If the code and the comments disagree, then both are probably wrong.
- Norm Schryer
If someone tries to sell you some Windows, tell him to defenestrate himself."
-- Crispin Cowan
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.
-- Arthur C. Clarke
The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement.
But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another
profound truth.
- Niels Bohr
Some men see things as they are and ask why.
Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
- George Bernard Shaw
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that
heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!)
but 'That's funny ...'
- Isaac Asimov
Young man, in mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them.
- John von Neumann
Machines should work. People should think.
- IBM slogan, late '60s
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer
you will find at least two human errors, including the error
of blaming it on the computer.
- Tom Gibb
If I have seen farther than others, it is because I stood on
the shoulders of giants.
- Isaac Newton
On a paper submitted by a physicist colleague: 'This isn't right. This isn't even wrong.'
- Wolfgang Pauli
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended
us to forgo their use.
- Galileo Galilei
Hofstadter's Law:
It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take
Hofstadter's Law into account.
Yes, Perl is Y2K compliant. You can, of course, write
buggy programs in Perl, but that's not Perl's problem.
- Larry Wall
A year spent in Artificial Intelligence is enough to
make one believe in God.
- Alan Perlis
The number of Unix installations has grown to 10, with more expected."
-- The Unix Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June, 1972.