Layman's Terms/Quotes

<LordPie> which part confuses you more, my complex lexicon or the fact that i beat you with your own logic?
<jestaa> using big words doesn't make you more smarter.
<LordPie> Sorry, let me put it in an language that you can understand

<LordPie> 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.

—Nodwick

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, Cat's Cradle

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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