Misc
"There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."
- C A R Hoare, as quoted by Erik de Castro Lopo
"I don't trust a precompiled binary any farther than I can spit a rat."
- Erik Fichtner
"FF1517 packages are for professional drivers only, on a closed course."
- Austin Lesea in comp.arch.fpga
"The cheapest, fastest and most reliable components of a computer system are those that aren't there."
- Gordon Bell, DEC laboratories, quoted by Jörn Engel
"The real romance is out ahead and yet to come. The computer revolution hasn't started yet. Don't be misled by the enormous flow of money into bad defacto standards for unsophisticated buyers using poor adaptations of incomplete ideas."
- Alan Kay, quoted by Donovan Rebbechi
"It's large amounts of well-organized ignorance that scares me."
- Cody Ann Michaels, quoted by Steve Thompson, Sysadmin, Malcontent
"A society without religion is like a crazed psychopath without a loaded .45"
- David Voth
"See everything; overlook a great deal; correct a little."
- Pope John XXIII
"The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it."
- John Gilmore, quoted by Bjørn Borud
"The Web is to graphic design as the fax machine is to literature."
- Decklin Foster
"Modularity is not a hack."
- Dan Bernstein
"Troubleshooting is intrinsically a layering violation."
- Larry Doolittle
"Computers are state machines. Threads are for people who can't program state machines."
- Alan Cox
"Lies, damned lies and FPGA Gate Count."
- Uwe Bonnes
"My favorite programming language is a soldering iron."
- Steve Ciarcia
"Computers are useless; they can only give you answers."
- Pablo Picasso
"An Interface is what gets in between you and what you want to do."
- Carl Havermiste
"Have you ever worked until late at night, put the resulting alpha software in a public location, and then read a bug report and suggested fix from halfway around the world using the bedside laptop the next morning? I have."
- Donald J. Becker in November, 1993
"Just because the code is intended to cause flaming death is no reason to get sloppy and leave off the casts."
- Tim Smith , regarding sample (F0 0F C7 C8) Pentium Death code on comp.os.linux.advocacy
"Note that if I can get you to 'su and say' something just by asking, you have a very serious security problem on your system and you should look into it."
- Paul Vixie , in the vixie-cron 3.0.1 installation notes
"DES itself is now 'DED'. It is 'kid sister' code. It has 'X'es for eyeballs. It is defunct. It is an ex-protocol."
- Robert Hettinga , in July 20, 1998 letter explaining that it costs $684.93 to break one DES key.
"...very few phenomena can pull someone out of Deep Hack Mode, with two noted exceptions: being struck by lightning, or worse, your *computer* being struck by lightning."
- Matt Welsh
"Well, let's just say, 'if your VCR is still blinking 12:00, you don't want Linux.'"
- Bruce Perens, Debian's Fearless Leader
"The sticker on the side of the box said 'Supported Platforms: Windows 95, Windows NT 4.0, or better', so clearly Linux was a supported platform."
- Nathan Hand
"Would you buy a car with the hood welded shut? Debian/GNU Linux ... the maintainable operating system."
- Tim Thomson
"Right now some people are just running around in circles and claiming that moving things to the kernel automatically makes it more stable. I'm telling you that the kernel is stable not because it's a kernel, but because I refuse to listen to arguments like this."
- Linus Torvalds
"I don't know what you would do for MSDOS other than boot Linux."
- Russ Nelson
"All I'm saying is this: 'Great, you're a new pilot, and you want to fly. Fine. We've got a Cessna 127 here, and an F16. You know, I think you ought to start with the Cessna.'"
- Bryan Pfaffenberger , explaining why he wants companies to create "Linux Lite" products targeted for newcomers
"A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, solve equations, pitch manure, program a computer, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects."
- Lazarus Long, in Time Enough for Love by Robert A. Heinlein
"How do you power off this machine?"
- Linus, when upgrading linux.cs.helsinki.fi, and after using the machine for several months
"Who is General Failure and why is he reading my disc?"
'Hit any user to continue'
Use the force, read the source!
Of course it doesn't work. We've performed a software upgrade.
Artificial Intelligence stands no chance against Natural Stupidity.
[X] <- nail here for new monitor
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Operating Systems
"Unix is user friendly - it's just a bit more choosy about who it's friends are." --Gene Buckle
"The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed Linux."
Computers are like air conditioners. They stop working when you open Windows.
"... being a Linux user is sort of like living in a house inhabited by a large family of carpenters and architects. Every morning when you wake up, the house is a little different. Maybe there is a new turret, or some walls have moved. Or perhaps someone has temporarily removed the floor under your bed." --Unix for Dummies, Jon "maddog" Hall
The only thing Micro$oft has done for society, is make people believe that computers are inherently unreliable.
"Where do you want to go today?" -- Microsoft ad campaign
"Where do you want to go tomorrow?" -- Linux enthusiasts
"One cannot delete the Web browser from KDE without losing the ability to manage files on the user's own hard disk." --Prof. Stuart E Madnick, MIT.
So called “expert” witness for Microsoft. 2002/05/02
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No gates, no windows, and an Apache inside.
Linux is for networking,
Mac is for working,
Windows is just for solitaire.
Computers
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
Hardware: The parts of a computer system that can be kicked.
"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining." ---Jeff Raskin, interviewed in Doctor Dobb's Journal
"There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in their home." ---Ken Olson, President of DEC, World Future Society Convention, 1977
A bus station is where a bus stops.
A train station is where a train stops.
On my desk, I have a workstation...
Error, no keyboard - press F1 to continue.
source : http://www-crypto.htw-saarland.de/weber/misc/programming.html
