#wit

TCP works very hard to get the data delivered in order without errors and does retransmissions and recoveries and all that kind of stuff which is exactly what you want in a file transfer because so you don't want any errors in your file. ↗

— Jon Postel

#because #data #delivered #does #errors

That was clearly surprising, interesting - a very interesting milestone was when you can pick up a magazine and read an article about some sort of computer related thing and they mention the word internet without explaining it. ↗

— Jon Postel

#article #clearly #computer #explaining #interesting

I just want to be able to sit on grass as long as I want to, without anybody telling me to leave. Everything is so restricted, here, in that you actually have to stand behind a line, you can't go up the Canyon and enjoy the view. ↗

— Franka Potente

#actually #anybody #behind #canyon #enjoy

Every man who has shown the world the way to beauty, to true culture, has been a rebel, a 'universal' without patriotism, without home, who has found his people everywhere. ↗

— Chaim Potok

#been #culture #every #every man #everywhere

Good art however "immoral" is wholly a thing of virtue. Good art can NOT be immoral. By good art I mean art that bears true witness, I mean the art that is most precise. ↗

— Ezra Pound

#bears #good #good art #however #i

I wanted to show a normal young girl whose only difference was that she behaved in the way a boy might, without any sense of guilt on a moral or sexual level. ↗

— Roger Vadim

#behaved #boy #difference #girl #guilt

I mean, I do love clever and witty, but I think that the 'Three Stooges' were geniuses. They'd have to be for their appeal to have lasted this long. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#clever #geniuses #i #i do #i think

Don't bother people for help without first trying to solve the problem yourself. ↗

— Colin Powell

#first #help #people #problem #solve

In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#changes #charges #choose #climate #congestion

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#determined #gets #government #happening #home