"We build our computers the way we build our cities -- over time, without a
plan, on top of ruins."
 - Ellen Ullman

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"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere."
 -  Martin Luther King, Jr.

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"Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly."
 -  Henry Spencer

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"Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey."
 -  Bill Gates

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"There has grown up in the minds of certain groups in this country the notion
that because a man or a corporation has made a profit out of the public for a
number of years, the government and the courts are charged with the duty of
guaranteeing such profit in the future, even in the face of changing
circumstances and contrary public interest. This strange doctrine is not
supported by statute nor common law. Neither individuals nor corporations have
any right to come into court and ask that the clock of history be stopped, or
turned back, for their private benefit."
 -  The Judge in "Life-Line" (Robert A. Heinlein)

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"Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes."
 -  Edsger W. Dijkstra

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"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the
average voter."
 -  Winston Churchill

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"Berkeley was a lot better than junior high school, but it still involved
homework, which deep down in my heart I could never believe in."
 -  Hans Reiser

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"Never memorize what you can look up in books."
 -  Albert Einstein

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"It's too bad stupidity isn't painful."
 -  A. S. LaVey

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"If we can really talk about mutating, self-replicating evil code as "viruses'
then Outlook is the functional equivalent of a dirty heroin needle in a 1970's
San Fransisco gay bath house."
 -  Unknown

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"In communism, man exploits man. In capitalism, it's the other way around."
 -  Unknown

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"Geht's der Wirtschaft gut, geht's uns allen gut."
 -  Wirtschaftskammer Oesterreich

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"Be incomprehensible. If they can't understand, they can't disagree."
 -  Unknown

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"There are lies, damned lies, and statistics."
 -  Mark Twain

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"Isn't XML the CSV of Y2K?"
 -  `tone`

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"Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it."
 -  Cray Seymore

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"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
 -  Albert Einstein

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"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
by definition, not smart enough to debug it."
 -  Brian W. Kernighan

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"The best way to destroy an enemy is by making them a friend."
 -  Abraham Lincoln

"If that doesn't work, shoot them in the back of the head."
 -  J. W. Booth

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Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take
into account Hofstadter's Law.

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Be suspicious of anything that works perfectly - it's probably because two
errors are cancelling each other out.

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Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to
the amount of equipment ruined.

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Sturgeon's law: 90% of everything is crap.

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Shaw's Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool
will want to use it.

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Machines work, people should think.

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"The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts
at education."
 -  Paul Feyerabend

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"The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you
want."
 -  D. Cohen

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"Ernest Hemingway once wrote, 'The world is a fine place and worth fighting
for'. I agree with the second part."
 -  William Somerset (Morgan Freeman) in "Se7en"

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"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
 -  H. L. Mencken

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"America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly
from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization."
 -  Georges Clemenceau

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"Before you speak, ask yourself:
is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?"
 -  Sai Baba

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"*Unix's* answer to everything is EPERM. Unfortunately, given the interfaces
Unix provides, that's about all that can be done visible to an application.
SELinux's answer to everything is EPERM + log reason for denial to
/var/log/audit/audit.log. It's a little bit like asking a teenager to do
something, getting a "NO!" response, and then having to look in their diary for
why."
 - donwaugaman on lwn.net

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On starting your own business: "You jump off a cliff and you assemble an
aeroplane on the way down."
 - Reid Hoffman

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ACHTUNG!
ALLES TURISTEN UND NONTEKNISCHEN LOOKENPEEPERS!
DAS KOMPUTERMASCHINE IST NICHT FÜR DER GEFINGERPOKEN UND MITTENGRABEN! ODERWISE
IST EASY TO SCHNAPPEN DER SPRINGENWERK, BLOWENFUSEN UND POPPENCORKEN MIT SPITZENSPARKSEN.
IST NICHT FÜR GEWERKEN BEI DUMMKOPFEN. DER RUBBERNECKEN
SIGHTSEEREN KEEPEN DAS COTTONPICKEN HÄNDER IN DAS POCKETS MUSS.
ZO RELAXEN UND WATSCHEN DER BLINKENLICHTEN.
 - Anonymous Coward on slashdot.org

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MacOS is a Unix much like the Uruk-hai were once Elves, taken by the Dark Lord,
tortured and mutilated into their current abomination.
 - xopher on identi.ca

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"The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology seem respectable."
 - John Kenneth Galbraith

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"Certificate Authorities protect you from anyone whose money they won't take."
 - Unknown

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"Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a
swimming pool." 
 - Edward Burr

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"All bad precedents began as justifiable measures."
 - Gaius Julius Caesar, quoted in "The Conspiracy of Catiline", by Sallust

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"Was glauben Sie, was in diesem Land los waere, wenn die Menschen begreifen
wuerden, was in diesem Land los ist!"
 - Volker Pispers (über Deutschland)

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"The essence of XML is this: the problem it solves is not hard, and it does not
solve the problem well."
 - Phil Wadler

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"A startup accelerator is where you smash startups into each other at high
speed, in the hopes of capturing the emitted business model."
 - Paul Bellamy

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"In carpentry you measure twice and cut once. In software development you never
measure and make cuts until you run out of time."
 - Adam Morse

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"I don't want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve
immortality through not dying. I don't want to live on in the hearts of my
countrymen; I want to live on in my apartment."

 - Woody Allen

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"Containers have become the first stop method to hide overly complicated build
processes. When you've noticed your wiring has become a complete mess of knots,
just put it in a box so no one will trip."

 - tomtomtom777 on Hacker News

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