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Quotes
The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
- Albert Einstein -
Real Programmers always confuse Christmas and Halloween because Oct31 == Dec25
- Andrew Rutherford -
Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
- Anonymous -
Hit any user to continue.
- Anonymous -
Don't think about life, you're not going to survive it anyway!
- Anonymous -
A thorough software professional is one who when his wife yells at him "goto hell", worries more about the goto statement than what his wife is upset about.
- Anonymous -
Contrary to popular belief, Unix is user friendly. It just happens to be very selective about who it decides to make friends with.
- Anonymous -
What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.
- Anonymous -
Sped up my XT; ran it on 220v! Works greO?_m
- Anonymous -
Pascal keeps your hands tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.
- Anonymous -
Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.
- Anonymous -
The only thing more dangerous than a hardware guy with a code patch is a programmer with a soldering iron.
- Anonymous -
A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk I have a workstation...
- Anonymous -
Programmer: A red-eyed, mumbling mammal capable of conversing with inanimate objects
- Anonymous -
My software never has bugs. It just develops random features.
- Anonymous -
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
- Arthur C. Clarke -
I'll try being nicer if you'll try being smarter.
- Bank Of America Tech Support -
C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg.
- Bjarne Stroustrup -
Come to think of it, there are already a million monkeys on a million typewriters, and the Usenet is NOTHING like Shakespeare!
- Blair Houghton -
Most of the evils of life arise from man's being unable to sit still in a room.
- Blaise Pascal -
I want to know what good is a web search engine that returns 324,909,188 'matches' to my keyword. That's like saying, "Good news, we've located the product you're looking for. It's on Earth."
- Bruce Cameron -
Duct tape is like the Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
- Carl Zwanzig -
Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
- Dennis Ritchie -
Those... were shitty last words.
- Ealf, PSDF Aggression -
Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
- Epictetus -
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a mistake when you make it again.
- F. P. Jones -
I'd give you my pity... but I save that for retards.
- Friend #1, The Thin H Line -
And what about Zombies? You never hear from Zombies! Thats the trouble with Zombies, they're unreliable! I say if you're going to go for the Angel bullshit you might as well go for the Zombie package as well...
- George Carlin -
There are three kinds of death in this world. There's heart death, there's brain death, and there's being off the network.
- Guy Almes -
A crash is when your competitors program dies. When your program dies, it is an idiosyncrasy. Frequently, crashes are followed with a message like ID 02. ID is an abbreviation for idiosyncrasy and the number that follows indicates how many more months of testing the product should have had.
- Guy Kawasaki -
We're thinking about upgrading from SunOS 4.1.1 to SunOS 3.5.
- Henry Spencer -
They have computers, and they may have other weapons of mass destruction.
- Janet Reno -
There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence.
- Jeremy S. Anderson -
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
- John Gilmore -
Beware of programmers who carry screwdrivers.
- Leonard Brandwein -
Those scared of the dark have never seen what the light can do.
- Lightning Bolt, Magic the Gathering -
Magic happens here
- Linux Kernel 2.6.0, suspend.c:769 -
Heavier-than-air flying machines are impossible.
- Lord Kelvin -
I worry about my child and the Internet all the time, even though she's too young to have logged on yet. Here's what I worry about: I worry that 10 or 15 years from now, she will come to me and say "Daddy, where were you when they took freedom of the press away from the Internet?"
- Mike Godwin -
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
- Mitch Ratliffe -
Your best dreams may not come true; fortunately, neither will your worst dreams.
- Newman's Discovery -
Be careful, lest in banishing your demons, you banish the best thing within you.
- Nietzsche -
The only difference between saints and sinners is that every saint has a past while every sinner has a future.
- Oscar Wilde -
Data expands to fill the space available for storage
- Parkinson's Law of Data -
Everything that I've learned about computers at MIT I have boiled down into three principles: Unix: You think it won't work, but if you find the right wizard, he can make it work. Macintosh: You think it will work, but it won't. PC/Windows: You think it won't work, and it won't.
- Philip Greenspun -
Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
- Rich Kulawiec -
No, this is the great Theater Of Life. Admission is free but the taxation is mortal. You come when you can and leave when you must. The show is continuous.
- Robertson Davies -
Life sucks. Get a fucking helmet.
- Sheldon Noble -
You are not expected to understand this.
- Source Of Unix 6th Ed, Unix/Slp.C, Line 438 -
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy -
I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work.
- Thomas Edison -
I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.
- Thomas Watson -
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