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)

    “Chief Justice. Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.
    Falstaff. I would it were otherwise. I would my means were greater, and my waist slenderer.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    “All is waste and worthless, till
    Arrives the selecting will,
    And, out of slime and chaos, Wit
    Draws the threads of fair and fit.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)