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geography is just a handle to get a grip on the accent of the
sysadmin.

   - Dwayne Evans-Jones ddraig at the domain pobox.com
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I was kind of a nerd in high school, I never really
fit in, but I had a little status because I was playing clubs.
I have a lot of time for the nerds of the world, the ones
that don't make the cut. I'd hang out with the science kids - 
they can blow things up! I mean, what is cooler than that?

 - Tori Amos
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Apropå att använda ESC som Meta:

3087536 idag 13:14 /2 rader/ Lassie (full koll)
Mottagare: Uppföljare (till) allting <37483>
Kommentar till text 3087486 av Lisa Hallingström (choklad!)
Extra kopia: Macintoshmötet <5940>
Ärende: NiftyTelnet + SSH för Mac
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Jo, det är ju rysligt praktiskt. Ungefär som att ha fjärrkontrollen
liggande på TVn.
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Along with freedom of speech and freedom of assembly, there is freedom
to share generally useful information with other people. This should
be an inalienable right.

  --Richard M. Stallman
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You seem like you've been swept with things to do lately.  I hope you
and the gang are fairing well (when I say "gang", I'm referring to the
150 or so poeple living in the apartment).  Of course, getting 15,000
email messages a day will do that to you, plus taking care of
children, hacking, reading, meditating, walking for several hours a
day, and maintaining a social life can take its tole.  MC --- superman
of the internet!    

  --Josh Centers jcenters at the domain mindspring.com
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   It's a little known fact that Buddha's Noble
   Eightfold Path actually began as a Tenfold Path.
   Right Coding and Right Implementation were lost
   to the ages, thus resulting in Windows 95.

  -- Greg Ritter on the Future Culture mailing list.
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The memory management on the PowerPC can be used to frighten small
children.

Linus Torvalds
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MC wrote:

> A futon, lots of books and a small buddhist altar with The Sixth
> Cowherding Picture standing behind it against the wall. That's
> it. What else do you need? Oh yes, a tea pot. But that's not
> furniture, is it? ;-)
>
> Oh, and a computer terminal, of course.
>
> /MC, typing on his new er... Facit 4431 terminal.

You're such an ubergeek, Mikael.   No, you're THE ubergeek.

I'll bet when hackers sit there imagining libations to the God of
Successful Compiles, the vision they have in their head looks just like
you .

  --Dwayne Evans-Jones on Future Culture
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jag trivs bäst i öppna emacs, nära skärmen vill jag bo, alla dygnen
hela året, så att koden kan få ro.

(Den här sångsnutten skrevs ursprungligen i inlägg åt mig.)

-- LillaMi
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Top 10 reasons why Santa would make a perfect BOFH.

 1. Santa is bearded, corpulent, and dresses funny.
 2. When you ask Santa for something, the odds of receiving
    what you wanted are infinitesimal.
 3. Santa seldom answers your mail.
 4. When you ask Santa where he gets all the stuff he's got,
    he says, "Elves make it for me."
 5. Santa doesn't care about your deadlines.
 6. Your parents ascribed supernatural powers to Santa,
    but did all the work themselves.
 7. Nobody knows who Santa has to answer to for his actions.
 8. Santa laughs entirely too much.
 9. Santa thinks nothing of breaking into your $HOME.
10. Only a lunatic says bad things about Santa in his presence.
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There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

-- Matthew, 24.51
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And he [Jesus] went a little further, and fell on his face,....

-- Matthew, 26.39
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Pulchra enim sunt ubera quae paululu supereminent et tument modice,
nec fluitantia licenter, sed leniter restricta, repressa sed non
depressa.

Ty de bröst är vackra som höjer sig en smula och sväller måttligt, som
inte hänger slappt utan är mjukt åtstramande, tillbakahållna men inte
nedtryckta.
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                              SIT VIS VOBISCUM
                         May the Force be with you.
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                         FUTUE TE ET IPSUM CABALLUM
                   Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.
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          UTINAM LOGICA FALSA TUAM PHILOSOPHIAM TOTAL SUFFODIANT!
             May faulty logic undermine your entire philosophy!
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                        PLUS! PERGE! AIO! HUI! HEM!
                        More! Go on! Yes! Ooh! Ummm!
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In a world without Walls or Fences, who needs Windows or Gates?
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I'm not being rude.  You're just insignificant.
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It might look like I'm doing nothing, but at the cellular level I'm 
really quite busy. 
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Any connection between your reality and mine is purely coincidental.
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I have plenty of talent and vision.  I just don't care.
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It's a thankless job, but I've got a lot of Karma to burn off.
%
Yes, I am an agent of Satan, but my duties are largely ceremonial.
%
I'm really easy to get along with once you people learn to worship me.
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I'm out of my mind, but feel free to leave a message...
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Jag är både pratabel och fikabel.

   -- Hanna Boström
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Apropå manlig och kvinnlig syn på sex: Man är mer noga med vad man
stoppar i sig än vad man klär på sig.

   -- Hanna Boström
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Why kill time when you can kill yourself?

  -- Lydia Lunch
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Jag har hört att en lagom kombination av sömlöshet, alkohol,
cigaretter och Joy Division skall dämpa känslor.

  -- Roberth Karman
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   Before I was a Discordian, I took life much too seriously. When you
   take life too seriously you start to wonder what the point of it all
   is. When you wonder what the point is in life, you fall into a trap of
   thinking there is one. When you think there is a point, you finally
   realise there is no point. And what point is there in living like
   that? Nowadays I skip the search for a point and find, instead, the
   punch lines.

-- Omar Khayyam Ravenhurst, Pvt., USMC (Ret.), aka Kerry Thornley.
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The Eight Fallacies of Distributed Computing

   Essentially everyone, when they first build a distributed
   application, makes the following eight assumptions. All prove to be
   false in the long run and all cause big trouble and painful
   learning experiences.

     1. The network is reliable
     2. Latency is zero
     3. Bandwidth is infinite
     4. The network is secure
     5. Topology doesn't change
     6. There is one administrator
     7. Transport cost is zero
     8. The network is homogeneous

  -- Peter Deutsch

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  LISP syntax is a prefix syntax; FORTH is postfix; C syntax is
  braindeadfix; and XML syntax is a hardcorepornfix: they do it all
  the ways at the same time.

  -- Francois-Rene Rideau
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Calculated ignorance spares you the worst of information overload.

 -- Tom B, eu at the domain tomb.com
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If you have a good idea, go ahead and do it. It's much easier to
apologize than to get permission.

  - Rear Adm. Grace Hopper
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Newage rhymes with sewage.

  -- Dwayne Jones-Evans, ddraig at the domain pobox.com on Future Culture
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Den här världen är full av idioter och jag tvingas dela planet med dem.

  -- Pelo
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Relax! It's only magic.

   Sarah in _The Craft_
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Linux är för bra för att vara en 'riktig Unix'.

Inlägg 4807084 i LyslysKOM av Måns Nilsson.
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Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by
stupidity.

 -- Robert Heinlein, 'Logic of Empire'
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Any view of the universe that is not strange is false.

-- Neil Gaiman
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In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of
people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.

            -- Hitchiker's guide to the galaxy by Douglas Adams
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Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the
leather straps.
	-- Emo Phillips
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When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically
thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most
gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.

-- Cynthia Heimel, "Lower Manhattan Survival Tactics" in Village Voice 

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A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion,
butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet,
balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take
orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a
new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal,
fight efficiently, die gallantly.  Specialization is for insects.

  --- Robert Heinlein
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I remember being impressed with Ada because you could write an
infinite loop without a faked up condition.  The idea being that in
Ada the typical infinite loop would normally be terminated by
detonation.

-- Larry Wall
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Unfortunately, we have evolved from a situation where a bunch of smart
people sat in front of dumb terminals into a situation where a bunch
of dumb people are sitting in front of smart terminals.

-- Unknown?
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Drest hade made a careful study of the Discordian philosophy and
realized it was the kind of outlandish nonsense that would appeal to
the kind of people who made all the trouble in history--brilliant,
intellectual, slightly deranged dope fiends and oddball
math-and-technology buffs.  Many of the pioneer Discordians were
computer programmers (he remembered that fact every time the Company's
computer answered a simple program with GIVE ME A COOKIE or THE
GOVERNMENT SUCKS) and others had documented links with the Libertarian
Immortalists, the LSD subculture, and groups as sinister as the
witches and the anarchists.

-- Robert Anton Wilson in _Shroedinger's Cat Trilogy_
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Från Linköping rapporteras att ett tyskinspirerat homosexkollektiv
uppstått. Envisa rykten säger att en oidientifierad 'Eris' tillbeds
och mystiska ljud sägs eka genom trappuppgången.

   -- Peter "Joorin" Flystam i Lysators KOM om Area 41.
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America doesn't really have cultural traditions anymore, we just have
corporate marketing traditions.

-- David Fischer, dave at the domain cca.org on futurec
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Penis erectus non compos mentis. (En erigerad penis har inget
samvete.)

-- Robert Anton Wilson in /Shroedinger's Cat Trilogy/.
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Vi tränade hårt men varje gång vi började få fram fungerande grupper
skulle vi omorganiseras. Jag lärde mig senare i livet att vi är
benägna att möta varje ny situation genom omorganisation, och också
vilken underbar metod detta är för att skapa illusionen av framsteg
medan den åstadkommer kaos, ineffektivitet och demoralisering.

 -- Gaius Petronius 66 e. Kr
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WAR IS PEACE.
FREEDOM IS SLAVERY.
ERASE IS BACKSPACE.
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Det går alldeles utmärkt att vara fluffig med sin C-kompilator.

--- Roberth Karman
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Love belongs to Desire, and Desire is always cruel.
             Neil Gaiman
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To push the hacking-sex analogy a bit further: Most users are chaste,
innocent country girls who blush & lower their eyes when they see a
boy, holding hands is the most they've ever done, and they think that
kissing can make you pregnant.  you mc, on the other hand, are a
dungeonmaster in leather sm gear, spikes everywhere, tattooed &
pierced, ready to tie down, fist & whip your partner with a squid
while listening to laibach at full volume.

-- Tom B, eu at the domain tom-b.com referring to MC, mc at the domain
hack.org
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6203758 2001-03-12 14:21 /7 rader/ Redin
Kommentar till text 6203694 av Hans Persson (antikvariatslängtare)
Mottagare: Miljömötet <4724>
Mottagare: Kommentarer (till) Slashdot.org <1023>
Ärende: Biotech Insects to be Released Into the Wild
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Om 10-20 år är nog inte gensyntesutrustningar dyrare än en 386:a när
Linus Torvalds skaffade sig en. Det räcker med låg kostnad och
hacklust för att samma motiveringar som för vanlig fri programvara
skall funka.

Som jag har sagt förut, världen kommer att bli full av
dysfunktionella drakar som inte kan flyga.
(6203758) /Redin/-----------------------------------
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Det sämsta med unix är att det inte finns något bättre alternativ.

  -- Per "pd" Danielsson
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6113073 2001-02-19  13:26  /5 rader/ Niels Möller ()
Kommentar till text 6112762 av Egil Moeller (Förvirrad kontradiktion. Lycklig??)
Mottagare: Hackare och hackerdom <2316>
Mottagare: LISP-mötet <2226>
Markerad av 14 personer.
Ärende: Lismaskiner
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Och för övrigt är spagettikod en dålig liknelse i sammanhanget.

Det är faktiskt raviolikod det brukar bli. Massa objekt med en
väldefinierad men aningen slemmig yta, fyllda med sånt man helst vill
slippa känna till. Och så simmar alltihop runt i en tunn tomatsås.
(6113073) /Niels Möller ()/-------------------------
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Area 41 - Where common is weird

-- Roberth Karman on the topic of our collective, Area 41.
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Det handlar inte om att inte vara upptagen, det handlar om att vara
tillgänglig.

-- Måns Engman i CD-KOM 2001-05-31.
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Flickor är som krypto. Alla vill ha det och de flesta behöver det,
men bara ett fåtal är bra på det.

-- has i CD-KOM 2001-06-04
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Det bästa med XML är att man kan få tjommar som inte vet sitt eget
bästa att använda det istället för att som vanligt uppfinna ett eget
idiotformat.

Det sämsta med XML är att det är ett idiotformat...

-- has i CD-KOM 2001-07-03
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What doesn't kill you makes you stranger.

  - e. (Måns Engman i Lyslys.)
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Meddle not in the affairs of Wizards, for thou art crunchy, and taste
good with ketchup. 

-- Unknown
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Computer games doesn't affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as
kids, we'd all be running around darkened rooms, munching magic pills
and listening to repetitive electronic music."

-- Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc. 1989
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C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot.  C++ makes it harder, but
when you do, it blows away your whole leg.

-- Bjarne Stroustrup, creator of C++.
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With or without religion, good people can behave well and bad people
can do evil; but for good people to do evil -- that takes religion.

-- Steven Winberg 
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One day Maurine Stuart was having tea with freinds at her
home in Cambridge when the telephone rang.
  "Do Buddhas wear toe-nail polish?" a seven-year-old caller
wanted to know.
  "Are you wearing toe-nail polish?" Roshi responded.
  "YES!" shouted the little girl, and hung up.
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Only two things are infinite, the universe and the human stupidity,
and I'm not sure about the former.
            
-- Albert Einstein
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Ingen moral är så bra som dålig moral, men ingen moral är
inte fel det heller.

 -- has i CD-KOM 2001-10-21
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Cogito ergo deleo - Jag tänker, därför är jag deprimerad
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If men are from Mars and women from Venus, then I'm from a small
potato shaped meteorite in the vicinity of Jupiter!

  --- Miromi on FUTUREC
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[Michael] är egentligen en mycket, mycket ensam, vilsen och förvirrad
ung man, som han sedan försöker förmedla med kontroversiella
uttalanden och önskemål om medlemskap i Hjärtlösa Monsters
Sällskap. Förmodligen kommer han aldrig att bli frisk, utan snart blir
det fråga om att hitta en lösning till hur han ska lyckas leva ett
fullvärdigt liv utan att trasa sönder sig själv och omgivningen
närmast honom.

   --- Mitt ställeföreträdande samvete, min älskade exhustru, Helena
Cardell.
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[Emacs is] an artificial intelligence that has been parasitically
masquerading as a text editor.

   -- taylor at the domain taylor.org on FUTUREC.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.

- George Bernard Shaw
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Idealism och självbevarelsedrift spelar sällan i samma lag.

- Anders "has" Henriksson i SnoppKOM
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  If memory serves the garment is named after [the Bikini Atoll] on
  the basis that a woman wearing a bikini would have the same effect
  on a man as an H-bomb: He would fall to the ground screaming and
  clutching his melted eyes before bursting into flames and being
  smashed by overpressure. Not entirely clear why this was supposed
  to be a good thing.

- James Nicoll på rec.arts.sf.written.
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Thinking of Emacs as just an editor is like thinking of the space
shuttle as just another part of the public transportation system.

- Dave Kenny in comp.emacs
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The year we banned Powerpoint from this company we made more money
than ever before.

- Scott McNealy, CEO, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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If sharing a thing in no way diminishes it, it is not rightly owned if it is
not shared.

- St. Augustine 
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THC and Lisp dialects (or Pop-11, and sometimes mercury) are wonderful
combinations provided you don't mind spending 20% of your time
rejoicing in the beauty that is a dynamic language with uniform syntax
and a real goddamn macro system.
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A man about to speak the truth should keep one foot in the stirrup.

-- Mongolian Proverb 
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In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat,
fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based
foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.
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%SYSTEM-F-ANARCHISM, The operating system has been overthrown

-- Hans Rosenfeld, woodstock at wurzel.headcrashers.org in alt.sys.pdp10
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No Silicon Heaven? Preposterous! Where would all the calculators go?

-- Kryten, from the Red Dwarf episode "The Last Day".
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If you don't want chaos and destruction coming into your life, then
DON'T HAVE SEX WITH IT!
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I have no taste for either poverty or honest labour, so writing is
the only recourse left for me.

-- Hunter S. Thompson
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When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

-- Hunter S. Thompson
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Her bedroom is like a Google image search with safe-mode turned off.

--- Clongo in the dieselsweeties.com comic.
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Stupidity killed the cat. Curiosity was framed.
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<{Stone}> Television is called a medium since is it so seldom rare or
well done.

- bash.org IRC quotes.
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unzip ; strip ; touch ; grep ; find ; finger ; mount ; fsck ; more ; yes ;
fsck ; umount ; sleep
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Knuths TeX for the Math-kings of sigma, and pi,                                              
   Unix vim for the Server-lords with their OReilly tomes,                                   
Word for Mortal Men doomed to die,                                                            
   Emacs from the Bearded One on his Gnu throne,                                              
In the land of Stallman where free software lies.                                             
   One Emacs to rule them all.  One Emacs to find them,                                       
   One Emacs to take commands and to the keystrokes bind them,                                
In the land of Stallman, where free software lies.                                            

    -- Raffael Cavallaro
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Actual excerpt from a Cisco training manual:

"If you absolutely must look at a live fiber through the scope, use
your remaining eye to find a phone and summon medical assistance."
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Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character
had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has
generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and
courage which it contained.  

- John Stuart Mill
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I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And
that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or
new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just
going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul. 

  --J. G. Ballard
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  The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the
  quality of our suffering.
  - Tom Waits 
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It used to be said [...] that AIX looks like one space alien
discovered Unix, and described it to another different space alien who
then implemented AIX. But their universal translators were broken and
they'd had to gesture a lot.
	-- Paul Tomblin
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The thing that gets me is that one of the arguments that landed Robert
Morris, author of ``the internet worm'' in jail was all the sysadmins'
time his prank cost.  Yet the author of sendmail is still walking
around free without even a U (for Unixery) branded on his forehead."

 dm at the domain hri.com
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I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my
telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my
telephone.

-Bjarne Stroustrup, computer science professor, designer of C++
programming language (1950- )
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"You know there ain't no devil, that's just God when he's drunk."
--Tom Waits
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     "Människor med Aspergers syndrom ... har lärt mig mera om
     människans utveckling - även om den normala utvecklingen - än
     någon psykiatri- eller psykologibok. De är, trots alla sina
     svårigheter,  en oerhörd tillgång för mänskligheten."
					-- Christopher Gillberg
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a 4BSD?
My friends all got sources, so why can't I see?
Come all you moby hackers, come sing it out with me:
To hell with the lawyers from AT&T!
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Oh Lord, won't you buy me a 4BSD?
My friends all got sources, so why can't I see?
Come all you moby hackers, come sing it out with me:
To hell with the lawyers from AT&T!
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We should not be building surveillance technology into standards. Law
enforcement was not supposed to be easy. Where it is easy, it's called
a police state. 
-- Jeff Schiller 99.10.12
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