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:

    “For you, O tumultuous flowers,
    To go to waste and go wild in....”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)

    “Beside a stream, don’t waste water; even in a forest, don’t waste fire wood.”
    —Chinese proverb.

    “Baptiste knew how to make a short job long
    For love of it, and yet not waste time either.”
    —Robert Frost (1874–1963)