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Quotes by Anon.

  • f u cn rd ths, u cn gt a gd jb n cmptr prgmmng.
  • Optimization hinders evolution.
  • He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless, still dead.
  • If you put a billion monkeys in front of a billion typewriters typing at random, they would reproduce the entire collected works of Usenet in about ... five minutes.
  • Power (n) The only narcotic regulated by the SEC instead of the FDA.
  • Never assume, for it makes an ASS out of U and ME.
  • Don't steal. The government hates competition.
  • A program is a spell cast over a computer, turning input into error messages.
  • Bad habits are like a comfortable bed, easy to get into, but hard to get out of.
  • Real programmers don't comment their code. If it was hard to write, it should be hard to understand.
  • BASIC - A programming language. Related to certain social diseases in that those who have it will not admit it in polite company.
  • Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow.
  • Bad Command or File Name. Good try, though.
  • The time to stop talking is when the other person nods his head affirmatively but says nothing.
  • I speak BASIC to clients, 1-2-3 to management, and mumble to myself.
  • Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.
  • You don't love a woman because she is beautiful, but she is beautiful because you love her.
  • COFFEE.EXE missing. Insert cup and press any key.
  • One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.
  • Cannot find REALITY.SYS...Universe Halted.
  • That Jim Brown. He says he isn't Superman. What he really means is that Superman isn't Jimmy Brown
  • The world will end in 5 minutes. Please log out...
  • The most important thing a father can do for his children is to love their mother.
  • A real leader faces the music, even when he doesn't like the tune.
  • Money talks...but all mine ever says is good-bye.
  • Scandisk is now checking your hard disk. You can start praying.
  • If a trainstation is where the train stops, what's a workstation...
  • All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
  • Old programmers never die. They just can't C as well.
  • There are two ways to write error-free programs. Only the third one works.
  • Some authors should be paid by the quantity NOT written.
  • Necessity is the mother of invention.
  • Whom computers would destroy, they must first drive mad.
  • Philosophy is a study that lets us be unhappy more intelligently.
  • Who's General Failure and why's he reading my disk
  • Opportunity may knock only once, but temptation leans on the doorbell.
  • Original Poems for Infant Minds My MotherWho ran to help me when I fell,And would some pretty story tell,Or kiss the place to make it wellMy Mother.
  • Crime wouldn't pay if the government ran it.
  • Old programmers never die. They just branch out to a new address.
  • Some people weave burlap into the fabric of our lives, and some weave gold thread. Both contribute to make the whole picture beautiful and unique.
  • The NeXT Computer The hardware makes it a PC, the software makes it a workstation, the unit sales makes it a mainframe.
  • Many an opportunity is lost because a man is out looking for four-leaf clovers.
  • WARNING Keyboard Not Attached. Press F10 to Continue.
  • Winners never quit and quitters never win.
  • There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.
  • Earth is 98 full. Please delete anyone you can.
  • Good, better, best never let it rest till your good is better and your better is best.
  • Error reading FAT record. Try the SKINNY one (YN)
  • Sped up my XT ran it on 220v Works greO
  • Choose your friends by their character and your socks by their color. Choosing your socks by their character makes no sense, and choosing your friends by their color is unthinkable.
  • Intel has announced its next chip the Repentium.
  • We are told never to cross a bridge until we come to it, but this world is owned by men who have 'crossed bridges' in their imagination far ahead of the crowd.
  • Pentiums melt in your PC, not in your hand.
  • The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.
  • The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland but that's because it's the best book on anything for layman.
  • Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up.
  • To steal ideas from one person is plagiarism, to steal ideas from many is research.
  • If you can't beat your computer at chess, try kickboxing.
  • Tourists are terrorists with cameras. Terrorists are tourists with guns.
  • No one is listening until you make a mistake.
  • The world is so fast that there are days when the person who says it can't be done is interrupted by the person who is doing it.
  • Hanlon's RazorNever attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.
  • Great minds think alike.
  • Real programmers don't write in PLI. PLI is for programmers who can't decide whether to write in COBOL or FORTRAN.
  • Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.
  • Smash forehead on keyboard to continue.
  • When I find myself fading, I close my eyes and realize my friends are my energy.
  • Ama me fideliter Fidem meam noto De corde totaliter Et ex mente tota, Sum presentialiter Absens in remota.
  • The whole world steps aside for the man who knows where he is going.
  • Ooops. My brain just hit a bad sector.
  • What goes up must come down. Ask any system administrator.
  • If you love somebody, let them go. If they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.
  • Men show their character in nothing more clearly than by what they find laughable.
  • Hit any user to continue.
  • An expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less, until eventually he knows everything about nothing.
  • God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers
  • Old hackers never die. They just go to bitnet.
  • LSD melts your mind, not in your hand.
  • Silence is one great art of conversation.
  • A person who aims at nothing is sure to hit it.
  • Success always occurs in private, and failure in full view.
  • Why doesn't DOS ever say 'EXCELLENT command or filename'
  • CDOS CDOSRUN RUNDOSRUN
  • Want to make your computer go really fast Throw it out a window.
  • General Failure's Fault. Not Yours.
  • Enjoy life. There's plenty of time to be dead.
  • A poet is someone who is astonished by everything.
  • Reality can be beaten with enough imagination.
  • To succeed in politics, it is often necessary to rise above your principles.
  • Shell to DOS... Come in DOS, do you copy Shell to DOS...
  • Is my friend in the bunker or is the bastard on the green
  • Remember, people will judge you by your actions, not your intentions. You may have a heart of gold -- but so does a hard-boiled egg.
  • Enter any 11-digit prime number to continue...
  • Press any key... no, no, no, NOT THAT ONE
  • Bulls make money. Bears make money. Pigs get slaughtered.
  • The Internet is like a vault with a screen door on the back. I don't need jackhammers and atom bomb to get in when I can walk through the door.
  • Pascal keeps your hand tied. C gives you enough rope to hang yourself.
  • Debugging is anticipated with distaste, performed with reluctance, and bragged about forever.
  • Lat Love me faithfullySee how I am faithfulWith all my heartAnd all my soulI am with youThough I am far away.
  • Crime, like disease, is not interesting it is something to be done away with by general consent, and that is all about it.
  • Real programmers don't work from 9 to 5. If any real programmers are around at 9am it's because they were up all night.
  • Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.