If you sat a monkey down in front of a keyboard, the first thing typed would be a UNIX command. - Bill Lye BSD is for people who love UNIX; Linux is for people who hate Windows. - Anonymous A sysadmin's life is a sorry one. The only advantage he has over Emergency Room doctors is that malpractice suits are rare. On the other hand, ER doctors never have to deal with patients installing new versions of their own innards. - Sysadmin's Lament This is a SONET OC-12, the fastest net connection made. Well punx, do you feel lucky? Go ahead, make my day... - Berry Kercheval Happiness is the derivative (in the mathematical sense) of progress. - Dave Munson There's a lot to be said for putting competing non-existent services in the same RF band, I suppose.... - Alan H. Jones, Olivetti & Oracle Research Laboratory ... We could use some of the SPARC-1 machines for ATM testing if we need slow hosts. - Steve Pennington, University of Kansas Oh God, please make the world linear and Gaussian, just for today. - Anonymous Umm, mumble... - Joe Evans, from Hal Murray at DEC SRC ... has the gift on compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts. - Winston Churchill A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even practices it without any hope of doing it well. - G. K. Chesterton There once was an old man from Esser, Who's knowledge grew lesser and lesser. It at last grew so small, He knew nothing at all, And now he's a College Professor. - Unknown It is so easy to miss pretty trivial solutions to problems deemed complicated. The goal of a scientist is to find an interesting problem, and live off it for a while. The goal of an engineer is to evade interesting problems. - Vadim Antonovon NANOG In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert's mind there are few. - Japanese Zen-master Shunryu Suzuki I have learned the novice can often see things that the expert overlooks. All that is necessary is not to be afraid of making mistakes or of appearing naive. - Abraham Maslow, psychologist and philosopher Failure is success if we learn from it. - Malcolm Forbes Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises. - Demosthenes, Greek orator and statesman A ship is safe in a harbor. But a harbor is not what a ship is for. - Anonymous Only in growth, reform, and change, paradoxically enough, is true security to be found. - Anne Morrow Lindbergh Above all, try something. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt For myself I am an optimist - it does not seem to be much use being anything else. - Winston Churchill
I maintain an open door policy.
See thoughts to ponder, attorneys' lines, a letter from the Smithsonian, famous (unfortunate) quotes, bumper stickers, and the history of specifications for more fun...
Any computer problems to report? If so, maybe you should call an engineer. And if you think Post Office workers have it rough, you should spend some time in Silicon Valley.
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For Americans travelling in the UK, I have provided some useful advice.
A first grade perspective...
On the other hand, a thesis advisor's perspective is important to graduate students...
Some other miscellaneous quotes.
Ok, finally, we need an Irish joke...