but late at night when we're alone
we mostly play battleship.
-- http://www.asofterworld.com/soft_may21_2004.htm
+%
+"...Yet terrible as UNIX addiction is, there are worse fates. If UNIX
+is the heroin of operating systems, then VMS is barbiturate addiction, the
+Mac is MDMA, and MS-DOS is sniffing glue. (Windows is filling your sinuses
+with lucite and letting it set.) You owe the Oracle a twelve-step program."
+ --The Usenet Oracle
+%
fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life.
-- Jules Bean
%
-"...Yet terrible as UNIX addiction is, there are worse fates. If UNIX
-is the heroin of operating systems, then VMS is barbiturate addiction, the
-Mac is MDMA, and MS-DOS is sniffing glue. (Windows is filling your sinuses
-with lucite and letting it set.) You owe the Oracle a twelve-step program."
- --The Usenet Oracle
-%
Dropping non-free would set us back at least, what, 300 packages? It'd
take MONTHS to make up the difference, and meanwhile Debian users will
be fleeing to SLACKWARE.
was alive, and the stubbornness of this fact had little by little
begun to fascinate him -- as if he had managed to outlive himself, as
if he were somehow living a posthumous life.
- -- Paul Auster _City of Glass_
+ -- Paul Auster _City of Glass_
+%
+I really wanted to talk to her.
+I just couldn't find an algorithm that fit.
+ -- Peter Watts _Blindsight_ p294