Joke Website: The Spoo Network

Posted December 29, 1998, 3:41 p.m.

Spoo is a word I developed when reversing everything John Morton said to me in an IM conversation in 1998. He said oops. Spoo was born. This is its web site.

The Spoo Network.

Scott Bradford is a writer and technologist who has been putting his opinions online since 1995. He believes in three inviolable human rights: life, liberty, and property. He is a Catholic Christian who worships the trinitarian God described in the Nicene Creed. Scott is a husband, nerd, pet lover, and AMC/Jeep enthusiast with a B.S. degree in public administration from George Mason University.

Quotes

He who feared that he would not succeed sat still.

Horace

There is no belief, however foolish, that will not gather its faithful adherents who will defend it to the death.

Isaac Asimov

I don’t believe in process. In fact, when I interview a potential employee and he or she says that ‘it’s all about the process,’ I see that as a bad sign.

Elon Musk

Let me say this once more: God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

Francis (Pope)

But eventually I came to accept the truth: I am overweight. This is not my fault. My body, without consulting me, has been converting the food I eat into fat, as opposed to something I can actually use, such as toothpaste.

Dave Barry

Those whom I love, I reprove and chasten; so be zealous and repent.

Holy Bible

The best way to predict the future is to create it.

Peter Drucker

The state . . . forbids citizens to have firearms or other weapons, but does not itself undertake to defend them! [It] turns its citizens over to the power of the bandits

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

All pagan religions begin with the teachings of adults, but Christianity begins with the birth of a child.

Fulton Sheen

I envy people who drink. At least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.

Adlai Stevenson II

Why can’t somebody give us a list of things that everybody thinks and nobody says, and another list of things that everybody says and nobody thinks?

Oliver Wendell Holmes

If we had a reliable way to label our toys good and bad, it would be easy to regulate technology wisely. But we can rarely see far enough ahead to know which road leads to damnation.

Freeman Dyson

For the things we have to learn before we can do, we learn by doing.

Aristotle

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time. . . .

Winston Churchill

I have come as light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in darkness.

Jesus Christ

That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it. . . .

U.S. Dec. of Independence

A little hyperbole never hurts. People want to believe that something is the biggest and the greatest and the most spectacular.

Donald Trump

In making any assertion, we must be guided by the nature of things, except in those things which are above nature, and are made known to us by Divine authority.

Thomas Aquinas

Inflation is the fiscal complement of statism and arbitrary government. It is a cog in the complex of policies and institutions which gradually lead toward totalitarianism.

Ludwig von Mises

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