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From the trenches of an Electronic Commerce startup memorialized on to the corporate wiki from June 2001 to August 2005. The names have been marginally hidden to protect the guilty.
Cast of Characters
"That sounds good....I'll ask them to take a dump right away." DG? 

"This breaking of code in to specialized nodes that call each other is an exercise in futility, but I bet makes a developer feel super important. He aint coding anymore, he is developing a 'werkflow'." AP 

"I hate being a PM." IB
"For all the work that we have done we are live with as many as we are not live with." IB 

"I have the ability to communicate, I would just like to know what I actually say." DC 

"As long as you are writing ui code that uses heavily nested tables for presentation you might as well not be doing anything." MH 

"I worked hard on it, but I wung it, or wang it, or whatever, I took a swag." IB on "winging it" 

"Because computers like me." KP 

"Hey, the phones are down. Just kidding." JB
"You can staple it to your ass, I don't care." SC 

"I type so fast." PK
"Hit!" DC
"We are the only survivors on the V35 island, and that boat is passing by - so we have to swim to it amidst sharks and we are buried in the sand and crabs are biting our eyes and Ilene is sitting on our heads asking, 'do you think we should swim or do you think we should scream so the boat hears us and comes by to pick us up?', and the boat has a HUGE engine, but the prop is like 2 inches long and bent and everyone in it is bailing to get the water out, not to mention, the boat does not know which way to go and it thinks it is a car and finding out that it left its sails in the harbor." - AS, AT 

"I like things to be honest and open. Sometimes it's a great way to sell." JB
"I really wished that I was listening to you right now." PM
"You want to see the most sexy thing you'll ever see?" RB 

"Make sure you get done with that script before you die." RB 

"Why are you building your own desk?" CS
"Everybody bitches here for SOME reason." RB 

"MH is recommending FP, FP is recommending it's not him." JH
"I hear there are a lot of openings as a doorman." RB 

"I don't feel like death warmed over anymore." SC 

"It is not impossible." TR
"It is impossible." FP 

"That's because I love my job." RB 

"I can't be expected to work in a cold office on a picnic table." KP 

"Just joking, DAMNIT!" FP 

"RB you're just strange. That's what makes you RB." RB
"I know that too but I need it now." - FP 

"This is a job, not a lifestyle... Except for RB." - JH
"We are not as productive as we think we can be." - JH 

"Is M the mean one?" - MH while AS is on the phone to M 

"I just sent you an email." - IB 

"The Disruptive Solution is lousy." - MH

"I've got this unstoppable mutant army of seventeen machines." - CS
"Once you start drinking you can't go back; you can't UNDO a cocktail." - IB 

"I need to do SOMETHING" - FP 

"I've already talked to her about talking to her about it" - KP
"I've succeeded in going 3 yards in a cloud of dust" - CS 

"I'm not THAT stupid" - AS
"The other reason you need it is because you obviously need it" - AS 

"If you can't do it then how can you do it?" - AT 

"I just sent you an email." - IB 

"V35 is not really a product, it's more of an approach." - DP
"These are barbaric conditions for doing B2B!" - GB 

"That's what you're saying. That's what I hear you saying. Is that what you are saying?" - IB
"You know, it should be more 'Webby'" - IB
"Can't you put something in it (a hurricane) to make it die?" - IB
"it is works, yipee" - IB 

"You can get all hyped up about the space shuttle, but at the end of the day, it's doing milk runs" MC
"I am ready whenever you are. Just give me ten minutes." - AT
"The more we do – the more it seems is left to do." - MF
"I just sexually harassed you, I think" - MH
"I enjoy RPM's." - DE 

"I just sent you an email." - IB 

"We gotta use the system as we really use it." - IB
"Some companies actually do get revenue for selling something." - GB
"Two years back the requirements were given, they were pretty simple, but they ended up being complicated." - AT
"I'll do requirements but they won't be what anybody wants." - GB
"Nobody has done a study on what our capacity is!" - GB 

"You are yourself." - IB
"Oh hey I was just complaining." - IB 

"As long as you understand what I'm saying, when I don't understand what I'm saying." - DP
"I think probably you're right, but also possibly you're wrong, which means that I don't know what they hell I'm saying" - DP
"So this may be a good idea, or it may not be." -- AP (mimicking DP) 

"Do we have place holders in our plans for the unknown?" - IB
"...and me is DB." - DB
"We have mastered the way to do the bad stuff quickly." - AT
"I love detail, it takes away the ambiguity of stuff." - DB 

"I just sent you an email." - IB 

"I likewise would expect the production code to work without substantial modification" MR - MCI
"My computer keeps going into hibernation mode......do you think it has anything to do with the water I spilled on it......but I need it now." AG 

"I think anything that is not standard is an enhancement" IB
"I have to leave early tomorrow - maybe 4:30 or 5pm" AS "That's early when you come in at 11 am" IB 

"Everybody can't pair with everybody every time." EF
"I've got some nuts for you." EF 

"That's old - unless it's new." BS 

"I have two words for you; Coding, Pit" GP
"I made a mistake, and it happens... once a week." DP 

"The more you involve him, the more he is involved." IB
"If you fix something, fix everything." MH 

"We can deal with naked objects, but we can't deal with naked SS." EF 

"I'm on day five of a one day project." TR 

"I drive better drunk than my wife does sober." SW 

"Take me in your wagon, and you know what to do." EF 

"I just sent you an email." - IB 

"I am not going to go hump that poster." GB
"Why are you squirting poo in there?" EF
"I was with DP in Kansas, I mean I was with DP and CT." EF 

"You got balls Ilene, I don't." GB
"Wombat's hole is already open, right?" CT 

"Sometimes I feel so giddy I have to make myself sit down." SS 

"It will be Me, FP, and I." JB (when asked "Who is going to work on that?")
"Right now go with 96 days, I mean hours." JB (when asked "How long is it going to take.") 

"It's all about the gong." AG
"I feel tired today, my eyes at least." FP
"I think I am in happy mode." PN 

"If we stopped branching, a lot of this stuff would be easier." MH
"Its a huge manual hack, but I'm a good manual hacker." DE
"Sorry, my pen can't keep up with your mouth." JB 

"I just sent you an email." - IB 

"You may kiss my hand." JB 

"I factored in normal distraction, but have not factored in total disruption." SS
"I'm so proud I might have to send this to my mom." GB
"If there is anything to remember, I don't do that." SS 

"Looks like I opened up a box of snakes." SS
"We NEVER implement perfect system" DP 

"What's the sloth for dingo?" AT
"There is always little gotcha that will getcha." SS 

"I am a cowboy at heart. In fact, all programmers should be cowboys" SS 

DP: "Can I borrow George?" Michael: "Can you wait seven minutes?" DP: "SEVEN!?!?!?.... Ok." 

"LaneBuilder, I kind of Like it." FP 

"well its funny, now that we're older, we tell our parents to use protection" MH 

"A lot of times I just talk because I can't stand silence" DC 

"G, you're either jellin' or yellin'" SS 

"A mediocre implementation of a good design is better than a good implementation of a mediocre design" FP from JavaOne 

"You're supposed to read it. You're not supposed to guess." FP
"Only a few of us can think in the four dimensions that we really need." BG
"I really don't care about your priority." SW 

"So AS and SW will hold hands and sing Kum-Bay-Ya?" EF
"SW and I have worked it out... he is very close to me." AS 

"We use extreme scoping" DP
"What does THAT mean?" JB
"Its chains and knives only by prior agreement." CS
"I can talk with my mouth full." GP 

"I just sent you an email." - IB 

"Are you aware that you are wearing Argyle socks?" MC 

"But more torque." KJ
"Less horsepower." DP
"We can drag, we don't have to do drop." KJ, DP 

"We need to have more emphasis on building rebuilding components." TH 

"Talk about masturbating with sandpaper." CS
"We're just keepin the wheels of commerce lubed here." PK 

"You need a meta-maestro for that..." MH
"I need to eliminate the thingy thingy from my vocabulary." EF 

"FP, can you switch from bringing up problems to bringing up solutions?" DP
"Why don't we all just go on a speech fast?" CT 

"I need a copy prior year, function." AS
"I'm ON wombat and, I AM So~." AS 

"We said scsi (scuzzy?) and that points directly to CS." KJ
"A lightbulb only changes if it wants to change." MH 

"I have given up on you and bandwidth. We are going to start calling you 'Satellite EF'; you just suck it all down" JD
"You should be a professional Notification Writer." CT
"I will spank you in my wagon." FP 

"CS, the human winch." MH
"Until it squeaks, we don't oil it." KJ
"Sadly, I know exactly what he's talking about." KP
"No, that's the other thing." CS
"Oh we still have to do the thing with the thing." CS 

"Well I can't help it if you don't pay attention to discussions." CT
"Documentation?" FP
"The last time? Or the second time?" CT
"It's completely wrong. No its not completely wrong, that's a little harsh." FP 

"I just sent you an email." - IB 

"I ask him one thing he goes blah blah..the end result I am back to zero" PN 

"I don't like complicated solutions. I like solutions that can be extended." FP
"I must have over-engineered it if FP likes it." JB 

"I had to put a dollar in the cup because I was late to the Sp~ meeting" JB "I'd better put a $20 in." SW 

"Best of Bread? I have that, that's a good album." MH 

"If I were me..." FP
"Can I have a meeting with myself because the whole SWAT team is not here?" AS 

"FP, you need to write the book: BPE For Dummies" DP
"Cut and Paste is fast... inheritance is even faster." FP 

"If the goal was to make it easier for FP, we'd actually have to make it harder." AS
"When we have to dodge the wheelbarrows of money coming in... we can go back and redo that." JB 

"This sounds like one of our patterns!" MF "The Tunnel (pattern)?" KJ 

"This ain't a pumpkin factory, DC...we're churning out data." PK 

"I'll do a few greps." GP 

"Sir yes sir." KJ
"I have but one tool that I know how to use." KJ
"I'm gonna head butt it." KJ
"I really don't like computers for recreational use." DS
"We put a Mexican staring monkey." AS 

"I guess I'm slow. What is the connection with their teeth and having babies in the Andes?" MH
"Hey, all of you, get out of my cube now." PN 

"Anyone can sell any nonsense, as long as they have a nice song and dance" SS
"Something that really drives me nuts is people going blah, blah, blah, over nonsense" SS 

"I'm still working on the song." AS
"One phone call and we all run around like ants stirred with a stick." CS 

"Thats not exactly my bug. Well its not exactly a notifier bug." FP 

"I got handed a new hammer today." MF
"Did you have a meeting with Thor?" MH 

"If we go there I'm not going to go. Well, as long as its free, I'll go. FP
"It's not hardcoded, it's in a file" FP 

"People think I am very stubborn, but somewhere way deep inside I am open-minded." SS
"There are a couple of new things that are just the same as before, it's just that we didn't have them" MH 

"Did it work?" Management Team
"It didn't actually fail" MF 

"I'm not an AmEFan Muscle fan." FP
"We all have to work together on this. Especially you." DP 

"If we go there I'm not going to go. Well, as long as its free, I'll go." FP 

"We'll just say that the board is white so it's the cloud." MH
"It has super cow powers." CS 

"When it worked, it worked." MH
"Could you please be more successful about getting here on time." TH 

"People don't like to find out that they are idiots." FP
"You can call anything a bridgelet - even your own dog." DP 

"Just grep for 'CT:', you will see it" AS
"That thing turns into a fish? I have never heard such a thing" SS
GoXML? Strikes Back -- "I will never mess with anothers man's Jar files.." GJ C 

(about FP's experience with ApacheAxis) - "He's whining because he was only able to write 4 lines of code in 5 hours." TR
"Unless you change MasterData and I have to rebuild all these landscapes again. Then I think I'll go ballistic." DE
"I'm sure it's a real problem." MF "I'm sure it's not." FP
"We had trouble last night, so we went home." MH 

"Don't open your mouth, a bug might fly in." MH 

"The earthquake gave me heartburn." GJ
"Why would you log a logger?" JD
"Your hair feels so different than mine, it's like we are different animals or something." KP 

"Error notifications are like a box of chocolates, you never know what you are gonna get" AS
"I'm not quite blocket yet" MH 

"Why don't you go practice your colors and shapes and leave me alone." AS
"They are kind of suck." SS 

"Wanna shag?" MH (to GP) 

"I feel like crapping on myself after that." JN 

"I didn't update myself!!!" MH 

"SOAP logging is confusing because I talked to MF." TR
"Every day is a party in Moscow!" EF
"I take all my hacks to their natural conclusion." MF 

"Sure, I'll bring breakfast next Friday. Hope you like gum." JB 

"I'm not ashamed of this code." FP 

"If we called it Husker it would suck." DE
"Oh that's right, brain malfunction." AS
"I'm not so dumb, usually." FP
"Finally doing something useful." FP 

"Just do it wrong, but usable." GP 

"If you eat a bunch of fruit snacks at the same time, its like you are eating a fruit basket." AS
"That's what CORE stands for, 'Custom on Regular appliancE'." LG, GP, MH
"I have a number of dependencies on myself." MH 

"We don't even have an egg yet." LG
"Divide and concur." DP
"It may be a simple minded approach, but I'm a simple minded person and its what works for me." AS 

"If you had a crown I'd be bowing down to you every day." SW
"I want a siren on my car!" KJ 

"MF is big" MH
"I just wanted to be FP for just a second. That's Impossible." DP
"And besides. You're a reviewer and I'm an approver. Noted." KJ 

"Scroll up." MH
"Scroll down." KP
"Bend over." MH 

"That's clothing. Its not like you're buying a boom box for your car." GP
"I'm buying a boom box for my car too." KP 

"I'm all about teaching people to fish." MH
"I'm going over the edge." LG
"I'm learning japanese." LG
"Prioritizing a bug list? Don't you just fix them all?" JN 

" ACE (Automated Community Enablement) is not just for enablement then." TH
"I am my own grandpa." CS 

"...stock, and because he was intellectually challenged." MC
"More words! Funnier pictures! Your suggestions inscribed in Deathless Prose!" CS 

"Our intention is not to go with the oldest versions." MF 

"Going from nasty to ugly is an improvement." KJ
"Its somewhere between a C and a 4." MF
"Just one question in thirty-two parts." JB 

"You can talk about cheeseburgers all day, but that won't put one on your desk, and all I want is some Kung Pao Chicken" LG (on the data layer)
" BPE? I give the ownership to whowever wants it right now." FP
"I didn't say its impossible, I said I didn't have time. I may have said impossible." FP 

"The pain I went through? I should get 2!" TR
"phpPgAdmin is not a GUI." TR
"I'm wearing a tee-shirt that says this is a mess." LG
"What does that 5 mean?" CT 

"Not a scaleable model, is it?" JD
"I'll be dead." LG
"Ignorance is bliss." DE 

"Stuff is kind of flapping around in the breeze." CS
"I'm still the script monkey in the group." CS
"There is still a couple three dead rats." CS
"World is perfect." FP 

"Don't you ask me to build again!" DP
"Maybe TR will ask you to build then." FP
"Production? We haven't gotten there yet." DP
"And then I will scream and you guys can jump." DP 

"Almost completely end to end." DP
"Intermittently robust." FP 

"We could always just add a column." MF
"We could just deploy it everywhere, that kind of fixes it." FP 

"The way I look at it, we have more DENSE INTELLIGENCE focused on ebusiness than anyone." "Well, a HIGHER DENSITY of INTELLIGENCE." TH 

"I've got SFTP going to nine machines, my fingers are about to fall off". LG 

We need to build a "FOAP", Father of All Processes. Being a single mother is proving to be too difficult for MOAP" AS
"This is going to be hard." CT
" CoLo boxes seem to like to restart stuff. I bet it is because it is a new environment for them and they feel detached, afraid, and alone, but at least they have each other" AS 

"What meeting is this?" AS
"If you put in null for the lane name, I'll kick your ass." LG
"And there are naked indians where?" KJ
"If you're waiting on us, you're backing up. AS 

"How was the Geek Cruise?" GP
"Randall Schwartz bought me a beer!" CS
"Who is Randall Schwartz?" GP 

"I'm a purist in a hacker body." MF
"We suck." KP 

"We don't want to take any steps backward." AC
"Demos are steps backward." AS 

"This is the kind of crap you gotta deal with when you start working in an established company. Wait a minute - is this an established company?" AC
"You freak'n TOAD!" GP 

"I want to get this thing done so I can go home and have a big ol' freak'n glass of wine, and a happy meal." LG
"Wait, there is a point and I almost know what it is." MF 

"There's so many holes out there that still have the dirt in them." CS
"It's impossible for any large group of people to have all talented people, statistically, you'll get some dumb ones. It's normal to boot the dumb ones." SL 

"The front page of the new dash scares me, I feel like I am entering Area 51." AS
"I have feature creep, not creature feet." MH 

"Crap! That means I have to change all this crap." SL
"I can't help not laugh everytime I see him." Everyone 

"You've got to stop pulling MHs." MH
"I know you are but what am I!?" SL 

"We just need one bug, 'do stuff', just one bug, we assign it to everybody, and we're done." AS
"This would be a ton easier if I knew what I was doing." GC 

"I'm looking for Mickey Mouse porn but I just can't find any, it's copy-righted." CS
"The great thing about Marketing is that you don't really have to have any skills or talents at all" BG 

"We don't actually have to build that, we just need to have a plan" BG 

"If you want to hear some funny sounds and anguished wails, just yell, 'I'm shutting down uranium'". SL
"It's JUST not that HARD!" MF

"I am befuddled. I am standing here besides myself." KJ
"MH, you spilled something (on your shirt)" Everyone

"Just take yourself to that warm fuzzy place where all the appliances have names, SOAP flows freely, tunnels are wide open, and the MoAA's love shines down and covers you like a warm, soft blanket." AS
"We don't need no stinking badgers" MF, KJ
"I'm pretty much the walking finger" LG 

"We could all be in jail or out on the street looking for jobs. This is our challenge - not to let this happen" TH
"Hey AC, how do you get a beetle out of your ear?" DC
"No one ever got fired for choosing IBM. Anyone ever get fired for choosing SpaceWalker?" MC
"Cost structure must remain low so we can have gobs of profit" AC
"We have a dream that some day it will be all automagic" AC
"I'm pretty sure I paid more than $45 co-pay on my drugs" AS "How much are dime bags going for now?" DC 

"I want to BE the notifier, I will ship myself with an appliance and make noise when stuff happens. AS 

"Dogs and Cats living together..." SL
"Beef it up" KJ 

"Stupid OpenSource crap!" SL
"I can go duh duh duh duh." AS 

"xenon is slower than yo mama." SL
"All bad code can be traced back to KJ." SL 

"Don't shoot the piano player, he's doing the best he can." CS
"You have a quote for every situation." SL to CS 

"My inclination has always been to nuke and pave" CS
"J R U N K. Drunk!" LG 

"This would really float my boat, rock my world" AC
"Don't wait for someone to hack you, instead install our hacker box on your network." BG 

"Implement interview? Deploy updates? We should use MOAP for that." GP

"CS the Linux bunny, boing, boing, boing." LG
"I actually got stuff done in spite of you guys." CS 

"Quip while you're ahead." MF
"If you can remember it, it wasn't that great." LG 

"It's like a little LG, watching the DataBase." SL
"An embedded LG, nano LG." KJ
"Now that's frightening." LG 

"Do you know what K9P is?" GP
"Stuff would actually work if we had a plotter." SL
"I always dress myself." MF 

"You want me to make it not work?" LG "I can do that." SL 

"I think I got all the germs in Germany." LG
"It's on like Donkey Kong." SL 

"This is one of the best pages we've ever created." MF
"I'm bad to the bone." GP
"You shouldn't feel bad about yelling at MF." SL 

"If you don't break code that other developers discover before you do at least once a week, you're not coding fast enough." MF
"KJ can do this with only about 4 hours of work, I can do it in 2 hours, AS can break code just by breathing." MF 

"I will discuss this among myselves and get back to you. SL
"I hate fixing other people's code, and 'other people' includes myself." SL 

"Let me give you a situnario." AS
"I have become a MF, I just do whatever I want." SL
"Fake it 'til you make it!" FP 

"Five weeks? I'll be dead in five weeks." AS
My favorite Windows Haiku - 'Yesterday it worked. Today it is not working. Windows is like that.'" KP 

"You're not KJ!" LG and MH
"Ahh, I just found it in my head." MF
"I'm just going to make up a random notification and send it to someone, like 'your cat died'". SL 

"Go to lunch, GP" TWikiUsers
"I am doing stuff now that just takes so long cause its got so much code and it's just typing and typing" SL
"KJ, You were absolutely right, your code does suck." SL 

"It has to be some sort of timing thing or something related to something." MH
"The more times you run over a cat, the flatter it gets." MF
"I never learned no fonics." SL 

"Life is just one big Google search." MF
"I am truly insane." MF
"When lemur comes on line will we be told not to monkey with the lemur?" LG 

"We don't need no stink'n MF." SL 

"It is because I say it is." MF
"Thus saith the MF." SL 

"We could solve alot of problems if we had a small monkey." SL
"It is allowed to suck but not suck too badly." MF
"Ameliorated." FP 

"We should name one of the Spacewalkers Luke." SL
"You're off the 'I'm the man" list until you figure it out." SL
"What's all that noise, I'm trying to sleep." DE
"We need CAN and CAN'T awards, the CAN award can be a can." AS 

"You wanna know what I did? I listened to what I have been saying, and did what I have been telling us to do, and since I couldn't write any code because KJ said we couldn't code right now, I just changed the code without changing the code" MF
"Stop running all code...it seems to break things!" AS
"Did you just go thru the checklist?" GP "Yes, I went through it. I went through it yesterday" AS
"Is it allergy season?" SL "I'm allergic to work." KJ 

"It's not working." KP "No, your thoughts aren't working" MF
"I'm going to sit here and smell this marker now." LG
"So we still haven't been able to kill all those JVM's that were chillin' out, maxin' out, relaxin' out, cool, killin' all the spool?" LG
"We're all idiots." MF 

"We are having brain tumors left and right today." KJ
"Why would I know what I need?" MH
"Did somebody sweet?" SL
"The penguin is weak." AS
"My dream is bigger than your dream." MF 

"It definitely does something." DP
"I don't even know who I am." MH
"Hey LG, I'm going to destroy your DataBase now, do you mind?" MF
"Don't worry about making sure other people understand what you're doing because nobody understands what you're doing anyway." SL 

"Hey it's not dead, that's a good sign." MF
"Has MF told you about his scheduler masterpiece monstrosity yet?" LG
"Ok, I can grok that." CS
"I am doing stuff now that just takes so long cause its got so much code and it's just typing and typing" MF 

"It's a bad good" GP
"The Dashboard makes my XML commit suicide" AS
"Better is Goods' worst enemy" DP
"I can re-write that" FP 

"I don't want to use the whitespace at the top of the browser!" GP
"We are building bridges, and on those bridges are lanes, going across could be high-speed trains to small turtles" BG
"Why are we doing scans?" SW
"I'm generally impressed with Honda engineering, but they can't make a jack for jack." SL 

"Because, you don't want it to 'clink' with other stuff." MH
"There's nothing a little "rm -rf" can't fix." AS and SL and MF
"Zero, my hero, how wonderful you are......" KJ(singing)
"You should be familiar with C." "See?" SL, AS, KJ 

"Schweet! I'm the man." SL
"It's weird that I check stuff in now." KP
"Could you make that suck less?" MF
"The answer is Yes." Everyone

"I'm scared of things that I don't understand, which is why this scares me so much." AS
"MH, the phone goes to your head, not in your head." LG
"Hey, you're pretty smart for a ...... a dude." KJ
"Today is pick on AS day, what are we going to do tomorrow?" MF "I thought everyday was pick on AS day." SL 

"LG, can you kill all the people?" AS
"I don't want me to fix me, I just want it to work." MF
"May all your code break." MH
"I have not yet found a virgin, hahaha!" CS 

"Are you finished playing with my dingo?" DE
"I think I'm going to start wearing ear plugs to the office." LG
"Can I borrow a piece of your brain so I can understand?" AS
"Never get drunk and shoot at the tax man, you might miss." CS 

"You guys are just a bunch of pointing fingers." KJ
"He tried to make a twisty but made a normal." SL
"So you can go ahead and put that in your pipe and smoke it. Thank you." KJ
"We went on a process killing spree." SL 

"I would jump off of stuff too if you were my dad." AS
"It's time for a beer, I don't think I can wait til Friday." SL
"Blah, blah, blah (list a million things that need to be done), but other than that, we can kick back and relax." KJ
"I've got some major things missing but nobody seems to care about them." MF 

"I think after this my patience will be ready to teach kindergarden students." LG
"I actually wrote code that works! weird." KJ
"Well that opens up a whole new ball of worms." MH
"We need another MF, can we clone him." AS 

"I know why the Simple Samba Scan isn't running, I didn't write the code yet." MF
"Everyday is a long day." AS
"Why are we doing discovery?" AS
"Be careful what you say, or it might end up on a twikipage." AS 

"I am not knowing?" KJ
"The dingo ate your baby." LG
"There should be a UI for that." Everyone
"Can we add your putty to the collective?" SL 

"How did it work? Maybe I'm on crack." AS
"I'm ok with not understanding, most things in this world I don't understand." MH
"I don't trust any nature that didn't come out of a box, with plastic wrap on it." CS
"I don't know why anything at all works on this system." MH
"And that's why I don't buy computers from strangers. I buy parts from strangers." CS 

"SODA - Self Organizing Distributed Architecture." Unknown
"Since many would rather be lead than lead, having a defined process or target of required data is comforting." Unknown 

"Half the world's below the median." CS 

"We will be a builder of trading communities." Unknown
"Deliver value each day to the customer's business." Unknown 

"I'm not going to be nit-picky." FP 
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