Here’s a few humorous comments I found on Slashdot. Hopefully the context is sufficient to make sense.

Regarding a study that 6% of web users make up 50% of ad clicks:

“The Flash-based ‘Talking Woman’ has helped me.

When Mom calls long distance, Talking Woman is cheerful and polite in the background. Mom thinks I’ve finally found a nice girl and given up computers.”

“‘When Mom calls long distance,’

So calling the basement is long distance now? The phone company is ripping you off, man.”

“At least she isn’t tied up in the basement like his last girlfriend.”

“Dummies. We click, so you don’t have to.”

Found via Slashdot, Frank Wiles writes in his blog about why hiring the top programmers results in a better product and ultimately at a cheaper cost, contrary to popular thinking. His reasons are similar to what I’ve been thinking.

If you’ve ever read The Mythical Man Month, then many of his thoughts will sound familiar. A single expert programmer is equivalent to several average programmers. Therefore hiring a few experts yields numerous returns, such as: > more <

It continues to amaze me that people aren’t willing to try new things. Whether it’s food, books, movies, or software, people stick with the tried and true. My wife’s friend refuses to try any ethnic food besides Mexican and Chinese; we’ve offered to take her to Greek, Thai, Indian, Japanese, etc. but she’s afraid she won’t like it so she doesn’t want to go.

However, the biggest gripe I have is when it comes to computers. I understand that people are “brought up” using Windows (home, work, school, et al.) so they are comfortable with it. It just kills me when people bitch about Macs, saying that they suck yet they’ve never used one; if they have, it’s been for five minutes at an Apple store. > more <