Scientists tell us that the fastest animal on earth, with a top speed of 120 feet/second, is a cow that has been dropped out of a helicopter.
-Dave Barry
News Flash: Microsoft acquires Electrolux, makes extensive design revisions. Finally releases a product that doesn't suck.
Windows 95: A computer virus with mouse support
"It's trivial to make fun of Microsoft products, but it takes a real man to make them work, and a god to make them do anything useful"
- Anonymous
"... it is important to realize that any lock can be picked with a big enough hammer."
- Sun System & Network Admin manual
"Ah! How sweet coffee tastes! Lovelier than a thousand kisses, sweeter far than muscatel wine! I must have coffee..."
- J. S. Bach
"The man who sets out to carry a cat by its tail learns something that will always be useful and which never will grow dim or doubtful."
- Mark Twain
Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question - the answer is no.
"The power of accurate observations is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it."
- George Bernard Shaw
We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.
"Applying computer technology is simply finding the right wrench to pound in the correct screw."
"A preference for C++ is not a matter of taste, but of ignorance."
- Thant Tessman
"Unix is not a "A-ha" experience, it is more of a "holy-shit" experience."
- Colin McFadyen in alt.folklore.computers
"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX.
We don't believe this to be a coincidence."
- Jeremy S. Anderson
"Computers let you make more mistakes faster than anything except handguns and tequila..."
- Mitch Ratcliffe on alt.sysadmin.recovery
Programming graphics in X is like finding sqrt(pi) using Roman numerals.
"If the idea of a protocol behaving like a rabid, diseased sex-crazed bunny rabbit appeals to you, AppleTalk is for you."
- John Kennedy, comp.dcom.sys.cisco
And God said, "Let there be vodka!" And He saw that it was good. Then God said, "Let there be light!" And then He said, "Whoa - too much light."
"Now let us retract the foreskin of misconception and apply the wire brush of enlightenment"
- Geoff Miller
"6. I am afraid that I'm becoming a network nerd. How can I tell for sure?"
"How many syllables do you think there are in the word "coax"?"
- Dr. Internet
What happens if a big asteroid hits the Earth? Judging from realistic simulations involving a sledge hammer and a common laboratory frog, we can assume it will be pretty bad.
- Dave Barry
Hiroshima '45
Tschernobyl '86
Windows '95
"... and it always was possible to measure the distance between so-called management and the so-called creative by the time it took for a memo to go in one direction and a half-brick to come back in the other."
- Dennis Potter
We are indeed tight-assed tyrannical bastards, and we have had much more experience dealing with people like you than you have had dealing with people like us. After all, we do it for a living.
- Mike Andrews on alt.sysadmin.recovery
Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines.