"Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere." - Martin Luther King, Jr. % "Those who don't understand UNIX are doomed to reinvent it, poorly." - Henry Spencer % "Let's face it, the average computer user has the brain of a Spider Monkey." - Bill Gates % "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) % "Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes." - Edsger W. Dijkstra % "The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill % "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 % "Never memorize what you can look up in books." - Albert Einstein % "It's too bad stupidity isn't painful." - A. S. LaVey % "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 % "In communism, man exploits man. In capitalism, it's the other way around." - Unknown % "Geht's der Wirtschaft gut, geht's uns allen gut." - Wirtschaftskammer Oesterreich % "Be incomprehensible. If they can't understand, they can't disagree." - Unknown % "There are lies, damned lies, and statistics." - Mark Twain % "Isn't XML the CSV of Y2K?" - `tone` % "Memory is like an orgasm. It's a lot better if you don't have to fake it." - Cray Seymore % "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Albert Einstein % "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 % "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 % Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's Law. % Be suspicious of anything that works perfectly - it's probably because two errors are cancelling each other out. % Harrisberger's Fourth Law of the Lab: Experience is directly proportional to the amount of equipment ruined. % Sturgeon's law: 90% of everything is crap. % Shaw's Principle: Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it. % Machines work, people should think. % "The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education." - Paul Feyerabend % "The trouble with computers is that they do what you tell them, not what you want." - D. Cohen % "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" % "Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under." - H. L. Mencken % "America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization." - Georges Clemenceau % "Before you speak, ask yourself: is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve on the silence?" - Sai Baba %