====== Main.RandomQuotes ====== * Give a man a match, and he'll be warm for a minute, but set him on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. * "If a man asks me for my loyalty...I will give him my honesty. If a man asks me for my honesty...I will give him my loyalty!" ''--Col. John Boyd, USAF'' * "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everyone." ''--Bill Cosby'' * "The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who do nothing about them." ''--Albert Einstein'' * "In any moment of decision, the very best thing you can do, is what is right; the next best thing you can do, is what is wrong; the worst thing you can do is NOTHING." ''--Teddy Roosevelt'' * I know you believe you understand what you think I said, but I am not sure if you realize that what you heard is not what I meant. * ASCII silly question, get a silly ANSI. * "A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof was to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools." ''--Douglas Adams'' ==== Linux: ==== * "To mess up a Linux box, you need to work at it; to mess up your Windows box, you just need to work on it." ''--Scott Granneman'' %comment% (Linux vs. Windows Viruses - securityfocus.com) ==== Guns: ==== * "Speed is fine, but accuracy is final." ''--Wyatt Earp, 1888'' * "An armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life." ''--Robert A. Heinlein, Beyond the Horizon, 1942'' * "Our Freedom is supported on four boxes...Ballot, Soap, Jury and Cartridge." ''--Unknown'' * If gun control makes cities safe, why is it that Washington DC is the gun murder capitol of the U.S.? ==== Government: ==== * "A democracy is nothing more than mob rule, where fifty-one percent of the people may take away the rights of the other forty-nine." ''--Thomas Jefferson'' ==== microsoft: ==== * Microsoft is to operating systems & security...what Mc[==]Donald's is to gourmet cooking * I sense much NT in you... NT leads to bluescreen... Bluescreen leads to downtime... Downtime leads to suffering... NT is the path to the darkside... Powerful Unix is... * Microsoft properly asserts that Open[==]Office is not 100% compatible with their product. Microsoft, however, has apparently decided not to support the Open[==]Office formats either, for which they have no excuse: the standards for Open[==]Office documents are publicly available, whereas Microsoft makes it a habit to sue people for reverse engineering their own formats. ==== From [[http://www.quotationspage.com | http://www.quotationspage.com]]: ==== * Don't tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and let them surprise you with their results. ''--George S. Patton'' ==== From [[http://www.brainyquote.com | http://www.brainyquote.com]]: ==== * A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. ''--George S. Patton'' * A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end. ''--George S. Patton'' * Always do everything you ask of those you command. ''--George S. Patton'' * Better to fight for something than live for nothing. ''--George S. Patton'' * Courage is fear holding on a minute longer. ''--George S. Patton'' * If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking. ''--George S. Patton'' * It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that such men lived. ''--George S. Patton'' ==== From [[http://www.b-a-l-u.de/index.php/Projects/Quotes | http://www.b-a-l-u.de/index.php/Projects/Quotes]]: ==== * "We're Germans and we use Unix. That's a combination of two demographic groups known to have no sense of humour whatsoever." ''-- Hanno Mueller'' %comment% in de.comp.os.unix.programming * "Really, I'm not out to destroy Microsoft. That will just be a completely unintentional side effect." ''--Linus Torvalds New York Times, 28 Sept 03'' * "If Microsoft is the solution, I want my problem back." ''-- Unknown'' * "Linux is like a fractal: No matter how deep you go, there's always more!" ''-- Casey Bralla'' %comment% LinuxFromScratch * "I just found out that the brain is like a computer. If that's true, then there really aren't any stupid people. Just people running Windows." ''-- Unknown'' * "Somebody at MS is an idiot." ''-- Paul Schmehl'' %comment% mailinglist * Why did the [[Wikipedia:tachyon | tachyon]] cross the road? - Because it was on the other side. ''-- unknown'' * What an awful dream. 1s and 0s everywhere, and I thought I saw a 2. [[http://www.gizmobytes.com | Gizmo Bytes]]