I have often posted photographs of Sydney’s streets and building as they appeared years ago. There are just as many, if not more, photog...

Agent Smith (Hugo Weaving): "I'd like to share a revelation that I’ve had during my time here. It came to me when I tried to cl...

   Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment. - Oprah Winfrey We have to do the best we can. This is ou...

Caution: risque language Stanley Goodspeed (Nicholas Cage): I'll do my best. John Mason (Sean Connery): Your "best"! Los...

Doublespeak: A statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth. The Free Online Dictionary Any langua...

Otis B Driftwood: It's all right, that's in every contract. That's what they call a sanity clause. Fiorello: You can't ...

There will be no Bytes this Sunday but it will be back on Monday.

The final 5 of the best pisodes of The twilight Zone... 5. Walking Distance Opening narration: Martin Sloan, age thirty-six. Occupatio...

"No patty fingers, if you please. The proprieties at all times." Barry Fitzgerald (Michaleen Oge Flynn) The Quiet Man (1952) ...

Yesterday I posted a brief quote by Carl Sagan.  A longer one follows but it is well worth the read: "Look again at that dot. That...

“There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here, or because you think I should. I look back on the way...

We are stardust We are golden And we’ve got to get ourselves Back to the garden We are stardust Billion year old carbon We are golden Cau...

“How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?” Zero Mostel...

Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life, In its brief course Lie all the verities and realities of your existence: The bli...

Byter Charles comments: I was troubled by the 1930s photo because I thought I had recently seen the image which was not consistent with th...

“I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the da...

(Click on the images to enlarge). A wonderfully evocative image of a wet Angel Place, Sydney, in the 1930’s taken by photographer Sam Hood....

Have you ever noticed that hearing a line from a movie can stir memories of when you first saw it, who you were with, how you liked the mo...

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn." Clark Gable (Rhett Butler) Gone With the Wind (1939)

Email from Byter Philip, commenting on the post about help desk complaints: In relation to the so called help staff, I employed a young blo...