From: Don Armstrong Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 20:27:49 +0000 (+0000) Subject: move the heroin quote to offensive quotes X-Git-Url: https://git.donarmstrong.com/?p=lib.git;a=commitdiff_plain;h=bfe0e12f94323ace2fb5d7e526c446614b395a51 move the heroin quote to offensive quotes --- diff --git a/signature_stuff/offensive_quotes.txt b/signature_stuff/offensive_quotes.txt index e024e27..32eb85e 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/offensive_quotes.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/offensive_quotes.txt @@ -112,3 +112,10 @@ I told everyone I built my robot wife for sex 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 +% diff --git a/signature_stuff/quote.txt b/signature_stuff/quote.txt index e289e76..3c71901 100644 --- a/signature_stuff/quote.txt +++ b/signature_stuff/quote.txt @@ -73,12 +73,6 @@ Build a fire for a man, an he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on 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. @@ -636,4 +630,8 @@ that he was glad to be alive. But at least he did not resent it. He 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