A greek mathematician and scientist who was among the fist to derive formulas for volumes and areas. He is known for levers ("Give me a place to stand on and I can move the earth" - Invalid thanks to gravity properties).
An brilliant engineer, his catapaults, grappling cranes, and reflecting mirrors terrorized a massive Roman army that eventually conquered his hometown of syracuse. On the day the 3 year Roman siege ended Archimedes was studying diagrams drawn in the dirt. When a soldier tried to arrest him he spoke his famous last words "Do not disturb my circles" Paraphrased from SV Calc R.S/R.M
I have a kooky sense of quotes.
Pff... moron... if they were triangles I'd understand... but circles?
That one sucked I know ;-) So here is some from bash.org
"
serluny: how long did it took u to learn c?
ReDPriest:4.5 minutes
serluny:how did u do that?
ReDPriest:i downloaded it into my brain..i got a program to do
that
serluny:what program
ReDPriest:download shit into your brain v3.1
serluny:how do i download it?
ReDPriest: go to
www.downloadable-shit-for-your-brain.com
serluny:i cant download it something is wrong"
"Spin: arrrr, pirates of the south west
Spin: thar be large pipes o'bandwith near ye'ol univarsety.
Pirate: yearg, ye may be an ta somethan thar.
Spin: what say ye we pull yonder USB hard disk longside yonder NMSU puter and begin tha lutin and plunderin.
Pirate: yearg. The master done gaved me a testin machine with a grand ol CDR.
Pirate: Avast!
Pirate: MP3s off the starboard bow!
Spin: stere clear of ye porn pop ups rollin in from tha east.
Pirate: I have mah trusty Opera browsa to help me fend em off.
Spin: encrypt the data holds, batton down thar security patches, argh thar be spyware abound."
And some quickies:
"<Sui88> 67% of girls are stupid
<V-girl> i belong with the other 13%"
"<DigiGnome> Real life should have a farking search function, or something.
<DigiGnome> I need my socks."
"<scirDSL> I hated going to weddings. All the grandmas would poke me saying "You're next". They stopped that when I started doing it to them at funerals."
"<Reverend> IRC is just multiplayer notepad."
"<Entomorph> you know what cracks me up.. trojan condoms, hehe.. I mean if you think about it, a trojan horse was really full off all these little men, and it was a trick to get them inside the fortress.. once inside, the horse BUSTS open, and all the little men come flowing out"
I suck I know... I am the heart of repost, but I saw these today for the first time...