"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
"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious errors." --Tony Hoare
<strong>"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff." - Mariah Carey
<strong>"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</strong><hr></blockquote>
What he doesn´t realize is that the same engineers creating idiot proof conceps is creating the idiots, not nature.
"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them."
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"There are two ways of constructing a piece of software: One is to make it so simple that there are obviously no errors, and the other is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious errors." --Tony Hoare
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<strong>"Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff." - Mariah Carey
WINNER!</strong><hr></blockquote>
I agree.
<strong>"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</strong><hr></blockquote>
What he doesn´t realize is that the same engineers creating idiot proof conceps is creating the idiots, not nature.
ooh, also: "murder by pirates is good!"-- the princess bride.
so what if they're both movie quotes!
---Office Space
"You had me at beer" (ala Jerry Maguire)
---My friend
"Continue Sucking" (in reference to a rehearsal I was running)
---Me
"I'm here to announce my retirement from the game of basketball"
--Michael Jordan
"I'm here to announce my retirement from the game of basketball"
--Michael Jordan
"We're really good friends with the British, except for that unfortunate incident in 1776"
---Steve Doocey, FoxNews
"Ludicrous Speed...GO!"
--Spaceballs
""I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have."
- Thomas Jefferson
"Do, or do not. There is no 'try'."
- Yoda
"Dentists....tell you to not pick your teeth with any sharp, metal objects. Then, the first thing they grab is a iron hook"
-Bill Cosby
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident."
- Arthur Schopenhauer
"God lets us grow old for a reason...so that we my find fault with everything he created"
--Grandpa Simpson
"Let the Fvcking Begin"
--The Onion T Shirt
"But she is ugly"...."So....that's what paper bags are for".
--another friend
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"they brought their toys!"
player-coach reggie dunlop (paul newman) on the arrival of the hanson brothers
-Anonymous
"thank you, now swallow....."
think my dentist said that to me once....i was confused..."uhhh, don't you mean, 'now spit'"
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I, myself, am anti-dentite.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
-Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
-Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
"The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim." - Edsgar W. Dijkstra
"No matter how hard you try, you cannot cram infinity into 32 bits." - E. Carl Zimmerman
"Sometimes when you look into his eyes you get the feeling that someone else is driving." - David Letterman
"Say something witty and the world will remember you forever" - Anonymous
"The early bird gets the worm, but the second mouse gets the cheese."
"If at first you don't succeed, then skydiving isn't for you."
"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles H Duell, Commissioner, US Office of Patents, 1889.
"So far as I can remember, there is not one word in the Gospels in praise of intelligence." - Bertrand Russell
"To understand recursion, one must first understand recursion."
"2+2=5 for large values of 2"
"A conclusion is where you got tired of thinking."
"A ship in a harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for."
"All that glitters has a high refractive index."
"Asking the right questions is half the problem."
"Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." - Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle
"Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with the software."
"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done." - Scott Adams
"I don't suffer from stress - I'm a carrier."
"I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by." - Douglas Adams
"I'm not tense, just terribly, terribly alert."
"If you are not part of the solution, you are part of the precipitate." (I think this might have been Steven Wright.)
[quote]
The days were hot and cold and the sun did both things.
  ;A man had two names.
&n bsp; When a dog punched through a wall, it was devoured.
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I met him at a party and he
Told me how to drive him home.
He said he liked to do it backwards.
I said that's just fine with me.
That way we can fvck and watch TV.
Liz Phair