The media have just buried the last yuppie, a pathetic creature who had not heard the news that the great pendulum of public consciousness has just swung from Greed to Compassion and from Tex-Mex to meatballs

— Barbara Ehrenreich

Sensational Tex quotations

TeX has found at least one bug in every Pascal compiler it's been run on, I think, and at least two in every C compiler

Unlike dragons, I love spicy salsa. In fact, the spicier the better. For me, the ideal taco toppings are chopped onion, some cilantro and a bit of lime juice. I like the classic Mexican style. I like crunchy, Tex-Mex, cheese-slathered too, but I prefer to keep it simple.

I am seeing all the guys, like Earnie Shavers, Tex Cobb, and Larry Holmes all the time.

Some scientists use TeX or LatEX but for most people Word is the thing that writers use these days.

There certainly is a good 'Tex Mex' restaurant very close to our office.

My office is around 100 yards from it. I call it Tex Mex because every couple of years it's changed hands and changed name, I'm not exactly sure why!

There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.

Tex Cobb would call me every day after we fought, I got sick of talking to him.

I liked him a lot as a fighter, and as a person, and feel that sometimes he was misunderstood.

I had just had a daughter, who was three or three-and-half years old, and I had been watching nothing but cartoons. That's really it. There was no YouTube. You're in France and you're raising a kid, so you break out the Tex Avery.

Cable news is 24 hours long so you have to fill it up with something.

No, the Muppets are not communist. And the character of Tex Richman is not an allegory for capitalism in any way. The character is called Tex Richman. It's a joke. Clearly he is a classic, old school bad guy. He's bad not because he works for an oil company but because he's evil. No, it's not a communist movie in any way.

In fact, my main conclusion after spending ten years of my life working on the TEX project is that software is hard. It's harder than anything else I've ever had to do.

I can remember a game, we were down with about 5 to 10 points, I go off about 25 points, we come back and win the game, we're walking off the floor. Tex (Winter) looks at me and says "There's no "I" in team!" I looked at Tex and say, "There's not, but there's an 'I' in win!

Randy Newman seemed like an even worse singer than me.

I liked Ray Charles, Levi Stubbs, Jack Jones, Joe Tex, Wilson Pickett.

I know when I started I would have been happy to sound like the Beatles or Joe Tex or whoever. You want to sound like most bands, you want to sound like their records and that's how you learn your chops.

Stop throwing us all together like some sort of Puerto Ricaminican Tex-Mex buffet.