fsck -f -b 8193 /dev/cortex -- Come, Goratrix, we must return to the chantry to prepare for tomorrow night! What are we gonna do tomorrow night, Tremere? The same thing we do every night, Goratrix: Try to Take Over The World! -- No good deed goes unpunished. -- Death before decaf. -- If voting could change things, it would be illegal. -- Just one nuclear family can ruin your whole life. -- Sysadmin (n): The untrained being underpaid for doing the impossible with the obsolete -- I dunno about the Big Bang. The Big Kludge I can believe in. -- You are in a maze of twisty X resources, all like. -- If we all work together, we can totally disrupt the system. -- I'm just a simple-minded vice-president in charge of operations... -- "He was too young to be taken from us." 'You were the one who cut him in half with a chainsaw, dude.' -- Nobody wants constructive criticism. It's all we can do to put up with constructive praise. -- "whip me, beat me, make me administer aix!" -andrew -- "I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every moment of it" - Anon -- It is easier to get forgiveness than permission. -- He's been shot through the chest with an arrow. What about his horse? I don't think anyone's shot him with that. -- "Always try to do things in chronological order; it's less confusing that way." -- "They're unfriendly, which is fortunate, really. They'd be difficult to like." -- Avon -- "Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend: and inside a dog, it's too dark to read." -- Groucho Marx -- Reader, suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself. -- Mark Twain -- My mother loved children - she would have given anything if I had been one. -- Groucho Marx -- I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it. -- Groucho Marx -- "Am I missing something else? The same configuration is working fine elsewhere (albeit with a different OS, computer and network)..." -- seen on a mailing list -- When someone says "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I wish done," give him a lollipop. -- "I like work ... I can sit and watch it for hours." -- By doing just a little every day, you can gradually let the task completely overwhelm you. -- Everyone would _like_ a first. By the time you get to the third year, you become more fatalistic, until you get to the point when a kippered herring with a Warwick crest on it would be as welcome as a degree. - Stephen Williams -- "I don't want to go to the movies to be horrified and depressed." "No, I suppose you've got real life to do that." -- It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion, It is by the beans of Java that thoughts acquire speed, The hands acquire a shaking, the shaking becomes a warning, It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion -- You go insane if you go without sleep for too long. And not in a good way, either. -- Sleep, where is thy sting, Bed, where is thy victory... -- Insomnia? Me? -- Manual? We've just been pushing buttons til it works... -- There's an old proverb that says just about whatever you want it to. -- Putt knot yore trussed inn spell chequers -- What's the plural of mongoose? Mongooses? Mongeese? Polygoose? -- I am worthless. I struggle with the simple things. It seems so easy for everyone else. One armed blind people climb mountains and teenagers get Ph.D's. I have trouble getting out of bed. -TMCM -- That which doesn't kill you will make you bitter and cynical. -TMEG -- "Aren't you ashamed of yourself?" "No, I have people to do that for me." -- Stupid, _stupid_ rat creatures... -- Lusers. Can't live with 'em, can't run 'em over in the car park and make it look like an accident... -- The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time. -- Bertrand Russell -- "It is two days later and I am still at the office. I did not go and chase coots. There is too much work to do. I want to die." -- Jamie Zawinski -- Q: Why did the tachyon cross the road? A: Because it was on the other side. -- To err is human, To purr feline. -- Robert Byrne -- To err is human, To moo bovine. -- I think my memory is implemented as a dissociative array... -- "A distributed system is one in which I cannot get something done because a machine I've never heard of is down" --Leslie Lamport -- "As you point out, EFAULT situations are `undefined' which means the machine is entitled to grow wings an launch itself towards the sun..." -- Chris Wedgwood on the linux-kernel mailing list -- "... I've seen Sun monitors on fire off the side of the multimedia lab. I've seen NTU lights glitter in the dark near the Mail Gate. All these things will be lost in time, like the root partition last week. Time to die..." - Peter Gutmann - a.s.r -- I'm an apatheist. The question is no longer interesting, and the answer no longer matters. - petro - a.s.r -- In German "invent-a-new-word-where-a-perfectly-good-one-already-exists" is probably a word. - Peter da Silva - a.s.r -- I must be sad when I have cause, and smile at no man's jests; eat when I have stomach, and wait for no man's leisure; sleep when I am drowsy, and tend on no man's business; laugh when I am merry, and claw no man in his humour. -- What they don't know can't hurt them. That's not really true of Air Traffic Control, now, is it? -- "Do you think there's a God?" "Well, SOMEbody's out to get me!" -- Calvin and Hobbs -- Either I'm dead or my watch has stopped. -- Groucho Marx's last words -- The time for action is past! Now is the time for senseless bickering. -- I understand your language perfectly. Je parle français comme une vache espagnole. Hablo español como un gringo borracho. Ich sprechen deutsch wie italienisch Fussballtrainer.