Don't take life seriously, you'll never get out alive.
(to "The Caissons Go Rolling Along") Scratch the disks, dump the core, Shut it down, pull the plug Roll the tapes across the floor, Give the core an extra tug And the system is going to crash. And the system is going to crash. Teletypes smashed to bits. Mem'ry cards, one and all, Give the scopes some nasty hits Toss out halfway down the hall And the system is going to crash. And the system is going to crash. And we've also found Just flip one switch When you turn the power down, And the lights will cease to twitch You turn the disk readers into trash. And the tape drives will crumble in a flash. Oh, it's so much fun, When the CPU Now the CPU won't run Can print nothing out but "foo," And the system is going to crash. The system is going to crash.
"Well, it's garish, ugly, and derelicts have used it for a toilet. The rides are dilapidated to the point of being lethal, and could easily maim or kill innocent little children." "Oh, so you don't like it?" "Don't like it? I'm CRAZY for it." -- The Killing Joke
Misfortunes arrive on wings and leave on foot.
A truly wise woman never plays leapfrog with a unicorn.
Bowie's Theorem: If an experiment works, you must be using the wrong equipment.
Children seldom misquote you. In fact, they usually repeat word for word what you shouldn't have said.
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Never underestimate the power of a small tactical nuclear weapon.
Mental power tended to corrupt, and absolute intelligence tended to corrupt absolutely, until the victim eschewed violence entirely in favor of smart solutions to stupid problems. -- Piers Anthony
I didn't get sophisticated -- I just got tired. But maybe that's what sophisticated is -- being tired. -- Rita Gain
Thieves respect property; they merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it. -- G. K. Chesterton, "The Man Who Was Thursday"
To iterate is human, to recurse, divine. -- Robert Heller
Eleanor Rigby Sits at the keyboard and waits for a line on the screen Lives in a dream Waits for a signal, finding some code that will make the machine do some more. What is it for? All the lonely users, where do they all come from? All the lonely users, why does it take so long? Hacker MacKensie Writing the code for a program that no one will run It's nearly done Look at him working, fixing the bugs in the night when there's nobody there. What does he care? All the lonely users, where do they all come from? All the lonely users, why does it take so long? Ah, look at all the lonely users. Ah, look at all the lonely users.
O imitators, you slavish herd! -- Quintus Horatius Flaccus (Horace)
Can't open /usr/games/fortunes. Lid stuck on cookie jar.
A possum must be himself, and being himself he is honest. -- Walt Kelly
Don't despise your poor relations, they may become suddenly rich one day. -- Josh Billings
I went to a job interview the other day, the guy asked me if I had any questions , I said yes, just one, if you're in a car traveling at the speed of light and you turn your headlights on, does anything happen? He said he couldn't answer that, I told him sorry, but I couldn't work for him then. -- Steven Wright
Passwords are implemented as a result of insecurity.