Previous Quotes Of The Moment

"Using encryption on the Internet is the equivalent of arranging an armored car to deliver credit-card information from someone living in a cardboard box to someone living on a park bench." - Gene Spafford

"A slipping sear could let your M203 grenade launcher fire when you least expect it. That would make you quite unpopular in what's left of your unit." - August 1993 issue of PS magazine, the US Army's preventive maintenance magazine

"The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision." - Lynn Lavner

"It's great to be a Faust, even in a pack of other Fausts." - Fritz Leiber, 'The Big Time'

"You look at some of these races around the country and you think it's a damn shame somebody has to win." - David Letterman, on election campaigns

"If you sat a monkey down in front of a keyboard, the first thing typed would be a UNIX command." - Bill Lye

"Drugs have taught an entire generation of American kids the metric system." - P.J. O'Rourke, Vancouver Sun, Dec. 20, 1991

"Making fun of born-again Christians is like hunting dairy cows with a high powered rifle and scope." - P.J. O'Rourke

"Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these." - Ovid (43 B.C. - 18 A.D.)

"Java ... is like some whimsically-shaped tool found at a yard sale: it looks cooler than shit, you just HAVE to have it, although you have no clue what the damn thing does - and will never find a use for it." - John "Squid" Shepard