Only the insane take themselves quite seriously. - Sir Max Beerbohm
"Before a mad scientist goes mad, there's probably a time when he's only partially mad. And this is the time when he's going to throw his best parties." - Jack Handey
A quick change of transportation metaphors is now called for, from railroads to shipping, because however cleverly Michael Eisner, Rupert Murdoch, Steve Case and the rest of these broadband tycoons rearrange the deck chairs on their respective Titanics, an even more titanic iceberg with their names carved into it has already calved off some remote Arctic ice shelf and is inexorably drifting their way. That iceberg, of course, is the Internet. - Christopher Locke
The network is a stochastic synchronicity generator. - Christopher Locke
To be sexy, hackers need to learn how to emit fitness-to-reproduce signals. - Eric S. Raymond
The average American has one breast and one testicle - Wiredog
Well, I think if you say you're going to do something and don't do it, that's trustworthiness. - George W. Bush
"Regular consumption of beer eliminates the weaker brain cells, making the brain a faster and more efficient machine. That's why you always feel smarter after a few beers." - Cliff Clavin, the character on Cheers
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. - William Faulkner
"You know, it's at times like this when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young!" "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen!" - Douglas Adams
"I love deadlines. I love the whooshing sound they make as they fly by." - Douglas Adams
"Science has lost a friend, literature has lost a luminary, the mountain gorilla and the black rhino have lost a gallant defender (he once climbed Kilimanjaro in a rhino suit to raise money to fight the cretinous trade in rhino horn), Apple Computer has lost its most eloquent apologist. And I have lost an irreplaceable intellectual companion and one of the kindest and funniest men I ever met. I officially received a happy piece of news yesterday, which would have delighted him. I wasn’t allowed to tell anyone during the weeks I have secretly known about it, and now that I am allowed to it is too late." - Richard Dawkins on Douglas Adams
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"We used the term open source not to piss off the fsf folks, but to claim a semantic space where we could talk about issues without scaring away the people who's beliefs we wanted to change." - Eric Raymond
Great satire doesn't proceed form nihilism but from moral indignation. Compare Douglas Adams with Jonathan Swift
'media relations' need to be outlawed in every country in the world. in the best case, media relations are incestous relationships between dimwitted first cousins, on the web it is one of the worst examples of inbreeding by the unholy alliance of ad agencies and pixel mechanics of dubious talent. - The Head Lemur