WASTE
WASTE is a peer-to-peer and friend-to-friend protocol and software application developed by Justin Frankel at Nullsoft in 2003 that features instant messaging, chat rooms and file browsing/sharing capabilities. The name WASTE is a reference to Thomas Pynchon's novel The Crying of Lot 49. In the novel, W.A.S.T.E. is (among other things) an underground postal service.
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Famous quotes containing the word waste:
“In companions
That do converse and waste the time together,
Whose souls do bear an equal yoke of love,
There must be needs a like proportion
Of lineaments, of manners, and of spirit.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“Architecture is the art of how to waste space.”
—Philip Johnson (b. 1906)