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    Unless we're talking about my Barbies. They used to capture my brother's GI Joe, tie him

    up & then take his stuff.

    -Karen Laake

    y'know, when everyone's wearing black, you really have to look before you randomlygrab someone's butt.

    -Karen Laake

    Black's Law Dictionary defines "pro se" as "Appearing for oneself, as in the case of one

    who does not retain a lawyer and appears for himself in court." Judges define "pro se" as"idiot."

    -Jay Laefer

    The next new episode of Star Trek: Voyager will involve a "space carnivore" that "eats

    spaceships."

    -Jay Laefer

    The policy is no eating, not no food.

    -Jay Laefer

    Usenet may not be an infinite number of monkeys sitting at keyboards trying to createShakespeare, but it's the closest thing we've got.

    -Jay Laefer

    Naturally, prosecutors pick up a lot of criminal vocabulary, especially in the drug trade,

    where criminal words for things are the only words there are; you can say, "He washolding a deck," or you can say, "He was holding a glassine envelope of a white powdery

    substance . . . alleged and believed to be heroin." Crack isn't usually packaged in vials

    anymore but in miniature heat-sealed plastic bags, which the dealers call "slabs." Theofficial and legal term for them is "slabs" as well. To make a rule of this kind of

    exception would lead to indictments that read, "To wit, defendant did possess one mad fat

    rock of yayo."

    -Marcus Laffey

    Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

    -Hedy Lamar

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    There was a fever over the land. A fever of disgrace, of indignity, of hunger. We had a

    democracy, yes, but it was torn by elements within. There was, above all, fear. Fear of

    today, fear of tomorrow, fear of our neighbors, fear of ourselves. Only when youunderstand that can you understand what Hitler meant to us. Because he said to us: 'Lift

    up your heads! Be proud to be German! There are devils among us. Communists,

    Liberals, Jews, Gypsies! Once the devils will be destroyed, your miseries will bedestroyed.' It was the old, old story of the sacrifical lamb. What about us, who knew

    better? We who knew the words were lies and worse than lies? Why did we sit silent?

    Why did we participate? Because we loved our country! What difference does it make ifa few political extremists lose their rights? What difference does it make if a few racial

    minorities lose their rights? It is only a passing phase. It is only a stage we are going

    through. It will be discarded sooner or later. 'The country is in danger.' We will 'march

    out of the shadows.' 'We will go forward.' And history tells you how well we succeeded!We succeeded beyond our wildest dreams. The very elements of hate and power about

    Hitler that mesmerized Germany, mesmerized the world! We found ourselves with

    sudden powerful allies. Things that had been denied us as a democracy were open to us

    now. The world said go ahead, take it! Take Sudetenland, take the Rhineland -remilitarize it - take all of Austria, take it! We marched forward, the danger passed. And

    then one day, we looked around and found we were in even more terrible danger. Therites began in this courtroom, swept over our land like a raging, roaring disease! What

    was going to be a passing phase became a way of life.

    -Burt Lancaster as Ernst Janning in Judgment at Nuremberg

    One person can make a very big difference. Most of the time, in fact, that's the only way

    very big differences ever get made.

    -Rob Landley

    By the way, if you ever consider getting involved in any area that requires knowledge of

    the symmetry of solids: just do yourself a favor and start flipping burgers.

    -Greg Landrum

    I've had bowls of spaghetti that were more tightly structured than this argument.

    -Anthony Lane

    Well in my opinion a battle never works according to plan. The plan is only a commonbase for changes. It's very important that everyone should know the plan, so you can

    change it easily... the modern battle is very fluid, and you have to make your decisions

    very fast -- and mostly not according to plan. But at least everybody knows where you'recoming from, and where you're going to, more or less.

    -Gen Dan Laner, Israeli Defense forces commander, Golan Heights, 1973

    It was bad. It was kissing-your-sister bad.

    -Kenard Lang

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    Wall Street pays a lot of attention to the Internet, but the Internet doesn't pay much

    attention to Wall Street.

    -Larry Lang

    I need to have some useful applications on there to suppress my nagging concience into

    believing I didn't just buy this machine to play Doom on.

    -Mark Lang

    If anyone had told me back then that getting back to embarrassingly primitive UNIX

    would be the great hope and investment obsession of the year 2008, merely because it's

    name was changed to LINUX and its source code was opened up again, I never wouldhave had the stomach or the heart to continue in computer science.

    -Jaron Lanier

    goddammit, how come the only time i get quotefiled is when i mention penises?

    -Len Lanphar

    i wish my intestines were multithreaded

    -Len Lanphar

    If i kill my officemate, can one of you come to court and say I was in Cleveland orsomething at the time it happened?

    -Len Lanphar

    They should start bundling Clue with the linux kernel.

    -Len Lanphar

    I meet women who use punctuation all the time. Perhaps you're hanging around in the

    wrong places.

    -Nat Lanza

    I'm not carrying another goddamn body for you. Find someone else to carry it to that

    secret hole behind your fireplace.

    -Nat Lanza

    Iraq moves troops close to Syrian border and announces it is a military exercise. The U.S.moves Patriot missle outfit to Israel with some troops and announces it is a military

    exercise. My trainer told me that sometimes you can overdo the exercising.

    -Fred Lapides

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    When guns are outlawed, how will we handle frat boys?

    -Kurt Laughlin

    For best results, wash in cold water separately, hang dry and iron with warm iron. For not

    so good results, drag behind car through puddles, blow-dry on roofrack.

    -Laundry instructions on a shirt

    If someone bothers you, ask him to stop. If he does not stop, destroy him.

    -Anton LaVey

    The Bible contains 6 admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to

    heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they

    need more supervision.

    -Lynn Lavner

    All men dream: but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their

    minds wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are

    dangerous men, for they may act their dream with open eyes, to make it possible.

    -T. E. Lawrence

    consider your own movement on earth. Even if you are walking in a straight line, theearth itself is rotating about its axis and revolving around the sun, which in turn is

    revolving around the galaxy, which is in turn moving about the universe. So your true

    movement in space is nothing like a straight line. It is more like a Zig, a Zag, and then aSwirl.

    -Alfred Lawson

    If the enemy is in range, so are you. Incoming fire has the right of way. There is always a

    way. The easy way is always mined. Try to look unimportant, they may be low on ammo.

    Professionals are predictable, it's the amateurs that are dangerous. The enemy invariablyattacks on two occasions: when you're ready for them, and when you're not ready for

    them. Teamwork is essential, it gives them someone else to shoot at. If you can't

    remember, then the claymore is pointed at you. The enemy diversion you have beenignoring will be the main attack. A 'sucking chest wound' is nature's way of telling you to

    slow down. If your attack is going well you have walked into an ambush. Never draw

    fire, it irritates everyone around you. Anything you do can get you shot, including

    nothing. Make it tough enough for the enemy to get in and you won't be able to get out.Never share a foxhole with anyone braver than yourself. If you're short of everything but

    the enemy, you're in a combat zone. When you have secured an area, don't forget to tell

    the enemy. Never forget that your weapon is made by the lowest bidder. Remember, onceyou pull the pin, Mr. Hand Grenade is no longer your friend. It's not the bullet with your

    name on it you have to worry about, it's all those other ones labeled 'occupant'.

    -The Laws of Combat

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    There has never been a shortage of people willing to market something-for-nothing

    schemes to the gullible. Over the years, there have been perpetual motion machines,

    gizmos that you put in the fuel line to "magnetize" your gasoline and make your Eldoradoget 50mpg, and end-to-end QoS schemes.

    -Irwin Lazar

    In England, the first book in the series was titled "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's

    Stone," while American readers, unaccustomed to philosophy in their children's books,were treated to "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone."

    -David Lazarus

    No matter how great your triumphs or how tragic your defeats - approximately one

    billion Chinese couldn't care less.

    -Lazlo's Chinese Relativity Axiom

    It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power ofperception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.

    -C.W. Leadbeater

    At first glance, there's a lot of sex on the Internet. Or not at first glance: Nobody can find

    anything on the Internet at first glance.

    -Senator Patrick Leahy

    The bomb will never go off. I speak as an expert in explosives.

    -Admiral William Leahy, US Atomic Bomb Project

    The drug war is fueled by the fact that at this historic moment, when American

    Liberalism and free enterprise have "won" the Cold War, our politicians are suffering

    from enemy deprivation. Faced with the real problems of urhan decay, slipping global

    competitiveness, and a deteriorating educational system, Washington has decided insteadto turn its energies toward the 25 million Americans who use and traffic psychoactive

    drugs.

    -Timothy Leary

    There are doors that they won't go in and they don't want us to go in there either because

    they're afraid that if we do, we'll learn something that they don't know, and that makes usa little out of their control.

    -Timothy Leary

    I've just mastered the art of not laughing in someone's face as I apologize for just

    knocking them over.

    -Steve "Red Steve" Ledebur

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    If you're a 300 year old vampire, how come you're not on the guest list yet?

    -Steve Ledebur

    Oh - the Promise Keepers are forbidden from beating anybody ... but their wives.

    -Steve Ledebur

    You could call it "selling out". I prefer to call it "buying in".

    -Steve Ledebur

    Physics is not a religion. If it were, we'd have a much easier time raising money.

    -Leon Lederman

    It's only occurring to me now as I write this down, but it seems that cynicism and

    contempt may have actually helped me out of the worst acid trip I've ever had. Punk rock

    works!

    -Bob Lee

    Some people only attach value to things they have to pay for. This is the businessman'smindset. He believes in Money, with a capital M. It defines him, and his relationship with

    the world is interpreted in terms of the flow of cash. This is the work of Adam Smith's

    Invisible Hand, which has long been wedged up Adam Smith's Invisible Butt.

    -Jeremy Lee

    Art consists of inventing and not copying.

    -Fernand Lger

    The enemy must die, for if he does not, then he won't be dead.

    -from the LEGO WARS rules

    What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

    -Ursula Leguin

    Power corrupts. Absolute power is kinda neat.

    -John Lehman

    The Army has carried the American ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they

    prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on the grounds of

    ability.

    -Tom Lehrer

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    If anyone disagrees with anything I say, I am quite prepared not only to retract it, but also

    to deny under oath that I ever said it.

    -Tom Lehrer

    Many of the New York venture people come from an investment banking background.

    They're looking more at the decimals. The VCs in California are counting the commas.

    -Josh Leibowitz

    The brilliant Cerebron, attacking the problem analytically, discovered three distinct kinds

    of dragon: the mythical, the chimerical, and the purely hypothetical. They were all, one

    might say, nonexistent, but each nonexisted in an entirely different way...

    -Stanislaw Lem, "Cyberiad"

    Unless it's a Microsoft Power User Demon Program From Hell, most mac programs are

    easy to pick up without looking at manuals.

    -Laura Lemay

    On the Net, the words 'regulation' and 'Internet' are like matter and anti-matter: Put them

    together and you hear a loud boom, as libertarians fly in every direction, squawkingfuriously.

    -Andrew Leonard

    You can't beat the Net for beating off.

    -Andrew Leonard

    "Spooge" is an interesting new term for me! Sounds really yukky...

    -John Leong

    When two people love each other a very long time (six years or more), sometimes theykiss. And they kiss because they love each other. Sometimes, after they kiss, a stork

    comes and brings a little baby. Of course, if you've only been together for 3 months, you

    just knocked your girlfriend up because you didn't use a condom. Right?

    -Jamie Lerner

    But in our enthusiasm, we could not resist a radical overhaul of the system, in which all

    of its major weaknesses have been exposed, analyzed, and replaced with newweaknesses.

    -Bruce Leverett, "Register Allocation in Optimizing Compilers"

    You know it's Unix when the backspace key often performs an action other than deletingthe character to the left of the cursor.

    -Raph Levien

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    Playing on the edge means being willing to go into the unknown. It means approaching

    that place where real growth occurs.

    -Stephen Levine

    A small case of mood poisoning... must have been something I hate.

    -Eli Levitt, Wild Palms

    good. be a futurist, will you, and go get in your car, go tearing down the road way too

    fast, run up to him and slap him? you can say something like "art waits for no pants,

    bonbon!" at the end if you want.

    -Sean Levy

    there is no accounting for taste. there isn't even a budget for it.

    -Sean Levy

    I've learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me.

    -Monica Lewinsky discussing weight loss on Larry King Live

    Of all tyrannies a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most

    oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral

    busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at somepoint be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end,

    for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.

    -C. S. Lewis

    Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no oneis too poor to buy.

    -C.S. Lewis

    There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. ... The only place outside

    Heaven where you can be perfectly safe from all the dangers and pertubations of love is

    Hell.

    -C.S. Lewis

    As long as you don't sport a goalie mask and wander around screaming: "WOMEN!

    WOMEN! Why have you forsaken me?" I don't consider you psycho.

    -Jenn Lewis

    You only live once, but if you work it right, once is enough.

    -Joe Lewis

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    and the fist of darwin shall smite thy stupid ass

    -Marcy Lewis

    This sounds really kewl, but i dont have a kittycan i substitute stupid end users?

    -Marcy Lewis

    If you believe that mathematician Andrew Wiles' proof of Fermat's last theorem hascaused you or a member of your family to dress too provocatively, call (800) 555-9455.

    -Mark Leyner

    History shall confirm or deny our success.

    -Libertis mission statement

    I was clever today. I went sledding. Except I don't have a sled, so my butt is very cold.

    -Jena Barchas Lichtenstein

    Freedom of the press belongs to those who own one.

    -A. J. Liebling

    Obviously crime pays, or there'd be no crime.

    -G. Gordon Liddy

    Why is it that there are so many more horses' asses than there are horses?

    -G. Gordon Liddy

    During this period, US world hegemony has often been exercised-sometimes benignly,

    sometimes arrogantly-in a generally lazy, half-hearted, absent-minded way. One key

    reason for this is that as every US opinion poll and election has shown, the great majorityof Americans, while proud of their "world leadership," are also profoundly uninterested

    in the details of its implementation. And the reason for this is that until 8.45am on

    September 11th 2001, very few Americans believed in their hearts that anything the restof the world could do could seriously harm them.

    -Anatol Lieven

    The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of

    joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot beshared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.

    -Alan Lightman

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    Actually, the point of the National Zoo is to imprison animals for the amusement of

    sweating Iowans who have come 1500 miles to learn that the fucking pandas are not

    available for viewing. You want to jog, go to Rock Creek Park, where the aroma ofsteaming primate offal is replaced by fresh car exhaust. Be sure to gesture obscenely at

    the cabs, in case they contain tourists. If all works as planned, tourism will drop to zero,

    and we can all play squash unhindered in the National Archives rotunda.

    -James Lileks

    As far as pizza goes, New Yorkers rise to new levels of delusion on this score. What they

    call pizza has all the flavor of a manhole cover marinated in brine and topped with three

    atoms of sauce and a smear of cheese-flavored spackle. When I'm in New York, I call

    Dominos. And I call the one in Dupont Circle.

    -James Lileks

    DC couture is notoriously ordinary, as though they have a wedding at five, a funeral at

    six, and have dressed for the mean. It's because women do serious work here. New York

    women dress in case they will be photographed. DC women dress in case they have totestify.

    -James Lileks

    I'll grant that New York bagels are superb. Locals claim it's because of the New York

    City water; it imparts some special flavor. I know what it is: Plutonium. In 1984 the

    Times reported that trace levels of plutonium had been found in local water; I was therethat year, and remember the bagels as especially delicious. That's why DC bagels are

    inferior: they use flavors to cover up the use of substandard ingredients, like uranium."

    -James Lileks

    New Yorkers never look up anyway. Tilt the head back more than 35 degrees and youmight as well hang a RUBE sign around your neck. If King Kong showed up today on the

    Empire State building, only German tourists would notice. New Yorkers would notice

    only after the rotting body of the dead ape was starting to overwhelm the smell of

    uncollected restaurant trash.

    -James Lileks

    So the District of Columbia is nicer compared to New York. Eva Braun was probably

    nicer than Messalina. So? No one lives in either city because it's nice. You live in this

    part of the country to make money, crush your inferiors, flatter your betters, and becausethe dry cleaners around here are good at getting out blood and adrenalin. You want to

    smell trees? Go to Minnesota. Which, incidentally, is what I did. I can snipe at everyone

    from here.

    -James Lileks

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    When the remodelling contractor points out that Rome wasn't built in a day, it is

    necessary to point out that Rome was, eventually, built.

    -James Lileks

    I'm not even going to dignify that with a response. Oops.

    -Tripp Lilley

    Do you know about the Eleventh Commandment? It says, "Thou shalt not bore God, or

    he will destroy your universe."

    -John Lilly

    The way to gain security, the way to hold onto our security, is to expand our freedom,

    and to affirm that that's what this country is all about.

    -Rush Limbaugh

    To constrict freedom in the interest of security is to slowly erode the very foundation on

    which the country is built.

    -Rush Limbaugh

    In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed,

    but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerlandthey had brotherly love; they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what

    did they produce? The cuckoo clock.

    -Harry Lime, The Third Man

    Any man can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

    -Abraham Lincoln

    Avoid popularity if you would have peace.

    -Abraham Lincoln

    Prohibition... goes beyond the bounds of reason in that it attempts to control a man's

    appetite by legislation and makes a crime out of things that are not crimes. A prohibition

    law strikes a blow at the very principles upon which our government was founded.

    -Abraham Lincoln

    The assertion that "all men are created equal" was of no practical use in effecting our

    separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for

    future use.

    -Abraham Lincoln

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    The world will little note nor long remember what we say here.

    -Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address

    Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him

    personally.

    -Abraham Lincoln

    The ghetto has no exit.

    -Natalia Lincoln

    There are two rules for success: 1) never tell everything you know.

    -Roger H. Lincoln

    Speed costs money. How fast do you want to go?

    -John Lingenfelter

    It has been suggested that the Internet might be a good way to vote for our elected

    officials. If my experience is any guide, though, it appears there are still a few bugs to beworked out before you'll be able to elect the next President while sitting at home in your

    underwear, unless you want Kid Rock running the country.

    -John Linnell

    Well, way back last semester, some one claiming to be a vampire said that his specieswas first generated by someone drinking the blood of a dragon. Let me just say right now

    that this does not work. I've seen many humans try it over the years and none of them

    became a vampire. The only result they achieved was an angry dragon. And an angrydragon is not something you want to see (or so the survivors told me as they apologized).

    I refuse to claim to be a vampire and I refuse to understand why any human should want

    to do so. It is useless.

    -Ken Lipka

    I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings totalobliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And

    when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone

    there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

    -the Litany Against Fear, Dune

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    In one, Rice vs. Cayetano, the court invalidated a Hawaiian voting scheme with the very

    principled determination that native Hawaiians -- unlike Native Americans -- don't

    deserve special protection. Don't miss the heartbreaking last paragraph: "When theculture and way of life of a people are all but engulfed by a history beyond their control,

    their sense of loss may extend down through generations." (And here I paraphrase:) "Oh

    well. It sucks to be them."

    -Dahlia Lithwick

    For the LAST TIME, I am not the ruler of the underworld. I told Satan and Ba'alzebub

    that, and I don't have time to keep telling it to penny ante fallen angels. Now stop

    bothering me and go back to hell or wherever you came from.

    -Mark Lively

    I'm sorry, I can't have an adventure right now, my Deus ex Machina is in the shop forrepairs.

    -Mark Lively

    i think i'm allergic to evil, maybe that's it.

    -Abby Logsdon

    No you don't... you are just confused. Don't worry, I am confused all the time. Trust me,

    you get used to it.

    -Krys Logston

    actually, he's probably using batmail, which is way cooler because it prints out a little

    picture of a bat and not everyone knows how to use it.

    -Brian Long

    You make some breaks and you get some breaks. You don't get lucky unless you ask.

    -Brian Long

    i don't think you could flame a weener-dog if i gave you a stack o' briquettes, somelighter fluid, and a small incendiary device.

    -Brian Long

    Homework is bad. Going home is bad.

    -Darrell Long

    It's all right; I have to sign his thesis.

    -Darrell Long

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    Run time checking is for wimps. Just give me a core dump, I'll figure it out.

    -Darrell Long

    You should break a programmer's fingers if they do this.

    -Darrell Long on self modifying code

    You're a catholic, for christ's sake! You're not supposed to be lenient.

    -Darrell Long

    discussing nuking things 'til they glow should remind us that war is always a negative-sum game. Anyone who believes that it's zero-sum may wish to check the ingredients list

    on their Koolaid.

    -Dave Long

    Natural laws have no pity

    -Lazarus Long

    Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerablesubhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe and not make messes in the house.

    -Lazarus Long

    Cutting her throat is only a momentary pleasure and is bound to get you talked about.

    -Lazarus Long

    C code and bboards are my only food; I forsake all others, except for leaves from theBodhi tree and water sipped from the bladder of a goat.

    -Nathan Loofborrow

    Clockers: The story of two brothers torn apart by murder... and by their brand spanking

    new color PowerMac they use to surf the World Wide Web!

    -Nathan Loofborrow

    I have also learned my lesson. When the MessagePad says, "your batteries are runninglow", it secretly means "You will replace my batteries NOW, or I will subject you to an

    endless series of panic-inducing restarts and crash hard, taking all of your appointments

    with me unless you were lucky enough to store them on the pcmcia card. Wanna find outwhat it feels like to not have any idea who is expecting to meet with you or what they're

    expecting you to have done by then, RAT BOY?"

    -Nathan Loofborrow

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    I had not truly experienced pop culture, and therefore had not truly understood the goal of

    all civilization to this day, until I heard Cher sing the phrase, "I've got yours, and

    Butthead, you've got mine."

    -Nathan Loofborrow

    Eeyore is trying to tell me something along the lines of "You used to have balls backwhen you actually SENT snotty email to Justin Bieber, instead of just talking about it."

    -Nathan Loofborrow

    See, I am just a frustrated artist. The sex urge feeds into the art urge which feeds into the

    computing urge. So I have a need to program a ray tracer to fulfill the previous two levelsof abstration.

    -Nathan Loofborrow

    sending email is always a sign of courage.

    -Nathan Loofborrow

    So I saw Alive, pretty cool movie. My review is "Hmm. Tastes kinda like chicken."

    -Nathan Loofborrow

    Taco Bell... Walk, do not run, for the border.

    -Nathan Loofborrow

    Everything you see I owe to spaghetti.

    -Sophia Loren

    Oh, so you're defending yourself, you coward!

    -Peter Lorre

    We're not going to review the results of 2006. The results speak for themselves. And

    we're not going to recount the fairly remarkable progress that we've made over the pastfive years. Our past performance isn't something to dwell on. It's something to build on.

    -Microsoft Development annual meeting brochure

    The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to

    correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of blackseas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each

    straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing

    together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of

    our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee fromthe deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.

    -H. P. Lovecraft

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    Software Engineering is a contact sport.

    -Dan Lovinger

    Some people have compared the security holes in this system to a hole the size that a 747

    could fly through. By now, I would imagine it's up in the range of Star Destroyer class.

    -Dan Lovinger

    I get a lot of letters like, 'Dear John, I've got a dead alien. What should I do with it?' One

    word: barbecue!

    -Jon Lovitz, phone book commercial

    Would you be terribly upset if I told you that there may possibly be... GUNS... in... the

    trunk?

    -Jon Lovitz, Trapped In Paradise

    Thank you for your total obedience and heartfelt submission.

    -Clifford Low

    War is human nature, as is murder and random violence. Trying to revise human nature is

    the direction of our age to some degree, but it's stupid. The current trend is to suppress or

    "safely channel" the human need to destroy, maim, and kill. It's about as sensible towardsviolence as the Victorian era was about sex. Let's have a rennaisance of Free Hate to

    supplement Free Love.

    -Clifford Low

    What we see depends on mainly what we look for.

    -John Lubbock

    All the good computer designs are bootlegged; the formally planned products, if they arebuilt at all, are dogs.

    -David E. Lundstrom

    We all are milliseconds from death. It could be lots and lots of milliseconds, but

    milliseconds nonetheless.

    -Dave Lustig

    I have always found music during sex to be exceptionally difficult as I can never

    concentrate on sex AND playing the guitar at the same time. My ex played the drums and

    this meant that we just couldn't get comfortable in any position where sex was possible

    and she could still reach the drums. So we gave up.

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    Diversity in interfaces is the only way to protect ourselves. Well, that and small caliber

    handguns, but only if we can actually track down the perpetrators.

    -Dan Lyke

    This isn't to say that there aren't advantages for developments such as Los Angeles.

    Concentrating the types of people who actually LIKE smog-filled valleys, non-nativefoliage and awful sprawling suburbs near fault lines is maybe a good thing.

    -Dan Lyke

    Who needs a computer when you've got balls?

    -Des Lynam

    In fact, we would invest in broadband carrier pigeons if someone could find a way forthem to deliver two gigabits into the home.

    -Bruce Lynn, group manager, network solutions, Microsoft