loughlin’s Edited Quotes

We've heard that a million monkeys at a million keyboards could produce the Complete Works of Shakespeare; now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true.

Attlee reminds me of nothing so much as a recently dead fish, before it has had time to stiffen.

I find it really strange how, when first envisaged, the internet would be this great forum for scientists and the intelligentsia but it’s turned out to be a place for the hopeless dregs of society to write comments about things they know nothing about.

You could tell by the way he talked, though, that he had gone to school a long time. That was probably what was wrong with him.

I'm in the helicopter now as we look down on these cyclists, that look somehow like cattle in a mad way—but cattle on bikes.

Systems attract systems-people. (For every human system, there is a type of person adapted to thrive on it or in it.)

A complex system can fail in an infinite number of ways. (If anything can go wrong, it will.)