Quotations - II

[Geoff Wild]

Not too famous, but here's some quotes I use in my email:

"Far be it from us to TELL you when you should become a parent, but we WILL be so bold as to offer you some guidelines. -- "DNS and BIND", page 184 "

"Don't pound on the mouse like a wild monkey (stress test)."
actual workaround on sunsolve.com


# cd /pub
# more beer

# wall "Mwuahahahaha!!!"; newfs /dev/userdisk


"Run naked through the machine room randomly pulling SCSI cables."
-- item on the Synopsys quarterly downtime task list


# make fire
Make: Don't know how to make fire. Stop.
# why not?
No match.

"vi is small, fast, and easy to use. Emacs is huge, slow and easy to use :)"


Rgds...Geoff

Oh - and my online gaming quote:

"When the going gets tough....the tough get gibbed!"

[Michael Steele_2]

Least we forget what every public school student in America was raised on, Benjamin Franklin's 'Poor Richard's Almanac':

Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage. Benjamin Franklin

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. Benjamin Franklin

Here's one that's especially pertinent:

Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours.

[Mike Fisher_5]

It's almost pub-time here
So here's something appropriate..
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Abraham Lincoln (1809-65)
16th US President, Republican
In reply to comments about General Ulysses S. Grant's drinking problem

"Find out what whiskey he drinks and send all of my generals a case, if it will get the same results"

[Chris Vail]

"I am root! Fear Me!"



Chris

[John Payne_2]

Accountant: "Over here we have our random number generator."

RNG: "Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine Nine"

Dilbert: "Are you sure that's random?"

Accountant: "That's the problem with randomness. You can never be sure."

[Shannon Petry]

Lots of Einstein, but not my favorites.


"If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?"
- Albert Einstein

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."
- Albert Einstein

God may be subtle, but He isn't plain mean. -- Albert Einstein

The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. -- Albert Einstein

"If the facts don't fit the theory, change the facts." --Albert Einstein

and Finally

"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former." --Albert Einstein


He was a very great man!


Shannon

[Martin Johnson]

I like the paraphrase of the JRR Tolkien quote:

"Do not meddle in the affairs of sysadmins, for they are subtle and quick to anger."

Marty

[Bryan D. Quinn]

I always liked one I saw attached to the bottom of another sysadmins email. It was something like:

"Admin who play in root...kill tree!"


-Bryan

[Pete Randall]

"An ounce of pretention is worth a pound of manure -- Anonymous"


Pete

[Pete Randall]

And here's one for Harry:

"Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one." -- Thomas Jefferson

Pete