I'd like to see a nude opera, because when they hit those high notes, I bet you can really see it in those genitals.
-- Jack Handey
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
Quote of the Day
Tuesday, October 19, 2021
Quote of the Day
Without coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the way he did. In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as an indispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less important to him than his table or his white robe.
-- Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac
Monday, October 18, 2021
Sunday, October 17, 2021
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
Saturday, October 16, 2021
Quote of the Day
Barry, there is no hell. There is only France.
-- Frank Zappa, "You Can't Do That On Stage Anymore"
Friday, October 15, 2021
Thursday, October 14, 2021
Quote of the Day
If the account given in Genesis is really true, ought we not, after all, to thank this serpent? He was the first schoolmaster, the first advocate of learning, the first enemy of ignorance, the first to whisper in human ears the sacred word liberty, the creator of ambition, the author of modesty, of inquiry, of doubt, of investigation, of progress and of civilization.
-- Robert G. Ingersoll, ("The Gods", 1872)
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Quote of the Day
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
-- George Bernard Shaw
Tuesday, October 12, 2021
Quote of the Day
A paranoid is someone who knows a little of what's going on.
-- William S. Burroughs
Monday, October 11, 2021
Quote of the Day
I bet one legend that keeps recurring throughout history, in every culture, is the story of Popeye.
-- Jack Handey