If you’re going through hell, keep going.
--Winston Churchill
Lottery: a tax on people who are bad at math.
--Unknown
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
--George Bernhard Shaw
Those who do not understand UNIX are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
--Henry Spencer
The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.
--John Gilmore
I’ve learned not to put things in my mouth that are bad for me.
--Monica Levinsky (CNN, on her diet)
I have no doubt that it is a part of the destiny of the human race, in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.
--Thoreau
One third of what you eat keeps you going. The other two thirds keeps me going.
--Unknown M.D.
In the administration of medicines, we cure one disease by producing another.
--Prof. Martin Paine, M.D.
New York University Medical School.
Easy victories spend too much time in celebration.
--Dana Scott
The only thing I have against Microsoft is that they have no taste, that the software they sell are such third-grade products. (YouTube link)
--Steve Jobs (paraphrased)
Hatred of DOS is entirely rational, and has nothing to do with who else uses it. There are ample reasons to despise that feeble excuse for an operating system.
--Henry Spencer (1989)
The question of whether a computer can think is no more interesting than the question of whether a submarine can swim.
--Edsgar W. Dijkstra (1989)
When your hammer is C++, everything begins to look like a thumb.
--Steve Haflich
C++ was invented because Vogon poetry wasn’t destructive enough.
--Anonymous
In C we had to code our own bugs. In C++ we can inherit them.
--Gerald Karam
Common sense is nothing more than a set of prejudices developed before the age of fifteen.
--Albert Einstein
Science is to computer science what hydrodynamics is to plumbing.
--Anonymous
--What’s the name of the outermost planet in our solar system?
--I dunno know... Mars?
--Mars?! I’ll give you a hint: what’s the name of Mickey Mouse’s dog?
--Goofy...?
--Jay Leno interviewing people on the street