Sgi Quotes

#1. At SGI board meetings ... Jim Clark's face would get red and he'd start shouting that an investor and board member had cheated him and his engineers.

Michael Lewis

#2. Today, I use Linux as my primary OS (on an x86 PC, and on a Thinkpad), and I also use Irix (on an SGI O2). Linux has improved a great deal since I wrote this, specifically with respect to its ease of installation.

Jamie Zawinski

#3. Anywhere in the world, any day of the week, in 192 countries and territories worldwide, one can find an SGI Buddhist meeting where dialogue is at the fore.

Vinessa Shaw

#4. Hope is the beautiful dream of the soul.

Debasish Mridha

#5. If you must commit suicide ... always contrive to do it as decorously as possible; the decencies, whether of life or of death, should never be lost sight of.

George Henry Borrow

#6. Because the priest must have like every dog his day
Or keep us all awake with baying at the moon,
We and our dolls being but the world were best away.

William Butler Yeats

#7. Why comes temptation but for man to meet And master and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph?

Robert Browning

#8. Women could protest from now till piss flowed uphill, but the truth was, there wasn't one didn't secretly love a killer. And

Thomas Pynchon

#9. I think, aesthetically, car design is so interesting - the dashboards, the steering wheels, and the beauty of the mechanics. I don't know how any of it works, I don't want to know, but it's inspirational.

Paloma Picasso

#10. Rose: You're trembling.
Jack: I'll be alright.

James Cameron

#11. Capital dictates the fate of humanity.

Pramoedya Ananta Toer

#12. The rule is: we cannot really forgive ourselves unless we look at the failure in our past and call it by its right name.

Lewis B. Smedes

#13. A type hated with equal hatred by all the smelly little orthodoxies which are now contending for our souls.

George Orwell

#14. Whenever conditions arise in which a new kind of replicator can make copies of itself, the new replicators will tend to take over, and start a new kind of evolution of their own. Once this new evolution begins, it will in no necessary sense be subservient to the old.

Richard Dawkins

#15. Birth-control is effecting, and promising to effect, many functions in our social life.

Havelock Ellis