- "The three most dangerous things in the world are a programmer with a soldering iron, a hardware type with a program patch and a user with an idea."- _The Wizardry Compiled_ by Rick Cook
- Any sufficiently advanced bug is indistinguishable from a feature.
- Science is to computer science as hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
- We don't really understand it, so we'll give it to the programmers.
- The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten 10% of its capacity, the rest is overhead for the operating system.
- Programming is an art form that fights back.
- There are two ways to write error-free programs; only the third one works.
- Best file compression around: "DEL *.* /S" = 100% compression
- Windows: Just another pane in the glass.
- RAM disk is *not* an installation procedure.
- Shell to DOS...Come in DOS, do you copy? Shell to DOS...
- What happens to programmers when they die?
- They get deallocated?
- Their values become undefined?
- The get re-intialized?
- Their structues break down?
- They become WORM food...
- They start dropping bits........
- They branch to a new address!
- Their social system resources are released?
- They dump core?
- They get deallocated?
Thursday, August 09, 2007
A Few Quotes and Stuff...
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