confusionAlways loved a good quote
beggs
IBM must have had whole departments of people just to FACT CHECK the pages in their manuals which said, ‘This page intentionally left blank.’
Joel Spolsky, from a blog post [joelonsoftware.com]
…And I thought the telecoms business was bad…
“Men have sought to demonstrate their love of God by loving nothing at all and their love for humanity by loving nobody whatsoever.”
John Passmore, quoted in “Onwards and upwards” from the December 17th 2009 The Economist
“The mouse is probably the narrowest straw you could try to suck all of human expression through.”
Joy Mountford, quoted by Golan Levin in a TED Talk [ted.com], Feb 2009
Ah, but a man’s reach should exceed his grasp.
Robert Browning
Hey man
Do you like lasers?
Fuck yeah you do.
Welbog’s bio [stackoverflow.com] on StackOverflow [stackoverflow.com]
- Holy shit all of those photons are moving in the same direction. It’s like a motherfucking army of photons marching toward your retina goddamn!
- This shit is used to read data off of reflective discs. WHAT THE FUCK how can lasers read shit off of thin shiny pieces of plastic I mean holy fucking crap it’s gotta have a tiny wizard in there or some shit.
- Are you gonna want to use a faggy flashlight or a stupid lighter? Fuck no, you want a laser shit yes!
- I hear they figured out how far away the moon is using lasers or some shit. That doesn’t make any fucking sense!
- They come in any fucking colour you can think of. Even some colours that aren’t even colours like infrared. WTF is infrared? Fuck you, I don’t know.
- Dear motherfucking shit they move at the speed of light and nothing is faster than the speed of light because Einstein said so goddamn