QUOTES

• "The speed with which your organization works takes my breath away !! Thanks much."
  - An e-mail from an AISS staffer after we completed and responded to their e-mail request within about 2 minutes, 6/25/97

  "I have to wash my hands, because I smell like a combination of lime juice, hot dog, and Ajay"

  - Charley, 2/25/97

  "But you didn't say 'no' until I already had it on my lips"

  - Charley Kline, 11/13/96

  "Bob, you're backwards"

  "That's because of asshole here"

  - Warner and Bob Booth, referring to Bob smoking a cigarette the wrong way, 11/13/96

  "Warner beats me a lot"

  - Heather Norton, 11/13/96

  "I was wondering what the fuck phase of the moon got you here before 1 o' clock!"

  - Bob Booth to Jon Roma at 10:11 am

  "Roma said it was a good thing to do"

  - Bob F. 11:05 am Aug 7, 1995

  (extended salt set in the passwd file on the Sequents)

  "Are you in Perl discovery mode or do you want something that will work?"

  - Ed K 11:22 am Aug 7, 1995

  "I'm making this as sanity-proof as possible"

  Reece, 4:26 pm Aug 17, 1995

  "Does anyone there have a clue about software support?"

  - Reece on the phone with Amdahl, Aug 31, 1995

  (after ux4 and ux5 have crashed 4 times)

  "Wait a minute - this is the fucking king kong router from hell and it's dead?"

  - Bob Booth to Charley Kline, Wed. Oct 11 1995, at 11:15 pm

  (referring to world.gw.uiuc.edu losing its RP)

  "If it looks like a chain letter and smells like a chain letter, odds are that it probably is a chain letter."

  - Reece Joyner to some random student, Wed. Oct. 18 1995 10:29 am

  "Is that blue cabinet in the Machine Room staying?"

  - Bob Foertsch, referring to VMD's move out of the machine room Dec 13 1995

  "This is like rearranging deck chairs on the titanic"

  - Ed Kubaitis, referring to work on the free student cluster, Approx. Fall 1995

  "If you forget, you will remit!!!! Ensure the integrity of your Spring 1996 class schedules by making a pilgrimage to the U of I Direct oracle. But be fleet of foot, because from now on, after 20 hours logged in with a modem, you'll have to remit 30 pieces of copper--no less!-- an hour to the CCSO Syndicate."

  - Daily Illini, January 8 1996

  "We can't cut that server out! It's tantamount to the entire cluster!"

  "You mean paramount?"

  - Reece, Fall 1995, USC meeting discussing cluster hardware procurements