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    Most of the stuff here is odd sayings or opinions. Some of this stuff has stayed through my notebooks for a couple of years and some through my mind. 

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One of Rob Pike's scientific achievements: cheesecake, maybe what they loved most about these guys was that 
http://www.lysator.liu.se/etexts/recept/us/cheesecake-1.html

The only serious advice I have heard about how to be a hacker :
    1) Keep your mouth shut and code
    2) Learn to read
(maybe I screwed up on the order)

Argue with fools and they will bring you down to their level, and beat you with experience.

If you have a nail on the wall, you will eventually find something to hang on it. - Jk

Now leave us, and take your fish with you. - Faramir

Warning: Contains Aluminium. Do not eat.

"No matter how good you are, how skilled and heroic you are, if you are playing on a fairly populated server and your team is composed mostly of idiots, you're doomed."- Zack "Geist Editor" Parsons 

I drank what?

"there is no patch for stupidity."   -- sqlSecurity.com / Kevin Mitnick
The truth of the matter is the hacker mind does not consider the consequences when doing an illegal act, but gauges the risk of getting caught. -- Kevin Mitnick

Dennis Ritchie: "So fsck was originally called something else"
Question: "What was it called?"
Dennis Ritchie: Well, the second letter was different.
                 - Q&A at Usenix

• Application has reported a 'Not My Fault' in module KRNL.EXE in line 0200:103F
• A good programmer is someone who looks both ways before crossing a one-way street. - Doug Linder
• As a computer, I find your faith in technology amusing
• Back when I was a boy, we carved our own IC's out of wood
• Being married to a programmer is like having a cat. You talk to it but you're never really sure if it hears you, much less comprehends what you say. (What ??? hmm...)
• Finish the project. We'll buy you a new family.
• I just found the last bug...
• This time it will surely run.
• Works on my machine.
• Idiot-proofing assumes a finite number of idiots.
• If it wasn't for C, we would be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL.
• Real programmers use: COPY CON PROGRAM.EXE
• The best thing about programming standards is that there are so many to choose from!

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg. - Bjarne 'Stumpy' Stroustrup

People always miss oppurtunity, because opputunity comes disguised as work. - Jk

Visual Studio is all very well, but add that to your corporate policy and QA procedures and I could beat you with copy con any day.

On the cover of the book :
"What is the difference between God and Larry Ellison?"
"God does not think that he is Larry Ellison."

• "Ah, " said Arthur, "this is obviously some strange usage of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of. " -- Hitchhiker's G2tG
• "In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were real men, women were real women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were real small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri. " -- Hitchhiker's G2tG
• "For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen. " -- Hitchhiker's G2tG
• "The suit into which the man's body had been stuffed looked as if it's only purpose in life was to demonstrate how difficult it was to get this sort of body into a suit. " -- Hitchhiker's G2tG
• "Does it worry you that you don't talk any kind of sense? "-- Hitchhiker's G2tG
• "Arthur felt at a bit of a loss. There was a whole Galaxy of stuff out there for him, and he wondered if it was churlish of him to complain to himself that it lacked just two things: the world he was born on and the woman he loved. " -- Hitchhiker's G2tG
• Don't Panic -- Hitchhiker's G2tG

"A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing" - Alan Perlis

Its not a bug its a creature ... er, feature.