Remains of the Day: Quotable quotations

30.08.2011
A quote for every occasion! Whether it be the continuing inanity of Lodsys's legal filings, the bizarrity of HP's decision-making, or one software company's attempt to reach out and help people. Would that which we call the remainders for Tuesday, August 30, 2011 by any other name smell as sweet?

(Groklaw)

Lodsys is looking a little...peaked. The company's latest reply to Apple's reply to Lodsys's response to Apple's motion to intervene in the case--and if you followed that, you deserve a cookie--comes across, according to Groklaw, as "legal gibberish." Sounds like Lodsys would have been better off channeling the late Dr. Seuss: "Not in a fort, not in a court!"

(HP Communities)

What do you do when your suddenly starts chalking up sales, thanks to a deep discount? Naturally, you make . HP says it will be making a final run of TouchPads to "meet unfulfilled demand." To paraphrase Arthur C. Clarke, "Any sufficiently advanced genius is indistinguishable from idiocy."

(IGG Software)