Quotes

You know you’re working too much when you receive spam with the subject line

“Erection Issues Resolved!”

and you go looking for the trouble ticket.

— Keith, true story

(before deleting an unclear email message)

“Ah, t’hell with it.  If this email message is important it’ll come back to screw me anyway.”

— Steve, Senior Systems Analyst

“I married the moonshiner’s daughter.

“How could I go wrong?

“The moonshiner’s daughter

“Put some corn in the water

“And made me liquor all night long.”

— Hayseed Dixie, Moonshiner’s Daughter

“Below you, right now: radioactive magma

“Above you, right now: hard vacuum

“Probably somewhere near you: a product with a label warning you it is unsafe if misused.”

I’ve also see this stated as

“We live on the interface between radioactive magma and hard vacuum, and there are warning labels on hair dryers.”

— Angstrom

“History is made by stupid people

“Clever people wouldn’t even try.

“If you want a place in the history books

“Then do something dumb before you die.”

— The Arrogant Worms, History is Made by Stupid People

“Sometimes my brain is a very strange place to live in.”

— Dana Smith

“My brain is like greased glass: nothing sticks and it’s really hard to focus on anything.”

— Angstrom, IRC

“Always code as if the guy who ends up maintaining your code is a psychopath who knows where you live.”

— Damian Conway

“Trying to sway him from his current kook-rant with facts is like trying to create a vacuum in a room by pushing the air out with your hands.”

— Matt Frisch

“English is not a language.  English is a bad habit shared between Norman invaders and Saxon barmaids.”

— Frog, IRC