Quote of the Day

[The Howling Wolves]

All the people like us are we, And everyone else is They.
- Rudyard Kipling

 

[Borg 386]

Quotes about computers from the past

“Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.” - Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science, 1949

“But what … is it good for?” - Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip.

 

[A Guy]

A man's only as old as the woman he feels
~Groucho Marx

A Guy

 

[noobvious]

I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?

-Inspector Harry Callahan

 

[mickey megabyte]

We are all of us more or less echoes, repeating involuntarily the virtues, the defects, the movements, and the characters of those among whom we live.

Joseph Joubert, essayist (1754-1824)

 

[Kirsch]

I like video games, but they're really violent. I'd like to play a video game where you help the people who were shot in all the other games. It'd be called 'Really Busy Hospital.'

- Demetri Martin

 

[A Guy]

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes
~Jack Handey

A Guy

 

[zigzag3143]

It is clear to everyone that astronomy at all events compels the soul to look upwards, and draws it from the things of this world to the other.
Plato

 

[The Howling Wolves]

Democracy means that anyone can grow up to be president, and anyone who doesn't grow up can be vice president.
- Johnny Carson

 

[JMH]

Every heart sings a song, incomplete, until another heart whispers back.
Those who wish to sing always find a song.
At the touch of a lover, everyone becomes a poet.

Plato

 

[EpicThorn]

Wise man once say: Go to bed with itchy bum, wake up with smelly finger!
~No idea

 

[MilesAhead]

"The first person to call you paranoid is always in on it."

- MilesAhead

 

[EpicThorn]

Does anyone know who originally penned the phrase: "Duct tape is like The Force, It has a light side and a dark side, And it binds the galaxy together!"??

 

[MilesAhead]

Does anyone know who originally penned the phrase: "Duct tape is like The Force, It has a light side and a dark side, And it binds the galaxy together!"??

Nope, but prolly owned big shares in American Hardware.

 

[xarden]

Never argue with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level, then beat you with experience.

 

[A Guy]

Does anyone know who originally penned the phrase: "Duct tape is like The Force, It has a light side and a dark side, And it binds the galaxy together!"??

The character Red Green, of the Red Green Show dubs it "the handyman's secret weapon" and spawning a major motion picture called Duct Tape Forever and the character becoming the spokesman for 3M duct tape. Red Green also compared it to The Force, citing the fact that each has a light side and a dark side, and claiming that both are responsible for holding the universe together

The Red Green Show - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

A Guy

 

[A Guy]

I wonder if illiterate people get the full effect of alphabet soup?
~Jerry Seinfield

A Guy

 

[brayway]

Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes
~Jack Handey

A Guy

LOL love it!

 

[johnwillyums]

Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.
Theodor Adorno

 

[spinifex]

Light travels faster than sound.
This is why some people appear bright, untill you hear them speak.