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Comp.sources.games: Volume 4, Issue 16
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XWhat is vice today may be virtue tomorrow.
X%%
XLet me play with it first and I'll tell you what it is later.
X- Miles Davis
X%%
XYou will be successful in your work.
X%%
XIn the beginning i was made. I didn't ask to me made. No one consulted
Xme or considered my feelings in this matter. But if it brought some
Xpassing fancy to some lowly humans as they haphazardly pranced their
Xway through life's mournful jungle then so be it.
X- Marvin the Paranoid Android
X%%
XI just thought of something funny...your mother.
X- Cheech Marin
X%%
XLack of skill dictates economy of style.
X- Joey Ramone
X%%
XLife is wasted on the living.
X- Zaphod Beeblebrox IV
X%%
XYouth is wasted on the young.
X- George Bernard Shaw
X%%
XThe life of a repo man is always intense.
X%%
XYou will soon meet a tall dark handsome stranger.
X%%
X!xob XINEX siht edisni kcuts m'I ,pleH
X%%
XI like the future, I'm in it.
X%%
XIf you don't watch it, you're going to catch something.
X%%
XTo be, or what?
X- Sylvester Stallone
X%%
XGive a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and he'll
Xinvite himself over for dinner.
X%%
XI waited and waited, and when nobody called, I knew it was from you.
X%%
XA stitch in time saves nine.
X%%
XThere's a bug somewhere in your code.
X%%
XEen schip op het strand is een baken in zee.
X[A ship on the beach is a lighthouse to the sea.]
X- Dutch Proverb
X%%
XFaire de la bonne cuisine demande un certain temps. Si on vous fait attendre,
Xc'est pour mieux vous servir, et vous plaire.
X[Good cooking takes time. If you are made to wait, it is to serve you better,
X and to please you.]
XMenu of Restaurant Antoine, New Orleans
X[Also, what we're going to be telling our customers]
X%%
XAdde parvum parvo magnus acervus erit.
X[Add little to little and there will be a big pile.]
X- OVID
X%%
XHe'll sit here and he'll say, "Do this! Do that!" And nothing will happen.
X- Harry S. Truman, on presidential power
X%%
XPractice is the best of all instructors.
X- Publilius
X%%
XExperience is a dear teacher, but fools will learn at no other.
X- Poor Richard's Almanac
X%%
XThe author should gaze at Noah, and ... learn, as they did in the Ark, to crowd
Xa great deal of matter into a very small compass.
X- Sydney, Smith, Edinburgh Review
X%%
XThe hypothesis:
XAmid a wash of paper, a small number of documents become the critical pivots
Xaround which every project's management revolves. These are the manager's
Xchief personal tools.
X- Frederick P. Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month
X%%
XThere is nothing in this world constant but inconstancy.
X- Swift
X%%
XIt is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly
Xand try another. But above all, try something.
X- Franklin D. Roosevelt
X%%
XThings are always at their best in the beginning.
X- Pascal
X%%
XThat is the key to history. Terrific energy is expended -- civilizations are
Xbuilt up -- excellent institutions devised; but each time something goes wrong.
XSome fatal flaw always brings the selfish and cruel people to the top, and then
Xit all slides back into misery and ruin. In fact, the machine conks. It seems
Xto start up all right and runs a few yards, and then it breaks down.
X- C. S. Lewis
X%%
XA good workman is known by his tools.
X%%
XI can call spirts from the vasty deep.
XWhy so can I, or so can any man; but will they come when you do call for them?
X- Shakespeare, king Henry IV, Part I
X%%
XNone love the bearer of bad news.
X- Sophocles
X%%
XHow does a project get to be a year late? ... One day at a time.
X- Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month
X%%
XWhat we do not understand we do not possess.
X- Goethe
X%%
XThe tar pit of software engineering will continue to be sticky for a long time
Xto come. One can expect the human race to continue attempting systems just
Xwithin or just beyond our reach; and software systems are perhaps the most
Xintricate and complex of man's handiworks. The management of this complex
Xcraft will demand our best use of new languages and systems, our best
Xadaptation of proven engineering management methods, liberal doses of common
Xsense, and ... humility to recognize our fallibility and limitations.
X- Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month
X%%
XAll programmers are optimists. Perhaps this modern sorcery especially attracts
Xthose who believe in happy endings and fairy godmothers. Perhaps the hundreds
Xof nitty frustrations drive away all but those who habitually focus on the end
Xgoal. Perhaps it is merely that computers are young, programmers are younger,
Xand the young are always optimists. But however the selection process works,
Xthe result is indisputable: "This time it will surely run," or "I just found
Xthe last bug."
X- Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month
X%%
XThe flow chart is a most thoroughly oversold piece of program documentation.
X- Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month
X%%
XThe first 90% of a project takes 90% of the time. The last 10% of a project
Xtakes 90% of the time.
X%%
XAt first sight, the idea of any rules or principles being superimposed on the
Xcreative mind seems more likely to hinder than to help, but this is quite untrue
Xin practice. disciplined thinking focuses inspiration rather than blinkers it.
X- G. L. Glegg, The Design of Design
X%%
X"GOTO statement considered harmful"
X- E. W. Dijkstra, title to a letter in CACM 11, 3 (March, 1968)
X%%
XThe meek shall inherit the earth. The rest of us will go to the stars.
X%%
XThe emperor has no clothes.
X%%
XHere at Controls, we have one chief for every Indian.
X%%
XThe clothes have no emperor.
X- C. A. Hoare, about Ada.
X%%
XThere will always be survivors.
X- Robert Heinlen
X%%
XThe programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-
Xstuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the
Ximagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and
Xrework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.
X- Frederick Brooks, Jr., The Mythical Man Month
X%%
XMind your own business, Mr. Spock. I'm sick of your halfbreed interference.
X%%
XA Puritan is someone who is deathly afraid that someone somewhere is having fun.
X%%
XA foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds.
X- Samuel Johnson
X%%
XA gift of flower will soon be made to you.
X%%
XA liberal is someone too poor to be a capitalist and too rich to be a communist.
X%%
XA man forgives only when he is in the wrong.
X%%
XA professor is one who talks in someone else's sleep.
X%%
XUniversity: A modern school where football is taught.
X%%
XActors will happen in the best-regulated families.
X%%
XAdmiration: Our polite recognition of another's resemblance to ourselves.
X%%
XWe're fighting for this woman's honor, which is more than she ever did.
X- Rufus T. Firefly, in "Duck Soup"
X%%
XIt's not often that you get so much class entertainment outside your bedroom
Xwindow or outside your bedroom, period.
X- Groucho Marx
X%%
XAll that glitters has a high refractive index.
X%%
XAnybody can win, unless there happens to be a second entry.
X%%
XBeen Transferred Lately?
X%%
XBeware of a tall dark man with a spoon up his nose.
X%%
XBlessed are they that run around in circles, for they shall be known as wheels.
X%%
XAngular momentum makes the world go round.
X%%
XCharity: a thing that begins at home and usually stays there.
X%%
XCrazee Edeee, his prices are INSANE!!!
X%%
XDeath: to stop sinning suddenly.
X%%
XDo not underestimate the power of the Force.
X%%
XDon't eat yellow snow. - Frank Zappa
X%%
XDon't force it, use a bigger hammer.
X%%
XDon't hit the keys so hard, it hurts.
X%%
XDrawing on my fine command of language, I said nothing.
X%%
XEvery absurdity has a champion to defend it.
X%%
XEverything you know is wrong. - The Firesign Theater
X%%
XFailure is more frequently from want of energy than want of capital.
X%%
XFinagle's Law: The perversity of the universe tends toward a maximum.
X%%
XFlee at once, all is discovered.
X%%
XGenius is the talent of a man who is dead.
X%%
XGod must love the common man; He made so many of them.
X%%
XHackers of the world, unite!
X%%
XDyslexics of the world, untie!
X%%
XHe who hesitates is sometimes saved.
X%%
XHis heart was yours from the first moment that you met.
X%%
XI like work; it fascinates me; I can sit and look at it for hours.
X%%
XI think we're all Bozos on this bus.
X%%
XI will never lie to you.
X%%
XI wish you humans would leave me alone.
X%%
XIf God had wanted man to go around nude, He would have given him bigger hands.
X%%
XIf God had wanted man to fly, He would have given him airline tickets.
X%%
XIgnore previous fortune.
X%%
XIt is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them.
X%%
XLaugh, and the world ignores you. Crying doesn't help either.
X%%
XLong life is in store for you.
X%%
XLove and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea.
X%%
XLove is in the offing. Be affectionate to one who adores you.
X%%
XMany are called, few are chosen. Fewer still get to do the choosing.
X%%
XMany are called, few volunteer.
X%%
XMight as well be frank, monsieur. It would take a miracle to get you out of
XCasablanca.
X%%
XNo one can feel as helpless as the owner of a sick goldfish.
X%%
XNow and then an innocent man is sent to the Legislature.
X%%
XParanoia doesn't mean the whole world really isn't out to get you.
X%%
XPhilosophy: unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
X%%
XSomeone is unenthusiastic about your work.
X%%
XStability itself is nothing else than a more sluggish motion.
X%%
XSturgeon's Law: Ninety percent of everything is crud.
X%%
XTake care of the luxuries and the necessities will take care of themselves.
X%%
XThe Ranger isn't gonna like it, Yogi.
X%%
XThe Tree of Learning bears the noblest fruit, but noble fruit tastes bad.
X%%
XThe decision doesn't have to be logical, it is unanimous.
X%%
XThe time is right to make new friends.
X%%
XThe universe is laughing behind your back.
X%%
XThere is no such thing as pure pleasure; some anxiety always goes with it.
X%%
XTime is nature's way of making sure that everything doesn't happen at once.
X%%
XTo think is human, to compute, divine.
X%%
XToday is the last day of your life so far.
X%%
XTry the Moo Shu Pork. It is especially good today.
X%%
XWhat is worth doing is worth the trouble of asking somebody to do it.
X%%
XWhat this country needs is a good five cent microcomputer.
X%%
XWords must be weighed, not counted.
X%%
XYou are going to have a new love affair.
X%%
XYou have a tendency to feel you are superior to most computers.
X%%
XYou have been selected for a secret mission.
X%%
XYou will be recognized and honored as a community leader.
X%%
XYou will be surprised by a loud noise.
X%%
XYou will feel hungry again in another hour.
X%%
XYou'll be called to a post requiring ability in handling groups of people.
X%%
XYour boss is thinking about you.
X%%
XIf something's not worth doing, it's not worth doing well.
X%%
XWhen everything has been seen to work, all integrated, you have four more months
Xof work to do.
X- C. Portman of ICL Ltd.
X%%
XWe stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter
Xhopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the
Xwisdom to make the right choice.
X- Woody Allen
X%%
XSome people hope to achieve immortality through their works or their children.
XI would prefer to achieve it by not dying.
X- Woody Allen
X%%
XNothing is done until nothing is done.
X%%
XThe fourth law of thermodynamics:
XThe perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum.
X%%
XThere are no saints, only unrecognized villains.
X%%
XThere are no bugs, only unrecognized features.
X%%
XIt may soon be time for you to look for a new line of work.
X%%
XYour project will be late.
X%%
XThe CS Sage says: Seek new employment prior to the imposition of performance
Xpenalties on your project.
X%%
XYou will see the light at the end of the tunnel; unfortunately, it will be
Xthe light of an oncoming freight train.
X%%
XWhat is virtue today may be vice tomorrow.
X%%
X"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the contry demands bold,
Xpersistent experimentation."
X- Franklin Delano Roosevelt
X%%
XMoney talks...but all mine keeps saying is "goodbye"
X%%
X"No, it's 'Blessed are the meek.' I think that's nice, 'cause really they have
Xa hell of a time." - someone in the crowd in "The Life of Brian"
X%%
X"I think he said 'Blessed are the cheesemakers.'" "Nonsense, he was obviously
Xreferring to all manafacturers of dairy products."
X- two people in the crowd in "The Life of Brian"
X%%
XHow do you make a small fortune in Texas oil?
X
XStart with a big one.
X%%
XWhat can a pigeon do that a west Texas oil man can't do anymore?
XA pigeon can still make a deposit on a new Mercedes.
X%%
XHow many lesbians does it take to change a light bulb?
XTwo. One to change the bulb and another to reflect on how much more gratifying
Xit was than a man.
X%%
XHow many WASPs does it take to change a light bulb?
XTwo. One to change the bulb and one to mix the drinks.
X%%
XHow many psychiatrists does it take to change a light bulb?
XOnly one, but it takes a really long time and the light bulb has to want
Xto change.
X%%
XHow many Californians does it take to change a light bulb?
XFour. One to change the bulb and three to share the experience.
X%%
XHow many programmers does it take to change a light bulb?
XNone. It's a hardware problem.
X%%
XTo program anything that is programmable is obsession.
X%%
XIll play with it first and tell you what it is later.
X- Miles Davis
X%%
XI was in this prematurely air conditioned supermarket and there were all
Xthese aisles and there were these bathing caps you could buy that had these
Xkind of Fourth of July plumes on them that were red and yellow and blue and
XI wasn't tempted to buy one but I was reminded of the fact that I had been
Xavoiding the beach.
X- Lucinda Childs (Philip Glass: Einstein On The Beach)
X%%
XNothing is true. Everything is permitted.
X- Hassan I Sabbah
X
XBullshit.
X- Karl
X%%
XDon't let your mouth write no check that your tail can't cash.
X- Bo Diddley
X%%
XThe opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a
Xprofound truth may well be another profound truth.
X- Niels Bohr
X%%
XJust because everything is different doesn't mean anything has changed.
X- Southern California Oracle
X%%
XThe most merciful thing in the world ... is the inability of the human mind to
Xcorrelate all its contents.
X- H. P. Lovecraft
X%%
XTake what you can use and let the rest go by.
X- Ken Kesey
X%%
XIts not the size of the ship, its the size of the waves.
X- Little Richard
X%%
XI never loved another person the way I loved myself.
X- Mae West
X%%
XSometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
X- Sigmund Freud
X%%
XWhen choosing between two evils I always like to take the one I've never tried
Xbefore.
X- Mae West
X%%
XHer life was saved by rock and roll.
X- Lou Reed
X%%
XI regret to say that we of the FBI are powerless to act in cases of oral-genital
Xintimacy, unless it has in some way obstructed interstate commerce.
X- J. Edgar Hoover
X%%
X"Honest Officer, had I known my health stood in jeprody I would never had lit
Xone." - Maxim of the Hells Angels
X%%
XIt is a rather pleasent experience to be alone in a bank at night.
X- Willie Sutton
X%%
XNever invest your money in anything that eats or needs painting.
X- Billy Rose
X%%
XThe rich will do anything for the poor but get off their backs.
X- Karl Marx
X
XIf Karl, instead of writing a lot about capital, had made a lot of
Xit ... it would have been much better.
X- Karl Marx's Mother
X
X(Sysop's note: I think this is a joke. Can anyone verify it?)
X%%
XIf you think the United States has stood still, who built the
Xlargest shopping center in the world?
X- Richard M. Nixon
X%%
XWhen I sell liquor, its called bootlegging; when my patrons serve
Xit on Lake Shore Drive, its called hospitality.
X- Al Capone
X%%
XAnything anybody can say about America is true.
X- Emmett Grogan
X%%
XTip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
X- Frank Lloyd Wright
X%%
XIf you've seen one city slum, you've seen them all.
X- Spiro Agnew
X%%
XIf you've seen one redwood, you've seen them all.
X- Ronald Reagan
X%%
XIf you've seen one Grand Canyon, you've seen them all.
X- a member of the Monkey Wrench Gang
X%%
XHe who shits on the road will meet flies on his return.
X- South African Saying
X%%
XYou can't underestimate the power of fear.
X- Tricia Nixon
X%%
XThe whole earth is in jail and we're plotting this incredible jailbreak.
X- Wavy Gravy
X%%
XThe end move in politics is always to pick up a gun.
X- Buckminster Fuller
X%%
XThings are more like they are now than they ever were before.
XDwight D. Eisenhower
X%%
XCollege isn't the place to go for ideas.
X- Hellen Keller
X%%
XPoliticians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.
X- Arthur C. Clarke
X%%
XAmerica, how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood?
X- Allen Ginsberg
X%%
XIt is necessary for me to establish a winner image. Therefore, I have to beat
Xsomebody.
X- Richard M. Nixon
X%%
XAny smoothly functioning technology will have the appearence of magic.
X- Arthur C. Clarke
X%%
XJustice is incedental to law and order.
X- J. Edgar Hoover
X%%
XMilitary intelligence is a contradiction in terms.
X- Groucho Marx
X%%
XThe first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
X- Abbie Hoffman
X%%
XStay out of the road, if you want to grow old.
X- Pink Floyd
X%%
XHere I am, fifty-eight, and I still don't know what I want to be when I grow up.
X- Peter Drucker
X%%
XHow can you be two places at once when youre not anywhere at all?
X- Firesign Theater
X%%
XI think that God in creating man somewhat overestimated his ability.
X- Oscar Wilde
X%%
XWe are what we pretend to be.
X- Kurt Vonnegut, JR
X%%
XWe are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
X- Oscar Wilde
X%%
XThe race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong -
Xbut thats the way to bet.
X- Damon Runyon
X%%
XI could prove God statistically.
X- George Gallup
X%%
XMy religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior
Xspirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive
Xwith our frail and feeble mind.
X- Albert Einstein
X%%
XReal wealth can only increase.
X- R. Buckminster Fuller
X%%
XAnyone can hate. it costs to love.
X- John Williamson
X%%
XIn the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true
Xor becomes true.
X- John Lilly
X%%
XTime is an illusion perpetrated by the manufacturers of space.
X- Graffiti
X%%
XThe most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
X- Albert Einstein
X%%
XNobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
X- Tallulah Bankhead
X%%
XA physicist is an atoms way of knowing about atoms.
X- George Wald
X%%
XDont lose
XYour head
XTo gain a minute
XYou need your head
XYour brains are in it.
X- Burma Shave
X%%
XIt was always thus; and even if 'twere not, 'twould inevitably have been
Xalways thus.
X- Dean Lattimer
X%%
XBurnt Sienna. Thats the best thing that ever happened to Crayolas.
X- Ken Weaver
X%%
XWe don't know who discovered water, but we are certain it wasn't a fish.
X- John Culkin
X%%
XTry to be the best of what you are, even if what you are is no good.
X- Ashleigh Brilliant
X%%
XI waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from
Xyou.
X- Ashleigh Brilliant
X%%
XPlease don't lie to me, unless youre absolutely sure Ill never find out the
Xtruth.
X- Ashleigh Brilliant
X%%
XPlease don't ask me what the score is, Im not even sure what the game is.
X- Ashleigh Brilliant
X%%
XI either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
X- Ashleigh Brilliant
X%%
XIf you can't learn to do it well, learn to enjoy doing it badly.
X- Ashleigh Brilliant
X%%
XI don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.
X- Ashleigh Brilliant
X%%
XMaybe Im lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the
Xwrong direction.
X- Ashleigh Brilliant
X%%
XBy doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely
Xoverwhelm me.
X- Ashleigh Brilliant
X%%
XTo be sure of hitting the target, shoot first, and call whatever you hit the
Xtarget.
X- Ashleigh Brilliant
X%%
XAmerica is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without
Xcivilization in between.
X- Oscar Wilde
X%%
XThe flush toilet is the basis of Western civilization.
X- Alan Coult
X%%
XIf the aborigine drafted an IQ test, all of Western civilization would
Xpresumably flunk it.
X- Stanley Garn
X%%
XThe world looks as if it has been left in the custody of trolls.
X- Father Robert F. Capon
X%%
XSure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest
Xmen in national government too.
X- Richard M. Nixon
X%%
XWe are going to have peace even if we have to fight for it.
X- Dwight D. Eisenhower
X%%
XIf we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution
Xinevitiable.
X- John F. Kennedy
X%%
X"Contrariwise", continued Tweedledee, "If it was so, it might be; and if
Xit were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. Thats logic."
X- Lewis Carroll
X%%
XIt takes a long time to understand nothing.
X- Edward Dahlberg
X%%
XTo know the world one must construct it.
X- Cesare Pavese
X%%
XEeny Meeny, Jelly Beanie, the spirits are about to speak.
X- Bullwinkle Moose
X%%
XThe mistake you make is in trying to figure it out.
X- Tenessee Williams
X%%
XAn object never serves the same function as its image- or its name.
X- Rene Magritte
X%%
XAll I kin say is when you finds yo'self wanderin' in a peach orchard,
Xya don't go lookin' for rutabagas.
X- Kingfish
X%%
XHe who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder.
X- M. C. Escher
X%%
XLaw of Computability Applied to Social Sciences:
X If at first you don't suceed, transform your data set.
X%%
XLaws of Computer Programming
X(1) Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
X(2) Any given program costs more and takes longer.
X(3) If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
X(4) If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
X(5) Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
X(6) The value of a program is porportional to the
X weight of its output.
X(7) Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the
X programmer who must maintain it.
X(8) Make it possible for programmers to write programs in
X English, and you will find that programmers cannot write
X in English.
X- SIGPLAN Notices, Vol 2 No 2
X%%
XWhen more and more people are thrown out of work, unemployment results.
X- Calvin Coolidge
X%%
XThe first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.
X- Paul Erlich
X%%
XIf A equals success, then the formula is:
X A= X + Y + Z
XX is work. Y is play. Z is keep your mouth shut.
X- Albert Einstein
X%%
XSex is hereditary. If your parents never had it, chances are you wont either.
X- Joseph Fischer
X%%
XFourth Law of Thermodymanics:
X If the probability of success is not almost one, then it is damn near zero.
X- David Ellis
X%%
XFrouds Law:
X A transistor protected by a fast acting fuse will protect the fuse by blowing
X first.
X%%
XFullers Law of Cosmic Irreversibility:
X 1 Pot T == 1 Pot P
X 1 Pot P != 1 Pot T
X- R. Buckminster Fuller
X%%
XThe meek shall inherit the earth, but not its mineral rights.
X- J. Paul Getty
X%%
XGive a small boy a hammer and he will find that everything he encounters needs
Xpounding.
X- Abraham Kaplan
X%%
XThe fault lies not with our technologies but with our systems.
X- Roger Levian
X%%
XUnder any conditions, anywhere, whatever you are doing, there is some ordinance
Xunder which you can be booked.
X- Robert D. Sprecht (Rand Corp)
X%%
XThoreau's Law:
X If you see a man approaching you with the obvious intent of doing you good,
X you should run for your life.
X%%
XVique's Law:
X A man without religion is like a fish without a bicycle.
X%%
XIf builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs,
Xthen the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
X- Gerald Weinberg (sysop's note: bull)
X%%
XZimmerman's Law of Complaints:
XNobody notices when things go right.
X%%
XReal knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance.
X- Confucius
X%%
XWhoso diggeth a pit shall fall therein.
XBook of Proverbs
X%%
XIt usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech.
X- Mark Twain
X%%
XThe unnatural, that too is natural.
X- Goethe
X%%
XI used to be indecisive; now Im not sure.
X- Graffiti
X%%
XI had a monumental idea this morning, but I didn't like it.
X- Samuel Goldwyn
X%%
XHe hasn't one redeeming vice.
X- Oscar Wilde
X%%
XI'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous.
X- Graffiti
X%%
X(To Walter Cronkite):
X"Well Walter, I believe that the Good Lord gave us a finite number
Xof heartbeats and I'm damned if I'm going to use up mine running
Xup and down a street"
X- Neil Armstrong
X%%
X"You doubted Me," God tells the Lawgiver [Moses], "But I forgave
Xyou that doubt. You doubted your own self and failed to believe
Xin your own powers as a leader, and I forgave you that also. But
Xyou lost faith in these people and doubted the divine possibilities
Xof Human Nature. THIS loss of faith makes it impossible for
Xyou to enter the Promised Land."
X- The Midrash
X%%
X" 'Martyrdom' is the only way a person can become famous without ability"
X- George Bernard Shaw
X%%
X"Science has proof without any certainty. Creationists have certainty
Xwithout any proof"
X- Ashley Montague
X%%
XBirth, copulation and death.
XThat's all the facts when you come to brass tacks;
XBirth, copulation and death.
X- T. S. Elliot, Sweeney Agonistes (1932)
X%%
X"Make no little plans. They have no Magic to stir Men's blood."
X- D. B. Hudson
X%%
X"Software suppliers are trying to make their software packages more
X'user-friendly'.... Their best approach, so far, has been to take
Xall the old brochures, and stamp the words, 'user-friendly' on the cover."
X- Bill Gates, Pres., Microsoft, Inc.
X%%
XBradley's Bromide:
XIf computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee...
X that will do them in.
X%%
XCivilization Law #1:
XCivilization advances by extending the number of important operations
Xone can do without thinking about them.
X%%
XKetterling's Law:
XLogic is an organized way of going wrong with confidence.
X%%
X"Whenever 'A' attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon 'B',
X'A' is most likely a scoundrel"
X- H. L. Mencken
X%%
X"The government of the United States is not in any sense founded
Xon the Christian Religion"
X- George Washington
X%%
X"In every country and every age, the priest has been hostile to Liberty."
X - Thomas Jefferson
X%%
X"During almost fifteen centuries the legal establishment of Christianity has
Xbeen upon trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride
Xand indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity,; in both,
Xsuperstition, bigotry, and persecution."
X - James Madison
X%%
X"Money, not morality, is the principle commerce of civilized nations"
X - Thomas Jefferson
X%%
X"We must all hang together, or we will surely all hang separately"
X - Benjamin Franklin
X%%
X"Where a new invention promises to be useful, it ought to be tried"
X- Thomas Jefferson
X%%
X"Assuming that either the left wing or the right wing gained
Xcontrol of the country, it would probably fly around in circles"
X- Pat Paulsen
X%%
X"An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself"
X- Albert Camus
X%%
X"Six years for possession of a cigarette?...I got six months for possession
Xof a deadly weapon!"
X- cartoon by S. Harris
X%%
XThe Swartzberg Test:
X The validity of a science is its ability to predict.
X%%
X"There is no choice before us. Either we must Succeed in providing
Xthe rational coordination of impulses and guts, or for centuries
Xcivilization will sink into a mere welter of minor excitements.
XWe must provide a Great Age or see the collapse of the upward
Xstriving of the human race"
X- Alfred North Whitehead
X%%
X"My own life has been spent chronicling the rise and fall of
Xhuman systems, and I am convinced that we are terribly
Xvulnerable.... We should be reluctant to turn back upon the
Xfrontier of this epoch. Space is indifferent to what we
Xdo; it has no feeling, no design, no interest in whether
Xor not we grapple with it. But we cannot be indifferent to
Xspace, because the grand, slow march of intelligence has brought
Xus, in our generation, to a point from which we can explore and
Xunderstand and utilize it. To turn back now would be to deny
Xour history, our capabilities."
X- James A. Michener
X%%
X"What does it take for Americans to do great things; to go
Xto the moon, to win wars, to dig canals linking oceans, to
Xbuild railroads across a continent? In independent thought
Xabout this question, Neil Armstrong and I concluded that it
Xtakes a coincidence of four conditions, or in Neil's view,
Xthe simultaneous peaking of four of the many cycles of American
Xlife. First, a base of technology must exist from which to do
Xthe thing to be done. Second, a period of national uneasiness
Xabout America's place in the scheme of human activities must
Xexist. Third, some catalytic event must occur that focuses
Xthe national attention upon the direction to proceed. Finally,
Xan articulate and wise leader must sense these first three
Xconditions and put forth with words and action the great thing
Xto be accomplished. The motivation of young Americans to do what
Xneeds to be done flows from such a coincidence of conditions....
XThe Thomas Jeffersons, The Teddy Roosevelts, The John Kennedys
Xappear. We must begin to create the tools of leadership which
Xthey, and thier young frontiersmen, will require to lead us
Xonward and upward."
X- Dr. Harrison H. Schmidt, Sen., New Mexico
X%%
X"What do you call a boomerang that doesn't work? A stick!"
X - Bill Kirchenbaum, comedian -
X%%
X"To err is human, to compute divine. Trust your computer but not its programmer"
X- Morris Kingston
X%%
X"I've seen many politicians paralyzed in the legs as myself, but I've seen more
Xof them who were paralyzed in the head"
X- George Wallace
X%%
X"You don't have to explain something you never said"
X- Calvin Coolidge
X%%
X"A little caution outflanks a large cavalry"
X- Bismarck
X%%
X"A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money"
X- Everett Dirksen
X%%
X"The personal computer market is about the same size as the
Xtotal potato chip market. Next year it will be about half the
Xsize of the pet food market and is fast approaching the total
Xworldwide sales of pantyhose"
X - James Finke, Pres., Commodore Int'l Ltd.(1982)
X%%
X"I like a man who grins when he fights."
X- Winston Churchill
X%%
X"There are a lot of lies going around.... and half of them are true."
X- Winston Churchill
X%%
X"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick
Xhimself up and carry on..."
X- Winston Churchill
X%%
X"God runs electromagnetics by wave theory on Monday, Wednesday,
Xand Friday, and the Devil runs them by quantum theory on Tuesday,
XThursday, and Saturday."
X- William Bragg
X%%
X"Pioneering basically amounts to finding new and more horrible ways to die"
X- John W. Campbell
X%%
X"That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest"
X- Thoreau (Sysop's note: and if so, what are we doing here?)
X%%
XLife is not one thing after another.... it's the same damn thing over and over!
X%%
XThe meek will inherit the Earth..... The rest of us will go to the stars.
X%%
XAfter all is said and done, a lot more has been said than done.
X%%
XBeauty is only skin deep, but Ugly goes straight to the bone.
X%%
XThere is no remedy for sex but more sex.
X%%
XAny given program, when running correctly, is obsolete.
X%%
XTell a man that there are 300 billion stars in the universe, and he'll believe
Xyou.... Tell him that a bench has wet paint upon it and he'll have to touch it
Xto be sure.
X%%
XSex is like snow... You never know how many inches you're going to get or how
Xlong it will last.
X%%
XWhat matters is not the length of the wand, but the magic in the stick.
X%%
XLove is a matter of chemistry, but Sex is a matter of physics.
X%%
X"Discovery consists in seeing what everyone else has seen and thinking what no
Xone else has thought."
X- Albert Szent-Gyorgi
X%%
X"Revolution is the opiate of the intellectuals"
X- "Oh, Lucky Man"
X%%
XI really hate this damn machine,
XI wish that they would sell it.
XIt never does just what I want,
XBut only what I tell it.
X%%
X"Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters;
Xunited with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels"
X- Goya
X%%
X"Some people like my advice so much that they frame it upon
Xthe wall instead of using it"
X- Gordon R. Dickson
X%%
X"Civilization is a movement, not a condition; it is a voyage, not a harbor."
X- Toynbee
X%%
X"We have met the enemy and he is us"
X- Walt Kelly (in POGO)
X%%
X"You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are
Xnow extinct."
X- M. Somerset Maugham
X%%
X"If it ain't broke, don't fix it."
X- Bert Lantz
X%%
X"The one charm of marriage is that it makes a life of deception a neccessity."
X- Oscar Wilde
X%%
X"God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh."
X- Voltaire
X%%
X"IBM uses what I like to call the 'hole-in-the-ground technique'
Xto destroy the competition..... IBM digs a big HOLE in the
Xground and covers it with leaves. It then puts a big POT
XOF GOLD nearby. Then it gives the call, 'Hey, look at all
Xthis gold, get over here fast.' As soon as the competitor
Xapproaches the pot, he falls into the pit"
X- John C. Dvorak
X%%
X"There are things that are so serious that you can only joke about them"
X- Heisenberg
X%%
X"It takes all sorts of in & out-door schooling to get adapted
Xto my kind of fooling"
X- R. Frost
X%%
X"Confound these ancestors.... They've stolen our best ideas!"
X- Ben Jonson
X%%
XAnd thou shalt eat it as barley cakes, and thou shalt bake it with dung that
Xcometh out of man, in their sight...Then he [the Lord!] said unto me, Lo, I
Xhave given thee cow's dung for man's dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread
Xtherewith.
X[Ezek. 4:12-15 (KJV)]
X%%
XI have stripped off my dress; must I put it on again? I have washed my feet;
Xmust I soil them again?
XWhen my beloved slipped his hand through the latch-hole, my bowels stirred
Xwithin me [my bowels were moved for him (KJV)].
XWhen I arose to open for my beloved, my hands dripped with myrrh; the liquid
Xmyrrh from my fingers ran over the knobs of the bolt. With my own hands I
Xopened to my love, but my love had turned away and gone by; my heart sank when
Xhe turned his back. I sought him but I did not find him, I called him but he
Xdid not answer.
XThe watchmen, going the rounds of the city, met me; they struck me and
X wounded me; the watchmen on the walls took away my cloak.
X[Song of Solomon 5:3-7 (NEB)]
X%%
XHow beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince's daughter! the joints of thy
Xthighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman. Thy navel
Xis like a round goblet, which wanteth not liquor: thy belly is like an heap
Xof wheat set about with lillies.
XThy two breasts are like two young roses that are twins.
X[Song of Solomon 7:1-3 (KJV)]
X%%
XHow beautiful, how entrancing you are, my loved one, daughter of delights!
XYou are stately as a palm-tree, and your breasts are the clusters of dates.
XI said, "I will climb up into the palm to grasp its fronds." May I find your
Xbreast like clusters of grapes on the vine, the scent of your breath like
Xapricots, and your whispers like spiced wine flowing smoothly to welcome my
Xcaresses, gliding down through lips and teeth.
X[Song of Solomon 7:6-9 (NEB)]
X%%
XWear me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong
Xas death, passion cruel as the grave; it blazes up like blazing fire, fiercer
Xthan any flame.
X[Song of Solomon 8:6 (NEB)]
X%%
XBut Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to
Xthee, to speak these words? Hath he not sent me to the men which sit on the
Xwall, that they may eat their own dung, and drink their own piss with you?
X[2 Kings 18:27 (KJV)]
X%%
XWhen Yahweh your gods has settled you in the land you're about to occupy, and
Xdriven out many infidels before you...you're to cut them down and exterminate
Xthem. You're to make no compromise with them or show them any mercy.
X[Deut. 7:1 (KJV)]
X%%
XI just thought of something funny...your mother.
X- Cheech Marin
X%%
XIn the beginning, I was made. I didn't ask to be made. No one consulted
Xwith me or considered my feelings in this matter. But if it brought some
Xpassing fancy to some lowly humans as they haphazardly pranced their way
Xthrough life's mournful jungle, then so be it.
X- Marvin the Paranoid Android, From Douglas Adams' Hitchiker's Guide to the
XGalaxy Radio Scripts
X%%
XYou will be successful in your work.
X%%
XThe life of a repo man is always intense.
X%%
XIf you're not careful, you're going to catch something.
X%%
XThat's the thing about people who think they hate computers. What they
Xreally hate is lousy programmers.
X- Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle in "Oath of Fealty"
X%%
XWherever you go...There you are.
X- Buckaroo Banzai
X%%
XLife in the state of nature is solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.
X- Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
X%%
XLack of skill dictates economy of style.
X- Joey Ramone
X%%
XNo one is fit to be trusted with power. ... No one. ... Any man who has lived
Xat all knows the follies and wickedness he's capabe of. ... And if he does
Xknow it, he knows also that neither he nor any man ought to be allowed to
Xdecide a single human fate.
X- C. P. Snow, The Light and the Dark
X%%
XSuccessful and fortunate crime is called virtue.
X- Seneca
X%%
XWhen we jumped into Sicily, the units became separated, and I couldn't find
Xanyone. Eventually I stumbled across two colonels, a major, three captains,
Xtwo lieutenants, and one rifleman, and we secured the bridge. Never in the
Xhistory of war have so few been led by so many.
X- General James Gavin
X%%
XThe only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
X- Edmund Burke
X%%
XYou may call me by my name, Wirth, or by my value, Worth.
X- Nicklaus Wirth
X%%
XGive a man a fish, and you feed him for a day.
XTeach a man to fish, and he'll invite himself over for dinner.
X- Calvin Keegan
X%%
XPrediction is very difficult, especially of the future.
X- Niels Bohr
X%%
XThe computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact
Xmathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.
X- Frank Zappa
X%%
XThings are not as simple as they seems at first.
X- Edward Thorp
X%%
XThe main thing is the play itself. I swear that greed for money has nothing
Xto do with it, although heaven knows I am sorely in need of money.
X- Feodor Dostoyevsky
X%%
XIt is surely a great calamity for a human being to have no obsessions.
X- Robert Bly
X%%
XMachines take me by surprise with great frequency.
X- Alan Turing
X%%
XUncertain fortune is thoroughly mastered by the equity of the calculation.
X- Blaise Pascal
X%%
XAfter Goliath's defeat, giants ceased to command respect.
X- Freeman Dyson
X%%
XThere are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make
Xit so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other is to
Xmake it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
X- Charles Anthony Richard Hoare
X%%
XDo not allow this language (Ada) in its present state to be used in
Xapplications where reliability is critical, i.e., nuclear power stations,
Xcruise missiles, early warning systems, anti-ballistic missle defense
Xsystems. The next rocket to go astray as a result of a programming language
Xerror may not be an exploratory space rocket on a harmless trip to Venus:
XIt may be a nuclear warhead exploding over one of our cities. An unreliable
Xprogramming language generating unreliable programs constitutes a far
Xgreater risk to our environment and to our society than unsafe cars, toxic
Xpesticides, or accidents at nuclear power stations.
X- C. A. R. Hoare
X%%
XWithout coffee he could not work, or at least he could not have worked in the
Xway he did. In addition to paper and pens, he took with him everywhere as an
Xindispensable article of equipment the coffee machine, which was no less
Ximportant to him than his table or his white robe.
X- Stefan Zweigs, Biography of Balzac
X%%
X"It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline.
XBeyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top."
X- Hunter S. Thompson
X%%
XIn the pitiful, multipage, connection-boxed form to which the flowchart has
Xtoday been elaborated, it has proved to be useless as a design tool --
Xprogrammers draw flowcharts after, not before, writing the programs they
Xdescribe.
X- Fred Brooks, Jr.
X%%
XThe so-called "desktop metaphor" of today's workstations is instead an
X"airplane-seat" metaphor. Anyone who has shuffled a lap full of papers while
Xseated between two portly passengers will recognize the difference -- one can
Xsee only a very few things at once.
X- Fred Brooks, Jr.
X%%
X...when fits of creativity run strong, more than one programmer or writer has
Xbeen known to abandon the desktop for the more spacious floor.
X- Fred Brooks, Jr.
X%%
XA little retrospection shows that although many fine, useful software systems
Xhave been designed by committees and built as part of multipart projects,
Xthose software systems that have excited passionate fans are those that are
Xthe products of one or a few designing minds, great designers. Consider Unix,
XAPL, Pascal, Modula, the Smalltalk interface, even Fortran; and contrast them
Xwith Cobol, PL/I, Algol, MVS/370, and MS-DOS.
X- Fred Brooks, Jr.
X%%
X...computer hardware progress is so fast. No other technology since
Xcivilization began has seen six orders of magnitude in performance-price
Xgain in 30 years.
X- Fred Brooks, Jr.
X%%
XSoftware entities are more complex for their size than perhaps any other human
Xconstruct because no two parts are alike. If they are, we make the two
Xsimilar parts into a subroutine -- open or closed. In this respect, software
Xsystems differ profoundly from computers, buildings, or automobiles, where
Xrepeated elements abound.
X- Fred Brooks, Jr.
X%%
XDigital computers are themselves more complex than most things people build:
XThey hyave very large numbers of states. This makes conceiving, describing,
Xand testing them hard. Software systems have orders-of-magnitude more states
Xthan computers do.
X- Fred Brooks, Jr.
X%%
XThe complexity of software is an essential property, not an accidental one.
XHence, descriptions of a software entity that abstract away its complexity
Xoften abstract away its essence.
X- Fred Brooks, Jr.
X%%
XEinstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because
XGod is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software
Xengineer.
X- Fred Brooks, Jr.
X%%
XExcept for 75% of the women, everyone in the whole world wants to have sex.
X- Ellyn Mustard
X%%
XThe connection between the language in which we think/program and the problems
Xand solutions we can imagine is very close. For this reason restricting
Xlanguage features with the intent of eliminating programmer errors is at best
Xdangerous.
X- Bjarne Stroustrup in "The C++ Programming Language"
X%%
XThe only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it.
X- Brian Kernighan
X%%
XPerfection is acheived only on the point of collapse.
X- C. N. Parkinson
X%%
XThere you go man,
XKeep as cool as you can.
XIt riles them to believe that you perceive the web they weave.
XKeep on being free!
X%%
XBingo, gas station, hamburger with a side order of airplane noise,
Xand you'll be Gary, Indiana. - Jessie in the movie "Greaser's Palace"
X%%
XHoping to goodness is not theologically sound. - Peanuts
X%%
XPolice up your spare rounds and frags. Don't leave nothin' for the dinks.
X- Willem Dafoe in "Platoon"
X%%
X"All my life I wanted to be someone; I guess I should have been more specific."
X-- Jane Wagner
X%%
X"Any medium powerful enough to extend man's reach is powerful enough to topple
Xhis world. To get the medium's magic to work for one's aims rather than
Xagainst them is to attain literacy."
X-- Alan Kay, "Computer Software", Scientific American, September 1984
X%%
X"Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to
Xmake the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.
XAs in all the arts, a romance with the material must be well under way. If
Xwe value the lifelong learning of arts and letters as a springboard for
Xpersonal and societal growth, should any less effort be spent to make computing
Xa part of our lives?"
X-- Alan Kay, "Computer Software", Scientific American, September 1984
X%%
X"The greatest warriors are the ones who fight for peace."
X-- Holly Near
X%%
X"No matter where you go, there you are..."
X-- Buckaroo Banzai
X%%
XTrespassers will be shot. Survivors will be prosecuted.
X%%
XTrespassers will be shot. Survivors will be SHOT AGAIN!
X%%
X"I'm growing older, but not up."
X-- Jimmy Buffett
X%%
XScientists will study your brain to learn more about your distant cousin, Man.
X%%
X"I hate the itching. But I don't mind the swelling."
X-- new buzz phrase, like "Where's the Beef?" that David Letterman's trying
X to get everyone to start saying
X%%
XYour own mileage may vary.
X%%
X"Oh dear, I think you'll find reality's on the blink again."
X-- Marvin The Paranoid Android
X%%
X"Send lawyers, guns and money..."
X-- Lyrics from a Warren Zevon song
X%%
X"I go on working for the same reason a hen goes on laying eggs."
X- H. L. Mencken
X%%
X"Remember, Information is not knowledge; Knowledge is not Wisdom;
XWisdom is not truth; Truth is not beauty; Beauty is not love;
XLove is not music; Music is the best." -- Frank Zappa
X%%
XI can't drive 55.
X%%
X"And they told us, what they wanted...
X Was a sound that could kill some-one, from a distance." -- Kate Bush
X%%
X"In the face of entropy and nothingness, you kind of have to pretend it's not
Xthere if you want to keep writing good code." - Karl
X%%
XBadges? We don't need no stinking badges.
X%%
XI can't drive 55.
XI'm looking forward to not being able to drive 65, either.
X%%
XThank God a million billion times you live in Texas. -Karl
X%%
XSit on a happy face.
X%%
X"Can you program?" "Well, I'm literate, if that's what you mean!"
X%%
XNo user-servicable parts inside. Refer to qualified service personnel.
X%%
XAt the heart of science is an essential tension between two seemingly
Xcontradictory attitudes -- an openness to new ideas, no matter how bizarre
Xor counterintuitive they may be, and the most ruthless skeptical scrutiny
Xof all ideas, old and new. This is how deep truths are winnowed from deep
Xnonsense. Of course, scientists make mistakes in trying to understand the
Xworld, but there is a built-in error-correcting mechanism: The collective
Xenterprise of creative thinking and skeptical thinking together keeps the
Xfield on track.
X-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987
X%%
XOne of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we've been bamboozled
Xlong enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We're no
Xlonger interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured
Xus. it is simply too painful to acknowledge -- even to ourselves -- that
Xwe've been so credulous. (So the old bamboozles tend to persist as the
Xnew bamboozles rise.)
X-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987
X%%
XRegarding astral projection, Woody Allen once wrote, "This is not a bad way
Xto travel, although there is usually a half-hour wait for luggage."
X%%
XThe inability to benefit from feedback appears to be the primary cause of
Xpseudoscience. Pseudoscientists retain their beliefs and ignore or distort
Xcontradictory evidence rather than modify or reject a flawed theory. Because
Xof their strong biases, they seem to lack the self-correcting mechanisms
Xscientists must employ in their work.
X-- Thomas L. Creed, "The Skeptical Inquirer," Summer 1987
X%%
XFinding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and
Xbamboozle requires intelligence, vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we
Xdon't practice these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly
Xserious problems that face us -- and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, up
Xfor grabs by the next charlatan who comes along.
X-- Carl Sagan, "The Fine Art of Baloney Detection," Parade, February 1, 1987
X%%
XDo not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging.
X%%
XDo not underestimate the value of print statements for debugging.
XDon't have aesthetic convulsions when using them, either.
X%%
XAs the system comes up, the component builders will from time to time appear,
Xbearing hot new versions of their pieces -- faster, smaller, more complete,
Xor putatively less buggy. The replacement of a working component by a new
Xversion requires the same systematic testing procedure that adding a new
Xcomponent does, although it should require less time, for more complete and
Xefficient test cases will usually be available.
X- Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month"
X%%
XEach team building another component has been using the most recent tested
Xversion of the integrated system as a test bed for debugging its piece. Their
Xwork will be set back by having that test bed change under them. Of course it
Xmust. But the changes need to be quantized. Then each user has periods of
Xproductive stability, interrupted by bursts of test-bed change. This seems
Xto be much less disruptive than a constant rippling and trembling.
X- Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month"
X%%
XConceptual integrity in turn dictates that the design must proceed from one
Xmind, or from a very small number of agreeing resonant minds.
X- Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month"
X%%
XIt is a very humbling experience to make a multimillion-dollar mistake, but it
Xis also very memorable. I vividly recall the night we decided how to organize
Xthe actual writing of external specifications for OS/360. The manager of
Xarchitecture, the manager of control program implementation, and I were
Xthreshing out the plan, schedule, and division of responsibilities.
X
XThe architecture manager had 10 good men. He asserted that they could write
Xthe specifications and do it right. It would take ten months, three more
Xthan the schedule allowed.
X
XThe control program manager had 150 men. He asserted that they could prepare
Xthe specifications, with the architecture team coordinating; it would be
Xwell-done and practical, and he could do it on schedule. Futhermore, if
Xthe architecture team did it, his 150 men would sit twiddling their thumbs
Xfor ten months.
X
XTo this the architecture manager responded that if I gave the control program
Xteam the responsibility, the result would not in fact be on time, but would
Xalso be three months late, and of much lower quality. I did, and it was. He
Xwas right on both counts. Moreover, the lack of conceptual integrity made
Xthe system far more costly to build and change, and I would estimate that it
Xadded a year to debugging time.
X- Frederick Brooks Jr., "The Mythical Man Month"
X%%
XThe reason ESP, for example, is not considered a viable topic in contemoprary
Xpsychology is simply that its investigation has not proven fruitful...After
Xmore than 70 years of study, there still does not exist one example of an ESP
Xphenomenon that is replicable under controlled conditions. This simple but
Xbasic scientific criterion has not been met despite dozens of studies conducted
Xover many decades...It is for this reason alone that the topic is now of little
Xinterest to psychology...In short, there is no demonstrated phenomenon that
Xneeds explanation.
X-- Keith E. Stanovich, "How to Think Straight About Psychology", pp. 160-161
X%%
XThe evolution of the human race will not be accomplished in the ten thousand
Xyears of tame animals, but in the million years of wild animals, because man
Xis and will always be a wild animal.
X-- Charles Galton Darwin
X%%
XNatural selection won't matter soon, not anywhere as much as concious selection.
XWe will civilize and alter ourselves to suit our ideas of what we can be.
XWithin one more human lifespan, we will have changed ourselves unrecognizably.
X-- Greg Bear
X%%
X"Jesus may love you, but I think you're garbage wrapped in skin."
X-- Michael O'Donohugh
X%%
X...though his invention worked superbly -- his theory was a crock of sewage from
Xbeginning to end. -- Vernor Vinge, "The Peace War"
X%%
X"It's like deja vu all over again." -- Yogi Berra
X%%
XThe last thing one knows in constructing a work is what to put first.
X-- Blaise Pascal
X%%
X"Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?" he asked. "Begin at the beginning,"
Xthe King said, gravely, "and go on till you come to the end: then stop."
XAlice's Adventures in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll
X%%
XA morsel of genuine history is a thing so rare as to be always valuable.
X-- Thomas Jefferson
X%%
XTo be awake is to be alive. -- Henry David Thoreau, in "Walden"
X%%
XA person with one watch knows what time it is; a person with two watches is
Xnever sure. Proverb
X%%
XYou see but you do not observe.
XSir Arthur Conan Doyle, in "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes"
X%%
XA quarrel is quickly settled when deserted by one party; there is no battle
Xunless there be two. -- Seneca
X%%
XNothing ever becomes real till it is experienced -- even a proverb is no proverb
Xto you till your life has illustrated it. -- John Keats
X%%
XThe fancy is indeed no other than a mode of memory emancipated from the order
Xof space and time. -- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
X%%
XWhat we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expect generally happens.
X-- Bengamin Disraeli
X%%
XNothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of
Xrocking a grown man in the cradle of an infant. -- Edmund Burke
X%%
XFor every problem there is one solution which is simple, neat, and wrong.
X-- H. L. Mencken
X%%
XDon't tell me how hard you work. Tell me how much you get done.
X-- James J. Ling
X%%
XOne friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible.
XFriendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought,
Xa rivalry of aim. -- Henry Brook Adams
X%%
XRemember thee
XAy, thou poor ghost while memory holds a seat
XIn this distracted globe. Remember thee!
XYea, from the table of my memory
XI'll wipe away all trivial fond records,
XAll saws of books, all forms, all pressures past,
XThat youth and observation copied there.
XHamlet, I : v : 95 William Shakespeare
X%%
XObviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he
Xhas based it. Give him the truth and he may still go wrong when he has
Xthe chance to be right, but give him no news or present him only with distorted
Xand incomplete data, with ignorant, sloppy or biased reporting, with propaganda
Xand deliberate falsehoods, and you destroy his whole reasoning processes, and
Xmake him something less than a man.
X-- Arthur Hays Sulzberger
X%%
XEach honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy
Xbased on excellence of performance. -- James Bryant Conant
X%%
XYou can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra
X%%
XIf the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of a circuit, I
Xsee no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by
Xelectricity. -- Samuel F. B. Morse
X%%
X"Mr. Watson, come here, I want you." -- Alexander Graham Bell
X%%
XIt's currently a problem of access to gigabits through punybaud.
X-- J. C. R. Licklider
X%%
XIt is important to note that probably no large operating system using current
Xdesign technology can withstand a determined and well-coordinated attack,
Xand that most such documented penetrations have been remarkably easy.
X-- B. Hebbard, "A Penetration Analysis of the Michigan Terminal System",
XOperating Systems Review, Vol. 14, No. 1, June 1980, pp. 7-20
X%%
XA right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
X-- Ramsey Clark
X%%
XThe price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate
Xknowledge of its ugly side. -- James Baldwin
X%%
XSmall is beautiful.
X%%
X...the increased productivity fostered by a friendly environment and quality
Xtools is essential to meet ever increasing demands for software.
X-- M. D. McIlroy, E. N. Pinson and B. A. Tague
X%%
XIt is not best to swap horses while crossing the river.
X-- Abraham Lincoln
X%%
XMirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images.
X-- Jean Cocteau
X%%
XSuppose for a moment that the automobile industry had developed at the same
Xrate as computers and over the same period: how much cheaper and more efficient
Xwould the current models be? If you have not already heard the analogy, the
Xanswer is shattering. Today you would be able to buy a Rolls-Royce for $2.75,
Xit would do three million miles to the gallon, and it would deliver enough
Xpower to drive the Queen Elizabeth II. And if you were interested in
Xminiaturization, you could place half a dozen of them on a pinhead.
X-- Christopher Evans
X%%
XIn the future, you're going to get computers as prizes in breakfast cereals.
XYou'll throw them out because your house will be littered with them.
X-- Robert Lucky
X%%
XGet hold of portable property. -- Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations"
X%%
XOverall, the philosophy is to attack the availability problem from two
Xcomplementary directions: to reduce the number of software errors through
Xrigorous testing of running systems, and to reduce the effect of the
Xremaining errors by providing for recovery from them. An interesting footnote
Xto this design is that now a system failure can usually be considered to be
Xthe result of two program errors: the first, in the program that started the
Xproblem; the second, in the recovery routine that could not protect the
Xsystem. -- A. L. Scherr, "Functional Structure of IBM Virtual Storage Operating
XSystems, Part II: OS/VS-2 Concepts and Philosophies," IBM Systems Journal,
XVol. 12, No. 4, 1973, pp. 382-400
X%%
XI have sacrificed time, health, and fortune, in the desire to complete these remote from sugar
XCalculating Engines. I have also declined several offers of great personal
Xadvantage to myself. But, notwithstanding the sacrifice of these advantages
Xfor the purpose of maturing an engine of almost intellectual power, and after
Xexpending from my own private fortune a larger sum than the government of
XEngland has spent on that machine, the execution of which it only commenced,
XI have received neither an acknowledgement of my labors, not even the offer
Xof those honors or rewards which are allowed to fall within the reach of men
Xwho devote themselves to purely scientific investigations...
X
XIf the work upon which I have bestowed so much time and thought were a mere
Xtriumph over mechanical difficulties, or simply curious, or if the execution
Xof such engines were of doubtful practicability or utility, some justification
Xmight be found for the course which has been taken; but I venture to assert
Xthat no mathematician who has a reputation to lose will ever publicly express
Xan opinion that such a machine would be useless if made, and that no man
Xdistinguished as a civil engineer will venture to declare the construction of
Xsuch machinery impracticable...
X
XAnd at a period when the progress of physical science is obstructed by that
Xexhausting intellectual and manual labor, indispensable for its advancement,
Xwhich it is the object of the Analytical Engine to relieve, I think the
Xapplication of machinery in aid of the most complicated and abtruse
Xcalculations can no longer be deemed unworthy of the attention of the country.
XIn fact, there is no reason why mental as well as bodily labor should not
Xbe economized by the aid of machinery.
X- Charles Babbage, Passage from the Life of a Philosopher
X%%
XHow many hardware guys does it take to change a light bulb?
X
X"Well the diagnostics say it's fine buddy, so it's a software problem."
X%%
X"Don't try to outweird me, three-eyes. I get stranger things than you free
Xwith my breakfast cereal."
X- Zaphod Beeblebrox in "Hithiker's Guide to the Galaxy"
X%%
XUncompensated overtime? Just Say No.
X%%
XDecaffeinated coffee? Just Say No.
X%%
X"Show business is just like high school, except you get paid."
X- Martin Mull
X%%
X"This isn't brain surgery; it's just television."
X- David Letterman
X%%
X"Morality is one thing. Ratings are everything."
X- A Network 23 executive on "Max Headroom"
X%%
XLive free or die.
X%%
X"...if the church put in half the time on covetousness that it does on lust,
X this would be a better world." - Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegon Days"
X%%
XOutside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it is too
Xdark to read.
X%%
X"Probably the best operating system in the world is the [operating system]
X made for the PDP-11 by Bell Laboratories." - Ted Nelson, October 1977
X%%
X"All these black people are screwing up my democracy." - Ian Smith
X%%
XUse the Force, Luke.
X%%
XI've got a bad feeling about this.
X%%
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