Life is "a series of rooms and who we get stuck in those rooms with adds up to what our lives are.
Eve from House ep3x12 #
Programmers have a tendency to assume that code size and bug count will be 0 and speed will be infinite. Experience shows this view to be a bit optimistic.
Andrew Tannenbaum, on code optimization #
No, no, it's fine! Computer Science is the discipline of pedantry: every stupid little thing has to be exactly right for anything to work.
Dr. John Clements #
The free-range orphans will be grown hydroponically on sustainably harvested straw bales. The orphans will also be required to have at least 35% post-consumer recycled content including hemp diapers.
http://www.archinect.com/forum/threads.php?id=70354_0_42_0_C #
One, remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Two, never give up work. Work gives you meaning and purpose and life is empty without it. Three, if you are lucky enough to find love, remember it is there and don't throw it away.
Stephen Hawking #
wtracy: dependency tree sounds like something from a rehab clinic
seen in #cplug #
From The Sarah Conner Chronicles we learn that at least part of SkyNet is written in Visual Basic and that Terminator CPUs plug into a small subsection of the PCI bus. No wonder they want to kill humanity.
tvtropes.org #
Creativity is a function of the people, not the tools.
Rands #
(12:08:22 AM) ***icco wishes that execboard didn't kill themselves
seen in #cplug #
[CC]bLink: if my cuties were frozen in the fridge and i take them out to thaw will they mold?
seen in #cplug #
I love French wine, like I love the French language. I have sampled every language, French is my favourite - fantastic language, especially to curse with. Nom de Dieu de putain de bordel de merde de saloperie de connard d'enculé de ta mère! You see, it's like wiping your ass with silk, I love it.
The Merovingian from The Matrix #
No man's knowledge can go beyond his experience.
John Locke #
xiong_chiamiov: I find that most environmentalists need a lecture in premature optimization
seen in #cplug #
OMG THERE'S A QUOTE FROM ME TALKING ABOUT CHUPACABRAS IN YOUR SIGNATURE
Tanya Luthin #
(09:38:36 PM) ***JonathanThompson meows
(09:41:21 PM) ***Hodapp stumbles in with eyes half-closed, dumps cat food in bowl, and falls back into bed
seen in #haiku #
When the Minuteman II [nuclear missile] went into production in 1966, [guidance computer] was replaced with a new computer that was the first high-volume use of integrated circuits. This program alone reduced prices on quad nand gate ICs from $1000/each to $3/each, permitting their use in commercial products.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_system #
Just what do you think you're doing, Dave?
HAL 9000 #
Hyperlisk: Stupid hair... I need less of it
seen in #cplug #
(06:17:43 PM) Ozymandius: So much file sharing
(06:17:53 PM) Ozymandius: Biggest bathroom ever
(06:17:55 PM) Ozymandius: And jumprope
(06:18:09 PM) Ozymandius: And the battle of the blue sapphire!
(06:18:15 PM) Ozymandius: And the pretzel damage
(06:19:14 PM) superseth: yes
seen in #cplug #
One major known problem with supporting V-class is the complexity of its PCI bus adapter (EPIC and SAGA). Support for the V-class isn't going to happen until some really masochistic person who has access to a V-class is, uh, challenged by this.
from the Linux-on-HPPA FAQ #
The Details are not the Details. They make the design.
Charles Eames #
The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #
A 'a ThingCollection value is constructed from OneThing, TwoThings, ManyThings, and Nothing constructors to store a collection of 'a values. Write a function flatten collection that takes a 'a ThingCollection as an argument and that returns a 'a ThingCollection that is constructed from a single ManyThings and a single Nothing.
Professor Keen, homework assignment 1, CSC 430 #
Now that I've got my foot stuck in the tar-baby ...
Mike Rice #
I have no root and I want to scream
one of the error messages generated by the Linux kernel #
The mind is everything. What you think you become.
Buddha #
Stallman is grub, secretely. He inhabits the first 512 bytes of every harddisk.
PhrkOnLsh #
Eighty percent of success is showing up.
Woody Allen #
(11:36:13 PM) Hyperlisk: I'll just walk around telling people I know you
(11:38:28 PM) ChaosArbiter: I'll bring the wrath of the death kittens upon your pitiful head.
seen in #cplug #
(10/13/2008 12:04:21 AM) BrokenPipe: rawr
(12:04:21 AM) ***nerfle squishes BrokenPipe
seen in #cplug #
(08:58:18 PM) mgius: party at Shinies!
(08:58:31 PM) Shinies: as long as no one touches the mini
seen in #cplug #
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words?
Ernest Hemingway (about William Faulkner) #
A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any other invention in human history, with the possible exceptions of handguns and tequila.
Mitch Ratcliffe #
urban: some day there will be electric guitars in orchestras
seen in #cplug #
I think it is important to grow up seeing beautiful things so that you can develop that sense of beauty, and comfortable space.
Marie Kondo #
As they say, mechanical engineers build weapons, civil engineers build targets...
jamesh, posting on slashdot #
The end is never the end. A new challenge awaits. A test no man could be prepared for. A new hell he must conquer and destroy. A new level of growth he must confront himself. The machine in the ghost within. This is the journey of the man on the moon.
Common #
Quantum physicists didn't discover spooky action at a distance; in software, we've had it for years.
Michael C. Feathers, _Working Effectively with Legacy Code_ #
Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
Jules Verne #
(03:08:49 PM) lsem: schily_: yes, please enlighten me
(03:09:04 PM) ***JonathanThompson turns on a high-intensity light directly above lsem's head
seen in #haiku #
(09:21:16 PM) meoblast001: why can't teenagers figure out computers
seen in #gnu #
Math? Math is for pussies. My movies are about shit blowing up, man.
Rob of toplessrobot.com, in reference to Michael Bay's Transformers 2 #
(09:54:38 PM) Nekona: joinnnnn the kona
(09:55:51 PM) trainman419: the power is strong in you... I may not be able to resist
(09:57:29 PM) poodyp: jedi mind tricks do not work on me
(09:57:37 PM) poodyp: ooooonly money
seen in #cplug #
Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.
Albert Einstein #
Wow, I get to eat the pop tarts! I love them. Think I'll have one right now.......
~Mom the Merry
You laugh, but I would kill for stone tablets. At the school where I teach, we're still using clay tablets with a stylus to write homework assignments in cuneiform. Some of the younger teachers fresh out of college are experimenting with something called papyrus. The students, on the other hand, seem to all have iPhones.
ciaohound, posting on Slashdot #
On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.
Charles Babbage #
Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight.
Bill Gates #
Guns don't kill people, catchphrases kill people.
jwo7777777, posting on Slashdot #
You cannot predict the future.
I knew you were going to say that.
What is life if nobody is crossing a line?
Dave Chappelle #
Hi, user. We need to talk.
I think something's gone wrong here. It's probably my fault.
No, really, it's not you... it's me... no no no, I think we get along well
it's just that.... well, I want to see other people. I... what?!? NO! I
haven't been cheating on you!! How many times do you want me to tell you?! And
for the last time, it's just a rash!
Message generated by Pidgin in the event of a segmentation fault #
you think its funny that I'm crying. But you eat shit and I eat the fruit jam.
Random Russian Dude #
(05:35:55 PM) Tyl3rDurd3n: we're all terrible SYN'ners...
seen in #cplug #
On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 10:09 AM, Mark Gius wrote:
> Officially shotgunning Subversion.
On Sat, 2008-08-16 at 11:20 -0700, Tanya Luthin wrote:
> i dont know what you're saying Mark.
Mark Gius wrote:
> It's mine. You can't have it.
[The naming consultant] started asking us questions like How does this thing make you feel? (Excited!) What else makes you feel that way? (Java!) We ended up with a board covered with essentially random words.
James Gosling, on naming the Java programming language #
May all your stories be glad ones, and your roads be smooth and short.
Kvothe in Patrick Rothfuss's "The Name of the Wind" #
The best revenge is massive success.
Frank Sinatra #
It's all way literary.
Shaenon Garrity #
Try not to drink the sunscreen, it's not healthy.
Deimos #
(02:26:06 PM) Contre-work: sustained WoW use affects academic achievement
seen in #cplug #
(10:16:43 PM) Ryuho: but they are physically turned off
(10:16:58 PM) Ryuho: so you can't connect to them right now
(10:16:58 PM) DanaG: I wonder if you could ssh-tunnel wake-on-lan packets.
seen in #cplug #
TCP/IP fingerprinting (for OS scan) requires root privileges. Sorry, dude.
nmap #
A man sometimes devotes his life to a desire which he is not sure will ever be fulfilled. Those who laugh at this folly are, after all, no more than mere spectators of life.
Ryunosuke Akutagawa #
User B will hang around the printer room for years, wistfully hoping for output that never comes.
Andrew Tanenbaum, on the possible effects of a software bug #
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning.
Rich Cook #
(07:23:35 PM) ***trainman419 is building a low-perfomance computing cluster
seen in #cplug #
/* down here is where gtkconvwin.c ought to start. except they share like every freaking function,
* and touch each others' private members all day long */
from the Pidgin source code #
Sound - Thanks to the warped mind of Steve Schmidtke, UML has sound support.
from the User Mode Linux documentation #
/* this is gonna crash one day, I can feel it. */
from the Pidgin source code #
Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
Pablo Picasso #
(16:40:03) icco: hmmm
(16:40:13) DatOnePhu: i didnt break it >_<
seen in #blugoo #
(08:49:26 PM) wtracy: that makes more sense than some of the things I was thinking
(08:49:38 PM) wtracy: that is certainly less disturbing than some of the things I was thinking
seen in #cplug #
I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.
HAL 9000 #
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination.
Fred Brooks #
Focused, hard work is the real key to success. Keep your eyes on the goal, and just keep taking the next step towards completing it.
John Carmack #
Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde #
Erika: For future reference, that is not a word you should show a girl. Ever.
Largo: Why? What does it mean?
Megatokyo #
Personally, I love bashing my head against new challenges (why else would I lead WoW raids with my family?)
Shirt Guy Dom #
The suboptimal decision is waiting.
Niket Desai #
Mwahahaha! Woohoo!
--Bzzzap!--
Wow. So that's your science fair project?
What? No, that's just the light switch.
... The ... light switch.
Look, I'm a girl with needs, okay?
Girl Genius #
I was concerned that my comics weren't nerdy enough.
Shaenon K. Garrity #
(12:35:46 AM) icco: oh man, I feel like spamming the channel
seen in #cplug #
I do not want a duly licensed representative of the Internet. I want a duly licensed representative of the Blogosphere.
Ubersoft.net #
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring #
I am the machine that reveals the world to you as only I alone am able to see it.
Dziga Vertov #
Oh, I get it. It's a Blow-Job joke.
shirsh #
It makes one yearn for the relative simplicity of kernel mode.
Andrew Tannenbaum, on Win32 #
When you create, you get a little endorphins buzz. Why do you think Einstein looked like that?
Robin Williams #
Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.
Walker Evans #
(03:19:44 PM) wtracy: dkirker: nabru remembers the last time you abused it
(03:19:59 PM) dkirker: that f*ing bot is going to get it some day
(03:20:33 PM) wtracy: !8ball do you harbor a secret grudge against dkirker?
(03:20:34 PM) nabru: wtracy: Signs point to yes.
(03:20:42 PM) wtracy: I rest my case
seen in #cplug #
(09:18:09 PM) Urban[0]: why does everyone talk about me while I'm gone?
seen in #cplug #
What I believe is that all clear-minded people should remain two things throughout their lifetimes: Curious and teachable.
Rogert Ebert #
Journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
Lao Tzu #
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
John Muir #
We need a special holiday to honor the countless kind souls with unsecured networks named 'linksys'.
Randall Munroe #
Running beautifully fast on modern hardware is somewhere between I've never been to jail and I shower daily on the list of human accomplishment.
phil@philwelch.net, posting on Slashdot #
It's not fair to call vista a virus. Viruses are some of the tiniest and most efficient pieces of code written.
Slashdot post by Sakdoctor #
There are no short cuts to any place worth going.
Beverly Sills #
(11:11:15 PM) hellwolf left the room (quit: Don't follow me).
seen in ##kernel #
(09:43:00 PM) Urban[0]: strange. bananas smell like bubble gum and my saliva tastes like lemons.
seen in #cplug #
Scoobasteve:
anyone know wat a drunk nerd looks like???
m00f00:
My brother was in a marching band fraternity. I’ve seen plenty, unfortunately.
seen on failblog.org #
/* Prototypes. <-- because Paco-Paco hates this comment. */
from the Pidgin source code #
The most interesting thing you can do as a technical person is to build tools that people use to help their work.
Larry Page #
Fill your paper with the breathings of your heart.
William Wordsworth #
(08:17:38 PM) Urban[0]: whoa whoa whoa. just whoa.
(08:17:46 PM) Urban[0]: what?
seen in #cplug #
The goal is to make a space where a few ideas and images and feelings may be so arranged that a reader will want to linger awhile among them, rather than to flee.
Janet Malcolm #
(09:13:57 PM) You are now known as Oh
(09:14:03 PM) ***Oh no!
(09:14:05 PM) ***Oh my!
(09:14:08 PM) ***Oh dear!
(09:14:17 PM) ***Oh what a beautiful morning!
(09:14:20 PM) ***Oh what a beautiful day!
(09:15:01 PM) ***Oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light?
(09:15:12 PM) ***Oh for a muse of fire!
(09:15:40 PM) ***Oh boy!
(09:16:58 PM) You have been kicked by icco: ( Oh really?)
seen in #cplug #
Prestigious Non-accreedited Degrees
No one is Turned Down
seen in a spam e-mail #
I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
J.G. Ballard #
Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen.
Edward V Berard #
Department of Redundancy Department is redundant!
Captain Obvious #
Programmers who believe adding new features does not add new bugs are either new to computers or believe the tooth fairy is out there watching over them.
Andrew Tannenbaum #
(03:21:18 PM) BrokenPipe: haha hamdemic
(03:31:04 PM) Contre-work: aporkalypse?
(03:44:40 PM) BrokenPipe: of epig proporktions
seen in #cplug #
(03:07:10 PM) lsem: JonathanThompson: you're actually on a roll here, aren't you? :)
(03:07:21 PM) JonathanThompson: Nah, just a muffin :P
(03:07:30 PM) lsem: Sticky bun?
(03:07:32 PM) mmadia: he's definitely on *something* :P
(03:07:42 PM) JonathanThompson: Hi on life!
(03:07:47 PM) ***JonathanThompson says hi to everyone
seen in #haiku #
Jeannie Nguyen needs to pee but is too lazy to.
seen on Facebook #
(08:39:52 PM) ryuho: i'm helping my friend steal from my parent's company
(08:40:11 PM) ryuho: helping a journalism chick crack cs3 is harder than i thought
seen in #cplug #
We'd have to make some fake entries in the database, and the DBA will get upset. We'd have to take him to lunch when he found out, and even then he'd still be upset. Hist job is hard enough as it is.
Michael C. Feathers, _Working Effectively with Legacy Code_ #
For the Laten letters A-Z case mapping is obvious (at least for people who speak Latin).
Andrew Tannenbaum #
The advancement and diffusion of knowledge is the only guardian of true liberty.
Thomas Jefferson #
The destruction is caused by disruption of cytoplasmic streaming and loss of anthocyanin (I thought you'd really want to know that) ...
Jess Walmsley, on the cell biology of Aponogeton madagascariensis #
Now we know everything there is to know about ML, except how to program!
Jeffrey D. Ullman, _Elements of ML Programming_ #
(12:24:00 PM) ***aktai needs to learn differential equations in 40 minutes
seen in #cplug #
As computers take over ... there's going to be nothing left for human beings to do but the more creative types of endeavor.
Isaac Asimov, in an interview with Bill Moyers #
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Voltaire #
(09:57:24 PM) Cliff: odd
(09:57:31 PM) Cliff: i just had a cat bite my head
(09:58:05 PM) Cliff: not very sucessfully
(09:58:08 PM) Cliff: but he tried
(09:58:39 PM) Cliff: cats get away with a lot
seen in #cplug #
'Hope' is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops-at all.
Emily Dickinson #
It is, after all, my firmly held conviction that the goal of academia is to broadly disseminate good ideas for others to exploit.
Matt Walsh #
Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistence. Remember that our sons and our grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
Daniel Burnham #
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Ralph Waldo Emerson #
We who cut mere stones must always be envisioning cathedrals.
Quarry worker's creed #
It kind of goes bip-boop-bip-boop-beep, and it's kind of hard to think about.
Dr. John Clements #
Wanna get some pizza? Wanna have Sex? What you don't like pizza? I don't think i could have sex with a girl who doesn't like pizza.
Johnny Stafford #
So much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things.
Ryan Singer #
Escape spaces in Erlang magic to avoid misidentifications, particularly PostScript files produced on Tuesdays
changelog for libmagic1 #
Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.
Ann Landers #
MAKE THE BLUE BOX COME BACK WHY DID IT LEAVE
jhughes, project changelog #
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert A. Heinlein from The Notebook of Lazarus Long #
Please note that what Jeffrey calls awesome, others may call cause to doubt the existence of a just and benevolent God.
Shaenon Garrity #
Any sufficiently analyzed magic is indistinguishable from science!
Girl Genius #
(02:14:27 PM) Urban[0]: what's with the helicopters?
(02:14:43 PM) trainman419: they're coming for you
(02:15:19 PM) Urban[0]: did not do it!
seen in #cplug #
(09:14:17 PM) wtracy: wtracy 2008! :-D
(09:14:49 PM) eruantien: O_o
seen in #cplug #
To prevent this scenario, all companies should have a general policy telling administrators never to make mistakes.
Andrew Tannenbaum, on system administration #
I see all this potential, and I see squandering. God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables.slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires and movie gods and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
Tyler Durden, Fight Club #
Once again, the world is saved by the inscrutable machinations of contract law.
Ubersoft.net #
I must not be clever. Clever is the little death that brings malfunction and unmaintainability. I will face my cleverness; I will allow it to pass through me. When it has gone, only cleanness shall remain.
IConrad on Reddit #
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, and die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
Robert A. Heinlein from The Notebook of Lazarus Long #
No man’s knowledge can go beyond his experience.
John Locke #
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence #
Officially, NTSC stands for National Television Standards Committee, but the poor way color was hacked into the standard with color television was invented has led to the industry joke that it really stands for Never Twice the Same Color.
Andrew Tanenbaum, Modern Operating Systems #
(08:16:38 PM) Cliff: I wanna work in a sewer
(08:16:57 PM) Cliff: and discover sewage that no one's ever discovered
(08:17:01 PM) Cliff: and pile it on my head
(08:17:05 PM) Cliff: and come to the surface
(08:17:10 PM) Cliff: and sell myself to an art galaray
(08:17:12 PM) Cliff: gallery
(08:21:02 PM) trainman419: Cliff: have another drink
seen in #cplug #
Words mean things.
Erin Kissanne #
Your potential, the absolute best you’re capable of—that’s the metric to measure yourself against. Your standards are. Winning is not enough. People can get lucky and win. People can be assholes and win. Anyone can win. But not everyone is the best possible version of themselves.
Ryan Holiday #
See, the world is full of things more powerful than us. But if you know how to catch a ride, you can go places
Neal Stephenson #
(04:27:25 AM) Cedro: i wish someone covered dental for me, i have no idea how i'm going to get mine pulled
(04:27:51 AM) Cedro: i wonder if bourbon and pliers are cheaper than the traditional method
seen in #cplug #
Only the system administrator may ask for better than normal service. Deducing the reason for this rule is left as an exercise for the reader.
Andrew Tannenbaum, on nice() #
Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle. And so we must straighten our backs and work for our freedom. A man can't ride you unless your back is bent.
Martin Luther King Jr. #
(12:36:43 AM) dkirker: no, it is connected through ESPN waves
seen in #cplug #
(10:29:28 PM) Shinies: I hate this whole town
(10:29:34 PM) Urban[0]: Shinies: triple rock on
seen in #cplug #
Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.
Stephen Hawking #
Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company.
Mark Twain #
To know someone here or there with whom you feel there is an understanding in spite of distances or thoughts unexpressed... that can make of this earth a garden
goethe #
There's no Nature without Nat
--Some scoutmaster
Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.
Fred Brooks #
Dude, there's tons of stuff worse than death. Remember the He-Man Chrismas special?
Skin-Horse.com #
/* XXX seanegan Why do I have to do this? */
from the Pidgin source code #
(06:33:58 PM) Ozymandius: Lesson 1: Jaeger + whiskey = bad
(06:34:10 PM) Ozymandius: Lesson 2: Blended scotch = not great
(06:34:19 PM) Ozymandius: Lesson 3: 2 Buck Chuck is not 2 bucks
(06:34:38 PM) Ozymandius: Lesson 4: You can stab someone else if you think it's reasonable.
(06:34:49 PM) Ozymandius: Lesson 5: Don't ask for money. Sue for money.
(06:35:00 PM) Ozymandius: Probably the top 5 lessons from law school
seen in #cplug #
Honestly, there are 2 types of folks who make it: the lucky ones, and the persistent ones.
rwhitman #
They're great! They're like sex except I'm having them.
Fry from Futurama #
The way I want to change the world is expressed in my source code.
Dr. Clark S. Turner #
Don't code to live; live to code!
(02:26:31 PM) Contre-work: it may not physically damage your brain but it certainly can lead to just being a retard
seen in #cplug #
Only through open sources, open standards, human-readable formats and their independencies, might they survive this fleeting age of self-destructing informatics.
-― Devine Lu Linvega
(09:52:19 PM) _markt: well, nobody's ever accused me of being normal
(09:52:28 PM) dkirker: _markt: you are normal
seen in #cplug #
The flavor of Redcode used in this guide is (mostly) the current de facto standard, the ICWS '94 Standard Draft with pMARS 0.8 extensions. (Sort of like the Netscape extensions to HTML... Hmm... Luckily we still don't have a Microsoft Corewar Simulator. Maybe they think the market's too small.)
Ilmari Karonen, http://vyznev.net/corewar/guide.html #
My great grandfather worked in a factory so my grandfather could be a teacher, my grandfather was a teacher so my father could be a lawyer, my father was a lawyer so i could be an artist.
Perry Chen #
A hundred times every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein #
You never know when a typical life will be anything but, and you won't know if you are rewriting history, or rewriting the future, until the writing is complete.
Debbie Millman #
If cats looked like frogs, we'd realize what nasty, cruel little bastards they are.
Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies #
They're crafty those Canadians. I think the whole mostly harmless nice guy to the north persona, is a clever deception to lull us into a false sense of security. Then they'll pounce, and force us to eat round bacon, drink Moosehead, and force us to listen to Bill Shatner sing/recite Rocket Man, until we recognize the Governor General as the true leader of North America.
1stSarge, on the 365Tomorrows forum #
/*
* We're done piddling around with command line arguments.
* Fire up this baby.
*/
from the Pidgin source code #
In jurisdictions where Murphy's law is applicable ...
Andrew Tanenbaum, _Modern Operating Systems_ #
[Earth] is the largest planet in the world.
Wikipedia #
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
Motoko Kusanagi #
It's just an alias. Dereference it and you will find yourself.
Aaron Keen #
... the killer must have the necessary authorization to do in the killee.
Andrew Tanenbaum, discussing process termination #
(01:06:28 PM) wtracy: su
(01:07:18 PM) ***xiong_chiamiov was hoping for the password, too
seen in #cplug #
In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
Edna O'Brien #
One time I put my car into reverse while traveling 70 MPH on the freeway. It was a very exciting learning experience.
seen on Slashdot #