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If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple we couldn't.
A hacker does for love what others would not do for money.
Access denied--nah nah na nah nah!
As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing.
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. - Picasso
Help! I'm trapped in a Chinese computer factory!
We know Linux is the best, it can do infinite loops in five seconds. - Linus Torvalds
Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer for chaos and madness await thee at its end.
Yesterday upon the stair
I met a man who wasn't there.
He wasn't there again today --
I think he's from the CIA.
Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day, but teach a man to fish and he will eat for eternity.
Friends don't let friends use DOS.
One who has time to complain has time to submit patches. - chinese proverb
Life is complex: it has real and imaginary parts.
Some things seem like bugs, but it's just ignorance... cal 9 1752
Veel denken, niet veel weten moet je nastreven. - Democritus
Boards don't hit back. - Bruce Lee
PS: Unix was not designed to prevent you from doing stupid things...
When she told me I was average, she was just being mean.
It is better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.
There is no such thing as luck. 'Luck' is nothing but an absence of bad luck.
I want to die peacefully in my sleep as my grandfather did,
unlike the passengers in his car.
"I have no respect for a man who can only spell a word one way." - Mark Twain
"Your work is both true and original. Unfortunately, the parts that are true are not original, and the parts that are original are not true." -- Edgar Allan Poe
"I have never let my schooling interfere with my education." -- Mark Twain
"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." -- Mark Twain
"When in doubt tell the truth." -- Mark Twain
"Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." -- Ed Cunningham
'When a programming language is created that allows programmers to program in simple english, it will be discovered that programmers can not speak english'
" 'Eureka' is Greek for 'This bath is too hot'. "
Never argue with an idiot. They'll bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.
It is wiser to find out than to suppose. -- Mark Twain
Stupidity should be painful!
The only one that suffers from your hate is you, the ones you hate don't know it and the others don't care.
Given enough time, and given enough money... Microsoft will eventually invent UNIX.
If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it. -- Edward A. Murphy Jr.
Your ignorance cramps my conversation.
If you understand everything on how to spend money, you should in principle understand also how to earn money, because of conservation laws...
May, in spite of all distractions generated by technology, all of you succeed in turning information into knowledge, knowledge into understanding, and understanding into wisdom. - Edsger W. Dijkstra
To know recursion, you must first know recursion.
There are 10 kind of people, those who understand binary and those who don't.
7/5th of all people do not understand fractions.
"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
I thought I made a mistake once, but I was wrong.
"I wouldn't want to be part of any club that would allow me to be a member." -- Groucho Marx
That's why I always rub bacon on the shrink-wrap and let my dog open it. Then he's bound by the EULA, not me.
And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music. -- Friedrich Nietzsche

Last modified on: Mon 02 January 2006