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
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.
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.