Stranger Than Usual

Nicht alles hier ist ein Zitat

Zitate als fortune-Datenbank herunterladen

Denn wenn die Amis Recycling sagen, meinen sie "Export nach China". JA SUPER!

Unzivilisierte Barbaren! Nicht wie bei uns, wo Recycling-Zeug nach Afrika geht.

fefe

Most space charts leave out the most significant part – all the space.

pixelspace

If you were waiting for the opportune moment… that was it.

— Captain Jack Sparrow (Pirates of the caribbean - The Curse Of The Black Pearl)

Ein Freund, ein guter Freund,
das ist das Beste, was es gibt auf der Welt.

— Comedian Harmonists

Amazing. Every word of what you just said… was wrong.

— Luke Skywalker (The Last Jedi)

Websites that collect quotes are full of mistakes and never check original sources.

Randall Munroe

The Programmers’ Credo: we do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy

Quelle

You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometime you find
You get what you need

— The Rolling Stones, „You Can't Always Get What You Want“

Nicht umsonst steckt in dem Wort „Seele“ das Wort „See“. Und „le“.

Gronkh

Tonight, we're going to talk about cryptocurrencies. Everything you don't understand about money combined with everything you don't understand about computers.

John Oliver

Look, that's not an ”Explosion“. It's just a rapid unscheduled disassembly.

How Not to Land an Orbital Rocket Booster

The female angler fish comes in many shapes, colors and shades. Of ugly. It's like a rainbow. Of ugly.

True Facts About The Angler Fish

It's weird how I'm constantly surprised by the passage of time when it's literally the most predictable thing in the universe.

xkcd

If you base medicine on science you cure people. If you base the design of planes on science they fly. If you base the design of rockets on science they reach the moon. It works… bitches.

— Richard Dawkins

Staatliches Handeln, insbesondere polizeiliches Handeln, darf nicht kalkulierbar oder vorhersagbar sein […].

Der Polizeipräsident in Berlin

Häh? Wieso kann ich mit der Kettensäge keine Möwe töten?

Gronkh

I was nauseated by the sun. There is no hope!

— Rîsen Dakasalåth, baroness consort of Shippowers (dwarf fortress)

Ich hab 'ne Idee: Wie wär's, wenn wir nicht mehr auf die Rakete steigen?

Gronkh

Ok here we go, they're making the game. Our hardcore survival cyberpunk office workplace game.

Let's game it out

That is the US president displaying a level of indifference to human suffering rivaled only by robots and housecats.

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver

Here, we will explore true facts about the octopus. Deep in the depths of the o-cean lives a marvellous creature sometimes referred to as the ”flappy flappy spider of the sea“.

True Facts About The Octopus

This is absolutely insane. To be honest, after studying this for quite a while I still don't understand how to use this feature outside of my exploit.

Omer Gull, "SELECT code_execution FROM * USING SQLite;"

Well I've got some good news everybody: I think the replicator works.

Let's game it out

Spielleiter: Du musst deine Waffen deklarieren

Spielerin: Messer, Messer, Messer und Messer.

— World Tree-Rollenspiel

Hallo. Ich bin ein mächtiger Vampirrr. Und ich verrrkaufe Karrrtoffeln.

Gronkh

At a certain point hunger outweights fear, which is also incidently the official slogan of Taco Bell.

John Oliver

Revenge is a dish best served by dinosaurs with lasers.

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

The beach is exactly three things, none of which are medicine:

  • It's sand that goes down your asscrack,
  • saltwater that goes up your nose
  • and sun that burns your skin.

The beach doesn't cure anything except you being comfortable.

John Oliver

We're not seizing the means of production over mashed potato conspiracy theories.

Will (Sleepless Domain)

Aus einem Klingelmännchenstreich kann auch gerne mal ein Atomkrieg werden.

— Nicolas Wöhrl zum Friedens-IG-Nobelpreis 2020

Sitting on top of a rocket is more dangerous than sitting on a bottle of gasoline!

The Tyranny of the Rocket Equation

It is Shell. Everybody thinks to know Shell but few know what they do when they write Shell.

— Carsten L.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Richard Feynman

Das ist das Lebenselixier der Informatiker: man weiß, dass es nicht geht und versucht es trotzdem.

— Rolf Würtz

Oh no, I did something right.

Josh (Let's Game It Out)

Neben die pig ranch mach ich mal 'nen schönes Kohlfeld. Da stinkt's nach Schweinen und Kohl. Was gibt's denn Schöneres im Sommer?

Gronkh
  • Aric: ”You deserve a medal for optimism.“
  • Lemmo: ”I'll get one someday.“
Blank It

if your frontend has a build time of 20 minutes I would advise you need to considerate some life choices

— Christoph M.

It's very important that things glow in the future. Otherwise how are you supposed to know its from the future?

Josh (Let's Game It Out)

Guys, we can't do a civil war even if we wanted to. The median age in the US is 38. I am 38. I am tired and weak and my wife won't let me Civil War except on weekends. Do you really think this generation has enough vacation days for this sort of thing?

We cannot pit brother against brother because scheduling 2 men who work and have kids for a single DAY is a non-starter. You want to campaign for [checks notes] FOUR YEARS?

Can you imagine doing a Civil War on zoom? 3 second lag and half the time your enemy can't even log in.

Zach Weinersmith

Das Programmieren von Turingmaschinen ist sehr umständlich, eigentlich nur etwas für Masochisten.

— Prof. Hans Simon

vim users know how to exit. They just chose not to. Everyone else is a vim prisoner.

— B. Michaelsen

The fact that a patient is deceased influences the clinical process. Also, in human communication and relation management it is necessary to know whether the person is alive.

FHIR specification
  • Minrah: „Does everyone in you group have weird emotional issues?“
  • Durkon: „Eh, tha cat's pob'ly fine.“
Order of the Stick
  1. Pommes gegessen
  2. Beim Bielendorfer gewesen
  3. Globale Katastrophe
Reinhard Remfort (Optisch inkorrekt! Folge 24)

We simultaneously have a "labor shortage crisis" and a "border crisis" due to people coming for work, and as far as I know this is not widely viewed as, you know, a little silly.

Zach Weinersmith

Ransomware ist kein Angriff

Ransomware ist schlechtes Wetter, für das sie unpassend gekleidet waren.

fefe

The three rules of the Librarians of Time and Space are:

  1. Silence
  2. Books must be returned no later than the last date shown
  3. Do not interfere with the nature of causality.
— Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!

String length is about as meaningful a measurement as string height

qntm

Best practices are more like ”ideas to consider because I got into trouble a few times“

Zac Burns