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Thought of the day

September 19, 2007 By: Stephen Lee Category: Thought of the day No Comments →

 

Religions change; beer and wine remain.

Hervey Allen

Doh!

September 16, 2007 By: Stephen Lee Category: Thought of the day No Comments →

All right, brain, you don’t like me, and I don’t like you, but let’s just get me through this, and I can get back to killing you with beer.

Matt Groening, The Simpsons US cartoonist & satirist (1954 - )

Computers

September 16, 2007 By: Terry Smelser Category: Thought of the day No Comments →

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots.

So far, the Universe is winning

Rick Cook, The Wizardry Compiled


If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside.

Robert X. Cringely, InfoWorld magazine

Taken To Drink

September 15, 2007 By: Stephen Lee Category: Thought of the day No Comments →

There are two things that will be believed of any man whatsoever, and one of them is that he has taken to drink.
- Booth Tarkington

Thought Of the Day

September 13, 2007 By: Stephen Lee Category: Thought of the day No Comments →

The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’

Ronald Reagan

Thought of the day

September 09, 2007 By: Stephen Lee Category: Thought of the day No Comments →

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can’t remember the other two…