Category Archives: Misc

Happy birthday, WWW

Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the World Wide Web:

“Anyone who slaps a ‘This page is best viewed with Browser X’ label on a Web page appears to be yearning for the bad old days, before the Web, when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another computer, another word processor, or another network.”

Democracy

Winston Churchill:

“One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.”

Southampton

Former UK defence minister Geoff Hoon:

“Umm Qasr is a city similar to Southampton.”

British squaddie patrolling Umm Qasr:

“He’s either never been to Southampton, or he’s never been to Umm Qasr. There’s no beer, no prostitutes and people are shooting at us. It’s more like Portsmouth.”