On two occasions I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures,
will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such
a question.
-- Charles Babbage
<Beeth> Girls are like Internet domain names: The ones I like are already taken.
<honx> Well, you can still get one from a strange country. :-P
-- From IRC
KOOOOOOOOO laaa DA! grm,pf.-
-- Michael Dornbierer
Nowhere else does Sun stop you from shooting yourself in the foot.. why care about runlevels?
-- Ben Lindstrom
Describing Austria:
The friggin Amish are like 'Come on folks, it's the 19th century already'.
Common sense is far from common.
-- Unknown
Computers are here to solve problems we wouldn't have without them.
-- Markus Haider
GCC has checks for bad spelling, mostly.
-- Aaron Wiebe
Every building we bomb in Baghdad will be another September 11. There will be innocent people dying in them.
-- Amanda Crater
It's good hair, dammit.
-- Daniel Nazar
Those who would sacrifice their liberty to gain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin
The West won the world, not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion, but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact, non-Westerners never do.
-- Samuel P. Huntington
Why, of course the people don't want war. Why should some poor slob on a farm want to risk his life in a war when the best he can get out of it is to come back to his farm in one piece? Naturally, the common people don't want war: Neither in Russia, nor in England, nor for that matter in Germany. That is understood.
But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine the policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship ... voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger.
-- Hermann Göring
I don't know what you're talking about by international law. I better consult my lawyer. [sic]
-- George W. Bush
The large print giveth and the fine print taketh away.
-- MAD Magazine
331 Password required for quit.
-- Sun Solaris FTP daemon (in.ftpd)
Norway is nice, but it sucks.
-- Henri Toivonen
Even if I am wrong, I don't care.
-- Dave Littrell
But she's got a big backpack, so she must be Canadian.
-- Brian Swearingin
All your snake are belong to us.
-- Brian Swearingin
To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.
-- Theodore Roosevelt
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
-- George Bernard Shaw
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
-- Mahatma Gandhi
It's the Vatican. They're exempt from everything but making money.
-- Denise Churba
Flebde flobde flubbin fleebin.
-- Matt Luggery
Where's the food?!
-- Matt Luggery
Hey, you shut up! I'm sexy, Stian.
-- Jason Schilling
I go to bed with my laptop every day.
-- Jason Schilling
Gaah. I don’t tend to bother about slashdot, because quite frankly, the whole _point_ of slashdot is to have this big public wanking session with people getting together and making their own “insightful” comment on any random topic, whether they know anything about it or not.
-- Linus Torvalds
So? My feet don't stink in glass houses, either.
-- Dave Littrell
They make a little insert and they squeak.
-- Denise Churba
I write stuff down in my head, so I can remember it.
-- Jason Schilling
Software gets slower faster than hardware gets faster.
-- Niklaus Wirth
You must have purchased these from someone who sold them to you.
-- Dell Customer Service Representative
The fuel pump was never louder than the stereo. It was louder than the engine.
-- Matt Luggery
Are you making silly mouth noises again, Kevin? (Kevin was speaking French.)
-- Matt Luggery
I wish I could bitch and complain that good.
-- Jason Weber
But my family's a bunch of ignorants. (Trying to say 'immigrants'.)
-- Jason Weber
It was a very small crack, and it didn't have a lump.
-- Rory Case
I don't care about reality.
-- Roger Barranco