"do you software people have shit like

• don't write the whole thing in one big function
• localize variables
• don't be an idiot
• what the hell is this? didn't you go to school for this already?
• what tHE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU?!? GO!! GO WQay i'll just do it myself FUCK

"I realized that I do my best work when I'm implementing features entirely out of spite."
--Drew Olbrich

"Actually, you just think that's a telephone. Really, it's the alarm which rings whenever I get out of my chair."
--Elise Soroka

"The magic of IRC is somehow lost when you're standing right next to me."
--Elise Soroka

"I think if you lived through the Second World War, it had to seem real. I remember the end of the war, and I had a very clear image of what the life was like that my parents lived before the war -- which was an English, civilized world with cream for tea and oranges and all the things we didn't get during the war. My generation saw the images of what came out of Buchenwald and Auschwitz. And I think if you really saw all that, this business of being young forever was just rubbish, it was ridiculous. At any moment somebody could put you in Auschwitz. You needed to be vigilant against that."
--A.S. Byatt

"Qui du cul d'un chien s'amourose, Il lui parait une rose."
--Marcel Proust

"Modesty is a lot like money: we tend to detest anyone who has more or less of it than we do. The naked aborigine and the veiled villager, the nudist and the nun, are equally offensive."
--Garret Keizer