Ryan Morlok’s Blog

After much harrassing, Shanley has resumed his role as quotemaster.  You can check out his new quotes website at:

http://quotes.morlok.net 

Since Shanley isn’t keeping up the quote collection, I guess I need to post this. Analogies collected from High School English classes.

Some of my favorites:

• His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.
• She grew on him like she was a colony of E. Coli, and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.
• The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

http://www.sysprog.net/quotes.html

Some of my favorites:

Physics is the universe’s operating system. (Steven R Garman)

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history - with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila. (Mitch Radcliffe)

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork. (Sam Ewing)

Never trust a computer you can’t throw out a window. (Steve Wozniak)

If the automobile had followed the same development cycle as the computer, a Rolls-Royce would today cost $100, get a million miles per gallon, and explode once a year, killing everyone inside. (”Robert X. Cringely”, Computerworld)

Trip and I were taking a break from work last night, and spent a few minutes enjoying Shanley’s famous (or infamous) quote book and we got to thinking that it’s high time a post-college edition was started. Everyone one who’s with us on this idea, harass Shanley. Together, we can make this happen.

Unfortunately, there are no known plans to revive the quotes website, but in Shanely’s diligent following of the Olympics (or perhaps just Ice Dancing, who I am to judge), he did find this gem.

“Business is just like politics, only without all the democracy getting in the way.”