mike's quotes

Quote 199

I’ve become a firm believer in lawyers. They’re a lot like cocaine; other people using them
seems at best annoying and at worst destructive, but when you’ve got one you feel invincible.

— Gus

Quote 143

Life suddenly made much more sense, the day I fully grokked that people are stupid.

— Frank Sweetser in the monestary

Quote 144

Just think — blessed SCSI cables! Do a big enough sacrifice & create a +5, blessed SCSI cable of connectivity.

— Lionel on ASR

Quote 145

“Phnglui mgwlnafth Cthulhu rlyey wghnagl fthagn.”
“In his flat in Bromley, drunk Cthulhu waits knitting? I think a few subtle typos may have crept
into that one.”
“That explains why this shoggoth I summoned is only 3mm tall.”

— Peter da Silva and Peter Gutmann in the scary.devil.monastery

Quote 146

There was something to do with a klein-bottle-shaped latex catsuit and how it could be used to prove that, mathematically speaking, we did have 8 naked women in our fridge.

— Kirrily ‘Skud’ Robert

Quote 147

This obsessive, arcane book is an example of everything that is wrong with legal scholarship. Other disciplines have simple, easy-to-understand citation systems, but not law. Someone should do an analysis of the people who have worked on this book to see how many of them have gone mad.

— Customer review for Uniform System of Citation: The
Bluebook
found on Amazon.com

Quote 148

I managed to out-cool even the disgustingly cool people normally found at the cafe I went to, without trying. I’m assuming it was the IETF draft I was reading, because nothing else really accounts for it.

— Kirrily ‘Skud’ Robert in the SDM

Quote 149

The search for the perfect martini is a fraud. The perfect martini is a belt of gin from the bottle; anything else is the decadent trappings of civilization.

— T.K.

Quote 123

Computer games don’t affect kids; I mean if Pac-Man affected us as kids, we’d all be running around in darkened rooms, munching magic pills and listening to repetitive electronic music.

— Kristian Wilson, Nintendo, Inc, 1989

Quote 151

We do not routinely oil and chip over deer kill.

— Walter Bortree, PennDOT engineer

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