Thursday, August 31, 2006

Quote of the Day

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest.
-- Kilgore Trout

Wednesday, August 30, 2006

Quote of the Day

What's the use of a good quotation if you can't change it?
-- The Doctor

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Quote of the Day

On the other hand, you have different fingers...
-- Steven Wright

Monday, August 28, 2006

Quote of the Day

Remember there's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.
-- Frank Zappa

Sunday, August 27, 2006

Quote of the Day

Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
-- Rich Kulawiec

Saturday, August 26, 2006

Quote of the Day

Mankind's yearning to engage in sports is older than recorded history, dating back to the time millions of years ago, when the first primitive man picked up a crude club and a round rock, tossed the rock into the air, and whomped the club into the sloping forehead of the first primitive umpire.

What inner force drove this first athlete? Your guess is as good as mine. Better, probably, because you haven't had four beers.

-- Dave Barry, "Sports is a Drag"

Week in Review

- 15 Years of Linux
- Friday Random Ten
- Stupid Science Reporting
- Spam from Senator Jim Talent
- I’ve had it with these mother f#$king snakes on this mother f#$king plane!
- Onkyo MP-1000J
- Pascal’s Wager Revisited
- I’ll believe it when I see it
- New URL
- Mmmm, Squid Chunks

Friday, August 25, 2006

Quote of the Day

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.
-- Frank Zappa

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Quote of the Day

The foundation of morality should not be made dependent on myth nor tied to any authority lest doubt about the myth or about the legitimacy of the authority imperil the foundation of sound judgment and action.
-- Albert Einstein

Wednesday, August 23, 2006

Beware of Safety

Quote of the Day

Don't mess with the volcano my man, 'cause I will go Pompeii on your... butt.
-- Mr. Furious

Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Quote of the Day

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.
-- Douglas Adams

Monday, August 21, 2006

Quote of the Day

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
-- Frank Zappa

Sunday, August 20, 2006

Quote of the Day

You have exactly ten seconds to change that look of disgusting pity into one of enormous respect!
-- Max Bialystock

Saturday, August 19, 2006

Mmmm, Fatty cow in the United States in dad in sand in

Quote of the Day

The level of awe that you get by contemplating the modern scientific view of the universe: deep time (by which I mean geological time), deep space, and what you could call deep complexity, living things..... that level of awe is just orders of magnitude greater and more awe-inspiring than the sort of pokey medieval world-view which the church still actually has. I mean, they sort of pay lip-service to the scientific world-view, but if you listen to what they say on Thought For The Day [a religious program on BBC Radio] and things like that, it is medieval. It's a small world, a small universe, with the sky up there, very little advance since that time. So I yield to nobody in my awe for the universe and for life, but I also have a deep desire to understand it, in terms of what makes it work, what makes it tick, and not to take refuge in spurious non-explanations like "I just believe it because I believe it," that sort of thing.
-- Richard Dawkins, interview with Douglas Adams

Week in Review

- What if Operating Systems Were Airlines?
- Friday Random Ten
- Arrrrrr! All spammers should be forced to walk the plank
- The aliens don’t like Internet Explorer
- The Post of the Beast
- The Stupid Rays, They Hurt Us!
- Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has a Blog
- DCI World Championships - Madison, WI
- Spammers: Annoying and Absolutely Worthless
- Aaaaagh!

Friday, August 18, 2006

Quote of the Day

echo $package has manual pages available in source form.
echo "However, you don't have nroff, so they're probably useless to you."

-- Larry Wall in Configure from the perl distribution

Thursday, August 17, 2006

Quote of the Day

Science has 'explained' nothing; the more we know the more fantastic the world becomes and the profounder the surrounding darkness.
-- Aldous Huxley

Wednesday, August 16, 2006

Enough Nutrition

Quote of the Day

It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
-- Bertrand Russell

Tuesday, August 15, 2006

Quote of the Day

We've got a blind date with Destiny -- and it looks like she's ordered the lobster.
-- The Shoveler

Monday, August 14, 2006

Quote of the Day

Sometimes when you look in his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving.
-- David Letterman

Sunday, August 13, 2006

Quote of the Day

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.
-- Mark Twain

Friday, August 11, 2006

Quote of the Day

Sad preacher nailed upon the coloured door of time;
Insane teacher be there reminded of the rhyme.
There'll be no mutant enemy we shall certify;
Political ends, as sad remains, will die.
Reach out as forward tastes begin to enter you.

-- Yes

Thursday, August 10, 2006

Quote of the Day

If you were a poor Indian with no weapons, and a bunch of conquistadors came up to you and asked where the gold was, I don't think it would be a good idea to say, "I swallowed it. So sue me."
-- Jack Handey

Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Quote Links

Mmmm, Deeppresso

Quote of the Day

In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty.
-- Thomas Jefferson

Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Quote of the Day

Unix is hard to learn. The process of learning it is one of multiple small epiphanies. Typically you are just on the verge of inventing some necessary tool or utility when you realize that someone else has already invented it, and built it in, and this explains some odd file or directory or command that you have noticed but never really understood before.
-- Neal Stephenson

Monday, August 07, 2006

Quote of the Day

He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
-- Rudyard Kipling

Sunday, August 06, 2006

Quote of the Day

The whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.
-- Wavy Gravy

Friday, August 04, 2006

Quote of the Day

The great nations have always acted like gangsters and the small nations like prostitutes.
-- Stanley Kubrick

Thursday, August 03, 2006

Quote of the Day

A plumbing system is very much like your electrical system, except that instead of electricity, it has water, and instead of wires, it has pipes, and instead of radios and waffle irons, it has faucets and toilets. So the truth is that your plumbing systems is nothing at all like your electrical system, which is good, because electricity can kill you.
-- Dave Barry

Wednesday, August 02, 2006

Quote of the Day

Oh, No. I'm being hassled in the street by a chick.
-- Neil Pye

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Quote of the Day

Everyone is entitled to an informed opinion.
-- Harlan Ellison