On the first day of Linux World Expo (the perfectly numbered 2/2/2000), I walked into the press room and was greeted by the sight of fourteen PCs, all with browsers open. Half of them were tuned in to Slashdot.
Nothing in the Linux World (Expo or otherwise) is more popular than this site, where CmdrTaco, Hemos, Roblimo and their cohorts feed readers a steady diet of "News for nerds. Stuff that matters." But Slashdot is a source of news like a fireplace is a source of bricks. In fact, fireplace is a good analogy for the function Slashdot serves in the Nerd Community. Each news item is a log thrown into the fire. Combustions always follows. Dozens to hundreds of comments break out.
Many of the comments either bear quotes, or have signatures that are themselves worth quoting. Here are just a few.
— Doc Searls
Nobody owns the fucking words man. - James Dean
If there is a God, you are an authorized representative. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
0 1 - just my two bits — Cid Highwind
Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves. — George Gordon Noel Byron (Lord Byron)
When the facts change, I change my mind. What do you do?" — John Maynard Keynes
I'm not as good as I once was, but I'm as good once as I ever was — AstroJetson
Moderation is good, in theory. - Larry Wall
I can picture in my mind a world without war, a world without hate. And I can picture us attacking that world, because they'd never expect it. — Bad Mojo
3 kinds of people: those who can count & those who can't — Anonymous Coward
I've lost my faith in nihilism. — hey!
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God. — CrudPuppy
May your life be long and useful, like a roll of toilet paper, except without all the shit. — daftgirl