Everything died. I know.
-Jaime Donais, Sysadmin
After all, I'm 23, not dead.
-Luciana Lopez
There are many great ideas that have come from Apple and many excellent products.
iMac is certainly the inbred, autistic, dwarf cousin of all of them.
-George Weilacher
You only get a small spark of madness in this life. Let it shine.
-Robin Williams
Best porn I've seen since I stopped buying it.
-Ivan Kotcher on the Starr Report
I will be paid to go into a courtroom and talk about computers and porno. I love this industry.
-Sean Mike Whipkey, expert witness
Time to strap on the feed bag and eat up life.
-Jim Steinkrauss
For those people who like Netscape for religious reasons, I think Microsoft is a bigger evil
than AOL.
-David Card, Jupiter Communications
Not good enough. Perhaps you'd like me to repeat my introduction to the OSI model.
-Case Ventura, Net-Detective, interrogating space aliens
Ahhh, the eternal struggle, culture vs. agriculture.
-Noel Munson, on Virginia-Virginia Tech
Monica went down, so now it's the net's turn.
-Jay Ashworth, NANOG
Should I be drunk before I read this? ... Should we both be drunk?
-Jennifer Nash
Another girl passes by, and she is more attractive than the former one.
-Wim Dik, Chairman of KPN, on getting snubbed by AT&T for an international partnership
And then they can centerpunch me on the freeway, or throw a plane at me, and I won't even mind.
Because everything I set out to prove, I proved. Everything I set out to say, I said.
-James Michael Straczynski on the end of B5
I want to get the hell out of here and go home.
-Joe DiMaggio, recovering from lung surgery (12/98)
You can’t tear Nov. 3 off your calendar last month. It was real. Ask Newt Gingrich.
-Rep. John Conyers, on continuing impeachment proceedings
The constitution works at football games, too. Especially at football games hosted by
public universities.
-Nick Kessler
Getting into the Hall of Fame and playing in all those World Series were great,
but how many people ever have a museum? This is a great honor.
-Yogi Berra on the Yogi Berra Museum at Montclair State University
Parity is not the American way. The American way is to dominate somebody else.
-Davey Johnson, Dodgers Manager
Some people are too dumb to breathe but manage to get on the 'net...
Never add the mixer first! It just won't come out right when you mix in the
booze.
Sir, this is odd, it appears that the collective have stopped their attack...and are having
a keg party, sir.
Every day of my life, for the past few years, just reminds me that you do not have to
do drugs for life to be surreal or for weird things to happen to you.
Geeks are their own society: a literate, hyperinformed underground. The community
accepts people from all walks of life, assuming they have access to the net and the
skill to use it.
Please do not use the Nanog mailing list as a NOC of first resort.
This absolutely does not scale.
Slowly, slowly, democracy has a way of catching up.
It should be first for the fans, then for the game, then for the Yankees.
Computing without encryption is like biology without DNA.
Get past the fear and the doubts.
Exposing hypocrisy today serves a purpose, and Flynt has stepped into the vacuum.
If the game is sexual McCarthyism, he knows how to play it better than anyone.
One cannot legitimately hope to improve a nation's free access to information by
working to disable its data networks.
The danger of the Internet and satellites that broadcast from a close range threatens
us...They broadcast disgraceful, immoral pictures and threaten all humanity and morality
and chastity.
Now I'm really not a conspiracy theorist, and I'm really not a paranoid generally.
But I do get irritated when I feel someone's making a buck off me and I'm not getting
a piece.
At the very least, birthdays are a time for self-reflection, and bearing down on the
big four-oh can be rough on anyone. One can only imagine how the Antichrist, the
embodiment of all evil, will adjust to midlife flab and sagging.
Drummers are freaks. There's just something wrong with drummers.
The best road trips always ended in sanctions.
When you've got your head in the Net all the time it's easy to forget that
there's a world of people (and customers) out there that are not wired and
probably never will be.
We're growing a man in a barrel on our kitchen table.
All OS's suck. Some just happen to occasionally suck less than others.
How cool you are as a person doesn't necessarily correspond to the # of posts
you make on nanog.
Hey, if you can't laugh, you're screwed.
You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps
if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the
very least you need a beer.
Who’s kidding whom here? I have to live with myself. I have to live with my
conscience. I have to live with the Constitution.
Could it be the case that many of us have latent split-personalities,
and that the Internet is an environment that allows these personalities
to split and 'flourish?'
In PSINet's defense, they don't suck that much.
I really don't know what to say except "fuck it" from now on here is my advice for
everyone. If things don't go your way, laugh and then say "fuck it" cuz it really
doesn't matter.
Every two weeks, this column will come stumbling in, stinking of stale pizza, covered
with the blood, sweat, and tears that come from supporting a sprawling site.
The place is in my mind, heart and soul.
Although it varies wildly in depth and duration, the experience of alienation is close
to universal among geeks, nerds and Webheads, the people who dreamed up, built and
inhabit the most vital parts of the Net and the Web.
The days are going to be filled with work and the nights with partying, but I guess
that's how life is supposed to be. At least for now.
It would also be cool if the images were super high res so they would meet my sacred
axiom of art: "art is better if it can be my desktop image."
Do I know jack about it? No, but a good Sys Admin inhales the manual in a short time
and does the job.
The information-age infrastructure that allows consumers to shop anytime and employers
to hire anyone, anywhere turns everything and everyone into a fungible commodity.
Economics really deals with some very basic economic questions.
In a society that goes through celebrities like socks, DiMaggio was one of the few who
had that special aura that made him immune to the demythologizing forces that grind so
many others into dust.
A society that produces Zima has no right to criticize the booze of other lands.
My den is turning into a geek command center.
Do *not* promote your club/fraternity on this list, for then the LORD your GOD will bend
you over your sousaphone and assrape you.
You’re only going to have two kinds of companies in the future: those companies that go
global and those companies that go bankrupt.
Also consumed a pitcher of Icehouse, which almost got me drunk. Christ, I miss Czech beer...
Hyperlinks subvert hierarchy.
Companies need to realize their markets are often laughing. At them.
When a certain group of friends knows each other for a certain amount of time, an odd
phenomenon occurs: they part their hair the same way in the exact same spot. You, Peter,
and Marshall do this. Scary.
I don't want to go off to some city where it's ho-hum, let's go watch the game, I want go
some place where we're going to get after it and that's what New York is all about.
My finger hursts becaus alkochol and X-Zacto blades don't mixe. Ouch.
dammit. ouch. dammittt.
I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor.
The baseball season is supposed to start in Cincinnati. It’s tradition. End of story.
This, gang, is what would have happened if the Gulf war had been covered by the
Bravo channel.
Tunes and speed, what more could you ask for.
The challenge is to take the Mets back to the playoffs and then somehow make it
all the way to the Yankees, so that the baseball century can end with one more Subway
Series.
Incidentally, today I handed in the last paper of my academic career. It was only
fitting that the paper concerned the human anus.
Who cares how it affects the team? This is bigger than wins or losses. You're talking
about a guy's life and bigger things than baseball.
Scouts and managers make the Luddites seem like pushovers.
In the end it is clear that all economic progress rests on competition.
Anyone who hits on her will have to make sure his (or her) ears are clean and is
wearing pants at least part of the time.
We can't have a gun control *and* abortion debate going at the same time without
taking down at least one server...let's not try.
The Cubs now are 4-1 when the tiny stuffed animals are handed out.
Trust me, it's much more fun when you don't have class.
This is the third time the Atlantic ocean has fucked with my personal life.
I'll be back when I'm back.
It is all so typically Boston and, indeed, New England to wallow in history and
become trapped in it, rather than to celebrate history while keeping it in its proper place.
Hello everyone. I just accidentally rebooted the file server, so bear with me.
Food, Beer, Wine, Network Diagrams, Conversation.
Just as soon as I figure out a way to make or find a waterproof keyboard and monitor,
I'll be doing 400KBps from my pool.
Telecom is a great and wondrous thing, with no stupid laws needed, unless you're a moron.
Congrats. You've made your first step towards being a SysAdmin.
Giuliani, on the other hand, is a true New Yorker - which is to say he’s neurotic,
aggressive, thin-skinned, whiny, pompous and full of himself. He also has a negative side.
Kill Jar Jar. Dagauss Often. Live happy. Any questions?
I believe that a whole species must have the humility to nurture the Earth and the pride
to go to Mars.
That's why we need more movies of naked chicks blowing stuff up.
You sit over there and you watch that ball come out of his hands and you just drool.
The manufacture, marketing and distribution of stupid, worthless shit is an unfortunate
but unavoidable reality of any modern industrialized nation.
So imagine the crowd. We have underage devil worshippers, a large gay
population, and Star Wars geeks all in the same club.
Some material may not be appropriate for loser dweebs.
Kids are midgets who pee the bed. Who needs that?
In this game, in this world, don’t underestimate anybody.
E-Commerce is like buying a boat, except in this case it's a hole in the Internet
that you're pouring your money into.
For a long time, the prices and margins for international telecommunications were
better than the drug trade.
Take a distribution, rename, stamp CDs, IPO.
July 23, 1999
Return to Quotes.
-Sean Mike Whipkey
-Noel Munson
-Sluggy Freelance
-Ivan Kotcher
-Jeff Spofford
-John Curran, NANOG
-Anonymous White House official, January 1999
-Joe DiMaggio, January 1999
-Andrew Duncan, ICA
-Doug Macbeth
-James Goldsborough, MSNBC
-Statement by a coalition of hacker groups condeming the Legion of Underground's
Cyberwar on Iraq and China
-Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati, Jan 1999
-Ivan Kotcher
-Buck Wolf, ABCNews.com
-Walt Mink (From SeanMike's .sig)
-Wade Craig
-Justin Smart, ICA
-Emily Domalski
-"BOFH Mantra" as quoted by Jeff Uphoff
-Hui-Hui Hu, NANOG
-Jim Steinkrauss
-Frank Zappa
-Sen. Robert Byrd, on why he will vote against conviction in the Senate
-Gerry McGovern
-Johann Hukari
-Shannon Mier
-Website staff of the Motley Fool, introducing their column in Network World (2/9/99)
-David Wells, leaving New York, 2/99
-JonKatz, slashdot.org.
-Scott Macbeth, on a semester abroad
-Rob Malda, slashdot.org
-Bill Pemberton, sysadmin
-Eugene Linden
-Prof. Belous, GWU
-Mike Celizik, MSNBC, 3/7/99
-L. Fitzgerald Sjoberg
-Evan Light
-The Holy FUQ, Chapter 14, verses 1 through 4, Standard SnM Version (Sean Mike Whipkey)
3/23/99
-John Zeglis, Pres. AT&T 3/21/99
-C. B. "Wahoo" Wiegand
-The Cluetrain Manifesto, Thesis 7
-ibid, Thesis 20
-Kat Thompson
-Orel Hershiser, signing with the NY Mets (3/26/99)
-Grover, UVA Arch. '01, drunken email (4/2/99)
-Neal Stephenson
-John Allen, MSNBC
-MovieJuice on The Thin Red Line
-Jim Steinkrauss on his family's new boat (4/99)
-Mike Lupica, NY Daily News (4/99)
-Nick Kessler, JD
-Chad Curtis, Yankees, on Daryll Strawberry's arrest (4/15/99)
-Christopher Koch, CIO Magazine, on IT penetration in baseball dugouts
-Alan Greenspan
-Peter Tait, laying down the ground rules for hitting on his younger sister
-Leah Slife, the Pep-Band mailing list
-Associated Press (4/26/99)
-Jeff Hawkins (5/11/99)
-Dawn Nafus (5/15/99)
-Joe Torre, on when he'll return to managing the Yankees (5/16/99)
-Bob Ryan, Boston globe (5/99)
-Jaime Donais, Sysadmin, on her second-to-last day (5/20/99)
-Alan Hannan, NANOG (5/99)
-George Weilacher on network connectivity, (5/99)
-Grendel Drago, Slashdot (5/99)
There's no escape for you now, I suggest drinking heavily.
-Bill Pemberton, SysAdmin, (6/99)
-James Liecks, MSNBC (6/99)
-Anonymous Coward, slashdot.org (6/99)
-Buzz Aldrin (6/99)
-Sean Mike Whipkey (6/99)
-Tom Kelly, Twins manager, on Pedro Martinez
-C. Brian Mattson, The Onion (6/99)
-Liz Edwards (6/99)
-Imagine Radio ad.
-The Self Made Critic, The Brunching Shuttlecocks
-Dave Eiland (six career victories, none since 1995), Devil Rays, on his victory
over Pedro Martinez (the best pitcher in baseball at the time) (7/99)
-Justin Tate (7/99)
-Ross Mayfield, CEO RateXchange (7/99)
-Rob Malda, Geeks in Space, on Linux companies' business models