If Michael Bolton hated Otis Redding that much, why didn’t he just break into his house and murder his wife and kids?
— The anonymous author of the Otis Redding boxed set liner notes (on Bolton’s cover of “Sitting On The Dock Of The Bay”)
Ten years ago I was hacking MCI. Now they’re giving me free accounts. I must be getting old or something.
— Anonymous
The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.
— Unknown
After my first dive everything else became just another surface interval.
— Unknown
The price of reliability is simplicity, and for many engineers that is too high a price to pay.
— Unknown
They were at the wrong place at the wrong time, naturally they became heroes.
— Unknown
- Motto of the Electrical Engineer:
- Working computer hardware is a lot like an erect penis: it stays up as long as you don’t fuck with it.
— Unknown
Given recent events in Florida, the tourism board in Texas has developed a new advertising campaign based on the slogan “Ya’ll come to Texas, where we ain’t shot a tourist in a car since November 1963.”
— Unknown
No plain fanfold paper could hold that fractal Puff —
He grew so fast no plotting pack could shrink him far enough.
Compiles and simulations grew so quickly tame
And swapped out all their data space when Puff pushed his stack frame.
Puff the fractal dragon was written in C,
And frolicked while processes switched in mainframe memory.
Puff the fractal dragon was written in C,
And frolicked while processes switched in mainframe memory.
Puff, he grew so quickly, while others moved like snails
And mini-Puffs would perch themselves on his gigantic tail.
All the student hackers loved that fractal Puff
But DCS did not like Puff, and finally said, “Enough!”
(chorus)
Puff used more resources than DCS could spare.
The operator killed Puff’s job — he didn’t seem to care.
A gloom fell on the hackers; it seemed to be the end,
But Puff trapped the exception, and grew from naught again!
(chorus)
— Unknown
The goal of Computer Science is to build something that will last at least until we’ve finished building it.
— Unknown
Sure eating yogurt will improve your sex life. People know that if you’ll eat that stuff, you’ll eat anything.
— Unknown