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:

    “The world is too much with us; late and soon,
    Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers.”
    —William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

    “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)

    “Slowly the poison the whole blood stream fills.
    It is not the effort nor the failure tires.
    The waste remains, the waste remains and kills.”
    —William Empson (1906–1984)