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    Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear -- kept us in a continuousstampede of patriotic fervor -- with the cry of grave national emergency... Always there

    has been some terrible evil to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it byfurnishing the exorbitant sums demanded. Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem neverto have happened, seem never to have been quite real.

    -General Douglas MacArthur

    Yours is the profession of arms, the will to win, the sure knowledge that in war there isno substitute for victory, that if you lose, the nation will be destroyed, that the veryobsession of your public service must be duty, honor, country.

    -General Douglas MacArthur

    No war ought ever to be undertaken but under circumstances which render all intercourseof courtesy between the combatants impossible. It is a bad thing that men should hateeach other; but it is far worse that they should contract the habit of cutting one another'sthroats without hatred. War is never lenient but where it is wanton; when men arecompelled to fight in self-defence, they must hate and avenge: this may be bad; but it ishuman nature.

    -Thomas B. Macaulay, "Milford's History of Greece"

    A motorcycle is a combination of pony, blow dryer, and vibrator - perfect for girls of allages.

    -Colin MacDonald

    After riding a motorcycle, riding a car is like riding a living room. Except Claudia's car,which is like riding your crazy grandmother's attic.

    -Colin MacDonald

    Don't burn your bridges while you're standing on them.

    -Colin MacDonald

    Gee, hopefully I'll be less drunk this time so I can remember what I did.

    -Colin MacDonald

    If you're a Mac user who depends on fonts for your work, you probably fall into one oftwo categories (we hesitate to say types): You don't even pretend to understand the Mac'sfont architecture and you have a difficult time managing your typefaces, or you're anexperienced user with a thorough understanding of the Mac's font architecture and youhave a difficult time managing your typefaces.

    -MacUser

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    It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.

    -Machiavelli

    It must be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to plan, more doubtful ofsuccess, nor more dangerous to managment than the creation of a new system. For the

    initiator has the enmity of all who would profit by the preservation of the old institutionand merely lukewarm defenders in those who gain by the new ones.

    -Machiavelli

    Being rich isn't about money. Being rich is a state of mind. Some of us, no matter howmuch money we have, will never be free enough to take time to stop and eat the heart ofthe watermelon. And some of us will be rich without ever being more than a paycheckahead of the game.

    -Harvey B. Mackay,

    There comes a time in the history of any project when it becomes necessary to shoot theengineers and begin production.

    -MacUser, November 1990

    Called up the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms regional office and asked,"What wine goes best with an M-16?" The guy who answered did his best to be helpful:"That depends. What are you smoking?"

    -Michael Maciolek

    If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign

    enemy.

    -James Madison

    A unix signature isn't a return address, it's the ASCII equivalent of a black velvet clownpainting. It's a rectangle of carets surrounding a quote from a literary giant of weeniedomlike Heinlein or Dr. Who.

    -Chris Maeda

    Computers can figure out all kinds of problems, except those that just don't add up.

    -James Magary

    I notice that on each box, there is the phrase "Baked by authority of Girl Scouts of theUSA." I suddenly picture a little girl scout handing someone a big rolled doobie andsaying, "Here you go. You have my permission to smoke it."

    -Jeff Magnuson

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    I have a headache this big, and it has a boot to the head written all over it.

    -Jeff Magnuson

    I thought they stuck with their call letters - WHFS (White Heroin addicts From Seattle)?

    -Jeff Magnuson

    I've heard so much Green Day that I've got dookie coming out my ears.

    -Jeff Magnuson

    Step one: Pour gin in a glass. Step two: Drink gin. Step three: Repeat 15 times.

    -Jeff Magnuson

    That was so funny, I just shot milk out my nose. Which is strange, because I am notdrinking milk right now.

    -Jeff Magnuson

    Well, the real question is when is Karen going to get a cool tattoo on her butt?

    -Jeff Magnuson

    Why don't you come over to my place? I've got a bathtub full of MAYONAISE!

    -Jeff Magnuson

    You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wiseby his questions.

    -Naguib Mahfouz

    Yellow and blue make green... thanks, next you're going to tell me that red and blue makepurple. Wonderful.

    -Paolo Malabuyo

    'Tis an ill wind that blows no minds.

    -Malaclypse the Younger

    There are plans afoot to connect every teenager in the US to the internet by the year 2010.

    Most of these, considered as individual units, are barely able either to understand or towrite a coherent English paragraph, yet aggregrate them them into one vast world wideparallel computational soup and it's almost impossible to underestimate what they mightachieve.

    -Chris Malcolm

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    I'll get the implanted cellphone. With an answering machine for when I'm out of my head.

    -David Malcolm

    As for two years from now... who knows where it'll be. I think we'll ideally be doing a lotof the same stuff, but maybe with spell checking.

    -Rob Malda

    Let me just say that it is super wierd throwing your own bash at a conference instead ofjust leeching off everyone else's, but hey, free beer, right?

    -Rob Malda

    We're people just like you who happen to be huge and muscle-bound and own a truck.

    -Mambo Movers slogan

    Hell! HELL!! I'VE WORKED IN THE COMP CENTER FOR TWO FUCKINGYEARS!!! HELL WOULD SEEM LIKE CLUB MED!!!!

    -Dean Mancine

    Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerfulbeyond measure. It is our Light, not our darkness that most frightens us.

    -Nelson Mandela

    We ask ourselves--Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, whoare we not to be? You are a child of God. Your playing small does not serve the world.

    -Nelson Mandela

    Because of the subtlety of differences within the same range of styles, it took more timeto fathom other people than it does to read their philosophical bottom lines, so to speak,on their pants, buttons, caps or T-shirts. To probe candidates for friendship and otherintimacies, one had to talk to them, which is unquestionably less efficient than it is tolook around a room, decide, "They're all jerks," and go home and play computer games.

    -Miss Manners

    Her other recommendation, which also applies equally to conventional weddings, isactually at odds with the unfortunate current practices of society as a whole. That is to

    plan the occasion remembering that its purpose is not to show off your love for eachother, but to establish yourselves as a public and dignified unit in the society in whichyou move.

    -Miss Manners

    If it's against state law, it's generally considered a breach of Etiquette.

    -Miss Manners

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    Miss Manners does not recommend anyone's inviting society as a whole to any socialevent. Society as a whole doesn't approve of anything.

    -Miss Manners

    Miss Manners is not quite so naive as to believe that love produces any agreement of

    views after that first rapturous discovery that both people like movies and the outdoors.

    -Miss Manners

    There are three possible parts to a date, of which at least two must be offered:entertainment, food, and affection. It is customary to begin a series of dates with a greatdeal of entertainment, a moderate amount of food, and the merest suggestion of affection.As the amount of affection increases, the entertainment can be reduced proportionately.When the affection IS the entertainment, we no longer call it dating. Under nocircumstances can the food be omitted.

    -Miss Manners

    You can take a pile of rocks and use them to build a house, or you can take the same pileand start a war. Tell children not to throw rocks, make rules against picking up rocks, andthen make mad. Keep projecting what not to do and you make the thought in their brainsof what can and will be done.

    -Charles Manson

    the internet is the trailer park for the soul

    -Marilyn Manson

    I was 15. She was punk. D.R.I. was playing "Dead in a Ditch" and our friends werewaiting for us in a nearby park (we went out to get the cold malt liquor). As we bonded inthe backseat of her Honda, I told her I loved her. She said "Don't ruin it".

    [email protected]

    A revolution is not a dinner party.

    -Mao Tse Tung

    If and when the Feds get special authority (and exemptions from the Bill of Privileges) togo after terrorists, we will be absolutely amazed to find out just how many terrorists there

    are in this country. Thousands, maybe millions-- at least one under every bed and severalbehind every bush.

    -Ted Marcus

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    There are only two things of importance. One is the customer, and the other is theproduct. If you take care of customers, they come back. If you take care of your product,it doesn't come back. It's just that simple. And it's just that difficult.

    -Stanley Marcus

    Transported to a surreal landscape, a young girl kills the first woman she meets and thenteams up with three complete strangers to kill again.

    -Marin Paper TV listing for "The Wizard of Oz"

    For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?

    -Mark 8:36

    I find it very disturbing that you people know how to use my penis better than I do.

    -Tatia Markland

    When a man tells you that he got rich through hard work, ask him _whose_?

    -Don Marquis

    A true capitalist fights with their wallet. A true anarchist fights with the opponents' wallet

    -Jessica Marrell

    I don't use computers like I don't give myself enemas - they're both occasionally useful,and I know how to do them both, but really, I could just go stub my toe for the fun of it.

    -Jessica Marrell

    There is a differerence between being different and being new, a difference betweenquestioning social customs and just being rude, a difference between being daring andsimply breaking rules. Most people do not understand this difference. It makes them easyto tell them apart.

    -Jessica Marrell

    You need to understand... no... wait... you don't...

    -Jessica Marrell

    Post mortem debugging can be fun, especially when you get to see the victim die overand over again in slow motion!

    -Greg Marriott

    Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three dayslate because he had been swallowed by a whale.

    -Gabriel Garcia Marquez

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    It is not enough to fight. It is the spirit which we bring to the fight that decides the issue.It is morale that wins the victory.

    -General George Catlett Marshall, "Military Review"

    On the first date, they just tell each other lies, and that usually gets them interested

    enough to go for a second date.

    -Martin, age 10

    You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time,but fooling Usenet doesn't take much time at all.

    -Kevin Martin

    He's got a neon sign above his head that says 'asshat'.

    -Mecal Martin

    Communication has changed so rapidly in the last 20 years, it's almost impossible topredict what might occur even in the next decade. E-mail, which now sends data hurtlingacross vast distances at the speed of light, has replaced primitive forms of communicationsuch as smoke signals, which sent data hurtling across vast distances at the speed of light.Let's suppose that you want to say, "I am a jerk." In the 18th century, you would have togo around person to person and utter the phrase individually to each one of them.However, here in the third millennium, with our advances in telephone communication, itis possible to say, "I am a jerk" to a thousand people at a time by forgetting to turn offyour cell phone and having it ring during a performance of "Death of a Salesman."

    -Steve Martin

    The dogma of the church was challenged in the mid-17th-century by Renee Descartes'sfamous pronouncement "Cogito ergo sum" ("I am nervous about having to add"), and theage of rationalism began. Rationalism then gave way to empiricism, and David Humedeclared that it was impossible to know if anything existed at all, though later he recantedwhen he stubbed his toe on a doorjamb.

    -Steve Martin

    Bring Captain Solo and the stock options to me.

    -Dan Martinez

    But perhaps it's unfair to berate Microsoft for little shortcomings like these. Clearly, theyhad weightier issues to grapple with. Who's got time to do usability testing when you'restruggling to empower your users with the ability to surround text with a border ofanimated flashing marquee lights, Las Vegas style?

    -Dan Martinez

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    But while we're on the subject of file formats, let's pause for a moment in frankadmiration of the way in which Microsoft brazenly built backward-incompatibility intoits product. By initially making it virtually impossible to maintain a heterogenousenvironment of previous systems, Microsoft offered its customers that most eloquent ofarguments for upgrading: the delicate sound of a revolver being cocked somewhere just

    out of sight.

    -Dan Martinez

    Crafty weasel-like hedging? From moi? You don't say.

    -Dan Martinez

    Dear Nigerian Spammers, Thank you for your recent note, which I shall treasure as muchfor its blatantly forged headers as for its inept use of the English language and carefreedisregard for hoary, hidebound, established conventions of legible formatting or coherentpunctuation.

    -Dan Martinez

    Do not meddle in the affairs of Win32, for it is subtle, and quick to anger.

    -Dan Martinez

    Dude, your company is teetering on the very BRINK of technological RELEVANCE.Now is not the time to make feeble sport of the company whose BOOTED HEEL is atyour THROAT.

    -Dan Martinez

    Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. My name is Dan, and I'll be your designated ranterfor the evening. Flying spittle is one of the risks of attending a live performance, so youmay wish to shield yourselves with your dessert menus.

    -Dan Martinez

    have I ever told you how much more authoritative and convincing your arguments soundwhen you sprinkle them liberally with expletives? No, really. I'm just so completely wonover by the forcefulness and lucidity of your rhetoric.

    -Dan Martinez

    Hey! Anyone for another round of "Reinstall Service Pack 4"?-Dan Martinez

    Hey, man -- if there's one thing we need more of around here, it's enough rope to hangourselves with.

    -Dan Martinez

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    I could have sharp, bony projections sprouting from my body at all angles, reek ofsulphur and brimstone, and sport a tongue pocked with the occasional eyeball; I'd still beable to get geek dates as long as I was female.

    -Dan Martinez

    I don't buy the notion that Tomb Raider was a hit because of Lara Croft's unusually large,um... polygon count.

    -Dan Martinez

    Either way, I'd guess that knowledge of the contents could probably get me arrested inseveral states.

    -Dan Martinez

    Yeah, yeah. Glass houses and all that. Pot. Kettle. Your mama.

    -Dan Martinez

    I have been placed upon this Earth to torment you. YOU....

    -Dan Martinez

    I haven't yet decided whether the blame for this arrangement belongs to Netscape or toApple, as could be inferred from the fact that no one's been seriously injured for it yet.

    -Dan Martinez

    I hope we will pull into San Franciso with a truck full of guns and hearts full of hate.

    -Dan Martinez

    I don't know whether to be really pleased, or to succumb to the feeling of impendingdisaster and of tampering with unholy forces that always attends tinkering with theRegistry.

    -Dan Martinez

    I no longer wish to destroy an inanimate object. I wish to murder it.

    -Dan Martinez

    I think that your faith in the wisdom of Congress is grossly misplaced. Don't forget thatthis is the same body which said, while proudly passing the PATRIOT and USA acts,"We're going to replace the fine toilet tissue we normally use with the U.S. Constitution.Let's wipe our asses and see if the Supreme Court notices."

    -Dan Martinez

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    I'd hesitate to accuse anyone of being outright corrupt, but I'll admit that I'm probably notgoing to expect a hard, searching look at all things Microsoft from magazines with nameslike "Windows Sources" and "Windows Computing" When you have the name of acompany's product in your title, and every other product you review requires thatcompany's product in order to be useful, you probably don't need to do a spectrographic

    analysis to figure out which side your bread's buttered on. All of the abovenotwithstanding, Ziff-Davis as a corporate entity is so far down your pants that they needto run a pressurized air hose down there just to breathe.

    -Dan Martinez

    I'm not sure what kind of career path one can look forward to as a nomadic city-vaporizing lunatic, but it's got to be worth a try.

    -Dan Martinez

    And the LORD spake unto them, saying, 'Partake not of the fruits of the Xing player, forits keys are not encrypted in accordance with the licensing agreement; it is anabomination.'

    -Dan Martinez

    If your spirit has become karmically burdened with the belief that obvious wire worksomehow detracts from rather than contributes to the enjoyment of a Hong Kong film,you are not merely unready to leave the temple, but in imminent danger of being forciblyconfined to your cell.

    -Dan Martinez

    Ignore me. I'm raving. If you put me under glass and pumped out all the air right now, I'd

    burn for a thousand years. I am full of hate, and it's got nothing to do with you. Nothingto see here. Move along.

    -Dan Martinez

    It could be argued that I know slightly less about what it means to be in a healthy long-term relationship than your average monkey does about what it feels like to drown inquicksand.

    -Dan Martinez

    It was like watching a first-year film student's halfhearted attempt at a satire of superspy

    movies, except that he had an unlimited budget courtesy of his insane rich uncle, andediting courtesy of the strung-out smack-addict roommate he felt vaguely sorry for. Ithink we were also hoping against hope for something to happen that would make it allworthwhile, or at least make sense. Maybe Uma Thurman would shed her human skin

    -Dan Martinez

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    It's incidents like these which serve to reinforce my conviction that if Khruschev andKennedy had had e-mail during the Cuban Missile Crisis, we wouldn't be sitting herespeculating about it.

    -Dan Martinez

    Jesus Christ, will you east coasters GET TO BED?!?

    -Dan Martinez

    Join Computing Services! Good pay! Flexible hours! No adult supervision!

    -Dan Martinez

    Messing with the user's expectations of the CD user interface isn't a good way ofdemonstrating your hip, iconoclastic sensibilities. It isn't a good way of demonstratinganything, really, except maybe what a complete bunch of self-indulgent fucktoids youare.

    -Dan Martinez

    Must... restrain... condescending Unix user fist of death!

    -Dan Martinez

    Nicely put. However, as any anally retentive person will happily tell you, "anal-retentive"takes a hyphen.

    -Dan Martinez

    You will bring Captain Solo and the Wookiee to me.

    -Dan Martinez

    Perl is the crystal meth of programming: it's so incredibly useful when you need to do alarge amount of work in a small amount of time that you tend to overlook the fact that it'sbasically precipitating the implosion of your vital organs.

    -Dan Martinez

    Speaking of flaming assholes: there have been a number of times, most of themexperienced while I watched or listened to the news, when I heard about one factionalsquabble or another, and thought, "These people don't really disagree. They've just been

    caught up in their own rhetoric. If a neutral party were to step in and explain each side'spoint of view to the other, they'd see that they have more similarities than differences."I've sometimes fancied myself as that third party: objective, reasonable, tolerant, able toportray each group's goals in terms which the other would understand and findacceptable... So it's something of an eye-opener to realize that, no, the problem is infact not one of terminology at all: the man's potato has simply been baking too long.

    -Dan Martinez

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    Suddenly, I'm unable to shake visions of Stormtroopers in bell-bottomed combat armor,Imperial Officers wearing big, ugly gold medallions, Grand Moff Tarkin ordering theobliteration of planets from his hot tub, and the Death Star as a moon-sized disco globefrom my mind. And it's not even 9:00 pm. Gad.

    -Dan Martinez

    That tinkling sound in the background -- that's the sound of my whole little worldshattering

    -Dan Martinez

    That's all there is to it! Wasn't that fun? We sure hope so, because you're going to have todo it EVERY SINGLE TIME you want to modify a style! Oh, we know. You can hardlywait. We can see you trembling with excitement now. Did the vein in your temple alwaysthrob like that?

    -Dan Martinez

    That'd be cool. Unfortunately, being a hapless loser, I chose to pursue computer science,instead of doing the manly thing and learning to drive big rigs at the Diesel Institute.

    -Dan Martinez

    The idea that we're governed by some larger intelligence when we crowd together insufficient numbers would certainly explain a lot, though. Nazism. Woodstock. TheMacarena.

    -Dan Martinez

    The repeated juxtaposition of "salary" and "penis length" has evoked in me an irrationalbut persistent anticipation that someone is going to make a post announcing how manyinches they make in a year.

    -Dan Martinez

    The sibilant succession surmising "sixty-six satellites" sounded somewhat silly.

    -Dan Martinez

    The world's various religions are just beginning their research into Clerical Acceleration,and it will be a number of years before they can even begin to consider reaching near-

    luminal velocities. This is a shame, since it means that a number of tantalizing theoriesmust remain little more than speculation at this point, and a number of fundamentalquestions go unanswered. For instance, if a Catholic priest's speed were to come close tothat of light, and it were Sunday in his frame of reference, would he in fact approachinfinite Mass?

    -Dan Martinez explains relativistic morality

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    If this is not your answer, please administer yourself one dope slap, so as to spare me thetime and expense of cross-country travel. Then rearrange things so that it is your answer.

    -Dan Martinez

    You are talking about the Count Dracula of the computing world. The tree large enough

    that a stake capable of killing COBOL could be fashioned from its trunk has not yetgrown anywhere upon the face of this verdant planet.

    -Dan Martinez

    You're Grand Moff Berkun -- Grand Moff Tarkin's younger and much shrewder cousin,who was quietly building a power base in an outlying sector while his brutish relativewas getting himself and Emperor Palpatine's expensive hardware blown to atoms atYavin Four.

    -Dan Martinez

    You're right, of course. Let's get back to the order of the day: petty bickering!

    -Dan Martinez

    You're thinking of Captain Pedantic's faithful sidekick, Kid Sphincter. Not to be confusedwith Buttboy, who appeared alongside Pedantic and Sphincter in an eight-issue limitedseries, but was never made into a regular character.

    -Dan Martinez

    Well, on the one hand I feel as though I might be perilously close to encouraging the birthof some kind of cult of personality or something. On the other hand, I'm a shameless ego-

    whore, so... sure.

    -Dan Martinez

    What's that application, you ask? What obscure, rogue, poorly-written, backwater hackcould fail to interact properly to an interface setting built into the operating system itself?Why, it's Visual C++.

    -Dan Martinez

    Windows CE, while storing dates as 64-bit quantities, uses a minimum tick size of 100nanoseconds, and starts counting from some point in the 1600s -- I'm guess that to be the

    inception of the Gregorian calendar. CE dates are therefore "only" good forapproximately fifty thousand years. I'm going to go on record as saying that if there areany CE devices still in existence at that point, they will all be under glass, in museums,and the bulk of their internals will long since have rotted into uselessness as aconsequence of metal migration. (And if I'm wrong, you may wander over to my severedhead, floating in its amniotic tank at the Hall of Oddities, and say "Neener, neener,neener".)

    -Dan Martinez

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    Microsoft has at last succeeded in reproducing in the Windows arena an upgrade so vile,so utterly beyond accomodation, that users will go digging through their attics in searchof the media needed to install the previous version.

    -Dan Martinez

    I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

    -Groucho Marx

    These are my principles. If you don't like them I have others.

    -Groucho Marx

    Time flies like an arrow, and fruit flies like a banana.

    -Groucho Marx

    Capital is dead labor that, vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives themore, the more labor it sucks.

    -Karl Marx, Das Capital

    You're free to be as much of an asshole as you wish -- as long as I'm not paying for it.

    -Todd Masco

    France has culture but no civilization. England has civilization but no culture. The UnitedStates has neither. Canada has both.

    -Robin Mathews

    The Air Force pinned a medal on me for killing a man and discharged me for makinglove to one.

    -Leonard Matlovich

    ...what's the point of making non-addictive drugs illegal? If anything which alters themental state of the individual is to be illegal in case he's unable to function in society, canwe have a ban on religion please?

    [email protected]

    If a child, an untrained person, an ignorant person, or an insane person incites trouble, itis the fault of authority for not predicting and preventing that trouble.

    -Paul Maud'Dib, Dune

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    My father once told me that respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for allmorality. 'Something cannot emerge from nothing,' he said. This is profound thinking ifyou understand how unstable 'the truth' can be.

    -Paul Maud'Dib, Dune

    What do you despise? By this you are truly known.

    -Paul Maud'Dib, Dune

    Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. And my advice to you is to have nothing whatever todo with it.

    -W. Somerset Maugham

    Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadeningeffect of a habit.

    -W. Somerset Maugham

    If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of itis that if it is comfort or money it values more, it will lose that, too.

    -W. Somerset Maugham

    In this world of sin and sorrow if virtue triumphs over vice it is not because it is virtuous,but because it has bigger and better guns

    -W. Somerset Maugham, Then and Now

    It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often

    get it.

    -W. Somerset Maugham

    The ability to quote is a serviceable substitute for wit.

    -W. Somerset Maugham

    There are three rules for writing the novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.

    -W. Somerset Maugham

    I've decided that the dinosaurs weren't killed by a giant asteroid. My new theory is thatthe facilities staff just decided they were too difficult to maintain.

    -Michael Mauldin

    What I used to able to pass off as another bad summer could now potentially turn into abad life.

    -Max, Kicking & Screaming

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    Before we go on, a word to the wise. What we're suggesting here is that you install partsof a development-level, unsupported operating system and install them onto a similar-but-not-identical, still-in-beta operating system. This is frighteningly close to the thin linethat separates geekery and madness. If you run into trouble, we'd be interested to knowjust how long it would take Apple to quit laughing at you before they told you they

    couldn't help.

    -maximumlinux.com

    Being condescending and rude is appropriate when an argument is so pointless and stupidthat one needs that "extra special edge" to win.

    -Justin Maxwell

    History! Tradition! Culture! These are not concepts! These are trophies I keep in my denas PAPERWEIGHTS!

    -Marvin Mayflower, "Hudson Hawk"

    'Ben-Gay' now comes is an Extra Strength variety. "Always check first."

    -Paul Mazaitis

    Cats are essentially narcissistic masochists.

    -Paul Mazaitis

    Childish as it may be, line three gives us more clues to the rhyme scheme of our fledgingwork. This turn of events safely rules out a Sicilian Sonnet (abababab cdecde/cdcdce), thesonetto rispetto (ababccdd efgefg/efefef), and the English Sonnet (ababcdcdefefgg). The

    Spencerian Sonnet (abab bcbc cdcd ee) is also ruled out, because they suck to write.

    -Paul Mazaitis

    destroy destroy. stand up. walk around

    -Paul Mazaitis

    I KNOW you, sir. I have SEEN you TRAIPSE on the FIELDS of the APACAPSE. I haveWATCHED you BEACH your BOAT on the BRANDED SANDS of the ISLE MOTAG.I have FELT the ANGELS BLEEDING, their SOILED SWEAT landing with aTRICKLE upon your UNFETTERED BROW. I have TASTED the BLACK GUM you

    have left on our SWEET STREETS in your MAD CHASE for the next SPEED BUMP.With my LEFT HAND I have USHERED IN this AGE, and with my RIGHT, thisBURRITO. I. KNOW. YOU.

    -Paul Mazaitis

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    I'd also like to say that I'm sick of hearing about guns. Guns guns guns. Will you peopleget some sex or something?

    -Paul Mazaitis

    If I end up buying these CDs because of this, I'm gonna slap you so hard you'll think I

    ended this sentence with something clever.

    -Paul Mazaitis

    New For Spring on NBC's Wednesday 'Must See TV' lineup: _Idealist at Heart_, thewacky adventures of cynical Gen X'ers struggling to find some semblance of intelligentmanagement in corporate America.

    -Paul Mazaitis

    People are stupid. ALL THE TIME.

    -Paul Mazaitis

    The distance between Heaven and Hell is measured not in miles but in moments.

    -Paul Mazaitis

    This is, of course, too beautiful for me to put into context.

    -Paul Mazaitis

    We looked at the programs and the parties, and they're all the same, only with differentfamous people, and they're all the same as well. You aren't going to look back on this intwenty years. There's no ideal place to be. Well, except maybe Natalie Portman's lap.

    -Paul Mazaitis

    You can fool some of the people some of the time, the rest are fooling themselves.

    -Thomas McBride

    You need an exit strategy to be able to walk away a winner, and today, mine wasrealized.... Effective today at midnight, I have resigned from America Online Inc. inorder to spend money, race motorcycles, and drink scotch. I am, at age 27.85, retired. It'sthe American Dream, but with less full frontal nudity and more political undertones

    -Hal McCabe, in his goodbye e-mail

    Yoda wouldn't hear of it. He was insistent that he work with Frank Oz again if we wantedhim back. He told us, "Frank Oz! Or I will help you not!"

    -Rick Mccallum

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    That which does not freak us out, makes us stronger.

    -Woody McCandlish

    The measure on a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never befound out.

    -Thomas McCauley

    The decisions that really matter are made outside the democratic process.

    -Anne McClintock, University of Wisconsin

    The first rule of magic is simple. Don't waste you time waving your hands and hoppingwhen a rock or a club will do.

    -McCloctnick the Lucid

    There's nothing like a five year old getting hit by napalm to make your morning if youdon't have coffee.

    -Dave McClory

    But, I thought that was why I liked UNIX? The incompatibilities, the arcane syntax. Ihope some day to contribute some really bad software to it.

    -Scott McClung

    All this proves is that anyone setting themselves up as a kind of digital moral compassquickly finds themselves plunged into a kind of virtual Bermuda Triangle, where vertigoreigns and you hope to hell you pop out the other side still on course. Technology is

    never a substitute for conscience.

    -Declan McCullagh

    Lots of Mozilla architecture begins with a premise that is hard to put in context. As ifevery problem sounds like: if you take every faculty member from every college in theU.S. and lay them end to end, how many engineers does it take to screw in a lightbulb?

    -David McCusker

    ah, the infamous "Booth Babes". Avoid them for they are specially trained to extractcorporate secrets.

    -Chad McDaniel

    i am the 'travel bingo' of the information superhighway

    -Chad McDaniel

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    I herd cyberpunks on the electronic frontier.

    -Chad McDaniel

    Is it bad when you start to think of work as "that place with the really fast internetconnection"?

    -Chad McDaniel

    There is no interest in the common good.

    -Ian McDiarmid as Senator Palpatine, "Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace"

    Winners always want the ball when the game is on the line.

    -McGinty, "The Replacements"

    Small towns in Germany are usually about ten kilotons apart.

    -Jake McGuire

    Audiophiles know squat about auditory perception and Shannon's sampling theorem, sowe get these misconceptions about CDs and tubes repeated again and again, and thesemisconceptions influence what people believe they hear when they play their systems(especially audiophiles, who are both near-deaf and extremely gullible).

    -William McIlhagga

    Considering that over half the traffic on this list is in response to postings or forwardsfrom others, I do believe that you may have a better crack connection than the rest of us,and suggest you kick down with your contact before the IS Death Squad opens a Trouble

    Ticket on yer ass.

    -Dana McIntosh

    While my duties as a serf are not onerous, involving mostly turnip-gathering, wood-hewing, pig-minding and the maintenance of a large object-oriented DBMS written in C++, and I have no real reason to complain of my lot in life, you will understand if I am notimmediately in a position to take advantage of the possibilities offered by your no doubtexcellent handbook.

    -Angus McIntyre

    Anyone who thinks otherwise is a moron, because I said so.

    -Matt McIrvin

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    I think you CAN make progress spiritually with psychedelics, but notnecessarily.....Aldous Huxley said of psychedelics that they are neither necessary norsufficient for the attaining of salvation. He called them 'gratuitous graces', meaning you'resure glad you have them, but they're neither necessary nor sufficient.

    -Terence McKenna

    What is waiting to be born is a psychedelic ethic, a moral vision that could be acounterweight to the Fundamentalist vision and the Existentialist vision, both of whichare observed to be inadequate.

    -Terence McKenna

    When you cease to believe that you're Nobody and you begin to believe that you mightbe Somebody, this is considered proof of severe mental disturbance

    -Terence McKenna

    Eknath Easwaran, the California meditation teacher whose book "Gandhi the Man" is thesimplest, and therefore loveliest, of the many Gandhi biographies, describes seeingGandhi meditate during the evening prayer service in the last years of his life. The textthat evening was from the second chapter of the Gita. As the sonorous verses were read,you could see him completely absorbed, his mind growing calm and still. Hisconcentration was so complete that it was no longer the second chapter you werelistening to, it was the second chapter you were seeing, witnessing for yourself thetransformation it describes: "They are forever free who have broken, Out of the ego-cageI and mine, To be united with the Lord of Love. This is the supreme state. Attain thouthis And pass from death to immortality." On the other hand, you could have 200 Gb, a128xCD/DVD, 6 Gb RAM and a smug dose of superiority.

    -Bill McKibben, Salon

    The laws of Congress and the laws of physics have grown increasingly divergent, and thelaws of physics are not likely to yield.

    -Bill McKibben

    Before I started working here I drank, smoked, and used foul language for no reason atall. But thanks to this job, I now have a reason.

    -Fitz McKinzie

    Get next to a clue and hope the wind blows, dude.

    -Fitz McKinzie

    Remember, the strong get funded...the weak get jobs. As it should be.

    -Bob McKisson

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    Venture Capitalists are among the most incestuous creatures on the planet. If yourpresentation clicks in the hearts and minds of the folks at Novak-Biddle, Draper or SutterHill, to think that FBR, NEA or ATV won't be studying your Plan within 48 hours, is likebelieving that the woman you were out with Saturday night won't be on the phone to hergirlfriend Sunday giggling over the steamy details.

    -Bob McKisson

    When Keebler releases an XML spec, they might describe it as "baked by tiny recursiveelves" or something.

    -David McCusker

    Nietzsche must have had a bad childhood.

    -Rob McLay

    hey, he knows the terms. I'm like a porn site. there are benefits and a tour for non-

    members.

    -Colleen McManus

    I'm so gothic I have BATS IN MY HOUSE. Have you ever had a BAT swoop at yourHEAD? You forget about booty REAL QUICK.

    -Colleen McManus

    HEY! WE SHOULD HANG OUT! WHO'S THE HOTTIE? Did she get attacked at theestee lauder counter?

    -Colleen McManus

    She is lying. It's obvious. ...the middle class lies well only about sex.

    -McCone, The Running Man

    The big debate was over the "free" in "free software." The way it was characterizedpolitically, you had copyright, which is what the big companies use to lock everythingup; you had copyleft, which is free software's way of making sure they can't lock it up;and then Berkeley had what we called copycenter, which is take it down to the copycenter and make as many copies as you want.

    -Kirk McKusick

    There are no passengers on spaceship earth. We are all crew.

    -Marshall McLuhan

    Microsoft is now talking about the digital nervous system. I guess I would be nervous ifmy system was built on their technology too.

    -Scott McNealy

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    Microsoft says we're 100 percent committed to Java, but we're not pure. I don't think mywife would buy it if I said, 'Honey, I'm 100 percent committed, but I'm not pure.'

    -Scott McNealy

    Okay, wait. We majored in golf in business school. Could somebody tell me what this

    thing does?

    -Scott McNealy

    Bringing the original Black Sabbath with Ozzy Osbourne to New Jersey is like ... what,bringing the Olympics to Athens? There's an Ozzy Osbourne service area on our GardenState Parkway. Our state bird is the Headless Bat. The State Legislature failed to elect achairman one year in the early '80s, issuing instead a proclamation that "Ozzy rulesforever."

    -Gavin McNett, Salon

    Probably the four biggest reasons for a slowdown in network innovation are AT&TWireless, Verizon Wireless, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile.

    -John McQuillan

    You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say will be misquoted,then usedagainst you.

    [email protected]

    'me' is a token, it returns whoever calls 'me'. in general though, whenever people call 'me'they get my answering machine, because i'm never home

    -me

    Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.Indeed, it's the only thing that ever has.

    -Margaret Mead

    One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when youdon't come home at night.

    -Margaret Mead

    The network is the business.

    -Mary Meeker

    That's contradictory. If a person is innocent of a crime, then he is not a suspect.

    -Edwin Meese III

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    Don't be humble. You're not that great.

    -Golda Meir

    Anyone who disagrees with me is a communist.

    [email protected]

    Does anyone else ever get the distinct impression that some day a group of people in suitsare going to walk into your office or your home and say, 'We've got you now! You hadeveryone thinking you were a grown up, but you're not. Now get your things. Yourmother's got supper on the table and you have to be in bed by 7:30.' Or is it just me?

    -Cynthia Melcher

    Democracy is grounded upon so childish a complex of fallacies that they must beprotected by a rigid system of taboos, else even halfwits would argue it to pieces. Its firstconcern must thus be to penalize the free play of ideas.

    -H.L. Mencken

    Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve toget it good and hard.

    -H. L. Mencken

    Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag,and begin slitting throats.

    -H. L. Mencken

    For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it is always wrong.

    -H. L. Mencken

    In brief, she assumed that, being a man, I was vain to the point of imbecility, and thisassumption was correct, as it always is.

    -H.L. Mencken

    In this world of sin and sorrow, there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, Irejoice that I am not a Republican.

    -H.L. Mencken

    Nobody ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public.

    -H. L. Mencken

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    Of government, at least in democratic states, it may be said briefly that it is an agencyengaged wholesale, and as a matter of solemn duty, in the performance of acts which allself-respecting individuals refrain from as a matter of common decency.

    -H.L. Mencken

    The basic fact about human existence is not that it is a tragedy, but that it is a an endlessstanding in line.

    -H.L. Mencken

    The best teacher, until one comes to adult pupils, is not the one who knows most, but theone who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obviousand the wonderful which slips into the infantile comprehension...The best teacher ofchildren, in brief, is one who is essentially childlike.

    -H.L. Mencken

    Five months of torturous pain is a long time, Diablo. Five months of nothing butpondering revenge against you and your friend Twix. That, and reading 'Newsweek.' Andsampling different varieties of Ben 'N' Jerry's wonderful ice cream flavors. And of coursethe occasional game of Yahtzee, but as we all know, my sentient pea-plant henchmenaren't very good game players, so there was little challenge there. They often ate the dice.But mostly, I pondered revenge. Revenge and monkeys. Monkeys are funny.

    -Mendel, "Goats"

    Do you think it's a coincidence that insurance companies ask people if they do the sortsof stuff we do?

    -Mike Mengason

    If you want to dine with the devil, bring a long spoon.

    -Mercy, Cyborg 2

    Finding bad websites is a little like stalking a herd of dairy cows with an uzi.

    -merilus.com

    Only flirt with those you intend to refuse: then you acquire a reputatation forinvincibility, whilst slipping away with the lover of your choice. A poor choice is less

    dangerous than an obvious choice. Never write letters. Get them to write letters. Alwaysbe sure they think they're the only one. Win or die.

    -Marquise De Merteuil, Les Liaisons Dangereuses

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    When I came out into society I was 15. I already knew then the role I was condemned to,namely to keep quiet and do what I was told. It gave me the perfect opportunity to listenand observe. Not to what people told me, which naturally was of no interest to me, but towhatever it was they were trying to hide. I practiced detachment. I learned how to lookcheerful while under the table I stuck a fork onto the back of my hand. I became a

    virtuoso of deceit. I consulted the strictest moralists to learn how to appear, philosophersto find out what to think, and novelists to see what I could get away with, and in the endit all came down to one wonderfully simple principle: win or die.

    -Marquise De Merteuil, Dangerous Liasons

    it is only the strong who are capable of ripping off their own limbs.

    -Matt Messner

    excuse me, i'll just be over here reading the student employment book of the mormon.

    -Tosh Meston

    This was not a trivial matter. The helmet in question was Darth Vader's helmet.

    -Hon. John Metcalf

    Alcohol can clean a bathroom, it ought to be able to clean your arteries.

    -Ted Metzler

    I am the ultimate artiste and everything I do, from my painting and drawing to blowingmy nose and emptying my bladder qualifies as art. I have many jars of my "art" if youwant to buy some.

    -Ted Metzler

    Sure, I have a lust for life, but I'm not really ready to make a commitment.

    -Ted Metzler

    That's Yngwie J. Malmsteeen to you. The "J" is, of course, to distinguish him from themultitudes of other Yngwie Malmsteens operating in the Heavy Metal genre.

    -Ted Metzler

    There's 'bound' if you care to see debauchery and fetishism at its worst...and who doesn't?

    -Ted Metzler

    You've got to be suspicious of any sentence that begins, "The funniest thing I have everseen in a urinal..."

    -Ted Metzler

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    pixel, n.: A mischievous, magical spirit associated with screen displays. The computerindustry has frequently borrowed from mythology: Witness the sprites in computergraphics, the demons in artificial intelligence, and the trolls in the marketing department.

    -Jeff Meyer

    Programmatically is a Microsoft euphamism for 'with many lines of code.'

    -from a Microsoft Access tutorial manual

    The pen may be mightier than the sword, but if I cut your arms off with my sword, whatare you going to do with your stupid pen then, Mr. smarty-pants?

    -Pakasit Mhojadee

    "Oh, Christ!" I scream aloud, taking the name of the Lord in vain to underscore theseriousness of the situation.

    -Philip Michaels

    new cities are good and bad. low culture, high personality. but then the city decides whatit's going to be one day and you are either part of it or you have to leave.

    -Chel Micheline

    You can spend your whole life trying to change the world. No, seriously, you can.

    -Microsoft ad

    By downloading these unsupported tools you are using them at your own risk -- youknow, like bungee jumping in your underwear or dating your best friend's sister.

    -Microsoft Internet Explorer PowerToys disclaimer

    So I call up Sally: "Hi, I'm doing research. Do you have a boyfriend?"

    -Dan Milberg

    I feel no different. My hate's the same.

    -Milk, _Milk & Cheese_

    "We have Attention Deficit... uh, Disorder!" "What?" "What!?"

    -Milk & Cheese

    Just imagine, if you will, what kind of delicious suffering awaits you at the hands of themost powerful milkman in the universe.

    -Milkman Dan, Red Meat

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    The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of acivilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, eitherphysical or moral, is not a sufficient warrant.

    -John Stuart Mill, "On Liberty"

    War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state ofmoral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. Theperson who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more importantthan his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being freeunless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

    -John Stewart Mill

    Prince of Darkness: ... We offer a way out of the guilt and constant drumbeat ofnegativism, the don't-do-thises and don't-do-thats of the past. My message is basicallyone of optimism, achievement, and empowerment. For me, the glass is always half full.

    -Brian Miller, Seattle Weekly

    Bill Gates is a monocle and a Persian Cat away from being the villain in a James Bondmovie.

    -Dennis Miller

    If some unemployed punk in Trenton, New Jersey, lying on a sofa with a bong can get acassette to make love to Elle McPherson for $19.95, this virtual reality stuff is going tomake crack look like Sanka.

    -Dennis Miller

    Queensboro president Donald Mannis, charged with receiving bribes in exchange for citycontracts, resigned on Tuesday. Mannis feels he must devote more time to impendinglitigation, some of which might emanate from a recent statement he made comparingNew York Mayor Ed Koch to Nazi Martin Bormann. A spokesman from the Bormannestate said they are weighing the odds of a slander suit. Mayor Koch could naturally bereached for comment, but we chose not to listen.

    -Dennis Miller, "Saturday Night Live"

    Adolescence is a marketing tool.

    -Elaine Miller, "Almost Famous"

    The trouble with eating Italian food is that five or six days later you're hungry again.

    -George Miller

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    It's silly to go on pretending that under the skin we are all brothers. The truth is morelikely that under the skin we are all cannibals, assassins, traitors, liars, hypocrites,poltroons.

    -Henry Miller

    Everyone makes mistakes, but not everyone dates 30 year-old virgins from the Church ofChrist.

    -Jenni Miller

    Eww... No, he's waiting for marriage. Besides, I don't think he'd doink a Jew. That'd bedirty!

    -Jenni Miller

    Gee, I forgot my penis, can't join in this conversation!

    -Jenni Miller

    I have a conservative penis.

    -Michael Miller

    I have some really awful lemonade. It'll give you diarhea. It's great.

    -Sam Miller

    sleeze... I need sleeze....very much so........

    -Sam Miller

    How do you follow an act like a show about nothing? With "Nothing"! NBC proved thatthere is life after "Seinfeld" last night when it debuted the revolutionary show "Nothing"in "Seinfeld's" old Thursday 9 p.m. slot. For one-half hour, the screen was blank, exceptfor commercials. And it didn't seem to bother viewers accustomed to tuning in for"Seinfeld" one bit! "Nothing" was the highest rated show of the night, handily winning itstime slot over CBS's "Mandelbaum," Fox's "World's Scariest Naked Fat Guys on CrystalMeth" and ABC's "Cracker"

    -Joyce Millman, Salon

    The road to hell is paved with deleterious mutations.

    -Paul Mineiro

    Power corrupts. Absolute power really turns on the chicks.

    -Jeff Mink

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    Until the day animals stand up and demand equal rights, I have the right to eat them.

    -Jeff Mink

    It's not that they waste money. It's that they waste ALL the money.

    -Marvin Minksy on NASA

    On one side, the Americans are the champions of democracy and human rights. On theother side, they are fighting against Osama bin Laden with the help of military dictatorsand kings who don't believe in democracy or human rights. Osama bin Laden is not ahero because of his ideas. He is a hero by default.

    -Hamid Mir

    If you copy from one author it's plagiarism. If you copy from two, it's research.

    -Wilson Mizner

    One day I returned from lunch, and my screensaver had evolved intelligent, self-aware,beautiful life forms. They had art, science, a reasonably complete understanding of theiruniverse, and monumental architecture, most of which was devoted to the message:"Please don't move your mouse!" But what was I supposed to do? I had to see how themarket closed.

    -Gordon Mohr

    Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty without any proof.

    -Ashley Montague

    You see, our experts describe you as an appallingly dull fellow, unimaginative, timid,lacking in initiative, spineless, easily dominated, no sense of humour, tedious companyand irrepressibly drab and awful. And whereas in most professions these would beconsiderable drawbacks, in chartered accountancy they are a positive boon.

    -Monty Python Flying Circus

    Rush [Limbaugh] fills the same niche in political discourse that WWF wrestling fills insport.

    -Dave Mooney

    I thought that you should be the first to know. I joined the psychotic friends network.

    -Hugh Moore

    Man, it's really dark in here. Somebody should light a witch.

    -Hugh Moore

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    Now you have to choose if you want to be a warrior, ranger, rogue, or academic. Hint:don't pick rogue.

    -Hugh Moore

    You could come with us if you want. In fact, if you did, you might not even suck...

    -Hugh Moore

    Who needs foresight when you've got apathy?

    -Hugh Moore

    When the rabbit of chaos is pursued through the field of anarchy it is time to hang yourpants on the hook of darkness.

    -Roger Moore, Spiceworld

    Down the street, at the Touretzky Nasal Grindworks, they have a different motto:"Miserable Today - For a Better Tomorrow"

    -Hans Moravec

    It's now more important to learn boring algebra than to practice fun rock throwing. Soyou take your choice. If you choose happiness over survival too consistently--well, thenyou die happy. Or else, you thrive grumpily.

    -Hans Moravec

    On this side you have customers coming in, and the customers coming in better bringsome dollars with them, because if they don't bring some dollars with them they're not

    really customers.

    -Avery More

    I can't kill myself with idiocy, it's not sharp enough.

    -Chris Morgan

    If you can't handle CLICKING by now, get off our internet.

    -Chris Morgan

    When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue --you sell him a whole new life.

    -Christopher Morley

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    I love Gummi Bears ... and I want Gummi Bears and I like Gummi Bears and I eatGummi Bears and I don't like it when I don't eat my Gummi Bears, but I'm certainly notaddicted to them.

    -Philip Morris President James Morgan on why cigarettes are not addictive

    You are nothing. You are not a man. You are not a god. I will find a man, and give birthto a god!

    -Morgana

    Of course, no real deconstruction would be like this. I only used a single paragraph andavoided literary jargon. All of the words will be found in a typical abridged dictionaryand were used with their conventional meanings. I also wrote entirely in English and didnot cite anyone. Thus in an English literature course I would probably get a D for this,but I already have my degree so I don't care.

    -Chip Morningstar

    The person who walks alone is soon trailed by the FBI.

    -Wright Morris

    She said, 'I know you....you cannot sing', I said, 'That's nothing, you should hear me playpiano.'

    -Morrissey

    you will get a better response in New York by snarling at people over a period of weeks.Once you are recognised as someone who has no desire to be in anyone else's life, the

    possibility of intimacies such as mutual nodding opens up.

    -Damien Morton

    You know you're in college when you go to CVS and the only two things you buy areSaline solution and Trojans.

    -Mathew Morton

    Just remember: you're not a "dummy," no matter what those computer books claim.

    -Walter Mossberg

    Well, we've come full circle, Lord; I'd like to think there's some higher meaning to allthis. It would certainly reflect well on you.

    -Mouse

    Secrecy is for losers.

    -Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan

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    In each of Van Damme's films, there's a new, ridiculous explanation as to why he's beenallowed out of Belgium.

    -Mr. Cranky

    As it turns out, Zardoz is just a puppet utilized by some upper class beings to spew

    manipulative nonsense at the unwashed masses, sort of like George W. Bush, onlysmarter.

    -Mr Cranky

    Let me tell you just how much of a struggle Matt Damon was experiencing at the time:He was starving, not knowing where his next meal would come from, freezing during theBoston winter as he tried to sleep in a cardboard box using bagel bags for socks and slabsof wood for shoes. Oh, wait. That might be an actual inspiring story. In truth, MattDamon was starving in his warm Harvard dormitory. If you bought the former tale, thankyou for sucking the penis of Miramax Films. Please exit to the right.

    -Mr. Cranky

    Two amateurish storytelling techniques utilized in the first five minutes, and it's prettyobvious we're going to spend a few hours with Mr. Clich shoving his hands down ourpants.

    -Mr. Cranky

    Backup not found: (A)bort (R)etry (P)anic

    [email protected]

    Cool is only three letters away from Fool.

    -Mike Muir

    Sleep is the mind-killer! Defeat sleep!

    -Jim Mulhearn

    There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for "melancholy of relationshipspast." It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your betterjudgement, to listen to country music.

    -Kary Mullis

    If God had meant us to think, we'd have brains.

    -Nick Munn

    Power Users believe computer salesmen.

    -Richard Murnane

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    It is impossible to make something foolproof, because fools are so ingenious.

    -Edsel Murphy

    If there's more than one way to do a job and one of those ways will end in disaster, thensomeone will do it that way.

    -Edward Murphy, Jr.

    I think they're very creative. I think their work is very powerful, but I think it's verynaive.... sort of, if you like, a petulant young child out of control.

    -Peter Murphy on Marilyn Manson

    I have feelings too, I just choose to hide them underneath bitter denial.

    -Ms. Musso

    The more you do, the more you are.

    -Bryan R Mundy

    Any definition of "noise" that doesn't count discussion of gun control is inherently bogus.

    -John Gardiner Myers

    He obviously didn't realize who I am. Sure, that sounds a bit pretentious... but it's true.

    -John Gardiner Myers

    I have pantyhose older than you.

    -John Gardiner Myers' mother

    The problem with mail systems in general is that there are far too many idiots writing andrunning mail systems. A killing spree won't help, there are far too many people in need ofextinction.

    -John Gardiner Myers

    Now the actual correct mathematical solution to this differential equation is insane, sophysicists use a special trick which is that you guess.

    -Ron Myers

    If you're like me, you think that those miserable little sticks of wood fired by the Archersare way too wimpy. And if you're like me, you've often said to yourself, "Why can't myArchers be just a little more manly? Why can't they be shooting flaming, explodingchickens?"

    -Myth II propaganda