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Quotes from Anne Powell
Anne is my wife. Sometimes she gets off a zinger. |
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| Think of Carmen as O. J. Simpson meets Madonna. | ||
| In conversation with Ducky | ||
| Bouncing Presbyterians, Batman! | ||
| Talking in her sleep. | ||
| I think someone knows both the answer and the question. | ||
| A reference to Douglas Adams's Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy made after seeing a particularly odd commercial from Netscape. (You young people won't remember Netscape. Oh well.) | ||
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I was just finishing washing the dishes. Anne walked up
and saw what I was doing. The conversation went something like this:
Anne: I was going to do those. Me: Oh. I guess I beat you to them. Anne: Wife Beating! I'll turn you in! |
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| It's not a hack... it's an expeditious fix. | ||
| A comment to a coworker, 8/8/99 | ||
| Hmmm ... mmm mmm mmm .... hmmmmmm-hmmmm mmmm mmmm | ||
| Sleep Singing (Really!) 8/15/99 | ||
| It occurs to me that I've read two years of Cooks Illustrated. Not one swimsuit issue. Of course, Julia Child in a swimsuit is a frightening thought. | ||
| 7/25/01 | ||
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Quotes from Doug Shaw
Doug is someone I admire. I went to college with him, and (in my opinion) he's gone on to greatness. If I'd ever had a math instructor with his sense of humor, I might actually have understood the math I was forced to take in college. |
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| It's never too early to start mistrusting people with power. | ||
| reviewing Animal Farm | ||
| There are 10 kinds of people in this world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. | ||
| From an email, 7/24/02, but he says it's not original. | ||
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Quotes from David Schairer
David is one of the most brilliant people I have ever worked with. He's one of the guiding hands behind the web hosting platform at Concentric, and never without something pithy on his tongue. |
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| Kill the humans. | ||
| Explaining the benefits of automated provisioning, many times. | ||
| I'm not denying your perception. I'm denying your reality. | ||
| 1/11/01, speaking directly to me | ||
| Go ahead and bring the immature human. It should serve as a source of amusement, if nothing else. | ||
| 1/22/01, speaking of a coworker's newborn | ||
| Jesus could build a temple in three days. I'm not quite that good. | ||
| 7/20/01 | ||
| You're a canary with a heart condition. | ||
| 2002, speaking directly to me, again | ||
| Je suis le roi du merd! | ||
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2002 somewhere
Translate it yourself. |
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| Hit a man over the head with a fish and he'll have a headache for a day. Teach a man to hit himself over the head with a fish and he'll have headaches for life. | ||
| 2002 somewhere, quoting someone with the pseudonym 'pinkfish' from some Australian mud 10-11 years before. (Yes, his memory really is that good!) | ||
| I am laden with conflicts, mostly relating to the nature of the self as it is reflected in those around us, and deep-seated questions about the true value of my existence. | ||
| 9/12/02, responding to an email asking about schedule conflicts for a meeting | ||
| How quickly you've forgotten that truth adapts itself to my statements. | ||
| 2/2/09, in a conversation in which I indicated surprise that he was correct about something. An important side note: a couple of weeks before this date he had complained that I'd been working with him again for 2 whole months and no new quotes had appeared here yet. I must not have been paying proper attention. | ||
| The only thing that sucks more than computers is people. | ||
| 2/9/09, responding to my statement: "Computers suck." | ||
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Quotes about David Schairer
In addition to being a source of interesting quotes, David causes others to say interesting things about him. As I manage to capture these, I'll include them here. |
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| David never comments his code. He comments on everyone else's code though. | ||
| John Watson | ||
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Quotes From Others I Know
If I get multiple quotes from someone, they'll probably move up the list, but for those who only appear on this list once, they're here. |
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| You sort of get to know someone when you're in the hammock for a couple of hours. | ||
| Jenny Yamate, owner of Summit Whole Body Fitness Club, speaking about my friend David Fisher, whom she had just met a couple of hours before, in a hammock, at a party. It was a large hammock. | ||
| There is a limited amount of happiness on Mondays so you must take it from whoever has it. | ||
| Terry Guldimann | ||
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Subject: weird factoids .7g == amount of Ban required to cover one pit. why does my household need to know this?? |
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| The entire contents of an email Irene Seales sent me on 9/18/08. I don't know why they needed this information either, but I suspect it was Alan - her husband - who did the actual calculation. | ||
| I wouldn't have spent $80 on this watch if it wasn't useless in some regard. | ||
| John Lewis, Aug 7, 2009, speaking of his new "nerd jewelry" | ||
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Quotes From People I Don't Know
Despite the fact that I don't directly know the person in question, I deem these quotes worthy of inclusion here. |
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| A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are created equal when it asserts that God prefers some. | ||
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Harry Andrew Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Majority opinion in Lee v. Weisman |
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| Web pages are like babies -- creation involves a level of enthusiasm that does not necessarily carry over into maintenance. | ||
| Joe Chew | ||
| One of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs. | ||
| Robert Firth | ||