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Emacs is a good operating system, but I prefer Unix.
I wouldn't touch the Metric System with a 3.048m pole.
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.-- John Gall ("Systemantics")
X.400 is the mail system of the future, and I hope it stays that way.-- Erik Fair
A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine.
Rhetorical subtlety doesn't work on people with the perceptive powers of an eggplant.-- Spencer Sun
I must invent my own philosophical systems, or else be enslaved by other men's.-- William Blake
The irony is that Bill Gates claims to be making a stable operating system and Linus Torvalds claims to be trying to take over the world.
Be warned that being an expert is more than understanding how a system is supposed to work. Expertise is gained by investigating why a system doesn't work.-- Brian Redman
Peace is not the absence of war. Peace is the presence of a system for resolving conflicts before war becomes necessary. War never creates peace.
"You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul."-- Mahatma Gandhi
"Linux is free as in Syphilis" (slashdot)
Cat: Ethereal music wreathed in mystery.
"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education."-- Paul Karl Feyerabend
The sun is like breasts - risky to look at unless you've got sunglasses.
"When solving a kernel panic you must first ask yourself what you were doing that could possibly frighten an operating system."-- Peter van der Linden
Those parts of the system that you can hit with a hammer are called hardware; those program instructions that you can only curse at are software.-- Richard P. Brennan
The UNIX system has a command, 'nice', which allows a user to voluntarily reduce the priority of his process, in order to be nice to other users. Nobody ever uses it.-- Andy Tanenbaum
The BeOS takes the best features from the major operating systems. It's got the power and flexibility of Unix, the interface and ease of use of the MacOS, and Minesweeper from Windows.-- Tyler Riti
I'm always highly irritated by people who imply that writing fiction is an escape from reality. It is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system.-- Flannery O'Connor
Science is not a body of knowledge nor a system of belief; it is just a term which describes humankind’s incremental acquisition of understanding through observation. Science is awesome.-- Tim Minchin
"Mosquitoes have caused more deaths than all the wars. Guppies devour mosquito larvae so may be the best defense against them...We budget billions for military systems. Preposterous! Spend it on guppies!" (letter to the editor, Eugene newspaper)
I get my kicks above the .sigline, Sunshine
Writing a Haiku
in seventeen syllables
is very diffic-
A crappie is not a sunfish found in a toilet.
Any research done on how to efficiently use computers has been long lost in the mad rush to upgrade systems to do things that aren't needed by people who don't understand what they are really supposed to do with them.-- Graham Reed
All over the place, from the popular culture to the propaganda system, there is constant pressure to make people feel that they are helpless, that the only role they can have is to ratify decisions and to consume.-- Noam Chomsky
Many times one is asked to "listen" to the same dusty old set of lies, factual errors, hate and stupidity that some fool thinks is an acceptable ethical system. Why bother? Believe me, it gets old real fast.-- Bob Lodenkamper
Americans like to talk about (or be told about) Democracy but, when put to the test, usually find it to be an "inconvenience." We have opted instead for an authoritarian system *disguised* as a Democracy. We pay through the nose for an enormous joke-of-a-government, let it push us around, and then wonder how all those assholes got in there.-- Frank Zappa
"Never go off on tangents, which are lines that intersect a curve at only one point and were discovered by Euclid, who lived in the 6th century, which was an era dominated by the Goths, who lived in what we now know as Poland." (Nov. 1998 issue of Infosystems Executive)
The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery.-- Anais Nin
It's strange that men should take up crime when there are so many legal ways to be dishonest.-- Sunshine magazine
The course of true love never did run smooth.-- Shakespeare
Saying that the just overturned systems of eastern Europe are proof the socialism isn't good or doesn't work, is sort of like saying that a particular Christian church that failed in producing ethical behavior in its adherents is proof that we need to abandon the Golden Rule and start being nasty to each other.-- Rob Bernardo
It's an old magical principle -- it's even filtered down into RPG systems -- that magic, while taking a lot of effort, can be 'stored' -- in a staff, for example. No doubt a wizard spends a little time each day charging up his staff, although you go blind if you do it too much, of course.-- Terry Pratchett (alt.fan.pratchett)
[Disk] quotas are evil; they discourage users from learning how their greed impacts others. We're not here to parent users, we just provide a model electronic ecosystem. If they deplete their resources, they become extinct. A very simple concept.-- Eric P. Scott