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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
Wed Aug 21 01:30:48 1991
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 91 01:30:15 EDT
From: root@charon.MIT.EDU (Initializer.SysDaemon)
To: ca-mtg@bloom-beacon.mit.edu
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belville (Sharon Belville):
See the rain outside
Lascivious destroyer
Of her projector.
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bink (Livia M. Racz):
Plan:
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celine (Rob F):
"Who shall reckon the nunber of the Beast? .. That number is VI VI VI!"
vi:Vogon Inspired -- Steve A. Anderson
FORTRAN - just say no. - Mike Clarkson
The type syntax for C is essentially unparsable.
--Rob Pike
"Whom the gods would destroy, they first teach BASIC."
"The language should match the users, not vice versa" -- Brian W. Kernighan
``To understand recursion you need to understand recursion.''
--Andrew Koenig, 2nd Usenix C++ conf.
"X Windows: Live The Nightmare." -- Amanda Walker
X Windows: Putting new limits on productivity. -- Amanda Walker
Nothing is beautiful unless it is large. Vastness and immensity can make
you forget a great many weaknesses.
- Emperor Napoleon I, predicting the development of X-window in 1813
"We should be ADVANCING on X.400." -- Albert Langer
"With rifles and flamethrowers." -- Henry Spencer
"Read the OSI protocol specifications? I can't even *lift* them!"
NeXT: A disaster looking for a place to happen -- Bill Joy
The day-to-day travails of the IBM programmer are so amusing to most of us
who are fortunate enough never to have been one -- like watching Charlie
Chaplin trying to cook a shoe.
And remember, as someone once said about MacIntosh users, "You should
never give lots of fonts to people with bad taste." - Tony DeSimone
Why do Macintosh users remind me of "Invasion of the Body Snatchers?"
- Tom Adams
Sometimes I think the world is filled with mindless sheep constantly bleating
"MIIIIPPPPPSSSS, MMMMIIIIIPPPPPSSSS" until they are lead to slaughter.
--- David Haynes, Sequent Computer Systems
Computer interfaces and user interfaces are as different as night and 1.
-- David Thomas
"Yeah, boss, I'll be in late today. UNIX refuses to boot on my Ford."
"When I use V.M.S., I feel as if I am bothering it." - Neal Rauhauser
%SYS-E-BADOPSYS, Fatal system error, DEC VMS halting
-SYS-I-GETUNIX, Replace with UNIX immediately!
If plumbers designed toilets like software professionals design tools, we'd
be up to our knees in crap.
- Charles A. Rovira
"When things are slow, don't introduce new technology, introduce new
terminology." -- John C. Dvorak
"In seeking the unattainable, simplicity only gets in the way."
-- Alan J. Perlis
"Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines."
Q: How many IBM CPU's does it take to execute a job?
A: Four; three to hold it down, and one to rip its head off.
"Moral of movie _Ghost_: If you share your password, you'll eventually
be killed." -- Paul M. Moriarty
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain;
and as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality.
-- Albert Einstein
"Life is too important to be taken seriously" - Einstein
"Prediction is very difficult, especially about the future." -- Niels Bohr
"Crazy, but not crazy enough to be true." -- Niels Bohr
"The compiler runs
Like a swift-flowing river
I wait in silence."
-- From "The Zen of Programming"
"Software rots if not used" - The Tao of Programming
"Dad, what should I be when I grow up?"
"Honest." -- Robert M. Pirsig, _Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenence_.
"We are Buddhists. We believe in God. We also believe in Hewlett-Packard"
- Kenichi Horie
"It is actually a feature of UUCP that the map of
all systems in the network is not known anywhere."
--Berkeley Mail Reference Manual (Kurt Schoens)
"One of the most attractive features of a Connection
Machine is the array of blinking lights on the faces
of its cabinet." -- CM Paris Ref. Manual, v6.0, p48.
"Internet mail headers are not unlike giblets."
-- Paul Vixie <vixie@pa.dec.com>
"Half the lies they tell me aren't true." -- Yogi Berra
"I'm hosed." -- Steve Jobs, after his NeXT machine froze up during a
demonstration to 500 people at Lotus last year.
"It's a tradition at the Letterman house to have the annual swan
dinner...and you know, it's so much fun to watch the kids fight over
the neck..."
-David Letterman
Top Ten Reasons CNN Let The Iraqis Use Their Phone Lines
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10. Iraq told them they had never used a football phone before.
9. Needed to call 911: Report a lot of mysterious explosions in the
neighborhood
8. Iraqi guy told Peter Arnett he just wanted to show him how to play CNN
them on a touch-tone phone.
7. To call 970-VEIL.
6. Trying to win Bon Jovi tickets by being 100th caller to Radio Baghdad.
5. Wanted to talk to Time-Life operator Susie.
4. Foreman of Iraqi "baby milk factory" had to place a rush order for
"pacifiers" from Germany.
3. Thought it was a funny idea to call Baghdad Airport and have them page
"Dick Hertz".
2. Iraq promised to use Sprint and get big savings but when the bill came,
where were the "big" savings? I mean, I thought it was a typo! If you
switched from AT&T, it's easier than ever to come back.
1. Hoping to screw Domino's out of free pizza.
"Son, I just want you to know: life is a black, sucking, vortex of
anguish and dispair, filled with brief moments of false hope and
empty joy, all the while dragging you inevitably closer to final,
absolute, and eternal death."
"thanks dad.."
"I'll forgive you Dad... If you have a breath mint."
Bart - "The Simpsons"
"Life is complex, in both real and imaginary parts"
The less things change, the more they remain the same -- Randy Spangler
The more things change, the more they stay insane. - Ajay Shah
I don't even know what street Canada is on. -- Al Capone
"I haven't lost my mind its backed-up on a tape somewhere"
"I haven't lost my mind; I know exactly where it is."
"Bus error: passengers dumped"
...lucky for me morning only comes once a day. - Jef Poskanzer
You know you've landed gear-up when it takes full power to taxi.
- Chris Quenelle
"Reality is just a convenient measure of complexity." -- Alvy Ray Smith
Reality is for people who can't deal with drugs.
"Restraint, hell. I'm just too fucking busy." -- Bill Wisner
"Real programmers can write assembly code in any language." - Larry Wall
Real computers are liquid cooled!
"Pulse-code-modulation programmers do it with timing."
"Emulation is the sincerest form of pottery."
--- William Frend De Morgan
American Non Sequitur Society
"We may not make sense,
but we do like pizza."
"Everybody's playing the game,
But nobody's rules are the same.
Nobody's on nobody's side."
- Chess
"If you get to it and you can NOT do it, there you jolly well
are, aren't you?" Lord Buckley
"When smashing monuments, save the pedistals--
they always come in handy." --Stanislaw J. Lec
"Today is different from yesterday." -- State Department spokesman Margaret
Tutwiler, 17 Jan 91, explaining why they won't negotiate with Saddam Hussein
"A boy without mischief is like a bowling ball without a liquid center!"
"Bison are cool; I like 'em. Big furry cows." - allanh@sco.COM
"It's the end of the world as we know it, and I feel fine!" - R.E.M.
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chiharu (Chiharu Osawa):
Aug 19-23 Summer Session (Multivariable Control)
Aug 21 18:00 Banquet at Faculty Club
Aug 26 Pick up a floor lamp, etc. at Ashizawa's
Sep 9 Registration Day
Sep 29-Oct 3 IEEE/IAS Meeting (Deaborn, MI)
Oct 4 Mr.Tajima's visit to MIT
Oct 5-10 GIA
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eichin (Mark W. Eichin):
900,000 tons of steel...
out of control...
Is Ayn Rand's fascination with railroads a secret hint that
she is a DeadHead?
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jcbourne (Juliet C Bourne):
Time was all we had until the day we said goodbye
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Companionship, partnership, mutual reassurance, someone to laugh with
and grieve with, loyalty that accepts foibles, someone to touch, someone
to hold your hand -- these things are "marriage," and sex is but the
icing on the cake. (Lazarus Long)
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Wanna find me?
Work: E10-218 x3-5756 or Home: NW61-234 x5-9523
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kenneths (Kenneth J Schneider):
Last logged on Tue Aug 20 23:42:15 EDT 1991
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starflt (Derrick Kong):
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