These quotes were kept and compiled on my hard drive in their entirety. The first Blue Notebook Quotes not to actually start in a notebook. They're mostly from the first six months at my new job.
Be calm and deliberate in the way you express your views. That will
serve you well even when you don't think you know what you are talking
about. Act like you do in a calm deliberate way always. Act like you know
what you are doing better than anyone else.
-Doug Macbeth
I don't know either, but I'll pontificate on a whim. That's what
we get paid for.
-Ivan Kotcher
Man, people still think there's another band here that can do
our job. Fools, we will defeat you...and take our mic... hehehe.
-Tina Harris
These people are slime maggots of the worst possible filth.
-Jack Rickard, _Boardwatch_ about US West Reps.
The Internet was designed to protect the free world from hostile
governments.
-Bill Frantz
AT&T is our intimate friend.
-KDD
What humans fundamentally want is mobility. The next hundred million
addresses aren't going to be on IPs, they're going to be on cell phones.
- Novell's Eric Schmidt delivering Internet World keynote.
One thing the old parchment is not is a china doll that has to
be protected from the regular world by a good layer of cotton wool. It
is a tough old soldier that's collected quite a few respectable dents in
the line of duty.
-Justice William Brennan (d. 1997) on the Constitution.
Don't you dare crash on me, you motherfucker, don't you even think
about it.
-Ivan Kotcher to MSWord, concerning an 87 page document.
Moreover, handgun homicide is a result of murderers--not anything else.
A person who decides to take an innocent life is culpable for that. To
place the blame on the NRA, easy access to handguns, poor socio- economic
conditions--or absolutely anything else at all--is to excuse barbarism;
and, ultimately, to deny its perpetrators of their ethical agency (a sorry
state of affairs, which also ultimately robs these folks of their humanity).
-Michael Fuchs
We're not going to take another bloated operating system and force
it down the throat of our Windows customers,"
-Paul Maritz, Microsoft VP, on Java Class libraries.
How do nation-states exist in an era of transnational companies?
-Sen. Brownback (R-Kan)
Worrying is as effective as trying to solve an algebra equation
by chewing bubble gum.
-Kurt Vonnegut (*NOT*)
Wake up, Europe! Wake up, the world! Don't let America own more
and more of the online universe. Because that's not good.
-Gerry McGovern
One cannot make an omelet without breaking eggs -- but it is
amazing how many eggs one can break without making a decent omelet.
- Professor Charles P. Issawi
The now infamous line 159 of bni8086.asm was defeated after an epic
battle lasting 12 hours.
-Cypherpunk annoucement of hacking PGP 5.0
Can't beat reality for a good laugh.
-Jeff Hawkins
You should have to have a license to operate a computer.
-Jim Miller
In the end, overdeveloped self-importance, breathtaking namedropping,
unmitigated narcissism, and criminally shameless self-promotion win the
day.
-Michael Carter
Clearly, whoever said that it's better to give than receive was
not using an ADSL connection.
-Evan Schuman, Techwire
I'm a reformed Jew, I don't give a fuck.
-Evan Light
The information highway is paved with rhetoric, metaphors, and
the scar tissue of misinformed executives.
-Cisco advertising slogan
We're all so connected, so relentlessly connected, that there's
no possibility for time out, for a deep breath, for a little perspective.
-Jeff Pundyk, CMP
"All my life I have despised tradition, and now I despise innovation
also. Surely, I must be a most wicked example for the world!" She dies
laughing.
-Illuminatus
It was pretty hot, and we were getting dehydrated, so we were
drinking a lot of liquids. Unfortunately, those liquids were mostly gin.
-Jim Steinkrauss
Pray together and we stay together, and if we stay together, we'll
love each other as God himself loves you.
-Mother Teresa (1910-1997)
"But what did he SAY?" "A load of bollocks, dear. Evolution and
technology and passion; man's need to find beauty in the emerging order;
his own burning need to get his end in with some software dolly wank toy.
Balls. Utter."
-Chia and Jun, (William Gibson) Idoru
The Air Force is coming more and more to believe that in the first
quarter of the 21st century, it will be able to find, fix, track, and target
in real time anything that moves anywhere on the face of the earth.
-USAF Gen. Ronald Kadish
Everyone please stop asking me if I've banged Chelsea yet. God,
she just got here today, at least give me the weekend.
-Michael Fuchs, Stanford University
Engineering only moves at about 2/3 the speed of marketing.
-Randy Bush, NANOG
I've never founded any friendships prior to noon, especially on
weekends.
-Bill Pemberton
Progress at all costs!!
-Benjamin DeVore
I see no point in explaining our ideas so thoroughly and repeatedly
that even cops and politicians start to understand them.
-James Donald
Go get yourselves a bunch of bottles, smash them, spread the shards
of glass all over the floor, and then roll over them repeatedly. Maybe
then you'll build up the thick skin you'll need to make it through life
without becoming a authoritarian bastard who won't let me say anything
which might offend somebody somewhere.
-Anthony Campillo
Why don't we start by letting humor serve as our guide?
-Dennis Miller
Just remember: it's satire. That's what were all about.
-George Weilacher
There is no such thing as a pure procedural issue. Procedural
arguments are rarely asserted without some substantive purpose. All procedural
rulings have substantive impact.
-FCC Chairman Reed Hundt
Magic: The Gathering has the advantage of being crack for nerds.
Very profitable crack for nerds.
-Adam and Brian
I'd really have to say that it'd be pretty damn cool to have our
own little guerrilla war in Hawaii.
-Sean Mike Whipkey
Drinking may equal studying for some classes, but there are the occasional
ones best handled sober.
-Dan Oz
If the keg comes, we will kill it.
-Sean Mike Whipkey
You guys are executive dweebs.
-Morgan Thomas
I had fantasies of being a boy toy for a while, but then I realized
I'd have to work at it.
-Ivan Kotcher
When we grew up, if you bought bread, you couldn't have butter.
-Genevieve Seibold
Free fall with the truth; hope we both survive.
-Ally McBeal
Officials are worried that the Internet will disturb the status
quo.
-USA Today, on the Internet and Saudi Arabia
I walked into our snack/break room and there was a stuffed midget
standing in the water fountain, peering into a first aid kit mounted on
the wall behind it.
I need a drink.
-Jeff Uphoff
The life I love is making music with my friends.
-Willy Nelson, "On The Road Again"
The 'Net sees error as damage, and routes around it to the truth.
-Robert Hettinga (paraphrasing Gilmore)
Today will be good, I decree it.
-Benjamin DeVore
And here is some kind of animal, pissing.
-Tom Walton
You gotta want SOMEthing.
-Geneveve Seibold
In short, the Internet is a challenge to the sovereignty of civilized
communities, states, and nations to decide what is appropriate and decent
behavior.
-Rep. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va
Yes, I know they made you sign an NDA in blood. But that's what
anonymous remailers are for.
-Lucky Green
Yipper (Yank Internet Pro)
-Tim Clark
Here's a little hint for your up and coming third years. Don't
wear shoes with heels when you drink a fifth of liquor.
-Noel Munson
They think that grass is always greener, the problem is that grass
is painted, not grown.
-Mike Fitzgerald
IPv4 is a wizend crone.
-IETF draft
Damn meetings-always taking place when you could be drinking.
-Anne Pettengill
At least with original drivel the production is limited to how
fast you can type. One person can only crank out so much garbage. However,
with forwards you can really crank out megs and megs of garbage.
-Bill Pemberton
A trade show seems to diminish the essence of the Net, to boil
it way down until all that's left is booth after mind-numbing booth touting
WYSIWYG HTML editors.
-Jeff Pundyk, CMPNet
It's supposed to be about a geek with a dream.
-ibid, on the Internet
Benevolent dictators and cranks do not need constant standards.
-Ivan Kotcher
Science has been like the drunk uncle of civilization, always
promising to make things better.
-Margie Wylie, C|Net
Lee began his last day of campaigning Wednesday by meeting garbage
collectors and eating a traditional Korean breakfast of curdled beef blood
and intestine soup, said to be good for hangovers.
-CNNInteractive report on the Korean Presidential Election, 12/17/97
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