Partywhos Quotes & Sayings

In those days [batch processing] programmers never even documented their programs, because it was assumed that nobody else would ever use them. Now, however, time-sharing had made exchanging software trivial: you just stored one copy in the public repository and therby effectively gave it to the world. Immediately people began to document their programs and to think of them as being usable by others. They started to build on each other's work. — Robert Fano

The evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading of the atmosphere. — Newt Gingrich

If you send a damned fool to St. Louis, and you don't tell them he's a damned fool, they'll never find out. — Mark Twain

She kept up her compliments, and I kept up my determination to deserve them or die. — Mark Twain

You can never control things with just the police in any society, anywhere. Every one of us, when he goes in, demands that a special policeman be assigned to protect him. They don't understand that society protects itself. And what do our heads of families, our worthies, our wives, our young girls do in such circumstances? They say nothing and just pout. There's not even enough social initiative to restrain the pranksters. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

In Russia only those who are loyal to the people in power can become wealthy. — Vladimir Sorokin