Greenfly Inc Quotes & Sayings

See, unlike most hackers, I get little joy out of figuring out how to install the latest toy. — Jamie Zawinski

Greenfly, it's difficult to see Why God, who made the rose, made thee. — A.P. Herbert

In many fields of the administration of interventionist measures, favoritism simply cannot be avoided. — Ludwig Von Mises

I like the sound of 'claps of no sound.. — Himanshu Rathore

a piece of graffiti scrawled on a Brazilian train read: "Those who petition for divorce use the ink of their children's tears". — Anonymous

And in the limiting case where the optimizer is completely broken because it's not implemented yet, we get to work around that too. Optionally ... — Larry Wall

I don't understand writers who feel they shouldn't have to do any of the ordinary things of life, because I think that this is necessary: one has to keep in touch with that ... The ordinary action of taking a dress down to the dry cleaner's or spraying some plants infected with greenfly is a very sane and good thing to do. It brings one back, so to speak. It also brings the world back. — Nadine Gordimer

Just shut up and listen."
"Well since you ask so nicely ... ."
There was silence. I listened. He didn't say anything.
"Are we communicating through the Psychic Hotline or what? — Josh Lanyon

I'm trying to shut up and let my angels speak to me and tell me what I'm supposed to do. — Patrick Swayze

How many politicians does it take to change a light bulb? A: Four. One to change it and the other three to deny it. — Various

If the world is an aggregate of relatively independent regions, then any assumption of universal laws is false and a demand for universal norms tyrannical : only brute force (or seductive deception) can then bend the different moralities so that they fit the prescriptions of a single ethical system. And indeed, the idea of universal laws of nature and society arose in connection with a life-and-death battle: the battle that gave Zeus the power over the Titans and all other gods and thus turned his laws into the laws of the universe. — Paul Feyerabend

In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly. — Robert Aickman

Self-control is one of the most exhilarating of pleasures. — William F. Buckley Jr.

It isn't your fault. It's nothing you did. You cannot change who you are, any more than you can change black eyes to blue. You can only accept it. If you fight yourself, you will lose, and fighting leaves scars. But you will survive them. I have survived many. You will do good things you will regret, and bad things you won't, but you must keep going — Michelle Hodkin