"All things truly wicked start from an innocence."
- Ernest Hemingway

"All that we see or seem, Is a dream within a dream."
- Edgar Allen Poe

"It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity."
- Albert Einstein

"Opportunities multiply as they are seized."
- Sun Tzu

"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as

insoluble problems."
- John William Gardner

"What does not destroy me, makes me stronger."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"In heaven all the interesting people are missing."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and

epochs, it is the rule."
- Friedrich Nietzsche

"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."
- Aristotle

"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you

with their ingenuity."
- General George S. Patton

"The best executive is the one who has the sense enough to pick good men to do what

he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they

do it."
- Theodore Roosevelt

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve

neither liberty nor safety."
- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

"No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the

American people in their righteous might will win though to absolute victory....

....with confidence in our armed forces - with the unbounding determination of our

people - we will gain the inevitable triumph - so help us god."
- President Franklin D Roosevelt
December 8th, 1941
Speaking to the American people after the attack on Pearl Harbor

"Any doctrine that weakens personal responsibility for judgement and
for action helps create the attitudes that welcome and support
the totalitarian state."
-John Dewey

"Leaders are distinguished by the quality of those who have chosen to
follow."

"Every great idea started with a problem that others couldn't solve."

"Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize

them."

"If you love something, set it free; if it doesn't come back, hunt it down and kill

it."

"What parts of 'shall make no law', 'shall not be infringed', and 'shall not be

violated' don't you understand?"

"I'm attracted to smart people because... well, duh."
- Chaos

"A computer is like a piece of ass... Never let it get cold."
- Erik

Turn On, Jack In, Traceroute

If TCP/IP handshaking was less formal, perhaps SYN/ACK would be YO!/SUP! instead...

NetHack Logo "But a real man don't make his livin' wit' his ass parked in front of

a computa all day, know what I'm sayin'? It one thing to use a computa to assist you

in yo' day-to-day bidness, but when tha computa be yo' whole hustle, that shit be

WACK. Ever see what them computa bitchez do to numbas? It ain't natural. Numbas ain't

supposed to be code, they supposed to quantify shit."
- The Onion

"First they came for the hackers.
But I never did anything illegal with my computer,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the pornographers.
But I thought there was too much smut on the Internet anyway,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the anonymous remailers.
But a lot of nasty stuff gets sent from anon.penet.fi,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for the encryption users.
But I could never figure out how to work PGP anyway,
so I didn't speak up.
Then they came for me.
And by that time there was no one left to speak up."
-- Unknown

'A user needs the admin password like nitroglycerine needs a good shake'
- Unknown PFY

"thievery, retailing, pornography, and hacking are all better, and cheaper, than

therapy"
--Anonymous Coward

"You'll get my 1024 bit private key when you pry it out of my cold, dead Palm!"
--Unknown

"Minds think with ideas, not information. No amount of data, bandwidth, or processing

power can substitute for inspired thought."
--Clifford Stoll

"I ocassionally find it soothing to scan through logs full of script
kiddies thwapping their cookbooks against a firewall. It's a bit
like listening to a thunderstorm while in bed at night. But that's
just me."
--Stephen P. Berry

I sense much NT in you.
NT leads to Blue Screen.
Blue Screen leads to downtime.
Downtime leads to suffering.
NT is the path to the darkside.
--Unknown MVS Jedi

"I picked up a Magic 8-Ball the other day and it said 'Outlook not so
good.' I said, 'Sure, but Microsoft still ships it.'"

"It's 106 milliseconds to Chicago via NJE,
we've got a full proclib, half SPOOL utilization,
it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses."
"Submit it."
--Elwood Blues (if he were a mainframer)

"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We
don't believe this to be a coincidence."
--Jeremy S. Anderson

Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you
don't want Linux'.

"Getting a SCSI chain working is perfectly simple if you remember
that there must be exactly three terminations: one on one end of
the cable, one on the far end, and the goat, terminated over the
SCSI chain with a silver-handled knife whilst burning *black*
candles."
-- Anthony DeBoer

"MVS is 100 lines of code, with 1,000,000 pointers and control blocks"
An Unknown IBM Instructor

"The more you learn about MVS, the more you know, you don't know."
An Unknown MVS Consultant

Windows95, definition : 32 bit extensions and a graphical shell for a 16 bit patch to

an 8 bit operating system originally coded for a 4 bit microprocessor, written by a 2

bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition.


Definition of the mainframe : an obsolete device still used by thousands of obsolete

companies serving billions of obsolete customers and making huge obsolete profits for

their obsolete shareholders. And this year's run twice as fast as last year's.

Reality corrupted. Reboot universe? (Y/N)

Technology is just part of the solution. It is the combination of technology and

people where the magic happens.
- John Mertl President & CEO, Tomoye Corporation

"'...DOS is an INCREDIBLY stable OS.'"
"Right on. Hardware Abstraction Layers are for pussies."
- cptgrudge on slashdot.org

...and the meek shall inherit nothing, but they shall be property, and the lamb shall

be owned by the Lioness.
~Book of Ink 1:1

Thy submission, dear one, is but a feeling. Do not devote thyself to the acts played

upon thy flesh, nor of bondage, nor of the wearing of the symbol around thy throat,

nay, but to the welling of thy heart when Her eyes meet thine and the truth is

manifest: thou art OWNED!
~Book of Ink 2:2

The problem with explosives is that if you screw up, you're not just
history, but biology, geography and modern art as well.

"Evil will always triumph over good, because good is dumb."
-Dark Helmet (Spaceballs)

AAAAAA: American Association for the Annihilation of Asinine Acronyms and

Abbreviations.

Hello, and welcome to the psychiatric hotline... If you are obsessive-compulsive,
please press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, please ask someone to
press 2. If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5 and 6. If you are
paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Just stay on
the line while we trace the call. If you are schizophrenic, listen carefully and a
little voice will tell you which number to press. If you are manic depressive, it
doesn't matter which number you press; no one will answer!

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