Waste

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:

    Don’t waste time trying to break a man’s heart; be satisfied if you can just manage to chip it in a brand new place.
    Helen Rowland (1875–1950)

    If you visit your friend, why need you apologize for not having visited him, and waste his time and deface your own act? Visit him now.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    I’ve often wondered why she laughed
    On thinking why I wondered so;
    It seemed such waste that long white hands
    Should touch my hands and let them go.
    Allen Tate (1899–1979)