A lot of other people wanted a free production UNIX with lots of bells and whistles and wanted to convert MINIX into that. I was dragged along in the maelstrom for a while, but when Linux came along, I was actually relieved that I could go back to professoring.
You could go to New York City, you could go to LA, you could go to the highest class studios in the world, they'll have all the bells and whistles, but it's not going to make your record any better.
My idea of a good hit is when the victim wakes up on the sidelines with train whistles blowing in his head. . . I like to believe that my best hits border on felonious assault.
Luck whines; labor whistles.
It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.
Why did they keep changing guitars and amplifiers when they were perfect? They did the same things with cars, if you ask me. They forgot how to make them right, because they focused on style and bells and whistles.
Love is all about. . . whistles.
Hearts don't come when Reason whistles to 'em.
The wind, a sightless laborer, whistles at his task.
The appearance of strength is all about you. It would seem to last forever. However. . . the rotten tree-trunk, until the very moment when the storm-blast breaks it in two, has all the appearance of might it ever had. The storm-blast whistles through the branches of the Empire even now. Listen. . . and you will hear the creaking.
Technology is incredibly creative and has great potentials; but it is also very seductive in the way it isolates people, in the way it jazzes people up, in the way it makes junkies out of us - junkies who need a constant stimulation, more information, more bells and whistles, more electronic wonders in order not to be bored.
If a man whistles at you, don't turn around. You are a lady not a dog.
Do you know what the three most exciting sounds in the world are? Anchor chains, airplane motors and train whistles.
What's green, hangs on a wall and whistles?
