Fahlman Quotes

#1. If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless fun for children of all ages, and they won't mar the furniture.

Scott Fahlman

#2. In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.

Scott Fahlman

#3. I think of myself as just another consumer.

Roelof Botha

#4. You wouldn't tolerate an underperforming surgeon in an operating theatre, or a underperforming midwife at your child's birth. Why is it that we tolerate underperforming teachers in the classroom?

Michael Gove

#5. I'm not shy about wearing a lot of makeup! But when I don't have to be done up, I just use a bit of concealer and maybe some lip balm.

Khloe Kardashian

#6. You shouldn't have laughed."
"Pardon?"
"I might have let you be, but you laughed

Kristen Ashley

#7. Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement ...

Karl Popper

#8. This is as good as it gets. Can't expect everyone to be on the same page. We're still humans after all. Some percentage of us are always going to be assholes.

James S.A. Corey

#9. ROSS PEROT was the best thing that happened in American politics since Richard Nixon acquired a taste for gin. In both cases, the political dialogue of the day was enriched by spontaneous gibberish that entertained the wrong people and made the right ones question their faith.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. It's true I lost my eyesight many years ago. But that doesn't mean I'm blind.

Jan-Philipp Sendker

#11. how hard it is to walk always in fear of hurting another who is tied to us.

George Eliot

#12. There is only one river. There is only one sea.
And it flows through you, and it flows through me.
There is only one people. We are one and the same.
We are all one spirit. We are all one name.

Peter Yarrow

#13. Love breaks your heart, fucks you up - perfect, all-consuming chaos." ... He wraps me up in his arms, his eyes on mine. "But it's also this. Peace, and warmth, and so fucking beautiful, you'll risk anything to keep it.

Kristen Callihan

#14. Common Lisp is politics, not art.

Scott Fahlman

#15. Everybody wants to save the Earth; nobody wants to help Mom do the dishes.

P. J. O'Rourke

#16. If I was going to go to college, I had to have a scholarship. By my sophomore year, it was evident golf was not going to be the path.

Tim Finchem

#17. The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces.

Marshall McLuhan

#18. Devotion to self is necessary. First, place the mask on yourself and breathe deeply. Then help the others. If you don't save yourself, they will die.

Dan Groat

#19. If you can't take the heat, don't tickle the dragon.

Scott Fahlman