Man, the Wayback Machine is awesome and scary all at the same time. It’s awesome that one can build a true history of progress of the web and it’s design. It’s scary to find old stuff you’ve actually caused. For instance, I found my home page from when I was in college at IIT.
I hadn’t seen that page in a loooooonnngggg time and it was definitely a blast from the past. One good thing did come out of it, though - besides being glad we no longer have to use the FONT HTML tag (thank you CSS) - I found my page of universal quotes that I had kept track of while in college.
While, not the best quotes in the world, there are some truisms and some truthiness to them all.
“All shoes are hollow” - gus (that’s me)
“Everyone who goes to the beach dies” - Mark McEachran
“You couldn’t live without *p” - Prof. Roberge; a C instructor
“You can’t walk on the grass if there isn’t any there” - Mark McEachran
“Coffee isn’t coffee ‘til it’s not” - Disco Stu
“Get a browser that supports frames you loser” - Andy; from Giant Step (he got fired)
“It’s always better to beat someone to the punch then to be punched to the beat” - Codemaster
“It’s really cool when your shit works” - gus
“I wouldn’t be me if I wasn’t” - Mark McEachran
“If we do not succeed, we run the risk of failure” - gus
“If it isn’t gray, it’s inferior” - gus; thoughts on thinking
“I don’t claim to know everything, I just claim to know more than you” - gus
“What a great invention the stop sign is … how many lives has it saved” - Codemaster
“I wonder if he is using the same wind we are using” - Inigo Montoya; still good
“The best things in life are free” - Amber; at the time, my future wife
“We can not explain our capacity to explain” - MacNamara
“It was a typo at first, then I decided it was a message from mr id” - Tool-man Tim; APE
“When you’re on speed .. caffeine does little for you” - Tool-man Tim
“Fuck you i’m venting” - The Jen
“Friendly programmers need help” - gus
“Yes .. it is a race, and yes .. I always win” - Mark McEachran
“Religion is just a good ad agency” - gus
“It’s not dumb .. it just doesn’t have a lot of intelligence put behind it” - Christian; my bro
If you didn’t count, that’s 23 of them.
New quotes
These are the quotes I like from my time at Centro.
“If information were a train, you would have wrecked it!” - gus to Bertt
“A circle is just a line with lots of angles.” - gus
“Everything, but no mayo” - some guy in line at Potbelly’s
“‘I don’t like soda!’, ‘You should drink pop instead’” - Evan F, then gus
“Brett only eats live worms” - gus
“I mean, I’ve been a female for ten years now” - Shawn R
“Head cheese getting moved towards packaging” - Bill S
“It’s not a swear. It’s bull shit. You ever see a bull shit in the woods? That’s weird.” - gus
“Have you come to consensus with yourself?” - gus
“Pff… Flash doesn’t wear pants, that’s why it’s Flash!” - gus
“Too much is like too little, only backwards” - Bertt
More to come, I’m sure.
