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Where Did Your Race Get This Ridiculous Predilection For Resistance.
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Where did your race get this ridiculous predilection for resistance. You
examine any object; you question everything.
-- Korob from Pyris VII, "Catspaw," stardate 3018.2
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You like to think of yourselves as complex creatures, but you're flawed.
One gains admittance to your minds through many levels....
Judge: Mr. Hutz, we've been in here for four hours.
Do you have any evidence at all? Hutz: Well, your Honor, we've got plenty of hearsay and conjecture, those are _kinds_ of evidence....
firewall code n. 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage.
Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves....
firewall code: n. 1. The code you put in a system (say, a telephone switch) to make sure that the users can't do any damage.
Since users always want to be able to do everything but never want to suffer for any mistakes, the construction of a firewall is a question not only of defensive coding but also of interface presentation, so that users don't even get curious about those corners of a system where they can burn themselves....
Riker": "That's far enough! Stay right where you are.
Drop your weapons." Sela: "How did you get in here?...
Data: "Ambassador Spock, may I ask a personal question?
Spock: "Please." Data: "As you examine your life, do you find that you have missed your humanity?...
Look for the ridiculous in everything and you find it. -- Jules Renard
Marge: Homer! Will you get that crazy box of off the dinner table?
It came from the dump. Homer: But Marge, I'm obsessed with it....
One month after moving into your dream house, you will get new next-door neighbors who will display a predilection for dismantled cars, rabbit cages oversized tents and the music of Kool and the Gang.