Roy's Collected Wise
SayingsRoy's Collected Wise
SayingsThe tablet become a page, become a screen, become a world; a virtual world
You can't tell how deep a puddle is until you step in it
If you push something hard enough, it will fall over
I didn't do it, and nobody saw me
If you lived here, you'd be home by now
Over one billion served
You aren't being paranoid, they really are after you
A crisis is just the end of an illusion
NeXTstep = Calligraphy ; Windows = Finger Painting
Pay no attention to that man behind the curtain
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction
if all else fails, reboot
You can have anything you want as long as you're willing to pay for it
Me? I'm just a lawnmower... you can tell me by the way I walk
NeXTSTEP 486... Finally some good software for the PC
NeXTSTEP is a belief system, not a just a piece of software
... and it just works! - Steve Jobs on NeXTstep 3.0
Help, I've fallen and I can't get up
Never light a match in a blimp
Light bulbs glow the brightest before they burn out
Does anybody really know what's going on?
Nothing ever really goes away
The other line moves faster
You dare enter the great kingdom of OZ?!!
God is Real, unless declared Integer
How can I know what you hear?
Only God can make a random selection
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man
The Pied Piper takes his children underground
You can't fall off the floor
Would you still exist if your umask was 777?
Please remember to state your answer in the form of a question
MIPS = Meaningless Indicator of Processing Speed
Earth's level of intelligence is a constant; the population is growing
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Give them what they need, not what they think they want
Ask forgiveness, not permission
Subscriber of the art of guerilla software development
Do the Right Thing the Right Way
May you never hear surf music again
If X is a developers GUI environment, then a pile of bricks is a house
Stick a fork in it, I'm done
The object is the advantage
#import "stdDisclaimers.h"
Always look both ways before you cross the street
Once a wrong idea about reality has been formed, it becomes more difficult to discover the truth
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel
There's no one left alive... it must be a draw
Imagination is more important than knowledge - Einstein
[gobbledeegook deleted]
It's not that I don't understand, I just don't care
Alias Scepticus Maximus
for (i = 0; i < maxInt; i++) printf(":-) ");
Elvis has left the building
Luck defined is when preparation meets opportunity
It's more fun to make than it is to eat
More fun than a barrel of monkeys
Green eggs and ham
As you approach the answer, the question will begin to change
Cyberspacious Carnivorous
If you're not part of the Steamroller, you're part of the Asphalt
God forgives, Man sometime forgives, Mother Nature never forgives
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth - Holmes
It's dangerous to play with matches around a strawman
Nothing crashes like a Macintosh - Guy Kawasaki
Dog will hunt
Its not the size of the ship, its the size of the waves
journalism: a profession created because there is too much blank paper in the world
let's head for that planet, third from the sun, it looks promising
Lost my needle in a stack of hay
Happiness: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence - JFK
Never underestimate the greed of the American public
Written documentation is an admission of failure
Woman - a conflicting mass of biological impulses - Spock
The needs of the few are outweighed by the needs of the many - Spock
Individuality is fine as long as we all do it together - Frank Burns
Everything you write may/will be used against you
NeXT has gone virtual
Once if by LAN, twice if by C
Bzzzt - and thank you for playing
640K ought to be enough for anybody (circa '81) - Bill Gates == 0x29A
And I'm hovering like a fly, waiting for the windshield on the freeway
Courage is something you just can't be afraid to have
As soon as you know, I'll find out
An unearthly rhythmic melody is tapped out, as I watch the skys
seen it, been there, done that
You can have anything you want, as long as you're willing to pay for it
The type ohs are mine, all mine
The light of good works shine S&BB
It's a mystery, wrapped in a riddle, inside an enigma - 11/22/63
Do you hear the grasshopper?
Two Birds - One Stone
Everything is made up of 10 dimensional super strings!
Bit By Bit
Power users are just people who pay electrical bills
Everyone say "Cheese"
Hal, open the pod bay door
The computer is the bicycle for the mind
From the department of redundancy department
Periphrasis circumbendibus pleonastically
IBM means Install Bigger Memory
IBM really means Incredibly Bad Machines
That's what she said
Uh, either we don't have it, or it's not out yet.
Comments, flames, applause welcome
I like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours
Those of you who are interested, please nominate yourselves
Implement like hell before anyone catches you
Those who can, do; those who can't, simulate
To iterate is human, to recurse, divine
Raindrops Keep Falling on My Synthesizer
Tell me and I will forget...
Show me and I may remember...
Involve me and I will understand.
-ancient Chinese proverb-
It isn't how much you win or lose, it's how much you dare
A memory is anything that happens that doesn't completely unhappen
uh.. Huh huh... Huh huh... Unix rules! ... settle down Beavis
Beaten paths are for beaten men
The opinions expressed herein are mine... all mine
It was working ten minutes ago, I swear...
Please keep this and all other signatures out of the reach of children
Nothing has happened unless it is on television
Fear the Information Revolution...for it has reached the hands of the strange
Bureaucracy: The art of turning energy into solid waste
Awk, I didn't grok what you sed
Stupid Sed Tricks
It's not how big your share is, its how much you share that's important
The Internet is still the wild wild West
Join the WWW cyberfest... avoid becoming Information SuperHighway road kill
Student: Does it get easier? Master: No, but you get used to it
Currently stubbing his toe.. on Big 0h
follow up to alt.utensils.spork
Weed it & reap
Please forgive me, for I know not what you do
Got my tang all tungled up
Student: You never covered that! Prof: There is no lecture in the real world
I know I am, but what are you?
I am, therefore I think I am
with a way too long .sig file
It's easier to move your sail than to try to change the direction of the wind
warning - high signal-to-sig ratio
No pedestrians, bicycles or mopeds allowed on the Information Superhighway
I feel the pull on the rope, let me off at the rainbow
Pioneers can be identified by the arrows in their backs
Intent on expanding The Matrix
Abra Cadabra
How long is ever?
When you can take this pebble out of my hand, it will be time for you to leave - Qui Chang Kane
Out the 10Base-2, through the router, over the leased line, off the bridge, past the firewall... nothing but Net
AUTOEXEC.BAT is really a vampire
windows: From the people who brought you EDLIN
Information wants to be free
Ahh... humble pie - cut me a slice!
PGP 2.5 Key B54CA62D
Fingerprint CF 8D FB 86 EF 53 28 12 7B AB 04 7C CA 27 9A 6A
Querying the collective net brilliance
Drag Me, Drop Me, Treat Me Like An Object
Wherever you go, you are there
We are Microsoft. You will be assimilated. Your opinion is irrelevant
A man's gotta know his limitations - Clinton
Shoot me again! I love the smell of gunpowder
I love the smell of napalm in the morning
Capitalistically yours,
&Chuckle...
Giving the Beast permission: -rw-rw-rw-
Parts is Parts
anti-aliasing is really a hate group against people who use assumed names
Stop in the name of all that which does not suck
^+ +^
(. .) One of these days I'm going to chop you into little pieces -
P Floyd
My thoughts are not necessarily my own and might represent my employers
Changes aren't permanent, but change is
The preceding was a paid announcement
Last seen dog-paddling in the Information SuperOcean
:q :q! :qw :w :w! :wq! :quit :quit! :help help helpquit quit quithelp
:quitplease :quitnow :exit :killvi :sh t ^X^C ^C ^D ^Z ^Q ^]:wq ARGGGH
engaging cloaking device
Nutritional Information: less than 1 bit per serving
There's no there there
this night wounds time
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man - G.B. Shaw
Intel is not even half of intelligent
I want to die peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather.
Not screaming in terror like his passengers
If you can read this .sig, thank your pixels
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals... and something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination - we learned to talk - S. Hawkins
set lurk_mode OFF
Unregistered Evaluation Opinion - expires when no longer valid
Will work for Internet access
Still trying to decipher the brain wave patterns of diehard PC users
This is the bottom line
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In an upstairs room, a modem made a connection
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
Never use your own disk space if you can avoid it
Pop-Tarts is tasty
Please press the hurry-up button
At the time, the tone will be - Bb major - exactly
It's going to be OK... Microsoft will take care of everything
Why isn't "phonetic" spelled the way it sounds?
My spellchecker guesses WOW for WWW
Macintosh - for people who can see through Windows
Exit stage right, even
Error 404 .sig not found
Who is General Failure, and why is he reading my disk?
This note will self destruct in 10 seconds
Bob is on the loose...watch out balloon help
Real html authors never write "click here"
Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on
Why don't run-away processes ever run away?