Saturday, June 28, 2008

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
- Rick Cook

Friday, June 20, 2008

Johnny Rotten

“There's nothing glorious in dying. Anyone can do it.”

“You'll get one number and one number only, 'cause I'm a lazy bastard!”

“Let's just say that if Malcolm breathes, it's too much for me to stomach.”

"
Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?”

“They take your soul away. They take your brains away. They don't let you have an opinion that's different from theirs. You've got to think what they tell you to think. So when you leave school, your only future is getting married. And by the time you're about 29 you got two kids, and you just wanna commit suicide.”

"
See the fine, upstanding, young men Britain is chucking out these days.”

"You don't need permission fer anyfing."

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I'm not here for your amusement. You're here for mine."




Wednesday, June 18, 2008

War is a way of shattering to pieces, or pouring into the stratosphere, or sinking in the depths of the sea, materials which might otherwise be used to make the masses too comfortable, and hence, in the long run, too intelligent.
George Orwell, 1984
If both the past and the external world exist only in the mind, and if the mind itself is controllable – what then?
George Orwell, 1984
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
George Orwell, (Animal Farm)
It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.
George Orwell, (1984, first sentence)
Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
Victor Hugo (Les Miserables)
We don't always get to choose what we love.
Scott Westerfeld
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Randy K. Milholland
On the whole human beings want to be good, but not too good, and not quite all the time.
- George Orwell
I wonder what it means when your grandson is more crotchety than you are.
- Aaron McGruder
Love is everything it's cracked up to be…It really is worth fighting for, being brave for, risking everything for.
Erica Jong,