Gongoputch quotes

From FBSD_tips

debugging is about eliminating independant variables, not creating more

you can only know in retrospect if you were being paranoid

If you have the right to be arrogant, well good. if you choose to exercise it, well you are wrong by definition.

Ubuntu is more user friendly ... as long as your users are all stupid

I try to break stuff down into small ideas that are large enough to represent a useful activity, but small and discrete enough to be recombinent

flash is like all the graphics designers dropped acid and start going on about how cool the colors and patterns are on a "click here to download plugin" page

<rant>all this 'oh oh, I'm going to run -current and experimental ports, then ask for support on random un reproducable problems that I can't explain in decent detail' thing makes me grumpy</rant>

reasonable people CAN disagree on things and neither party be closed minded, in fact to think otherwise is the epitome of the closed mind

"FreeBSD : Read. Understand. .... or go back to Ubuntu"

"FreeBSD : nothing that doesn't make sense" (although that is not strictly true)

FreeBSD represents a transparent set of building blocks, exposing recombinent functionality.

"The intarweb is just chocked full of 1/2 right howtos and linux"

On RMS : He is a typical leftie intellectual, "EVERYone is free to feel as I do"

On Tom Cruise : He epitomizes the "I am dumb and handsome, don't you want to do what i say?" ... the REALLY scary thing is how many seem to say YES!

On the music industry : "watching the labels defend the artist against the consumer is like getting beaten by a pimp for trying to marry his whore"

"something that is 'correct' will work, but many things 'work' without being correct"

I made a resolution not to make any resolutions ..... no. wait. ... D'OH!

If you can't specifically say why you want other than -RELEASE, you want -RELEASE

Anthropogenic Global Warming is the secular answer to the church's Original Sin doctrine

An obsession is a hobby with ENTHUSIASM

Any time the legislature is in session your freedom is in peril.

I hate it when people couch their opinion in a bunch of false objectivity. I WANT the opinions of people I feel have good ones. A well qualified opinion is of far greater value than a bunch of mealy mouth BS ... IMO (hehe)

the platters are actually quite polished and reflective

Attempting to automate the simple usually succeeds in obfuscating the obvious

"RTFM, section ABC, WTR issue XYZ" is WAY more valuable than "type def -g -h -i"

I will answer ambiguity with vagueness

I like to people watch, it reminds me of who they put the "DO NOT EAT" on the silica gel packs for