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computers

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Sun, 12/14/2008 - 23:10 — thequotedb

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

— Scott Adams

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Mon, 12/15/2008 - 00:57 — thequotedb

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

— Dennie van Tassel

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Mon, 12/15/2008 - 00:57 — thequotedb

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

— Jerry Ogdin

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Mon, 12/15/2008 - 00:57 — thequotedb

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

— John Von Neuman

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Sun, 12/14/2008 - 23:18 — thequotedb

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

— Eric Allman

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Mon, 12/15/2008 - 00:10 — thequotedb

"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."

— FORTRAN manual for Xerox computers

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Sun, 12/14/2008 - 23:44 — thequotedb

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

— Fred Brooks, Jr.

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Mon, 12/15/2008 - 00:04 — thequotedb

"Tomorrow's computers some time next month."

— DEC

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Sun, 12/14/2008 - 23:18 — thequotedb

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

— Anonymous

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

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"Dew knot trussed yore spell chequer two fined awl yore mistakes."

— Baendan Hills
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