"Did I say that?"

A collection of Rowe-isms

If you've got any favourite Rowe-isms that don't appear here, please mail them to latham@excc.ex.ac.uk and I'll stick them on the list!  Coming soon, the John Rowe fan club home pages!!

Everything you wanted to know about John but were afraid to ask...

John says:

• "Everything should be prohibited unless it is specifically allowed."
• "Only deranged mutants don't use the standard setup."
• "You're not meant to love it; it's just a tool."
• "Never ascribe to malice what can be explained by incompetence!"
• "Never do anything that can't do you any good, and may do you some harm."
• "Don't ask what you can do with the technology, ask what the technology can do for you."
• "Most problems are either trivial if they are someone else's, or unsolvable if they are yours."

John on trivia:

• "What you've got to remember is, I know everything [pause] except things I don't know."
• "I won't do quotes to order."

John on diplomacy:

• "I hear you've been tormenting one of my users..."
• "The only good user is a dead user."
• "You've got to be cruel to be cruel."
• "I've got to ask this question even though I know the answer..."
• "That's like sending me a recipe for blueberry muffins in the hope that I would infer you wanted to borrow a library book."
• "There are some times when I'm quite proud to be British."

Paul Leary says:

• "Southern is as Southern does."

Last modified: 16th January 2004

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