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This was said by someone who god didn't like very much.

or of course there is my sig...

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Sometimes you've just gotta say 'what the f*ck', and make your move. 'What the f*ck' gives you freedom, freedom brings opportunity, and opportunity makes your future.

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CrawGator

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools. Douglas Adams Mostly Harmless

Runners up:

"Man has survived hitherto because he was too ignorant to realize his wishes. Now that he can realize them, he must either change them or perish"
- Williams Carlos Williams pondering the nuclear age

Okay, I don't know how good my Latin grammer is anymore. But there it is. My dad taught it to me years ago, and I've been wanting to publish it as a bumper sticker ever since.

"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated" --Samuel Clemens

"It's amazing how ignorant the average person it, however it's even more amazing that half the people are more ignorant then that." --Samuel Clemens (I think)

"Bob, I sent you an e-mail about the e-mail being down." --The guy on the CDW commercial, and many many high-level executives throughout corporate America.

"640K ought to be enough for anybody!" --Bill Gates, 1981

and of course, to quote myself, "it isn't what you learn in college that's important, it's that stupid little piece of paper you get at the end!"

"Me fail english? That's unpossible!" - Bart

"God bless those pagans" - Homer

"Now, let's have no more curiosity about this bizarre cover-up." - Skinner

"The eyes are open, the mouth moves, but Mr. Brain has long departed."
--Blackadder (Rowan Atkinson)

"Anyone who tells you life is fair is either lying or trying to sell you something."
--Dr. J Metz, Radio-TV and Society class, March 1999

You are not special. You are not a beautiful or unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everything else.
- Fight Club

Everything has been figured out, except how to live. -Jean-Paul Sartre

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization in between. - Oscar Wilde

I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my desk. -- Robert Bloch

I am quick to laugh at everything, so as not to have to cry. -De Beaumarchais

Tragedy is if I cut my finger, comedy is if I walk into an open sewer and die.
-Mel Brooks

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.
-A. Whitney Brown

Time is not a road--it is a room.
-John Fowlesy Brown

If I knew the world was going to end tomorrow. I would still plant a tree today.
- Martin Luther

"The truth is out there, but the lies are in your head!" Terry Pratchett

"When you can do nothing what can you do?" - Zen koan

"If any man thinks he slays and if another thinks he is slain, neither knows the ways of truth. The eternal in man cannot kill; the eternal in man cannot die." - Baghavad Gita

"Never laugh at live dragons." - JRR Tolkien

Some favs from professors:
"What's a few orders of magnitude between friends?" - second semester frosh chem

"My data is truth. Your data is crap." - microbiology

"This is back in the day when men were men and geneticists caught their own mice." - genetics

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"women who seek to be equal to men lack ambition." - unknown
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And, of course, I really like my sig

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Originally posted by homesalad:
'meus stercus non odoramus est'

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Website : www.knology.net/wyattf
Email: [email protected]

"when the game is over, the king and the pawn go into the same box." ~ italian proverb

"if at first you don't succeed, try, try again. then quit. no use being a damned fool about it." ~ w.c. fields

and, of course, the lyrics to my 'theme song,' "half a person" by the smiths.

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Originally posted by Zwilnik:
"Cool it worked! Now if we can only stop it from exploding when it melts!" probably badly quoted from a film called True Genius, possibly the best geek film ever. I base my entire geekiness on it (yes, I even had a studio which you accessed through a cupboard once too).

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Actually it is called "Real Genius"... and has Val Kilmer in his boxers. I think i may need to watch that again when I get home.

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reality.sys corrupted. universe halted. reboot (y/n)?

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Originally posted by Evilbunny:
Hmm, who said that?

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CP/M bears some striking similarities to RT-11, but it's even smaller. CP/M is like an RT-11 gelding. MS-DOS is CP/M with a thyroid condition. Windows is like a tumor on MS-DOS. Therefore, applying the associative property, Windows is a tumor growing on the side of an RT-11 gelding with a thyroid condition. -Michael Roeder

"Given a conflict, Murphy's law supercedes Newton's."-Anon

"On two occasions I have been asked by members of Parliament, `Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage

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.
- Robert Wilensky

"Laughter is the best medicine. Unless you have cracked ribs in which case lying still and quietly moaning seems to be the best medicine. Oh, and morphine."

"The English people are like the English beer. Froth on top, dregs at the bottom, the middle excellent" - Voltaire

"Did you see that Gates came out with a new autobiography purporting to cover the years in which he learned the ins and outs of the programming art?" "It's title is 'Dumpster Diving for Code'" -rj friedman

"The English language was the result of Norman knights and Saxon maids trying to discuss how to raise the baby."

Once is accident, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action - although to a paranoid, "accident" and "coincidence" are euphemisms for enemy action.

"I hold that the real reason for the British Empire was a mass flight to find something decent to eat."- Mike Preston

"Never in the course of human history have so many owed so much to so few" -Winston Churchill, after the Battle of Britain"He must have been talking about our bar tab"-RAF pilot, in response to Churchill

"When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head."

CP/M bears some striking similarities to RT-11, but it's even smaller. CP/M is like an RT-11 gelding. MS-DOS is CP/M with a thyroid condition. Windows is like a tumor on MS-DOS. Therefore, applying the associative property, Windows is a tumor growing on the side of an RT-11 gelding with a thyroid condition. -Michael Roeder

"Given a conflict, Murphy's law supercedes Newton's."-Anon

"On two occasions I have been asked by members of Parliament, `Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."
-- Charles Babbage

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.
- Robert Wilensky

"Laughter is the best medicine. Unless you have cracked ribs in which case lying still and quietly moaning seems to be the best medicine. Oh, and morphine."

"The English people are like the English beer. Froth on top, dregs at the bottom, the middle excellent" - Voltaire

"Did you see that Gates came out with a new autobiography purporting to cover the years in which he learned the ins and outs of the programming art?" "It's title is 'Dumpster Diving for Code'" -rj friedman

"The English language was the result of Norman knights and Saxon maids trying to discuss how to raise the baby."

Once is accident, twice is coincidence, three times is enemy action - although to a paranoid, "accident" and "coincidence" are euphemisms for enemy action.

"I hold that the real reason for the British Empire was a mass flight to find something decent to eat."- Mike Preston

"Never in the course of human history have so many owed so much to so few" -Winston Churchill, after the Battle of Britain"He must have been talking about our bar tab"-RAF pilot, in response to Churchill

"When someone annoys you, it takes 42 muscles to frown, but it only takes 4 muscles to extend your arm and whack them in the head."

"Don't be conservative with a new love. Be liberal and you will find out what you want to know. Don't stop them at each thing they say or they will try to be careful with you and you will never know what kind of person they want to be."

"You must like it when people in authority they never earned lie to you."

"This city never allowed itself to decay or degrade. It's wildly, intensely growing. It's a loud bright stinking mess. It takes strength from its thousands of cultures, and the thousands more that grow anew each day. It isn't perfect. It lies and cheats. It's no utopia and it ain't the mountain by a long shot -- but it's alive. I can't argue that."

"To whom much is given, of him much will be required." --John F. Kennedy, or the Bible (depending on who you ask)