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I'm an apatheist. The question is no longer interesting, and the answer no longer matters.-- petro (a.s.r)
Don't sweat petty things... or pet sweaty things.
When a metric becomes a target, it ceases to be a good metric
(A)bort (R)etry (T)oss computer across room?
"The murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums."-- Peter De Vries
The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony #9.-- Erwin Dietrich
We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospection.-- Anais Nin
It's only fun if you can get in trouble for doing it.
I wouldn't touch the Metric System with a 3.048m pole.
Headline: Astronaut Takes Blame for Gas in Spacecraft
"In America sex is an obsession; in other parts of the world it is a fact."-- Marlene Dietrich
Education is what you get when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.-- Pete Seeger
Landing: a controlled mid-air collision with a planet.
Education is a method whereby one acquires a higher grade of prejudices.-- Laurance J. Peter
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff.-- Peter de Vries
If you don't know where you are going, you'll probably end up somewhere else.-- Laurence J. Peter
PHP is a minor evil perpetrated and created by incompetent amateurs, whereas Perl is a great and insidious evil, perpetrated by skilled but perverted professionals.-- Jon Ribbens
[Perl] isn't a programming language, it's a thousand special case rules flying in close formation.-- Peter da Silva
Psychiatry enables us to correct our faults by confessing our parents' shortcomings.-- Laurence J. Peter
"Life at the top is financially rewarding, spiritually draining, physically exhausting, and short."-- Peter C. Newman
"Most of us, when all is said and done, like what we like and make up reasons for it afterwards."-- Soren F. Petersen
The loom works perfectly well without the steam powered wig darner and shortbread cutter stapled to the side.-- Peter da Silva
When in trouble, when in doubt,
run in circles, scream and shout
Perpetual motion, illustrated: Try putting a slinky on an escalator.
"And the thing is, I like my evil like I like my men--evil. You know, straight up, black hat, 'Tied to the train tracks, soon my electro-ray will destroy metropolis' bad."-- Buffy (Buffy The Vampire Slayer)
feet and stones may break my bones, but metrics are more comprehensive
There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses.-- Bjarne Stroustrup
Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice
I'm tired of being this pristine little socially acceptable monstrosity
Education makes people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern, but impossible to enslave.-- Henry Peter Brougham
"Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities"
C makes it easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes that harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.-- Bjarne Stroustrup
"I'll fight for you, but I will not compete for you... There's a difference."
"In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from."-- Peter Alexander Ustinov
"The main differences between a computer salesman and a used car salesman is that the used car salesman can probably drive and knows when he's lying."-- Peter da Silva
"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
> 0C is freezing, 100C is boiling, 70F is a nice day, and 110C is a nice
> sauna.
This is the same logic that took out the Mars Polar Lander, I see.-- Peter da Silva
Sign seen on an automatic restroom hand dryer:
"Do no activate with wet hands"
She's not my girlfriend. I find her interesting because she's a client and she sleeps above her covers. Four feet above her covers.-- Dr. Peter Venkman (Ghostbusters.)
Be good to your friends, or they may develop psychokinetic powers and destroy Tokyo.
Q: Why did the astrophysicist order three hamburgers?
A: Because he was hungry.
Primus in orbe Deus fecit timor.
"It was fear that introduced gods into the world."
We have gone from a world of concentrated knowledge and wisdom to one of distributed ignorance. And we know and understand less while being increasingly capable.
-- Peter Cochrane
Petonic (peh ton' ik), adj: One who is embarrassed to undress in front of a household pet.-- Rich Hall ("Sniglets")
Come, let us retract the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment.
Bozone, n: The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.
A troll is someone who, finding that no-one likes them, decides to pretend that it's on purpose.
The Pet Principle:
No matter which side of the door your dog or cat is on, it is the wrong side.
The music is the magic carpet that the other things take naps on.-- Tori Amos
"The trouble with us in America isn't that the poetry of life has turned to prose, but that it has turned to advertising copy."-- Louis Kronenberger
"Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled."-- William Blake