Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 30 March 2007 21:47

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. (Isaac Asimov)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 30 March 2007 21:32

If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it ? (Albert Einstein)

Posted by: dingetje - Wednesday, 24 January 2007 12:41

Windows© 95(n) - 32-bit extensions and graphical shell for a 16-bit patch to an 8-bit operating system originally coded for a 4-bit microprocessor, written by a 2-bit company that can't stand 1 bit of competition. (Unknown)

Posted by: dingetje - Wednesday, 25 January 2006 18:52

"Two strings walk into a bar. The first string says to the bartender: 'Bartender, I'll have a beer. u.5n$x5t?*&4ru!2[sACC~ErJ'. The second string says: 'Pardon my friend, he isn't NULL terminated'."
(Unknown)

Posted by: dingetje - Wednesday, 14 December 2005 23:42

"I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by."
(Douglas Adams)

Posted by: dingetje - Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:18

Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
(Rich Cook)

Posted by: dingetje - Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:17

The most likely way for the world to be destroyed, most experts agree, is by accident. That's where we come in; we're computer professionals. We cause accidents.
(Nathaniel Borenstein)

Posted by: dingetje - Sunday, 27 November 2005 02:07

The Linux philosophy is to laugh in the face of danger. Oops. Wrong one. Do it yourself. That's it. (Linus Torvalds)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 25 November 2005 01:05

"19 Jan 2038 at 3:14:07 AM" ( The end of the word according to Unix (2^32 seconds after Jan 1)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 25 November 2005 01:05

"The number of the beast — vi vi vi." (Anonymous)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 25 November 2005 01:04

"Confucius say: He who play in root, eventually kill tree." (Anonymous)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 25 November 2005 01:00

"#define QUESTION ((bb) || !(bb))" (Shakespeare)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 25 November 2005 00:57

"unzip; strip; touch; finger; mount; fsck; more; yes; unmount; sleep" (Anonymous)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 25 November 2005 00:50

"You start coding. I'll go find out what they want." (Computer analyst to programmer)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 25 November 2005 00:47

"A computer program does what you tell it to do, not what you want it to do." (Greer's Third Law.)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 25 November 2005 00:46

"Programming is an art form that fights back." (Unknown)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 25 November 2005 00:39

"If you give someone a program, you will frustrate them for a day; if you teach them how to program, you will frustrate them for a lifetime." (Unknown)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 25 November 2005 00:30

"Working computer hardware is a lot like an erect penis: it stays up as long as you don't fuck with it." (Unknown)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 25 November 2005 00:27

"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it." (Seymore Cray, on virtual memory.)

Posted by: dingetje - Friday, 25 November 2005 00:24

"The problem with computers is they do what you tell them." (Unknown)