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 Connolly

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 that.

 — Guy Rundle in Crikey: What’s happened to the once great state of California?

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

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

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 ran for President of the United States… Arizona may be the only state in the nation where mothers can no longer tell their children that some day they can grow up and be President of the United States.

 — John McCain in May 2003, via ZUG’s 100 Senator Prank

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 uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things. I dont want one of these new fangled devices.

 — John C. Dvorak in the San Francisco Examiner on February 19th, 1984 (via Philip Elmer-DeWitt’s time machine, 1984: How critics reviewed the Mac)

(Blogging this in absolute surprise that the clip wasn’t already available on YouTube! Had to find and upload it myself. Lazyweb, where are you?)

Click here to view the embedded video.

Now one of Clinton’s laws of politics is this: If one candidate’s trying to scare you and the other one’s trying to get you to think, if one candidate’s appealing to your fears and the other one’s appealing to your hopes, you better vote for the person who wants you to think and hope.

 — Bill Clinton, supporting John Kerry during the 2004 presidential campaign

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Great to hear this understood and so clearly stated by a highly influential Australian judge.

Of course, when Hilf says “commercial”, he really means “proprietary”, or he’d be supporting the awesome commercial efforts of so many FLOSS companies around the world, who not only provide great support (as a fundamentally necessary part of their business model!) and a throat to choke, but give you the freedom to find support elsewhere.

From what I’m seeing in the market, every month there are fewer and fewer ICT decision makers who are being hoodwinked by lies like these — and this time, as a direct quote from Bill Hilf, who is now Microsoft’s general manager of Windows Server marketing and platform strategy.