Former Quotes of the Week

Chad J Woodford (woodforc@phoebe.ece.clarkson.edu):
Can someone point me to a good description of the World Wide Web?
David Brooks (dbrooks@ics.com):
It's as if the Library of Congress had exploded in midair. There's all kinds of information strewn over the countryside, approximately laid out according to its logical relationship. If you want a particular piece of information, it's probably not there, although some corpuses of data have landed intact. And the professional librarians haven't arrived yet to sort out the mess.: Off a mailing list (www-talk, I think)
"It's a big letdown. I was hoping it would flood so my business would pick up.": Bill Ribkee who owns a carpet company in Spring Hill, FL, on Hurricane Erin's minor impact.; Chicago Tribune (8/11/95) Section 1, Page 13
"I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is is immoral is what you feel bad after.": Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
"I'd be really upset if someone didn't card me on my 21st birthday.": Steve Mastandrea; On his 21st birthday, of course
"I'd like to see TV do an anthology series, like the old _Twilight Zone_ or _Outer Limits_, but one that stuck to true science fiction, a seriesthat dealt faithfully with modern-day science and technology, that peered a bit into the future and took a kind of witty apporach to things that nobody is looking at closely . . . like the fact that the shape of the human body will certainly become a matter of choice over the next 25 to 50 years.": Greg Bear; _TV Guide_. July 24-30, 1993. pg. 19
"When I look at some of the comic books that kids enjoy today, I'm often amazed by the sheer conceptual complexity of the material.": William Gibson; _TV Guide_. July 24-30, 1993. pg. 18; 02-02-85
"Hey, I went to school in Carbondale [IL], so I've kissed guys whose mouths are worse than most of the feet I deal with, OK?": Pedicurist Rachel Levin; Mario Trocci Salon; On handling feet for a living; 01-24-95
"I am surprised at the way people seem to perceive me, and sometimes I read stories and hear things about me and I go 'Ugh. I wouldn't like her either.'": Hillary Rodham Clinton; On what she sees as her distorted public image; 01-24-95

"I am OHM of Borg.

Resistance is Voltage divided by Current.

From the .sig of Josh Vander Berg (joshv@nwu.edu)

02-01-95

"I am Pentium of Borg.

Division is futile.

You will be Approximated."

From the .sig of T.C. Zhao (zhao@bloch.phys.uwm.edu)

01-31-95

"The Net is a dangerous place to send naive students. You may as well send them to the nearest laundromat to learn about quantum mechanics. They might get lucky, but they're more likely to return as members of a new church."

Vernon Schryver (vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com)

"The scientist is elated by being confused."

Dudley Hershbach

Harvard University (Nobel Prize, Chemistry, 1986)

"The best university that can be recommended to a man of ideas i s the guantlet of the mobs."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses i nterest in students."

John Ciardi

"Praise the Lord, and pass the ammunition."

Anonymous

At Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941

"Its good to be the King."

King Loui XVI

_History of the World, Part I_ by Mel Brooks

"Let's go get a ticket on the information super-highway."

- Prof. Simon Kaplan

CS Department, UIUC

"As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame. I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a Scientist. This is like becoming an Archbishop so you can meet girls."

Matt Cartwill

"I'm for truth, no matter who tells it.
I'm for justice, no matter who it is for or against.
I'm a human being first and foremost, and as such I am for whoever
and whatever benefits humanity as a whole."

- Malcolm X

"Mountain Dew and Doughnuts . . . because breakfast is the most important meal of the day."

- Alan S. Mazer

alan@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov

"Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent."

- Salvor Hardin

Mayor, Terminus

_Foundation_ by Isaac Asimov

"I wish a robot would get elected president. That way, when he came to town, we could all take a shot at him and not feel too bad."

- Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts

"Mean people suck."

"A computer terminal is not some clunky old television with a typewriter in front of it. It is an interface where the mind and body connect with the universe and move bits of it about."

- Douglas Adams, _Mostly Harmless_

"It's criminally stupid to have this university open today."

- Prof. Simon Kaplan

1/18/94 Temp: -14F Wind Chill: -64F

"When everything else fails . . . so will the duct tape. But have it along anyway."

- David Goodman

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.

-- John Ciardi

"Anybody who knows aircraft would know that flying a plane into White House grounds would be approximately as hard as driving to the local 7-Eleven."

-Novelist Tom Clancy, on the plane that crashed on the White House lawn.

Chicago Tribune (9/15/94)

"If you missed, E Street becomes pretty ugly, pal."

-A senior administration official, on why anti-aircraft missles are not in place to stop any plane heading for the White House.

Chicago Tribune (9/15/94)

"I think enough time to run for cover."

-Secret Service agent Carl Meyer, when asked how much time the Secret Service had between the time the plane was detected and the crash.

Chicago Tribune (9/15/94)