Dec 02

Texan straight talk:

“Let’s face it, we’re not changing the world. We’re building a product that helps people buy more crap—and watch porn.”

Bill Watkins, CEO of Seagate

But I still say they’re the best hard drives.

Apr 30

Mostly for Dan:

“The new controller, in particular, gives the gamer unique control over their monkey’s balls.”

Sega creative director Matt Woodley, on the new Super Monkey Ball game for the Wii

Jun 16

“I would shut down Apple and give the shareholders their money back.”

Michael Dell, October 1997.

“If Apple decides to open the Mac OS to others, we would be happy to offer it to our customers.”

Michael Dell, June 2005.

Feb 17

the fucking alpha cpp compiler seems to fuck up the goddam type “LPITEMIDLIST”, so to work around the fucking peice of shit compiler we pass the last param as an void *instead of a LPITEMIDLIST

—Comments from the leaked Microsoft Windows 2000 source code, as reported by kuro5hin

Incidentally, the first exploit based on the leaked source code has gone wild—there’s a bug in IE 5 which allows people to take over your machine remotely if you download an image file from their web site. No fixes yet; download Mozilla or Firefox if you want a fast, free Windows web browser that isn’t a security disaster.

Oct 24

“You’re young, you’re drunk, you’re in bed, you have knives—shit happens.”

—Angelina Jolie

Oct 03

“Life no more ceases to be funny when people die than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”

—George Bernard Shaw