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Quotedb: The Quotations Database

computers

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"The Internet is a gateway to get on the net."

— Bob Dole

44

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"There are two major products that come out of Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence."

— Jeremy S. Anderson

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— Seen in a .signature file

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

— Eric Allman

289

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"Endless Loop: n., see Loop,
Endless.Loop, Endless: n., see Endless Loop."

— Definitions, Random Shack Data Processing Dictionary

269

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COBOL:Completely Over and Beyond Reason Or Logic

— Anonymous

546

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"People are very flexible and learn to adjust to strange surroundings -- they can become accustomed to read Lisp and Fortran programs, for example."

— Leon Sterling and Ehud Shapiro

Art of Prolog, MIT Press

482

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"Beware of programmers carrying screwdrivers."

— Chip Salzenberg

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"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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"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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