frjamieson’s most recent Quotables

There were a lot of big films that didn't get nominated this year. Nothing for Sex and the City 2. No, I was sure the Golden Globe for special effects would go to the team that airbrushed that poster. Girls, we know how old you are. I saw one of you in an episode of Bonanza.

Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

No organisation anywhere in the world is a more devoted advocate of free speech than Wikileaks but when senior politicians and attention seeking media commentators call for specific individuals or groups of people to be killed they should be charged with incitement -- to murder. Those who call for an act of murder deserve as significant share of the guilt as those raising a gun to pull the trigger.

When a fire starts in a building most people run out. Some people go in.

There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.

Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.

Our memories are card-indexes consulted, and then put back in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

It wasn’t easy telling my family that I’m gay. I made my carefully worded announcement at Thanksgiving. It was very Norman Rockwell. I said, “Mom, would you please pass the gravy to a homosexual?” She passed it to my father. A terrible scene followed.

Operator! Give me the number for 911!

Any customer can have a car painted any colour that he wants so long as it is black.

Tonight, Little Monsters, we're the cool kids at the party.

Researchers reported that they developed a "self-healing" plastic that repairs itself if cracked. The plastic will change the way airplanes are built and medicine is practiced. In a related story, Joan Rivers will never die.

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"

It's the people who follow the rules that struggle with them the most.

There are lots of things to gain from technology, if you do it right, but there are a lot of ways you can use technology to oppress.

In Germany hackers were always regarded as the good guys, whereas outside of Germany it was the total opposite.

Embrace the future. Play - make up your ideas as you go along. Collaborate - share knowledge with others. Trust - fear and false security have no future.

Hackers are not criminals... hackers are concerned citizens and artists.

I understand the idea of copyright but I don't think it works. I don't like the word piracy. There are some things about piracy that I like - pirates were the first ones to come up with the concept of insurance. But I don't know about copyright - it's a weird system.