Interesting Quotes
Anne is my wife. Sometimes she gets off a zinger.
- 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.
After seeing the Netscape Netcenter
mosh pit / stock pit commercial.
- 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!
- 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
Doug is someone I admire greatly. 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.
- 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 not original.
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.
- 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 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 about me
- Je suis le roi du merd!
2002 somewhere
- 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' off some Australian mud 10-11 years before.
- 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
In addition to being a source of interesting quotes, David is also someone
that causes others to say interesting things about him. As I manage to capture
these, I'll include them here.
- David never comments his code. He comments on everyone else's code though.
John Watson
Quotes From Others I Know
If I get multiple quotes from someone, the move up the list, but for
those who only appear on this list once, they're here.
- 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
- There is a limited amount of happiness on Mondays and you must
take it from whoever has it.
Terry Guldimann
Quotes From People I Don't Know
I found or was sent these by someone. I deemed them worthy of inclusion here.
- A government cannot be premised on the belief that all persons are
created equal when it asserts that God prefers some.
Harry Andrew Blackmun, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
Majority opinion in Lee v. Weisman
- 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
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