"Two things have come out of Berkley: Unix and Acid, and we do not believe this to be a coincidence."
"Geek isn't just a four-letter word, it's a six-figure income."
"[P]eople in authority will always be
inconvenienced by schoolchildren or workers or citizens who are
prickly, intelligent individualists - thus, any social system that
depends on authority relationships will tend to helpfully ostracize and
therapize and drug such `abnormal' people until they are properly
docile and stupid and `well-socialized'." -Eric S. Raymond, The Jargon File v4.2
"Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all." -Winston Churchill
"Those who would give up Essential Liberty to
purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor
Safety." -Benjamin Franklin (in chilling foresight to the U.S. Patriot Act)
"If I were a rock, I'd iron myself to the wall." -Steveo
"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it." -Seymour Cray (on virtual memory)
"I hate flowers. I paint them because they're cheaper than models and they don't move." -Georgia O'Keeffe
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance." -George Bernard Shaw
"The Network is the Computer" -Scott McNealy, Sun Microsystems. And it fuckin' is.