Excellent quotes
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Chris Maunder wrote:
what are your favourite IT related quotes?
"I have only proved the joke funny; I did not try it" ... a misquote of D.E.Knuth who famously said "Beware of bugs in the above code; I have only proved it correct, not tried it.", described here[^].
I'm retired. There's a nap for that... - Harvey
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
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I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
linky no worky
#SupportHeForShe Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Thomas John Watson Sr. was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) and stated in 1943, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers". How right he was!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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For comedy value, you can't beat: "Windows 10 is the best Windows ever!"
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
I'm never sure if I've heard a joke somewhere or made it up myself (I like to think the latter) but... What's the difference between Windows 1.0 and Windows 10? Windows 10 has no point! I'll get my coat.
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I'm never sure if I've heard a joke somewhere or made it up myself (I like to think the latter) but... What's the difference between Windows 1.0 and Windows 10? Windows 10 has no point! I'll get my coat.
Unfortunately, there's one thing I can't blame winio for, and that's the 191 lines of reply to you that simply vanished because I dared to use the COMCTL32 Save window (it's not a dialog), which crashed notepad++ simply because I wanted to save what I had already written (I could still see the window, behind the "Notepad++ has crashed" notification, so I know it was 191 lines) (google the problem, and just imagine my anger at having lost so much time because of a @#$%^&* OS error). That problem has existed since weven, and it's a pretty fruggin' major problem, but adding baby blocks and spyware were obviously more important to MS than fixing major problems for their users. I'll go through it all again when my blood pressure drops below volcanic.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
Actual call to support: "My cup holder won't open"
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I never said it didn't apply to IT. I'm simply saying not only to IT. More like, anyplace anywhere anytime :)
Read my (free) ebook Object-Oriented Programming in C# Succinctly. Visit my blog at Sander's bits - Writing the code you need. Or read my articles here on CodeProject.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. — Edsger W. Dijkstra
Regards, Sander
Zeker, maar het was Linux Torvalds.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; the one we don't know we don't know. (IT? Well, in all honesty, I'm sure this nugget was forwarded under truly knowing circumstances. So please forgive me if you deem it not IT)
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
Look, we all have something to bring to this discussion. But I think from now on the thing you should bring is silence. — Arnold Rimmer, Red Dwarf
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As we know, there are known knowns. There are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns. That is to say, we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns; the one we don't know we don't know. (IT? Well, in all honesty, I'm sure this nugget was forwarded under truly knowing circumstances. So please forgive me if you deem it not IT)
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
"I thought you called to confess." – said by a sysadmin as we investigated why a production server magically rebooted.
- great coders make code look easy - When humans are doing things computers could be doing instead, the computers get together late at night and laugh at us. - ¿Neal Ford?
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Check to see if it floats in salt-water. If it sinks then it was defective.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
W∴ Balboos wrote:
If it sinks then it was defective.
NoNoNo.... If it floats, it's defective. If it sinks, it was good. (If the floaters were good, you'd have to keep using them...)
Truth, James
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W∴ Balboos wrote:
If it sinks then it was defective.
NoNoNo.... If it floats, it's defective. If it sinks, it was good. (If the floaters were good, you'd have to keep using them...)
Truth, James
Take your laptop, or better still, you cell phone, and test my hypothesis.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
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Take your laptop, or better still, you cell phone, and test my hypothesis.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein
"If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010
I think you're missing the point (the point: You want to ensure the thing being "tested" is replaced, one way or another)
Truth, James
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
One of my favourites of all time: "More people have ascended bodily to heaven than have shipped great software on time." Jim McCarthy One of my co-workers once said in a meeting in which we were discussing
null: "There are many different kinds of nothing." Trevor Stokes :)Cheers, Mike Fidler "I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright "I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright "I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Thomas John Watson Sr. was the chairman and CEO of International Business Machines (IBM) and stated in 1943, "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers". How right he was!
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
In his defense, he meant ROOM SIZED mainframes that required $$$millions of investments, tons of air conditioning, and "operators" to "operate" the dang thing. He was not thinking "toys" people would carry with them and continuously be distracted by :-)
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
A story I was told by an engineer at One IBM Plaza in Chicago, IL was that there was a model of the S/360 that was so buggy that the engineers threw it into Lake Michigan where it...
Sank intermittently.
Psychosis at 10 Film at 11 Those who do not remember the past, are doomed to repeat it. Those who do not remember the past, cannot build upon it.
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As much as I hate feeding this guy's ego, I do love a good quote. In response to the thread about Linus I was wandering through Wikiquotes[^] and found
Quote:
I hope I won't end up having to hunt you all down and kill you in your sleep
It got me thinking: what are your favourite IT related quotes? The "640KB should be good enough for anyone" doesn't count: it's past the statute of limitations.
cheers Chris Maunder
