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Are you sure that you want to buy this stock, betting that there are a lot of people dumber than you are?
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-- Brent Meeker

Are you sure you want to install this software, which will take complete control of your computer, trash all your other programs and send your credit card number and sexual preferences to our corporate headquarters?
-- Brent Meeker

Are you sure you want to worry a nearly healed scab?
-- Michael Kiraly

Are you sure you want to SAVE these incriminating e-mails, Mr. Gates?
-- Barry Ritholtz

Are you sure you want to ask Jeeves _that_?
-- Lisa Kleinman

Are you sure you want to point your new Smith & Wesson digital handgun at your head?
Pushing the 'Enter' trigger may erase your wetware, and all associated files.
-- Ian Cameron

Are you sure you want to dot-com an idea that will make less money than a change machine?
-- Christopher Lierle

Are you sure you want to eat that? It's been [time duration] since you placed it in the fridge.
-- KJ Cambra

(On Janet Reno's computer)
Are you sure you want to let the boy see the gun?
-- Ted Helm

Are you sure that the Internet DOESN'T cause cancer?
-- Stephanie Sogg

Are you sure you want to spend for another software upgrade cycle?
-- Anthony Thomas

Are you sure you need a motorcycle that approaches 200 mph?
-- Matthew Jenove

Are you sure you want to overwrite the read-only file, fate.doc?
-- Christian MacAuley

Are you sure you want to enter a contest where the only prize is a book on the history of artificial intelligence programs?
-- Adam D. Solomon

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salon.com | May 6, 2000

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