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computers

8

"If you have any trouble sounding condescending, find a Unix user to show you how it's done."

747

"I've finally learned what "upward compatible" means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes."

469

"A debugged program is one for which you have not yet found the conditions that make it fail."

390

"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin."

40

"Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself -and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

355

"The primary purpose of the DATA statement is to give names to constants; instead of referring to pi as 3.141592653589793 at every appearance, the variable pi can be given that value with a DATA statement and used instead of the longer form of the constant. This also simplifies modifying the program, should the value of pi change."

192

"Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer."

287

"Tomorrow's computers some time next month."

DEC

90

"If you weren't my teacher, I'd think you just deleted all my files."

UCB CS student, to an instructor who had typed "rm -f *" to get rid of a file named "-f" on a Unix system.

656

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