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:
“Life being very short, and the quiet hours of it few, we ought to waste none of them in reading valueless books.”
—John Ruskin (1819–1900)
“As ye of clay were cast by kind,
So shall ye waste to dust.”
—Thomas Vaux, 2d Baron Vaux Of Harrowden (1510–1566)
“Angela Vickers: Did you promise to be a good boy? Not to waste your time on girls?
George Eastman: I don’t waste my time.”
—Michael Wilson (1914–1978)