Go ahead and fail. But fail with wit, fail with grace, fail with style.
A mediocre failure is as insufferable as a mediocre success. Embrace
failure! Seek it out. Learn to love it. That may be the only way any of
us will ever be free.

— Tom Robbins, "Even Cowgirls Get the Blues"

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but
phone calls taper off.

— Johnny Carson

"There were those who fought and cried before they ran
there were those who looked in vain for leading hands
and still we search for comfort in the sand
and an early mist that's rolling."

— Wolfstone, "The Early Mist"

"The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it."

— William James

"Eating kittens is just plain wrong, and no-one should do it, ever!!"

— The Tick

It has to be said that giving the computers a little reward every now and
again if they're well behaved is a good idea. However, the use of a *big*
stick (preferable something like a Bo or nunchuka if you're feeling really
nasty) as a threat to computers is a good thing. More than once I've fixed
a computer by being nice to it first, and when that failed threatening it
with a sledge hammer :).

— Simon Burr, in alt.sysadmin.recovery

How many net.jokers does it take to tell yet-another light bulb joke?
622 - One to tell the original joke, and the rest to give some minor
variation of it, believing this to constitute a great new joke that noone
else had ever thought of.

Friends don't let friends drink and su(1).

— Kevin Harris, in alt.sysadmin.recovery

UNIX command of the day:
# ar x "matey, the treasure"
ar: matey, the tresure does not exist

Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.

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