Layman's Terms/Quotes

" which part confuses you more, my complex lexicon or the fact that i beat you with your own logic?  using big words doesn't make you more smarter.  Sorry, let me put it in an language that you can understand  OMG, ROFL LOL!!!!!!!!! J00 GOT OWNED!!11111!!"

- bash.org, #637196

"GLaDOS: Momentum, a function of mass and velocity, is conserved between portals. In layman's terms, speedy thing goes in, speedy thing comes out."

- Portal

"Arthax: And all this time I thought The Green Man was merely an anthromorphization of man's fear of nature. Yeagar: Huh? Nodwick: Arthax think green guy not real like tooth fairy. Yeagar: Oh."

"Dr. Hoenikker used to say that any scientist who couldn't explain to an eight-year-old what he was doing was a charlatan."

- Kurt Vonnegut

"The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."

- Alan Perlis

""What's that thing?" "Well, it's a highly technical, sensitive instrument we use in computer repair. Being a layman, you probably can't grasp exactly what it does. We call it a two-by-four.""

- Jeff MacNelly, Shoe

""Layman" is just a polite word for "idiot"."

- Neal Stephenson

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