Last modified: 2023-06-03

My favorite quotes

Archimedes of Syracuse

Give me the place to stand, and I shall move the earth.

George Carlin

Think of how stupid the average person is and then realise half of them are stupider than that.

Shakespeare

Macbeth:

When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain?

When the hurlyburly's done, when the battle's lost and won.

Tina Fey

Bossypants:

Don't waste time telling crazy people they are crazy.

Jan Samek

If you don't control it, you don't own it. Then you have to pwn it.

Multifunction is malfunction.

A polished shit is still a shit.

COBOL = Compiles Only By Odd Luck

Markiplier

In my defense, I was left unsupervised.

Linus Torvalds

Windows is an onion operating system. Layer upon layer of crap that never gets fixed.

We all know Linux is great ... it does infinite loops in 5 seconds.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Learn from the mistakes of others. You can't live long enough to make them all yourself.

Carl Sagan

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence

Noam Chomsky

If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.

Thunderf00t

Self-Powered TV: BUSTED!!!!:

The only "get rich quick" scheme that works is selling "get rich quick" schemes that don't work.

Unknown

A friend is someone who will bail you out of jail. A best friend is the one sitting next to you.

Dance like Nobody's Watching; Encrypt like Everyone is

Every sensible security technician

Rule #1 in crypto: never write your own crypto.

There is nothing more permanent than temporary solution.

Misc

Mordin Solus, Mass Effect 3

Had to be me. Someone else might have gotten it wrong.

You Must Learn from the Mistakes of Others. You Will Never Live Long Enough to Make Them All Yourself.

Arguing with an idiot is like playing chess with a pidgeon. It'll just knock over all the pieces, shit on the board, and strut about like it's won anyway.

Quote Origin

There are two kinds of teachers: the kind that fill you with so much quail shot that you can’t move, and the kind that just give you a little prod behind and you jump to the skies.

Bender, Futurama

Anything less than immortality is a complete waste of time.