, I hate to say that someone's life wasn't quite as exciting as a flock of animated chickens, but it's true.
-The Self-Made Critic, on _The Perfect Storm_
This career is supposed to be really high paying. Oh well. At least I'm not out on the corner of Market and Van Ness with a cardboard sign saying "Will Animate For Food. God Bless"
-Terri Selting
Bush's family values campaign: The major thrust of Hitler's ascent to power was the return of traditional German family. The slogan was 'Kinder, kuche, kirche;' in English, "Children, kitchen, church." The Third Reich believed the return to tradtional family values was threatened only by Jews, socialists, feminists, and homosexuals. Creepy, huh?
-Tara M. Seman
One form to rule them all, one form to find them, one form to bring them all and in the darkness rewrite the hell out of them.
-Sendmail comment
There is no great genius free from some tincture of madness.
-Seneca
We are recommending that purchasers of Quicken 98 for Mac do not use the product.
-Stephen Sennott, Intuit tech support
The mass media is supported and sustained by commercial entities. And corn flakes and Shakespeare are simply not kissing cousins. Leonard Bernstein and living bras are incompatible. And you cannot sustain adult, probing, meaningful drama when the proceedings are interrupted every twelve minutes by a dozen dancing rabbits with toilet paper.
-Rod Serling
Adults are just obsolete chidren, and the hell with them.
-Dr. Seuss
I soon understood why Sharkey was such a convincing bad guy: He was an asshole.
-Mark Sevi
The important thing to remember about Pete Burns is never, under *any* circumstances get him confused with Peter Murphy.
-SexBat
I did a little stand-up in college to prove that I couldn't do that.
-Dan Shafer
I was sitting on a curb one day feeling all dejected, and a little bird came along and said 'cheer up, it could be worse', so I cheered up, and sure enough, things got worse.
-Dan Shafer
When things start to make sense, check your premises!
-Dan Shafer
Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live in the real world.
-Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
...when sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions.
-William Shakespeare
Here's a hot scoop for all the millions of viewers who watch the NBC lineup on Thursday nights: For the next few weeks the stupid sitcom "Suddenly Susan" will be replaced by the stupid sitcom "The Naked Truth." Adjust viewing habits accordingly.
-Tom Shales, The Washington Post, "'Naked Truth': Barely Watchable"
You are very foolish... the true sign of a hero
-Shan Tsung, "Mortal Kombat"
I made you, and I'm God. That's all you need to know.
-Courtney Shane, Jawbreaker
The Internet *isn't* *free*. It just has an economy that makes no sense to capitalism.
-Brad Shapcott
I will rule out PERL on grounds of total illegibility and insecurity. It is possible to write decent programs in Perl. I know both of the people who actually do it.
-Jonathan Shapiro
Each teabag is enveloped in a package that reads "A year-round valentine for everyone who really loves lemon." Well, I happen to be an ardent enthusiast for that particular flavor, and I can assure you that this alleged tea tastes less like lemon than most electric home appliances. The only way this substance could be considered a "year-round valentine" is by taking the meaning of "valentine" as "a heart," which, if left out in the open for a year, would be encrusted with congealed blood and covered with small, creeping insects. This tea breaks all previously-conceived boundaries of the concept bland. It invokes in the drinker a level of excitement usually associated with shoelace collections or counting one's own armpit hairs.
-Mike Shapiro
One funny thing that happened: on my Q&A part, I was asked to recite as many of the Articles of Faith as I could. One of the ones I mentioned was, "Be discreet in killing." I got a very strange look and was told that that one wasn't used any more, and was replaced by "Always know the difference between good and evil." Same difference.
-Mike Shapiro
What sort of baldfaced nonsequitor is this? The only thing a cat and tea have in common is that one dislikes being immersed in the other. Clearly, your marketing skills are equivalent to your prowess at teamaking, which is probably on level with the cat's.
-Mike Shapiro
"You overlook an important point," said the man. "You are not just a boy, but an allegorical boy, and thus your actions have implications beyond this particular situation..."
-Mike Shapiro
If we're not supposed to eat animals, why are they made of meat?
-Shatter
A barbarian ... [is one who] thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
-George Bernard Shaw, Caesar and Cleopatra
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
-George Bernard Shaw
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
-George Bernard Shaw
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
-George Bernard Shaw, "Mrs. Warren's Profession"
She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
-George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
-George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
-George Bernard Shaw
You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!
-George Bernard Shaw
Sure 90% of software is crap. That's because 90% of everything is crap.
-Mary Shaw
Ah yes. Me, I often find that when I have an inadequate amount of extract of the Wild Vindaloo in my bloodstream, it induces a state similar to, but in many ways unlike, Louisiana.
-Matt Sheahan
It certainly comes up from time to time in the context of, you know, testimony and other things... We do -- the briefers -- also, from time to time, get those questions as well. As to -- you know, nothing has changed on that in terms of our position and, you know, I think it's -- you know, I can refer you to, you know, to probably to previous statements by officials on that. But I don't have anything -- you know, I mean, you know, our -- I think -- I don't have -- you know, I -- we -- usually we try to have, you know, a little bit of something on that. I'm not sure that it's going to be, you know, specifically what you're looking for. You know, generally speaking, our position that on settlements that it's the Palestinians and the Israelis have agreed that the final status negotiations will cover these issues and, you know, that's -- that's also our view.
-State Department deputy press secretary Christine Shelly when asked if there has been a "clear statement of [administration] policy on settlements in the occupied territories."
Hell is a city much like London--A populous and smoky city.
-Percy Shelly
The U.S. Constitution isn't perfect -- but it's a hell of a lot better than what we have now.
-Eric Sheppard
I think our coffee machine is networked -- I keep seeing these dropped sugar packets all around it.
-Tony Shepps
The fastest way to get art out of your artists is to put programmer-art in and tell your artists you're about to ship.
-Howard Shere
Why are there no cheese-flavored drinks?
-Ben Sherman
First Afghan War"so, first my cat conducts a denial of service attack on my DSL modem and then he sniffs the line. Script kitty, you think?
-Heather Sherman
Look, I don't know what this looks like to you - I've lost my ability to tell the difference between what's cute and what's idiotic...
-Jay Sherman, "The Critic"
Well, I've created a new scale that shows which diseases I'd rather have than watch this movie.
-Jay Sherman, "The Critic"
There comes a time when a man must face up to realities and confront them. Fortunately, this is not such a time.
-Will Sherman
A toast ...to... umm.. whatever.
-Bruce Sherrod
Actually, a psychic ESP thing is not required. If you just follow these simple rules, you'll never over-forward things: (1) Never forward anything from rec.humor.funny. (2) Never forward anything that's been forwarded to you. (3) Never forward anything.
-Bruce Sherrod
All the cool things in life can be described with either yes! or heh.
-Bruce Sherrod
Anyone ever notice that men never have discussions like this? I mean, even when I'm in the worst mood about people and relationships and all that, I never find myself thinking, "I should just give up women. From now on, men only." Though, I do occasionally think, "I should just give up women. From now on, I need BIG FUCKING GUNS."
-Bruce Sherrod
As Shin pointed out, I neglected to mention the 7 inch penis extender.
-Bruce Sherrod
Being off the Internet is like being dead.
-Bruce Sherrod
Bruce's little handy tips about cool: Cool: Having your gf on the net. Not Cool: Being dumped via email.
-Bruce Sherrod
BTW, you didn't meet him and start the end of the world, did you?
-Bruce Sherrod
Commit drive-by shootings on the information super-highway.
-Bruce Sherrod
Cool, I think. Do I care?
-Bruce Sherrod
Deja Fu: The feeling that somehow, somewhere, you've been kicked in the head like this before.
-Bruce Sherrod
Did I mention that it's good experience? I'm experiencing being screwed.
-Bruce Sherrod
Disclaimer: This greeting is subject to clarification or withdrawal. It implies no promise by the wisher to actually implement any of the wishes for her/himself or others and no responsibility for any unintended emotional stress these greetings may bring to those not caught up in the holiday spirit.
-Bruce Sherrod
Do I detect the signs of an emotionally unstable female?
-Bruce Sherrod
Give me X or give me death! ... p.s. Or just give me death
-Bruce Sherrod
He's you! ... ps. except he sucks.
-Bruce Sherrod
Hey baby, what's your medical history?
-Bruce Sherrod
Hey, it's rated the best Bruce in the area. And, it's the only Bruce imported *into* Bethesda. One third less calories than the other leading Bruce.
-Bruce Sherrod
I better say something funny soon, or Stellman will have more quotes in your quotes file than me.
-Bruce Sherrod
I can see how this would make it a lot harder to apply oneself to work, especially at CMU, where work is so pointlessly and excruciatingly odious.
-Bruce Sherrod
I didn't make the rules; I just ignore them.
-Bruce Sherrod
I don't want better signal to noise; I want less traffic, dammit
-Bruce Sherrod
I have delusions of adequacy.
-Bruce Sherrod
I just sent a jpeg compressed image, in a uuencoded, gzipped, tar file, as a MIME attachment. Is that cool, or stupid?
-Bruce Sherrod
I think someone installed HateDoubler onto my PC.
-Bruce Sherrod
It's still YES! And it's still quotesfiled.
-Bruce Sherrod
I'm starting to have a lot more respect for bands that I used to think sucked. I'm discovering now that they still suck, but that I suck even more, so hm.
-Bruce Sherrod
Internet traffic has been increasing enormously, straining the infrastructure. Click here to download a 2.5MB Quicktime movie about it.
-Bruce Sherrod
Oh, and I've been on the net since '88. I have a 13 inch penis, too.
-Bruce Sherrod
If I can't have quiet in here, *I* won't be interested in living. Are you interested in dying? Now, shut up; or I'll send you to a hell you're not familiar with.
-Bruce Sherrod
If junk email doesn't make me go postal, it'll be some smart ass correcting my slang.
-Bruce Sherrod
If we keep doing this, we'll just be saying "YES!" at each other every day.
-Bruce Sherrod
If you can't beat 'em, make fun of 'em.
-Bruce Sherrod
If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with an imported, semi-automatic assault rifle?
-Bruce Sherrod
Isn't it beautiful how everthing that I post here is quoted from someone else?
-Bruce Sherrod
It all sucks. Hardware sucks. I hate people asking me about hardware. My advice always: don't buy anything.
-Bruce Sherrod
It's not the web; they've always been stupid.
-Bruce Sherrod
It's very important to spend lots of $$ on more computer hardware, just in case one of those creative bursts happens. You wouldn't want to be caught thinking, "I could have been the next Mozart if it wasn't for that lame sound card that I have." ... Come to think of it, I should go out and buy a soundblaster 32au right now.
-Bruce Sherrod
Linux: Thousands of people from all over the world help you to shoot yourself in the foot, for free.
-Bruce Sherrod
... MAKE.SHAME.FAST. Just go out, sleep with the five people on the list, add your name to the bottom, and then pass the list on to a bunch of your friends...
-Bruce Sherrod
Memepool is so cool, now we don't have to talk to each other.
-Bruce Sherrod
no more net surfing for me any longer, now I web spelunk.
-Bruce Sherrod
Our newsserver unsubscribed from alt.binaries.* yesterday, claiming that they're out of disk space. I might have to break down and actually buy porn now.
-Bruce Sherrod
Pass the cute chicks more or less all over me, would you please?
-Bruce Sherrod
Profanity is the inevitable linguistic crutch of the inarticulate motherfucker.
-Bruce Sherrod
Sex and drugs? They're nothing compared with a good proof!
-Bruce Sherrod
So many women, so little nerve.
-Bruce Sherrod
So this link takes you to my real live current up-to-the-minute hotlist. Pretend you're me! Go to my hotlist, avoid doing real work, and cause net traffic.
-Bruce Sherrod
Some of your quotes are without context, and void, (and darkness was upon the face of the readers...).
-Bruce Sherrod
Stupid is as stupid does. Fuck off Forrest.
-Bruce Sherrod
Style, style is important, since there's really no content.
-Bruce Sherrod
Thanks. Now I'm Master Bruce. All I need is a butler named Alfred. And Uma Thurman.
-Bruce Sherrod, M.S.
That's not passion in my eyes. It's arson.
-Bruce Sherrod
The smile didn't do anything more than flay the skin off my body, sandblast every nerve and ligament, osterize a few major organs, and fry my eyeballs in their own grease; I made no visible sign that could possibly have been detected by anyone except the people present in the room. I'm over her completely.
-Bruce Sherrod
...the proper way to read netnews now is to grep /usr/spool/news for names of people you know, and read only that...
-Bruce Sherrod
There are two ways to tell a sexy male. The first is that he has a bad memory. I forget the second.
-Bruce Sherrod
Translation: write a web crawler in Perl. Yeah, I'll get right on that....
-Bruce Sherrod
Uh, I dunno, Beavis, but I think this sucks. Is this the stupidest penis contest yet?
-Bruce Sherrod
Well, I usually claim all the unattributed quotes in my collection as mine (hey, I went through the work of collecting and maintaining them, right?) but in this case I'll just tell you: I don't know.
-Bruce Sherrod
Well, it has Mosaic and Mac in the title. I think that means it sucks.
-Bruce Sherrod
When my .newsrc gets munged, I feel like I've gone back in time.
-Bruce Sherrod
Whenever my developer studio finishes a compile, it plays a gun-cocking sound. It's very satisfying; I'm all ready to shoot myself in the foot.
-Bruce Sherrod
women: can't live with 'em, can't get them to dress in skimpy leather Nazi outfits
-Bruce Sherrod
Women. Can't live with 'em, can't get the to leave you the FUCK alone when you need to get work done.
-Bruce Sherrod
Yeah, kind of like that, except Jeff Hutzleman was obnoxious and in my face, whereas David Siegal is obnoxious on some web site that I'll just ignore.
-Bruce Sherrod
Yeah; after all, we all know that a man is just a walking life support system for a penis. Actually, that's not true. There's also money.
-Bruce Sherrod
You're breaking the golden rule of alt.gothic: never post. Ever.
-Bruce Sherrod
Your web fu is very good. Let's fight.
-Bruce Sherrod
!%!*@#@* I'm playing netrek again. I should never have helped Hugh to work here.
-Bruce Sherrod
Nobody ever learns a God Damn thing.
-Kevin Shillito
I have won and you have lost. The question is, why?
-Shin, "Fist of the North Star"
I like having a machine called 'elvis' on the network because that way, I can say 'ping elvis' and have it come back with 'elvis is alive'.
-Carl Shipley
Imagine a sector of the economy that moved a significant proportion of its compensation off the books in the form of options. If options had real value as you suggest, this would have the effect of artificially inflating earnings, which in turn would create a cumulatively false picture of positive growth, which would lead to a share bubble, where shares are overbid because they seem more valuable than they are, relative to those parts of the market that do not use options as a way of hiding costs. However, since we know the market always prices things correctly, we know that this cannot happen, therefore options must have zero real value til excercised. QED.
-Clay Shirky
The thing I keep reminding myself is that people don't kill people, men kill people.
-Clay Shirky
Viral marketing is not going to save mediocre businesses from extinction. It is the scourge of the stupid and the slow, because it only rewards companies that offer great service and have the strength to allow and even encourage their customers to publicly pass judgment on that service every single day.
-Clay Shirky, Business 2.0
Computability theory and lexical scoping are fine things to know about, but they just don't cut the mustard when somebody from the Psych department opens up on you with an Ingram set to full auto.
-Olin Shivers
Do you have to be a god-damned tenured professor to get teflon rounds at this place?
-Olin Shivers
I know I shouldn't go around making random fictitious assertions about people. But... what the fuck. Random assertions are what computer science is all about. The joke was just lying there. I couldn't resist.
-Olin Shivers
It was a beautiful, almost poetic way to cap what had been a textbook career of brilliant, original mathematical insights punctuated with outbursts of random, deeply unhinged violence.
-Olin Shivers
When I was 12, I found a box containing a bunch of old issues of Hustler in a lot behing the local 7-11. I began to feel sensations I'd never felt before. Being a scientifically minded young fellow, I immediately ran home and examined one of the low angle money shots through my microscope. That's when I made the horiffying discovery that women are composed of red, yellow and blue dots. I've been trying to live with the implications of that discovery for years now, and I haven't been able to care much about code quality.
-Shoeboy, Slashdot
I'm not intending to imply insult or judgement here but I am curious to know in order to be able to respond to your posts in an appropiate manner, so please forgive what appears to be, but in fact is not intended as, an insulting question: Are you stupid?
-Melinda Shore
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
-Solomon Short
Nature abhors a hero. For one thing, he violates the law of conservation of energy. For another, how can it be the survival of the fittest when the fittest keeps putting himself in situations where he is most likely to be creamed?
-Solomon Short
We have a date with destiny, and it seems like she ordered the lobster.
-The Shoveller, Mystery Men
All in all, things where easier to fix when the people running the network were the ones with the nukes.
-Tim Showalter
Hitler wrote C using vi in BSD style under System V! Wanna fight?
-Tim Showalter
If memory serves (and if not, Rob and Sam will probably flame me)...
-Tim Showalter
The flamewar would have been nice, but I was really just trying to get quotefiled.
-Tim Showalter
The IETF has a reputation as a standards body, but it's really just a bunch of people pretending. It has no force behind it, no way of binding people, they don't sue or whine when someone violates a standard. If you're very lucky, someone will stand up and call someone else an asshole, then they all go to the bar.
-Tim Showalter
The Unicode Standard is a large, painful book, suitable for use as a blunt object, possibly as a seventh weapon in the game of Clue. It could play a telephone book in a movie if it were painted yellow and made more exciting. It could hold up a table if one leg were several inches short and in need of the sort of support that only a standard can provide.
-Tim Showalter
A weapon that makes a fashion statement! I like it.
-Shredder
There is a beaker in the back of the fridge labeled "BIO-HAZARD" which I would appreciate your leaving alone.
-Jon Shum
Pay no attention to what the critics say; there has never been set up a statue in honor of a critic.
-Jean Sibelius
Bill Gates says bandwidth should be free. We think software should be free. But it's not.
-John Sidgemore, CEO, UUnet, COO, MCI Worldcom
I could eat you.
-Jon-Anne Siefert
It's not okay to call unless you have a big web site you want designed, you want to sponsor one of my pages, or you want to introduce me to a single Swiss woman.
-David Siegel
Read this if you are a site designer. Do not read it if you are prone to sending long flaming e-mail messages.
-David Siegel
This is truly a breakthrough in text-editing technology. People have said that text editors are boring, but thanks to the amazing speed offered by the TACK board, you'll have so much fun that you'll need to be sedated.
-Rich Siegel, President and CEO, Bare Bones Software
X windows. It could be worse, but it'll take time.
-from a SIGGRAPH flyer
discontextualized quote. reference to chomsky, falwell and bush sr. broad, ambiguous statement. smug repetition of arguments heard in a million other threads. nitpicking at somebody else's spelling. ad hominem attack. setting up straw man. blowing down straw man. reference to thread 9622. smiley.
-signal, MetaFilter
Certain options and features of a program may be used rarely. For instance, the routines on U.S. government computers which balance the budget have not been used in years.
-Silberschatz and Galvin, _Operating System Concepts_
Not every woman brings you lasagna at work. Most of them just cheat on you.
-Silent Bob, Clerks
...and I am not going to do the proof because the proof for this is stupid.
-Prof. Silhavy
You know that thing under the sink that catches all the dreck and keep it in one place? Now imagine it as an online service.
-Roy Silvernail on Delphi
I have a firm grip on reality. Now I can strangle it.
-Jolyon Silversmith
How many of these abstruse internecine struggles between evolutionists must we endure? Perhaps the consolation is that, whatever the outome of the debate between Wright and Gould, the rest of us really can't lose: if the evolutionists win the battle for the minds of young Kansans, then of course we all win; if the creationists come out on top, it proves that Gould is right and evolution can proceed backward as well as forward.
-William Silvert
Childbirth is _not_ a miracle. Life is _not_ sacred. When you have twenty thousand nomads huddled between two rivers in the Middle East and that's it for Homo sapiens, when one in five children is a live birth, one in ten living past the age of ten, then childbirth is a miracle and life is sacred. When the average age of a grandmother in Philadelphia's housing projects is twenty-five, to call childbirth a miracle is at least a tasteless joke and at worst a true obscenity.
-Dave Sim
I beseech John Byrne that when The Star Brand obliterates Pittsburgh, that he spare the Captain's Table in the Pittsburgh airport, which serves a steak on toasted garlic bread with bearnaise sauce that is second to none...
-Dave Sim
C: A programming language that is sort of like Pascal except more like assembly except that it isn't very much like either one, or anything else. It is either the best language available to the art today, or it isn't.
-Ray Simard
alt.vampyres has the worst signal to noise ratio on the net, but the noise is *so* amusing.
-Sean Simmons
Birthdays are good for you. Studies have shown that those who have the most birthdays live the longest.
-Sean Simmons
Doh! Wile-E-Coyote... sooper stupid...
-Sean Simmons
I don't need to see the rules - I can lose as I play.
-Sean Simmons
I feel so inspired... I feel like I could fly... I think I'll go jump off that building...
-Sean Simmons, corporate slave
I'm not in marketting - Nobuko's in marketting. I'm a peon engineer whose printer code doesn't work...
-Sean Simmons
I want to be a lifeguard for the gene pool. You! Out of the pool!
-Sean Simmons
If you were being paranoid, you were being paranoid on the wrong level.
-Sean Simmons
If you were really hardcore, you'd have a the full bottle.
-Sean Simmons
If you have the freedom to do what you want, you have to pay a price. And that price is almost always stability. Except for SML, in which the price is your sanity.
-Sean Simmons
It's over. You're done. You're finished. You can stick a fork in it. You're but a miserable bug, crushed on the windshield of Klackon imperialism.
-Sean Simmons
Look at those dwarves! They're big! They're small! They've got big shields and small axes!
-Sean Simmons
Look...! A letter with distinct lack of weaseling! No weaseling content! That's so cool!
-Sean Simmons
People like that I generally have the urge to deal with by thrusting reality in their face as bluntly as possible, and then beating them about the head with it.
-Sean Simmons
Real men put quiche in their pipe and smoke it.
-Sean Simmons
Scotty, we need shields in the next three seconds, or we all die.
-Sean Simmons
That car's sun-roof looks like a toupee, flapping in the wind...
-Sean Simmons
That's [his] philosophy. [My] philosophy is that every so often you go out and buy more cards for your collectible card game or life becomes boring.
-Sean Simmons
The best netrek client was the Ultrix client. Actually, it was the same client, it just didn't crash on Ultrix.
-Sean Simmons
These people write specifications like old people fuck.
-Sean Simmons
We're the Beavis and Butthead of the STA coding world. "Hey Butthead, look at this class." "Uh, huh, huh-huh, uh, huh-huh, this sssucks. Let's change it."
-Sean Simmons
Yearbooks are poor excuses for people who don't have sketchbooks.
-Sean Simmons
You must be _this_ cool in order to enter
-Sean Simmons
Wand of Xagyg: In case of Armageddon, break glass
-Wm. Mark Simmons, _In the Net of Dreams_
BIOS = Bugs Inherited from Older Systems
-simon@otago.ac.nz
In the beginning was the word. But by the time the second word was added to it, there was trouble. For with it came syntax...
-John Simon
My views do not represent the views of KSU because I think that their ideas are more fucked up than a football bat.
-Michael Simone
People who are funny and smart and return phone calls get much better press than people who are just funny and smart.
-Howard Simons, The Washington Post
[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach ... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.
-Frank Sinatra
I feel sorry for people who don't drink. [sgl dagger]When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.
-Frank Sinatra
The Marshall Plan .. the Truman Policy .. all pumped billions upon billions of dollars into discouraged countries. Now, newspapers in those countries are writing about the decadent war-mongering Americans. I'd like to see one of those countries that is gloating over the erosion of the United States dollar build its own airplanes.
-Gordon Sinclair
You know, I'm going to have a migraine tonight because I didn't beat you.
-Lt. Sipowicz, NYPD Blue
It might be scary if my life were to become a farce from which there were no escape, but not so scary as, say, a ten-foot spider with big googly eyes and fangs.
-Steve Sisson
[Jupiter's] satellites are invisible to the naked eye and therefore can have no influence on the Earth and therefore would be useless and therefore do not exist.
-Francesco Sizi
I speak spanish and french, enough to find a hotel room and someone to sleep with. Really. I used to speak both fairly well, but I'm out of practice.
-Catherine Skidmore
A power plant with a contract is really just a gigantic short position for natural gas.
-Jeffrey Skilling, President & CEO, Enron
Never underestimate the power of a fight between Jesus and Santa
-Tim Skirvin
The SSH client is pretty good, it is free, and it is illegal in the US! A winner all around!
-Steven Skovran
i had just gotten used to sleeping alone and then you had to come and fuck it all up... could you do that some more?
-Kelley Slagle
Our problems are mostly behind us. What we have to do now is fight the solutions.
-slashdot
All software sucks. ALL software sucks.
-Jon Slenk
don't they just have bboards around here instead of sending stupid mail i don't care about to everyone?
-Jon Slenk
flush twice. it's a long way to redmond.
-Jon Slenk
Forget ZEN, I need to get LAID!
-Jon Slenk
i'd just like to explain how i want everyone to just fuck off. thank you.
-Jon Slenk
i used to look at people when i first met them and think, "i bet i won't like you." now, i look at them and think, "i bet i won't like your web page."
-Jon Slenk
Just shut up and get on with the killing.
-Jon Slenk
man, trying to do code control with a mac is like killing yourself. oh, wait, killing yourself would be good. doing code control with a mac is bad. make that "like licking a cat's inner ear canal."
-Jon Slenk
reading camille paglia. sure, she's erudite, but what i really need to know is, IS SHE ANY FUN IN BED?
-Jon Slenk
see mci net suck. suck, mci net, suck!
-Jon Slenk
user interfaces usually have one or more of the followin properties: 1) they suck to use 2) they suck to use 3) they suck to use
-Jon Slenk
I... HATE this place... this... zoo, this prison, this... reality, whatever you want to call it.
-Agent Smith, The Matrix
I... hate... this internet, this world-wide-web, whatever you want to call it... It's the porn pop-ups! I feel... saturated by them. And every time I surf the web I fear that I have somehow become an S&M fanatic.
-Agent Smith, cr0bar's The Matrix
Well, well, Mister Anderson. We meet at last. You'll notice that I'm wearing my sunglasses indoors. In the normal world, this would make me look stupid. But because this *is* after all a sci-fi action thriller, they serve to make me appear menacing.
-Agent Smith, cr0bar's The Matrix
Sure, it trivializes human suffering and death... but look it's George Bush with bongos!
-Geoff Smith
C is like a huge V8 engine, attached directly to wheels with no gearing, no brake and must be steered by hand. Perl is a car with an autopilot designed by insane aliens.
-Jeff Smith
The best thing about information at your fingertips is that you can pick your nose with it.
-Matt Smith, "Imminent Crash"
Beta is well known to be a synonym for "my cat wrote the floppy disk driver"
-Mike Smith
I've always planned to be a failure anyway, that's why I plan to marry an extremely wealthy woman.
-Nick Smith, Metropolitan
Rick Von Slonecker is tall, rich, good looking, stupid, dishonest, conceited, a bully, liar, drunk and thief, an egomaniac, and probably psychotic. In short, highly attractive to women.
-Nick Smith, Metropolitan
There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.
-Red Smith
The last thing you want to do is spell an elder gods name out correctly.
-Tom Smith, refusing to spell check Cthulhu
Live long and multi-task.
-Mike Smithwick
I see your point. And raise you a line
-Elliot Smorodinsky
Right Wing Politicians, Right Wing Think Tanks, Right Wing Talk Show Hosts, Right Wing Talking Heads, the "Religious" Right and Right Wing Media All Agree There is no "Vast Conservative Conspiracy"
-The Smudge Report
Some young women actually anticipate the wedding night ordeal with curiosity and pleasure! Beware of such an attitude! A selfish and sensual husband can easily take advantage of such a bride. One cardinal rule of marriage should never be forgotten: GIVE LITTLE, GIVE SELDOM AND ABOVE ALL, GIVE GRUDGINGLY. Otherwise, what could have been a proper marriage could become an orgy of sexual lust.
-Rith Smythers, from Instructions And Advice For The Young Bride, 1894
Whether you're illustrating documentation for your corporate intranet, or leaking confidential pictures of developmental software to rumors sites on the web, Snapz Pro is the time-saver that all PowerUsers must have in their arsenal.
-Snapz Pro press release
XML sounds scary. Stuff that begins with the letter X usually does -- there's a reason they didn't call it "The C Files."
-Jason Snell
Look, I'll kill you.
-Eric Snider
Should have talked to the babe you mentioned earlier. Heck what's the worst that would have happened? She would have killed you? Heh. That'd be lucky.
-Eric Snider
Yoda spoke to Keith in a dream one day. He said, "Follow you must dream you have. Good is snoot for to be others view." Keith didn't understand much of this but he knew that Yoda was probably just a puppet with someone's hand up his ass. He then wondered what sort of person would shove a hand up Yoda's ass.
-Snoot
Relationships based on boredom. Hmmm. That's a step up from relationships based on insanity...
-Don Snow
Actresses in porn - unlike in Hollywood - far outearn the actors, choose their co-stars, and decide what they will do on-screen. (People in the industry like to interpret this as having power, but it's the power to choose whom you'll have anal sex with, a perk all of us can presumably take for granted.)
-Lynn Snowden, Deep Inside the Valley of Sin
...there remains to civic-minded, responsible, thrill-seeking females only to overthrow the government, elminate the money system, institute complete automation, and destroy the male sex.
-Valerie Solanis
Hokey religions and ancient weapons are no match for a good blaster at your side.
-Han Solo, "Star Wars"
As long as America's educational system remains woefully inadequate, I rule!
-Professor Dick Solomon, Third Rock from the Sun
And finally, there was the English degree. They probably had more than a few concerns about the employment prospects of someone who'd spent the last four years writing essays on "Paradise Lost" and "Paradise Regained," not to mention "Paradise Missing in Action" and "If We Pretend We Don't Miss Paradise, It'll Return on Its Own."
-Susan Solomon
Free Clue for the Clueless: Usenet is not the real world.
-Andrew Solovay
And a worthy bunch of candidates they are! And what a tough decision this will be! And what a string of uncalled-for exclamation points this is!
-Paul Somerville
I'm not sure about this, but I think if Saint Francis ever met Fred Phelps, the gentle spirit from Assisi would make an exception and beat him up.
-Paul Somerville
Last semester the teacher had exams at 7:30 in the morning. I can't get up at 7:30 in the morning.
-Dr. Mete Soner
10:30 is a popular time for class, so we can't get another room to take our tests in. That means we all have to be in here, so it will be very crowded, but if I catch any of you cheating I'll personally break your kneecaps.
-Dr. Mete Soner
People fear to offend or hurt others, not because they are kind but because they do not care for the truth.
-Susan Sontag
'Personality' is simply the result of being off balance. We have 'characters' because we have not found our center of gravity. We do not accept ourselves for what we are, we retreat form our real selves, and then we erect a personality to bridge the gap.
-Susan Sontag
The appetite for thinking must be regulated, as all sensible people know, for it may stifle one's life.
-Susan Sontag
The only interesting answers are those which destroy the question.
-Susan Sontag
*If you're viewing this page then you're already a winner! ... *The tern "winner" means many things to many people and we use it in it's the most tenuous way possible.
-www.sony.com
This server has encountered an internal error which prevents it from fulfilling your request and there's not a darn thing you can do about it. The most likely cause is a misconfiguration, or the fact that this is all a plot by the government to drive you insane. Please ask the administrator to look for messages in the server's error log. His name is Mel. You can find his home phone number is listed in the code for this page. If a woman named Mabel answers for the love of God hang up!
-www.sony.com
Behind every successful man is his woman. Behind the fall of a successful man is usually another woman.
-Sim York Soo
The difference between a man and a child is the price of their precious toys.
-Sim York Soo
There's never money to do things right, but there's always money to do things twice.
-Michael Sorantino
USENET: Post to exotic, distant machines. Meet exciting, unusual people. And flame them.
-Dan Sorenson
The number one reason UNIX is better than VMS is it has the world's worst Fortran compiler, so you know no one's running Chaos studies while you're playing UMoria.
-Matt Sorrels
Well, C is like BASIC with Pascal laid over it.
-Matt Sorrels
just face it. you can never escape delimiters. they're everywhere.
-Dave Sotnick
all these post-punk kids with their pale white skin and their black clothing... and their friggin' moist music...
-Space Ghost
Win? No, but if we think fast, we might live long enough to lie about it.
-from Spaced Invaders
Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!
-from Spaced Invaders
Well, whoever Keyzer Soze is, I can tell you he's going to get gloriously drunk tonight.
-Kevin Spacey
The only truly secure system is one that is powered off, cast in a block of concrete and sealed in a lead-lined room with armed guards -- and even then I have my doubts.
-Gene Spafford
Usenet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhea -- massive, difficult to redirect, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of excrement when you least expect it.
-Gene Spafford
However, we must keep in mind the "fundamental law of cosmology" when quoting numbers in astronomy: 10 = 1
-George Spagna
The ideal technical writer [...] realizes that tech pubs will always be a service organization with relatively low status in the corporation.
-Steve Spanier, Director of Knowledge Products, Cisco
A man who is willing to commit suicide has the initiative.
-Boris Spassky
although many people do enjoy going to eat'n park before, after, and i daresay during sex, it is possible to enjoy eat'n park even when no sex is involved.
-Geoff Spear
anyone who says that gratuitous sex is no substitute for gratuitous violence obviously hasn't had enough gratuitous sex
-Geoff Spear
been there, done that, got the death threats
-Geoff Spear
i can still have a geoff complex. it's like a god complex but only cuter and better in bed.
-Geoff Spear
I can tell she wanted to fuck me by the way she was female.
-Geoff Spear
I don't care enough about my purity score to have sex with a dead animal in a ground-based vehicle weighing more than 5,000 pounds while i'm driving.
-Geoff Spear
I have Slack. I had a 0 GPA at midsemester in the spring, and Laughed at it.
-Geoff Spear
I have Slack. The cars can't hit me. Or kill me.
-Geoff Spear
i haven't slept since the 1st test. i should stay awake and take the 3rd tonight, proving you can condense a semester into 3 days with no sleep. on second thought, i have nothing to prove, and there's a bottle of tequila and a futon with my name on 'em
-Geoff Spear
I think any penalty except oral sex is worse than losing.
-Geoff Spear on Nomic
I think I'll post ten messages to alt.bitterness. And 10 more to comp.unix.wizards, all saying 'I'm a UNIX wizard, I got this newsreader I just wrote working perfectly.'
-Geoff Spear
i think monogamy is an evil concept dreamed up by perverted western religious leaders. also, you're a wuss.
-Geoff Spear
i'd feel sorry for you if you weren't grossly overpaid.
-Geoff Spear
i'm having FUN! well, in a random disgusting kinda way, but all good fun is disgusting.
-Geoff Spear
I've gotten things more evil than you free at participating mcdonalds.
-Geoff Spear
it's against my religion to drink to escape problems. i can only drink to *cause* problems.
-Geoff Spear
it's irrelevant, because women exist only to make my life hell, preferably after lots of sex.
-Geoff Spear
Maybe I'll newgroup soc.feminism.bitches and see what happens.
-Geoff Spear
of course i don't think you're stupid, dear. well, except in dating that wuss when you could have someone totally perfect like me.
-Geoff Spear
Oh, and the *HUG* was a response to something I posted on alt.bitterness. The last chick from there I started writing to just sent me mail saying she just got married, and that she's still bitter.
-Geoff Spear
ok, so proof by lack of counterexample is invalid. i can prove it by mathematical induction, though, if you accept the law of conservation of bitterness.
-Geoff Spear
This spoon is carefully balanced for throwing.
-Geoff Spear
Who needs friends when you can sit alone in your room and drink?
-Geoff Spear
you can also read my quotefile, which is horribly out of date not because i'm too lazy to update it, but because no one ever says anything interesting anymore.
-Geoff Spear
You shouldn't take everything you read on the net seriously... People like me post on the net.
-Geoff Spear
Two's company, three's crossfire.
-Emma Speares
If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.
-Henry Spencer
The average pointer points somewhere in X.
-Henry Spencer
Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it -- badly.
-Henry Spencer
We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5.
-Henry Spencer
...those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded ...Sad, indeed, is it to see how men occupy themselves with trivialities, and are indifferent to the grandest phenomena-- care not to understand the architecture of the heavens, but are deeply interested in some contemptible controversy about the intrigues of Mary Queen of Scots!
-Herbert Spencer
Warning: contains explicit language, violence, and 53M of data.
-Spirit of Christmas: Official Distribution Site
Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. Captain, a starship also runs on loyalty to one man. And nothing can replace it or him.
-Spock, "Star Trek"
Attention, NeXT and BeOS bigots: I don't need any flak about your poxy operating systems, OK? Write your own column.
-Joel Spolsky
Even if you think (as the Netscape 6.0 engineers clearly do) that Alt+Left is not a good shortcut key for "Back", there are literally millions of people out there who will try to use Alt+Left to go back, and if you refuse to do it on some general religious principle that Bill Gates is the evil Smurf Gargamel, then you are just gratuitously ruining your program so that you can feel smug and self-satisfied, and your users will not thank you for it.
-Joel Spolsky
In 1960, almost 40 years before the Internet came along, Barbra Streisand drops the "a" from her first name. Of course, with the unusual spelling, it's much easier to find her in search engines, on Amazon, etc. That woman has incredible foresight.
-Joel Spolsky
When Transmeta unveiled their new CPU, it was the first time in a long time that a company that was not Intel finally admitted that if you're a CPU, and you want a zillion people to buy you, you gotta run x86 code. This after Hitachi, Motorola, IBM, MIPS, National Semiconductor, and who knows how many other companies deceived themselves into thinking that they had the right to invent a new instruction set. The Transmeta architecture assumes from day one that any business plan that calls for making a computer that doesn't run Excel is just not going anywhere.
-Joel Spolsky
If you're dumb, surround yourself with smart people; if you're smart, surround yourself with smart people who disagree with you.
-"Sports Night"
The dead horse was going to move. I swear!
-Andrew Sproule
The opinions expressed in this letter do, in fact, represent the opinions of UCSD, its employees, faculty, and students, as well as the entire University of California system and its precious Regents, because, let's face it, I have that kind of power at my disposal.
-Spyder God
Science cannot stop while ethics catches up -- and nobody should expect scientists to do all the thinking for the country.
-Elvin Stackman
So the dangers of neuroscience include the advent of "drugs to combat sleepiness"? I nearly spilled my morning coffee.
-Tom Stafford, letter to The Economist, June 15th-21st, 2002
Creativity can be a social contribution, but only in so far as society is free to use the results.
-Richard Stallman
I don't like the idea of having security within a shared computer system at all.
-Richard Stallman
Instead of worrying about what somebody else is going to do, which is not under your control, the important thing is, what are you going to decide about what is under your control?
-Richard Stallman
Publishers often refer to prohibited copying as "piracy." In this way, they imply that illegal copying is ethically equivalent to attacking ships on the high seas, kidnaping and murdering the people on them.
-Richard Stallman
If addiction is judged by how long a dumb animal will sit pressing a lever to get a "fix" of something, to its own detriment, then I would conclude that netnews is far more addictive than cocaine.
-Rob Stampfli
Hell, I remember when Alex and his Droogs in A CLOCKWORK ORANGE were SCIENCE FICTION characters -- UNTHINKABLY VIOLENT and DEVOID OF VALUES. Well, good old Tony Burgess turns out to have been a SIMPERING OPTIMIST.
-Rev. Ivan Stang
I BREAK HABITS WHILE THE NUNS ARE STILL IN THEM.
-Rev. Ivan Stang
And? The Pentagon is the largest office building in the world, and that and a buck and a half will get you a (short) latte at Starbucks.
-Ross Stapleton-Gray
Too bad men aren't like computers. Predictable, compliant, full of answers but no questions...yet able to deliver an occasional delightful surprise.
-Brenda Starr
This is an Uzi. This is an Uzi on full auto. Any questions?
-William Starr
The zip file fits on a single 1.44 mb floppy. Not because it's a rinky dink game -- but because it has code as brilliant and righteous as a sliver of pure sunlight burning through the foul mist that hangs over the shareware swamp of PROTO GAMING WORLD!
-Stars! documentation
An efficient organization is one in which the accounting department knows the exact cost of every useless administrative procedure which they themselves have initiated.
-E.W.R. Steacie
It's retro. In a bad way.
-Carl Steadman
I'm the BIRTHDAY GIRL! I want the BIG GUN!
-Jennifer Steele
Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die.
-Tim Steeves
Have you ever been in love? Only then you can photograph.
-Alfred Steiglitz
Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest to be copied.
-Sir Richard Steele
Among the many domains registered to "Bell Atlantic Trademark Services LLC": VERIZONSUCKS.COM, VERIZONBLOWS.COM, VERIZONBITES.COM, VERIZONSHITS.COM, VERIZONWIRELESSSUCKS.COM, VERIZONWIRELESSBLOWS.COM, VERIZONWIRELESSBITES.COM, VERIZONWIRELESSBITES.NET, VERIZON-TELEKOM.ORG, etc etc etc... You could almost make a case that they're preventing people from making criticisms, but given Verizon's level of performance its entirely possible these are domains for a soon-to-be-launched new product line.
-Richard A Steenbergen
The people who get things done get more things to do.
-Mark Stehlik
QNX is also Posix compliant, so there is lots of software that almost works under it.
-Ben Steinberg
It was not a fine river at all, but it was the only one we had and so we boasted about it---how dangerous it was in a wet winter and how dry in a dry summer. You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.
-John Steinbeck, East of Eden
In the force if Yoda's so strong, construct a sentence with words in the proper order then why can't he?
-stef@apple.com
Marriage is fine, but when you mix your Lego collections, you're really serious.
-stefang@isy.liu.se
A pedestal is as much a prison as any small, confined space.
-Gloria Steinem
actually, this is Freebasin' Freddie's diet plan, too. coke for breakfast, coke for lunch, sensible dinner. it really works!
-Andrew Stellman
Apparently, the Guardian felt that my "conspiracy theory" had some merit, because they ran an article verifying it. ... The source was the same foreign Pakistani foreign minister Naiz Naik. Apparently the Pakistani government turned that information over to the Taliban, who had bin Laden launch the preemptive strike against my office in retaliation. Presumably, the strategic loss of my lava lamp has dealt a crushing blow to the U.S.
-Andrew Stellman
Are you becoming a net.personality? shame on you!
-Andrew Stellman
at any rate, from what i understand, this radical new technology that wired describes above has actually been in production since the early 1980s, although it's been kept secret by the media gestapo who want to keep the public's awareness of new media minimized. sony developed the first prototyped, codenamed the "Walkman" -- it featured a miniaturized, portable Frequency Modulation radio transceiver -- but desipte its perceived market viability, it never made it out to the general public.
-Andrew Stellman
Being soft-spoken is a much more attractive quality for a geek... A soft-spoken geek is endearing, an underdog. A loud, obnoxious geek is just grating. Look at Vince DelVecchio -- he's soft-spoken, yet geekly. He gets laid.
-Andrew Stellman
Can we assume that person is a complete idiot, or just a partial idiot.
-Andrew Stellman
dan doesn't need to be a girl, all he needs to do is find a dress that fits and accessorize to his heart's content.
-Andrew Stellman
does cindy crawford come out of a bathroom holding a copy of the camel book in one hand and a large sausage in the other? yeah, i have that dream too.
-Andrew Stellman
drugs. crack. a jedi knight wants not these things. but smoking it scott probably is. get some where can i?
-Andrew Stellman
Every single message on alt.religion.computers has Subject: Re: Macs Suck.. , with the exception of a few that have Subject: <something else> (was Re: Macs Suck..)
-Andrew Stellman
Everyone and his bisexual brother writes erotica.
-Andrew Stellman
Finally! Not only that, but tcsh(1) has replaced csh(1) and less(1) has replaced more(1). Woo-hoo! Yay for progress!
-Andrew Stellman
for instance, i was born and raised in the U.S.A., but i was raised by feral wolves, and i didn't learn to speak english until i was captured by behavioral scientists when i was twelve. the electroshock therapy is among my fondest childhood memories.
-Andrew Stellman
hey, now. bullshit machismo has been the bread and butter of this mailing list for many years, so it's a little late to go knocking it now.
-Andrew Stellman
i didn't have a CD, so i tried it on my cat. it doesn't work nearly as well, and makes the cat very grumpy.
-Andrew Stellman, microwave chef
i don't think i can do the other stuff you wanted, but what i can do is obtain a false passport and travel to equador where i will live for six months under the pseudoname Julio Garcia, at which point i'll infiltrate the Garzone family that controls the local government and RISE UP AND GUN DOWN THE CAPITALIST DOGS LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION!!! i also make a good cup of earl grey.
-Andrew Stellman
I had to use FORTRAN on many occasions to help my parents out. Most courts would consider that child abuse.
-Andrew Stellman
I hope I'll be able to adapt back to a regular social structure after four/five years of CMU.
-Andrew Stellman
I never really figured than anyone would quote anything of mine that had any content, since i'm careful about how i dole out my content, and ... i make sure to sprinkle liberally with snideness any actual content that manages to slip out.
-Andrew Stellman
I really wish the people who are in charge of the jewish conspiracy to control the world would let me in on it.
-Andrew Stellman
i take refuge in the fact that what i lack in perversity i make up for in obscurity.
-Andrew Stellman
"i'm not racist because all the reasons i have for hating all the niggers and spics are absolutely true. repeal welfare and affirmative action now!"
-Andrew Stellman
i'm surprised you found a pants order form that had a checkbox for "i have no ass to speak of"
-Andrew Stellman
I've noticed that a lot of people seem to equate "it doesn't do anything for me" with "it sucks", the same way people seem to equate "they didn't do it exactly the way I would have done it" with "what a bunch of pigfuckers."
-Andrew Stellman
"i've seen much weirder in new york" is a good generalization, true in practically all cases.
-Andrew Stellman
in my experience, MS Exchange does little more than prevent your computer from being able to send mail. never make the mistake of installing it on your system.
-Andrew Stellman
in the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is not allowed to be the banker in Monopoly.
-Andrew Stellman
It also occurs to me that sometimes it's enough to recognize my own hypocrisy without fixing it. For instance, I wear leather boots and clothes, which contradicts my views on animal rights. I wish I had a dollar for every person who pointed that out to me, thinking they just blew a huge hole in my entire belief system that would send me into a downward spiral of inner turmoil. Man, I'd have, like, twelve dollars.
-Andrew Stellman
It took a little research, but it seems that for once I'm not talking out of my ass.
-Andrew Stellman
It's cool - when your company pays for a free compuserve account, it still sucks.
-Andrew Stellman
It's just weird, I never thought I'd ever be carnally connected with a majority of KGB.
-Andrew Stellman on the Web of Shame
it's more than that -- it's the James Dean factor. the bottom line is that, if smoked correctly, a cigarette really, truly does make you look cooler. it gives you emphysema, but you look cool.
-Andrew Stellman
It's no use turning zaway on when zaway is better conversation than you are.
-Andrew Stellman
It's New-and-Improved York, with the optional Guiliani(tm) brand Quality-Of-Life-o-matic lifestytle sanitizer. Now with fewer Latinos!
-Andrew Stellman
no, he meant "liable", as in "if CNN misreports one more story, i'm liable to walk into their Atlanta office with a 12-gague drunk off my ass and then see what happens."
-Andrew Stellman
like diapers, politicians should be changed regularly. for the same reasons.
-Andrew Stellman
no, it's true. that's why they named it after an Egyptian city. if you delete your files, the hand of god comes down and touches it and it goes to hell. if you call up Microsoft to complain, they send locusts, boils and frogs, hire some guy to kill your the main sparcstation in your office (i.e. killing your first-born Sun), and eventually the red sea parts to let Bill Gates come to your city's Egyptian embassy and start kicking butt left and right, muttering something about some pharoh or other.
-Andrew Stellman
not me. i like the "hand of god" approach, where a file that is deleted is immediately obliterated as an act of divine retribution, and if you have the wherewithal to question god's destructive power (i.e. you want your file undeleted), god smites you and you go straight to hell. i believe this is an option in the latest Windows 97 beta.
-Andrew Stellman
Oh well, it's nothing that a few thousand dollars worth of therapy can't fix.
-Andrew Stellman
Personally, I think BASIC is superior because it has a longer name than C or LISP, Pascal and Scheme have lower-case letters, and FORTRAN just basically sucks.
-Andrew Stellman
personally, i think "otis" is the perfect name for any program, no matter what it does.
-Andrew Stellman
phil's a pretty cool guy. i was in a bunch of classes (including discrete math) with him sophomore year. he was friends with my fundamentalist christian roommate junior year. he wouldn't appreciate fellatio humor, so out of respect for him, the last three lines haven't contained any.
-Andrew Stellman
right, just plain X isn't a fucking GUI. well, technically it is, but really it's nothing more than NC-17. what you really want is XXX. now, *that's* a fucking GUI.
-Andrew Stellman
She might not be sixteen. She might be fifteen. Only one way to find out... Sleep with her, then check in a few days to see if you've contracted a lawsuit.
-Andrew Stellman
shit, now Greg is pulling for the gold standard. what's u-l coming to?
-Andrew Stellman
silly martin! *nothing* could possibly make dan more desirable. he's perfect the way he is, provided he starts wearing flowered sundresses.
-Andrew Stellman
so this is what happens when Steve Jobs hooks up with Tito Fuentes. incidentally, tuning castanets generally requires a router. and a chisel.
-Andrew Stellman
someone just taught him how to jerk off. "i can't believe it's been there all this time and nobody ever said anything about it!!!!" rob was quoted as saying. "now i'll NEVER leave the house."
-Andrew Stellman
sometimes i think that if john lennon hadn't been shot already, i'd do it myself.
-Andrew Stellman
stupid yuppies and computer nerds who make too much money are willing to pay a lot of money to live someplace where the espresso bars outnumber the poor people.
-Andrew Stellman
Technically, Ozzy is the guy your parents' parents warned them about.
-Andrew Stellman
that's right, contestant number one. you're walking away with the washer-dryer set,a case of Turtle Wax, and an authentic ancient Roman cross to crucify your loved ones. and we'll see our returning champion next week, when we look at Bram, Pierce and Maya. thanks for playing "Geek / Not a Geek!!!" some members of our studio audience received copies of Propaganda, the magazine that features young boys without their shirts; "Kindred: The Embraced" the home game; the Ian Curtis "Oh-So-Depressed" home suicide kit; and Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat.
-Andrew Stellman
the only problem with kittens is that eventually they get cooped up in little boxes with unstable particles
-Andrew Stellman
the two best tools for writing code are competent subordinates and a cattle prod.
-Andrew Stellman
Think about how many good 3D films have been made. (Hint: you can count all of them on the fingers of your ear.) Blindly applying technology without paying attention to any content yields bad, sterile art. See also: practically ever web site ever created.
-Andrew Stellman
this looks like a wonderful account of mismanagement and incompetence on every level. on the other hand, it's netscape, so we already knew that.
-Andrew Stellman
to put it another way, i think we were both surprised that it didn't end with the phrase, "UN-altered REPRODUCTION and DISSEMINATION of this IMPORTANT Information is ENCOURAGED, ESPECIALLY to COMPUTER BULLETIN BOARDS."
-Andrew Stellman
we are *not* going to have the Rob Wants To Return To The Gold Standard conversation, dammit.
-Andrew Stellman
well, if those Real World apps need to write year-2000 compliant software, it looks like they're going to have to make the supreme sacrifice and actually use a different class to get the date. i expect that this will be a big blow to the industry. expect Sun's stock to plummet.
-Andrew Stellman
well, it's probably my shining personality, combined with my pleasant breath and body odor.
-Andrew Stellman
When colleen said, "what the hell have you done to your face?" and pointed out the fine points of subtlety, i realized that subtlety is just not a part of my personality.
-Andrew Stellman
Yeah, Black and Decker came out with a toaster oven and a microwave that run under X. Also, Samsung has a dishwasher, refridgerator and vacuum cleaner, but the larger appliances really eat up resources.
-Andrew Stellman
yes, in fact, i am God. that's why i get laid so often. it's easy to get ass if you're a major deity. but enough about me, let's talk about you.
-Andrew Stellman
you are NOT about to tell me it's a year 2000 problem.
-Andrew Stellman
you don't bank a $20 million business on a system that isn't fully specified. at least, i don't, and since i'm the chief architect of this system, i'm making that call.
-Andrew Stellman
You know what my talent is? My talent is that I can take a mailing list of 100 people I don't know and make them totally hate me.
-Andrew Stellman
you know, you're not the first person to ask me about my world domination plans, and to be perfectly honest, i don't have any. i mean, it's hard enough for me to manage my own projects, much less the world. really, just try to imagine the amount of paperwork involved in running the world. i'm happy enough to leave that to the lawyers and the accountants, thank you very much.
-Andrew Stellman
You, madam, have never dealt with the government in your life. That is the only reason I can come up with to explain the statement, "We don't make mistakes".
-Andrew Stellman
You might think that, but I don't think you're considering the fact that I already called, "No backsies" and my cootie booster is up to date.
-Andrew Stellman
Garrett, do you know why I've done this to you? Because you burned Mr. Poe's books without really reading them. You took other people's advice that they needed burning. Otherwise you'd have realized what I was going to do to you when we came down here a moment ago. Ignorance is fatal, Mr. Garrett.
-Stendahl, Ray Bradbury, "Usher II"
Computers this powerful are supposed to shut themselves down, after you've asked them to. Turning one off with the hard switch is like lulling someone to sleep by severing their spinal column.
-Neal Stephenson.
During this century, intellectualism failed, and everyone knows it. In places like Russia and Germany, the common people agreed to loosen their grip on traditional folkways, mores, and religion, and let the intellectuals run with the ball, and they screwed everything up and turned the century into an abbatoir. Those wordy intellectuals used to be merely tedious; now they seem kind of dangerous as well.
-Neal Stephenson
Hiro used to feel that way, too, but then he ran into Raven. In a way, this is liberating. He no longer has to worry about trying to be the baddest motherfucker in the world. The position is taken.
-Neal Stephenson
Technology makes it possible to have our appendices out when they get infected, so that we are able to live long enough to get our heads out of our asses and learn about the world.
-Neal Stephenson
The most hackerish of all the hackers, the Ur-hacker as it were, was and is Richard Stallman, who became so annoyed with the evil practice of selling software that, in 1984 (the same year that the Macintosh went on sale) he went off and founded something called the Free Software Foundation, which commenced work on something called GNU. Gnu is an acronym for Gnu's Not Unix, but this is a joke in more ways than one, because GNU most certainly IS Unix.
-Neal Stephenson
To create an entirely new OS from scratch, just because none of the existing ones was exactly right, struck me as an act of such colossal nerve that I felt compelled to support it.
-Neal Stephenson
Until a man is twenty-five, he still thinks, every so often, that under the right circumstances he could be the baddest motherfucker in the world. If I moved to a martial-arts monastery in China and studied real hard for ten years. If my family was wiped out by Columbian drug dealers and I swore myself to revenge. If I got a fatal disease, had one year to live, devoted it to wiping out street crime. If I just dropped out and devoted myself to being bad.
-Neal Stephenson
I hope I'm not being all depressing, but that is kind of my point here.
-Bruce Sterling
In a way, staring into a computer screen is like staring into an eclipse. It's brilliant and you don't realize the damage until its too late.
-Bruce Sterling
In 1914, the lamps went out all over Europe. Life during the rest of the twentieth century was like crouching under a rock.
-Bruce Sterling
It isn't written on tablets of gold that we pampered Yankee mall rats are destined to rule the universe. There are times in life when people are required to measure up and show some mettle. It's alarming when our Congress does dumb things and our institutions look like they're caught all flat-footed, but you know, we don't have some extra, better Congress stashed away in an attic; this is Washington, and this is it. We don't have an extra American population, either; dumb, pampered, red-white-and-blue, whatever, we are them. Adversity has its uses. We're learning a lot about ourselves by going through this. If we can just manage to make some fresh mistakes, we may end up in some place really interesting, better than we had, not all damp, crooked, and muddled, but clearer and more sensible. We should hope for that, and work for that.
-Bruce Sterling
The twentieth century featured any number of -isms. They were fatally based on the delusion that philosophy trumps engineering. It doesn't. In a world fully competent to command its material basis, ideology is inherently flimsy. "Technology" in its broad sense: the ability to transform resources, the speed at which new possibilities can be opened and exploited, the multiple and various forms of command-and-control -- technology, not ideology, is the twentieth century's lasting legacy. Technology broke the gridlock of the five-decade Cold War. It made a new era thinkable. And, finally, technology made a new era obvious.
-Bruce Sterling
These law-abiding hackers have the power, ability, and willingness to influence other people's lives quite unpredictably. They have means, motive, and opportunity to meddle drastically with the American social order.
-Bruce Sterling
I would not cross the road to piss on him if he was on fire.
-Nici Sterling
Contrary to the beliefs of some, I don't have a drinking problem, I have a drinking solution.
-Sarah Sterling
You know you need sleep when you get into an elevator going down and it feels like you're going up.
-Sarah Sterling
Distributed file systems are a cruel hoax.
-Zalman Stern, former ITC hacker diety
If you can't explain it, you damn well shouldn't have written the code.
-Zalman Stern
The problem with the cutting edge is that someone has to bleed.
-Zalman Stern
The world is full of bozos. Some of them have Phd's in Computer Science.
-Zalman Stern
When faced with a problem, some people say 'Let's use AWK.' Now they have two problems.
-Zalman Stern
Just think of it--Cosmic Wimpout, the game of the Information Highway.
-David Sternlight
While today's digital hardware is extremely impressive, it is clear that the human retina's real time performance goes unchallenged. Actually to simulate 10 milliseconds of the complete processing of even a single nerve cell from the retina would require the solution of about 500 simultaneous nonlinear differential equations 100 times and would take at least several minutes of time on a Cray supercomputer. Keeping in mind that there are 10 million or more such cells interacting with each other in complex ways, it would take a minimum of 100 years of Cray time to simulate what takes place in your eye many times each second.
-John K. Stevens, "Reverse Engineering the Brain", Byte
Man cannot live by words alone, though he is sometimes forced to eat them.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy; and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
-Adlai E. Stevenson
If you're watching this and you're still in the closet, you're lucky -- because I don't understand how you can get cable in there.
-Patrick Stewart
The only way to make a man trustworthy is to trust him.
-Henry Stimson
As required by law, I've taken vanity screenshots of emulation.net's main page within Virtual PC to show the Internet functionality. Enjoy.
-John Stiles
You have some intriguing ideas. Have you considered naming yourself after a radioactive element?
-Lewis Stiller
BUY RAM NOW! Its like candy! You can do ram for less money then you can do CRACK! You'll be telling people, "You're on RAM!"
-Brian Stillman
I love this job. Nothing like paranoia and neurosis. Who needs a Coke habit? I've got journalism!!
-Brian Stillman
He kept talking about Gene Krantz. He kept saying "Failure is not an option." He said, Gene Krantz said they put their mind to it and they made it happen. I said "They didn't have as many third party vendors as we do."
-Art Stine
i think Rob was smoking Alex's cat, Steve
-Art Stine
The shit is feeding itself to the fan.
-Art Stine
yea, the VC are a bit edgy... they have lots of $$ sitting in their pants, but getting into their pants has been proving a harder task than usual
-Art Stine
You're stapling wings to a pig and hoping it will fly. It's hard to see how you get from there to an F-16.
-Art Stine
Is there not more to life than getting stuff? And getting more of it, Bigger of it, Faster of it, and then stuffing what you can't use now somewhere so you can use it later. If this is so... what a sad routine. How really very very sad. ON THE OTHER HAND... .know for sure that you are rich, when your hunt for alternatives becomes sincere.
-Richard Stine
If builders built buildings the way that programmers write programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
-Reede Stockton
Note - many people from engineering mgt will be at the SF Sales Meeting on Wednesday. What can I say? They offered free drinks.
-Gwynne Stoddart
I have been listening to this for a decade--about this phenomenal revolution that is going to influence my life so deeply and change everything. Well, my life has not been deeply influenced by it. If you want to know what's revolutionized my life, it's the birth of my two children.
-Clifford Stoll on "the Internet revolution"
Treat your password like your toothbrush. Don't let anybody else use it, and get a new one every six months.
-Clifford Stoll
Well, Satan is in *deep* shit.
-Stone, "Split Second"
Wake up Bitch, you're my new best friend!
-Matt Stone, Baseketball
If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of 22, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation.
-Tom Stoppard
Junk journalism is the evidence of a society that has at least one thing right, that there should be nobody with the power to dictate where responsible journalism begins.
-Tom Stoppard
We're more of the love, blood and rhetoric school... We can do you blood and love without the rhetoric, and we can do you blood and rhetoric without the love, and we can do you all three concurrent or consecutive, but I can't give you love and rhetoric without the blood. Blood is compulsory.
-Tom Stoppard
Don't get suckered in by the comments -- they can be terribly misleading. Debug only code.
-Dave Storer
We presume the Apple legal staff is all primed and ready to descend in wrath upon the honeymoon cottage immediately if the happy groom even attempts to 'look and feel'.
-Lon Stowell on Bill Gates's engagement
Never knock on Death's door: ring the bell and run away! Death really hates that!
-Mike Stratford, "Doctor, Doctor"
No matter what their cultural underpinnings, though, most simulation games have one thing in common: they're dull as all heck. Whether you're methodically building a fortress to keep barbarians from pillaging your delicate sprout of a city, or a white picket fence to keep your livestock from wandering to a neighboring farm (another tip from Nintendo: "You need to buy only one chicken to start building your poultry empire"), disemboweling a Shaolin boss is a lot more fun, not to mention less time consuming. And, especially here in New York, it's just as valid a survival skill as growing vegetables.
-Bob Strauss
Harpists spend ninety percent of their lives tuning their harps and ten percent playing out of tune
-Igor Stravinsky
I know you're supposed to take life one day at a time -- but lately several days have attacked me at once.
-Guy Streeter
Damn, it hurts. It's a good pain. But it's painful.
-Jason Streitfield
I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven't got the guts to bite people themselves.
-August Strindberg
Rewrite and revise. Do not be afraid to seize what you have and cut it to ribbons ... Good writing means good revising.
-Strunk and White, Elements of Style
But the good thing about doing it with linux is that since linux has such a hack-assed developement methodology, I get to maintain my kernel by hand, rolling in five to ten of these unsupported patches just to make it usable. Yay, go linux!
-Jason Stone
The survival value of human intelligence has yet to be satisfactorily demonstrated.
-Jeremy Stone, "The Andromeda Strain"
Of course moving sucks. Last time I moved (about 3 years ago) it took me 3 days just to move down 2 flights of stairs. It should have only taken about a day and a half, but my parents helped.
-Tom Strong
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
-Bjarne Stroustrup
I am no longer living in my prime. I won't be again until I'm 107.
-Dirk Struick on his 104th birthday
Just because they built a spaceship, it doesn't mean they know about technology. It might have been blind luck.
-Gerard Stubbs
As usual you exagerrate. Last time I looked there were less than a Billion Java books!
-Jeffrey Stulin
I need to exercise. I'm not like you with your slim, lean alcohol and nicotine soaked organs.
-Ray Stumbaugh
If you're going to walk on thin ice, you may as well dance.
-Ray Stumbaugh
I don't think I can call anyone who looks at my chest that much a friend.
-Jill Stutzman
I like using the phrase "transitive closure" because it makes me feel that computer science graduate school really was the best 10 years of my life.
-Pete Su
"Bandits on the Information Superhighway", one such entry-level manual, is different from your average O'Reilly book insofar as reading it cover-to-cover is unlikely to bump your salary up another $10K.
-Suck
Beware of geeks bearing gift economies.
-Suck
If an expert marketing staff was all that was necessary to successfully bring a product to market, we'd all be eating McRibs, watching Chevy Chase, dressing Hasidic chic, and listening to Hootie and the Blowfish.
-Suck
If information is power, then the current wave of bullshit could appropriately be termed a "brownout."
-Suck
If you had any doubts about what the fate of over five years of largely worthless Director content would be, make no mistake: it's coming to the Web in its full Grandma Bear On Quaaludes, Around-the-World in 80 Miserable Minutes, Mix-Your-Own David Bowie Digizine glory.
-Suck
In a move that will leave future generations either snorting in disgust or doubled-over with laughter, Navigator 6 actually requires the skins, completely ignoring the look-and-feel of the operating system it's running on. For Nagivator users, skins have become more than amusing little graphical diversions: They've become the death of the standard interface. We have seen the future, and it is damned hard to use.
-Suck
"Most men experience impotence at some time in their lives as a result of stress, fatigue, or excessive alcohol consumption." Um, good thing no one here is getting any (sex, that is). But if we were and tended to fall short of the task at hand, we'd look to the On-Line Guide to Impotence for help. We might probe into the FAQ section for more answers: "I've read that impotence is often 'just in a man's head.' Is that true?" Yes - thanks to the miracle of modern science, importance AND impotence have been traced directly to a man's "head." But how does the impotent man rise to the challenge? You guessed it - the key is a patented potion brought to you by those philanthropists at Upjohn. Caverject: It's name alone will turn you on. "Clinical studies prove that when used correctly, it causes an erection firm enough for sexual intercourse in approximately 80% of men, regardless of cause." But not firm enough to, say, prop open a door or smack a kid in the head with. Regardless of cause. Seriously, though - we are grappling with a real pickle, and the upshot is: "[I]f the situation persists or interferes with normal sexual activity, consult a physician." And if you're impotent and claim that it doesn't interfere with normal sexual activity, then run, don't walk, to the nearest, uh, shrink.
-Suck
Most people express the vast majority of their thoughts using the following words: stuff, things, like, weird, cool, sucks, lame, great, really, totally, and fuck.
-Suck
My god, would you look at that? There's guilt all over the damn place! How do we stomp out all that godforsaken guilt? If we knew the answer to that, we'd be spreading goat cheese over someone's naked body right now instead of writing this stupid fucking column.
-Suck
Pity the poor slob who just wants to get something done. Set adrift in a sea of functionality he can neither comprehend nor control -- buried in toolbars, insulted by assistants -- he can only look at the state of the average application's user interface and think that things can't possibly get any worse. Inevitably, he's wrong.
-Suck
"Skins" are a recent product of the hyper-democratization of code. The computer equivalent of back-ally chin tucks, skins allow a growing number of applications to change their looks in a growing number of ways, almost all of them bad.
-Suck
"The only guide to stylish post-feminist modem grrrl culture." If the word "stylish" doesn't make you shudder, that clever ploy of tacking on a "post-" to one-up an entire ideology should whisper "bull caca" in your ear.
-Suck
Unfortunately, most bitter people don't have an editor.
-Suck
Weaned on nighttime soaps and The Bonfire of the Vanities, it makes sense that new media youngsters would try to squeeze a novel or a book out of what they do for a living. But any book that relies solely on an employment milieu for mass appeal had better be set in a brothel, because despite all our talk of reach-arounds and prostituting ourselves, there is nothing inherently sexy about going to work.
-Suck
Who tackles all the big issues even more efficiently and succinctly than the Bible does? The band Yes, of course.
-Suck
Donut cross the memes!
-Dan Sully
Well, the sun is out and the power is on today, that's the best we can hope for here in California
-Sun Microsystems rep during an analyst conference call
...rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.
-Sun Tzu, The Art of War
you don't like techno!... you don't listen to *techno* (sequenced music made with computers and electronic instrumentation)... its bad for you...it all sounds exactly the same... and scary people you don't like listen to it... they all dress the same and listen to the same music...and for god's sake they're happy!... don't forget you're a "rivethead" you're INDUSTRIAL! you're *better* than them, *you* go to INDUSTRIAL clubs and listen to INDUSTRIAL music (sequenced music made with computers and electronic instrumentation)... you're an individual... you're angry... you take yourself way to seriously for that silly fluffy stuff! Right!?!
-Simon Sutherland
If Bill Gates had a nickel for every time Windows crashed... Oh wait! He does!
-Greg Sutter
A technique succeeds in mathematical physics, not by a clever trick, or a happy accident, but because it expresses some aspect of a physical truth.
-O.G. Sutton
A hard drill makes an easy battle.
-Field Marshall Alexander Suvarov
When you fully understand the frog, then you have attained enlightenment.
-Suzuki
Everyone has write access to your mind.
-Aaron Swartz
I suppose the point is that if you want the real story, you don't go through the official channels. You talk to the mate who has a mate who works in Cupertino. And that's actually the way the "fact" side of the game is played (as Joe, I assume, knows from experience), as opposed to the "hack" side, which is conducted through "the official channels", and through junkets and launches and lunches, and pretty PR girls with degrees from Wellesley.
-Nick Sweeney
[Linus Torvalds] may be a god to you, but to us, he's another chubby engineer who needs to practice his plasma gun skills.
-Nick Sweeney
Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers. There is, indeed, no wild beast more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate. If you are civil to the voluble, they will abuse your patience; if brusque, your character.
-Jonathan Swift
a web design company is like a pet rock. everybody's got one, and they're fucking useless
-David Swim
I love Janeane Garafalo because she's just SOOO angry. I'm angry, she's angry... we'd have beautiful angry children together. Except . . well, I'm gay and I'm not interested in her. Besides, she probably wouldn't sleep with me anyway, so fuck her.
-David Swim
I'd like to find whoever said suffering was good for the soul and nail his eyes to a board.
-David Swim
I'm just like Hamlet! Except, well, i'm not a prince. And my uncle didn't kill my father and marry my mother. Oh, and my girlfriend didn't drown herself in a river because I pretended like I never loved her. And I haven't died of poison. well at least, not yet. But the moody depression thing, I got that down COLD, jack.
-David Swim
leave me alone or i'll be fabulous at you
-David Swim
The problem with being in the top 10 percent of the human population is the other 90 percent.
-David Swim
You lead the most annoyingly pedestrian existance. Shouldn't you be watching Friends or something?
-David Swim
There is no such thing at this date of the world's history in America as an independent press. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to write his honest opinion, and if you did, you know beforehand it would never appear in print. I am paid weekly for keeping my honest opinion out of the paper. Others of you are paid similar salaries for similar things. and any of you who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the streets looking for another job. If I allow my honest opinions to appear in one issue of my paper, before 24 hours, my occupation would be gone. The business of the journalist is to destroy the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to vilify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread. You know it, and I know it, and what folly is this toasting an independent press? We are the tools and the vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are the jumping jacks. They pull the strings, and we dance. Our talents, our possibilities and our lives are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.
-John Swinden, 1953, then head of the New York Times, when asked to toast an independent press in a gathering at the National Press Club
WRITE ONCE, DEBUG EVERYWHERE.
-Symantec Visual Cafe Enterprise Suite demo copy box copy
To do two things at once is to do neither.
-Publilius Syrus
Those who have never tried electronic communication may not be aware of what a "social skill" really is. One social skill that must be learned, is that other people have points of view that are not only different, but *threatening*, to your own. In turn, your opinions may be threatening to others. There is nothing wrong with this. Your beliefs need not be hidden behind a facade, as happens with face-to-face conversation. Not everybody in the world is a bosom buddy, but you can still have a meaningful conversation with them. The person who cannot do this lacks in social skills.
-Nick Szabo
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
-Albert Szent-Gyorgi
The brain is not an organ of thinking but an organ of survival, like claws and fangs. It is made in such a way as to make us accept as truth that which is only advantage. It is an exceptional, almost pathological constitution one has, if one follows thoughts logically through, regardless of consequences. Such people make martyrs, apostles, or scientists, and mostly end on the stake, or in a chair, electric or academic.
-Albert Szent-Gyorgi