Microserfs Quotes
"The ability to narrow-focus...makes them so good at code writing: one line at a time, one line in a strand of millions."
"I'm trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition."
"I don't even do many sports anymore and my relationship with my body has gone all weird."
"People end up living in group houses either by e-mail or by word of mouth."
"If putting a computer on every desktop and in every home didn't make money, we wouldn't do it."
"What is the search for the next great compelling application but a search for the human identity?"
"My life is lived day to day, one line of bug-free code at a time."
"I used to play soccer three times a week and now I feel like a boss in charge of an underachiever."
"Because of all the rich nerds living around here, Redmond and Bellevue are very 'on-demand' neighborhoods."
"I am originally from Bellingham, up just near the border, but my parents live in Palo Alto now."
"Like most Microsoft employees, I consider myself too well adjusted to be working here."
"Bill is a moral force, a spectral force, a force that shapes, a force that molds."
"The future of e-mail usage is being pioneered right here."
"Being a manager is all hand-holding and paperwork – not creative at all."
"We all had good lives. None of us were ever victimized as far as I know."
"Our parents are all together, except for Susan's."
"The real morality here, Todd, is whether these good hands are squandered on uncreative lives."
"We're all of us the fabricators of the human dream's next REM cycle."
"Imperial carp fled their home for the first time and flopped in knee-deep waters."
"I'm tired of being Mary Richards. I'm off to hold up a 7-Eleven."
"She thinks like a preacher, but not a by-the-books preacher. She believes in something."
"Simply being alive is more than enough reason."
"Improperly installed or unwarranted signals can result in excessive delay."
"Is now not the time to take a risk and jump into the future?"
"We have a new word for vaporware: Sea Monkeys."
"We're like those really quiet guys who go all nuts when you give them a wooden puppet."
"The illusion of authorship to people who couldn't otherwise author."
"Everybody's supposed to be equal, too, but of course you have sub-equal and super-equal personalities."
"Pool is like rollerblading: you have to pretend you're the cooly-wooliest person on earth, while you're quietly cringing inside."
"Talk about Tom Sawyer painting a fence white!"
"Bug is spending part of his off-time developing a traffic-monitoring routine for offices."
"I feel as though we're in a witness relocation program."
"Human beings weren't designed to bump into each other in hallways."
"The Apollo rocket designers and NASA engineers of Houston and Sunnyvale grew up dreaming of Buck Rogers."
"It's like every girl I know did all this incredibly sick sex shit with their Barbies."
"Snap, Krackle, and Pop thinly veiled emblems for the Trilateral Commission."
"I think the fear part's leaving. I don't know what comes next. But the love hasn't gone, no."
"It's an update of the rich man who poses as a pauper and finds the princess. But fuck that princess shit – we're both kings."
"Heaven is being in love, and the love never stops. And the feeling of intimacy never stops. Heaven means feeling intimate forever."
"She was the most aggressive female I'd ever seen and so young – and man, she was so IN CHARGE."
"I'm gonna fuckin' explode! Dan! I'm gonna tell you, I'm in love, and I'm in love like an atomic bomb detonating over industrialized Ontario, so watch out world!"
"The thought of BarCode is the only thing that keeps me tethered to earth."
"She's on fire and she doesn't even know it. Poor baby."
"You're the bearer of hot news, and I'll always remember you for that, Dan."
"This is the way I wanted to always feel. This is it."
"Love has almost nothing to do with looks. It's about two people's insides mixing together."
"And then we realized that viewed from a certain perspective, all people can look like porn stars. So for a few minutes there, humanity seemed really scary indeed."
"Los Angelenos dress like they've been focus-grouped."
"Forget year-supplies of Rice-A-Roni and bedroom sets."
"The people who really do know what's going on are the people who aren't posing as visionaries."
"Just because a game has characters doesn't mean it can tell a story."
"Las Vegas must be the only place left where it's politically correct to wear a fur coat."
"We figured that tail fins would come back in, simply because people are going to have a consumer revolt against how boring and blob-like cars are becoming."
"Sometimes we all forget that the world itself is paradise."
"All of my messing around with words last year and now, well ... it's real life."