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I once talked a guy out of blowing up the Sears tower, but I can't talk my wife out of the bathroom or my daughter off the phone. (The Negotiator)
"The first 80% of software development is the easy part. The hard part is the next 80%"
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."-- John Gilmore
Please do not duck the next time the clue-by-four swings your way.-- Ben Browning
The next time you feel like downloading 'The Little Engine That Could' into a weapon of mass destruction: Don't.
"Sometimes the need to mess with their heads outweighs the millstone of humiliation."-- Fox Mulder (The X-Files)
Notice in a hotel lobby in Bucharest:
"The lift is being fixed for the next day. During that time we regret that you will be unbearable."
"Last week a cop stopped me in my car. He asked me if I had a police record. I said 'no, but I have the new Devo album'. Cops have no sense of humor."
"God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyll and Hyde of sacred romance."-- Mark Twain
We all agree on the necessity of compromise. We just can't agree on when it's necessary to compromise.
-- Larry Wall
Lecture, n: Where the notes of the professor become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either one.
"I'm the Queen of the nerds. I love nerds- by which I mean, not a cool, bitchin' person. I guess I was a cool nerd. I wasn't shuffling my feet in the corner of the playground, I was the homecoming queen, but then, all the nerds voted for me."-- Tori Amos
"The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about."-- George Santayana
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
Is not that the nature of men and women--that the pleasure is in the learning of each other?
"The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them."-- Mark Twain