Category Archives: Quote of the Day

QotD: Jon Corbet on linux.conf.au and Linux Australia

Posted on January 26, 2012 by Jeff Waugh

In summary, LCA remains unique in its combination of strongly technical talks, freedom-oriented and hands-on orientation, wide variety of topics covered, and infectious Australian humor. There is a reason some of us seem to end up there every year despite … Continue reading →

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However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light

Posted on August 25, 2011 by Jeff Waugh

Playboy: If life is so purposeless, do you feel that it’s worth living? Kubrick: Yes, for those of us who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning. Children, … Continue reading →

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QotD: Rusty Russell

Posted on July 7, 2010 by Jeff Waugh

Side note: when a respected information source covers something where you have on-the-ground experience, the result is often to make you wonder how much fecal matter you’ve swallowed in areas outside your own expertise. – Rusty Russell in Superfreakonomics; Superplug … Continue reading →

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QotD: Stephen Fry

Posted on April 5, 2010 by Jeff Waugh

One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of this astonishing object: Douglas Adams is not alive to see the closest thing to his Hitchhiker’s Guide that humankind has yet devised. – Stephen Fry in The … Continue reading →

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Potentially fatal marriage joke

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Jeff Waugh

“Well, I put the towels in the bath tub so the hotel staff know they need to be cleaned.” – A potentially fatal joke (in the context of marriage), which I apparently survived last night. … not that the hotel … Continue reading →

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QotD: John Lennon

Posted on September 10, 2009 by Jeff Waugh

No. No musicals. I loathe musicals. I never did have a plan for doing one. My cousin made me sit through some fucking musical twice. I just hate them. They bore me stiff. I think they’re just horrible. Even Hair. … Continue reading →

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QotD: Guy Rundle

Posted on July 23, 2009 by Jeff Waugh

The whole thing shows that if you have a basic contempt for the idea of government — that you wanted it to be small enough to “get it in the bathtub and drown it” — then it will come back … Continue reading →

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QotD: Brian Aker

Posted on July 17, 2009 by Jeff Waugh

Some companies lack “open source table manners”. Often they don’t know what is expected. Like my cat bringing dead mice to the dinner table. – Brian Aker, with some tiny Twitter wisdom

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QotD: Guy Rundle

Posted on March 11, 2009 by Jeff Waugh

When your movement is being led by a 13-year-old child, the morbidly obese recovering benzodiazepine addict radio star Rush Limbaugh, and a mystical simpleton like Joe the Plumber, then you’re at the point medieval Europe reached around the time of … Continue reading →

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QotD: John McCain’s favourite joke

Posted on February 10, 2009 by Jeff Waugh

I feel terrible for all the mothers in the state of Arizona because, as you know: Barry Goldwater from Arizona ran for President of the United States, Morris Udall from Arizona ran for President of the United States, Bruce Babbitt … Continue reading →

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