Quotes From The Cyberworld - N

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Anti-ninjas were the most feared assassins in the world. Instead of appearing out of thin

air, throwing metal stars and messing around with bo staffs and numchuks they simply

shot people and then drove everyone mad with pointless conspiracy theories for yearsafterwards.

-from N-Man #3

You are not I, and therein lies the irreparable calamity.

-Vladimir Nabokov

If Gore can't beat a bumbling Texas governor with that kind of a record, what good is he?

-Ralph Nader

DO NOT try to snort TANG up your nose.

-Ken Nagle

Creation is quite different from sex, unless you take everything to a metaphoric level,

which if you do, you should never allow your children to play with Legos.

-Ken Nagle

Dead puppies can be lots of fun. Collect and trade them with your friends.....

-Ken Nagle

The fragrance of the summer is WetGoth by Wet N Wild. WetGoth is specially designedto remind you of those rainy nights after a club, waiting for a cab. It's got the perfect hint

of old grass and stale clove smoke to remind you of the special night when you had to

sleep in on the lawn because your parents wouldn't let you inside. There is the barest hintof sweat from that last gig you went to to remind you of how you were crushed against

the stage by a thousand other screaming fans, where no one else could hear your screams

of pain. WetGoth! Remember, Wetgoth is the official fragrance of the 1936 Olympicgames.

-Ken Nagle

Go ahead and use my father's words against me. We'll see how crafty you can be when Ifill you full of margaritas......

-Ken Nagle

I don't currently have access to my alt.gothic.gun^3, but if you give me your name andnumber, I shall surely get back to you with my alt.gothic.hatchet^3.....

-Ken Nagle


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I know one guy that if his ratty hair wacks me in the face one more time, I'm gonna go

perky all over his ass!!!!

-Ken Nagle

I was born about about 1600 years ago, raised by wolves who had a penchant for

chickens, burgers, and breath mints. I was there with Alaric when he sacked Rome in410AD and have always thought that would be a cool name when I eventually fathered

children.....

-Ken Nagle

I'll make you a deal: Either I see you there... or I don't.... How's that sound?

-Ken Nagle

we're satanic hippies. we drink human blood and make sacrifices, but we always recycle.

-Ken Nagle

You all thought Calypso Lou set that up? WRONG! I replaced Louis Farrakhan with an

android under my control, and he organised the Million Man March in order for me to be

able to fit the marchers with my specially patented mind control chip (remote controluntil sold separately). Be on the lookout for the Million Woman March, the Million Kid

March, the March to the Scaffold, the Wedding March, and the Million Guys Named Bob

Who Don't Know What SPAM Is March.

-Ken Nagle

my brain hurts... it shouldn't, i haven't used it much recently

-Nailbunny

I recently obtained an Open Firmware specification book, and found it quite useful. As

soon as I try to read this book, I become as sleepy as if I had read a phone book.

-Hamada Naoki

It follows that any commander in chief who undertakes to carry out a plan which heconsiders defective is at fault; he must put forth his reasons, insist of the plan being

changed, and finally tender his resignation rather than be the instrument of his army's

downfall.

-Napoleon, "Military Maxims and Thought"

Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.

-Napoleon


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There are two ways to fix reliability problems. One is to lose customers. The other is to

actually build a reliable system.

-Arun Narayan

In the U.S. Government, there is a lot more incompetence and a lot less conspiracy than

is generally believed.

-a NASA spokesperson

The genius of you Americans is that you never make clear-cut stupid moves, only

complicated stupid moves which make the rest of us wonder at the possibility that we

might be missing something.

-Jamal Abdul Nasser

It doesn't make sense to make pages complex and use a lot of graphics. If you make a site

look really fancy, it looks great the first time. The second time it's amusing. And the third

time it's just plain annoying.

-Farzad Nazem, CTO, Yahoo!

Personally, should I ever form a globe spanning conglomerate, I intend to do it fairly andwithout malice or dirty politics. I hope you fellows don't make that too difficult a task; I

would have to have you all killed.

-David Neal

Americans have Thanksgiving, the British have Guy Fawkes Night, and NTK has theannual review of another bloody Windows compression utility.

-Need to Know News

Lovely girls are terribly insecure. They are convinced that their legs are too thick, and

their bottoms are too big, and their bosoms are too small. They are conviced that their

nose is the wrong shape, that their ears stick out, and that their eyes are too closetogether. They need a man who will tell them they are exactly right as they are. They do

not believe him, but they need to hear it said.

-Richard J. Needham

Most so-called moral dilemmas simply dissolve when one gathers all the knowledge that

is actually available. We waste an immense amount of precious energy trying to makedecisions before we really have to or are able to. Once we see something clearly, the

question of morality more or less takes care of itself. Authentic morality is the child of

understanding.

-Jacob Needleman


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Hm. My master's thesis reads much better once I pipe it through jive.

-Chris Nelson

Jeepers, he holds the world's fate in his hands and he can't drive a stick shift!

-Mike Nelson, Mystery Science Theater 3000

Violence never solves problems, it just changes them into more subtle problems.

-Russell Nelson

I have enough trouble socializing with people. I don't need some object saying 'goodmorning' to me.

-Ted Nelson

Mama, don't let your babies grow up to be philosophers.

-Wilvur Nelson

You are an old man... who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There are no nations.

There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are no Arabs. There are no ThirdWorlds. There is no West. There is only one holistic system of systems, one vast,

interwoven, interacting, multi-variate, multi-national dominion of dollars. Petro-dollars,

electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rins, rubles, pounds and shekels. It is theinternational system of currency which determines the totality of life on this planet. That

is the natural order of things today. That is the atomic, and subatomic and galactic

structure of things today. And you have meddled with the primal forces of nature, andyou will atone! Am I getting through to you, Mr. Beale? You get up on your little twenty-

one inch screen and howl about America and democracy. There is no America. There isno democracy. There is only IBM, and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, UnionCarbide, and Exxon - those are the nations of the world today. What do you think the

Russians talk about in their councils of state - Karl Marx? They get out their linear

programming charts, statistical decision theories and mini-max solutions and compute the

price-cost probabilities of their transactions and investments just like we do. We nolonger live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of

corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable by-laws of business. The world is

a business, Mr. Beale.

-Ned Beatty in "Network"

zen is not defined.

-Netscape error message

Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in

a state of sin.

-John von Neumann


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It would appear that we have reached the limits of what it is possible to achieve with

computer technology, although one should be careful with such statements, as they tend

to sound pretty silly in 5 years.

-John Von Neumann

The sciences do not try to explain, they hardly even try to interpret, they mainly makemodels. By a model is meant a mathematical construct which, with the addition of certain

verbal interpretations, describes observed phenomena. The justification of such amathematical construct is solely and precisely that it is expected to work.

-John Von Neumann

There's no sense in being precise when you don't even know what you're talking about

-John Von Neumann

You wake me up early in the morning to tell me I am right? Please wait until I am wrong.

-John Von Neumann

A friend and I recently decided that we had heard the word "artist" used far too often, and

that from now on, whenever we heard anyone say the word "artist" we would mentallyreplace it with the word "retard." The universe sorted itself out with a terrible velocity.

Imagine being in a gallery and seeing this: "Prints Available -- signed by the retard."...

-New York Press

DOS Computers manufactured by companies such as IBM, Compaq, Tandy, and millionsof others are by far the most popular, with about 70 million machines in use worldwide.

Macintosh fans, on the other hand, may note that cockroaches are far more numerousthan humans, and that numbers alone do not denote a higher life form.

-New York Times, November 26, 1991

Deep Impact - A dire warning that should concern us all. You may feel safe in your bed,but beware: even as you sleep, Earth is under threat from a vast, overheated surplus of

character actors.

-The New Yorker

Theories are more like graduate students - once admitted you try hard to avoid flunking

them out, it being much better for them and for the world if they can become long termcontributors to society.

-Allen Newell

Ben, I threw food at you to make you shut up. It hasn't worked. If you don't shut up, I

want my food back.

-Dale Newfield


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For maybe a hundred thousand years or more, grownups have been waving tangles of

string in their children's faces.... No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing

but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look at all thoseX's.... No damn cat, and no damn cradle.

-Newt, "Cat's Cradle"

we didn't mean 'free' as in no cost, we meant 'free' as in 'free to charge as much as we like'

-Ashley Niblock

Chivalry is not dead, it's just taking a well deserved nap, and I'm here to make sure it

sleeps late.

-Van Nichols

Sell crazy someplace else, we're all stocked up here.

-Jack Nicholson, As Good As it Gets

i'll listen to reason when it comes out on CD

-Kirstin Nickerson

Look, I tried the cat experiment. On the third trial, the cat was dead. On each of the

subsequent 413 trials, it remained dead. Am I doing something wrong?

-James Nicoll

The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as

pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued

other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for newvocabulary.

-James Nicoll

Windows 98 is so similar to Windows 95 because Apple hasn't invented anything worth

copying since 1995.

-Jakob Nielsen

In Germany they came first for the Communists and I didn't speak up because I wasn't aCommunist. Then they came for the Jews, but I did not speak up because I was not a Jew.

Then they came for the trade-unionists, but I did not speak up because I was not a trade-unionist. Then then they came for the Catholics, but I did not speak up because I was aProtestant. Then they came for me and by that time there was no one left to speak up.

-Rev. Martin Niemoller


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A higher kind of human being, excuse me for saying, doesn't think much of 'callings', the

reason being he knows himself called....He takes his time, he has plenty of time, he gives

no thought whatsoever to being 'finished and ready' - at the age of thirty one is, as regardshigh culture, a beginner, a child.

-Friedrich Nietzsche

Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent.


For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic avtivity or perception to exist, a certain

physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication...sexual excitement...feasting, ofcontest, of the brave deed, of victory, extreme agitation, of cruelty, of destruction, of will.


Great and fine things can never be common property: pulchrum est paucorum hominum

(beauty is for the few).


He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And ifyou gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.


He divines remedies against injuries; he knows how to turn serious accidents to his own

advantage; whatever does not kill him makes him stronger.


I despise mystics, they fancy themselves so deep, when they aren't even superficial.


In Heaven, all the interesting people are missing.


Nature, artistically considered, is no model. It exaggerates, it distorts, it leaves gaps.

Nature is chance. To study 'from nature' seems to me a bad sign: it betrays subjection,weakness, fatalism - this lying in the dust before petty facts is unworthy of a complete

artist.


Nothing suceeds in which high spirits play no part. Only excess of strength is proof of

strength.



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One will rarely err if extreme actions be ascribed to vanity, ordinary actions to habit, and

mean actions to fear.


Once and for all, there is a great deal I do not want to know. - Wisdom sets bounds even

to knowledge.


The Christian resolution to find the world ugly and bad has made the world ugly and bad.


There are two tragedies in life: one is losing one's heart's desire, the other is gaining it.


There is no more dangerous error than that of mistaking the consequence for the cause.


When Gods were more Man-like, men were more god-like.


You who hate the Jews so, why did you adopt their religion?


The first bullet is never for you.

-Nikita

When you don't know what to say, just smile. It won't make you any smarter, but it will

be pleasant for others.

-Nikita

It's a nitwit idea. Nitwit ideas are for emergencies. The rest of the time you go by the

Book, which is mostly a collection of nitwit ideas that worked.

-Niven and Pournelle, The Mote in God's Eye

If I could find a way to get Saddam Hussein out of there, even putting a contract out onhim, if the CIA still did that sort of a thing, assuming it ever did, I would be for it.

-Richard M. Nixon

Television is to news as bumperstickers are to philosophy.

-Richard M. Nixon


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Believe nothing - Dare all

-Nizari Isma'ili

Nothing is True - Everything is Permitted

-Nizari Isma'ili

The likelihood of your wanting to use a diskless workstation decreases as the square ofyour distance from Palo Alto increases.

-Brian Noble

If I could go through the dorms and shoot people, exam pressures would be put into

perspective.

-Professor Ralph Noble

Academics get paid for being clever, not for being right.

-Donald Norman

President Reagan didn't always know what he knew.

-Oliver North

I've seen sausage made and I've seen law made ... and the main difference is there aren't

any ambushes in sausage.

-Mac Norton

It is a shame the author didn't read the tax code before writing this book. It is obvious shewas unwilling to be encumbered by the facts. My right wing relatives love it. They also

think of pork rinds as an entree.

-Warren Norwood, amazon.com review of The Greedy Hand

Anyone can commit a crime, but how many people do you know can commit a crime that

is not only ahead of its time, but also isn't illegal...yet. Hot ninja hacker chicks will thinkwe're gods.

-Joshua Nowell

See, you guys got it all wrong. The Easter bunny sucks. I've been hanging out with the

Ether Bunny. Don't remember much but I'm sure I had a great time...except for thenoticable twitch and the fact that I can't remember my login...

-Joshua Nowell

No keyboard found. Press F1 to continue.

-NT error message


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Reboot your machine. Do not reboot your machine.

-NT error message

I want them to play Britney Spears at my funeral. This way I won't feel so bad about

being dead, and everyone there will know there is something worse than Death.

-Gary Numan

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