Linux Cookie: 21 of 1140 |
That's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they
really hate is lousy programmers.
- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"
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Linux Cookie: 22 of 1140 |
Wherever you go...There you are.
- Buckaroo Banzai
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Linux Cookie: 23 of 1140 |
Life in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
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Linux Cookie: 24 of 1140 |
Lack of skill dictates economy of style.
- Joey Ramone
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Linux Cookie: 25 of 1140 |
No one is fit to be trusted with power. ... No one. ... Any man who has lived
at all knows the follies and wickedness he's capabe of. ... And if he does
know it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to
decide a single human fate.
- C. P. Snow, The Light and the Dark
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Linux Cookie: 26 of 1140 |
Successful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
- Seneca
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Linux Cookie: 27 of 1140 |
When we jumped into Sicily, the units became separated, and I couldn't find
anyone. Eventually I stumbled across two colonels, a major, three captains,
two lieutenants, and one rifleman, and we secured the bridge. Never in the
history of war have so few been led by so many.
- General James Gavin
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Linux Cookie: 28 of 1140 |
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- Edmund Burke
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Linux Cookie: 29 of 1140 |
You may call me by my name, Wirth, or by my value, Worth.
- Nicklaus Wirth
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Linux Cookie: 30 of 1140 |
Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
Teach a man to fish, and he'll invite himself over for dinner.
- Calvin Keegan
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