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. And they’re always lousy music.
— John Lennon, from The Lost Interviews by Ray […]
Category Archives: Quote of the Day
QotD: John Lennon
September 10, 2009 – 22:00
QotD: Guy Rundle
July 23, 2009 – 14:01
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 at with you with failure that threatens the very basis of orderly life itself. California’s getting a lesson in […]
QotD: Brian Aker
July 17, 2009 – 05:28
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
QotD: Guy Rundle
March 11, 2009 – 13:59
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 the children’s crusade.
— Guy Rundle, US right on a long march to medievalism
QotD: John McCain’s favourite joke
February 10, 2009 – 01:48
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 from Arizona ran for President of the United States, and I, John McCain from Arizona […]
QotD: John C. Dvorak
January 13, 2009 – 13:11
If it wasn’t already ludicrously obvious that John C. Dvorak is an asshat, here’s a snarly, clue-free piece of evidence from 1984:
Apple makes the arrogant assumption of thinking that it knows what you want and need. It, unfortunately, leaves the “why” out of the equation — as in “why would I want this?” The Macintosh […]
QoTD: Brendan Nelson
May 14, 2008 – 17:10
Every mother loves her baby, every baby is valued and Mr Rudd should value all babies equally. We should not live in Australia where Mr Rudd thinks that some babies are more valuable than others. It’s very, very important that Mr Rudd understand that every mother loves her baby and this should be an Australia […]
QoTD: Justice Kirby
February 22, 2008 – 18:16
“We are moving to a point in the world where more and more law will be expressed in its effective way, not in terms of statutes solidly enacted by the parliament … but in the technology itself: code.” — Australian High Court Judge, Justice Kirby, Tech makes lawmakers impotent, says Judge
Great to hear this understood and so […]
QoTD: Bill Hilf
November 18, 2007 – 17:08
“When people buy commercial software, really what they’re buying is a guarantee. You’re buying a guarantee that what you have will perform, and has been tested and there’s someone you can call up, and if things go really bad someone’s liable if something doesn’t work.” — Microsoft’s Bill Hilf Reveals Its Open Source Strategy
Of course, when Hilf […]
