Linux Cookie

Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
- Andy Finkel, computer guy

Being schizophrenic is better than living alone.

NOWPRINT. NOWPRINT. Clemclone, back to the shadows again.
- The Firesign Theater

Yes, many primitive people still believe this myth...But in today's technical
vastness of the future, we can guess that surely things were much different.
- The Firesign Theater

...this is an awesome sight.  The entire rebel resistance buried under six
million hardbound copies of "The Naked Lunch."
- The Firesign Theater

We want to create puppets that pull their own strings.
- Ann Marion

I know engineers.  They love to change things.
- Dr. McCoy

On our campus the UNIX system has proved to be not only an effective software
tool, but an agent of technical and social change within the University.
- John Lions (U. of Toronto (?))

Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
- Henry Spencer, University of Toronto Unix hack

"You know why there are so few sophisticated computer terrorists in the United
States?  Because your hackers have so much mobility into the establishment.
Here, there is no such mobility.  If you have the slightest bit of intellectual
integrity you cannot support the government.... That's why the best computer
minds belong to the opposition."
- an anonymous member of the outlawed Polish trade union, Solidarity